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> if you want to grow, you have to grow quickly, otherwise you get taken out by a larger competitor who can get to market faster.

This only applies if you're in the pre-launch phase and you haven't gotten to market yet. For those organizations that are already on the market, how fast your ramp up does not always mean you will win. The inherent risk of VC-fuelled fast growth is that the excessive funding will overshoot the actual value very quickly - and suddenly what was supposed to be a healthy $1B business becomes a "$30B" (on paper) series-J failure with no hope of getting a reasonable exit. In that case, I feel the slow/patient growth to $1B is far better for everyone involved (except VC).

There is a long list of (ex-)startups that make me scratch my head: in what parallel-universe could they possibly be worth $X - which ever way you slice it - their revenue cannot support the exuberant valuations.
I kind of question how much additional margin the average person will tolerate though. Will the same mom that spends time clipping coupons (or printing them) be willing to pay what it takes to make this worthwhile for Walmart? That's the demographic you want to entice if you want to make grocery delivery successful, not Johnny Ramen College kid.
I always ask this: do people feel LFS is more "learn sed and gcc build chain and error message" rather than about the OS ?
isn't this a challenge for every software engineer?

it is practically a stereotype for other engineers to criticize someone else's code

it is practically a stereotype for senior software engineers to face a career plateau

and you think this was uniquely sexual discrimination? so lets give you the benefit of the doubt, of the things you described, these are issues all software engineers face.
I don't think so. I'm sure anything older than a year on FB goes on some sort of extra-slow storage, which is likely why their search is crap and will forever be crap.

The real expense for FB is likely to be in guaranteeing realtime sync between dozens of platforms and gazillions of clients. All that JS and PHP has to be coded up and served somehow...

Same for Twitter -- everyone remembers the "whale" when they were struggling with infrastructure pains, then they massively invested to sort that out... and ended up chasing profits to pay for it all, of course.

Snapchat will soon get there as well.
Quite interesting to see a lot of Rails dev have been trying Elixir/Phoenix (question 33). This is the future.
>as you become older the thing that's changing is you.

Reminds me of a quote from the NightWatch movie

>...the world hasn't changed, only you.
I understand what you meant, but a trip to the grocery store can also be a perfect way to get their energy out if the kids are particularly bananas that day. So, some parents relish that trip.
On eBay, bidding the highest you're willing to pay is not always optimal, because bids are not sealed, and other bidders may not be putting in their highest value, and there's a specific time it ends. Only the highest bid at any time is sealed.

If your opponent would bid, say, $500, but it's currently at $400, they might only put in a bid for $425, and if you bid more than that right before it ends you can get it for $430. While if you'd bid $475, then your opponent might have bid it up to $480, causing you to end up paying more.

Is anyone actually irrational in this scenario? I suppose anyone not using sniping tools and also not bidding their highest price is, or at least they could get a strict improvement by doing so. Given that other players aren't rational, the whole assumptions break down.
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I think it's mostly the C++ code that was already open source (Chromium etc.).
That is visible source. Without a license, it's not "open source".

Nor is the source provided there complete. The last time they were asked, they said only the C++ code is open and available to the public.
Also Instacart and Google Express and Peapod.
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There aren't many good designers working today (or maybe their work is being hindered in companies). If you look at contemporary UIs, they're shallow. Optimized for looking nice and selling things, instead of being ergonomic and giving users efficient ways to achieve their goals.
Perhaps targeting a PoS system involves the Secret Service?
The rights granted by Nordic countries to forage are not limited to the citizens of a particular nation -- that's why a lot of folks from Thailand fly in each year to pick cloudberries.

How is the right to forage a tax on private income? That's a non sequitur.
The business model is the same as every other browser: monetized search, plus a small number of paid-for bookmarks.

However, Vivaldi is a small operation so it doesn't need many users.

Also, it's self-financed so there are no outside investors and the founder can do whatever he wants.

> much of the tech crowd they're trying to reach won't use proprietary software

You do realize that Chrome is proprietary, as are Safari and IE/Edge? No tech users at all?

Gmail is also proprietary....
I think you could add a demo or screenshot linkd in README.
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All that and they don't tell us how much Vieweg actually bid?
> Meanwhile, I have zero experience with CL but I keep hearing that it's highly mature, rock solid, the choice of most professional Lispers, and the platform of choice for Peter Norvig's book on AI programming.

It is definitely highly mature, rock solid and the choice of most professional Lispers. It anticipates many problems one doesn't even know one will have, and solves them.

In the negative column, it's a bit crufty for historical reasons (e.g. (aref ARRAY 1 2) vice (gethash KEY HASH-TABLE)) and made some choices which in retrospect were foolish (upcasing symbols being a huge one). The former doesn't really matter, and the latter can be solved with a simple (setf print-case :downcase).

For a long time, there were few good resources for learning Lisp. Fortunately, that's changed. Peter Seibel's Practical Common Lisp (http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/) is a must-read: it explains a little of why Lisp is so relevant for modern development. Edi Weitz's new book Common Lisp Recipes (http://weitz.de/cl-recipes/) is worth its weight in gold.

Quicklisp (https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/) is a great place to find a lot of great packages.
Haha. It looks like a lot of fun, but does it allow for making playlists, collaboratively or otherwise?
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There's multiple rational explanations for MH370 going missing. There's nothing odd about that because we don't have the black box. However we can still rule out very unlikely explanations (eg. plane being abducted by UFOs).
There are photos of this place and tent on it. No signs of avalanche and inclination is very mild.

It's kind of hard to explain why they did not take boots or at least return for them.
Thanks for testing! Would be interesting what API method(s) this extension uses that make it incompatible with Firefox, or if it's just a Firefox bug? Maybe the OP cares to consider ;) Would love it.
Agreed. I think that the line numbers and machine-inserted hard breaks make it difficult to read. For the first issue, maybe the line numbers could be smaller and/or greyer, and offset more? For the second, I think human editing of the lines is probably required.
Music has that sorted already.

There is copyright.

There is publishing right.

If you make a cover of a recording, it is the latter that you are involved with. You'd have to go to the publishers of a piece of music to license the right to publish your interpretation of the work.

Obviously this post simplifies, but it's already answered.
Is it a possibility that these services eventually tank due to this very reason? They just get kept afloat long enough for a run of VCs to make some money, until the sucker VCs at the end put up with the loss from the company folding?
"Nine people panicking in a tent, at night, in 1950s Russia."

If you read a copy (unverified) [0] of the autopsy report, there's indications of violence. Falls might account for some of the reported injuries but not all of them.

[0] http://ermakvagus.com/Europe/Russia/Cholat-%20Syachil/dyatlo...
Whaaaaa...that's cool. Sorry, that's just neato. I don't care what anybody says.
> for a mobile application

Not really, OpenCL doesn't have any real foot on mobile.

Android uses their own Renderscript dialect instead of OpenCL and iOS moving away from OpenCL to Metal Compute.

And the dying WP uses C++ AMP.
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Walmart has a notoriously bad rap, but they are pretty progressive for a big evil company. Amazon seems to get a bit more slack even though I have read that working there is a horrible experience.
I did it a few years ago. I got a working system but it wasn't easy.

Some packages were missing but that's not really LFS's fault if upstream doesn't keep old source tarballs around. I was able to find everything by searching for the MD5 sum though.

The hardest part was the kernel configuration. LFS doesn't really give any instructions for it - you need to figure it out on your own. It took lots of trial and error to get all hardware working. If I remember correctly my network card's driver was out-of-kernel and I had to compile it separately.

It also takes a really long time to compile everything. Unix is supposed to be simple but GNU's Not Unix.
> If the universe is of infinite age

Infinity is only an abstract mathematical concept. It does not exist in reality.
While I agree there's an inevitable correlation there, since children are (reductionistically, financially) an expense and households that have an additional expense will be poorer than their equivalent household without that expense, I think you may still be overstating the poverty-inducing effects of children a wee bit.
Personally, I've taken many (most?) of my jobs below market value.

I've always figured the first step was to get the job I wanted. It's only a starting salary.

It doesn't take much to prove you are worth much more and make them very nervous about you leaving because they are undervaling you.

The other thing is get your money working for you, so hopefully, one day, it can earn more for you than anyone can pay you, and you can focus on what the job has to offer you in term of your interest and dreams, not salary.
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> Ok, I admit, I still want "sweet expressions"

There's a Common Lisp library on Sourceforge: http://readable.sourceforge.net/

I've been thinking of using it to make a Lisp interface palatable to non-Lispers. We'll see though.
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Yes I did read the whole article, I'm not going to write a rebuttal for each and every point it makes, just to quell your patronising remarks.

Telling me to 'make a more substantial comment later' apart from being pretty rude, doesn't actually discredit the point I made about public education being intrinsically skewed in favour of where its funding originates.
Hmm it would seem so, I could of sworn it was different, my bad.
Having equal parental treatment is a good start. But how do you deal with the subtle cultural bias against men who partake of the leave policy? Their peers and boss judge them as not being committed enough to 'the team'.
I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Lights and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_UFO_wave are very important because of the large number of witnesses (thousands) including government officials.

You can also watch many military and government witnesses in the Out of the Blue documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYPCKIL7oVw
It wouldn't be true for me (as a software engineer). I would like to believe as a person more familiar with how the sausage is made, so to speak, I am more sensitive to potential threats to the industry than the layperson. Terming my concerns as "closing ranks" is a disservice because you are dismissing them without consideration or critical thinking - it's ad-hominem-lite
What use case that we should avoid committing to GitHub with our company email?
Because what I can clearly express in one line of swift/haskell/etc is often like 15 lines of nasty in C/C++. And when I make a mistake, the former has around a 90% chance of telling me about it immediately whereas the later is maybe 30%. When you're dealing with a couple person decades of code, that really really matters.

It's kind of like building a house using a rock instead of a hammer. It works. But after a few years building houses with a rock....when you try out a nailgun for the first time......yea not going back to that insanity. Of course sometimes a rock is your only choice...embedded, and a few other domains, but I'm never writing another line of C++ unless it's genuinely the only language that can solve the problem. To be fair, if you stick with EE, then yea it may be your only choice most of the time.

Also, as a counterpoint to the C++ makes more $$ comments. I doubled my salary(and got way more job offers) going from embedded C to iOS dev. Most of that's attributable to moving out of an economic backwater, but C/C++ is not necessarily a magic ticket to more cash. Being the company expert in C++ might be, but then so is being the company expert in <whatever>. I'd be lucky to see any increase at all moving back to C.
Core issue long-term is that if Amazon doesn't own the "last mile" it will be at the mercy of those that do; clearly, Jeff knows this, though unclear how he's going to address this long-term.
I think there are a lot of misconceptions about nodejs in this with people who are not familiar with it, i belive it will always be easy for any backend developer to work with node than a front end dev, as there are database interaction, networking concepts, api development and many more things that a front end dev has never worked with. And since when is other people learning to new tech and making progress a bad thing.
Missing the music samples.

Also, it seems this map is lacking in the world+classical departments.
the erlang odbc module will also let you overwrite the heap if you aren't careful. it lets you specify a string size for query params and if you pass in a binary/list that is larger than the string size it will just corrupt the heap. if you are not validating client input this can be remotely exploitable. :/
Additionally, if you needed something that did need persisted you would hopefully have the wit to send it on another service (e.g. email) so automatic filtering for all recipients.
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How about Mutt? It's undeniably very powerful, and with its support for threading it's probably not that different from Gmail's "conversation view", with the added bonus that it won't read your emails and serve you adverts based on them!
Worth noting that I've been reading a lot about the UK's involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan recently and have started reading "The Wrong Enemy" about the US involvement in Afghanistan:

http://www.amazon.com/Wrong-Enemy-America-Afghanistan-2001-2...

NB I'm certainly not one for prosecuting low level individuals (i.e. the forces actually on the ground) apart from exceptional circumstances (e.g. the Royal Marine who was caught on camera executing a wounded person) but I do have a lot of anger directed at the political and military leaderships in the UK.
Also check out Buildroot: https://buildroot.org/

It uses Kconfig to give pretty fine grained selection of what packages are included in your file system and supports (painless!?) cross compilation by building the proper compiler toolchain or using a preexisting toolchain.

Once you are happy with your configuration, you can save it e.g. as a "default config" and regenerate it repeatably, reliably, and effortlessly. It takes a while to do a full build, but caching speeds up rebuilds (you have to be careful to "rm" cached parts that you really do want to rebuild).

make distclean && make <defaultconfig> && make

I've been really impressed. I'm currently building for an embedded target on a AMD64 linux creating a x86 ISO that I boot on a VM for development when I don't have real hardware available and then building for our embedded ARM hardware when I get access to our prototype.
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Re: publishing rights, you can make a cover version of a song using a "compulsory mechanical license", whether the owner likes it or not.
I'm not so sure that the link has correct info.

On Android, support for OPUS is mandatory for 5.0 and newer (by CTS). I would be surprised if the browsers would implement codecs by themselves, instead of passing the streams to the system for decoding.
I've been Single Income/Single, Dual Income No Kids (DINK), dual income with kids and single income with kids. Kids won't completely destroy your finances but 529 plans/day care alone can put a hurting on your finances.

You become much more financially responsible and less likely to pay for luxury services (for yourself) like HBO, Spotify, Netflix, Gym membership, high lease car payment etc after you have kids.
I think this may be largely an introvert vs. extrovert type distinction. I'm with you - I don't see the point. Twitter is the social network I've come closest to enjoy using, because of the loose expectations around it. I share stuff I find interesting on occasion, but very rarely anything about myself.

In terms of "social" I see it as a mostly-write type environment - I don't sweat that I ignore 90% of what the people I follow write, and I mostly follow people for updates/news/commentary rather than social contact.

But then I'm very aware that I'm very introverted. I like social contact in moderation, but it exhausts me, and every now and again I just get "social burnout" and turns into a total recluse for months on end.

What doesn't work for me about Snapchat is primarily that it is video. Video to me is "high touch" - it takes much more energy than writing a tweet, and similarly watching a video requires magnitudes more attention than rapidly scanning past a bunch of tweets.
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I'm pretty sure the law as it stands is robust enough to deal with these issues on the basis of similarity vs substantive difference. A cover usually sounds quite different to an original, enough so that a fan would certainly not consider them the same thing.

OTOH, simply using some well recognised phrases (not necessarily a sample) can infringe on the mechanical rights, which are the copyright on the composition as distinct from the performance.

Also consider fake paintings and photos. Recent cases have shown that even dong things like re-staging an iconic photograph or transferring the image to another medium can constitute copyright infringement. As ever, it comes down to the duck test, generally in the opinion of a judge.

An automated re-encoding of a movie would almost certainly be at least a derivative work (if say, you applied a deep-dream filter to each frame) or at worst a straightforward lossy copy like any other encoding.

In order to be considered a new work, there would need to be some substantial reinterpretation of the original. It shouldn't matter whether that reinterpretation is done dy a human or AI, but current AI just isn't capable of doing that yet.

Disclaimer: IANAL, so treat my understanding of copyright law with the usual level of scepticism applied to Internet comments.
In the UK we have Yodel, which is essentially 'contracted amateurs' delivering in their own vehicles.
I wonder if the comparison can be extended. I've never made movies, but it seems like they are exactly like "little businesses". They have to be funded, and made, and launched, in order to make their money back.

A more modern approach to startups is to get that MVP out there and then intelligently evolve the business. Are there any movies that get made that way?
What it needs is probably a no-profit consortium dedicated to maintenance, with small fees. Industry members could then be peer-pressured into compliance. It would become a badge of honour, marketing expense etc etc.
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Calling MP3 "transparent" even at 320kbps is such a far reach. Especially in treble and bass, lack in detail, etc. It's just a limitation to the codec. In comparison, AAC produces a much higher quality encodes, which somewhat approach a "transparent" lossy encode.
"Feeling lazy" and deciding not to prepare food is a different problem than not taking ingredients on hand and not wanting to go to the store because of any of a variety of reasons (teething baby, poor air quality day -- especially for asthmatics, or just disliking the in suite experience at the local grocery, etc.)

For you maybe there is no difference between having time and desire to prepare food and having willingness to go to the site, but you aren't the whole market.
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To second this, I've had three or four conversations with Amazon warehouse employees and all told me it was a terrible experience. One worked at a major distribution point in Pennsylvania and explained that in addition to being compelled to essentially run back and forth constantly to pick items, they refused to provide air conditioning in the middle of summer.
These are very good points, but also probably much more constructive as GitHub issues, where they can be either answered or addressed. In the meantime, hopefully I can talk to a few of these:

>haven't figured out consistency yet
I don't recall this being the case, but I'm not the authority on the matter.

>I presume Torus is targeting (high IO efficiency, low latency)
The best-possible performing storage solution is _definitely_ not our primary goal, though we'll take it where we can get it. The most important goals for the project are ease of use, ease of management, flexibility, and correctness when the use-case desires it. Please note that the block device interface is only one of many planned. The underlying abstraction was designed (and will be improved) to support other situations.

>Using etcd for allocation would be a reasonable choice, but putting it in the persistence path is now. Right now a database in your container would require two separate write streams to do an fsync
In Torus today (with the block device interface specifically), and with the caveat that I'm not the authority, so I may be slightly wrong, calling sync(), fsync(), and friends result in what I think you would consider an "allocation". Writes happen against a snapshot of the file (in this block storage case, the block volume is the "file"), and then a sync() makes those changes visible as the "current" version. Syncs hit etcd, writes do not.

I would really encourage you to submit feedback like this in GitHub issues. The project is still in _very_ early stages, and legitimate feedback can actually make a difference.