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> the number of vague or obvious patents in enforcement has not declined in any serious way. We have a recent example with Virnetx pulling hundreds of millions out of Apple et al for using end-to-end crypto.

Couple of things seriously wrong in this statement alone:

1) I seriously doubt you can describe the patents as "end-to-end crypto". If you are going to broadly describe something rather complex in 4 words then I would suggest "Apple’s VPN on demand function" as a better example. Similar #num of words yet suddenly significantly narrower isn't it. However, even that doesn't scratch the surface, looking at the titles of the patents in trial provides a better glimpse that this is more than just simply "end-to-end crypto":

6,502,135 - Agile network protocol for secure communications with assured system availability

7,418,504 - Agile network protocol for secure communications using secure domain names

7,490,151 - Establishment of a secure communication link based on a domain name service (DNS) request

7,921,211 - Agile network protocol for secure communications using secure domain names

Are you starting to understand that this isn't merely "end-to-end crypto" or do we need to go into the Claims and how to properly begin to evaluate patent property boundaries?

2) I don't have the time to replay the entire infringement trial, but it seems to me you believe this trial was unjust or resulted in an improper outcome. I highly doubt that Apple had incompetent lawyers or did not have enough resources. The court and jury disagrees with your assessment.

> Unfortunately, that works better for the bigger players.

Measured by market cap, Apple is the worlds biggest corporation. VirnetX is not small, not tiny, but rather miniscule in comparison. Is this is fight between 2 big players? No. Did the bigger player win? No.

> There's allegedly over 200,000 patents that can cover smartphones in some way.

Proves my point in previous post - small players don't have to re-invent the kitchen sink (in this case smartphones) but rather should focus on some small innovation (e.g. a VPN on demand feature - except translate to something of tomorrow - these patents are from 10-15 years ago). Find that 50 LOC - not re-invent 500k LOC. For now, the only pitfall is that larger players still believe they are better off to fight later in court rather than license now from the inventor when they find a new innovation. Blackberry learned 10 years ago, maybe Apple will learn today, and hopefully others will learn from their lessons.

Patents enable the small player to innovate and find success.
We should be calling these something different now.
Shareholders take that risk against the backdrop knowledge that in situations like this they can seek appraisal from the court. Not that I think such appraisals make all that much sense with publicly-traded equities, but nonetheless these shareholders bought the stock assuming the appraisal right would be available.
> if Intel's vision comes to pass then that device — the smartphone — will constantly be communicating with Intel-powered data centers

So Intel and Microsoft want to go where IBM and Oracle are withering?
1) "IoT" is mainly a new name for something that has already existed - a market that has already been dominated by ARM: the embedded/microcontroller market.

The IoT is much more than just the embedded hardware. It's the potential that lies within connecting embedded hardware. Extracting and refining data from embedded machines/sensors/nodes. The whole ecosystem of apps/services that can potentially be created on top of these new data streams.
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Which is not true. Most frameworks have good support for legacy browsers.

And when some library fails in an old browser is always something so small that I end up making a PR and getting it fixed the same day.
There are two main ways to force existing shareholders to sell:

1. You buy 51% of the shares (and voting rights), make an offer to buy the remaining 49% and call for a shareholder meeting to vote on the offer. You have the majority, vote yes, and acquire the company.

2. You acquire 90% of the shares. You don't even have to call for a shareholders vote; you can acquire the company immediately and squeeze out existing shareholders who are forced to sell and the offer price.

You can either acquire shares by submitting a tender offer (offering to buy shares at a specified price from shareholders) or tapping the public markets (and disclose it). If you think about this a bit more, you'll see there are ways to game the system by, for example, buying enough rights then making a low-ball offer but most of the loopholes are well covered by corporate law.

To address your complaint on fairness, yes, you can be forced to sell because if most of the shareholders want to take the company private, it would seem fair from the majority's standpoint to accept its rule. Not perfect but I don't think there exists a better mechanism.
Actually AMD has around 20-30% marketshare...
Why not just do this in your personal shell theme? When I made my own when I got finally got serious about refreshing my ZSH environment years back, one of the first things I made sure to have was that a root shell was well highlighted with a bright red. You can build your prompt with a conditional %(!.true.false) for whether the shell is running with privileges, and/or different conditionals for whether the shell is a specific UID. Section 13.3 of the manual covers conditional substrings in prompts, and it makes for a pretty flexible foundation to add visual cues under various conditions.

This in turn leads to the core major issue I've always had with something like iTerm: ultimately it's a struggle to find much supplied by a higher level GUI application that I can't do and for that matter wouldn't much prefer to do purely within the shell. Of course, the given terminal does need to be capable of handling the basics, in terms of full color, UTF and all that, and there was a time where iTerm was well ahead of Terminal.app there. But I think since at least OS X 10.8 or so Terminal.app has been good enough that zsh/tmux etc can handle the rest, and the result is a setup that's a lot more flexible in terms of what systems it will work on and can be work on from. And that seems like a pretty valuable point of CLI in and of itself.

Stuff like the password manager actually does interest me as a stop-gap for servers where I'm unable to have proper shared keys, but a lot of what they list almost seem like anti-features, replicating (poorly or not) stuff better done within the environment in a non-portable way.
This seems like a lot to pay for company that isn't cashflow positive. Even if we take out 147 million they spend for sales for synergy reasons. Keep the growth rate similar. We end up with FCF of 200 mil. That is paying something like 15x FCF using some crazy assumptions.
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thanks, that was a beautiful thread! also a really good diagram explaining the projective plane.
Good work, thank you!

To my taste, it's a bit too dense for regular coding. Very nice for diffing/merging and for console.
It's actually fairly common in modern languages, particularly in expression-oriented languages. Haskell, Ocaml, Swift, and Scala spell it (). Python spells it None. Kotlin spells it Unit(). In Kotlin and Python, it is implied whenever you do 'return' without a value, which is a pretty handy way of bridging programmers' understanding of it when they come from older programming languages (eg. Java and C) that don't have it.
I'm curious, what would you do that 10GHz would allow ?

IMO the only issue is commercial pressure killing integration. Until Vulkan GPUs were underutilized. Audio drivers lying about hardware capabilities. Software layers ever shifting. Absurd use cases: ads invaded html5, half accelerated html video....
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No other Open-Source GCode "simulators", as far as I know, simulate the actual cut.
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You're using present-day definitions of words like "bus" and "car" as if they're still going to hold in 20-30 years. I'm not sure how that fits into the accepted taxonomy of logical fallacies, but it's in there somewhere.

Hint: An ensemble of coordinated autonomous vehicles is a train. (And no, there's no contradiction there -- you behave in a locally-autonomous manner when you drive your car, but your actions are still centrally coordinated by the traffic laws you have to obey, locally coordinated by the network of traffic control devices that your city maintains, and ultimately constrained by the other vehicles and pedestrians around you.)

What's the difference between a light rail system and a chain of buses that can drive at high speed, nose-to-tail, along any highway in the city, capable of starting and stopping like a train to let people on and off but also capable of arbitrarily diverging from and rejoining individual routes like passenger cars? The only real difference is that the latter is going to be better at meeting its users' needs, because unlike rails, roads are everywhere. How cool will it be when your city can grow and reshape itself organically, instead of being tied literally and metaphorically to some existing rail infrastructure that was installed decades ago?

The notion that there have to be some metal rails bolted to the right of way is just something some people made up 100 years ago. But damn, it's influential for some reason.
Yes, but part of the risk of acquiring a company is that shareholders who opposed the sale will get the sale examined by a judge as they are entitled to under Delaware law.
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> You can use hooks to trigger integration testing, trigger a deploy, make an announcement in a chat channel, or trigger an update of your own packages.

(emphasis mine)

I'm not very experienced in node.js development, but wouldn't automated deployment whenever a dependency changes be a really bad idea? Especially considering the issues with dependencies breaking in npm from the not-so-distant past.
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All of them, and also it's more complicated than depression === serotonin dysregulation.
I work at Nginx, although not on the core development team, and to the best of my knowledge Roman Arutyunyan is still an engineer with us.
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Ya that's a fair point. I still think that in general you're likely to have worse uptime, or at best just comparable uptime to large cloud services in most cases.

Cloud services just have to be equal to internally run ones in this regard, since they save so much in other areas. So I guess people have to decide: is 20 hours of downtime every few years worth running your own services internally and paying people full time to manage them?
Well I've used Firefox on both Linux and Windows for years and the Linux version is better than the Windows version. More polished, faster, feels better integrated. The windows version is great too, but I believe a lot of the developers respect open source philosophy and therefore we get first class software for opensource operating systems. Chrome on the other hand sucked on Linux for a long time (but was really good when it first came out). Chrome is pretty good nowadays but still takes three minutes to start, whereas firefox just opens up.

I don't use a lot of other mozilla software except rust (a little) and from what I remember they had spotty support for Windows when Rust first came out, but this is true of pretty much all new languages unless Microsoft creates it.
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Except you point of the very problem with your argument. Stocks are liquid as small percentages of the company. It is quite possible for a single individual/organization to accumulate the vast majority of the shares/control of a company without forcing anyone to sell.

I've been through this a few times with stocks I've held, and rarely am I happy about the outcome. For example about 10 years ago I saw something that apparently no one else on wall street saw, so I purchased a number of shares in three competing companies in proportion to how well I saw them profiting over the next 5-10 years. It wasn't 6 months later that Warren Buffet announced he was buying the company I had bet on the heaviest.

Lets just say that I'm still sore about it 10 years later. I even checked the, "I want my stock converted to BRK/A" but they ignored it, because I was going to have too small a fraction of a single share of BRK (which would have been amusing by itself). Heck, in the 10 years since BRK/A has again doubled.

So, IMHO, its just another case of the market being rigged for the big investors.
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> A typical IOT client sends a few bytes every few minutes or hours

That's the SigFox definition of IOT but not necessarily typical for all cases. There are several usecases out there which require slightly higher bandwidth and data rate, but not quite broadband.

One quick example is over the air firmware updates. Take MSP430. If we were to build a smart meter using a MSP430, our firmware probably be couple of kilobytes.

Likewise, the size of the data can vary upstream as well.
> It might turn my writing into delusional drivel like Ayn Rand, a noted speed addict for decades.

Or maybe your writing would start to look like the work of genius Paul Erdős, a noted speed addict for decades.
> > What we seem to forget all too easily is that the cloud is, in its simplest form, just someone else’s computer.

> This isn't even actually true for Infrastructure as a Sevice (IaaS), in which case there's significant intellectual capital that's been invested in the automated provisioning of resources for customers. This is much more true with SaaS products.

Does all the "intellectual capital" (read: aws/etc runs a highly complex system made up of various parts that sometimes all just shit themselves when a single low level thing hiccups) make it somehow not someone else's computer?

The point of "it's just someone else's computer" isn't that it's just a computer like you or I have, it's that it's not some magical, mythical beast.

The greatest achievement of aws/et-al is convincing developers they will need "web scale" infrastructure at the drop of a hat.
No, but a law that gives you grounds for a lawsuit is grounds for a lawsuit. Shareholders who were forced to sell are entitled by law to have the sale reviewed by a judge.
Nothing. It is open-source. But it needs an open-source competitor. There's too little happening at the open-source side of search.
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Yes, but the the situation they agreed to was not "majority shareholders can force them to sell for whatever they want. Period." It was that they can be forced to sell, and then they can go to court and say that the price they got was not a fair appraisal of the value of the stock. Now they're arguing that $13.75 was not a fair appraisal of the value of the stock.
My guess is the email is `comasp at sec dot gov` and the greeting should be extended to a person named Peter. (I haven't emailed them).
It is objectively cheaper.
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Why "must be sensible"? Why not just say "signed integer overflow is implementation-defined" and in a footnote say "for example, it may wrap, trap, saturate, or do anything else documented by your implementation"?

I'm not seeing the big deal here.
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I would guess frik probably means this: in 2010/2011 you had to pay ~350 euros for AMDs 5870 when it launched, or ~450 euros for nvidias GTX 580. Now you have to pay ~700 euros for AMDs Fury X or ~800 euros for nvidias GTX 980ti at launch. That's not 400% more expensive but they are not cheaper either.
this would primarily be for people who use their own internal packages in developing their own applications, i.e. a single author owns both packages.

that being said, it turns out that the semver handshake the community does works Most of The Time, so if it is a trusted dependency it wouldn't be that dangerous. assuming you also had tests-dependent deploy, the tests would catch the break.
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Possible that the difference in the official form conflicted with his own PTSD-affected memory, thus the 5 instead of the 'official' 6.

You'd have to know the timeline of claims for that, though.
Windows 10 works well (M.2 Samsung 950 Pro on a Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD5), but don't make the mistake I did of doing a default MBR-style format on the drive. Put the BIOS in UEFI mode and make sure the drive gets formatted with a GUID Partition Table (GPT).

With MBR the system would still take 30-60s to boot, but GPT reduced that to less than 10s.

You may need to copy the install data to a USB drive to get it to work. Initially I burned the iso image to a DVD and but then that DVD drive wasn't bootable under UEFI.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn336946.aspx