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And why is that good? Oracle is worth every penny of those $47,000 per core for an enterprise license, and then some. Provided my company makes a commercial product and I can pay, I would gladly pay Oracle that kind of money (and more) for their database.

Large companies have an enterprise wide license of the Oracle database, so they have thousands of instances (worked at a place like that, that's how I know), and at that point, with that kind of scale, Oracle becomes dirt cheap, considering it delivers the only database I have seen that can withstand the kind of abuse a large institution can throw at a relational database management system.
They are really hard to drive. A quarter inch of steering input goes a long way on those things. I will never drive another one. Its mental.
I programmed in a couple of languages (nodejs, python, ruby, ..) and on my work i use c#

I always believe that c# has the best developer experience within the tools of Microsoft ( Eg. Visual Studio).

Try out Visual Studio community edition and see for yourselve
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I got this email just now http://pastebin.com/1x2snJs8, apparently Amazon just changed my password because they believe it got leaked somewhere. Has this happened for anyone else recently?
That plus one or more of: SLAs, guaranteed minimum bandwidth, much higher upstream, better tech support, etc.
Only in the case of professionally developed apps. There's tons of free (as in beer) apps out there that I just can't find because there's no way to filter out the IAP products.

Personally, I'd just be satisfied if they made a new category FREE+IAP and then we could search for and browse genuinely free stuff.
I wasn't aware that "plenty" of supplies lack bleeder resistors - and ouch, I didn't consider the case where the unit might be damaged, thanks.

Considering the level of energy stored in the average PSU cap, if I use a decent 5W or 10W resistor, should I hold it in a pair of pliers so I don't get burnt? (I'm guessing I'd definitely need to do that if I use a tiny 1W or 2W.) Also, as someone whose knowledge of electronics is very poor - is a resistor the best thing to use in this instance?

And it makes a lot of sense to put bleed resistors on open cage CRTs - those types of units are unlikely to frequently power down/back up, so completely discharging the unit isn't an issue. Design win!

I've heard stories about service techs getting bitten by the 70kV HV while testing tubes that were powered up for testing...
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> Articles like this for me tend to vindicate Google's notorious hiring processes.

No, because they have rejected ML experts if they can't do their stupid dog & pony show.

> hiring based on sound knowledge of CS fundamentals seems like a good bet...

Too bad many of them can't get their heads around the ML math.
Valve doesn't seem interested in a monopoly, after all a lot of the Rift tech started AT Valve.
these are extremely variable and there are days of the year that solar and wind produce practically 0% of Germany's energy

Note that it tends to be more windy when it's less sunny, so the monthly variability of solar and wind energy production combined yields a factor of less than two. You're right than on a daily basis, there likely will be issues, but I don't know the statistics off-hand (besides the news stories that electricity tariffs can go negative on sunny days).
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> Oracle has a nasty licensing model where they charge you per core regardless of if that core is a physical one or not (hyper-threading).

That's why you then switch to their T5 or M-series with up to 3,072 processors, and then Oracle comparatively charges you peanuts, since those systems have relatively few physical sockets. And if you know SPARC, and you know Solaris, you can squeeze some serious savings. The problem, it seems to me, is that most system administrators and managers today are neither familiar with SPARC nor with Solaris, so they end up paying more in the long term in licensing and maintenance for running something else like MySQL on GNU/Linux.

But that's their problem, not the guy's who knows SPARC and Solaris and how to save money, isn't it?
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That's right! I watched a lot of Le Mans this year but I was mostly focused on GTE Pro and GTA Am when I found out DHH was racing.

I hope Ford does a LMP1 next year, too.
I first heard of this rule in the seminal book, Programming Pearls.

In case you have not yet read it, please do.
Very interesting article. A few nitpicks however:

I’m sure there were other true-3D games before it, but I challenge you to name one off the top of your head

Descent was published in 1995, one year before Quake. And it was fully 3D, even moreso than Quake since you could rotate around all three axes.

Before Quake, games couldn’t even simulate a two-story building, which ruled out most realistic architecture.

The Build engine (used e.g. in Duke Nukem 3D) was capable of faking multi-story buildings with the creative use of teleporters.
No, we've reached a point where the browser developer placing ads is called unethical. It's a very, very strong signal that 1) you don't own this piece of your computer 2) our interests do not align with yours.

And that is a scary proposition for auto-updated remote software. At least with websites theres the illusion of separation.
For the same reason that they also include symbols for many obsolete (dead) languages and writing systems, as well as (per a comment above) a character used by the 1959 IBM 1401 computer (https://github.com/shirriff/groupmark). The need to be able to discuss a certain technology in writing does not disappear just because it is out of general use.
Damn, i haven't touched it in years. But apparently i had it still installed.

And best i can tell nano happened because pico was popular but was part of the pine email client.

Also, from what i can gather joe was left unmaintained for a number of years, likely leading to people picking up pico, and then nano, as an alternative.
It's just marketing. The buyers know about as much materials science as the average office worker and will not have a clue about what the real applications of carbon fiber are like. They simply associate carbon fiber with 'modern, good, expensive, strong'.

Most likely they would not be able to appreciate your comment.

At a sailmaker where I worked in NL we worked on laying carbon fiber manually and laminating it to make sails that had almost no stretch for race applications, your comment is spot on and exactly why this whole exercise is pointless. It's all about getting long strands of fiber along stress lines and to make them denser where the stress is highest, a pour like described in the article negates a whole pile of the advantages that carbon fiber has. But it's a lot more efficient than laying long fibers and it still uses the same material so it will be sold.
> There's only so many times humanity can roll the dice and come out clean

Here's a related video on that thought from Minute Physics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRnU0bqsyq0
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Taito_1....

"appearance of a dragon in flight"
Oh, I was specifically asking about Ducati since that's what was mentioned.

The replica bike you mentioned is a huge disappointment for one reason: "Europe and Australia are offered a 160 hp version, the American market gets roughly 100 hp and in Japan, it's an even paltrier 70 hp." Unless you live in Europe, you have to spend another $10,000+ to get it back up to spec.

I'd rather get a Desmosedici, I think.
Just curious: how the heck do you play Spelunky on a touchscreen? That game is hard enough on keyboard or gamepad, I can't imagine playing it on a touch screen with any degree of success.
It's a great trick for approximating a value with mental maths. When my boss says he thinks the team can double revenues over 5 years - I can pretty quickly see what sort of year on year growth he's magically assigned.

When you're in a goddamned fancy calculator, you do the full form calculation because what the hell. I mean, I don't understand why you'd be deriving NPV from "years to doubling", but you can sure as hell get it exact.

(Also, as someone who's never actually invested, do people really judge investments on that number rather than internal rate of return, payback period, etc etc?)
Doom was the last video game I played regularly. Obviously, I am not a gamer. Strange, but I have spent more time with If (interactive fiction) these past few years, and any games that have more 'artsy' or abstract visuals. Hell, I even like the demo Breakout clone on the Pythonista app more than realistic games. I was into viewing Machinima at one time, and I think there the realism works better than in games, although there were some really cool Machinima works done in a zany forced-perspective, or cartoon style that were fantastic.

I think the point is that we have focused too much on high frame rates and realism, and drifted away from the creative, storytelling side. I think that's why the animated movies, like The Incredibles, or Despicable Me and Zootopia do well. They use the old animation tricks that don't actually mimic real physics, but our cultured sense of movement. I don't have much interest in the second wave of VR either; I am trying to continue to find awe in the real world around me, and would prefer to be in an immersive world of crazy Bugs Bunny and Jessica Rabbit!
Yeah, looking at wikipedia it seems joe was without a maintainer from 1995 to 2001. This likely leading to people adopting pico. But as pico was part of the pine email client, nano was made to be a free standing pico replacement.

Also, i guess pico/nano style key combos more "friendly" than the sequences joe uses (ctrl-k then another key to do anything).
Or rustc/libstd.
Can you share any crash report URLs from your about:crashes page?
In that case, O'Reilly better get their act together and stop spreading disinformation in their Swift books[1].

[1] http://www.oreilly.com/programming/free/swift-pocket-referen...
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> So which is it? Does each code point represent a visual image?

Look it's pretty simple, every code point represents a semantic meaning, except for:

1. those characters who also encode the width of their visual image (U+FF00..FFEF)

2. the one that means 'unknown' (U+FFFD)

3. those characters that change their visual representation depending on their position in the word (U+FB50..U+FDFF,U+FE70..U+FEFF)

4. those that change the visual image of another code point (U+FE00..U+FE0F)

5. those characters that have a visual image as their semantic meaning (too many to list)

6. those that are designated to have no semantic meaning at all (U+FDD0..U+FDEF)

7. those that have a meaning only in pairs (U+D800..U+DFFF)

8. miscellaneous
"Moving data around" is what a lot of software engineering is these days. Facebook, Google etc. are more data companies than software companies (and probably close to media than communcations companies).
If you are in a simulation you are not the one looking at the picture of the apple, and trying to eat it from the outside: you are the one for whom the only real thing is the apple that you have in front of you. And the apple indeed feeds you, since the rules in the simulated world are such that "consuming apple object provide nutrients to being eating it".

In a simulation, the reality is the simulation, the rules are the rules programmed in the simulation, in fact you will have a hard time reaching out to base level, since the rules in the simulated world are hiding it from you (which gives for interesting science fiction ideas).

> Simulations are things that we use to talk or to think about other things. In this respect, they do not step out of Musk’s base reality. They are still base reality. They are made of the same stuff everything else is made of.

Accepting the simulation premise does contradict the fact that everything is made of stuff. But that everything is made of stuff does not mean that the objects in the simulation are made of the stuff that the simulation suggests.

And he is missing the main point of the simulation theory, namely that all entities in the simulation are not aware of the underlying levels: in our simulations, the apple and the avatar eating the apple are objects in a program (that is, basically 1s and 0s, not matter) running in a computer processor made of silicon matter. But the apple, or the avatar do not know anything about computer programs, 0s or 1s, silicon, or anything else in the underlying level. And, more interestingly, the apple and the avatar can be upgraded, modified, cloned, deleted or shut down by the computer programmer, all while they are running on "stuff".

In the simulations being run by our masters, where we live, we are objects in a "program" running in a "computer" made of "silicon", all that in quotes because we do not know how exactly the underlying level is structured.
Depends what you think the purpose of having wealth is. Why can't it just be the means to the end of having more toys?

Especially when the wealth is inherited or kleptocratic.
> For instance, micro services and an extremely complex distributed architecture will add a lot of overhead and points of failure when a monolith is probably the best route when you have a few engineers.

But micro services will be a lot easier to get right and test.
Yes, it's "perfectly compatible", but that also means it's "perfectly normal". And normal is no good when it comes to advertising - that's no PR. How about a company which can fight even with the government for your privacy? Now that will make the users drool.
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Actually, my mind keeps jumping to O representing a completed circuit while | means a broken one, so I agree with you.
The last thing we need is little apps you never use nibbling away at your bank account.

Uninstalling things you use on extremely rare occasions is ridiculous. If I play something I want to keep the high score, etc. even if I never really use it. I'm not paying for that privilege.
Emojis and hieroglyphs aside, 16bit was not enough for CJK characters. It's a real world problem---a character set that can't spell people's name or location can't be universally adopted.
Until some enterprising company comes along, offers to share a patent with these developers for their developments... and then sues the shit out of Apple, Google, and Microsoft. Can't wait for that shit storm, and you can see it on the horizon. It's calm.
Just as you can use "nc" for an HTTP resource, you can use "openssl s_client" or "ncat --ssl" (from the nmap project) or "socat" to manipulate an HTTPS resource using the same unix primitives. Which truckload of dependencies does this require? The Debian package for OpenSSL only depends on libc.

I do fully agree that the web is getting more tied to browsers, and to me that's worrying, but TLS is mostly a transparent tunnel over which you can use the same protocols; it's not part of that trend, in my opinion.
This says it is implemented in the GC - how does the history survive a restart? Oracle does it because this history is kept in the translogs on disk.
Sounds like you're describing Microsoft Research's CHESS (2007), and a host of related projects (Google's ThreadWeaver for Java).

See http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/chess/
and
https://code.google.com/archive/p/thread-weaver/wikis/UsersG...
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Hell, we found an intranuclear parasite that didn't even have its own ATP synthase, glycolytic pathway or any other obvious way to generate ATP.
Amazing how a bigger focus is placed on getting certain demographics to use a programming language rather than focusing on improvement of the language itself.
They have symbols for languages that _have_been_ obsolete for centuries, if not millennia.

Also, if popular, these kinds of things tend to outlive their technology. For prime examples, look at http://graphemica.com/, http://graphemica.com/%F0%9F%96%AA, http://graphemica.com/%F0%9F%96%AB, and http://graphemica.com/%F0%9F%96%AC (to be fair, I think that is overdoing it)
What we need is models that are more retrospectable - so that you can find the rules that it learned. Most of the time they will be too complex for any human understanding - but from time to time we'll find something interesting, something that we can build other things upon.

I have never used neural nets etc - but with simplified bayes spam filters this was possible and quite useful. I used to check which words were pushing a text into one or other category and which did not (when they should).
I wonder if this is an extension to BGP for each router to know when to transmit and in what direction.

My guess is that each node decides that locally, since it can't rely on a constant flow of information from the network. Also there's a matter of power optimisation.

I'd love to see a more in-depth description of this, perhaps they're going to publish a RFC:)
Did you even read the article? For the points 1 and 4 F# has exceptions that are handled seamlessly with this technique using a simple function in the chain, as clearly showed in the article.
For point 2 you are just using a different operator from the normal composition one.
I don't understand your point 3.
> By large margin, users are often grabbing vim to do their Rust work in

I would rather assume the reverse theory. Vim users are more likely to use new languages since they don't expect complex IDE support. Or maybe just: Early adopter and vim user correlates.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11958405 rather contradicts that. Repair in the West more expensive than a new item, I can believe. But once it's shipped back to the land of cheap labour the economics are different.
Where does it say it only runs on iOS and OS X?
if the torpedo misses, how would the warhead get triggered if not from impact? would there be a timer instead and be primed X seconds after launch?
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I understand the last paragraph, my question is more: what makes strategies not scale. Should you go looking in very niche sectors, where the transaction volume limits the scalability? Or are there particular classes of market insights that by their nature only allow (relatively) small profits? Or are there areas where one can exploit particular technical skills? Or maybe focus on geographically small areas somehow, which by their nature limit the potential profit and thus might keep out big players?

I'm not a trader and the level of my questions probably shows that; still despite my (amateur) research for years, I haven't found evidence of people successfully deploying such strategies. And while particular strategies of big players are secret, there is a lot of information on the general principles; for small setups, nothing (afaik). So that leads me more and more to the conclusion that it's simply not viable.

Looking at it another way: a trader who got his experience in a big fund, and who goes solo (a documented scenario), do they go after such inherently small markets, or do they do the same they'd do at a big fund only with less money or with less sophistication? In other words, if they'd have more money, could they scale up or not?
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> Remember that before emoji standardization various cell phone manufacturers (particularly in Japan if I remember correctly) started using codepoints for whatever they pleased.

Things were way worse than that: to add emoji to text, NTT DoCoMo used private-use codepoints, AU used embedded image tags and Softbank wrapped emoji codes in SI/SO escape sequences.
Probably not very much compared to the amount of oil used to drive those cars - tires are quire thin. I wouldn't be surprised if the oil used in transporting them dominated the equation. Also, 1 billion tires is about the number manufactured annually and it's unlikely everyone would replace their car with an electric one within a year, or eve a few years.

Tires are really the least of our problems.
I hope that ligatures will be more popularized than using characters like "½", because it is very difficult to find them in text with standard ASCII characters, i.e. in Firefox by typing 1/2 in quick find (ctrl+f).
...which is why they just introduced subscription pricing for productivity apps.

This may, or may not, make a big difference for serious apps on the iPad.
Which is by design, because otherwise the national, supposedly independent radio would be sockpuppets of the current government.
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Not game-related, but in the "app utility" space, there's still a lot of room to grow if you're creative and can actually build tools that enhance people's lives. We've done 6 figures the last couple years on that alone.
I found the proposal with the new symbols here: http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15238-n4671.pdf

They were proposed by Japan, and intended for TV electronic program guide. If it makes you happier, one of the symbols is for 8K.
So the idea is to always send the interpreter, along with the data? They should always travel together?

Interesting. But, practically, the interpreter would need to be written in such a way that it works on all target systems. The world isn't set up for that, although it should be.

Hm, I now realize your point about HTML being idiotic. It should be a description, along with instructions for parsing and displaying it (?)
A feature that made it to standard edition too, unlike CDC and related which were Enterprise only, which is nice.

Similar support can be found in quite a few places. It is in the SQL:2011 standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL:2011
Most people enter game development because of passion rather than risk-reward. So the market is distorted and will stay that way.
How would you write the code (and JCStressTest tool) corresponding to the article in Swift?
People still use DSL?
True but I think that is also problematic.
The more symbols there are the less likely it is that every font covers all the symbols that someone might find important.
For instance, I often get e-mails with characters that can't be displayed because my standard fonts (on linux) don't have them. The "missing unicode symbol" icon is the new "picture not found" icon[0] In fact, it is even worse as there is no alt attribute that delineates what I am supposed to see.

[0] Remember this one? https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/425274582581264384/X3QX...
Ironically, it was accidentally trying to reinvent this pattern in Elm that simultaneously made me give up on Elm and finally understand what good monads are.

This is a really cool tutorial, I look forward to sinking my teeth into it.
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I just read about the Rule of 72 in a book titled The Intelligent Asset Allocator: How to Build Your Portfolio to Maximize Returns and Minimize Risk by William Bernstein.

It is a good book, I recommend it.
Apple does not do anything. Apple is not a person. Person do things. In this case, Tim Cook deciding "hey let's start paying a lot more taxes" will probably not be received very well by the shareholders.
Where did you get "bigger focus" from? It seems to me they are hard at work improving the language all the time.