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You didn't present an argument, you just put my words in quotes and then made an appeal to an irrelevant authority. John Carmack doesn't do web apps, he does high-end 3D engines You couldn't pick a more different field and still be in the business of writing code for computers.
What people? Indies and FOSS activists that probably still write M$ to this day and believe that Sony and Nintendo or even Sega in its former days are any different.

I really bet none of those ever walked the floors of GDC.
Wow - if this really is true, I am so happy to be living in a country with at least basic employee protection.
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really cool, easy start to any project
What will stop Tumblr's tumble?
Sure, but by the same token, if Ethereum effectively automates the 1) specification and 2) execution of contracts in the vast majority of cases, then the expected probability of ending up in a courtroom falls compared to doing transactions elsewhere.

Unfortunately, it's still too early to say whether that will happen or not.
This is impressive. Not that I understand it. But it's encouraging to try to derive space and gravity from quantum mechanics.

Quantum mechanics seems to be how the universe really works. Outrageous predictions of quantum mechanics, from the two-slit experiment onward, have been experimentally verified. So it's a sound base for further work. Physics has been stuck for a century trying to reconcile relativity and quantum mechanics. This might be a way forward.

It might even lead to something that's experimentally verifiable.
While common hr legal blah blah blah, it's inhumane not to let people wrap up their personal relationships and document their work.
In Firefox, copypasting text-transform:uppercased text retains its pre-transform case. I'm a little sad that feature isn't in Chrome.
My response is more along the lines of "in the case of almost all of the major tech industry successes you can think of, there existed diminishing returns to technical brilliance". Strategy, execution, and product design are so much more essential at the outset of any venture that isn't dealing with significant technical complexity. It doesn't take a genius to learn full-stack development. It's not even too difficult these days to pick up enough stats and ML to do some serious damage on the data science side of things.

Innovation is instead about having a system structured in a way that encourages and rewards risktaking (in expectation).
How is this news related to the "Cyanogen launches the 'Mod' platform with lots of Microsoft integration"? Is it a consequence of the mentioned strategic partnership? http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/02/cyanogen-launches-the...
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Credit Unions are great, and are generally fee free.
I like the idea of building stuff out of wood. Then we can have nice buildings and store carbon
Have you tried rooting and re-imaging an android phone with a custom rom? I'm an experienced software engineer and it took me a painful while to make it happen. I supposed they could make it easier, but the amount of effort that would go into maintaining install kits for every phone out there would be crazy.
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This is how it's been in Australia for many decades. I guess the world truly is a better place here.
I know all caps is a hindrance in reading but I will focus on their tech stack and try to learn the good stuff
Here's my problem with the hardfork (unless I totally misunderstand it):

I had some ETH stored on the "old" blockchain. I bought them during all the DAO publicity, but never actually bought any part of the DAO contract.

The client, if you are un-ware, is a massive disk space hog. Because of this, I stopped running it.

Now, because of the hardfork, in order to get my value back out of the old chain and into the new one, I have to attach an external disk to my computer, and use it to store the chain.

Can I transfer out of the old and into the new chain indefinitely? I have no idea (maybe I'm just bad at google). Can I even transfer now today (once the client finishes syncing [it has been going literally all day today])? Don't know.

I get the why of the hardfork, and I'm not saying that I'm going to stop supporting ethereum, just venting a little bit.

Turns out new technology is new! And sometimes corner cases like mine haven't been accounted for!
For those of you complaining about the title being all caps, it was done so for aesthetic purposes. Which means somehow the submitter went through the time to uppercase each character of the HN title before submitting.

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It's not different legally, they both have a right to protect their intellectual property.

There is a case to be made that people should have a human right to see or consume any media which might be enriching to their lives, even if they can't afford to. But seeing a movie is not the same as archiving and distributing that movie.

In my opinion, software and movie piracy is a side-effect of an industry that does not properly serve it's own market. Whether it's right or wrong doesn't play a role in that. Smart people would recognize that they are playing the game wrong, and they would have adapted their model by now. Some have tried, Netflix is a great effort to move in the right direction but it's been crippled by the idiotic licensing structure of the pre-internet business model.

Without getting into debates about morality or ethics, the MPAA and RIAA are getting what they deserve for responding to these challenges by responding with hostility toward their own consumers. They have not responded properly to the situation, and they dug themselves into further trouble.
It seems I was a bit too fast. I meant to write C++ and not C.
Quite an intricate architecture. I can't help but wonder if all of the complexity and different moving parts are worth it. Does it really make more sense than throwing more resources at a monolithic web service? Clearly the folks at Uber think it does, and they've obviously thought about the problem more than me, but I'd love to understand the reasoning.
Google took the opposite approach, which was to play the iconoclast that was not evil and once they won the market, to start being shady and use dark patterns everywhere.
I wonder what Gates thinks about the Gigafactory, whether it will result it the "magic breakthrough" for energy storage. Without it, Gates asserts we need large DC grids and a 20% gas based peaker capacity.
Until the past couple of years they were almost entirely dependent on government contracts from shady three-letter agencies, and most of the work required a security clearance (now it's a little closer to 50/50 government contracts and Fortune 100-type companies). Not to mention they were literally funded with millions of dollars from the CIA's venture capital arm. Suppose they had been shady - I'm not sure we'd know about it. You probably should have had an 'inconclusive' group somewhere in the middle and they would have at least fit there.
In both cases, it's much easier said than done.
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The idea that Ember is made by/for small and medium sized companies is a bit dated. Several Ember and Ember-CLI core contributors have and continue to work at larger companies like LinkedIn and Yahoo.
In particular, LinkedIn has been using Ember (with Ember-CLI) for over a year now and has found a lot of benefits from its adoption. Having a build system and conventions that a community maintains lets us focus on building applications instead of tooling (though we still have our share of internal tools). We also can give back to the community for things which matter more for applications "at scale". LI, for instance, funded a good portion of the FastBoot work and has been a key driver in the Ember Engines effort recently.
All that to say, Ember (and Ember-CLI) can serve the needs of the whole spectrum of company/team sizes. While it still has some issues to sort out for larger applications, to say it isn't being influenced by large companies isn't really accurate any more
This is just about all the tech there is, right?
The author of the article should bother to read the first two lines of the official Ethereum page:

> Build unstoppable applications

> Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party interference.

One should add at the end: "...unless the developers are heavily invested in a contract, in which case they can perform an Ethereum hard fork to take back their investment in case it goes awry. You know, conflict of interest and all that."

Because that is exactly what happened here.
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> What people?

Anyone who thinks and cares about progress and doesn't drink Koolaid served by MS and Co. Surely not lock-in freaks, who frame their tax on the industry as something positive.

> I really bet none of those ever walked the floors of GDC.

You sound like GDC is owned by MS, or it's ought to be. Are you paid by them? Either way, it's a very poor way to measure opinions or their value. Find something better.
What are you talking about? If you copy-paste the title you get all caps.
Given Trump's predisposition towards expressing sentiments that suggest an attitude of uninhibited prejudice with respect to broad swathes of the population on the basis of their race or gender, it stands to reason that people willing to support him are, if not expressly endorsing those positions, willfully participating in the legitimization of a man who has given the US electorate enough reason to believe he would propone dangerously divisive policymaking were he to be elected. This tacit endorsement is rife with implications about people holding this particular political view. 10/10 political correctness.
This is a very accurate description of the problem. We’re optimistic though. I’m sure that the community will help make Create React App even better
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> My perspective is that most religions have been spread primarily by violence and these violent interactions explain the overall picture of religion in the world today

Please note that originally Christianity spread in a peer-to-peer way until the Roman empire picked it up.

Even after then a lot of people have spread Christianity not by forcing people but by presenting it as a better option.

Personally I try to avoid forcing my views unto people ("many people who try to become fishers of men end up like scarecrows"). Instead I try to make an example and if anyone like what they see they are free to ask.
Do also look at the recently released http://vulkan-tutorial.com.
I generally try and have tasks of different types available for different moods (eg bug fixes, graphics work, marketing, etc). It's important for me to keep the momentum going though and even finishing a small thing is better than nothing.

Some things just require more time/thought though, so sometimes I have to shelve things and tackle them when I have more time.

Sometimes all I get done in 30 minutes is to make a decision about how to do something - this is still progress and feeds into the next spot.
Good.
My wife is a speech therapist and uses a system that is designed to help people who have had strokes regain their voice.
It comprises a piece of software that comes with a "specially calibrated USB microphone". The microphone is actually a Samson laptop USB mic that had the voice improvement systems logo stuck on it.
The system came with lots of legal warnings about not copying, not telling unqualified people about how it worked and not to use an unapproved microphone. The DMCA was specifically mentioned.
One day the mic failed (the program requires patients to shout aggressively at the mic) so my wife went off looking for a replacement. We had a few USB mics that we tried and and the application refused to acknowledge their existence even though they showed up in Windows. It became obvious that the software was checking the USB device ID. My wife went to the company that ran the system to get a replacement, but they said she had to buy a new copy of the software as well - total cost $659. So we took a chance and ordered a new Samson USB mic from Amazon for €30.00, but when it arrived it didn't work. It was the same model, but was a few generations ahead and therefore had a different USB device ID. My wife has some colleagues with the same package so I tested their mics and they had different USB device IDs and it became obvious that when Samson released a revision of the mic the company offering the system simply recompiled the code with he new device ID baked in and then re-branded the mic.
So, not wanting to shell out $659 for a whole new package I took the old and new mics apart desoldered the cartridges from both mics and put the new one in the body of the failed mic. It worked! Now technically this would be a violation of 1201 in the sense that the individual copy of the software they sold you was tied to the specific mic they sold you at the same time - they said so in the EULA. But lets be honest that's just nonsense. They were simply trying to sell more stuff - a tactic that seems fairly common in various fields of professional therapy.
This is the sort of problem caused by 1201. If we lived in the US we would have been in breach of the DMCA even though we copied nothing.
Also, the software is as ugly as sin.
Upvoted!

I rarely comment here, but the similarity was so striking that I came back with the express intention to comment on this exact vein. I actually suspect this analogy was the OP's intention all along :)

Also, it is striking how the human nature never changes and the societal mores tend to remain the same; 60 years is not such a long time on that scale, but the buzz, the (less/un-informed) fever and fervour of the general public that Shannon remarked, they all sound eerily familiar.
I thought Gates was seriously looking into Thorium but I don't see any mention of it.

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/bill-gates-is-beginning-to-...
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> HN is a weird place to bemoan prices when many here are seeking unicorn valuations while disrupting industry.
I think the insulting tone towards those that disagree with him might have something to do with it. And the above statement is just plain absurd.
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I recently covered this a bit when I looked at owncloud's crypto:
https://blog.hboeck.de/archives/880-Pwncloud-bad-crypto-in-t...

The situation is far from ideal. Recommending libsodium-php is also not as simple, as this requires an additional thing to be installed on a server, which probably isn't the case for most shared hosting environments.
I am too but I'm not sure a drawn out layoff process benefits anyone. When looking from either side of the table, I think I'd prefer short, sharp and with good severance.
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Oops, I didn't know the behavior persists.
Sorry if I've missed it somewhere but I'm looking for some independent, transparent reports on its security implementation. I was wondering if anyone could help me with finding this - or if perhaps they haven't been done I guess that would answer my question?
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Pretty much, whilst it sounds harsh there are plenty of examples of worse layoffs.

Working for a bigger company means you are less in control of your destiny.
What we have is general advice(which is correct) being countered by a someone citing a specific situation, in which all the aspects that make the advice non-applicable are constraints they have imposed on their self.

50 GB of music on a Macbook, which would require upgrading and this cost an extra $300, so it's not cheap. Does everyone need a Macbook? Does everyone need to use a laptop? Does everyone need over 17 days of music immediately accessible? Even if it's immediately accessible, does it need to be locally stored, or is remote access applicable?

The comment starts out with "I'm sick of the "storage is insanely cheap" refrain from FLAC proponents." What I meant by "valid" is does it apply to the majority of the audience the comment was aimed at, or are we hearing about someone's self-imposed problems?

It's sort of like a discussion about driving safety, and someone suggests using a specific high safety rated car which costs a little most, but not too much, and someone else jumping in and complaining how they are tired of that suggestion because the convertible version of that car costs far more. While technically correct, I would argue that the original advice probably wasn't even aimed at that person, but at those who value safety more that having a convertible.

Similarly, here we have someone that may care about quality, but I don't think it's hard to argue from their statements that they care less about quality than a few other factors, such as using an Apple product, using a laptop, keeping their files local, and having a very large store of music. Since the source of this stated "If you're really concerned over sound quality: use something lossless, like FLAC." I think it's entirely valid to point out that self imposed constraints such as the ones in this discussion are definitely something worth looking at when someone calls the usefulness of the comment in question.

That said, I'll fully admit I didn't express that well, and could have come across as preachy (and maybe I still am). I just think the original comment was worthwhile (if you care, keep your originals lossless), and didn't think the counter was very well presented at all.
different for chrome and firefox :)
I'd love to know how many people are responsible for devops/operations/app at various stages of any company's journey. Wikipedia says Uber employs 6,500 people so if even 15% of that is on the tech side of the business that's still 1,000+ people allocated to tech. I think this metric would be a useful reality check for a "modern" SaaS project with 3-10 people that's trying to emulate a backend structure similar to the big league.

There are 20+ complex tools listed in the stack, and to run a high-visibility production system would require high level of expertise with most of them. Docker, Cassandra, React, ELK, WebGL are not related in required skills/knowledge at all (as, for example, Go and C are). Is it 5 bright guys and girls managing everything, like the React time within Facebook? Or a team dedicated just to log analytics?
I think that this is new though. I don't think it used to be like this (?). I'm on Chrome.
It costs too much in engineer time to maintain just the hardware support to do that. This will continue to be the case and also block GNU/Linux on these devices until the manufacturers start to send drivers and patches to Linux mainline before selling their devices. Unfortunately the hardware world moves so fast that the devices will be obsolete before they are supported by Linux mainline.
> You didn't present an argument,

Neither did you. That link you posted is laughable. Like there isn't a single agreeable thing about the research it presents and the methodology by which they arrive at the conclusions it makes.

> to an irrelevant authority

Is that kind of like appealing to "experience" and "team experience"?

> John Carmack doesn't do web apps, he does high-end 3D engines

Is this an admission of the possibility that types work in one subfield of programming? If so, how is that subfield different from another subfield.
I think you're getting downvoted because of this quote: "The sort of person who feels guilty for making a good profit is at a disadvantage..." Nobody feels guilty for making a lot of money. It's the how to do it that people's opinions differ on.
They're like a male, extremely casual and simplified, version of Geisha (perhaps so much so to render the comparison meaningless, I'll admit). I wonder if Japan has much use for life-coaches, which also sound a bit related to this (less coaching?), but within Japanese culture and traditions this may be the way those needs are met
Your addition of a good severance package changes the situation greatly...
Please find some of these patterns for .net\azure\c# stack here - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn568099.aspx
Isn't this potentially just a form of talk therapy? Yes the person listen has no medical training and that /could/ be dangerous, but neither do you friends and if you have they you talk to them, perhaps some people just don't have friends or perhaps need an 'air gap' and need someone with some distance from their lives to hear them out so they can't talk things through out loud? Personally - I think it sounds interesting and potentially therapeutic.
I'm confused. Mitmproxy shows me request/response bodies and lets me edit and replay requests. Those seem like fundamental features (Fiddler, Burp, mitmproxy all seem to have them). I don't see how this is done with nginx reverse_proxying and logging, or is that coming in part 2 or 3 maybe?
> It's not different legally

It probably is different legally.

There are civil remedies and criminal penalties.

Criminal penalties tend to apply for willful infringement for commercial gain.

So when I download a movie it doesn't count. If I download movies and sell them it does. Zara removing the copyright notices from a designer's work, placing it on their clothing, and selling it pretty clearly moves it into the criminal end of copyright violation.
This sounds super interesting to me as someone with a passing interest in astrophysics but no real study. But it also seems such an obvious approach that I'd be shocked if it hadn't been tried before. Is it really that novel?
This.

It's actually massively soured me on Android (as well as several vendors, yes, specifically you, Samsung) as a result.
Oh my goodness I didn't even know about those. I think it will address my needs perfectly. I will have to badger our systems people to upgrade.

Thankyou!
Good spot - see Direct Connect in the archived copy:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150910211935/https://www.exped...
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The first result on google for 'log gitlab bug': https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues

Don't worry about the 'ce vs ee' thing, it makes no difference, it's all the same code and regardless, the company and the community care about the product and will respond.
That's all bloat. Pure and simple. At the end of the day Uber just does routing and basic allocation. It's a simple operations problem that has been solved since the 70s and no one back then needed ELK, Docker, Cassandra, etc.

I've seen this bloat everywhere. It is usually a result of internal politics and posturing by management types. The kinds of people Steve Jobs would have called B and C players. Now the actual people operations is another matter entirely but the tech stack definitely doesn't need to be that complicated.
Solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, biomass. Maybe nuclear.

That's it. Don't go hunting for your something else, it's just wasting time. Nuclear, given lead times and more, is also quite possibly wasting time, though I'll allow some possibility it isn't. Long-term though, it's almost certainly highly problematic.
What 'right thing' should the bank have done in the example case? Should they not have transferred the money to the account the customer told them to send it to?
Isn't that what Adblock Plus's whitelist for non-invasive advertisers is, more or less? I understand it's not specialized to reporting, but the idea is that it won't block ads that are good citizens.
No, I am someone that in a past life was allowed to spend some time in the backstage how big boys do games and still keep some of those ties, even though I just do IT enterprise consulting nowadays.

No one in GDC hallways speak of lock-in as activists believe they do.