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The BIOS traditionally has some kind of drivers for devices that are built into the system (in the PC architecture, add-on devices can extend the BIOS, so for example if you had a SCSI card, it would get a chance to have its own onboard ROM, which could be mapped into the system address space and also run initialization code during the system startup; that ROM could provide a basic SCSI driver that would allow you to boot from SCSI-attached storage devices).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option_ROM

For a post-DOS operating system, the main role of the option ROM is providing functionality, in the form of BIOS extensions, that allows the device supported by the option ROM to be used during the boot process. Then the operating system will need to have its own protected-mode drivers to use that hardware post-boot.

In the Linux world you often see multi-stage bootloaders, where you have a boot sector that knows how to load the next stage, which then knows how to load the next stage. Each stage can have more knowledge about things like filesystems than the previous stage. For some systems, you may indicate the absolute offset on a disk from which a file should be loaded (so that you can load it without knowing about the filesystem, assuming that it's stored contiguously). For example, LILO had a table of hardcoded disk offsets for images to boot, so if you moved where a kernel was physically stored, you were supposed to re-run the bootloader installer.

I was once familiar with how this worked on BIOS but I'm not familiar with the changes that UEFI has brought in. It might be useful to read

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_In...
I've had a vive for three or four months now and still play pretty regularly. I only play games on the vive now (though I only have time for a few hours of gaming a week).

Even though there's not a lot of content, "regular" video games seem really lame now. I've felt for a long time that the video game industry is stagnant. The big studios come out with the same shooter franchises and sports franchises. Most indie games use mechanics that are decades old now (puzzles, platformers, etc). In app purchases and pay to win crap has taken over mobile gaming.

VR changes this. Games like tiltbrush and fantastic contraption could not have been built before now. Playing VR makes me feel like a kid again playing mario 64 for the first time.
Using my own money to attend conferences when my company didn't have a budget. I think spending money on your education/self improvement is the best thing you can invest in.
Yeah it can suck when others are waiting for their turn. It's nice though because the games themselves are a lot of fun to watch. I'd suggest checking out Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, it's fun for people not in VR.
Tesla at ~$30/share.
When are those conditionals deleted? I assume after a few conditional features it can be hard to make sure all the possible combinations work well.

What strategy do you use to decide when to permanently enable a feature and simplify the codebase?
Sigh, ok.
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I can certainly relate to having grown up on the internet (I've said it myself before). It's sort of sad to see where I grew up become more of a marketplace than social center.
> TL;DR- In the 1-2 year timeframe tho, my advice - mortgage your house and buy as much BC real estate as you can afford. Good luck on finding 25%+ yoy low risk returns anywhere else.

Return is a function of risk. Doesn't a 25% yield imply far more risk than you are implying? Why is anyone selling right now if prices are going to skyrocket like that? What if China institutes tight capital controls? What if oil goes to $20 a barrel?
"And watch while we are plunged into a recession due to a huge disruption in global supply chains."

WHAT supply chain? There is NO supply chain anymore. JIT (Just-In-Time) inventory has been replaced by BLTN (Better-Late-Than-Never) and AGNM (Ain't-Got-No-More) inventory.

Went to a large box store on the weekend. They had empty containers marked "Display" on the shelves. Two different employees explained that I should put empty containers for the desired items in my cart and, upon checking out, they would retrieve a full container of each item "from the back". Both assured me all displayed items were available.

Got my display containers and proceeded to check out. Was informed that two of three displayed items were not available. I suggested to the clerk "So now you'll take these two items off display?" He replied "No, they'll probably be back in stock next week."

I left the store w/o purchasing anything and they'll never see me again.

We may be in a recession right now because we can't buy quality goods AT ALL! I've bought five new fingernail clippers in the last six months and, for God's sake, they won't cut my nails! They're all made in China.

Many, if not most Chinese goods, especially machine tools, remain as they were 14 years ago: low quality and every item different with no standardization. And they've driven many good US manufacturers out of business. Why? Because workers buy shitty tools for one-time use, bill the customer for the work and for the tools and then throw away the tools when they're done. Of course no one's considering the external factors here: cost of shitty tools in poor workmanship, longer production times and accidents.

"How do you think people will react to a 10% increase in prices for almost all goods?"

If it convinces American manufacturers to produce quality products then it's great news.
You've definitely nailed the problem. It's all about backwards-compatibility. Most of the plain-craziness I see day to day is in the Array methods, which certainly is annoying.

There's also some crazy defaults with json_encode which you actually need to send a flag to disable to get valid UTF-8. JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE, I am looking at you...interestingly enough they set the default to not cause buggy JSON parsers people use to blow up. Not a choice I would have made, but I guess they like to be nice to their users. It would be nice if their documentation for this function gave a more prominent message about this.

To address your second point though, I wouldn't advise that anyone learn _any_ language specifically. I would have them address concepts directly and try to be language agnostic. JavaScript would be the closest thing just for employability reasons, but it has way too many JavaScript-specific quirks for me to recommend someone to base their career on it.
I bet someone somewhere is working on a PHP interpreter in Javascript.

Ninja edit: yep. (http://asmblah.github.io/uniter/demo/interactive.html)
> The money part of the plan worked though we’re now both full time on Anymailfinder

It's no longer a side-business, and $1500/mo is not enough to sustain two partners.
The gridle blogpost looks similarly skeevy tbh: "If you're a clever startup" you'll have pirated Adobe Photoshop? Really?
By play do you mean as a consumer of content or a producer of content?

I have a Rift and play Elite Dangerous several times a week. Otherwise the software situation is quite dire with no content that can match the depth of typical AAA titles.

The lack of motion tracked controllers is a problem right now as it blocks access to a lot of Steam games.
Do you by any chance mean Star Trek and Alibaba films?
And not even the first spammer YC has backed.
> this is good for Bitcoin ... The answer is, don't do that ... Make cold storage paper wallets and keep your Bitcoin there.

Only in bitcoin land is theft considered good for the ecosystem.

Only in bitcoin land does it make sense to blame laypeople for storing their money with financial institutions.

Only in bitcoin land is it a best practice to secure your money using a password written on a piece of paper.

Only in bitcoin land is it reasonable to expect consumers to do a better job of keeping their money secure than corporations with on staff security experts.
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As a counterpoint, where I have seen designers contribute to open source projects - and where I've done so in the past myself - the push back from developers saying the designers are 'dumbing things down' or 'putting style over substance' is immense. I've even heard developers say they don't want it to be too easy to use otherwise all the noobs might start using it.

Designing in the open is much harder than coding in the open as creating and implementing a consistent ui takes discipline and consensus. The design can't be just a pretty coat of paint over the top, which is what I think a lot of people assume it is.

Also, free software is about providing choice, whereas good design is often about limiting it. If free software users wanted opinionated interfaces they'd be using iOS, not Arch or whatever.

Calibre is a great example. It's an amazingly powerful bit of software, but good grief is it ugly. It'd be fantastic to take it apart and put it back together in a way that doesn't make it look like a taxidermist's sink trap.
I had the sense to talk to the conference people a couple weeks in advance about the projector, and it was waiting in the conference room on schedule. So that wasn't a problem.

It didn't affect the content of the presentation at all.

The only issue was one of perception - I was talking about new technology, and was presenting using old technology. It wasn't congruent, and didn't really fit, although it was fun. Hence it was a one-off thing. I didn't do it again.

I doubt today one could even find a viewfoil projector, and the audio-visual staff would be annoyed because it won't interface to their recording system. Annoying the AV staff is never a good idea.
I was in the very first wave of Vive shipments and I got a Rift at the very beginning of June. So at this point I've had both for a pretty decent chunk of time.

I haven't been using them much, but that's largely due to lack of content. I used them both heavily when they arrived, and the Vive in particular got a ton of playtime, but after a certain point I just don't want to fire up SPT again. Recently it got to a point where I'm not even all that excited to demo the Vive to others either.

I disagree strongly with those saying monitors are obsolete. They're definitely not, not right now at least. I've recently been playing The Witcher 3 and not only is it far more graphically impressive than any VR content available, but the game itself has a level of complexity that would be very hard to achieve in a VR game.

It's just too convenient and easy to play games on a 1440p or 4K monitor with keyboard and mouse. The extremely crisp resolution, the fantastic and complex and comfortable controls, the ability to trivially do stuff concurrently while playing the game, the fact that you're not blocked off from people around you... there are more than enough reasons to continue playing standard monitor-based games.

I feel I do need to emphasize how much VR blocks you off from friends and family who might be around. It feels very social when you demo it for the first time, but eventually I could definitely tell that my SO was starting to resent VR. From her perspective, it's the equivalent of me just disappearing into the garage and locking the door with little to no communication.
I've made several great investments, including one that is currently paying out over $6,000/mo. However, these payments are made to someone else, because I always, always sell early. The markets are a painful place to come to know oneself.

I do have one tried and true piece of advice: invest in index mutual funds over managed ones. Their "average" return routinely outperforms most actively managed mutual funds. Worst case, you haven't paid a lot of management fees to the person who has lost money for you. (This is less true than in the past because traders now arbitrage against index funds. Nimble traders exploit the fact that index funds are mandated to buy certain positions.)

Don't use stockbrokers. If they really knew what they claim to know then they'd be fabulously wealthy without your help.

Burton Malkiel's Random Walk Down Wall Street is a good read.
> It takes a name and domain and checks against the server to see if the email for that person exists.

That sounds like SMTP VRFY, which doesn't work since it's disabled by every competent devops person.
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How do you calculate this?
> I would say "sure this stock is 'worth' $500K but if I sell it I'm going to have to pay a huge amount of tax on

How is that possible? After 1 year, you are in Long-term capital gains territory, so selling now vs later is tax neutral (except for gains on gains, but that's rather minor unless you think you are in a growth stock)

The only reason to delay selling for tax reasons is if you also have a high income (over $300K?) that boosts your Long-term capital gains rate
What's the disadvantage of being an expat in a Chinese culture?
How//Why is being privacy-conscious troublemaking?
I have a Gear VR as well, and wrote up my experiences with it here: https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2015/12/gear-vr-the-future-is-not...

Mine's on the shelf now too, for a couple of reasons. First, there wasn't a whole lot of good VR content available at launch, and even now around nine months later there still isn't. Second, I found it the only experience where the device really provided a knockout experience was when viewing panoramic photos -- games had to be simple and cartoon-ey to work with the limited horsepower and control options available, and it didn't have enough resolution to display 360-degree video in a convincingly immersive fashion.

(I chalked the latter limitation up to the fact that the Gear VR is driven by a cellphone, but from what I've heard Vive and Rift aren't great on this front either, which legitimately surprised me.)
Well, it looks like some Narcos already did (and without the Feds approval):
http://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/smugglers-used-drones-since-...
Wonder how this new delivery method affects street prices for illegal substances?
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I don't remember the exact numbers but in 2013 I bought some tesla calls planning to sell them in a few weeks and hopefully make a few bucks. I forgot to sell them and when the contract expired they were in the money (TSLA had gone up almost 300%). Etrade bought the shares on margin on my behalf, and when I next logged into my account I was first shocked to see I owed Etrade about $16,000 and then amazed to see that I owned about $50k worth of tesla shares (on a maybe $1000 investment, I don't remember what the premiums were at the time).

So the short answer to your question is, dumb luck and sheer stupidity.
An apartment building in a gentrifying neighborhood. I was pretty sure it would pan out, since it's within walking distance of a train stop and had attractive early 20th century architecture. It's still panning out, as my equity keeps growing. The mortgage will be paid off in 13 years.

I have not been able to buy another income property since then as I had to buy a home for myself in the intervening time.

The biggest takeaway from the experience for me is that you should not buy a home for yourself, then rebuild savings for several years and subsequently buy an income property. Buy the income property first, and then let the tenants carry the mortgage. I doubt I would have bought another property if I had bought my home first.
The socket.io example server is 6 lines: https://github.com/socketio/socket.io

A polling loop is 4-5? I guess that's everything minus the WEB Gui.
Wal-Mart should focus on getting rid of (transition) its old mentality management and try spending top dollar on hiring top talent from the industry. I happened to work with Wal-Mart tech teams and their hands are tied by stubborn warehouse-manual-gears mindset of upper management. Basically our company had a nightmarish experience when we were integrating our services product with their internal tech products.

All of these companies (Walmart, Bestbuy etc) are trying to compete with Amazon by offering things like price match etc. Sure it is nice to have a price match from Bestbuy and pick up your product on the same day from Bestbuy. But Amazon came back with a KO punch and offered Same-Day/One-Day shipping. I can basically order it before midnight of the previous day and have it at my doors by max 7pm the next day. Amazon has successfully created a concept of brand among household consumers. They are the Apple of household consumerism and most people don't want to buy from uncool brands. When I search for a product on Google shopping and if the price is same on Amazon and Walmart, I would pick Amazon because of "PRIME" shipping. Even if it is $1 cheaper on Walamrt I would still go for Amazon. Brand loyalty can't be bought with $3B. Brand loyalty needs to be created at grass root level.
If they are a beginner it probably doesn't matter.
Slightly under. I'd been watching it and the price dropped from ~35 to ~28. I had the extra cash in my brokerage account, so I bought in. Did not expect that return.
Fiscally conservative ... socialism?? Huh. Now that would be something I'd like to see tried here in the United States!

Waste is treated like an benign abstraction here: an assumed given of "bureaucratic overhead" that nothing can be done about except occasionally talk and handwave over.

I'd guess you'd need to have a culture that encourages whistleblowing, snitches, and oversight to make fiscally conservative socialism work. Such a culture doesn't exist here in the US.
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Animating like you just don’t care with Element.animate
React Native is here to help us build apps today with performance in mind. Leveraging web won't have similar performance because it will always have a layer (browser). And it will take who-knows-how-long to implement whatever API that's available on native but not in browsers. React Native allows accessing native API today.

And as far as I know, FB actually tries hard to improve web by participating TC 39 actively. Web is still big part of them.
TSMC fabs are mostly in Taiwan, not China.
> If I'm getting taxed, then I'm making money, and that's as much thought as I give it."

This is true, but if you are making money and getting tax, but if you are also losing money and not reducing taxes (because you are trading a lot and getting gains taxed some years but not saving on taxes in down years), you will hurt yourself.
It's not a lie per se as you wouldn't make any claims in the cv etc. about how often you work on the project. Just here is my github url: xyz

I don't need to do this myself as I often have commits from tinkering and being a perfectionist. But for the time strapped it could be useful. Remember it's about impressions. You could do 1 min a day with commit for 60 days and that'll look better on github than a single.one hour session. Even if the code commited is ultimately the same
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great! Saves disk space on my SSD. Thanks!
It's also really interesting to note how many "tech people" are vocal about all sorts of things outside of their expertise. You will find 'techies' experts on everything, it seems. I'm still not sure if this behavioral anomaly is there in the first place or is it due to the nature of prevalent media that carries those voices.
> It appears that Snopes decided the that the "no flags at the DNC" was false, but the C-SPAN evidence show that at times there were no flags on display.

If there were flags on display at any point during the DNC, the claim of no flags at the DNC (including both forms which Snopes explicitly was addressing, that "flags were absent" from the convention or that "flags were banned" at the convention) is false. The claim that there were moments without flags at the DNC is a distinctly different claim, which is not false, but also not the claim that snopes was addressing.
"But let's be honest - Silicon Valley is often a parody of itself, and it has lost some of the things that made it great. Where Silicon Valley was once heavily subsidized to be a place of technical innovation, it is now an expensive but well-funded hub focused on business execution."

I wonder how different can Beijing really be in this regard. It sure sounds like it's more gritty but I doubt everyone there has more high minded ideals than your usual SV sort.
I was surprised to read this:

I had, as I think many young entrepreneurs have, idolized Silicon Valley as a utopian vision of an idealistic but well-meaning band of technocrats building the foundations for a just and democratic society ...

This is isn't on my personal list of what SV is or might be.

What could possibly be giving anyone this impression of SV?
You're assuming that any child I adopt would be genetically predisposed to lower intelligence than a child I would biologically have. That's not necessarily the case.
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"Having money's not everything. Not having it is"
I personally wouldn't trade the stability of aws/heroku for $5 difference a month.

I do think the opportunity is available for making the process easier for specific technology stack. For example, I used Meteor's galaxy hosting platform 'cause it works so nicely with Meteor applications. And it is so simple to do, the toolbelt makes it so that it is literally a one-line command line to configure and deploy. And I know that it JUST WORKS, I don't need to worry about nuisances of Meteor hosting.

What if something like this exists for say React? The JS tools fatigue is drowning all React devs. If you can make something that is super simple for say webpack deployment. That would be sweet! I'd pay a premium for that convenience and knowledge that I'm not doing something stupid.
One of the way forward I see is that, Walmart will let Jet be Jet but will the major source of the products etc. Mostly growing from the back-end of it. Enabling things like same day delivery in certain instances. I would actually let Walmart groom Jet as a separate brand.
How many years ago? Google famously publicly renounced those ~5 years ago.
Not that widely know but matplotlib plots can be animated at a pinch. - the experience of doing so is not what I'd regard as fun though... They can also be embedded fairly easily in e.g. pyQT apps.
Doesn't look like it. He seems to make no mention of his relationship to Anymailfinder or Makesmail in any of his posts. [3] It also looks like he is working closely with "Clavain Skade" or that is a sock puppet since they seem to publish everything for them to repost.

[1] (My favorite) https://growthhackers.com/slides/30-brilliant-growth-hack-ca...
[2] https://medium.com/@clavain
[3] https://growthhackers.com/members/kullar/posts
America is a melting pot, you can become an American but you can never become "Chinese" and will always be considered an outsider. The Chinese identity is rooted in specific birthright and lineage.
If these companies aren't really hiring because they aren't offering competitive salaries, that means that someone else is hiring and offering competitive salaries.
American progressives tend to use Sweden (and Scandanavia generally) as models of how socialism can succeed, probably unaware that Sweden is a highly-productive, modern, capitalist society with capiitalist notions free trade, property rights, investment freedom, and monetary policy. In other words, socialists love to provide examples of socialism that are pretty devoid of actual socialism. Sweden has high taxes and a generous welfare regime, but it doesn't have government ownership of the means of production ("socialism"). That's why Sweden is Sweden.

Source: Heritage foundation's economic freedom index (Sweden does very well: http://www.heritage.org/index/country/sweden)
The best investment I made in terms of money? Married my wife. Having a life partner that understands money and makes sure I didn't make stupid money decisions is the best investment. It pays off in so many ways.