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Notation as a tool for thought, of course!

In quoting the article you conveniently leave out that Personal View dates back to 1991 and, technically, had it's foundation in the years prior to that because of just how frustrating it was to use APL during that awkward time in computing.

I am not sure if you know APL, ever used it and for how long. I go way back. I was in the thick of it as the IBM PC came out and various APL packages tried to make the transition. I started using APL on time shared mainframes over Honeywell and DEC teletypes and Tektronix storage CRT terminals, that's how far I go.

It was down-right frustrating. On the PC, APL interpreters had to ship with a character ROM for the monitor card just so you could see the characters on the screen. In the process you'd lose about half of the ASCII table to APL. If you wanted to print APL characters you had to buy specific printers, like the IBM Selectric and install a special APL ball with APL characters. A few got clever and installed a physical toggle switch on the computer to switch between APL and ASCII character sets.

Yeah, you had to crack open your computer and change a chip just to be able to see APL chracters!

I wrote and presented a paper at an APL conference in the early 80's. Back then you had to submit the paper in print for reproduction. I had to write my own APL paper printer program to drive an IBM Selectric such that it would pause and allow me to change the printer's character ball to print code sections in the paper.

You really truly had to want to do APL in order to be willing to endure this kind of pain. The lucky ones had Tektronix storage CRT terminals or IBM terminals with built-in APL characters.

Eventually dot matrix technology made things easier. Yet, we were still crippled by the limitations of ASCII and having to live this dual life of needing APL characters to program and regular characters for the "user space" application.

That being the context, Ken Iverson buckled to the pressure and transliterated APL to ASCII characters, something that would result in J. This, of course, was extremely short-sighted and went exactly counter to the power he found on notation as a tool for thought.

A man who devoted no less than twenty years to developing the beautiful and powerful concept of a notation for describing digital systems and programming, simply made the wrong call just as technology was about to make the use of such notation simple and universally accessible to all.

J is not APL. Far from it. The power is in the notation. J throws that away. It's a shame.
I personally use : http://rigaux.org/hexedit.html

Other options can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_hex_editors
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So you use VI and Emacs on Android, generate postscript and troff files, configure /etc/passwd and /etc/init.d

I don't use Android, because it's a ridiculously hacked-up version of GNU/Linux (as if being based on GNU/Linux isn't bad enough).

Have you spawned a shell on it? The filesystem is a royal mess, the likes of which I've never seen before. Could I run vi and groff and even SVR4 nroff on it? Yes, if I wanted to waste my time with it, I could.

How does your Android .profile look like?

I didn't touch .profile because I don't care for bash one bit, but it was there.

However, in this context, it's still UNIX. A hacked-up, ugly UNIX severely mutilated to run on mobile telephones and tables, but conceptually UNIX nevertheless (honestly, I have never seen anything to hacked-up and mutilated like Android, and you can bet that in 30+ years of working with computers, one sees all kinds of things).
Not sure what Linux has to do with anything; a Linux build would simply not run on OSX.

What do you mean the graphics took a huge step backward? You don't like the new UI, or stuff like WebGL/HTML5 Canvas is performing poorly?

Personally I prefer the new UI, better suits El Capitan's return to a more clean, flat look.
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When they eventually remove the Material UI toggle from chrome://flags, I'd recommend installing a Chrome theme that you like rather than rolling back actual security patches and bug fixes.
Yes, Comey's words, at face value, always do come across as respecting due process. But what even is a "warrant" anymore as it applies to three letter organizations? What are the scopes of these things nowadays?

And the tradeoff that Comey doesn't like and that is out of his hands is that we the people want no mechanism for any digitally remote third party to gain access to our data. In the cell phone case, we don't even want physical access to our devices to provide access to our data by others. Law enforcement's access is collateral damage in this fight, which makes warrants moot anyway. But it's either accessible or not, blind to who is doing the accessing, so closed it should be.
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One case although, is to keep a simple password you'll remember to access your client-side encrypted cloud backups of your password manager db. Otherwise you could end up in a case where you've lost all of your passwords and your shit out of luck when you lose your computer and your local backup.
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Medical is so bureaucratic that there are draconian policies to prevent flirting at work.

I'd suggest the fashion, tourism or entertainment industries.
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In broad strokes, what are the most energy costly parts of a computation? One must be particularly bad... I'm guessing CPU activity, because it generates the most heat? If you broke it down further, what's the most expensive parts of it?

What causes divergence between energy efficiency and time complexity? I would expect both roughly scale proportionate to the number of instructions executed.
I was a Flash developer. It blows my mind how far and wide this plugin went. We're still dealing with a transition out years after it fell out of favour. It's kind of neat and a good reminder that if people start using a technology it's not so easy to simply move away from it. Very similar to the days of IE 5,6,7,8 (and yes I know that's not "over" either... but a lot less of a concern than it was).

Still, faults aside, Flash was awesome. It was an advanced "Hypercard" (which I learned to build things in as a kid). I hope we don't completely lose some of the good aspects of these technologies.
> For DSL typical packet MTU is 1400-something. Why do you ask?

I was wondering how finely you can get the total filesize if it's encrypted. Can you just count fixed size packets, or can you figure the length down to the byte? Makes a big difference if you're trying using that to fingerprint the shows.
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>I figured Nervana was mostly dead if they were stuck at 28 nm

Why? Is there a competitor that has leveraged a more modern process technology?
How else would you suggest they verify it?

Without you proving you're the account owner; you could close down random peoples message board.
>with no obviously correct answers.

Regardless of the point-by-point response, I think the general idea is that women have historically been disadvantaged in education, so Title IX _de facto_ helps alleviate that problem, although there are obvious negative externalities that result from a blanket application. I do think that a couple of your (x) arguments assume malice where there likely is none, but I've responded point-by-point below.

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(1) This is the question at the heart of any sort of redistributive action government takes -- it seems like we, as a society, have decided that it (or things analogous to it) are ok, at least some of the time.

(2) I would hope not! That's certainly not how I've thought of it, as a young male.

(3) Presumably when the indicators of discrimination are no longer so blindingly obvious (ranging from unequal pay to glass ceilings). I don't, however, suspect that it's going to be that simple. I think that a lot of the biases fueling the problem are culturally inherent, and can't be resolved just with legislation. Although the idea behind Title IX seems like a step in the right direction.

(4) By participation in a democratic society. Great question though! I'd like to think that it isn't zero sum.

(5) First of all, I don't think that we necessarily have to do one at the expense of the other. I also don't think that there's any sort of fairness mechanism by which we get to make things universally better for everyone all at once. We work with the Congress we've got, and the Administration we've got, and the Supreme Court we've got (x50 for the state level!) to do the best we can. That being said, I think it's ok to prioritize some problems over others, and problems affecting ~50% of the population are generally worthy of increased scrutiny IMO.
> I haven't heard of any suffering from a multi-region outage.

It has happened in the past [1].

[1] http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/300074866/microsoft-explains-w...
My MBA legal lecturer was absolutely clear that when signing a contract what was said was irrelevant, what was in the contract was what was important.

I think you're talking about a retail position maybe? Or possibly there's differences between US and Australian law in this regard.

I'm not sure I see the point of having words in a contract if it can be voided because someone said something different once...
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Earlier I got curious and I was wondering this too. Seems to be a 'random' blob of bytes every time that doesn't decode, but then I remembered they serve DRM'ed video that is then decrypted on the client.
They didn't ban Unity. The legacy NPAPI extension format (which the Unity web player plugin was built on) was deprecated in favour of PPAPI.

NPAPI was outdated, unperformant and insecure, the goal of PPAPI was to address those issues. All that would be needed for Unity web player to work out-of-the-box in Chrome again is for it to be ported to PPAPI
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Ok,then how should websites/ search engines/ social networks finance themselves in your opinion?
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To compare with php (nearest autoconf I've got on hand):

# wc -l ac* configure.in configure
3033 acinclude.m4
9398 aclocal.m4
1682 configure.in
117433 configure
131546 total

Most of libav's configure script is dependency trees for all the codecs flags you can turn on/off, so it's quite compact without it. x264 reuses it at 1500 lines:

http://git.videolan.org/?p=x264.git;a=blob;f=configure;h=9d1...

Apparently the bash requirement isn't too bad since it works on Windows and Plan 9.
I will still help my friends install Mac OS on their computer if that's what they need, or even help them get a good deal on a Mac if I can. I'm not trying to convert people to my way of life, but I do share what I know and value to anyone willing. Until recently I suggested Apple products to people as being easy to use for non techie people. I don't do this anymore because of how Apple has been abusing it's power, e.g. deleting people's music, imposing their cloud services, their development tools, censoring GPL libraries from their store, paying artists crap... At some point enough is enough. It's perfectly valid for me to feel anger towards what is essentially a techno-religious organisation gone corrupt. I'm angry and sad at the corruption of any party or religion. Having values, feeling passionately about things, these don't make me partisan, it means I'm alive, my heart is beating and my soul is kicking.

I don't "hate Apple" because I'm partisan, I'm frustrated more generally at a whole bundle of abuses and orthodoxies of the religion of mass marketing, and to put it bluntly am frightened about the perpetuation of ignorance, put forth for short term profit, suffocating the grass roots of human knowledge as we speed blindly into an era of artificial intelligence, virtual reality and genetically modified organisms.
interesting to see folks like this :) btw, the paper "introduction to dwarf debugging format" (available here: http://www.dwarfstd.org/doc/Debugging%20using%20DWARF.pdf) is quite approachable. also, in case folks get carried away, there is always the "linkers and loaders" book for in depth analysis.

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Many of these aren't "regular Google software engineers". Eric Schmidt is the former CEO and is on an advisory board at the DOD, while still chairman of the board for Google. Matt Cutts, USDS and still employed formally at Google as well, is one of the most public faces of the biggest and most profitable division Google has. If Google was a single color, I'm confident Matt Cutts would bleed it.

I'm not "looking for corruption in anything". I'm looking for corruption in one of the biggest lobbyists in Washington DC that has very close ties with our administration, and strangely, has managed to avoid any sort of legal action against them, despite the fact that almost every other first world power finds cause to do so.

The previous FTC Commissioner, who is tasked by our government to regulate companies like Google, was a former paid Google shill who fabricated pro-Google "studies". After being paid under the table by Google, and then squashing an FTC investigation against Google during his term there, he's now working for Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, a law firm who has a notable client... Google.

I'm not "looking for corruption in anything". It's just that it's incredibly implausible that Google does not have a corrupt relationship with the government.
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As someone who works on multi-terabit networks, this would be very difficult for most network operators to handle. Don't overestimate the competence for malice here. Usually the tactics of shitty ISPs are much more simple, such as not lighting up peering ports that their eyeball customers are in effect paying for.
There's a proven way to do this: opt-in instead of just assuming everyone wants this and can opt-out otherwise
RC4 was originally a "proprietary" cipher by RSA Data Security before it was leaked.
If you haven't, take some time to look through the list of their blog posts at http://jvns.ca/ (yes I know you can click there from the post but I'm trying to make it really easy) because they have written an incredible amount of very interesting blog posts.
Wow, this looks like a great way to harass people. Now you can publicly post bad shit about people on their public page that they don't even know about, but anyone else who knows about it can now see it.
I wonder if the position of the moon is significant enough to have a noticeable effect.
Especially if the proceeds go straight to Treasury and they have to manage the sale out of their existing budget.
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> if everyone blocked ads, we'd have no free content.

That's right! If people did not pay for using software, there would be no... oh wait... I am writing from Linux, using Firefox... and have a github tab open...

But if people did not pay for encyclopedias... oh wait...

In fact, if companies could not monetize on ads, less clicbaiting, useless and worthless crap would be created. Sure there would be much less content overall. But most of it is useless anyway. Quality content would be behind membership payments, or just free, published by entusiasts.

The web was thriving before pay-per-view ad-fueled-cancer has consumed it with masses of ignorant clickers, so interested in Kim Kardashian meals.

Sure... things progressed somewhat, fuelled by all that money. But let's make it clear - it had it's price, changing a vision of free medium of sharing knowledge and communicating, into a centralized shopping mall, tracking your every move.
"Anyway my impression is that DWARF is a large and complicated standard (and possibly the libraries people use to generate DWARF are subtly incompatible?), but it's what we have, so that's what we work with!"

Having written at least 4 complete DWARF readers and writers (GCC's location list support, GDB's expression evaluator, the thing that became google breakpad's debuginfo reader etc), it's really not that bad.

In fact, compared to pretty much any other debug format, it's wonderful. All of the forms are consistent, and outside of the index tables, and a few places where backwards compatibility was needed (ie the world moved from 32 bit to 64 bit, but before that, DWARF supported 64 bit sized debug info on 32 bit processors), the encoding is sane.

libdwarf, on the other hand, is ... not so much.
I love david a, and (AFAIK) he's been working on DWARF since SGI was at 1600 amphitheatre parkway, and keeping libdwarf up to date. It's one of those open source projects nobody ever realizes has been around 20 years and that someone has kept it working great (see ftp://ftp.sgi.com/sgi/dev/davea/objectinfo.html)

However, libdwarf is just not a pleasant interface to work with, IMHO.

It's also memory intensive.

If you just want a reader, the thing that made it into breakpad is probably a good reference (others may have better ones, i've thankfully been out of the debug info game for years):

https://chromium.googlesource.com/breakpad/breakpad/+/master...

It's mostly a callback interface, and has a function info reader meant as a demonstration
It should work without trouble outside of breakpad (when it was contributed, I made it portable to be able to just compile standalone. it doesn't look like much has changed).

it does not support DWARF4/5, but nobody should need to care.

It also has no expression evaluator but i have a bunch of them if someone needs them :)
> What would make me prefer corkpage over ask.fm and other similar services?

I haven't heard of either of these services before, but I just spent 30 seconds on each.

With corkpage: I told FB to accept the request and I was logged in straight away.

With ask.fm: I told FB to accept the request, and then ask.fm asked me a bunch of information to register. Quite annoying.
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I got the same impression. It would be worth taking a second look at if the vast majority of those 250 people were top executives:

>> Regulation watchdogs may be just as keen about the moves between Google and the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission. Those government bodies regulate many of the programs that are at the heart of Google’s business, and there have been at least 15 moves between Google and its lobbying firms and those commissions.

>> The 18 people involved in the revolving door listed in this story are just the tip of the 251-plus name iceberg, though in some cases people among that 251 are low-level employees.

So they looked at ~20 people in the article who moved from Google to the government. Given the size of Google, that number seems to be barely significant.

"Google employees have enjoyed good employability" seems like a better title, unless there's something major that I've missed.
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I compare it with what I played with personally: NTP. The drift is covered here by the very clock technology, the jitter of the line, just like in NTP, is why the cables are specially tuned. Both are needed.

This is just my guess, however, and if somebody knows more, please write!
Ex-USDS here. Did 6 months at USDS, still federally employed as a USDS reserve.

Just wanted to chime in on "Who in their right mind would go to work for the government, for minimum wage, unless they were already independently wealthy?" GS-15 pay is nowhere near minimum wage. If you actually think so, I'm sorry to say that you are out of touch with society. And while some USDS employees may be independently wealthy, the majority certainly aren't.

There are also the nice perks of USDS, like working on things that critically matter to the lives of millions of the neediest demographic (both domestically and internationally), and collaborating with a bunch of A+ human beings who, despite the personal sacrifices, passionately want to do what they can to improve the welfare of others.
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Video alone isn't all of it though... there were a lot of games, and flash animation was also MUCH lighter than video streaming on bandwidth and cpu overhead.

Beyond that, one of the most significant areas of flash as a player is eLearning, training and simulations. Say what you will about a lot of the garbage in player, the authoring tools were some of the best available... though I haven't seen what Adobe has on deck today, it was a very nice experience with nothing comparable for at least until 2012 (last time I worked with flash/flex).

What my real hopes were when adobe bought Macromedia, was that they'd open up the format, and convert it to a packaged zip file with a manifest, svg and javascript proper as the language. Allowing for browsers to co-opt and internalize the players. Then adobe could continue to make great tooling and the browser vendors could correct the ship on the players. My dream is pretty close to what Silverlight offered, but that was something nobody was willing to look at for good enough reasons.
Exactly. When and if the ad industry learns to regulate itself I will stop blocking ads.

Until then, they've screwed themselves over.
How about doing something about spam ads and links?
> to power our needs

Demand follows supply.
You shouldn't belittle the hobbies the old have in an attempt to give their life value.

You to will be old one day and some youngster might belittle you for doing something dumb like playing old, redundant Xbox games when you're so bored life is losing meaning.
You didn't answer my question about why you think Google software engineers would work for government just to sell Google products. Instead, you pointed to much higher-level and isolated cases. The vast majority of the 250+ Googlers working in government are likely mid-level employees without significant policy responsibility.

I gave a specific link to this "Transparency Project" targeting mid-level Google engineers. [0] You seem to think the people on this list are mercenaries working in government just to sell Google contracts.

Since you seem to be uninterested in having a conversation on this and instead have an axe to grind, I'll see myself out.

[0] http://googletransparencyproject.org/articles/us-digital-ser...
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Agreed... nothing compared to Flash's tooling at the time, and when Apple started the fist volley that started sinking flash, there really wasn't anything comparable, or having the reach of the tooling for authors.

I haven't had to deal with that kind of content for quite a while now, but I would think some of the authoring has gotten better. It's a bit of a shame though as flash animation projects were so much lighter than video streaming.
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And a color scheme somewhat similar to Google's. Well, there's "Campaign for Accountability" logo in the header, however, it's probably still a bit too deceiving than it should be.