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> the methods of analyzing such topics are incredibly, mind-achingly rigorous.

> philosophy, at its core, involves highly critical thinking.

> Ned Hall, a professor and philosophy department chair at Harvard University (...) describes philosophy as, “Thinking in slow motion.”

I am not an academic philosopher, but I do think these are accurate descriptions of the state of contemporary philosophy, but this is not commonly known to people not familiar with the discipline.
This hits home. Lego mind storms is what made me get into programming. I had so much fun tinkering with both the hardware and software.

Although labview based software was utter crap. There was an open source C based version. That was my first building blocks.

I'm thinking of getting my nephew one.
Two thoughts:

1) Is this different than the U.S. military's, and many others', secure networks? If not, I'm surprised Russia doesn't already have one.

2) If they plan to use different tech than the Internet, the capabilities of the network could quickly fall behind. If they use the same tech, any network this large would seem very vulnerable to attackers, who know the tech very well and have a large attack surface area. Perhaps it is some compromise which authenticates endpoints, users, and routes, though even that doesn't seem sufficient.
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That phone is not unlocked. It says it works exclusively with US Celluar.
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>I found that MATLAB, in particular, lends itself to spaghettification.

How did you guess? ;)

I've been gently pointing people towards python for this exact reason. The younger generations need little convincing, but the old dogs would rather write the same shitty code.

I suppose change takes time.
This is also a drum that Dan Abramov (who created Redux) has been beating.
Awesome! How large is the index?
It's hard to tell what the distribution of income is without good data. I'm skeptical that normal, non-startup businesses fall into this pattern. I'd expect more of a log-normal for most industries.

The log-normal also applies somewhat for lawyers. The partners of big firms make millions annually.

As long as we're getting into nuance, I should add that the two-peak distribution is most clear for lawyer starting salary, not long-time professional. You either go top firm or not.
I remember SimEarth a modern version could be very educational, but not Gaia, isn't it a wacky theory?
I think it would be interesting to experiment with implementing state currencies in america, see what happens. Key word "experiment". Like have dual currencies in california for instance, the "cali" alongside the dollar.

also, it's pretty obvious that europe is a failed continent, their leaders don't seem to be very bright
It's interesting, I didn't find -thunk all that hard to grok, and in practice I was far less annoyed by that than I was by connect(). But I also found -thunk a refreshing change from what I'd been doing prior to redux (Flummox with async-await action creators).
asm.js really seem to be a good solution, I hope some day it will be used to do more than web games. But at the same time, the vision of the future of compiling everything in javascript is pretty scary.
Thanks @addelindh! Really love your work. You helped us a ton, highly appreciated!
I would make the exact opposite argument.

I set things up the way I want them many years ago, and because everything's a text file, my configs have followed me across many machines and OS installs by just copying some files.

With more "magical" desktops like Gnome, developers like to change things every 6 months, and then I've got to mess around with the settings to try and not have it disrupt my workflow. And as soon as bring a new machine up I'm spending half a day mousing through menus and trying to remember all the things I set last time.

I like FreeBSD with a minimal desktop precisely because I've got more important things to be doing than messing around with settings. Yeah, the work is front-loaded, but the payoff is that I spend years not even thinking about the desktop or the OS.
If that customer service nightmare turned him into a fan he must have very low expectations.
Voters are often not keen on being governed by another nationality or culture. The US only managed to keep their federal system by fighting a war to prevent the south doing their own thing and the Brexit vote is another sign the voters are not keen. Much of the European project has been pushed through without voter consent but there are limits.
Yes, but you had a few chances to get out of the bottom.

You had to be a "C-player" for something like three consecutive review periods before you were let go.

(source: my father was a manager at GE for decades)
Throwaway, as I work for a company that competes with GE in this space.

This is GE's business model. When they want to enter a space, they throw money ($B) at it until they have a business. They tend to prefer organic builout, but they will buy companies or partner if they think they can't win organically. If you're willing to do that, you almost always get some traction, just because you have unimaginable resources and are willing to adjust your tactics if the initial gambit fails. They tend to do a lot of advertising for key businesses - this is why you see GE Aviation billboards in airports, and GE Oil & Gas ads in Houston.

The model has worked pretty well in the past - a good example is GE's entry into commercial jet engines in the early 70s. A good example where it failed was GE's computer business in the 60s.

I can't prove it (just a feeling), but I think Predix doesn't really have what it takes yet. We've spent a lot of time studying it, and it doesn't seem to offer real value to customers yet. That doesn't mean it won't get there eventually.

However, if Predix doesn't do well, we expect them to go on an acquisition spree to buy a few of the winners. Bently Nevada is a good example of that play - GE controls something like 70% of the machinery protection market. They didn't build it, they just went and bought Bently.

GE is clearly signaling that they badly want to be in this market, and I think it's pretty likely they'll eventually get there.
This wouldn't do any noticeable damage. Modern CPUs have excellent thermal management. As far a wear goes, a hot spot in chip would in theory slightly decrease the long life span of a CPU.

If you expanded your question to hardware in the computer, then yes you can easily cause damage. BIOS’s can be flashed to make the system unbootable or overclock/stress components. Back in the bad old days of Linux, you could easily damage your monitor with the wrong xorg.conf settings.

Your question got me thinking what’s the MTBF of modern CPUs? My google-fu failed me finding any reliable source of this, but I’m sure it’s long, 10+ years.
One example: GE in the 1980s.

From what reads like a bit of a puff piece about Jack Welch [1], who became Chairman and CEO of GE in 1981:

"Under Welch, GE exited many of the traditional markets it had competed in for years, like consumer appliances and air conditioning, and entered completely new areas like medical technology, finance, television and services."

During the restructurings, Welch laid off 100,000 or so people (depending on how you count), earning him the nickname "Neutron Jack". He also instituted the policy of firing the bottom-performing 10% of managers each year [2].

[1] http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/09/neutron-jack-welc...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Welch
What exactly are the normalisation processes that will allow what meagre wealth that does exist in the EU to 'beget' fixing the epic clusterfucks (largely caused by the euro) in the south?
It's not quite so simple as that, right? The single currency was never billed as something that required individual countries to give up their autonomy to centralized EU institutions. If it had been sold as a package deal from the start, the Euro never would have happened to begin with.

The lesson Europe seems to have failed to take from the US is that federalism is a Trojan horse. The U.S. federal government was billed as being sort of like what the EU government is pitched as today, but ultimately destroyed the sovereignty of the States and reduced them to administrative divisions that have to take orders not just from Congress, but unelected bureaucrats at random federal regulatory agencies. And it wasn't some slippery slope process, but necessity. States in a federal union have none of the tools of international relations. California can't embargo imports from Michigan that, e.g. don't meet its environmental standards. It can't threaten economic sanctions against Alabama for its treatment of minorities. It can't bomb anybody. The only way to avoid race to the bottom problems becomes pushing more authority up to the federal government.
I think the point of the tip was to show how it is done when process is already running and you forgot to add a command to be run immediately after
I hijacked your post, sorry. Will give Mattermost a look!

EDIT:

Your site doesn't share correctly.

I went to share this on LinkedIn:

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This claims the differences in language and culture provide enough friction to keep people from migrating efficiently throughout the union. This seems at odds to me with what has happened in the EU (especially Britian) - many who voted for Brexit seem to have done it because they felt overwhelmed by the foreign hordes.
What? I work with 60+ year old coders.

I guess your 22 year old founder of a trendy Bay Area startup would have a problem hiring a 60 year old but that's both silly and illegal. I'm not sure trendy Bay Area startups attract the 60+ crowd anyway.
this might be useful further reading for those interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru%E2%80%93shishya_tradition
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Only yesterday I implemented this in an application, although a bit simpler (is the user < n pixels from the bottom of the document? then render more heavy stuff) so yeah, that's a pretty recurrent use case for a library like that.
Hehe, yeah. Worse, it's a wrong theory. But still kinda interesting, no harm learning about it.

Agree a modern SimEarth would be awesome.
Click bait title aside, this is still pretty stupid.

> Google then shocked him again, in a good way. Within four hours of tweeting, someone from Google had contacted him and had restored access to his project.

So the support channel is to bitch on Twitter and hope someone sees it?
> foolish attempt at improving the file browser.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1267863

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635044

I predict that someone will get fed up enough to revive the Firefox Qt port, since Qt doesn't break as much between releases, and it doesn't conflict with Mozilla's plans to drop GTK2 support. The memory overhead of Qt is absorbed within a modern browser's memory needs.
>> giant enterprises are ignorant and ripe for disruption because of their arrogance -- the classical model of hubris

Was this the main reason for disruption ? as i understand it, most often it came from knowing that disruption most likely will greatly reduce revenues/profits and hurt the stock , at least at the short term, coupled with a short term focus that's just embedded in our economy.

The hubris was mostly just talk.

Also a question since you come from the field: how does predix compare with the thingworx OS(which seem to be extremely capable, but expensive) ?
tl;dr Google screws over a startup with their automated processes, startup has no recourse, startup complains on social media, Google gives them special attention.

This story is an incredibly common experience from Google, and the only take away I can get each time I see it is don't use Google unless you have the social media clout to get their attention when they close your account.

That is a ridiculous customer service model and claims of Google being "immature," as the article puts it, are seemingly well deserved.
Misleading headline. Nothing new to see here, merely talks about KIC 8462852 - the 'alien megastructure' star - and how the irregular dips in its brightness should not mean extraterrestrial life.

Classic click-bait.
Californians (including me) who have not looked at November initiatives yet - this article mentions the Drug Price Relief Act which seems to be https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_61,_Drug_Pric...

> A "yes" vote supports regulating drug prices by requiring state agencies to pay the same prices that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (USDVA) pays for prescription drugs.

Advocacy site: http://yeson61.com/
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> Enterprises now want to disrupt themselves, because it 1) hurts their existing competitors and 2) creates moats against startups.

Do they really want that? Or just say that want it? As comparison, everybody says that they want to get in better shape. But how many put in the work?

I think there's an enormous amount of money to be made (and probably, being made right now) in going to existing large companies and selling them "innovation" consulting that gives them the feeling of change without doing anything actually hard. It's the equivalent of buying low-fat cookies and calling it a day.

In practice I expect very, very few of these companies to actually do anything meaningfully different. As an example of that, look at how "agile" has changed over the years. 90% of shops I talk to where people are "doing Agile" are actually doing mini-waterfall. It's the same old bullshit with new labels and a slightly faster release cadence.

That's not to say that startups will do any better on average. So many people chased unicorn status without any thought of building actual businesses. But I still expect the startups with a clue to do a fine job going after large companies in the low-fat cookies camp.
Depending on the data that you look at, NYC and Boston are pretty close. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/global...

More importantly, Boston is much heavier into manufacturing technology, hardware, B2B software, etc whereas NYC is more focused on consumer, retail, fashion, etc. Boston is pretty clearly a better choice for GE.

In reality GE's HQ in Boston will represent a tiny fraction of their global employees, though, so it doesn't really matter. https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2016/03/11/huge-but-its...
The Telegraph tends eurosceptic but the Guardian which trends pro europe has a similar review https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/22/the-euro-and-i...
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Say that in 20 years when you are looking at how to retire for the next 20-30 years with no pension, and from companies who don't want old people.
Perhaps people, and you, are underestimating the difficulty of getting that first big client.
How long term should the view be? In Italy, political and monetary union hasn't led to anything approaching parity between North and South after 150 years. And as far as I understand, the outcome of German reunification is still quite disappointing for East Germans after 25 years.
Total market has outperformed slightly since 2008, but for a good period prior to that, the S&P500 was outperforming total market (also slightly). It's not super cut and dried.
We've been looking for a logo for some time! :)

https://github.com/thestonefox/SteamVR_Unity_Toolkit/issues/...
Could this be used for creating a ROP Gadget that overcomes ASLR on 64 bit machines?
>paying well (i.e., actually being a good place to work).

I don't think good pay and good place to work are synonymous in any way. They happen to be correlated because both are methods to attract talent, but one does not cause the other.
Are you talking about the Dijkstra who wrote one of the earliest operating systems that introduced most of the OS concepts we use today, including mutual exclusion algorithms, deadlock detection and prevention, kernel/user mode etc or are you talking about someone else?
Very interesting.

Perhaps if he'd managed to skip undergraduate studies straight to graduate school as adviced he'd be wrestling with hard enough problems not to think about writing programs for the upcoming PCs of the era
I wonder how it could be used to efficiently generate maps for Counter-Strike (and other similar games) ;)
Like pictures of high school...
Although I'm not part of the project so I can't speak too much for or against a specific design choice, I certainly hope if the logo gets redesigned that it still features K-9 from Doctor Who in some variation, that would be nice. Not a deal breaker, but I immediately know the mail client by the K-9 logo.
I've assumed the same is true of the "views expressed on this DVD do not necessarily reflect those of (studio)" unskippable disclaimer that is on every DVD these days. But I'm still curious what specific event motivated it.
In Boston, they get interns from Harvard, MIT, Tufts, Northeastern and Wentworth. They get software people who don't want to live in NYC.

And they don't compete with every startup in NYC for those brains.
Short-selling as a way to profit from security vulnerabilities
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Your question got me thinking what’s the MTBF of modern CPUs? My google-fu failed me finding any reliable source of this, but I’m sure it’s long, 10+ years.

Probably decreasing, and soon not much longer than warranty period... the transistors have gotten so small that they're on the threshold of barely working even in normal operation.

As for older CPUs, they could definitely last many decades because of the lower stresses of larger process sizes, and they were designed with much higher margins.
the Phillipines' behavior is unjustified.

That maybe so, but intervention of other groups cannot be justified, if Philippine's behaviour to intervene in the unjustified behaviour of drug dealers is itself unjustified. If mob rule is unjustified, then using a larger mob would be even more unjustified, no?
was suspicious it was a puff piece and then this impressive claim was levied. the blockchain technology driving it has been proven to work flawlessly and to be completely safe from fraud Proof of stake though, vs proof of work, first time I'm hearing about that.

Also apparently this is a dry run only, none of the transactions are actually being carried out so I wonder when they'll solve the problem of exchanging their ecochain coins into some other currency.
There is also the part about the postmortem and making sure it doesn't happen again.
I noticed (in the original article) an almost complete lack of entertaining the thought that they mite have (edit: fixed grammer) been acting maliciously on someone else's behalf. So that is exactly what happened.

And man, I don't know, his whole business gets shutdown automatically, and he end up liking it for any reason? I think the picture that BI is painting here is really not properly representative of his views (or at least I'd assume this is the case)
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And they likely do more than 75% work in those 75% hours as your marginal utility goes down after perhaps 20 hours a week.
Nvidia can't be bothered to port it.
I was wondering that also. Looking at the source, it looks decently written.
I believe the reason you're getting downvoted is because of the casual way you reel off how easy it is to found a successful company that you can do it casually, sort of disinterestedly tossing it out of your one limp hand to your co-founding pleb who eagerly grasps at the crumbs of your genius.

In other words, you come off as an arrogant know-it-all.
PC-BSD is now called "TrueOS Desktop," FWIW.
Besides being a technological improvement this paper is really well written and readable.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.05137v1.pdf
No, that's simply untrue when it comes to taxes. Once you get to the level of money sloshing around that you can afford to pay for legal and banking fees and new corporate entity filings, a whole world of shenanigans opens up, which are plainly not ok but would be impossible to exhaustively legislate.

For example, you can manufacture losses for yourself to offset profits. You can instead of realizing some income, loan money to yourself and spend it and enjoy it while never paying taxes on it. You can wrap up dubious transactions in layers of opacity such that you end up legally deducting your expenses on hookers and cocaine.

The set of primitives exposed by the tax code, quite legitimately in order to meaningfully address the real underlying economics of modern business and finance, are also by necessity sufficient to build arbitrary shenanigans.

In hacker terms, it's like trying to create a "safe sandbox" for executing arbitrary user-specified code. Once you allow a few things, like say recursion or system calls, there's just no way to keep it truly "safe."

Being able to set up notionally arms length entities which you effectively control is the tax code equivalent of shelling out to the OS.

So, no, the existence of a sufficiently complex tax code guarantees loopholes and unintended consequences.

See also, DAO.
If selectors and reducers are a big pain for you, might I recommend the following library: https://github.com/mboperator/redux-modules

The motivation was to reduce boilerplate and improve the readability of redux state transformations. I've found that the number of files I need to touch to create an action drastically decreases.

At this point most of my development time is spent either in the module, the handler, or the saga.
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It's in the interest of anyone who lives in the city, doesn't work in tech, and doesn't make enough money to compete with those who do. That covers most renters.

Tech workers have this Napoleon complex going on where they react as if they're still in the high school cafeteria, being pushed around by the folks at the top of the social hierarchy. Times have changed.

It isn't "NIMBYs" or politicians or rich landowners or anyone else who caused the SF housing crisis: it is, quite objectively, the fault of way too many wealthy workers, crammed into a tiny space, in a few years' time. There's an easy demand-side fix for that problem, but yeah, it isn't going to please people who work in tech.