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> They would not do this without a strategic thought

But, as the saying goes, "the best laid plans of mice and men oft go awry".

Google really does have a really skittish habit of acquisitions, creations, and closures. Remember 'buzzing' with your email? Remember Wave, the product that not even Google knew what to do with? Having a large assortment of applications in your portfolio isn't what is being criticized when calling Google a "clusterfuck", it's the strangeness by which this portfolio is managed. Products rise and fall seemingly without a lot of warning. Some are integrated into others, others are heavily promoted while others are left to fester. With Facebook's acquisitions, they mostly are left to run on their own, just under Facebook control with Facebook slowly sliding their tendrils into each app. (We see this with Whatsapp, Instagram is overrun with ads), but the products themselves aren't integrated or changed dramatically for the end user.

With Google, it's really difficult to get excited or really heavily invested in products that aren't called Gmail because it's just really hard to tell what the product is going to be doing even half a year down the line, or if it will even exist. This isn't "like all other products", this is a statement based off of how Google historically has operated.

It's great that Google is willing to take risks, but they keep pushing these new ventures as having re-invented the wheel and all of the ventures require quite a bit of buy-in from the end-users; if it fails for Google, they write it off since they can. End users are left with a obsolete product they likely intended to use for a heck of a lot longer.

So yeah, when you have Google releasing new apps that compete with already existing Google Apps (as well as a multitude of other similar apps from other companies), I think it's fair to wonder what is going on. Even if there is a strategy, I'm not convinced that it's much more than "let's see if people like this better than ____", which isn't exactly a winning strategy in my book.

Allo/Duo just don't really seem to offer much that doesn't already exist, and their release makes me suspicious about whether or not their current message/video/voice service, Hangouts, is about to get axed or left in the dust or what.
It looks nice, but that website is making my laptop sweat, so no thanks...
> [Ansible is] a tool to manage hosts.

What made you think it is? It's not. It's somebody's application deployment
script that grew too big and started being marketed as a universal tool. For
managing servers its very architecture is too brittle.

CFEngine and Puppet are universal tools for managing hosts, though they don't
work in (sometimes needed) synchronous manner, like well-prepared RPC daemon
would.
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30 minutes? How come? You take a at least 1.5 minute break between every set. So for 5 sets of first exercise that's 7.5 minutes assuming you don't take longer breaks and that you didn't do any warmup and just went straight for proper weights. Now add exercise itself and it's easily 9 minutes. Times three (again, assuming you don't take longer breaks which is really hard to do when you start hitting heavier weights) and it's 27 minutes. Add warmup and stretching and it's easily around 40 minutes. I think my fastest stronglift session was around 50-60 minutes. The longest was easily over 2 hours. When I started hitting squats with weights around 1.4 my body mass just warmups and proper sets were 50 minutes in itself. That was about 11 sets of squats with some breaks being 3-5 minutes ones.
From a quick look at it it looks like a self-hosted Firebase.

Would that be a good approximation?
It's only boring when done wrong. But so is any plot.
I have been a long time ThinkPad user and recently purchased my latest ThinkPad T460p. Sadly it has some issues, the latest NVidia drivers don't work on the device but I'm forced to use the 1 year old driver that Lenovo provides in their packages. Figuring this out took my several days of trouble shooting (only dx9 was affected).

Also the system fan is constantly running. I went to their support site and the online support is not available in my country and the "contact support" system doesn't/didn't work (opened some empty box in the website). Super frustrating.

As much I hate to admit it, the ThinkPad is no longer what it was back in the IBM era.

Combined with stories about vendor lock in. I'm saddened to say that this shall be the last ThinkPad/Lenovo that I'm purchasing.
Great. Let's plan an experiment of using smart replies on both sides. It's like 2 bots chatting! Hope the smart reply adapts to individual's style with time, otherwise, it gets boring easily and the other party might know when a template response sent as 'sorry, no longer interested in you!'
And what Compaq did was possible because at that time you couldn't copyright the BIOS API. Today it might be different, to the loss of everyone.
That is, by facilitating its spread by stupidly exposing unnecessary and buggy
RPC service to the outside world? Because that's what Microsoft used to do for
viruses.
yup, that's not too far off. It also gives you Pub/Sub and Request/Response though. Also Firebase uses one huge data-structure for data-sync whereas deepstream breaks data down into smaller objects called "records" with individual lifecycles
Yes, you're correct - I shouldn't have said "cycle". I was refering to an Eulerian path, which is all you need to solve the Bridges of Konigsberg problem as it is described in the article. A cycle adds the constraint that the path starts and finishes at the same place, and then all the nodes must have even degree. But you don't need a cycle to just cross all the bridges once.
Get a Developer Edition XPS 13 from Dell instead, comes with Linux pre-installed. I have one and they are awesome, if manufacturers support Linux they get my $.
I reluctantly comment here, but.. The misuse of technology (see: end of encryption; end of privacy; end of freedom; slippery slopes, etc.) could (by my perspective) lead to massive problems, including political/ideological persecution. However, "directly comparable" it probably isn't, yet.

If (IF) a time comes when the only software available is proprietary, restrictive, invasive and possibly insecure, in a world where software is ubiquitous and often essential, I think that could be bad. The definition of fascism does come to mind.
I'm confused. 1.1 has been released 13 days ago https://github.com/deepstreamIO/deepstream.io/releases/tag/v...
Kingston UHS3 gets over 90MB/s in sequential read/write, and over 10MB/s in random read/write:

http://www.storagereview.com/kingston_sdhc_sdxc_uhsi_u3_revi...
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Of course I do not believe it the way you portray it. It is called a 'sliding scale' for a reason, my friend. A 'slippery slope'[0], if you will. Completely different from 'directly comparable'.

At the top of the slope, it's "merely firmware, what is the problem?". At the bottom of the slope are warcrimes and genocide. It is very hard to stop sliding down a slippery slope once you've started.

So when you disallow Linux on a laptop you are very much at the top of the slope. And there is a long way to go. But my, oh my, it sure is slippery.

Because we live in a digital age. More and more so. And in this age, there is no way to have 'checks and balances' without access to the source code of the software. And without checks and balances, it is very hard to have Separation of Powers[1].

Interestingly enough, I've found that survivors of WW2 tend to understand this better than most.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers
Everyone thinks it's the blue collar jobs that will be lost to automation, but I guess a lot of office jobs will be too.

Especially jobs where the data is easily machine readable, processes can be online, and the work doesn't require human negotiation.
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My only request is that the email "digest" be configurable. Being able to set this up to notify me once per week, or even once per month would be awesome. I could spend that one time to upgrade my deps, then lock them back down again until the next one.
yes, but we wanted to give it an initial test phase before announcing it to make sure we didn't miss anything major
I bought a Lenovo X1 Carbon (most recent gen) and really regret it for a great many reasons. Wish I had gone for the XPS. Actually what swayed me was the very slightly larger screen.
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I agree. Seems as if a service rep made silly mistake and likely got fired for the negative PR. :/
How about the right hand rule for getting out of a maze?

http://math.nmsu.edu/~pmorandi/CourseMaterials/Mazes.html
Isn't that what a release candidate is for?
I didn't see 'exercise' listed here - this is probably the most important for me.
We're still waiting to hear what's acceptable in terms of "fair use" but yeah I guess reverse-engineering to create a competing clone probably wouldn't be covered :)
Seriously. If this does turn out to be intentional on Microsoft's part, then there goes every last shred of trust and goodwill they've spent the last 10 years rebuilding.

(and, honestly, were finally succeeding at, to the point where I'm very close to willing to give them the benefit of the doubt here: how the hell could the benefits of such a thing come anywhere near to outweighing the amount of damage it would do?)
I'm still confused. You are announcing 1.0 but the actual version is 1.1
The question that pops up into my mind is: what steps preceed such a world?

Microsoft blocking installs of Linux on computers that I own, seems one of those steps to me.
> you're expected to donate to your family temple for years

Well, it's a matter of semantics. In several Western countries, including Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Norway, Sweden such 'donations' are extracted by force from the people by the tax man, and then the state funds the church to varying degrees. Same result, different force.
I'm glad to hear about the BSD donation.

And, I guess the status quo is ok, it's just we live in societies built off investments in open science and open standards and yet we privatise the value this created as if the prior foundations were just a natural phenomenon

<lament over>
Interestingly the way the author understood the joke with the eggs doesn't speak to well of him: A human can't lay eggs, so the only sensible conclusion is that the deluded person isn't the brother who thinks that he is a chicken but the guy who thinks that a chicken is in fact his brother.

So when he is using the joke to explain that we accept deluded behavior because "we need the eggs", it's in fact him who has a deluded way to think about the situation.
Summary of the video at: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3121999/security/researchers-...
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I believe control and misuse of computers will have everything to do with the next genocide of that scale and had a bit to do with that one. I also believe genocides like that start with an alignment of corporate interests and government interests against individual privacy interests.

Certainly bugs in Telegram and the use of the wrong social software among dissidents (or software that unknowingly leaks, or is endemic like windows) has everything to do with how they are spied upon. Many of those dissidents are from ethnic minorities that are targeted or will be targeted.

The holocaust was a terrible thing, but not talking about any road signs to the next genocides to avoid upsetting people isn't the prevention mechanism my history teachers had in mind.
disgusting company. it's the first time I'm ashamed of being a Chinese
I wish they made a convertible version, but it seems like convertible and linux friendly doesn't really exist on the market right now...
They're not as water resistant or as durable as they used to be, intact, not at all. I've been using thinkpads for 10 years. I've had a p61, x200, x201s and an x230. The x230 is when it started to break down. It's a shit laptop. Ive also worked on an T440 and upgraded it's ram for a colleague - it's extremely hard to open.

Sad to see such a loved frame be butchered like that.
1- our company has offices all around the country and all around the world. So add a routing layer (eg. using DHL), to let us buy/sell amongst colleague even if not in the same building!

2- ex-colleagues are working in other companies, but they're not strangers, so let us also buy/sell across companies!
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I bought a T460p a few months back, and while it's a very good laptop for the price it had a very annoying problem with the Trackpad that would occasionally just stop working after suspending the laptop (and only doing a cold reboot with all power cords removed would fix this). Sadly it took Lenovo two weeks to send a technician with a replacement part to fix the issue, contrary to their "24 hour target" advertised on the website. A few years ago customer support was much more responsive, so it seems that they are indeed trying to cut costs in that area.

That said, I also use a X1 Carbon, which runs great with Linux and doesn't have any problems at all concerning hardware and drivers (graphics card, mobile broadband, two external monitors via DP all works flawlessly and the battery lasts 6-8 hours under normal use). I'm confident that the Linux support for the T460p will improve as well as developers have time to write better drivers, after all it's still pretty new hardware (barely six months old).
All very true but what I meant to say (but didn't actually articulate) is that when you apply GTD it becomes clear that you need priorities.

Let's say you are well versed in a new technology that is quickly gaining popularity. Now you are unsure whether you want to write a book about this technology. Maybe it becomes THE standard book on this topic! Otoh, you could apply at a company where you can work on a project that uses said technology.

There are obviously pros and cons to both ideas. One Scenario: You start writing the book because it seems to be the more fulfilling job. Some months in a stronger, competing technology arrives. Now you think: Was starting the book a good idea? If I had taken the job at least I'd have earned a paycheck and had something to put on my CV. In hindsight you may realize that you crave a more secure lifestyle etc.

The time has passed so there already would be a gap on your CV if you don't finish the book. So maybe finishing the book is not a bad idea. At least you can demonstrate that you've done something successfully during the last couple of months. Let's assume finishing the book would take two more months. Could you easily complete it when everything is already outlined with GTD? Further more, could you easily abandon it when everything is already outlined with GTD?
Whats "client-server" federation? Only the fact that you are able to connect via an openly specified protocol or is there more to it?
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> can be added in 10 LOCs

to me is kinda like you can easily make heavier elements by just adding a few electrons, protons and neutrons...
We do, although that doesn’t go through a central system and is on a team by team basis. If you’re interested get hold of me on Twitter and I’ll see if I can point you in the right direction.
There's been other proposed notations, but they all have their own shortcomings. Any alternative would have to be much better than the standard one, otherwise nobody would bother to retrain to use it.

The problem with this blog post is that it's clear that there's a lot they don't understand but they still criticize without finding out the why (which many commenters here have provided those answers).

I think the blog post could be much better written without the uniformed commentary as there's some things that are good about it. It's just that the other parts puts some people off from recommending it.
Decades is optimistic for a tape reader or any electronics really. Caps dry out, rubber parts degrade and RoHS solder doesn't help the life expectancy. It might still work, it might not.
I'll look that up on my Beowulf cluster of Natalie Portman's hot grits. /\/.
Like on a 5 year old browser. Honestly, unless you develop for government I don't see any reason to consider 5 year old browsers. Do you develop apps for iPhone 1 or Android 1? The web is already behind anyway...
Is worth saying that for most things, you buy them in the state they're in - there's no "right" to openness, as much as we might want it. Just because you own a house, doesn't mean you can just put a 6 storey extension in the garden.

Then tension is that we've almost always been able to install Linux on standard Windows machines and so have gotten used to it being open, but I'd be loathed to say (if the manufacturers have decided to make it tricky deliberately or just not thinking) we have a fundamental right to do it.
But isn't this more of a PouchDB benefit? The whole offline-apps in the browser thing, I mean.

Yes, the server probably runs CouchDB, but it could also be Cloudant or CouchBase etc. None of what is mentioned there is a USP of CouchDB itself.
Considering the low price of SD cards, I was thinking about doing the same thing: buy a 128GB SD and use it for cold storage
I think six sets of warmup (for your 11 sets) are a bit too many. Three should be enough, and you don't need a real break between warmup sets. That should help cut down. Mehdi even recommends skipping breaks when switching exercises. Indeed, with 1.4 BW it will be tough. But that's what deweighs are for, and at that level, you'll be going into 3x5 soon.

Stronglifts is amazingly high impact for the time it takes.
I think you can get 15" models from Dell under their "Project Sputnik" program too, well worth following Barton's blog for news on that: http://bartongeorge.io/
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Mainly tounge-in-cheek, but still

https://xkcd.com/605/
This is from 2015, not sure if it's that old.

https://github.com/tomga/genode/commit/c8a64b5c3465cde1723b2...
I think he meant services other than the big one. In that case he's right. But the point is most people aren't using those services - they use AWS as a glorified dumb dedicated hosting provider. And that's exactly the wrong way to use it.
If they want an instant network effect there's a really simple play...integrate it with Pokemon Go. If it's the only official IM program that'll work with/is tightly coupled with Pokemon Go enough people will install it.

Might sound silly but I think that would actually be a great play for Google.
Datasets: web directory visitor interests, user agents, bots
Seems like https://greenkeeper.io/ is a similar idea with more polish (and with paid options). No affiliation, I've just seen GreenKeeper in action on the Kube Dashboard repo.
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> I work at Google, but we bat around the number of 400-500k per employee

That sounds astronomical even by SV standards. Perhaps I'm completely out of touch.
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I have hired dozens of engineers over the last 20+ years I've done this, so maybe you shouldn't jump to conclusions to you have no basis for.
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Yes, both are very likely. At the same time.
> there's no "right" to openness

But there is a right not to buy this stuff and a right to tell other people not to buy it, too. There is also a right to tell the vendors how much you abhor them for selling such closed products and there is a right to tell journalists or other people why buying closed products is a really bad idea. And you have a right to lobby to make producing/buying closed products socially unacceptable.
Given the quality of answers to questions that I'm used to by computer manufacturer "product experts" online... it's really unlikely that that's actually the case.
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"SanDisk's 1TB SD card has more storage than your laptop".

It does not. Just saying.
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Or to turn it around:

The terrible truth is that Chrome don't give a shit about standards, freedom, and the greater good. They just want to write their code with the least amount of effort possible, standards be damned.
I guess coding will be more common over time; but people coding will not be calling themselves "programmers": their main job function will be something different (like marketing, sales, or customer service).

There is some work for developers integrating those "small" developments into something bigger enterprise-wide.
This is happenning today, but I guess this trend will get more volume and speed.

Great developers will always be scarce, like any other professionals (doctors, lawyers, etc.)
> But it's so much more effective than any drug listed here.

Well - nobody mentioned weed yet. Give that a try - slows down your mind, relaxes your body - you'll sleep in no time.
Was New York's mass-text manhunt really unprecedented?
Remains to be seen if Microsoft actually is behind the problems at all, or is it just a thoughtless implementation in BIOS/hardware side.
That's just what THEY want you to think!!!11

Seriously, though-. If Microsoft blocked Linux overtly, they probably couldn't get away with it so easily; they'd end up with a PR disaster and/or an antitrust lawsuit. Plausible deniability helps them; now you can bet some people are going to say "come on, firmware screw-ups are no news, what are you, some kind of conspiracy theorist?" I mean, they have already taken advantage of ACPI in this way once.

(Tongue in cheek. It's not so totally implausible.)
You're both wrong. The IBM PC was made by IBM in 1981 and it was absolutely not open. (Just hurriedly implemented using commodity parts so, other than the BIOS, it was pretty easy and legal to copy most of it) Then Compaq came along in 1982 and sold a clone of it... and in some ways it was even less open than the IBM. Neither one of those companies had any interest in the PC being 'open'.

It was the 3rd party suppliers (i.e. BIOS by companies like Phoenix, Award, AMI along with motherboard manufacturers etc.) selling picks and shovels to the would-be prospectors (i.e. clone assemblers) that allowed for the 'open' PC standard. For example, there was a company call PCs Limited that licensed AMI BIOS so that they make some IBM clones... they did kind of OK and soon renamed themselves Dell...
As much as people like a good conspiracy, that would be a pretty pointless one. There are tens of thousands people at google who could look at the source code, many of them with a left-wing/civil liberties attitude.

To get all of them to stay silent, and to evade analysis of the binary is, if not impossible, simply not worth whatever they could get out of reading my messages (esp. considering their uninterrupted stream of emails to read).

It's also why the concept of "brands" makes more sense than may are willing to admit: a blatant lie such as this would probably be worse for google than VWs little problem. Reading someone's private stuff is just bound to rouse more emotions than whatever comes out of the back of your car.
...and Tolkien wasn't really translated or available to Russian up until late 80s, but when the Professor finally arived he sparked spectacular amount of activity in Russian-speaking fandom.
Exactly, not least because it is fantastic for debugging to be able to roll a copy of a sub-system back and re-process operations and watch exactly what breaks instead of trying to figure things out from a broken after-the-fact system state.