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Every IT department in the world is a bit dramatic, since I have direct experience working with a couple +1 million user consumer facing companies that have a couple Windows laptops around for IE testing, but that's it.

Ballmer takes over with momentum on his side; XP is still going up, Windows Mobile is shit but other than Blackberry the only other player in town, Xbox launches to huge success.

When he leaves their mobile platform is effectively DOA, their cloud services are years behind AWS and Google, their consumer base is being eaten by Apple portables, and the last Xbox product he oversaw is getting its ass handed to it.

They just added bash to Windows to keep/attract folks that aren't developing for their platform anymore.

I don't think it is all Ballmer's fault. The world got wise to their scams from the past to some extent; no more shifty deals with the governments around the world calling you a monopolist.

Google rose to power, and Apple got their shit together.

Revenue went up in some spots, though how much of that is real or due to creative accounting (it's well known they shift Xbox losses around to obscure the real numbers), but if not for their huge war chest of cash (thanks to shady business practices), MS would be done.
This is a really, really naive thing to say - bordering on completely delusional. The CEO job is so much harder than you think it is. As a VC I see a huge number of amazing engineers and very few amazing CEOs. They are incredibly hard to find and can change the outcome of a company from a complete failure to a wild success. You MAY be able to do their job but in my experience very few can do it competently.
"Money is abstract" is a common misconception normal people make about money. This guy has gone from this to the idea that money is a concrete good, then back to "money is abstract", as he became more acquainted with modern economic theory -- which is, of course, a crazy delirium.
I would love to hear more about what these behaviours are and how engineers could possibly adopt them.
About the half serious part, I don't think that an entangled RNG could transmit any information.
It's an astonishing ad for OVH if they can handle that with no problems. If they were able to measure the size, they didn't nullroute the target, which is something to be proud of.
Chartboost is so widely adopted? I don't hear of them so much. That said, I know they are really big with games, so maybe if you dominate games, you sorta dominate
What is a "1k account"?
Get ready for patent disputes.
you would notice everything else not working as well

Assuming that my toaster didn't get owned on day 1, even as a tech-minded person, if my wifi suddenly started slowing down, I'd be considering a number of other alternatives before wondering whether my toaster had been hacked.

Let's assume a little bit of packet-sniffing would uncover the cause, that's still only a very small minority of people with the skills and tools to go through that process.
Replace the definition of T with "the number of unicorns helping" and nothing changes. The author's T does not represent anything tangible or measurable. These conclusions are meaningless in any practical sense.
I guess it depends on the resolution. To remove a given scratch of a given absolute size in cm, if your photo has twice the resolution you will need twice the pixels so twice the pixel size.
I'm not a git expert (yet), but I agree. I've read the stash man page a few times and tried to imagine when I'd want to use it over the alternatives, but I never do.
I think the idea is smashing. :-)

I took a cinema class at USC (one of my non-engineering credits) and it deconstructed the 'heist movie' in such a way that took a lot of the fun out of them. When the heist location plays the antagonist you get a sort of MI-5 movie, when the heist location is a simple smash and grab it plays the part of connecting the protagonist to the the antagonist. In this case it sounds like there was a long drawn out investigation so it would be the latter, with the story being the ups and downs of the investigating team tracking the painting post theft.
Correct. The team still includes everyone who works on Bing and essentially the Non Office part of what Qi used to run. Its less 5000 person AI Group as 5000 people running various businesses whose collective mantra is now AI.
Not really. Photoshop is an expensive closed source application designed for professional use. GIMP is open source and the cross-over between professional users and open source GIMP coders is likely next to nil. Meaning that any significant production performance issues are pretty invisible to GIMP.

In my experience with the art/design mac/photoshop crowd, something like GIMP only earns blank stares.
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Additionally, software only exhibits systematic failures. Hardware fails in many different, hardly predictable and nigh undiagnosable ways.
> Representative 49.7% APR.

Holy shit. Predatory lending much?
Ok, not what I had in mind when I wrote my first comment, sorry about that.

Have you tried providing written instructions? In my opinion, for her vectors of attack, it is much less risky to have her password written down in paper somewhere on a drawer at home than have an online mess.
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wait, what?!
How is music 1-dimensional?
The scarier thought to me is that this many cameras installed in houses, businesses, bedrooms, etc. are being commandeered. That's a huge problem for privacy, let alone being used as botnets on the side.
But the problem is from point of view of compensation fairness that was the CEO who got paid 10M 2.5% better than the less paid CEO or was he just lucky (great personnel, good market, etc). A CEO cannot function without a company.

Yes, a bad CEO can wreck a company really fast. I would claim there are no superhuman CEO:s who can outperform a market (there are CEO:s who have disrupted markets, sure but that is an exception and not a rule) by themselves - but, there are CEO:s who can wreck companies with a single misplaced stroke.

Are they paid not to screw up? The main problem of high-comp CEO:s IMO is that this view of a lord over his domain diminishes the value of the other personnel in the company. Teamwork and all that.

If there are really good statistics then yes, a single person can make a huge difference ala moneyball. But does an average Fortune 500 have such statistics?
This exactly.

A CEO is an asset/resource just like anything else in the company. It has a cost and a ROI.

Technically, any employee is like that too, except that when the position holds so much scrutiny, the ROI is analysed in greater depth. It may be unfair at a human level but is completely rational from an accounting perspective.

This is part of a larger pattern in capitalist systems: you want to position yourself within the major flows of money. CEOs may be the more obvious positions but other occupations such as software engineers or salespeople are in a similar position of enabling that flow of money.
It's all seeing enough to poll the installed system for info on installed software, to have keylogger rootkits installed in it, and so on. This is all per the (exhaustively sourced) Wiki article.

The point I'm trying to convey here is that every piece of information available on this thing comes straight from the horse's mouth, and the horse is not necessarily a trustworthy actor.
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It would be great if you put how much they raised next the the exit column.
I'm not sure who "most of us" are, but either way, I wasn't suggesting "we" did. Just replying to the gp that this would be the least abrasive way if the bbc did wish to.
For one of my projects, the 'build process' requires that I use the git archive command (basically archive to .tar.gz without any git-related files/directories). git archive on its own is fine for final builds because it's based off of HEAD for the current branch, but if I want to test a build with working changes, I would either need to commit all the changes _or_ use git stash and then archive based on the state I just stashed.

So in this case git stash works a lot better for a 'temporary' commit, kind of deal.

It might not be optimal but I've found the process to work pretty well for this particular project's situation.
Ballmer did a terrible job. Basically stalled the company for 15 years and put them far behind Google and Apple. "he did great" and "the stock price didn't grow" are the opposite of one another.
There was the patch that broke the tracker. Then there was the patch that "fixed" the tracker by removing the footsteps but basically kept it how it was. This patch was released on July 30th. Around August 23rd, it was reported that Pokemon Go had lost over 10 million users, down from 45 million sometime in July. Here's the article on that: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/08/pokemon-go-sheds-more-...
If you are not opposed to eating sea food, there are many fish that are good on keto. Mackerels, Sardines, Anchovies, and Salmon come to mind, plus they have a high ratio of omega 3 vs omega 6 and 9. I eat lots of Avacado and use a lot of olive oil you can cook vegetables in. You honestly want to go light on the nuts, because even many of the fatty ones still have quite a few carbs, and the omega fat ratio is not great. Also flax is a big deal. I get what you are saying though; I think it would be difficult to be vegetarian on this diet, though ironically I probably eat less meat than I did before keto.
I mostly only stash when I want to rebase -i because rebase -i seems to complain when I have uncommitted changes.
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Good point, I'll add it in a bit.
> So you and I get stuck with the fraud and they get paid, typically.

Not true with credit cards, but very true with debit cards.

Don't use/carry debit cards. have your bank re-issue you an ATM-only card instead.
Throttled by what?

Most home/consumer routers lack the capability to throttle a specific device, and most consumers wouldn't think to configure this if the capability was there.

There's a good argument to say that they should be throttled by their own software, but the basic premise of the issue is that IoT software is badly designed, badly programmed, and badly maintained, so I wouldn't hold out much hope of throttling in the device itself.
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I remember an interesting theory about golden parachutes in Steven Landsburg's "The Armchair Economist". In a typical publicly traded company, the CEO is actually much more heavily invested in the company than the shareholders. His salary, and probably the major part of his assets, are dependent on the performance of the company. On the other hand, the average share holder is well diversified. Therefore, a CEO will be incentivized to pursue a highly conservative strategy, while the shareholders may wish that he takes more risk. To offset this, the shareholders may make it known that a generous severance package, as well as generous benefits if the company does exceptionally well, are on the table, to simultaneously soften the blow if he takes a bad risk, and sweeten the deal if he takes a good risk.

In other words, the point of executive compensation may not be to produce better results on average, but rather to increase the variance of the results.
I was very surprised, that GIMP uses a naive algorithm for computing the surface blur. It is like Selection Sort for sorting.

I have seen much faster Surface Blur for GIMP available as a plugin. I am wondering, why it wasn't added as the default method.
As an addendum to that, people might find this interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_15

The tl;dr is that Galaxy 15 is a massive two-tonne geostationary communications satellite around Earth; in 2010 it went mad and started broadcasting hash. It basically became an uncontrolled jammer. It drifted out of its slot in geostationary orbit and started passing near its neighbour satellites, wreaking havoc. Several had to be moved to get them far enough away from Galaxy 15 to prevent interference.

Eventually, after about a year, its batteries went flat and it rebooted, and started responding to commands again. After checking out it was put back into its orbital slot and I believe it's still in service today.
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Seriously, fingerprints is the worst biometric password. Anything you touch leaves a piece of it, if not the whole thing. The fact that it's still being used is a testament to how easy it is to break into various "secure" accounts.
We automate things. As Jaron Lanier says, "code is people who aren't there". We create substitutions for labor. The lot of mankind only began to improve rapidly after human and animal muscle power was substituted-for by engines.

All production is a mix of land, labor and capital. So it depends on cases, but when we are in the right place at the right time, we deliver stupendous amounts of value.

I've been involved in cases where two, three, four, twenty people could address tens of millions of cost $US per year. The interesting thing is that sometimes, even though you have the numbers on your side, the management team demurs.

It's all but impossible to actually evaluate what we're worth.

Appealing to supply and demand may involve what's called "The Lump of Labor Fallacy". We're not stevedores, and we're not surgeons. We're somewhere in between.
Analyses on this topic are always so bad. Some counterpoints:

(1) CEOs are intentionally aligned with shareholders, for good reason. Shareholders often make money due to luck, so eliminating luck from CEO compensation without breaking alignment is a very hard problem.

(2) Going in, a CEO (or a shareholder) needs to lock down a big future payday in the upside case, in order to compensate them for the risk of the downside case. Yes, the upside case usually involves some luck, but the "optionality" to get paid in a lucky outcome is a valuable part of the deal.

(3) CEOs are also paid to be trustworthy agents for shareholders/boards. Like... if I am a billionaire looking for you to oversee a big part of my capital, I may pay a lot just because I know you are a good/smart/reasonable person who will be autonomous but raise the right issues to me if needed, reliably. I might know all that just because we have been buddies for years, and even though there are lots of objectively more talented people out there who would do the job for less, paying you more would not be irrational for me.
In regards to stash, yes, loss is problematic, but one can simulate it by saving the diff to a file:

git diff > my-stash.diff

Then you can even commit these if you like, or copy them to a safer directory. Applying them is just an invocation of `patch`.
Have you seen the exodus from Twitter? Most of the senior Mopub team left within months of the acquisition. The CEO left within 6 months. Yeah, I think I'm surprised it didn't slip more.
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CVs have two purposes.

The first is to get past H.R. gatekeepers to get you to an interviewer. This involved having the right years of experiences, keywords, school, gpa, etc...

The second is to have interesting things to talk about with an interviewer. Putting your school project on your resume won't heart the 1st one. But if it's and interesting project and you would look good talking about it. Then heck yeah put it on your resume.

After 4 years though if it's not a really awesome project you might want to remove it. It could be perceived like you haven't accomplished anything noteworthy recently.
Backtick. It's also used in bash scripting; and in Slack and presumably some other chat services it's used to delimit quoted code (forcing monospaced output).
Senator Cruz is not scrutinizing the decision. He is using it as political fodder. There is a difference.
In turbine aircraft engines that is not the case though.

Injecting water inside turbine engine causes fuel to go unburned, hence the black smoke.
Offline this SSD is protected with "AES 256-bit Encryption". Simple Brute force attempts would need WAY too long to make any sense.
Does this answer your question?
Well, admittedly my current situation lends itself well to 'worktree' where normally a stash is probably just fine.

At the moment I'm doing a big rework (porting our software from a 10 year-old OS to CentOS 7), so I have many, many modified files (all tiny mods to fix new compiler warnings from new toolchains) and untracked and obsoleted files.

Basically, it's too much for me to keep track of if I change anything, so it's a case of "whatever you do, don't touch" that pushes me toward the worktree solution.

I've been pulled in to work on customer escalations on released code (one instance from 2 releases ago), so it's just easier for me to create a whole new worktree.

I imagine that once I'm back into a normal dev cycle that I'll be back to stashing.
Thank you! Yes, I’ve been working on it as a way both to visualize and to stay current with some of the things I’ve been seeing in the news that are of interest to me, related to the environment, the energy sector, economy, etc. With the election coming up, I’ve been looking a lot at the types of indicators being mentioned in debates (crime, deficit, etc.).

At the moment you can “follow” figures and view a feed of the ones you follow in reverse-chronological order by the time of the latest update (I’m working on an “email me when this changes” option too), and you can drag the thumbnail graphs over one another and drop them to see two numbers compared. The comparison view also gives the option to make your own charts derived from existing ones: e.g., you can make a “per capita” chart by dragging anything over the Census figures and clicking “Proportion.” The “downstream” chart will automatically update when its “upstream” charts do.

It’s very much a work in progress, and if it proves useful, I’d love to hear more from you about the kinds of things that would be of interest to add to it!
I know I know aye, the way I read initially amused me for a moment before my brain clicked into gear :)
This is a real concern. But as I see it, the difference is that the last time around, everyone was sold on the potential applications -- which turned out to be way harder than anyone realized.

This time around, the technology is seeing real applications today, so the valuations are more grounded in reality. So while people are definitely investing based on the future potential, the worst case scenario -- that we're going to hit a wall next week where no further progress can be made in machine learning research -- wouldn't be as devastating as the last AI winter.

At this point there's a lot of work to do, and money to be made, applying the current state of the art even if no further progress can be made.
Ballmer ran the company after the fat part of the Windows rollouts was done. Microsoft was then an incumbent firm, not a growth company. He could have done great and the stock was flat at the same time.
There was a talk at DEF CON where they ransomwared a thermostat. Example, it could turn the temp in your house up to 105F and demand 1 BTC from you to work normal again.
SciShow estimated you'd need to destroy all the planets to get enough raw materials to build a swarm.

https://youtu.be/GrM3f7Bil5A?t=185
Yes, but it was posted company internal and I do not have the rights to republish. What were you most interested in so I can summarize in a paragraph or two here?
Another good one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9o_Apotheker
A microphone records amplitude of sound waves over time, i.e. the air pressure -- that's the dimension.
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Double the revenue, double the profits, double the employees.

The CEO doesn't control the stock price. He controls employees, revenues and profits. Lets not blame Ballmer for having the unfortunate luck to become CEO at the height of the 2001 stock bubble, and instead look at the things he actually could control.
When issues emerged around the game’s stability

I'm most curious about how they identified issues. Obviously crash reports are a thing, maybe traffic to a login error page, twitter complaints etc...

I wonder how they managed prioritizing issues.
It'll tell you your program compiles. Unless you've gone seriously overboard and typed every piece of information down to primitives, and built your types so there's no possible way to convert them out of those types at the wrong time, you've still got a chance of having bugs.

Functionality testing will tell you when you've failed to encode an invariant in your type, and there's a good chance that the reason you failed to is just that it's more effort than it's worth. Else we'd all be writing proofs for every program in Coq.
I was in total disagreement with you until I read your last sentence. I would say put frivolous law suits and self interested salesmanship at the same level.
I really wish they would name the make/model of the IoT devices...
Railguns that could accelerate and dump pieces of metal anywhere in world from high orbit. Militaries would drool over the idea of controlled falling meteors for strategic bombing
Thanks for posting this! Really exciting work!
The point is that the file has nothing about the primes in it. 6 and 7 are treated equally, but 7 is displayed and 6 is not.
IoT security is still so nascent that most vendors in it arent really spending much time architecting a secure layer. Frankly they don't really care if their products get co-opted for a DDOS attack. There's no harm to their customer. This will be a huge problem as time goes on.
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I love that one of the files is "Stuff.cs".

Super neat visuals and I can't wait to play with this, as someone who knows nothing about this kind of "stuff".
That doesn't really solve the problem. What if "x" is a nullable type (i.e. not a primitive type)?
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And the original golden parachutes were created to incentivize a good acquisition. A CEO whose company gets acquired is often firing himself. So the whole idea was to give them a huge score if it happened. Otherwise CEOs might fight takeovers just to keep their jobs.

And, if a lot of the CEO performance results is just luck, then bad luck can ruin them. If a company is on the brink of failure, nobody is going to take the job without a parachute. It could be their last job if they take the blame.
A flooded house is effectively extorting you with threat of bodily harm, because it costs money to dry it, and if you don't dry it promptly then mold will grow, which will cause health problems.
> We contacted them several times hoping

I keep seeing this. Last time it was someone trying to get a different outcome from Apple.

The products in question all have serial numbers and tie into a database that reps all have access to making it simple to re-deny an already denied claim. Do people ever have success talking to multiple reps?
The README says it uses real-valued probability amplitudes, not complex-valued wavefunction. Could the simulation be done with complex numbers and if so how would the results differ?
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