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Software componentization never took off because every attempt at it either leaks abstractions like a sieve or is so purely functional as to be impractical for real world use.

Shall I list the componentization tech of yore? CORBA, OpenDoc, Java Server Faces, COM, DCOM (oh god, CORBA again!), SGML (the original component framework), XML zoo (oh god, CORBA a third time).. JSON zoo, (a flippin' fourth time, are you kidding?!)

componentization is something we're still figuring out. Alan Kay and SmallTalk were the closest to get to it (see previous comment about practicality though) and the mainstream just now is starting to think of JS and Ruby as "novel". NPM? Please.

We have a long way to go before componentization actually works. So yes, I guess I agree that it's simply easier to reinvent things to a specific context than solve the problem of sharing code context-free.
yeah, it's pretty awful.
Exactly! The previous CEO picked 80% of senior management of the same gender and that's fine, but Meyer does the exact same and suddenly it's sexist?
New method exploiting the way that the Apple iPhone operates with other devices
NT was originally known as OS/2 3.0.
I tried looking for it with Google and couldn't find it, either on or off his site. I did find an interesting article about the obsolete practice of sanding floors to clean them: https://www.gwern.net/Sand
Affero General Public License is much more restrictive than GPL. People are not comfortable using it in a commercial setting.
Wow, just looked up Drawbridge. It's a shame MS Research stuff rarely goes anywhere. That looks like top-shelf engineering.
>I wanted greater privacy

Yeah, Microsoft clearly is the way to go.
I can't speak for OP, but Chattanooga is a pretty awesome place to be. I left Chattanooga for Boulder and it was the second stupidest thing I've ever done.

Ok, maybe third.
Greetings from the future!

Just to let you know, your experiment in time travel was a success and your message ended up in 2016. Unfortunately, in our time, Netscape no longer exists, so it was all a bit pointless and irrelevant.

[and, no. We still don't have flying cars]
I enjoyed playing corewar so much I wanted to reimplement it on Linux.

I ended up never finishing it because I found myself inventing Google Wave (in 1997, in DOS). But it was a fun project.
Adrenaclick is an alternative branded epinephrine auto-injector.

There's a couple of companies that make generic versions of it, so you can get a pair for $150, but the branded version costs ~$400.
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It'd be sort of like removing all of the kelp from the worlds oceans. It'd have ripple effects on other species that we wouldn't want to negatively affect.
I think it'd be neat to have a coordination service that runs tournaments for AIs playing games like Resistance. People register a URL with the service that exposes an API that lets the coordination service tell them the current state of the game, and responds with their next move, if any. People could then write these AIs in whatever they want (and bear most of the cost of running them for tournament style simulation).
I kind of have a pet theory on this: We need to take away the money aspect from here. We've started entering a post-scarcity society, but our economic models don't account for that. It's free to distribute media, but our economic model demands that we have a paid gateway. I don't know how to solve this, but I do think that we'd be better off once we get it fixed.
Have you considered asking them to help you recruit another woman from among their connections for your other open positions?

I don't know how well it would work, but it's an idea...
I'm not sure about the "this week" part
It's not really the application runtime/health status, it's the status of individual assets for each tenant. So a scenario would be as technical support person I would like to look at what customer assets are currently off-line across all tenants.

One way to do that would be to query each individual tenant database and then combine the information. But this would void the idea of security/isolation. The other downside is that it's slow.

But I think I've been looking at this from the wrong point of view, there should be a central health check service for these assets that collects the status of the assets and then that would be queried by the support person.
That was past; then came the deal to an armistice to end the Vietnam War (though then after the armistice NVA and VC continued the war and South Vietnam collapsed). The point of that prize was not that there had been war, it was that the parties had signed to end hostilities.

In 2009, the peace prize really was quite strange in my opinion: Obama had achieved rather little except winning an election campaign (becoming the U.S. president the same year) on promises that undoubtedly sounded good to the Committee (but which later on were not kept very well or quickly).
I agree with everything you've said, including the negative sentiment towards Facebook, but they aren't the first. There are actually several social VR apps out and/or in the works right now, perhaps the most popular of which is AltspaceVR.
Firefox aggressively caches intermediate certificates and uses them to build trust paths when they're not included by the server. This can mask configuration errors.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apache_Software_Founda...

http://incubator.apache.org/projects/

Many successes (most of which are "enterprise") and many failures.
Have they? I don't keep up with the latest AAA games. Are there any stats showing how many of them are using DRM still vs say, 10 years ago?
What sort of foundational mathematics is required to fully consume this book?

I assume multivariate calculus and linear algebra?
Only on HN would somebody look at a site that gets 99% of their revenue from escort ads and claim it's something other than an escort ad site.

Y'all are fucking dumb af.
In my eyes that practise would be equivalent with dual-licensing your code under GPL and the (more liberal) license of your choice. This happens with some frequency.

It's a way to honor the GPL idea for the stuff you link to without having to follow GPL ideas for your new code.
No, the purchase of a television is less immoral, shameful, and pathetic than the purchase of sex. It is qualitatively different. There is nothing inherent in my possession of a television that demeans or degrades another human being; it's simple circumstance that makes working conditions more or less morally acceptable.

The purchase of sex inherently demeans and degrades another human being because it places one's own sexual gratification over another person's bodily autonomy.
And for those use cases, you can have specific permissions with Google apps: http://i.imgur.com/NJPZ7Fa.png
Twidere for Android is a great client that respects chronological ordering, saves your previous position, and doesn't show ads. I don't know of a desktop solution. I just put up with their shitty website and avoid it whenever possible.
Realized I wrote an essay, TLDR version: Even with best intentions the real world is very messy, and I am more paranoid that most and thus would still advise limiting data exposure to bigCos.

Having worked at multiple of the largest, I would say your statement is 'broadly true' (especially in terms of intent, there is certainly the mission to protect that data) but there are enough edge cases that one can logically worry; Imagine a scenario where some legacy property that is in the prod vnets and needs prod access but doesn't have all the oversight mechanisms new services do, and is now handed to a very junior engineer to maintain with all the power that entails. I'm staying very far away from making any statements about opinions on the actual enterprises goals/merits from data collection to distract my key statement, but regardless of that, there are enough of these "edge cases" that I as a consumer would reasonably want to limit as much as possible the footprint of data I allow to these companies. The "vulnerable surface" of data across all of these large companies is just too wide to protect 100%, especially given that you HAVE to trust some people as "good actors", and while this tradeoff is fine for many people, I fall on the line of not being a fan.

I may be being paranoid about this, but I want to both disclose that I'm an MSFtie and none of these statements are specific or represent concrete information about any companies for which I am bound to an NDA on internal operations. They are just my learnings/intuitions as a paranoid dev/ops who has seen a wide range of operating environment and the various pitfalls within, and would have made an equivalent statement earlier in my career prior to my bigCo phase extrapolating from small/midCo patterns and trends.
Yes! This is something I discovered whilst building part of the fieldmargin stack - basically historically speaking you order the terms as latitude, longitude. For lots of applications (inc. geoJSON) you follow the mathematical order however: x, y, z which equivalent to longitude, latitude. Our iOS dev made the mistake of incorrectly ordering them one day and we discovered our data along with the poundstretchers in the Indian Ocean which we thought was pretty funny. We assume they made the same mistake.
<conspiracy-theory>
What if...the idea for the award of this nobel prize was purposefully implemented by the world's secret/shady powers-that-be...in an effort to generate more social/political pressure to all but ensure that some resolution (perhaps ANY resolution, good or bad) gets completed before Santos' time as president finishes...?
</conspiracy-theory>

I don't mean to make light of this...I (like many others) just question the timing of this awarding of the prize. While I'm extremely happy that the world has taken notice of this very important challenge that Colombia has been facing, I would have expected the committee would have waited until a plan is actually implemented, etc. Nevertheless, the very fact of this award is a clear, positive signal of the collective world's desire for peace for Colombians.

Disclaimer: I'm born, raised in the U.S. with Colombian parents (themselves naturalized U.S. citizens from years ago).
The shown 'attack' happens mostly in China at the moment and the victim's iCloud account must already be compromised. Anyway I think this is an interesting impact.
Lot of syntactic sugar recently added to C++ and a lot more in C++17. The structured bindings in particular are really excellent ways for unpacking tuples and structs with type inference into new variables automatically.
I had an even more annoying issue with their billing system.

I had 5 VPSs and whenever it was time for renewal, one of the VPSs would turn off ~5 days prematurely (before the renewal date). I contacted support multiple times about the error in their billing system until I got too frustrated and migrated last month.
Xenix ran on the master node of the Intel iPSC, a commercial hypercube used for parallel computation starting in the mid-to-late 80s. The compute nodes used a proprietary OS.

I also worked for a retailer that used SCO Xenix for Point of Sale and other applications. 386/16s and 386/20s with 16, 24 or 32 port serial boards running serial printers and dumb terminals. Fun times.
Salty air is highly corrosive. Unless you want rust in every bit of iron in your furniture, that may not be the best idea.
Any chance to start a new company? I think original company failed because it had too much overhead (SF office, marketing, investors...)

There is a good brand, existing user base, big customers with references...

Lean distributed company could make a good profit here with minimal investment.
> This is usually due to the manufacturer cranking up the price really fast, but in the end they have to give the drug to the gov't for FREE

To add to what you're saying, this same effect also results in inflated prices for patients on private insurance and patients who are uninsured. When Medicare reimburses less than the direct cost of goods and services (which they do, in the aggregate), then providers have to make up the difference elsewhere.

That's why you see incredibly inflated bills for basic services. It's because private insurers and uninsured patients are in effect subsidizing Medicare through higher reimbursement rates, which get passed on to patients as higher out-of-pocket bills or higher premiums.
Maybe you don't understand. White men are all the same. They all grew up with a silver spoon in their mouths and no hurdles to overcome. Life is just easy for them. /s
"Perhaps that response is irational..."

No argument to your points, but the quoted sentence deserves a response: It is not irrational to expect a product/service that is, and has always been, advertised as open & shared to be open & shared. False advertising, data sequestration and shady patterns are antonymous to the claims.
It's actually pretty large even looking at an orthographic projection:

https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/ort...

You can see it form if you go back a couple of hours. I'm assuming it's some form of extratropical cyclone?
Wells Fargo has 265.000 employees. A CEO certainly has to make sure that there's internal oversight according to regulations and industry standards but it's not his job to personally go spying on people (try doing that on 265.000 employees) or implement the Wells Fargo Gestapo.

If it cannot be proven that he knew about it or encouraged this behaviour then he cannot be held legally accountable. It's like demanding the US president should go to prison because some CIA team somewhere does some really shady stuff that he doesn't know about.

Shareholders might still choose to fire that guy, but it's a choice they have, they do not have to if they are satisfied with his performance.

How come that people today lose their ability to reason as soon as bankers are involved? It's similar to the National Socialists reasoning when they blamed the Jews for everything bad "because they had the all money and controlled the world"
the concurrency safety model (Send+Sync), though that might be old too

Smalltalk has had that since the early 1980s
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Yes, and that's in my latter pleasantry category -- you're still effectively on the bottom rung (assuming you aren't a Product Manager II or a Senior Product Manager).
The whole newLISP semantics (everything dynamic, no closures) serves for it to be one of the fastest pure interpreters out there. IIRC it is even significantly faster than CPython (on microbenchmarks).

The reason for that lies in the fact that newLISP's interpreter does not have to do that much of pointer chasing as other interpreters which implement some kind of lexical scoping. In dfsch I found out that about 80% of time is spent in symbol-lookup related code and had to resort to some ugly tricks (inlining constant references in AST, microoptimalizations in lookup code...) to get it's performance to be somewhere between CPython and newLISP.
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"Second, what "physical limitations" put people into a position where they can code but they can't use a CLI?"

It's not the lack of a GUI, it's that the CLI interface is very poorly designed.
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Isn't that the point of this article? I don't think it's fair to criticize Apple for lagging HTML5 support in iOS, then say "what's the use of this element?" when it cuts the other way.
Why are people so obsessed at working for Google? Granted, I'm sure there are a few niche groups which are probably really cool to work in, but the others probably involve their fair share of CRUD work, like any other typical large corporation.
It is widely speculated that pattern matching and many other syntactic enhancements are coming to C++ because of the big door that std::variant has opened.
Recruiting works like any other sales job. You just keep ignoring any "no"s in the way (such as "don't contact me") because that's how you get to a yes.
>>Since that time, we have researched the event internally and also reached out to the customer...

FourTops-itis Alert!

<vomit!>
Maybe the goal is to send a specific type of social signal so people like you can self-select themselves out of his life? The term isn't pejorative. So, chill out.
I believe anyone who's spent long enough time across multiple programming backgrounds and looked at the JavaScript ecosystem would understand how solid Web Components are. They're objects, and you fill methods on them. But that's not "revolutionary" enough for this community. There's no flash or wow with it, it's just solid programming.

Also, everyone loves to hate the DOM. It's so "low level."

Additionally, I feel Google tainted the idea of them by making Polymer the face of the standard, rather than letting it stand by itself.
That seems to be par for the course for the online.net conglomerate. Scaleway only has /128s that are dynamically assigned on reboot.
Such bad science. Since we couldn't make it until now, apparently there is a hard limit. Such a logical flaw
I'm not sure I understand; in C++17, why can't you write a function that returns std::optional?
Is your objection that the results were published in a book, where the authors can make some money from it?

If so, do you not realize that many or even most academics publish a book, with the potential to earn royalties? Usually it's not enough to justify the time, in that other options, like consulting on the side, are more profitable. Profit is low on the list of why to write a book. Prestige in the academic world is higher. A book full of unsubstantiated claptrap is less likely to lead to long-term career advancement.

Perhaps the most famous policy-related book from an academic in the last few years is Piketty's "Capital in the Twenty-First Century." It has had millions of sales.
Do you consider him "disinterested" as a result?

Also, which language do you refer to? Is it:

> The federal bureaucrats, think tank leaders, and congressional staff members they surveyed, Ginsberg said in an interview with VICE News, "have no idea what Americans think and they don't care. They think Americans are stupid and should do what they are told."

Or is it:

> If the public resists, Ginsberg told VICE News, then bureaucrats "nudge people into obedience."

Those are the only two quotes by an author of the report.

The first appears to be backed by survey results. Quoting the publisher's overview:

> They found a significant chasm between what official Washington assumes they know about average Americans and the actual opinions and attitudes of American citizens. Even in such basic areas as life circumstances (e.g., income levels, employment, racial makeup) the surveys revealed surprising inaccuracies. And when it comes to policy issues–on such crucial issues as defense, crime, social security, welfare, public education, and the environment–officials’ perceptions of the public’s knowledge and positions are often wide of the mark. Compounding this ignorance is a pervasive attitude of smug dismissiveness toward the citizenry and little sense of accountability. As a result, bureaucrats tend to follow their own preferences without much reference to the opinions of the public.

In addition, the recommended solution is not direct democracy, as you somehow conclude. That is, the blurb continues:

> The authors conclude with recommendations to narrow the gap between official perceptions of the American public and the actual facts. These include shorter terms, rotation from the Washington beltway to local offices, compulsory training in the responsibilities of public office, and better civic education for ordinary citizens in the realities of government and politics.

The second quote is unsurprising. Nudge theory is popular with some politicians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_theory describes it as "a concept ... to try to achieve non-forced compliance", and points to use by government:

> Most recently, the political machinery of both President Barack Obama in the United States and Prime Minister David Cameron in the UK have sought to employ Nudge Theory to advance their respective domestic policy goals.

I therefore disagree with the justification for your objection.
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Well, Apple was bashing Adobe for anything and everything. I remember they bashed Adobe for being late to finish moving to Cocoa, at a time when some core Apple products hadn't moved yet (e.g. Finder, IIRC).
You're like a living version of this comic but for IT nerds...

https://xkcd.com/435/

(Just to be clear, in the IT version, you're not standing where the mathematician is.)
Well the US also has some of the largest fresh water lakes in the world. I happen to live in Chicago right next to Lake Michigan (as a simple example). The Romans didn't have near the tech we have no a days and managed to create some impressive aqueducts. Given the extreme need, we would figure something out.
> Scroll tracking can be disabled with adblockers.

That's not strictly correct. Adblockers disable third-party services for it, you can just implement it yourself just like read-more, which again as I mentioned doesn't tell you whether they actually read or not.
By that logic, me going to work is slavery. Also, there are people who sincerely believe that women can't consent to sex with men, full stop, for basically similar reasons to what you wrote. You're probably playing devil's advocate, but I really think these bizarre ideas about consent are rooted in a damaged psychology that has a very unhealthy view of both women's agency, and the relationship between the sexes.
Where are you from that "racks up" means "counterfeits" and not "accumulates"?
>Hiring people based on things they won't use seems an awful lot like a cargo cult.

Yes, but in this case, it's a cargo cult of over-qualification. Hardly a bad thing.

>Many of Googles products implode shortly after getting released making software quality irrelevant.

That is a function of leadership and poor product planning and has nothing to do with the quality of the engineers there.
Uh, how much do you think Twitter pays their employees?
You could say the same about billboards, newspaper full page ads, and just about anything!
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"Web apps are cheaper and faster to develop." - Depends who you ask. This is a very grey area and it heavily depends on the type of app.
Reverse discrimination is just reactionary discrimination that hasn't become mainstream yet.

There's a good Dr Seuss story about a guy that comes into town with a machine that stamps a star on your chest. A few people get it and think they're better than everyone else until everyone gets the star and the fashion becomes not having the star, and the story oscillates between star and no-star until everyone's out of money and the huckster with the star/no-star machine moves onto the next town.

Discrimination of all kinds is and has always been about mobilizing people against each other for the sake of accumulating power/money/resources.

Discrimination... discrimination never changes.
Unless I'm very mistaken, making more EpiPens shouldn't raise the price per EpiPen.
Only in America you would think that a 16 or 17 year old would never choose to have sex for benefits unless forced into it.
> The purchase of sex inherently demeans and degrades another human being because it places one's own sexual gratification over another person's bodily autonomy.

I'm a contractor, and I get to choose my clients. If I don't want to work with someone, I don't. Why would it be "inherently" demeaning in sex work, if they got to choose their clients and there were better protection and regulation?

Why is it an implementation issue with your TV purchase, and an inherent issue with sex work? I don't follow the logic.