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> Not many are passionate about the Corolla

But there is also nothing particularly wrong with it. It may not be better, but it has no worse maintenance record, crash record, or accident survival rate then average car. (In software world, that would be perhaps java).

To come with better analogy - PHP is like a 15+ yo car imported from neighbour country because that's the only thing you can afford. Its popular and you'll see it all around in you area, so you may be unaware that better cars even exist. It can be used, but something breaks every 50km, the rust has eaten so much that any minor collision will get you killed, and you'll see people frantically repairing it with duck tape on every street to ever get home. But yeah, you can drive one. And have you heard that next year the tax will be lowered, so you may be able to afford 14 yo cars, life is getting so much better here.
Number 8 is absurd.

> browsers and big platforms like Google Search today have no mechanism to prove that your site is indeed fast and user friendly. So by choosing to do it all on your own, you might create a super fast site, but there’s no way to know for sure. This validation aspect of AMP is what makes it so attractive for 3p platforms.

Ok, so... Google's been making a business saying your website IS or ISN'T fast enough for mobile. (I have 2 old client websites that Google yells at me weekly about 'not being mobile optimized' (thanks mom, I know). Why all of a sudden can they NOT PROVE your site is fast enough? if they've been claiming to say its fast or not fast all this time?
making "Product" decisions is a broad topic. Who is to say a FrontEnd engineer didn't start as an amazing UX person?

I think your comment is an (IMHO incorrect) blanket statement that is impossible to apply to all engineers.
To make it more confusing: neither. It's SpaceX's track.

http://www.spacex.com/hyperloop

> "To support this competition, SpaceX is constructing a test track adjacent to our Hawthorne, California headquarters"
For those, who want to read it in lay man's language, they can go through following articles:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/429561/the-measurement-th...

http://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/physicists-may-have-evide...
So am I. You can still prevent explosive decompression in much the same way. If you provide reinforcing strapping for example, you prevent a minor puncture from turning into a massive tear and explosive decompression [EDIT: perhaps, I should say re-compression]. I.E. if air is leaking in relatively slowly, you will never get the violent pressure wave you are talking about.
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This doesn't jibe with my experience. As long as the person doesn't evaluate their mistakes in a vacuum they become more careful in general because they learn that things can bite you in the ass in totally unexpected ways.

So I'd say it depends on your environment combined with the individual. Someone who is apathetic and/or lacks critical thinking skills will probably learn very little beyond avoiding that specific mistake again.
Indeed a couple of posts made in the last few months have been prescient of serious and highly secretive information. The motivation behind such posters is likely explained below.

I think what a lot of people don't get about /pol/'s influence in the last year is it's mechanism. It is easy to browse the site as an outsider and think it is just shitposting 9000, with no real influence outside. However /pol/ unconsciously and without formal direction has an extremely effective strategy for disseminating information.

Once the essence of some information has been distilled users start disseminating it to the 'normies' via Reddit and Twitter. Twitter is where the real influence comes as they inevitably target journalists in large numbers. As most know, journalists and politicians are extremely engaged in Twitter. Stories frequently then cross the barrier into the mainstream.

Targeting of journalists and politicians, largely but not always via Twitter, is where most of the huge power is derived. People targeted don't necessarily have the internet experience to realise when these things are directed. A lot of what most of them see is a flurry of regular public concern which needs to be addressed.

When a story from /pol/ reaches the mainstream, it goes into a glorious frenzy. It is a powerful feeling when something you have created/discovered and disseminated in a 4chan thread becomes international news because of the boards collective action.

Summarised: when a very large group of people with political leanings on a story/topic informally organise, the effort can take the view mainstream. important to note is the demographic includes a diverse group of users who are highly skilled in programming, social media and politics.

edit: If I was a highly placed politician and wanted to disseminate secret information without attribution, I would run it through the tumbler that is 4chan.
https://zulip.tabbott.net/

It's amazing. Zulip is Slack done right. Their threading/light-weight topic approach is second to none.
Or the massive G forces on the passengers.

If you're going 650 Mph in an airplane and hit a bump (air pocket), the plane can bounce 5-10 feet. So the acceleration is spread over a long time / distance.

If you're going 650 Mph in a hyperloop and hit a bump, you have millimeters of room. So any minor bump is going to be a gigantic slam.

I've ridden TGVs in Europe. At 250 Km/h (~150 Mph), it's bumpy enough that I have a hard time doing anything other than stare out the window.

The hyperloop will be 4x faster than that. If it does work, I'd probably want a padded interior, and a face mask with attached vacuum aspirator for vomit...
You sound like the one who'd have called BG back from his camping trip to fix up his code - a 3 hours drive and a ruined weekend for him, instead of maybe a 5 minute rollback to the latest stable version for you.

So with your mindset, it's no wonder people react to you the way you describe it. But believe it or not - most probably you are the problem, not them.
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If someone asked, "what I'd learned" in the above context, I'd assume it was more to satisfy their needs of feeling important and superior than genuinely caring.

Much better is: "Shit happens." That's an empathetic attitude that reflects experience in our field.
> "NVIDIA is a member of the OpenCAPI consortium, at the "contributor level", which is the same level Xilinx has. The same is true for HPE (HP Enterprise)"

Awesome.
And television can be used for something other than viewing reality television shows. But what's the common use case? Computers can be used for other stuff than gaming or (the hobby horse I choose to ride) getting your dopamine hit when someone "likes" your social media post. But what's the common use case? What are the phone zombies looking at as they stagger down the hallway staring at their phones? My guess is that they're not reading a selection from their religious or philosophical canon.

I wouldn't be surprised to find that arsenic has some beneficial medical properties. I won't, however, be adding it to my morning coffee.
An interesting thought exercise and an explainer on how the U.S. election process works that a lot of Americans (including myself) probably didn't realize. I appreciate that the author caveats most of their statements with how statistically unlikely each of the steps for McMullin to win are. I think FiveThirtyEight coverage of the election has been very good.

A side point that I took from this article is that some people talk about the potential for the U.S. to shift from a two major party system, however our election process strongly discourages it. As a result, it's highly unlikely to ever happen. Since the process for electing a President and VP go to Congress if candidates fail to win at least 270 electoral votes, I feel that the American public would be less likely to vote if the chances of Congress picking the President, assuming 3 major candidates are likely to split the electoral college vote. However, maybe that would make people pay a lot closer attention to the down-ballot races for Congress...
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There's also differences in management and industry style.

If labour is so abundant that there's little problem in replacing any given worker, people can and will be fired for trivial offences. If there's a shortage, or there's a considerable on-boarding process, less so.

The threat of a firing-at-any-moment also makes for a more tractable workforce, at least from a management perspective.
You beat my comment by 12 minutes. I'd add that the dev team should at least be part of the feedback loop. To bring up an example: I once worked on a project where the PMs and designers all came over from the Android project to bring up the iOS one. Many of the designs were specified to look and behave as the Android product did. A single button, if implemented according to their spec, would have meant developing a custom control + 200 lines of code-behind to mimic Android's behavior, where if we made some minor tweaks and used a native iOS-style control, it would be a one-liner (and by the way, would be more appealing users who expect iOS-like controls on their iPhones). Without this feedback, we'd probably still be building all those custom controls years later.
I think this is just embracing and extending. VMWare has the on premise infrastructure market cornered for the most part. But if they don't leverage that and pivot into using off premise stuff, then they stand to lose ground to Azure, as you can orchestrate just about all of Azure from Active Directory/Powershell.

This is a good move on their part.
Ridiculous. No single trader could affect the whole market - it does not work that way.

This is another example of how wrong the current models based on traditional assumptions and academic theories are.

If a market could be nearly destroyed by one single trader, there is no market at all, but a fraud, smoke and mirrors.
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise is also a member of this consortium (the source article was updated to reflect this)
Its resolved when SCOTUS rules, but I don't hold high hopes. I think a payout is unlikely, and anything much beyond legal fees is in lottery territory.
Well, there could be a niche, upscale market for getting from SF to LA in 30 minutes, like people going for meetings and coming back on the same day. Other modes of transportation takes just too long for that kind of use case. I don't think this was ever thought of as a transportation option for people who commute to work every day because they can't afford to live in the center of those cities. Hyperloop, if it's ever built and works, will probably be the Concorde of ground transportation, in terms of market share and price. Although if we look at the outcome of Concorde, it may not make a lot of sense to follow that path.
There are of course different rules at different scales for a company. But in general if you were engineer #1 becoming a CTO and your team can't function and govern autonomously once its reached a size where you step away from daily commits, you have failed to grow a competent tech lead for the role.
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Well, they also think 4chan is a person... ("The hacker known as 4chan" - which has become a meme on its own)
And my own darn fault for using platform Y from team X that would release a security update on a Friday. Yes, fix it. But if this isn't a one-off, get off of platform Y.
> people often are not educated about know side effects when being put on a new drug

Since you're talking about the US, that's a defect with the people, not system. When you pick up a medicine from the pharmacy, the cashier asks if you want a consult with the pharmacist to talk about the medicine (including side effect). You can decline.

The medicine itself comes with an insert outlining usage and side effects in great detail.

If you don't know possible side effects of a medicine you're taking, you've got nobody to blame but yourself.
> His reasoning (later revealed) was that you can't give people fish and expect them to become expert fishermen.

I think you can, it's just not nearly as efficient. College and trade schools are essentially about mixing a very small amount of actual necessity (deadlines, tests, etc) with copious amounts of being told what's best and how to accomplish something. This works well because it's both more palatable to a wider audience of people, and it accounts for people's different interpretation of events. There may be multiple things to learn from any particular failure, and without some guidance you may come away having learned few or none of them the first time. Being told what to expect before hand, or what you could have done to mitigate problems afterward, goes a long way towards making sure you consider all the useful aspects of the problem.

Will you learn any one single lesson as thoroughly or as fast as you would in the real world when it affects you so much? Likely not, but then again, that assumes you actually saw a solution to the problem, and that still might just be one aspect.
It's amusing because it's absurd. CTOs write articles about technology choices all the time, and sometimes its even tactical.

If I thought slagging PHP in a blog would get us more hires, I'd do it without hesitation.
The combo USB/MicroUSB thing has been around for a few years. I met the original designer at CES 2015. The lightning/MicroUSB thing is, I believe, new.
That doesn't solve larger tears, like a terrorist shooting an RPG at it, or exploding something underneath, or flying a small plane into it. It's a very large target to secure compared to a plane.
I wonder why people limit themselves to PHP, Python, Ruby, and Node, While Java has good presence in sync & async world.
I think the real Musk's goal is to have companies start researching this technology and perfecting it, because it could be quite useful when colonizing Mars.
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I don't know Haskell, but that sounds good. Thanks.
It may be worth the risk but that doesn't change the fact that what you refer to as "Chicken Littles" represent power players in an intractable political dynamic. The only way this kind of cooperation happens is when humans move past current notions of nation states and begin to think strategically as a species.
But whatever tools you used to use for the "vast majority" of web applications probably still exist. You are under no obligation to use the newer tools. Other people are developing new tools for their different needs and different applications, but this doesn't place a demand on you to follow suit.

For example, there's tons of libraries provided via CDN so you can link them in script tags. That's as far back as I can think in terms of JS tooling. Bower still exists. So do grunt and gulp. jQuery is still releasing new versions, so is angular 1. I assume backbone and knockout still exist.

If javascript fatigue was an epidemic, then there would be a huge swath of developers who just want to use the current, existing tools. That would surely provide a solid maintenance base for these existing tools so you can continue to use them for a very long time. Javascript fatigue seems like a self-correcting problem.
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And indeed, that autonomy and creativity is a skill to be practiced. The best practitioners are people who lead development efforts for a company and eventually mature into their own senior technical positions (be they directors of engineering, senior engineering managers promoted from technical positions, or CTOs).
he probably used the ubuntu version of kde.
This seems to be a malloc()/free() wrapper that keeps track of malloc()ed/realloc()ed/free()d pointers. I see that it's been submitted by the author, so one hopefully-helpful comment: it would be really helpful to highlight why one would use this instead of one of the well-established alternatives (Boehm GC, valgrind, ASan).

The "run after every test case" example actually gives a fairly good reason, but note that realistic code bases probably have a few caches, freelist-optimizations or other exceptions to "deallocate all memory after every test".
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Having separate product and design teams is certainly one approach.

However, separate teams for product and design easily leads to the organisational antipattern where every feature implemented has to go through handoff between multiple teams. First product teams decide what to do, then design teams design it and hand off to UX for testing and later hand off to dev with full specification for building. When dev find that the designed/tested approach won't work due to implementation realities then it gets handed back over to the other team and so on.

Changes can take a really long time to get implemented and often no one team is fully aware of everything from the tech challenges/limitations, the cost of different approaches, the design implications, and the value of different options. Each team also has different and often conflicting motivations. Ops teams want reliability, Product want to move fast, Design want consistency. It's challenging to make good decisions on the tradeoffs in this model.

An alternative to this is vertically sliced teams where each team has all of the specialities embedded within it in order to look after a product. That means Dev, Product, Design, UX, Ops etc specialities within the team. They can then work together to add value to the product rapidly without handoffs between teams.

When cross-functional teams work well they understand both the cost and value opportunities of things they could work on, and can propose and implement features quickly and without top-down command and control.
What's wrong with PCIe? The devices are ubiquitous. It's point-to-point, allowing for device to device connectivity. We have external PCIe enclosures and cables. We have a healthy set of PCIe switches.

This is similar. It's also point-to-point, and it has an external story. Skimming the spec, they've even thought about higher latency (200ns) links, and optical. Even with these advantages, I'm unsure how it'll work due to the lack of IP available as compared to PCIe.

Interesting, though. Will be fun to see it play out. It bums me out a little bit though that POWER isn't easily available yet.
> try everything in their power not to budge

The first part I get, but this I don't.

Deleting an email is a mouseclick. A lot easier than getting the pest control guy off my doorstep.
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I may not understand the impact of this, but this sounds like "there is a limit to Google-scale solutions and we have hit it"? I know this is a gross over-simplification, but I'd appreciate if someone might offer more depth to this? FWIW: I have liked the duckduckgo approach of separating the "space" of the search, but I always figured this was a stop-gap until Google could grok the context from your situation (e.g. 4 searches in a row related to motorcycles and the 5th for AMA shouldn't give me anything on the American Medical Society, but instead prefer American Motorcycle Association)

Now I'm wondering if there may be some limit to Google's ability to hit this in a timely manner with the amount of content available. Insights very much appreciated.
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Many product designers don't understand the limits of the technology or the interface guidelines and patterns for a particular platform. It's up to the tech team to communicate any conflicts between the platform and the product decisions. Many designers try to shove an iOS ui pattern onto Android or a mobile app pattern onto mobile web, depending on where their experience and preference lies. There are also technical limitations in what can be done on UI threads or with network bandwidth or latency. These technical factors are very important to the user experience.

Having communicated these to the product and design teams, the devs must understand the tasks still get prioritized according to business needs and customer measured preference. No dev team should be implementing major UX decisions that aren't supported by data.
It makes me sad that every time any kind of research is done, someone has to denigrate it as a waste of money.

While I don't care about "chan" culture (never visited one of the sites, don't need that in my life), I fully support research into things I may or may not like. Let the Universities decide where to spend their research budgets. You never know what will come out of it.
Since Orion doesn't need to accelerate constantly, it's in principle quite possible to turn it and fire bombs in the direction of any interceptor, and the thick pusher plate makes it actually pretty durable from some aspects. What happens when two Orion ships duel, I don't know, but shooting it down isn't quite as simple as for most other spacecraft.
Yes. I think LTS+PPAs provides exactly that.
> you can't write both server-side and client-side code handling for every UI state

I'm interested, what do you mean? Can you give an example?

As far as I can tell, whatever you serve to the client is also available server-side. You render it there, send it down the pipe as static HTML and hydrate it client-side seamlessly.

Except for specific cases where client's local storage has a significant amount of data, of course, but that seems more like the exception than the norm.
Isn't regression to the mean a phenomenon of random variables?

Humans aren't perfect improvement machines, but they surely beat a random variable?!
Thanks for the rec, looking at purchasing a new machine in the near future, I'll check that one out.
>>I've created a similar system

Cool then submit a patch to the Rust project.
It depends on how low latency they mean by 'low latency'. If it can't drive fat gaming GPUs to full utilization, PCIe will be around for a while still. Also, Intel isn't joining up, so PCIe is absolutely sticking around.
"It's far more than a tongue lashing."

Until he has the shit kicked out of him in a jail cell, it isn't. As I said before, Stumpf is not facing any real consequences for his actions.
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I'm not sure I follow. How are routing tabels related to knowing if the IP address is within one of the following ranges: 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, 192.168.0.0/16, 127.0.0.0/8 and if it is the case, just not let the request get though (Adblock does that already).
> If you equate "rapist" with "spammer", you might be regarded as trivializing "rapist" accusations as being usually false and frivolous in the same way.

I don't think he was equating the two at a legal or moral level, just presenting an analogy with regards to:

- The likelihood of false accusations being similar in both cases (higher than the norm)

- The devastating social consequences of falsely accusing someone of either crime, even where no proof exists

Having said that, there are circles where false accusations of "rape" are sometimes thrown around rather frivolously, and where the term is being stretched to include other lesser crimes, such as crimes of expression ("verbal rape") and sexual harassment. You may not be familiar with these circles, but they do exist. If you've ever heard someone use the term "he raped me with his eyes": this is the action that trivializes the actual crime of rape.

Making the observation that this subculture exists in no way trivializes actual cases of rape.

I think this may have been the intent of the analogy.