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For example Africa and Middle East is experiencing constant war and loss of lives

Well, obviously they just need more social media and wikipedia.
Technically correct, but filesystems are mostly about I/O. For example this Baidu filesystem copies blocks of data into userland memory and transfers them in RPC messages - any system using proper zero copy approach would easily beat it even if coded in Python or JS. Baidu also seems to use threads, locks and SEDA instead of more efficient (but much harder to code) thread-per-core async architecture. Threadpools and lock based synchronization are terrible for latency.

The fact that something is in C++ doesn't make it automatically efficient. And particularly, if we're talking about milliseconds, not nanoseconds here, in Java or C# you can do just everything what you can do in C++, performance-wise.
This RDBMS supports superfast data ingestion
I would recommend against OCC; for a time, my full-time job was fighting its total lack of reliability and debuggability. It sets a new bar for impossible-to-understand C++ code (a bar I thought boost had set so high it was impassable) and its error reporting is totally useless (every exception is exactly the same: StdFail_NotDone. Good luck figuring out what went wrong)

CGAL's pretty good; they've got an implementation for everything but not all of them are worth using. I just got done reimplementing the RANSAC algorithm in a client's codebase because CGAL's was super slow. But on the whole, it's an amazing feat of open source software.

If you can pony up, though, Parasolid is where it's at. Hands down the most reliable geometry kernel I've ever used, and their support is fantastic.
So what's they point of sharing happiness then? Everyone I share it with will be a corpse pretty soon too.
We are still waiting for the email.. No news
"Edge 2 Edge" displays have been common for the last two years, yet I haven't heard of this as some endemic problem.
Newton lived only 300 years ago. Newton is a culturally relative choice, here. Why didn't you pick someone from 3000 years ago to site as intelligent? I mean, the difference between Newton and Einstein is actually very large, and the difference between Einstein and a brilliant physicist today is similarly large.

The only things that Newton did that were intelligent were things that modern physicists are still unilaterally willing to do, and holding belief in a deity is not one of them.

PS: Those guys are dead. You haven't met him either. They had less information available to them than we do today by a large margin. Their opinions and beliefs are inherently less trustworthy due to that.
Out of curiosity, which alt coins would you put in the latter category ("have had great minds behind them")?
Chicago as well. The blue line goes from downtown to inside ORD within 45 minutes, and the orange line goes to MDW. Not sure how long as haven't flown to / from MDW in years. I generally ask visitors to take the CTA instead of a cab because it's much faster during the day. Getting to any airport in NYC via public transportation is a pain, including JFK. Which is strange because the MTA is otherwise very impressive.
Pretty much exactly the interpretation a Googler posted earlier:

https://plus.google.com/+PeterKasting/posts/TJwzGb5dt1W

"We have refined our plan!

"We're going to push technology, remain a leader, enhance our focus, and in general optimize our synergistic long-term 'outside the box' thinking for high-impact de-risking of our core vertical integrations for enhanced customer satisfaction.

"Oh, and practically speaking, all these positive things are happening because we're stopping investment and reducing our headcount, and our CEO is stepping aside."

The shit's not even selling on the inside.
Have you ever pointed it out to them? I'd be torn between being rude and being driven mad by the inefficiency of it.
I get where you're coming from. I'm that way with many things I'd like to learn. There's something that feels just right about learning from someone who already has the skills.

On the other hand, Rocksmith really is far more than guitar hero. It's instrument-learning gamified, with a somewhat quasi-human guide who's always talking you through what's going on, what you're learning, how to tune, etc. You get to tackle learning songs at your own pace, and there are quite a number of silly little games that--for me, having first picked up a guitar and messing with them off an on since I was 17--have really helped cement actual chords in my head ... without overloading me with theory and all that. I tend to make natural connections with things as I learn them, and Rocksmith has been a pretty fun way to engage with guitar & bass.

Anyway, the fact that it's all in a game form certainly can be an understandable turn-off. But it doesn't always feel like a game. It strikes a pretty good balance. Could be just a fun thing to do in between sessions with a human. :)
Oh that's an interesting question. When I speak a different languages I switch to thinking in that language (this goes for human and computer languages). If I talk with a Russian friend, I think in Russian. When use a functional programming language I switch to thinking in functional concepts (maps, folds, list comprehension, closures). When in an OO language think about composition and so on.

So when they write that stuff I imagine for an hour they switch to "CEO mode" and think in those concepts, write things down. Then they become themselves [+].

Also the best propaganda is propaganda that is internalized, people often brainwash themselves, because it makes things easier and is much more effective than pretending to speak one thing but think another.

[+] One can argue there is no such thing as "oneself" and we are all just a sequences of such personas or roles we play. But that's for a philosophical aside.
redis.
Coming from years of old school "Web + DB + memcached" redis has blown me away with what it can do from searchable lists for typeaheads to pub/sub.
Yep. It's bad. The A to JFK is also a poor experience.
Crossing my fingers for you :)
I think it's actually the opposite of "regulatory capture." It's not about the incumbent getting special treatment, but making sure a new entrant doesn't get special treatment.
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This is the perfect minimalist introduction to music theory. A similarly good explanation is in Daniel Levitin's "This is Your Brain on Music". It's first few chapters explain music theory to beginners in a really elegant way.

I previously thought music was composed without any rules.
I can't tell if you're trolling or not.
The point of Google's Access businesses is that they win either way. If they go in and compete successfully, they get all the customers and make a profit. If they go in and Comcast et al raise their speeds to match, they've made the Internet faster and they profit off of increased search revenue and more YouTube playthroughs.

The only way they can lose is if they're forbidden from entering the market at all, which unfortunately is what happened with Fiber. They're still betting big on the space with Loon, Fi, and Webpass, though.
> Our "starve the beast" approach to funding public agencies, also inspired by our hysterical attitude about government corruption, comes into play, too.

There's a vicious cycle here:

bureacratic rules -> government inefficiency -> perception of government ineptness and corruption -> more bureaucratic rules

Back in the day, we had corruption, but that didn't stop us from getting things done. If you look at New York or Chicago during the early 20th of the century, they were dominated by machine politics like Tammany Hall that openly traded votes for party jobs. But they also built most of the modern infrastructure that we take for granted today.
I don't see why I can't replace "K8" with "Mesos" everywhere in this article.
Thanks to, among other organizations, the US Department of "Defense" and its 27,000+ "public relations" employees, even a comment section might be bought and paid for. It's known from the HBGary hacks that the DOD contracts the development of astroturfing software, or in their own language "persona management software". Ask Barrett Brown how kindly the USG took to that hack! It's the kind of thing you might find yourself on their "disposition matrix" for revealing!
Craig's job-shopping. I suspect he's more concerned about his personal stock price than Alphabet's.
You can configure caps lock pressed alone to act as escape, but when pressed in combination with other key to work as control. Very useful for both vi and emacs users.
I assumed that too, but it doesn't appear to be prohibited.[1] Indeed, I tried 8BSD755 and 9BSD755 which were accepted. (The current sequential plates start with 7.)

[1] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/wasapp/ipp2/initPers.do
While the name that you propose might be technically correct I would recommend sticking to the "from first principles" kind of name. This introduction was created for beginners (like me), and the name was attractive and was what I expected. Maybe a footnote with this information could be useful.
The Great Recession happened 8 years ago and they're just now discussing changes to protect workers?
>I can't stand the proliferation of proof-of-work cryptocurrencies in a world where people don't have to pay for the externalities of the energy they use.

Not a fare comparison; all of visa/mc's servers have externalities, all of the money trucks driving around physically collecting cash have carbon externalities, building ATMs and printing plastic credit cards have carbon externalities, building banks and running them have carbon externalities.

You have to compare the relative carbon impact. Cryptocurrency miners obviate all of those things.
We won't be holding it. It will be in our pocket for many interactions.

We'll have mini versions of one or two wireless earbuds/mic connected directly to the assistant.
Since it is paywalled, you want to share a few of the key points that didn't show up in the other stories?
Reading your response as well as others' really illustrates to me how depressingly difficult this task is. I honestly have to give Google a lot of credit for Fiber, even if it ends up being a failure, in fact I now have a bit more respect even for the big telcos, its pretty amazing that such a convoluted system functions at all.

I tend to be somewhat skeptical of large government programs, although not fanatically so, and even to me this situation seems like it could be much better handled if all, or much of the infrastructure, at least in terms of things like utility poles, would be municipal owned and then leased out to service providers. I wouldn't necessarily want the government running the actual service but if they owned the physical infrastructure and leased it out I feel like we might actually have much more private competition.

Does anyone know how utility pole ownership by telcos or power companies came about in the US? It seems like some are municipal owned while others are entirely privately owned.

Also, when people talk about municipal fiber in the US are they mostly talking about municipalities owning both the infrastructure as well as being the ISP? Are there examples of private/public partnerships were the gov owns the infrastructure but the service is provided by private industry?

Regarding your last point about Google getting preferential treatment, I am not at all disputing this, but I believe even Google had to provide fiber to certain municipal or civic organizations. I could be misremembering that though.

Edit: Apologies if some of my questions are unduly broad in scope.
"Advancing our amazing bet" = "Pausing our struggling bet"
There's a subreddit of people who think Wikipedia operates with large-scale bias by the administration. https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiInAction/
> It's very fashionable to suggest that social media is polarising

Well, the media us polarising as well only in more subtile ways -- for example by throwing paranoid pro-Trump comments in an article about Wikipedia.

> we can take some comfort that, for example, war between two German provinces, or a North American civil war, are remote possibilities compared with 150 years ago.

What about the Yugoslavian wars? Or wars orchestrated by the US in the Middle East. If it's peaceful in your zip code it doesn't mean there's peace in Israel for instance, a country that has been in a perpetual state of war since it came to be.
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NYC is missing a lot of connecting lines for instance in Brooklyn. Most of them run in parallel, and something like circular or orthogonal connecting lines could be have been really useful.
The current Magic Keyboard has excellent tactile feedback. Key travel is short, but not too short, and feedback is clear and crisp. The tiny arrow keys bother me a bit, because I use arrow keys a lot. Overall, I find it to be much better than the 2015 MBP with it's “butterfly” mechanism.
How does this compare with New Relic? And Datadog?
> [The author] like[s] to describe Kubernetes as "A special kind of operating system for the cloud — One which allows developers to treat an arbitrary number of machines/hosts as if they were a single, very powerful machine."

I don't agree with this comparison. Apps still have to be designed to run in a distributed environment.

I'd describe it more like a flexible, self-contained PaaS.
As far as I know, only the US describe economically liberal ideas as conservative. My theory is that they bundled moral and economic ideas (Republicans are conservative in moral ideas, but economically liberal).
I can second this to some degree from a fairly nice new construction neighborhood (1.2-1.6M $ homes, all homes cat-5e wired) in San Diego (I know that's considered lower middle class in the Bay Area) that has Cox Gigablast service available (1 Gbps up/down).

Personally, I was super excited to have the service, was literally like the first to sign up, immediately made use of it with five webcams pushing 1080p to the cloud, running dokku for my company projects staging/qa environments, multiple 4k TVs, etc.

However, I was shocked that so many of my neighbors reactions were like "meh." And the neighborhood consists of mostly tech, doctors, small biz owners or some combo thereof...and everyone knows everything going on (whole neighborhood on FB groups together), so it certainly wasn't a market education thing.

Most were simply like, "I don't need that much bandwidth," and were perfectly content with getting a lower tier package at 10-30% of the bandwidth for half the cost.

I think it's going to take a bit more time before 4k and IoT drive the demand...that much bandwidth still does not have the "killer app" for the typical consumer apparently.
> You're still pushing a false equivalence. There are to a first approximation no non-hardcore MRAs. Feminism, on the other hand, is entirely mainstream.

I think you're mistaking your experienced distribution for the true distribution. Like, I'm very willing to believe that of the MRAs you're aware of, they are all hardcore -- it's a demonized subculture, you'd have to be a zealot or have fuck-you money to come out supporting it.

If instead of defining MRAs as "people posting crazy things to (insert website here)" you simply call an MRA someone who's primary political activity is toward fixing issues MRAs discuss, you'll be able to find a large number non-hardcore MRAs with a couple of google searches. Heck, I think most people working professionally with prostate cancer would qualify. The guy in this thread who mentioned lurking on MRA forums for interesting ideas absolutely qualifies (or rather, he didn't sound hardcore to me on first read).

Similarly if you go looking for the equivalent of (insert MRA website here) for feminists, you will also succeed in that endeavor. Your comment re: hardcore Roman Catholics & Branch Davidians makes me think perhaps you haven't gone looking for these sorts of sites.

Which is to say, yet again, that I do not believe the equivalence is false. I'd even go so far as to say that I expect the rates of hardcore ideologues in each group to roughly correlate with the rates of paranoid delusion in men and women respectively.
Macs are already dead to me. It's become impossible to use them without some new nag notification every time I want to run new software or even just do anything without massaging itunes/icloud/siri continuously.

This is just another nail in the coffin. Adios OSX, hello well-made ubuntu ready macbook clones.
Huh? What part of his post is trolling?
This seems to explicitly not include workers who are privvy to trade secrets based on a quick skim, so I guess all of us tech workers wouldn't have anything changed sadly.
but maybe they simply have too many employees in the first place?
Note that this is being proposed as something states should do. Federal legislation is not being proposed. Worst case would be Federal legislation which was weak and pre-empted state legislation, weakening California's ban.

California employment law prohibits non-compete agreements for employees, and has since 1872. California also prohibits any employee agreement which claims employer ownership of intellectual property developed on the employee's own time.[1] This is one reason Silicon Valley is so successful.

[1] http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=lab&gr...
Why can't congress do something about this? Non-competes are clearly terrible for workers, and should at the least be illegal without a severance agreement. If a company wants to keep me from working they should pay for the privilege. Workers also need to start refusing to sign egregiously bad non-compete agreements.
I remember I started out using `.jsx`, but switch to `.js` solely because I could use `require()` without specifying the extension, WITHOUT modifying the module resolution algorithm.
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I'd suspect in the case of anesthesia it's just a matter of having easy repeat access to opiates.
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Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait ... wait.

Where. Where is the escape key.

Where is the escape key ?
>Any technological advancements that take us further away from the Mysterious Unity, the Mother of All, will necessarily bind us in webs of illusion and ultimately lead to disunity and strife.

i find that blaming of technology is kind of like cheating, kind of easy scapegoating. Emergence of eukaryotes was a great bio-hack by the life back then and that bio-hack directly led to separate organisms as we exist now thus to disunity and strife. I guess we should instead have stayed as simple molecules happily floating in the primordinary soup, in full nirvana and mysterious unity.
^ My thoughts exactly.

> The Obama administration on Tuesday also urged states to ban non-compete agreements that are not proposed before a job offer or promotion is accepted and said employers should not be able to enforce the agreements when workers are laid off.

It's unclear to me if the empathized part was meant to be a general statement, so that could affect tech workers.
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Why be in a soccer team if you can just buy a ball and kick around as much as you can? ;) Again, there's more to it than reading the books. Some religions don't even have books, in fact. People had religions way before they had books. And if you think there one answer to the question "why belong to a religion" you still miss the point by a wide margin :)
Ugh, if you want to travel, then travel, but glorifying being a rich tourist in a poor country like it's some great calling that will cleanse your soul is obnoxious to me. I've traveled. I hate traveling. If I get laid off I'm going to read some books and practice painting.
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OpenSSH is not OpenSSL. OpenBSD had nothing to do with the trainwreck that is OpenSSL.
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These two points are awesome. Every state could use that. Both are not prohibited in Ohio.
Isn't that still software controlled? So, let's say a malware is able to gain privileged access to my Windows machine and can install anything, would he be able to override this default behavior of 'turning off the mic when something is plugged in', especially when the external voices are more audible than something coming from the 'plugged in' dummy audio-in cable?
Tomorrow is the day when I run to store.apple.com and buy the maxed out 11" macbook air - even though my current 11" macbook air works perfectly.

I need a decent laptop to do my work. A laptop without a physical escape key is not a decent laptop. Therefore, I will stockpile a second one so as to delay by 3-4 years the need to "switch".
Google Curbs Expansion of Fiber Optic Network, Cutting Jobs
IANAL but my understanding is that non-competes are essentially unenforceable in Texas.
NAND flash memory is scaling vertically at the moment, but not exponentially, and not for long. Within one or two doublings of the current layer count we'll be at the limit of what can be achieved without making further sacrifices of horizontal density, or going back to the drawing board on how 3D NAND is done. This is because 3D NAND is not manufactured like 2D NAND layers stacked one at a time. The features that run through the whole stack are hitting aspect ratios in excess of 50:1, and that can't be stretched too much further.
It is so they can learn something from it and pass it on continually.
I was given a piece of advice very early on in my career that I've always been grateful for, which is fundamentally the same as this. IF and FOR are both code smells.

One case of this is just simplifying loops with some functional goodness

var listOfGoodFoos = new List<Foo>();
for(var i = 0; i< listOfAllFoos.Count; i++)
{
if(listOfAllFoos[i].IsGood)
listOfGoodFoos.Add(listOfAllFoos[i]);
}
return listOfGoodFoos;

VS

return listOfAllFoos.Where(x => x.IsGood);

But perhaps a more interesting point is it can also be a a sign of DRY gone wrong - two things that aren't actual repeats of each other, but just similar code, are smushed together with lots of IFs hang around to make it actually work.

A connected piece of advice was "it is easier to push things together than pull them apart" so err on the side of assuming two bits of code are not the same, knowing you can refactor them together later (probably only a few hours later) if it turns out they are in fact pretty similar.
> Devoutness comes in many forms.

Oh, of course. I am not saying there's only one way to do it. On the contrary, that's exactly what I'm saying is wrong to think :)
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If the regulations only serve to protect incumbents by raising the barriers to entry, ignoring whether this is the case here, rather than the public interest, isn't it still valid to argue that this is regulatory capture? I'm genuinely curious here and not trying to be obnoxiously argumentative.
What alien language is this written in? I can't make sense of this soul sucking prose.