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The interface is exactly the same as green threads. It is the implementation that is far more heavy than green threads.
That's a very good question. Amazon has gone through similar periods where the thesis to not invest has almost always been "they don't make any money" (something that would have cost you roughly a 25x gain since 2008). The hate seems to happen when a) there's a disjunction between market cap and a traditional reading of the balance sheet, b) that difference is due to some poorly understood measure of value that isn't directly captured in traditional financial metrics, c) people either don't see the strategy or are comparing apples to oranges but thinking they're comparing apples to apples.

Mostly it seems to be comparing Twitter's numbers with Facebook's, and assuming there is 100% overlap between the two companies in terms of niche. This could be an error of putting Twitter in the wrong category. Maybe they should be compared to media companies, not social networks? Maybe by those measures they are doing just fine?
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> it's not my responsibility to write an essay

> there are much better things I could do with my limited time

> letting it go would be chief among them in my playbook

2+2=5
Don't be blinded.

I think there are 2, because if you're a hacker or a designer or a home user, you quite likely have a Mac hooked up to the power and the 2nd screen :)
He obviously doesn't talk about it because it's super weird and vampire like, but Inc. did an interesting story about it last spring. I don't know that there's proof that he's doing it per se, but strong evidence in that direction. The evidence:

1. There's a pharma / plasma company in Monterey named Ambrosia. [1]

2. Ambrosia is running a study titled "Young Donor Plasma Transfusion and Age-Related Biomarkers" [2]

3. This study is patient funded, participants volunteered and pay $8k to recevie regular infusions of plasma from donors <25 years old.

4. Ambrosia didn't advertise or fundraise beyond seeking patients.

5. Ambrosia's CEO received a call from Jason Camm, an 'Angel Investor' at Thiel Capital who was interested in learning about what the company was doing.

6. Jason Camm isn't actually an investor, he's Peter Thiel's "Personal Health Director". His professional profile claims that he "Enables his clients to make radical breakthroughs in their immediate day-to-day health, cognitive functioning and physical performance -- all of which increase their prospects for Optimal Health and significant Lifespan Extension."

7. A year before the Inc. article, Thiel brought up parabiosis unprompted to a journalist but didn't think there was much of a business case for it, just a personal-health impact.

[1] - http://www.ambrosiatrial.com/

[2] - https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02803554?term=young+p...

All sourced from this Inc. article: http://www.inc.com/jeff-bercovici/peter-thiel-young-blood.ht...
The more rudimentary the better if you ask me. DI should be a standard library feature if you ask me.
Look at issues, engage with the developers and do smaller commits into Chromeium or Firefox and then apply for a job at Mozilla, Google, or Apple once you have a bit of a portfolio with the project. Firefox has the benefit of hiring remote so you don't need to be near a campus of one of the other big companies.

I work in Open Source and there are plenty of companies that build their business around a product and hire at market rates, normally they have a SaaS model of operation, but you'll have to set your sights a little lower than Chrome or Firefox. These companies include Ghost, Mongo, Elastic, Basho, Cockroach Labs, Automattic (Wordpress), Silverstripe, and countless more.

Another way to do it is to do postgraduate work at a university and get a grant, I know people who work on the Rust compiler in this capacity.
>It's not their job to be the technical coach of whatever they want to learn.

That's insane. Of course it is!

Until their skill in a subject surpasses yours, you're the only technical coach.
I didn't want to call it a mic port for just that reason: it also accepted lossless digital audio.
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How would significant, artificial, life extension change reasoning about inheritance? Life imprisonment? Assisted suicide?
I really don't understand how companies go about making these decisions sometimes. MagSafe seems like such a simple and elegant solution to me. I understand that USB-C is the future and that with much better battery life I'm sure people aren't leaving their MacBooks plugged in as much as they were in the past, negating some of it's usefulness. I can also accept that on something like the 12" MacBook it might not work well since those are so light weight and thinness/compactness seems to be a selling point, so I get why it was removed.

I would have loved to see Apple include MagSafe charging in addition to USB charging in these new rMBP's. I can't imagine it would have been much of an engineering feat to include both methods of charging and I doubt including a MagSafe charger would have added much cost. Personally I would be willing to lose a USB port in favor of keeping MagSafe.
Why wouldn't Apple make this their default offerings? Then they'd rather be applauded for keeping sanity over changes. This is getting typical of Apple.
Yes, because my phone charger is going to supply 90W.....
This is the fourth instalment of the series, the first question answered was actually:

"On a typical day, how conscious are you of being a female engineer and can you tell us about the ways in which you feel (or are made to feel) this way?"
> How would LE defend money being spent on something that they cannot use? I mean any judge will see it, no?

The common-sense interpretation is not always (and, much as I hate to say it, probably sometimes should not be) the interpretation arrived at by a judge.
There is a lot of assumption in this discussion like there is nothing between blind encouragement and stark criticism.

You want you son/friend to learn to code and his first project is copy-pasta from a book. Fantastic. Actually doing something is by far the number 1 challenge people never overcome.

Second project is also copy-pasta, that's only fantastic if you son/friend learn to be a typist. He and You both know he can do that. Does not mean you need to trash him, but showing the same enthusiasm as with the first project is counter productive, instead you should probably encourage him to tinker a bit with the program.

Challenge needs to grow. Sure you don't want to discourage a beginner showing how far he is from the mountain summit, but after climbing a step you need to show him the next one.
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He sounds bitter.
Somehow this conjures up the image of this Metalocalypse episode which I think sums it up perfectly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msGvEtmR970

"We can't die." And of course, don't call it Anti-Aging, please, call it "Hamburger time."

- Nathan Explosion

I hope I live long enough to eat my words or see this startup fail. Is that not the only thing to say at the investor meetings?
> That's funny, Afaik quarks still confuse physicists because they behave erratically and appear to be composed of other particles.

I'd really like a source for the composite quark claim.
These appear to be incomprehensible drivel.
As long as everyone else lives forever. Otherwise you're in for a very depressing ride.
The 645D is a really great camera, but in common with all medium format cameras has very basic autofocus - indeed most modern m4/3 cameras would beat it in that regard. High speed autofocus is not why you buy a medium format camera! I love medium format - I'm quite seriously eyeing up the new hasselblad X1D - but in my view they are strictly for static subjects only - landscapes and portraits (plus other things like product and architectural that are pretty specialist and outside my area of expertise).

I think in many ways we might actually be in agreement, albeit from slightly different perspectives. Two notes though:

1) Weight is actually an asset for stability, assuming your support system is sorted properly (by which I mean a rock-solid tripod with a proper wimberley head). The weight dampens vibrations, and the support system means that it's perfectly balanced, and can smoothly track moving objects, even at speed (which helps the autofocus a great deal). I don't know anyone who'd attempt to handhold a D5 with an 500mm f4 lens - that's just not going to work :)

2) DxO scores aren't something I get overly excited by. The important things about a shot are firstly the composition, which has nothing to do with the sensor at all, and after that comes making sure that the things that are supposed to be in focus are critically sharp, which comes down to focus (and good glass) - but that's difficult to assign a numerical score to so DxO doesn't do that. Instead they obsess over incredibly minor differences in colour rendition (which after it's been through the awful adobe raw converter won't matter anyway), performance at ISO levels way too high to actually use, and differences in dynamic range way above what any printer can reproduce. Not that useful, at least to me.

The availability is indeed a valid point, and is basically why I'd buy this product should it turn out to do what it says it'll do. Having said that, I carry a heavy camera bag around with me a lot of the time, and for me that's a tradeoff I'm happy to make for the flexibility of being able to take lots of different kinds of shots when I'm out. That's really what I meant by this whole thread - the product mentioned will be fantastic for capturing some landscapes when I don't have the option of a full camera bag, but it's never going to be able to replace the camera bag. Which is why it's (for me) a DSLR addition, not a replacement.

EDIT: Forgot to mention - I 100% agree about the image quality, and that's what I meant when I said lots of amazing shots are taken by people with very similar levels of equipment. The high end pro bodies tend not to give you that much more image quality (some of them give you more resolution, but again, that's something that gets overhyped, and isn't always needed) - they give you more controls, more durability, more buffer and so on, but with the right talent, technique (and glass) you can take a NatGeo worthy image on a $500 camera, no problem.
> I tend to see human-lifespan rationalizations as simple fatalism.

But you are very mortal and you are at most a few decades old. Your perspective would probably change drastically in your third century or millenia.

It makes conjecture like this as good as worthless because as mortals we do not have the ability to see it from another perspective.
I think I bother you about a new tracing book for Linux every time one of your articles is posted, so I'll give my obligatory: We want a new Brendan Gregg tracing book! ;)

Things have been moving so fast it's probably a good thing you didn't. It sounds like 4.9 will slow a lot of that down to a more manageable pace for writing a book, though.
Some of you may remember when many many years ago Microsoft showed off an interactive coffee table. The Surface. And now finally with Studio they have brought to reality a device that will be nirvana for designers, factory planners, circuit designers and anybody else who can actually use an interactive surface (pun intended). Im a product manager for enterprise software and Im bubbling with ideas that such an eminently usable large screen touch device brings to the market. After decades of heaping scorn on MS for the stuff i had to work with that hasnt improved (talking about you Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Visual Studio) they have post-Balmer become an entirely different company and Im pleased about that. Competition is good for innovation and Studio is truly innovative in engineering and the things it makes possible.
That seems even more meaningless though, to make the moment of your death random rather than mostly-predictable. I mean, it'd suck to live my life like I had a million years and then get hit by a bus tomorrow.
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For the last few hundred years women were effectively required to stay home and look after children. We've pretty much doubled the size of the workforce, but have to make some accommodations now that there isn't an assumed stay-at-home caregiver.
So you plan to end it all tonight? No?

I think, like everyone else, you expect a reasonable lifespan and would fight to achieve that. From there, its just a matter of how much is enough.
Where in the UK did you live?

The Scots and Irish can be brutally direct, while a Londoner will take great pains to avoid confrontation (in general).
This is just another run of the mill update to me. I'm a developer and sys admin in research computing and to me, everything they removed I never used anyways.
F-keys? Practically never use them, I much prefer keyboard shortcuts that allow me to stay closer to home row.
Lack of ports? I never use them on my MacBook anyways so I don't really care
Lack of power? All my heavy computing is done on remote compute clusters

Not to say that my needs are homogenous or anything. I guess my point is, from my perspective, this update isn't some catistrophic failure on apple's part, and it actually fits my needs as a professional quite well.
That being said, I will definitely not buy the new MBP. My late 2011 MBP still runs flawlessly and does everything I need on the go. All I'd really want out of a new laptop is for it to be as small and light as possible. For me, the point of a laptop is to be portable, not some do-it-all machine that can hold all of Wikipedia in RAM at once
I have short stubby fingers and to get my pinky to always rest on the CTRL key is really uncomfortable. :(

I've tried it.
I've found it helpful to share this with people: http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html
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I don't see a reason not to have it thus asking how frequently MBs get tripped is moot.
I do love the ability to use Win + arrow key to move windows around on Windows!
No coil whine on my one at least, but maybe I'm just lucky.

I doubt weight is much of a factor for most people considering one of these things, but yeah they are a bit heavy (they can take a lot of abuse, though).
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So democracy is only OK so long as you get the "right" result? And UK should be forced to remain in a union despite their will?
Lots of complaints about how stupid it is for people to require javascript to display text and images does help people realize how stupid that is. Using Javascript and requiring javascript is not the same thing.

People who want to apologize for whatever bad shit is in the world always like to complain about complainers, sheesh. What does that solve?
Do you prefer non-fiction to fiction? I find non-fiction way easier to read without a voice, and certain kinds of fiction require a voice (somewhat).
Have you seen people needlessly suffer in old age? Stooped backs, sore joints, limited abilities, dementia.

On the contrary, talking to my 82-year old professor who is sharper than most college kids but has constant health problems and I wish we could beat aging.

You're right, we shouldn't be afraid of different experiences, but that doesn't also mean that fighting aging is bad. We could apply your arguments to all medical care, but we don't because there's no point in needlessly suffering.
I started and work on the minikube project as part of my full time job. It's developed completely on GitHub, and I manage two other engineers working on it full-time.

github.com/kubernetes/minikube
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Speaking of which, I recall reading somewhere that Apple owns a patent on MagSafe like connectors for laptops/small electronics, is this still the case? Does MS have some kind of licensing deal with Apple for their magnetic connector or did they get around this patent somehow?
> Your perspective would probably change drastically in your third century or millenia.

I'd rather have that opportunity than not.
Could you edit the posts so its easier to navigate the series? Currently one has to search HN to find posts other than the first one.
1. I'm sure they are more rigorous than the education major in the US, which is pretty much a joke. I agree that the way we train teachers has to be revamped.

2. I never said that Asian students are less curious. From interacting with Chinese and South Korean classmates, they are just as intellectually curious as their American peers. I just don't think the East Asian model of education is very good at fostering individual engagement and understanding. It's heavily focused on rote memorization and is definitely "teach to the test". I would welcome a study on it with a good analysis. Don't really known how you would measure it though. South Korea also has the highest suicide rates in the developed world, and much of it is concentrated in those under 18. So there are plenty of reasons why we would not want to adopt it here.
DTrace is a Solaris (and BSD/OSX) tracing tool that never quite made it to Linux (There are some attempted ports, but none of them really caught on). BPF (and adding in frontends like BCC) give you the same sort of functionality in Linux.

BPF can take advantage of uprobes and instrument around them, but it interacts with them, and does not replace them
One of my favorite admittedly speculative evolutionary informatics papers agrees with you:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/513781/moores-law-and-the...
A teenager got hit and killed by a car today. Probably seemed pretty random to them. What's the difference?

Hell, if age couldn't kill you, then you could chose your death, which is less random than a heart attack or stroke.
I used the term "properties" as I thought it would be a more generic term. We are past the days where the internet is only used for static web pages. I wasn't trying to imply monetization via ads.

You paint a stark dichotomy between static websites and javascript powered "content honeypots". There are millions of web apps out there that are not the latter, and use javascript to provide real value.
"they don't reveal all the details of achieving good power consumption in their patents"

In general, that would mean the feature is not patented: the choice is usually between patent an invention (but it must be explicitly described), or keep it secret (but if anyone is able to copy it, they're allowed to do so).

Patents are essentially an award of a short-term monopoly, as recompense for publicly disclosing an invention. If the invention is not sufficiently explained, then it's merely a trade secret, and can be copied without challenge.
No way. I have a long memory. I'all resist as long as I can.
Does New Zealand actually exist?

https://www.facebook.com/DoesNewZealandExist/
I seem to recall a prior discussion where a dev working on HFT stuff said that speed is a huge factor, but so is the ability to rapidly change functionality. They settled on Java because it was fast enough (HFT would have to be IO bound, right?) while still being flexible enough to allow them to adapt to daily changes in requirements.
"how people here feel about the USB-C"

The idea of only needing one type of port is very appealing. No longer need to worry about ThunderBolt, DisplayPort, Mini DisplayPort, VGA, HDMI, USB, Firewire 400, Firewire 800, Ethernet. ("What? We don't have all of those any more!" I hear you say. Yup! Isn't it grand?)

I'm ambivalent about losing MagSafe, but that's it.

"if you want to use an SD card from your camera you must get an adapter"

I can see how the SD card port is useful. That said, I remember the days when I had a camera with CompactFlash. Never had a computer than had a built in reader for that, and it wasn't that bad.

As for adapters for other accessories, now all of the adapters will be X to USB2/TB3. The piles of adapters from this to that that I've collected over the years amazes me, in particular for displays and old FW drives. I'll be able to get rid of a lot of old adapters going forward.

A tweet I saw today made me smile:

"If someone isn’t raging about a hardware port, it’s not really a successful Apple event."

https://twitter.com/rands/status/791733073972908032

Edit to add: Yup. Gonna be buying adapters. Won't be the first time, but going forward it's looking like that's going to be much more sane going forward.
Sure thing. First, some details. I switched to the NUC three or four months ago as my main machine. Mine is the NUC6i5SYH model. I installed 32GB of RAM and filled both drive slots. Windows 10 is installed on one drive, Fedora 24 is installed on the other.

As long as you have no plans to play games, it's a wonderful machine for development. It's really fast for its small size, noticeably faster than the Macs I'd been using before. I spend most of my time with the NUC doing Ruby development in Fedora, with some Clojure and Node.js on the side. I've done some office type stuff with LibreOffice. I've dabbled in OpenSCAD while working on a 3D print. The NUC is more than enough power for all of that. I haven't played with Windows 10 too much, but it's also snappy when I need to boot into it.

It's a very quiet machine. On full blast, you might get a blowing sound similar to a stressed MBP. But usually in normal usage it's no more than a low hum; I can't even hear it unless I listen for it. You can throttle down the processors in the BIOS to make it nearly (totally?) silent if you like.

The most annoying thing about the NUC was installing the BIOS updates before getting started. The NUC6i5SYH had a lot of problems at launch that needed to be patched. Once I got beyond that, everything was smooth. The NUC is basically a laptop board shoved into a small box instead. If the things you want to do are possible on a laptop, they'll be possible on the NUC no problem.
I meant more specifically: "I know how hard it is to get this sort aof thing optimally done. I've been considering doing this sort of thing for a long time, but it's a massive amount of work"
programming languages and compilers.
Which is to say, I acknowledge how hard it is to do this right. So, it's a statement of understnading along with a clarification that I'm someone with the knowledge to do this if only I had time, which I cannot say about
You comment assumes the complainer is correct in their analysis of the alleged "bad thing". For the specific case at hand, you haven't provided much of an argument to support this position.
Pretty sure you didn't think this through since in the last few hundred years we absolutely accommodated kids at work. In coal mines and factories.

Pointing at historical norms is generally a poor way to argue for what's right.
this is more or less the practice used at gas stations that offer different prices for cash and credit (framed as a "cash discount"); also, not dissimilar to the debate over employer/insurer "wellness plans", wherein the employee is forced to choose between surrendering private information or paying premiums that are often 2-4x+ more than what those who participate in the plan pay.
"Make the easy things easy, and the hard things possible." - Larry Wall

Don't make the easy things hard. Make the usual case the default, without any action needed by the user. But it won't always be what the user wants, so give them the option.
I wasn't talking about intuitive. I'm saying that to follow the first-principles premise, certain things are needed.
It depends on what the option is. If there is no right answer, if it comes down to personal preference, and if not having it the "right way" will frustrate a user, then by all means, make it an option. On the other hand, if there is a right answer, if that answer depends on circumstances known to the product, and if getting that answer wrong will cause the package to misbehave somewhere down the line, then it shouldn't be an option.
Well, String Theory.