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This seems like you are talking your situation and trying to apply it to everyone else. This is exactly the kind of thing we must not do, because that's a lot of people to convince of deep-seated problems and a horrible thing to imply if we're wrong. I am not convinced even from your description that the causality is as you say.

Addictions are often associated with substances or activities that are pleasant. It is not at all surprising that people who are in pain want to engage with pleasant substances or activities. So it is, again, not surprising, that some of those people may get addicted.

Yet, many people don't. Many people successfully "self-medicate" with such substances in the worst of times and don't become hopelessly addicted to them, easily dropping them once the aggravating factor goes away, and sometimes the substance even helps. And then there are people on the other side, where their life is completely normal and can instantly go off the rails if they have even one beer. People for whom addiction isn't a solution for a problem, but the cause.
I think of smart watches as a product that is 2/3rds of a smartphone, targeted at people who don't want to take a smartphone out of their pocket, with an affinity towards people who are fashion conscious, for whom the form factor itself is a selling point.

It's a market, but not that big of one.
really good advise to wanna-be execs that don't _really_ have anything new to say on a subject, but want to be considered an expert. And then at the end, it kind sounds like the author is saying you MUST divulge at least 1 secret, 1 thing that supposed to be internal only but you will leak.
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At 25 everything seems new and exiciting, now in my mid 30's I'm starting to see new tech as just a new spin on old ideas. If you were familiar with smalltalk for instance, you probably wouldn't have found java or .net particularly exciting, you probably wouldn't have as hard a time picking it up either.
With major effort, ME has been disabled on Lenovo X230 (Ivy Bridge).
Pebble existed for a while, and it was basically what you ask for. There weren't really enough buyers.
Netsil is not open-source but it is free to try out.
I'm on the opposite end of this as I'm pushing 40. It's like speed chess vs chess over snail mail. I tend to see all the way to the end of a problem within moments of hearing about it, already formulating solutions to edge cases 10 steps ahead while others seem to ask almost quaint questions about the first step. They spin very quickly while I don't appear to be doing anything at all, yet I often go completely around a problem. It generally takes me longer to explain how I arrived at the solution than it does to just solve it. But I've been trying to be more communicative, to work in a more communal way so that others can participate and I can count on them.

Of course nobody believes me about any of this and I've long given up trying to explain. I just quietly go about my work. It's frustrating though because I have no real leverage, no way to demonstrate my experience other than to just keep plodding odd glacially. I've utterly failed in any kind of management role but at the same time am having a hard time letting go of being a "hands on" dev in the trenches. I just hope that the level playing field of the internet dissolves agism before I'm faced with its ramifications.

An added bonus of brain age is being able to remember people's names. I never used to be able to do that, and I never tried to learn. It just happened one day. I guess I care more about people now and it seems like the least I can do is remember their fricken name.
Is that the plot of Rogue One in an alternate universe? :P

Everybody who is not an autocrat themselves wanted to see Gaddafi and Al-Assad go, once it looked like it could happen... But the rebellion was initially homegrown, and that's the point. The countries were not stable to begin with.
Hint: if altitude were such a problem, why don't rockets go straight up to 80km or so, and only then thrust sideways?

Rockets clear the most dense portion of the atmosphere very quickly. Building up speed is what takes time (and fuel).

Of course, the exponential nature of the rocket equation means that you'd get to save a lot of fuel. You'd still have to lift a lot of rocket though. With a balloon so big that would put the ships from the original Independence Day movie to shame.

Maybe it would be worth it on Venus.
To my eye, Apple's advertising push for the Watch tried to sell it as a replacement for other primary mobile devices rather than as supplementary (you never see an iPhone in those ads).

One limiting factor that went ignored by a lot of people is that many basic tasks (calls, texts, browsing ) that can be done with one hand with a phone constrain both hands when operating the watch.
Very detailed and honest feedback.
Can t wait to see your next project : you have all qualities to succeed
Orbital ATK has been building and launching the Pegasus XL (https://www.orbitalatk.com/flight-systems/space-launch-vehic...) for a bit now. It is an extremely cheap platform that is launched from an airplane.

What's neat is the User Manual is available online: https://www.orbitalatk.com/flight-systems/space-launch-vehic... [pdf]
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IANAP, but I think the most widely accepted view on dark matter is that it is made of "dark" particles that cannot lose energy by radiation. In other words, it cannot condense and form dark stars or planets. When two lumps of dark matter collide they just pass through each other.

Sorry for ruining your dream. :/
Yea, I got similar advice during undergrad (back in the nineties, when dinosaurs roamed the earth): The web is a toy. It's not for Serious Developers™. Serious Developers™ do real time embedded systems, device drivers, systems programming, control systems, etc. Don't worry about HTML (which isn't a "real" language for Serious Developers™). Learn C and assembly, and microprocessors. Then Netscape happened and I found myself wondering if I bet on the wrong horse....

2 decades later I'm still not sure!
I don't think people care what you call it, but the parent's point was that they care whether there's opportunity for advancement (internal or external).
When you're dealing with LEO velocities, the difference between the speed of the aircraft they launched with (significantly <M1) and a drifting balloon is relatively negligible considering the benefit of start at the edge of the atmosphere inexpensively, I would think. Definitely a new technique that would have some hard problems, but not fundamentally infeasible, I would think.
Max is the internal name I use for my system. The actual name will be decided when I publish the program.

At the top of my description of SLIST, I acknowledge that I may not be the first to define a simple structure like that but I can say that I never got the idea from somewhere else. These lists can be used as an autobalanced binary tree for small lookups? Are these other structures pointer free with next to no overhead even on a 64 bit compiler? If they can do all that my humble SLIST can do then I will have invented a very good data structure and there isn't anyone using linked lists with pointers, right?

Most languages have made strings read only so they aren't very useful for manipulating large and small amounts of variable text. Actually, my VCHAR struct just uses my buffers which are used whenever memory is needed. My language is object oriented but even more it is collection oriented so most objects don't allocate space just for themselves. When using my buffer routines, no buffer can ever use data that doesn't belong to it or overflow it's allocated space.

I have many local and global memory managers and my buffer structure keeps track of use, size and origin. Memory that is alloced globally is always on cache line boundaries and so I don't put headers on allocated data. All chunks of memory are tracked and can't get lost so I count on less memory allocations than most other languages (collections remember)

Compared to any alternative I have found (unicode etc), ascii is quite efficient. When I get around to adding any unicode support, it will be UTF8 so none of the current code needs replaced or will run slower than now.
You cannot discriminate against older applicants. You are very much allowed to prefer them.
I'm being pedantic, but I downvoted you because you started with the obvious observation "Motl is really really rude" (yeah, he's a real piece of work, check out the rest of his blog for stuff much worse), and then wrote "I find this rudeness and pedantry in academia infuriating.", which isn't supported by the observation that that one guy is rude. (But the rest of your comment is fine.) Individual people can be really rude with or without it being a cultural problem. There's no need to bring academia up like that—that's a lot of people, decent people, and most of them are really quite nice people and good scientists.
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While I generally agree with your point, you also probably know what guns James Bond, Al Pacino in Scarface, Dirty Harry, and De Niro in Taxi Driver all shot.
Thanks for sharing. I didn't realize that Facebook required developer keys for the Gear VR.

I don't support Oculus because of the Facebook buyout, but I am a Carmack fanboy and I hope that he is pushing for GearVR / Oculus to make his methods for inside-out tracking publicly available.

Do you have Daydream HMD and if so, what is your experience with it?
If you can get a 100 real users then $2000 is way, way too cheap. If you are just going to shoot through 100 people with no real interest in the product and who are just signing up for monetary reward then you would have to pay me to use your service.

Basically what you are trying to offer is the holy grail of startups. If you have figured out how to get a 100 real engaged customers to any service on demand then you can get a thousand or a million. If you can do this can I please invest in your business because you are going to be a billion dollar company.
It is illegal to discriminate against a candidate on the basis of them being too old. It is not illegal to discriminate against a candidate for being too young.
What I really appreciate in a language, especially when I am starting out with it, is the Python's slogan "only one way to do it".
Estimates online suggest that GWB has an IQ of 120-125, making him smarter than the average college grad, perhaps slightly less intelligent than the average person with an advanced degree.

It's also worth noting that IQ is not a particularly good predictor of presidential success, and only a partial measure of intelligence.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Presidential_IQ_hoax#ci...

http://www.assessmentpsychology.com/
He's unbiased toward the employees, but he surely knows the company will be exposed to liability if one of their employees is found to have engaged in harassment, so the best outcome would be to say that no such harassment occurred.
I will say faking is also an art and don't forget he got his training from a president/father.

I see this happening in corporate environment all the time. They will speaks the right things, quickly pick on your analyses and run with it as their own, interrupt you midway just to make you feel little because they have power over you.

But when it comes to handing something impromptu they struggle. When they have to make a decision, they struggle. When it comes to execution, they usually fail horribly.

Sadly arrogant display of power is considered a sign of intelligence by some. I have seen a lot of such fakers so I don't believe in credentials until I see what they actually achieve.
I haven't done much 2D drawing recently. My intuition is that sending a batch of line/polygon/stipple/fill commands to a GPU would be more efficient than occupying a CPU and then using a bunch of memory bandwidth to transfer a bitmap. But on modern systems, software rendering to a bitmap in RAM is more efficient than sending a command to a GPU (which probably lacks dedicated 2D hardware)?
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I can't get my head around how this thing works. Apart from the direct GPS signal it's able to also receive the part of it that was reflected by the ocean? How does the reflected signal tell anything about the wind speed?

And btw what are star trackers used for? As a fallback for GPS?
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>Wayland solves real, systemic issues in windowing, most notably around security, that need to be solved. It also allows outsourcing of many of X's most unwieldy features to the clients (IPC, rendering, and networking). In many ways, Wayland is closer to the Unix philosophy of one program/one task than X while also being safer to use.

That's exactly my sentiment and I brought it up in the comment. The problem is designing these protocols without regard for how the thing you're replacing is being used. That's only going to result on a pile of hacks. It's just baffling how short-sighted some of the Wayland devs are when the project was born precisely because of these hacks accumulating in X.

> And, it's not like you need to drop X, just like you don't need to drop init. The beauty is that you can continue to use and maintain whichever you feel are the best tools.

Oh yes, because obviously everyone wants to maintain 10 different code paths so it's not like Red Hat is pushing their software with their influence over the ecosystem oh no no. But enjoy maintaining those shims, we sure as hell don't care about standards! Gotta move fast, break things and compatibility is for losers.

>I feel like the same things were said about systemd a few years ago and here we are, every major distribution uses it out of the box.

And it's just been dandy isn't it? We still don't have stable interfaces between its parts (yet they still have the gall to say that systemd isn't monolithic), good effin luck debugging it when it shits the bed... list is long, but pick your poison: http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Arguments_against_...

Negative points will be awarded on "works for me".

> And every windowing system and graphical toolkit supports Wayland, long before Wayland was a default. Though I'm not an expert in graphical compositing and rendering, I can't imagine this is by accident. Numerous projects must feel the technical advantages of Wayland outweigh the disadvantages of change.

The premise is great, what's not to love about it. The problem is execution. Because of Wayland's model, a lot of applications relying on X's nature are left out in the dirt. Standards are the way to solve this, and some work is being done about this, but the comment I replied on by coldtea simply shat on all this with a message akin to "Don't stop the momentum, you're a minority FUCK YOU we don't care about you get on board or get ran over". This is what I was criticizing.

We need standardization. Ideally we have a single solution that improves on the status quo and we call it a day; but where there's disagreement let's find our middle ground and standardize it. If you don't need 4 mice and 4 keyboards working simultaneously great! But what you find useless and nonsensical can be the greatest fun ever in a 4-player co-op session of Serious Sam 3 for groups of friends around the world; or just as well prove to be one of the most productive formats for groups of people working together in a local application.
53 and I learn all the time. I'm sorry but age has nothing to do with productivity or capability. Talent and hard work are still the primary components of a successful developer.

There is ageism and it's completely unfounded, but some recruiting leans towards younger workers for whatever reason.

I think this is similar to H1-B's getting jobs for lower wages. Companies tend to believe that adding X developers to problem Y will produce a better/quicker product. They believe this of younger workers at times as well.

They are always wrong. I'm pretty sure my 40 hours is significantly more productive than most 25 year old's 60 or even 80 hours.
Change takes time! This is a great example, as he has specific instances of evolving syntax to describe the same thing, semantically.

The big problem, of course, is that code hangs around. Can you evolve your syntax as people get used to it? Not only are you adding work to your parser, but people who use your language also have to deal with the multiple iterations of the syntax that linger in various codebases. This is one reason I detest dealing with Perl codebases.

Anyhow, as an exercise of evolving syntax while keeping the underlying semantics, I find Reason [1], a new syntactic layer over OCaml, particularly interesting.

[1] https://facebook.github.io/reason/
If you have to compare an apparently-consensual sexual encounter to an obviously-nonconsensual mugging, you should think of a different way of making your point.
honestly, that book has become like the standard now. i agree that it's completely nuts but here i am, reviewing it even after being in the industry for at least 3 years.
I wonder what the underlying assumption is here from Facebook. Is it the notion that

1) VR headsets will get comfortable

2) VR users will want to connect with friends

3) VR will get killer applications and FB wants to be a platform like it did with Games/Spam?

4) Returns will be realized before FB becomes insolvent?

All in all, facebook gets a low score for me because people are starting to realize the toxic effects of being "connected". More people I talk to, the more I see "off grid" peeps like me. Great platform for narcissist to maximize their attention as trolls are to Youtube comments and Reddit. Even people who are on FB are not the same as 8 years ago, sporadically checking. The upcoming demographic seems to be more geared towards Snapchat-esque mediums.

Secondly, I'm concerned by the volatile landscape of "social" apps. FB forked out so much money for it's past aquisitions such as Whatsapp, Instagram...okay I get it buy out the competition to avoid becoming MySpace... but Oculus Rift purchase was the most troubling one of all because it showed that FB is becoming increasingly anxious about it's future relevance by betting on extremely early poorly adopted tech with questionable prospects (imo VR will fail for the same reasons it did in 90s, people don't want to spend long time or spend doing things they can do on a normal computer). This anxiety is further fueled by Zuckerberg's race to China while failing to see that WeChat, Baidu, Snapchat, Uber all have one thing in common: Poor adoption by target demographic when strong incumbents dominate the market.

If I was a FB shareholder, I would be asking, how the heck are all these experiments which cost billions of dollars ever going to generate return before the low interest rate capital disappears with a strengthening dollar and looming protectionism? This VR resource page communicates and confirms my suspicions.

FB's VR resources is interesting of course as a fun dev toy, but seeing how Google spend so much money chasing after "Xperimental out there" ideas and still hasn't seen ROI, it's worrying to see a company that isn't printing money spend investors cash so carelessly.
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Is Android Wear OSS?
Tesla has recently been getting his due, but most people of a certain age remember having Edison drilled into their heads all through elementary, middle, and high school, with barely a mention of Tesla unless the teacher was really into history and science
The closest the industry came to what you're describing, unfortunately, was Pebble. They were cheap (IIRC the OG Pebble was around $99); while they didn't last _multiple_ weeks you could get 7-10 days out of a charge depending on model.

I use my Pebble Time Steel pretty much exactly how you're describing; to glance at the time, weather, and notifications, so I can keep my phone on silent in my pocket.

Apparently nobody except you and I want that, though :(
Numerical libraries in Python are not implemented in the language itself. In typical Python fashion, they're just calling C and FORTRAN libraries.
One big advantage the apple watch has over eg garmin is looks. For people who either dress professionally or value their appearance, the apple watch seems far better. This was a top concern for my partner when she wanted a fitness tracker.
I'm looking for the exact opposite. I don't need two devices to read my notifications. Make the watch a phone replacement or just don't bother me! I think the fitness enthusiasts are happy enough with a fitness band with basic/core fitness apps.
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That's a good way of articulating the issue.

There is something particularly sinister about your OS gathering your data. You can switch out any other software for an alternative but changing OS is a whole other ball game (and one only the technically minded would go through).

Back when Ubuntu brought in their Amazon spyware partnership I jumped ship for Linux Mint. Even turning this stuff off doesn't provide any peace of mind, the system for gathering your data is still in place and why should the user trust that turning the anti-feature off will be honored or that the switch won't be reset during an update.
So the 100(+) signups would be people who opted in to the service and answered the question why (by filling in their reason). So on the other side you'd have a list of leads including their individual motivation (instead of a random bunch of email addresses). I've been doing this for some time, it's not that hard actually.
I'd heard of lowRISC, didn't really realize that was their goal. That would be phenomenal.

Also, I have to ask: is your username a Quantum Thief reference?
What about ISLISP? Granted, there are much fewer implementations compared to CL.
Neither am I submitting comments for you to evaluate my motives. Nonetheless, it's happening.
You're not adding anything substantive because your reply to my comment introduces a completely distinct issues from what's discussed in my comment, and you do not appear to have a grasp of their relative effect size. You said "This feels like a band-aid fix when they should be amputating the arm." But the ill effect of the smog produced by a given plant in India is dramatically worse, and easier to fix, than the ill effects of the carbon.
Screen was freezing in Fedora.
In Ubuntu it was working but took ~25 seconds for screen to come on.
constant problems across several OS releases & versions.
It'd be worth your while to listen to the Sam Harris podcast with Eric Weinstein [1], who, on the theory that the propensity for religious belief is an evolutionary mistake that serves no useful purpose, makes the point (based in the research of his brother, Bret Weinstein, an evolutionary theorist who's spent two decades researching evolutionary tradeoffs [2]) that this trait is just so costly to human functioning that it would have been negatively selected out of the genome were it not to offer significant benefits in certain circumstances.

The same can be said for any other cognitive variances, including what we call ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Depression, Bipolar, etc.

And so we frequently see today, numerous people diagnosed with these conditions, experiencing severe challenges on the one hand but great benefits on the other - just consider the number of great artists and writers with ADHD or Bipolar, or inventors with ASDs.

So we don't need to theorise about whether or not these tendencies are sometimes beneficial, and whether they have been selected for in evolution; it's plain to see if you look around.

[1] https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/faith-in-reason

[2] http://reinvent.net/innovator/bret-weinstein/
Oh joys of socialism...
At the very least, reduce the bizarre, surrealistic damage amounts.