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I think all 3 you mentioned are spending not insignificant resources in other programing languages.

IBM sees future in Swift LOB apps and Go on blockchain related efforts. Also with open sourcing of their own J9 components they would be even less inclined to participate in OpenJDK fork or some such

Redhat sees Ceylon on apps side and with all this containerization thing going on, may be quite a bit of Go.

Google of course is betting big on Dart on apps side and Go on infra side.

For Banks I do not see any issue at all to either pay Oracle or Azul to get commercially supported JDK. Their main unique requirements are either high-perf GC(Azul) or high perf collections which they anyway write for themselves.
The number of devices with embedded software is growing all the time.

These devices are 99% of the time using C.
...therefore the number of C projects is growing, not shrinking.
The edit to the site was due to the whole thing being Wordpress. I know that Wordpress is decently flexible, "good enough" or even comfortable for many users, even technical ones, my thought is why not have the site be statically hosted instead? Or at least the primary informational pages.
Right. They will see that it is much more expensive than the tiny fund they have prepared for it. Germany, with way less nuclear power plants, has more money in its decommissioning fund than France.

Generally: The political system in France makes it impossible to demand market prices for electricity. It's all centralized and monopolistic. EDF is the large state owned electricity producer. It has around 80% market share.

Imagine now a steep electricity price rise. This would be highly unpopular and the french president would not be re-elected.
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Op-Ed from 2011: In defense of plastic bags
Why would you equate 'the primary email address' with your primary email address rather than the one FB thinks of as the primary? You're like a guy who sees a sign saying 'beware of pickpockets' and boasts about how he's smarter than that because he keeps his money in his shoe.
People complain when they do. People complain when they don't.

SSL and this particular application would be innovative?

They just doubled down on wireless accessories with their latest gadget and everyone bitched. They're experimenting with adaptive UI's on laptops (Touchbar) and everyone bitched.

AFAIK, they haven't backed off the standing up to the FBI and customer privacy?

People have had their heads in the dirt when it comes to Apple's dark side. Xcode was laughed at for years. Their online security was a joke until celebrity pictures got leaked. Outside the OS, much of the software has been considered some combination of half-baked, bloated, or like a toy (iTunes+Music apps in particular).

What was innovative about stuff like Photo Booth?

Having dealt with them from a corporate customer perspective, they are worse than Google for not following up, being opaque, having snail mail processes for simple things like refunding $100 in software. Stand around waiting at an Apple store for an hour even with an appointment.

Really getting tired of these Johnny Come Lately gripe trains. Complain about them in the last 6-7 years, you're a hater. Now that hating Apple is trendy, everyone hop on board!
People are free to fork open source projects. tarruda tried to merge the async job system before forking vim. Bram has the right to deny the patches, but the most successful projects are the ones that attract good contributors and don't depend on the output of a single coder. It's easy to say "just make vim better" without really trying to understand Vim's C codebase.

vim's source code is really hard to test. Refactoring is needed to make code testable. That's true for every project that doesn't have tests yet. Another thing that makes it really hard to contribute to vim is that it supports operating systems that don't even exist anymore. I really don't feel like spinning a VM to make sure my changes don't break it on MS-DOS. I would rather send a PR that removes MS-DOS support than support that.

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/635/files
There is potentially giant market for unskilled labour. From an economic perspective it makes no sense to have an engineer clean his own toilet, wash his own windows or cook her own dinner.

That does require us to overhaul the tax system so that income isn't taxed twice when it is paid directly from one person to another.
tell her it will make her thinner. It's on page 57 of the manual.
Thanks for this great question! As the Founder of COdeanywhere I am also really keen on hearing the answers. Also feel free to ask me anything you guys like.

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No, that's already covered by 0000, nobody drinks that one. Number the bottles 0 to 15 and it's clearer.
Amen. On top of that, articles like this just like slag on Apple because it gets clicks. I'm ok with bashing on Apple but not when it's for a completely arbitrary reason. The arguments are getting old on both sides.
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Wait, Linux did not have stack guard pages and r-x code pages until 4.9?
Musk hasn't discussed the exact details of his plan, but it seems like the unmanned missions in 2018, 2020, 2022, and possibly 2024 (if there's no manned mission that year) are meant to establish a rudimentary fuel production infrastructure and start producing fuel in anticipation of a manned mission.

NASA, I believe, is currently trying to solve the problem with more efficient engines for interplanetary travel. Ion drives seem to be the preferred method, but there is still some research going on in nuclear thermal rockets.
NuttX? http://www.nuttx.org
It would be completely impossible to build an autonomous vehicle without ML. The question is how you use it in a way that is reliable and fail safe.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13237674 and my corresponding reply, where you _should_ use array syntax for function arguments, but you need to do it using the `static` index syntax.
Agreed, let's not infantilize the people who can function as adults just to coddle those who can't!

I moved out of my parents house at age 17. Although they are good parents, responsible people, and I love them, I was miserable and suicidal when I lived with them. I wasn't able to learn how to be happy and social until I moved out on my own, to a city where there were more people like me, and gained some independence. I've never had any debt or trouble paying bills, I've voted in every election as well. I got all my binge drinking out of my system when I was 19. If I had been forced to remain under my parents control until age 25 (just 2 years ago!) I would have been miserable, resentful and angry about it. It would definitely have destroyed my relationship with my parents.
You can't possibly get enough training data for this.
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Write an article a few years ago... we're all just children pretending to be adults. http://www.confessionsoftheprofessions.com/children-pretendi...
I/O isn't pure code.
"The top 15 economies in the world are 75% of the world economy. Most are in the West. The growth of the other 25% is not going to help much if these 15 combined do not grow more than the efficiency gains from automation."

But they are not most of the population.

We're talking about employment here.

5 billion people 'lives improving dramatically' vs. 2 billion people 'lives improving slowly' is a good equation.

That those 2 billion are 'already wealthy' and a small uptick in their wealth increases the global GDP a little bit more is and odd way of looking at it.

By that measure, we should be focusing on Gates and Zuckerbergs wealth more than anything else!

The 'global GDP' is not the point here.
They already have a system that people game all the time. It doesn't work.
Yeah, but how much work can you get out of a dog, even in a private office.
"What's our track record on reducing consumption and population?"

EU28 and Japanese electric consumption is falling. Population is falling in Japan and is in some EU countries (Germany) and likely will on average in the EU in the not too distant future.
If each persons money was able fund their own retirement then fixed contribution plans can only be better as there is no longer any pension fund to pay for. Also, I am implying that most pension plans are ponzi schemes. They depend on future people to make up for the short falls. A properly funded one would basically be just a managed fixed contribution plan. I don't know of any that are like that. I'd be curious to read about any that are.
Exactly. And with my past it is much better to stick to the right side and not venture into grey areas. Prison is not fun, so would really like to avoid it more in the future.
I agree. If it's between two companies that pay "competitive rates," and one company wants me to interview for an hour and one company wants me to interview for a day, I'm not going to waste a day.

If you were paying 2x rates or real equity, ya I'd slog through a day long interview, but I bet you aren't.

What does your company have to offer that would compel me to spend 8 hours interviewing that another company doesn't?
> Comcast paving the future of the AI?

I think the core point is that corporations are fairly general-purpose machines, designed to do things too "big" for individual people. (But smaller and easier to analyze than "civilization.")

Their hardware stack is different, but lessons about their computational structure and design pitfalls may be applicable.
Declarative Charting Framework for Angular2 and Beyond
NixOS is missing some things for me personally, such as multilib support (I play a game that's only available using 32-bit libraries). Unfortunately I didn't read the documentation and arrived at a situation where I couldn't install my game. I ended up re-installing Debian.

It sounds trivial, but unfortunately it was a deal-breaker for me. I really liked the centralised configuration and package management offered by NixOS.
What if I am working, but not at a place like that? I know what you mean, but that's a very large and inaccurate assumption you're making there.

Stating the obvious, and implementing it, are two very different things.

If it were so easy to model and implement human behaviour and thought process, we'd already have strong AI. As we don't, perhaps it isn't quite so simple, regardless of how obvious it might seem?

The point I was trying to make is that when you're trying to model that sort of thing, it very quickly goes from "Seems easy enough." to "Great time to start a new career!"

The complexity of these systems ramps up exponentially.
Since this seems like a question that many founders go through while building their business, I compiled a list of best links (that i could find) for understanding the aspects of finding a technical cofounder.

Hope it helps the community! Do share any other interesting links that you feel might be added to the list.
Turkish authorities seeking Apple's help to unlock iPhone 4s found on assassin
I don't have any such issue.

What I've been doing is just writing in ES6 and testing on Chrome, then after its towards V 1.0 I'll add webpack to the staging branch.

Very little work to switch from a bunch of script tags to a bundle towards the end of active development, much faster than bundling every single time I change the code a little bit.

That is, of course, unless I have to compile typescript, then I'll just target ES5 anyways.
If each state is willing to deal w their own waste, go for it, but stop shipping it to other states!
My code runs on Node >6.9.1 so it's really a no-brainer. The synthax is clearly superior.
Posted this because it brought up an interesting math question. It alleges "To ensure that they have lower global warming potential than conventional HDPE plastic bags" the following re-usable bags need to be reused x number of times:

-Paper bags: 3 times
-LDPE (low density poly ethelyene) bags: 4 times
-Non-woven PP (poly proplyene) bags: 11 times
-Cotton bags: 131 times

The op-ed says that number has to be multiplied for every time a plastic bag is re-used for say, picking up dog crap, or as a bathroom trash bag.

Thoughts?
Silicon Valley's prosperity paradox: 76000 millionaires can't fix local poverty
Or you can charge extra to support those users - chances are good that they will either pay or even better, force them to have the conversation about upgrading their systems & do so.
You mean the '2 day' Prime shipping that actually takes a week? I am on the cusp of canceling prime once I am caught up on their shows.
Primarily because Red Hat traditionally cross-compiles anything for Windows within their existing Koji build system, and Gradle is not in the RHEL or Fedora repositories because it's such a pain in the ass to bootstrap (you can often build Gradle 1.X with 1.X - 1, but not 1.X itself which makes trying to maintain the package a challenge in your own sanity).

If OpenJFX switched to Maven or Gradle, Inc. made their product less janky to work with it could easily be included in the OpenJDK packages - you can still just build it yourself and toss the .jar in the OpenJDK directory and it will work, at least.
I labeled it as seeming such because I was hoping you'd elaborate, rather than baldly assert what are radical positions.

Before I answer your question, could you define what you mean by successful? I know that sounds facetious, but I mean it seriously -- most people mean, say, Walmart when I would consider a profitable local grocer to be successful, even without growth.

Examples of not-profit driven corporations would be any of the not-for-profit entities, for starters. Then you can get in to social purpose corps, c-corps where the shareholders focus on structural stability and long-term value preservation, etc. It seems that you're limiting your idea of corporations to being large, traded on Wall St corporations -- which I agree are problematic. Where I think we disagree is on the solution: I prefer smaller, localized corporations while you want to abolish them entirely (which I think inflicts a great deal of collateral damage, taking the idea to a net negative).

Limited-liability is purely the notion that assets not given to or gained from the corporation aren't subject to covering its debts just because you own part of the corporation. It has nothing to do with shielding executives from fraud or criminal prosecution, nor shielding the corporation's assets from unlimited liability.

The reasom we didn't put bankers in jail (like we should have) is that they didnt want to allege multi-thousand person conspiracies and RICO act the banks. That's because the political will isn't there, and not because the bankers were shielded from liability. I think we should use RICO against a lot of corporate malfeasance -- the law is literally designed to go after the leaders of large criminal organizations and seize related assets.

I disagree, very sharply, that the notion of limited liability means policing has no teeth. We're merely too light in seizing corporate assets in repinse to damages (eg, fines are too small) and we're too reluctant to prosecute crimes from business executives. But neither of these has to do with limited liability.

I would also point out that in my experience, limited liability helps a TON of small businesses, who would shut down if the owner's entire assets were required to be at risk because of employees. Myself included: I wouldn't run a consultancy (of myself and one friend) if giving "bad" advice (in the determination of a questionably informed and often emotionally swayed jury) meant my entire life could be taken away. It's not worth the risk to specialize and trade services under that framework -- the risk from courtroom whims is too high. (I do support public directories of bonded professions, however. That gives the client a good idea of how much risk they should take on because of your decisions. The problem is this presents barriers to entry.)

Or is your position that I should only be allowed to offer my services under the aegis of a large firm which would prevent personal liability to me as an employee? That seems far worse and more classist than the present system, which offers the immunity to anyone with $200/year.
The Global War on Cash – Lessons from History
The Mac as an SUV
What kind of dependency resolution model would you prefer?
Thanks for your reply. You're giving me some food for thought.

To be clear, I'm poor, i.e. I've failed both at wealth creation and ownership so far. I'll think about how (much) wealth creation can 'distort' the geometric formula.
Wish I'd had a WWJCD (What Would Jim Comey Do?) AI before the election. That bloody letter cost me a lot of money.

Actually, it's my own fault, really -- anytime I have a bright idea for a discretionary trade, empirically I lose money.

EDIT> What makes this not a total non-sequiter is that James Comey worked at Bridgewater before become the FBI director.
The Failure of Public Schooling in One Chart
Wouldn't a collection of non-fiction essays be a better fit as it avoids a lot of the terrible writing in the novels?
If you want Pascal, you know where to find it. C is C.
Wow this truly sounds horrible, glad I have never had to go through something like this.
Apple accessories (cables, chargers) immediately come to mind for me. If I don't buy Anker or similar, I go straight to the Apple Store instead.
The Genius of Ramanujan
Exactly my thoughts. Replacement, if any, would be in form of older institutions/companies themselves get replaced by new generation e-commerce/financial services/banks etc.
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Another effect of rising income inequality: charitable giving has changed
My last AliExpress purchase (a pack of socks) took a week and a half to get to me in Canada. That's the same time an Amazon package takes if i don't pay for express shipping. Is a container ship really that fast?
async plugins? true color support? If you have a 32-bit color capable terminal you can use any colorscheme and get real RGB colors.
Since Neovim started up, Vim has seen the most commits in a year ever. Competition makes things improve.
Out of curiosity, why do you regret it?

FWIW I deleted mine under similar circumstances a couple years ago and don't miss it at all.
That's only the first file in the series. There are -B.pdf and -C.pdf files as well.

http://heller.brandeis.edu/executive-education/maine-2012/ma...

http://heller.brandeis.edu/executive-education/maine-2012/ma...

And here's a convenient link to all three, apparently an Apache feature I didn't know about: http://heller.brandeis.edu/executive-education/maine-2012/ma...

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> The document name you requested (/executive-education/maine-2012/may/pdfs/BHLP-102-READING-Carter-D.pdf) could not be found on this server. However, we found documents with names similar to the one you requested.

> Available documents:

> http://heller.brandeis.edu/executive-education/maine-2012/ma... (mistyped character)

> http://heller.brandeis.edu/executive-education/maine-2012/ma... (mistyped character)

> http://heller.brandeis.edu/executive-education/maine-2012/ma... (mistyped character)

> Apache Server at heller.brandeis.edu Port 80

Also, each document has the following item in the footer. I suspect that Brandeis.edu is violating their license agreement by hosting these, and also that the license agreement was designed by someone who really doesn't like the Internet or computers:

> Not to be reproduced, modified, stored, or transmitted without prior written permission of the copyright holder or agent.
Horrible, but I can sympathize.

Living alone now after 22 years of co-habiting. Tempted to encase myself in cameras and sensors and train a model of ... me.

What would Jaba do? If it's a dumb thing, then help him not do it...
I've also found audio books on Audible that they won't sell me because I live in the wrong region (US). I wanted to give them money for a product they carry, but they can't/won't accept it.
I think so, I'm pretty sure it's meant to be skeuomorphic :)

That being said, it freaked me out a little bit when I opened it!
No data to back it up with, but i think during the space race things were new enough that they often didn't know the chances.

But the time of the shuttle, NASA had moved from a prestigious project to pork barrel politics. End result was that managers and politicians were endlessly overruling the engineers.
>- Introductory Statistics with R by Dalgaard, Peter.

If one is new to R, would this text be a good intro to the language?
Just because you only have one authorized distributor does not in any way mean that stock being sold by another party is counterfeit. After your product is sold there's nothing preventing the buyer from reselling it themselves. Clearly a lot of products are most likely counterfeit but assuming they are with no proof is the same draconian logic used by all of those copyright protection firms that send out automated DMCA takedowns without a human ever reviewing the takedown first.
>who aren't interested in your company, just interested in a job

Every founder thinks their company is great. People who want jobs will happily reinforce that delusion to get the job. Some companies are better than others, but most of it is really boring stuff. I guarantee that everyone working at your company is there because they need a job.
Red Hat still has a lot of money invested in the JVM ecosystem, see all the JBoss products. Ceylon also targets the JVM, so even if not Java The Language we will see Red Hat continue to support Java The Platform for a long time.
I can make up jobs really fast. You should think about this.
Yeah, really.

"The pressure is such that those who stay sometimes are seen crying in the bathrooms, said five current and former staff members."

What's the upshot? Seven figure salaries or something?
An IDE for Go development! I had no idea they were even working on this. I'm going to download it right now.
I'm actively updating the visualization to make it more clear but my designer hasn't finished the assets yet (hopefully this month).

Basically it is a kind of puzzle but there is information you have that the others don't (and vice versa) and you all have a shared piece of information (the goal). The intention is for you to use the tools you use today (phone, Slack, text, etc. but not video/screen sharing) and communicate to solve the puzzle by collectively meeting the goal.

You can reach the tool at http://mmunicate.co (remember it is an MVP and work in progress)
You can message me directly with minimal research. :)
Sure, don't get me wrong, I think it's great that they put aside their differences and decided to work together again. I agree that focusing of one project is better.

Just wanted to put it more into context.
Feynman's actually observations are well worth reading for anyone who builds anything that may be vaguely considered engineering.

http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/docs/roger...

The key items for me were:

1) While they had no expectation of erosion, and the design did not call for the o-rings to erode, once they observed them eroding, they retroactively invented a "margin of error" based on what fraction the o-rings eroded. This was not based on an actual understood process, and is akin to saying "well, the bridge didn't break when we drove that truck over it, so it must be okay"

2) The engineers actually knew the risk (~1% chance of loss per launch, not specific to the o-rings, compared with two actual losses of the shuttle over ~130 missions). Management used entirely invented numbers for the risk which were not justified.
It's about more than just email addresses. This is the policy applied to all exploits for their entire platform.