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The conclusion is exactly correct:

"The backlash against globalisation points to a glaring underlying weakness of management theory: its naivety about politics. Modern management orthodoxies were forged in the era from 1980 to 2008, when liberalism was in the ascendant and middle-of-the-road politicians were willing to sign up to global rules. But today’s world is very different. Productivity growth is dismal in the West, companies are fusing at a furious rate, entrepreneurialism is stuttering, populism is on the rise and the old rules of business are being torn up. "

It is worrisome how much people pay for books that teach things that are plainly wrong. They mention Thomas Friedman’s “The World is Flat” but there are a lot of others they could have listed. For the last 40 years there has been almost constant rhetoric from business writers about the way that business was becoming more and more competitive, and yet the numbers show that exactly the opposite was happening: new business creation has been in decline since the 1970s, and consolidation means that business has become less and less competitive for the last 40 years. Monopolies have become more common. Patent laws and copyrights have been extended to make monopoly easier. It is true that if you are trying to start a new business, the situation has become increasingly bleak since the 1970s, so from the point of view of someone just starting out, things have become harder, and perhaps some people mean that when they say "things are more competitive". But that isn't the competition of one business against another, that's the competition of one worker against another. We should be clear about our terminology.
Encrypted video playback is/was a big reason as well. The browser wars for HTML5 EME for playback of encrypted content is still crazy, but only very recently been slightly manageable.

Safari - only FairPlay encryption through HLS, but only modern versions of Safari; Chrome - Widevine Dash, IE - Playready Dash (and smooth), but only recent versions, Firefox only after version 52 do they finally support Widevine Dash, otherwise no EME prior to that.
If all your customers are enterprise and running from within that environment only, would they not be able to enforce a group policy where flash can only run for specific domain names?
Actually that was just plain JS and they moved to TypeScript later on in its life.

It would be nice if Adobe ported the Flash Player and/or AIR to asm.js or WebAssembly.
Doesn't PostgreSQL not support joins between dbs. That's a pretty huge deal breaker.
Yes but you are ignoring inertia. Amazon is so ingrained into the shopping habits of people that it will take years before it impacts Amazon in any meaningful way.

I think right set of regulations is the answer. Companies should not be allowed to optimize people to such an extent.
Another problem they might face: As an adult, I've never used shampoo. I can see that shampoo/conditioner might provide interesting outcomes for people with long hair carefully maintained for aesthetic reasons. For me though, its like fabric softener, a product category from which I will never purchase.
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>or the curse of having a major figure accelerate the demise of a product that should have evolved into an open standard.

Well, they always had the option. It's not like they were working on open-sourcing it. It's an Open standard like Windows API EXEs are, you get half-support from Wine, but no guarantees.
This is so funny. BTW, even now, browser still love your JavaScript project in few large files. And before HTTP2 widely used, I think it's still the way to go.
Seriously. Real increases in lifespan (I'm thinking about Louis Gridley Wu celebrating his 200 birthday) would have to involve (at least occassionally) revitalizing stem cells to renew the body at rates that would seem normal in a very young person. This would have to include nerve cells. Presumably, this would lead to a reversal of specialization. That implies memory loss ("memory" in all neurological senses: how to write software, but also how to speak English, how to control defecation, how to control urination. Really renewing one's central nervous system would rewind a person back to the unspecialized nervous system they were born with.)
Ben and Jerry's Half Baked? (vanilla and chocolate ice cream with chunks of brownie and cookie dough)

Soft serve is still a type of ice cream, at any rate, and I sell a lot more twists than I do chocolate cones at my fast food restaurant. Black and white shakes are also popular. I'm a huge sucker for vanilla soft serve with chocolate syrup drizzled on top. Lots of vanilla+chocolate+ice cream possibilities!

(If you insist, the argument: butterfat is measured by volume and soft serve by default has less because it's aerated a lot more than what you consider to be ice cream. we also have low-fat ice cream but it's still called ice cream. and what do you call gelato if you think butterfat is what defines "ice cream"?)
It would be hilarious if that baloney about "releasing toxins" was true for once.
If you left your car parked at a gas station pump you'd probably be towed. I don't see how this changes anything.
Yup. I have HP Microserver at my home and it has remote KVM feature powered by Java webstart application. I expect this server to last for many years, so I need access to Java. I'm Java developer myself, so I figured out how to start it without installing Java plugin, but I don't think that there are many people who would do that. So probably Flash or Java will exist for many years, may be behind some obscure flags.
I'm confused as to why anyone would think facebook's security is good? Their entire profit model is based entirely on sharing information that most people would consider private (and have no clue is being sold to third parties).

Furthermore, however, how would you design a Content Delivery system that was performant that also had the level of security/privacy that you'd consider appropriate? keep in mind that cookie/session based security requires extra network traffic and coordination, whereas a simple GET request is pretty simple.

Considering the massive amount of traffic they deal with (nearly 1B people, right?), I think their use of UUID type strings (though I don't think they're specifically UUIDs) is pretty appropriate.

I guess let me ask it this way: what threat do you feel they've left you open to?
This is an interesting read about the subject https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_water

I live in a city with hard water and I feel a difference when I do or don't wash with a softener. Without it clothes are somewhat stiff. Washing with water at room temperature helps and no softener is required. I add it only when washing with hot water.

Anyway I'm not buying anything special. Believe it or not, vinagar works as softener. I'm using the cheapest white vinagar (nearly transparent) in the supermarket. Clothes don't have any smell and it's less than a Euro per months of usage. My mother has been using it forever and me too for many years now.

Very important: don't mix it with soap. Use it only if your washing machine has separate compartments for liquid soap and liquid softener. If it's one of those washing machine where you put soap powder and softener powder directly on clothes (I've seen them when I was little and in the USA), no vinegar in there.
Upwork has been the biggest pain point for me so far. Try scrolling in the messages pages, for example. Also the padding/margins are totally wack so the text is glued up against the sides of the pages. Also enjoy the capcha every few minutes.

Another site is Facebook (non-mobile site). Not a wonderful experience.

Another one is my own little project, Amtrak.io. On my 13" macbook air the top 4 KPI boxes are in a row, but on the 12" ipad they are not, even though the resolutions are nearly the same.

It seems to be sites who use media queries, as I read that ios safari reports to the DOM that's its physical screen size is actually actual-screen-size/2 which is silly and annoying.
To be fair, there's another way to spin that.

The car doesn't know who you are. Tesla knows who you are, because you purchased their car. It probably has a unique identifier. UID is transferred to HQ, query run, information gathered. So not so much the car as just Tesla.

Besides, it's possible for a certain kind of user that would never take advantage of a supercharger, instead stopping for electricity wherever they go about their day.

This is total speculation though, I have not driven a Tesla, never mind having purchased one.
Not really an answer to your question: but it's up to developers(of websites and applications) and users to kill flash, by not using it any more.
I'd bet that frequent yachting is also healthy.
If you want to get technical about it, the Mac kernel itself isn't a traditional UNIX or BSD kernel; XNU (which, conveniently enough, stands for "X is not UNIX") is a hybrid composed of the Mach microkernel, some FreeBSD components, and Apple's own driver model.

The system as a whole is able to brand itself as UNIX compliant, though, because it complies with the Single UNIX Specification. That spec is concerned about userspace behavior, not kernel or implementation, and you don't have to include any actual UNIX source code to be able to brand your OS as a "UNIX" according to the spec and trademark guidelines.
TLDR

Author rants about how the size of the executable for the Unix `true` command has increased "exponentially" from 0 to 22KB over ~30 years, for no apparent reason other than "because it can", referring to cosmology, of course.

"...true and false commands also don’t need an option that can invert the result, or one that would allow it to send its result by email to a party of your choice."

The article is humorous in nature, but not without a point.

OP, thanks for sharing the article.
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"In fairness, your question hardly reads as a question and much more like a halfhearted sigh from someone who hasn't given it much thought."

the connotations are your own. :) the problems with Angular have been beaten to death and i didn't think i needed to include them to foster a conversation. i'm sure i'm not the only one surprised by the graph in the post [0].

even the article that OP links to- "The State of JavaScript: Front-End Frameworks" [1]- would beg the same question. if we take it's research seriously- more people want to learn React. less than half of surveyed Angular users say they would use it again. there is a discrepancy between that survey and Angular's popularity. i think my question is fair. i think dismissing it requires less thought than asking it.

in any case, i didn't say that Google's involvement discredits it. quite the opposite really. a lot of people will admit it's the only reason they've taken it seriously.

[0] https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*gmYPusm1EjWu713tmV...

[1] https://medium.com/@sachagreif/the-state-of-javascript-front...
Question should be "why Adobe does not open sources the SWF format and the flash player"
As I understand, it's not that America can call Europe and say "Shut down the GPS", it's that America wants to be able to jam GPS (which is reciprocal, BTW. Europe can go to war now and jam GPS signals).

It's quite reasonable that if a third-party is supplying weapons to an enemy, it gets caught up in the cross-fire.
>The EU did, and the US threatened to just shoot down the EU satellites unless they get the ability to turn off GALILEO.

In times of war.
People who go to the sauna frequently might be more social or get more social interaction.
We're in the very particular business of Aircraft Simulation, specifically integrating real parts in a custom made simulation environment for pilots to train in. The products get certified based on functionality/realism level (Level D which requires motion/feel/view), thus we have very few low-level documentation requirements as compared to typical Aircraft design. We do test the platforms internally pretty correctly as they get audited by FAA/EASA autorities before certification. In the end, however, we end-up maintaining, updating and re-certifying the many-years-old platforms with the authorities for pretty much the full flying life of the fleet of planes we simulate, and for each of the updates delivered, often struggling to figure out the architecture of our old platforms (or our competitors even, as we provide updates for theses too).

Thanks for your input!
Adobe has had a rough decade?

Really, I always assumed that Adobe successfully mitigated all the revenue risk by selling recurring Creative Studio/Cloud licenses, and that Flash was not a big chunk of revenue anymore. I remember Steve Jobs planning to kill Adobe or at least news blog reporting such intentions.[0]

Adobe stock has done pretty well over last half a decade even when compared with Google.[1]

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/the-real-reason-steve-jobs-wa...

[1] https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AADBE%2CGOOGL&ei=2j...
> I've lately found myself wondering why there isn't a C/C++ tool comparable to npm, cargo, cpanm, etc.

Someone recommended Conan[0] to me the other day. I'm not familiar with it, so can't say more.

[0] "Conan C/C++ Package Manager" https://www.conan.io/
So, people who can afford to drive a 100K car will really be bothered by a $.40/min fee?
Because it's a set amount not a %

Poor people get 1000% more money rich people get 1% more.

Or a poor persons income goes from 1% of a rich persons to 2%
Can you let the emails roll in, then do the course later in your own time? Or do the links expire?
We have a distributed team, and switched to howdy.ai bot to ask the standup questions on Slack and post them to a channel. During our actual standup call, we only discuss blockers.

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Go google for online kids games in the browser and you'll have your answer.

They are virtually all written in Flash, and it's a huge market.

You would have a lot of unhappy kids if it all just went away.

Some new games are HTML5, but most aren't - and the old games are still fun.
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> Adobe has had a rough decade.

Not true at all - their share price has more than tripled in the last decade [0]. Web development was never a big part of Adobe's business. They were trying, because it's similar to their other product areas, but they never got a big foothold, except Flash.

They still make a ton of popular software (Photoshop/Lightroom, Premiere, Acrobat, Illustator, After Effects, ...), and most of it is selling better than ever.

[0] https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=adbe
> Because it solves real world business problems. Some people need to build large systems in a SPA framework

This sounds...circular. "AngularJS is a framework for building large SPA framework systems solves the real world business problem that business need to build SPA framework systems."

Frameworks don't solve business problems, practically by definition; they're potentially the common factor across software systems that solves part of the technical problems of developing an application.

That's assuming a framework is any good, of course, but we're talking about Angular, so by all means: tell us what development problems Angular solves for you.

And if I were defending Angular, I don't know that I'd invoke the problems of fashionability and the bleeding-edge of change, because it's hardly insulated.
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I would suggest the standard cipher first. Because, if the home brewed one is used first, it may leak information over side channels.

Another concern is that if the home made cipher creates a cipher text with differing lengths depending on the content of the plain text, the standard cipher will not be able to obscure that length.
Excellent analysis.

I'd like to add that "growth over time" also solves the "No Silver Bullet"[1] paradox: while Brooks's analysis[2] seems obviously correct, we also obviously have code that seems orders of magnitude larger than it has any business being[3].

As far as I can tell, Brooks doesn't consider cumulative effects of growth over time, but only a single iteration of analysis → development. So a 20% difference in efficiency is just a 20% difference in outcome. However, that same 20% inefficiency per iteration yields a 40x difference in outcome over 20 years. Compound interest.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet

[2] "there is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order of magnitude [tenfold] improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.

[3] MS Office is >400MLOC. Xerox PARX had "personal computing" in ~20KLOC. Even assuming MS Office is 100x better at "officing", that leaves 99.5% of the code unaccounted for. Similar analyses can be done for web browser (WWW.app, 5KLOC, Mozilla 15MLOC) and other operating systems etc.
At least in part because you sacrifice some good will with those customers and others around them. Look at the response on HN when Google announce a new product, and people are skeptical that they will keep it alive long enough to build around.
I like your use of "culinary permission", as I'm the same say. If someone tells me a food is safe to eat, I'll give it a chance regardless of how strange it seems.
> Buying things from Amazon no longer makes economic sense for most people.

I open browser, type amazon.com, search stuff, click 'buy with one-click'. I do not worry about delivery time, and I can just return without any hustle.

Compare with what you suggested, let's say we choose ebay (probably the 2nd-best online retailer):
I open browser, search, found item, click through, buy the item, probably need to pay shipping, but the overall price is cheaper. I might get the item in time, or not. When I want to return, I might get a smooth transaction, or not. The customer service is guaranteed to be inferior to Amazon's.

In the process, I probably can save a few percentage on item price. But does it really make economic sense at all? If I buy one item on ebay, and for some reason I dont like it and could not return it; while with Amazon I am sure that I can always avoid this. Does the a few percentage saving actually save me? I don't believe that.

The plain trend of Amazon eating the retail market lends little credit to your claim "Buying things from Amazon no longer makes economic sense for most people".
Are you possibly misinterpreting the terribly imprecise phrase "cracking a 1024-bit prime" as being the same as factoring a single number with two prime factors? I don't really understand what's involved with the actual process, but there was some discussion here earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10391925.

Alternatively, if you do correctly understand what's being done, it would be be interesting to hear how you made your estimate. Based on other examples, I agree that it might not be impossible that the "usual approaches" could be sufficiently optimized on commodity hardware to get the 100x or 1000x gain you would need for this.
What is "smart" anyway? Lots of countries are filled with untapped demographic potential. To tap into that resource you need a highly advanced school system and a high quality of life (so that you don't suffer from brain drain). Syria is of course a no-no, I don't know much about Iran to comment on their school system but I don't think the quality of life in Iran is as good as say, in Italy.
I think you're wrong, but only because you went in the wrong direction. In my experience Angular is best for the "I don't care how, I just need it done" crowd. The architecture, data model, routing setup, etc are all defined for you. However I've found React/Vue/Ember are better for "I need to create a complex system with a long shelf-life that will be touched by many people".
Do you work as instrument engineer in power plant industry? I'm not quite sure what kind of project that you have to use IEEE SWEBOK?
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> This is wrong. Concatenation would be harder to attack than XOR. Finding two things which hash to to two particular values in two separate hash functions is necessarily harder than finding two things which will hash to values which will XOR to the same value

No, you're the one who's wrong. You're assuming the hash is secure and then trying to brute-force it. But the entire discussion is not about brute force; it's about when an adversary breaks the hash, i.e. one who is able to produce multiple inputs with the same hash much more quickly than with brute force. This means they can attack the hashes independently, whereas if you XOR, they can't do that. Heck, if you XOR, the probability that they'll be able to tell which algorithms you used already becomes astronomically low, let alone them breaking it.

> Since you seem to want practical examples on recent crypto: consider meet in the middle attacks on 2DES as an example of why combined cryptosystems are not necessarily as strong as you'd imagine.

Again, you're wrong. You said you were "making it obvious how stacking ciphers can WEAKEN an encryption system". All you proved is that it isn't twice as strong. I never claimed nor even imagined that it was twice as strong. I merely claimed that the probability of it being WEAKER is astonishingly lower than the probability of the crypto layers being strong in the first place. Why do you keep changing your arguments?

>> Hell, you haven't even shown shown this is possible for any pair of secure ciphers; your "example" was missing the most crucial part of the cipher -- the key. The whole argument is so crazy it's just utterly ridiculous.

> If I had a good attack on RSA + ECC, I'd be writing a paper about it. I'm gonna posit that if that's the kind of proof you want to believe you're "wrong", you'll remain happily "correct" in this scenario.

Way to keep changing the topic just to win the argument. I just pointed out that your counterexample ciphers didn't even have independent keys, for God's sake!! Instead of accepting that you made silly mistake, you're spreading meaningless FUD. Why can't you just accept you made an error instead of giving me this nonsense? Are you just a troll? If you keep trolling don't expect me to respond.
I think he wanted a citation on "rarely does anything terrible result".

My experience living in a developing nation with little to no sanitation regulation: people there got sick regularly and accepted it as part of life, e.g. "don't get the frozen pre-made food from that market, it'll make you sick." And they said that it's common to get food poisoning a couple times a year. So, not a weekly occurrence, but not all that rare.

(I was living in a former Soviet republic for a little over a year, and became good friends with several people who'd lived there their entire lives.)

I can't remember when I last had food poisoning here in the U.S.
I race and you had better have a second sport to keep you in shape for sailing.

It's concentrated uncomfortable sitting around combined with the occasional panic. If you're buoy racing, it's on the rail, over the top and grind for 3-5 seconds and on the rail.
I wonder if the frequency of going to the Sauna was tied to the frequency of going to gym to workout? Here in Seattle that is basically the only place you can go to find a sauna.
I just did a little research into the benefits of sauna use. I found a Reuters article published in 2015 which said, "men who spent time in a sauna seven times a week were less likely to die of heart problems or to die at all" [0].

So good news everbody: If you use a sauna seven times a week, there's a chance you could become immortal.

[0] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-heart-health-saunas-idUSKB...
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