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DOS programs were decoding MP3 in realtime in the mid-90's, on 90's hardware, just at lower bitrates. By 2000 it was trivially solved and filesharing over P2P was in vogue, while video still presented a major bottleneck(and it still does in many respects). The OS boot time, on the other hand, has remained more-or-less constant in all time periods, when running contemporary hardware.

All of which is to say: Windows has an "accumulated cruft" problem that exists independently of what the hardware could do. The search built into Windows 10 is abysmally slow - in fact, almost every interaction with the toolbar or Explorer tends to be slow if you've installed a lot of stuff, because you oftentimes are "paying for what you don't use" when the program adds an Explorer extension, and there's a paucity of diagnostic tools to throw that fact in your face, so it just manifests as "Windows sure is slow lately". DOS doesn't have that problem because DOS does almost nothing, and cannot be extended to do more.

(On that note, Windows 10 did make a major breakthrough in responsiveness: it compresses memory in inactive programs, so you hit disk much less when running and switching between lots of programs.)
Probably < $0. It's a deceptive domain of a strongly contested trademark - all the Unicode variants are probably just burner domains.
This article talks about problem porting patches back to Linux 2.4, and then makes the comparison with python 2.

Conceptually, the "breaking backwards compatibility" argument works, especially for the dependent ecosystem.

But, it is worth noting that python 2 and 3 build out of the same branch of the same tree. Indeed, you can build the 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.X grammars all off the same code. Sure, there will be some python 3 specific stuff that won't be included when you build 2.X, but any patches are by definition already backported.
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1.2 ships with 4 year old and broken CDRom driver, CD audio and CD detection doesnt work in a bunch of old games(for example Need For Speed).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGmCVeAKR4w
As an aside, and from a non-CS person's perspective, what is the need for more programming languages? I find at least one new one every few days on HN. I've been learning Python since late 2015 and I find just mastering one language (and its libraries) overwhelming.

So, what is the incremental advantage to be gained by learning yet another new language?
I'm a PM at Google and former SWE, Twitter: @ninu

Message me and let's talk further. We're always looking for strong SWE applicants. Happy holidays and remember to never give up! <3 for code. 'Tis the season to help others.
Just type "falsehoods programmers believe" into the search box at the bottom of the page and you'll get a ton of previous articles on falsehoods in various domains that have been posted here over the years:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=falsehoods%20programmers%20bel...

And while this topic is not personally relevant to me since I don't work with video decoding, I do find learning about different technologies interesting. Reading this gives me an appreciation for how much effort goes into making video, something we all take for granted, work.

If people only posted articles that were relevant to a majority of readers, HN would be a much less interesting place.
But there won't be support if they are just one of many different types of hardware people have. That is probably why Microsoft is mandating them.
Nah, it's more of a cultural thing. In the US, waitstaff is expected to be attentive and stop by constantly. In other countries, they're expected to leave you alone unless you need them, so you can enjoy your meal without being annoyed. For example, in many countries, they'll never approach you or bring you a check until you flag them down to ask.

I think it's less about tipping, and more about customs.
Agreed, and the last point is crucial. Even an internship can turn into a lucrative full time position, and some money is always better than none.
I'm in much the same situation. I decided to travel for a while, so I went to backpackers on the south coast of africa that accept bitcoin. Mind blown. Now I do bitcoin/altcoin trading for most of my income.

Starting to grow my own vegetables aswell so I dont need cash so much anymore.
The turbines are Francis type which means they keep spinning until the water flow is stopped.

When a generator is disconnected from the power system without first removing the power from the shaft then power in is greater than power out and the result is an acceleration of the generator. Generators are built to be able to withstand a certain maximum rotational speed without flying apart for a certain duration of time before the bearings get too hot. Of course it can operate at the normal speed forever, but the rated over speed might be twice as fast for 10 minutes.

So when the power lines are cut the turbines and generators speed up until the flow of water is stopped. Pictures of the Mosul dam show four surge tanks, one for each turbine, so they can probably turn off the water in 5-10s.

Pelton turbines are used for higher head and the flow can be maintained without turning the turbine by deflecting the water away from the runner.

I've commissioned about a dozen hydro electric power plants and opening the breaker to simulate cutting the transmission line while making 10, 25, 50,75,100% of the power is standard procedure.
> "Social enterpreneurs" will do jack squat

You could be right on this. It's probably more about changing politics and rerouting billions and billions, not something doable grass-roots style. But...

Most of the clean-power tech is here now and it works (maybe it needs lots of incremental tweaks, but no breakthroughs), if you just fix the broken economy around it. The price of oil or rare metals shouldn't be artificially lowered just because the big guys found a way to externalize the environmental costs out of it or because it makes sense in a twisted geopolitical way! A plastic cup should fucking cost $10 if it has to and if you can't afford it then buy a reusable glass or metal one. A damn next-gen smartphone should cost $1000 if it this is what it has to cost for the constituents of its battery to be mined in an eco-friendly way.

We're trying to use technology to fix a broken economy and broken world-politics. And it might work!

But think of the opportunity cost of doing this: all the great minds working to shave off an extra cent from solar panel assembly tech could work on basic nanotech research of medical research or ai or space travel. And the advances from these fields could then, maybe, be backported to the solar panel assembly process to make it 1 cent cheaper.

Yeah it probably kind of works this way too, with advances in basic science and tech driven by research directly applicable to clean energy, then later applied to things like space exploration.

But... it just feels totally backwards to me!

Science should be driven by whatever stimulates people's curiosity, whatever makes them dream higher, then later applied to practical problems. Oh, and economy should never be "tweaked" to work in unnatural ways and then later fixed through technology. This feels just wrong and I'm sure (hope? :) ) a disaster will sooner or later come out of it.

Disagreeable as he might be, I kind of like Mr. Trump ideas... though I wouldn't bet they'll translate into anything that works.
I don't recall DOS + Win 3.11 being anywhere near as fast as the setup I use today, which is basically just Ubuntu and xmonad under a Gnome fallback session.

Plus I would say the productivity gains of being fluent with GNU tools, RESTful APIs and any scripting language save more time in the long run than whatever milliseconds get shaved off of a UI response.
It's quite easy to serve over 2 GB of spaces over the network. (gzip, brotli)
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> I misunderstood the LVT as something that is levied against the landowner every year?

Yes, but it still doesn't affect the (rational) landowner's decision. Imagine an improvement that can net the owner $Y a year in profit. A rational owner should always make that improvement, regardless of whether the government is also taxing them $X a year on the land.

If they doesn't have the money/capital to do so, they should sell the land to someone else. Obviously not every landowner acts fully rationally, but in the aggregate, landowners should act pretty closely to that model.
So if I'm understanding it properly, they are offering drastically lower prices by cutting out the broker and passing on the savings, but still need the truckers and the truckers will be forced to use them because that's where the jobs will be (not sure if they'll see any pay boost or if it will just be customers seeing savings).

Once Uber gets autonomous trucks everywhere they cut out the drivers and add that revenue to their margins while still under cutting everyone else.

Is that the gist of their strategy?
My annoyance with HandBrake was that it requires so many clicks to rip all the videos from a disc while preserving all audio and subtitle tracks. My kids have a bunch of DVDs where several TV episodes are stored as a single title with chapter separators. Getting HandBrake to split them up was also kind of a pain in the GUI.

I ended up making a wrapper for HandBrakeCLI to simplify this: https://github.com/xenomachina/dvdrip
I understand what you're saying, but I find the first-name greeting stuff to be probably the least problematic of marketing behaviors big businesses can do. Send me your regular catalog of electronics parts, but it's got my name on it? Sure, whatev, Mouser Electronics.

Far creepier is the thing where they use your purchase history to make predictions about your health condition, like where Target would send out baby-related stuff when its algorithms discerned that customers were likely pregnant: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-incredible-story-of-how-t...

Compared to that stuff, "Dear Frondo" seems absolutely benign.
I had over 7 jobs and only did an interview once.

What helped me: talk to everybody that you are looking for a job. At every party there might be someone who knows someone that needs someone.
Github. Just open source your app code that you can, and library that you ended up making while doing so. Even as a freelancer or consultant, you will likely to get tons of prospect when you have code in github that is being followed with hundred plus stars.
The article makes it seem like everyone knew it was a bad idea to build it, but Saddam wanted it built and everyone was too afraid/being payed to not say no.
That hasn't stopped people from signing up to drive for Uber. Unfortunately if you need to get new business, and all the customers are switching to using the new broker (Uber in this case) what choice do you have? They will be used until Uber can discard them and then their industry will quickly fade.
> What helped enormously was studying the same questions that interviewers are likely to pull from. Once I studied hard on interview Q&A I went from no offers to getting three in the same week.

Interesting to hear on what are the sources 'that interviewers are likely to pull from'? And probably some guidelines as well, because interviewers like to be stingy and want to hear _the right_ answers.
>The worker's salary is a employer's responsibility. If the the worker become underpaid without the tipping, then the worker is underpaid by the employer.

This! Tipping is nothing but the employer passing the buck and guilting the customer.
The constant infusion of concrete isn't an emergency measure. It's how the dam was intended to operate. The problem (from the planners' point of view, anyway) isn't that it requires constant grouting, it's that it stopped getting constant grouting.
perhaps VERSION could fix this -http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/cnfigsys/version.htm
For the price of an MBA you can start a small business, and actually earn money.

Some people gets an MBA for the contacts: Don't do it. Not all the people you'll know will end in "high places". It is much better to call a high-level executive with a sound business proposal.
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I hate it when it does that, but you can change it with the gear thingy.
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> we are just disappointed against the mandatory bracket thing. It's exactly what's wrong, you are not understanding because you don't want to listen.

It's not hard. This isn't some arbitrary bracket hate or love, it's how the language syntax works at it's core: statements (e.g. if, el, in) never have brackets, function invocation always has. Simple!

So what am I not understanding? That you are proposing some other syntax, e.g. function invocation without brackets? That you don't like breaking changes? That you'd keep everything as it was for sake of habit? Python 3 breaks Python 2 in many ways, but okay. Any other coherent arguments why `print` should remain a statement?

> Finally, the print stuff was one of the main reasons I pick Ruby over Python for my startup 5 years ago

There are enough things to not like about Python 3. But do not get me started on Ruby. A language that constantly breaks stuff between minor version numbers (1.8 -> 1.9, 1.9 -> 2.0, etc)? Way to undermine your own argument.

Edit: To append this infamous article about a Ruby migration 1.8.7 to 1.9.3 (http://www.darkridge.com/~jpr5/2012/10/03/ruby-1.8.7-1.9.3-m...), lest I be accused of Ruby bashing. Of course, the original article we're discussing mentions Ruby in the same breath with Python 3. Oh, the irony of trying to put down Python 3 by citing Ruby.
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Yet another obsession to 'put man somewhere'. Why this moon village could not be fully automated without human presence? I think this megalomaniac plans are choking real progress.

Human presence was needed in 1960ties, not in 2020.
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True, but since I startend using CSS frameworks I didn't have too write much of it.
Every "Senior" started out as a "Junior" at some point. Try not to get hung up on this.

I have two pieces of advice for you, as someone who has struggled with these very things:

First, don't compare yourself with someone else. You are only competing with yourself in the end. The person you're comparing yourself to very likely could have the same doubts as you.

Second, just start. Don't get stuck in analysis paralysis, and only think things to death. I'm happy to share my experiences with you. My email is in my profile.
I don't mean to knock on The New Yorker or cast aspersions on your choices, but I have two rebuttals:

First, longform articles such as this one usually come months or years after the fact and don't help with the primary mission of journalism, which is to keep you abreast of the goings on around you. (Of everything from "what your local government is doing and how that affects you" to "what the financial markets in another continent are up to and how that affects you.") This is my opinion, but I think that the pejorative "mainstream media" is often used as a substitute for "media that doesn't write a story how I want it written."

Second, The New Yorker is owned by Advance Publications, which is about as "mainstream" of media as you're going to find. One of their larger publishing subsidiaries is Conde Nast, which publishes The New Yorker alongside Architectural Digest, Vogue, Golf World, GQ, and several other publications. You may also know them as the publisher of ArsTechnica. They also own more than 40 newspapers.

Just my two cents, for what that's worth these days.
You have to be a little careful though - https://youtu.be/x1bX3F7uTrg
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You are probably missing the point. Most people would not mind tipping for good service. It is when the tip is thrust upon you that it becomes a problem. When people start saying stuff like 'oh! you are robbing the waiter of his income', it becomes downright offensive. Tipping should be contingent on good service. It needs to be earned, not demanded to make up for an employer skimping on wage.
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"Earth always has been, and in all likelihood will forever be, screwed up."

Agreed. Not only screwed up, but screwed up in multiple ways. Throwing more money at the dozens of money sinks here does nothing to significantly help ensure our long-term survival. It might be the right thing to do, and over time continuing to do things like this may mean that mankind enters into some new wondrous universe free from pain and suffering. But right now, right here? We need an insurance policy. We need to get the hell off this ball of mud.

Want to know why the space program never went anywhere? Because back in the 60s and 70s, people said exactly the same thing "We need to spend our money on earthbound problems"

We've spent trillions on those problems. They are still here. In fact, the places we've made the most progress are the places we didn't try to fix.

I'm not in favor of a new huge national mission. I think a huge national goal to decrease LEO launch costs by 99.9% or more would be worth spending tens or hundreds of billions of dollars on. But heck, if we narrowed our focus to just that, we could probably get it done a lot cheaper than if we went down the mission creep road again.
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Esperanto is still a western centric language.
Needs an "Ask HN:" in the title.
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Not specifically cheetahs and located in South Africa: http://www.lionwhisperer.co.za/ -- YT Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/LionWhispererTV

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Surprised it doesn't mention the somewhat unspoken agreement that at least some of tip wages go unreported by those that receive them, although, I guess that is possibly disappearing with the increase in credit card tipping perhaps?
hahaha <3 thanks ninu, I'm not Google material, that is for the exceptionally chosen and talented.
Try comparing framerates for Doom and Doom95, on then-current mid-spec machines. Installing 9x on a DOS machine made everything so much slower.
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Even if these restaurants succeed, one risk is that 'no tipping' is just something that upscale restaurants in rich areas adopt because only they can afford to.

Waiters in those restaurants are already compensated much better than your average waiter on a roadway diner -- this would literally only be helping the already better off.
This is wrong. Subtitles and closed captions serve the same purpose and the terms are largely interchangeable. It's an Americanism to associate subtitles specifically with translations or closed captions specifically with EIA-608.

The essential function of subtitles and closed captions is to enable a viewer to read dialogue (or contextual audio elements) without needing to either hear or understand the audio. It may be in the same language or not.

As one example, in some Chinese markets TV and movies are all subtitled in Chinese, not (primarily) for the deaf, but because the standard Chinese subtitles are intelligible to readers whose only spoken language is a mutually unintelligible dialect.
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Hello,

I am 32 yo and started programing since 14. I am a self learner and programing is far from being a passion, it is my life. Through the time, I programed using, QBasic, QuickBasic, Visual Basic, C++, C, HTML, JS, CSS, PHP and Python. Actually I only use the 6 last.

I live in democratic republic of the Congo, in the heart of Africa. In my country, developer jobs are quasi-non-existent. My wish is to work remotely. But, many remote Jobs I find online require being USA resident.

My Wish is to have an employer accept me working for approval even for 3 months. I learn quickly and I can add new languages to my fingers if required.

Thank you.
Instead of finding your weakness and patching that up I would find what you are already strong at and take that to the next level. Then just present yourself as only that person. Craft your image to fit your skills not your skills to some image you wish to project. Unless you are highly competent and a really good self study you wont be able to pull off looking like a 10x Rockstar in blah if all you have is a coursera certificate and a really bad GitHub project. If you have 2 years experience and a highly functional app in something else then lean on that. You can always say you're looking for an opportunity to move field/role with a bit of evidence.
Guess it always pays off to talk about stuff!
Wondering the same thing. Here in Finland and in this industry, I feel like I have more job than I could ever handle. I have been a programmer for four years so I cannot say I'm too skilled nor talented for that matter, but getting a full-time job or freelance projects is quite easy here.

My advice is the same: aim for a junior position first and work your way up from there. If there are no full-time jobs available, try to build a social network, attend to tech meetings in your area, try to find freelance projects and add them to your portfolio. I know, the first steps are hard, but after a while it will suck you in and then you don't have to worry about finding another job.
Having lived in Japan for a long time, I kind of dread visiting America because of the whole nonsense of tipping (and lot of other reasons, really). There's simply no concept of it here and yet the service is excellent. I don't know what the typical wage is but I know people who work in service jobs and seem to have a lot more disposable income than their counterparts in the US.

I also know people who work as servers and bartenders in the US and (predictably) they hate the idea of ending tipping even if it means a higher base wage. I suspect they're wrong but then I don't have to walk in their shoes.
Sure but will that profit justify their valuation is probably the doubt. Fedex's market cap is $50bn right now.
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Grammar inference is a very interesting (tho quite different) topic. We have absolutely no idea how humans do it, and we know that its really really hard (nearly impossible!) to do given just raw text. Super interesting topic!
I don't think OP ever claimed it couldn't be, just that that's where the signal propagates from.
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Federal law and that of some states allows a lower minimum wage for tipped employees. [1] So the financial delta for the restaurant may be bigger than that described.

Blame the powerful restaurateur lobby. [2]

[1] https://www.dol.gov/whd/state/tipped.htm

[2] http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/02/02/464852535/for...
I can and have walked out without tipping when the service was bad.

When I go out to eat, I do so to unwind. The implicit pressure to tip detracts from that experience and I dislike it. It is not a question of what I am capable of doing. It is about not having to deal with the unfairness of an average or a poor waiter demanding to be compensated.
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Didn't read the article, but from comments here I understand ISIS is the reason maintenance work halted.