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I shoot digital almost exclusively. However for a wedding in Tuscany I went with a medium format older than most of america, and a 35mm rangefinder (along with my nikon and stock 30mm prime lens)

First things: Film is a massive faff. Xrays, heat, light. All pains.

However each film type has a different way of handling/rendering light.

I had:

o Ektar 100 (120mm)

o portra 160 (35mm)

o Ilford XP2 135 (35mm)

First things, unlike digital, it gracefully degrades when you are operating around the edges of high exposure. Shooting into the bright summer sun yields really pleasing results (details in both sky and subject[1][2])

the Ilford makes everything look like a picture from a local news article.

But, I'm not a film purist. I was in VFX for the apogee of 35mm film. I know how much of an utter faff it can be. Digital Cinema cameras have surpassed film by quite a way. (unless they are latter generation RED cameras, those things are colour blind.)

A decent full frame 35mm digital will probably beat a film medium format comfortably on colour reproduction, resolution and clarity. But Damnit, film just looks "real"

[1]in most digital cameras, everything is log, so most of the information is in the lower exposure ranges, however there are complications.
[2] the scanner of course is log as well, but you can do things to get around it.
Sounds like an organizational failure to me.

When I started at my current company the traditional silo between dev and systems was there (although we were allowed to deploy our own stuff) - they managed everything we ran our apps on and we just deployed them to servers they had already configured. Over the past ~3 years we've made a lot of changes, the department manager for our IS team is present in our daily standup calls to relay information between our two teams and we now have a couple separate VMWare clusters dedicated to our applications and VM running on them is our responsibility for the most part. We are the first to get called for issues with our applications, and where necessary we work collaboratively with our systems team to resolve them - we don't throw blame around, it does no good.

I should add most of this is only possible because we have real DevOps people on our team (well, really, it's just me right now - we lost our other and need to hire a replacement still) - not developers who know enough to copy a blob of crap to a server to run, but people who have real skills in both aspects. We are trusted to maintain things because we can do it right, and while it took a lot of work (and some unfortunate infighting) to get to this point both of our departments are working great with this arrangement.

There's still kinks that need ironing, we've not done an adequate job at writing documentation so our systems team can help with some failures (primarily on our Linux VM's, our whole systems team is Windows admins) if we aren't available - but it's on the radar as well as getting PagerDuty set up to escalate alerts to them if we don't respond in time (like having our PostgreSQL data volume fill up over the weekend, not a call I wanted to get at 10AM on Sunday).

So yeah, fix your culture issue, get people communicating daily between your teams, share responsibility for issues instead of placing blame.
You're still kind of being a dick to anyone that really does want to cancel. The flip side to the "half" of the customers that you can retain with this policy is the other half of the customers that just want to end their subscription and would be better served by a webpage and not having to get past a customer support script to do it.
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They don't. When bringing a laptop in for service, you either give them your password and admin access or you let them wipe your hard drive. Assuming your drive is encrypted, of course. The latter seems a lot more acceptable in light of this article as I'm sure Best Buy employees are not the only ones getting kickbacks from the FBI.
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It's been the default for the last 3 years (since Yosemite), you have to actively decide to turn it off during the setup wizard.
Heard so many bad things about best buy and geek squad over the years. Amazed they are still in business.
There is no TL;DR version of DFW's prose, you read his stuff because it's fun, not to get to the point.
I have done this. iOS may be closed source, but firmwares are no longer encrypted, so you can reverse engineer anything that you are curious about.
Film is automatically much worse any time you need higher sensitivity because of low light situations and can't use a tripod or need to capture a more mobile target. 400 iso film in 35mm format is noisier than any modern DSLR used in 3200+ iso settings, any, even entry-level $400 Canon or Nikon.

Also, in terms of level of details it has been possibly a decade since DSLR have become much better than 35mm film. Medium and large format film was still better for a longer amount of time, but medium format cameras are a lot more cumbersome and large format cameras are something only the most dedicated would ever bother to carry anywhere.

This is one of the smallest medium format camera for comparison :
https://melbournestreetphotography.files.wordpress.com/2013/...
And it's a rangefinder, so it's basically unusable with telephoto lenses. Mirror based medium format cameras like the Hasselblad were things that pretty much never left indoor studios.
> Disk encryption (FileVault) may be somewhat more common on Macs than on your average Windows machine

When I drop off my Mac at a Genius Bar it's always a fight to not give them my password. Sometimes, I give up and format. Can't imagine most Apple customers go through that hassle.
This is indeed a brilliant article, at least as far framing the problem with some objections goes.

Of course, what's missing from hypothetical artificial arithmetic is simple symbolic manipulation. And I am pretty sure that "More gofi", a more explicit treatment of AI, is something that Noam Chomsky and other have as their favorite bullet point on how to go further.

However, that too has been tried to whatever degree. If you had an overt, tractable logical theory that explained all intelligent behavior, then yes you'd have the missing ingredient of human intelligence. But unlike arithmetic calculation, it seems unlikely that human intelligence has this quality.

Indeed, all human "dealing with the world" behavior together involves a black box whose entirety is not subject to rational or logical reflection or description but whose broad outline. A person can't give a complete-enough-to-write-an-algorthim account of walking down the street recognizing things but the person can likely give a good why the street light they see is a street light - ie, heuristic black box behavior and logical/deductive behavior is intimately tied within human behavior.

And this might give some clue what's missing modern AI.
That's why I went into software from hardware. From software I often get immediate returns, from hardware it often took weeks.

Funny thing is before I did hardware, I was running a wood/machine shop which was satisfying, but didn't pay very well.
In this wonderful future, there will still be scarcity. There isn't going to be an infinite number of things.

Sure, maybe all my food and housing is paid for. But what if I want more stuff, that I couldn't normally get?

What if I WANT to work for a wage, in order to get these other things? That doesn't sound stupid at all.

Or perhaps the person who I am working for, due to him having a really good business model, or idea, or skill set, produces so much product of labor that I rather get a small portion of my product of labor from him, than get an even smaller product of labor the "normal" way, even if the normal way I receive is my "fair" share?

I as an employee do not care a single bit about getting my "fair share" of product of labor. I care about MAXIMIZING my absolute amount of product of labor.

As in, I'd rather have 10 percent of 100,000$ than 100% of 1 ,000$. Why would I care if my boss gets 0 dollars or 90,000$s?

I don't care if my boss "exploits" me, as long as it is a better option than working for a "fair" share anywhere else
> This is so passive-aggressive and juvenile.

> If I was an angel investor, I would not work with anyone who participated in this site.

Some self-reflection required.
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The Trellists made Trello. And the Trellists are going to keep working on Trello at Atlassian. Atlassian understands that Trello is unique and beloved and they definitely do not want to mess that up.

Read this article that Jordan Novet wrote. I know seeing is believing and you will have to wait and see, but I agree with everything Jay Simons says in this interview.

"During the interview, Simons took time to assure me that Atlassian wouldn’t ruin Trello."
http://venturebeat.com/2017/01/09/atlassian-is-buying-my-bel...

(disclaimer: I'm the Trello ceo)
I fell to this when I randomly decided to play some limit hold'em one night. Kept losing to a guy that chased every chance at odds he could, because I couldn't make bets big enough to scare him out. Lesson learned!
The code is mainly written in C (https://github.com/h2o/h2o) with some Perl testing. The Mruby for small (header/push) logic isn't that bad, and not bad in terms of performance either (https://h2o.examp1e.net/configure/mruby.html), although I'm also not a Ruby fan.
other countries dont?
How are you calculating value created? Based on market capitalization it looks like the S&P 500 went from a market cap of $925 Billion in the 1980's to over $19 Trillion today [1].

[1] http://siblisresearch.com/data/total-market-cap-sp-500/
Offering an anecdote with as little commentary as possible, but having gone to a small religious high school, I have friends who argue they'd "never vote for anyone who isn't Christian" but managed to do some mental gymnastics in order to vote for Romney, who during the primaries they seemed to oppose for being Mormon.
I'm not sure that it's odd, nor is it purely American. Here's a list of just actors-turned-politician:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_actor-politicians
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I am talking about capitalism in material terms as it happens because that's what the post I replied to was doing, not an ideal, hypothetical form of capitalism. likewise if we were having a discussion about the real life consequences about Marxism-Leninsim (like a productive discussion on that topic can actually happen on HN) I would be criticizing the USSR as it actually developed and not, say, as it was described by Stalin's theoretical ramblings.

An-capitalism has never happened and probably never will because it presumes there is an ideal form of capitalism that can outcompete the actual capitalism that exists which is inextricably tied with state power. In every development of capitalism in every country starting with the very first ones in Europe, the state's power was used to disrupt the old order and establish a new one. It was not the only necessary ingredient, but it was essential.
Buyin and successful are not necessarily the same thing.

Designers of Go have been disciplined enough to keep things simple - let's you keep more of the problem domain you're trying to solve, along with the code to solve it, in your head. Try that with a big project using another toolchain - lots of frameworks, lots of places to plug your code, with less coherency (in my experience) across the various experience levels of your team. And I'm talking about big teams here, not 10 devs.

Subjective Success metric with comparable teams: Go vs <x with generics>. If Go team gets solution done faster, correct, within budget compared to other team, your stakeholders will not give a crap about what devs think about generics. There's a good chance that would happen, based on my experience.
I, too, thought it was related. It is not.

Limits to Growth, whether you agree with their conclusions or not, is an actual model.

The google docs above is one guy fiting a curve to a bunch of demographic statistics. There is no real causality there, no attempt to make an interpretation of the numbers. If he would have done so, he would - as others have already pointed out - reached the conclusion that: "Since birth rates decrease when people's lives improve, Progress will make our life so fulfilling that we will stop having children altogether. Then we will live happily ever after until we all die of old age."
Debian has a package for rustc and cargo in Stretch, specifically for helping package stuff written in Rust. They also have a way of converting crates.io packages to Debian packages for this purpose. Asking about this on http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-rust-maintainer... is probably the best way to get advice, that's where the people doing this work congregate.
A 'blind trust' would be for someone who has a portfolio of stocks, bonds etc. wherein the individual would not be able to use their knowledge to gain leverage etc.

There's no such thing as a 'blind trust' for a media empire, because everyone in the empire knows exactly who is in charge and who pays their salary. Patronage does not stop because of lack of communication.

Do you think that if Trump owned FoxNews, but was also President - that Fox reporter would feel totally free to investigate Trump on whatever terms they wanted? Knowing that he owns them? And can come back in a few years and end their careers?

No.

In fact, a media org. owned by a public representative might be likely do all they can to back him, cover up scandals, paper over ugly things, and prop him up. Then they would get big fat promotions and guaranteed career progress down the line. Among other things, such as possibly favorable treatment and exclusive access by the political regime.

There's no way to segregate a media empire from it's leadership temporarily.

As for 'illegal or not' - nobody knows the answer to that, because we don't know what Zuck wants to do.

Moreover - for the Office of Pres - it's unclear. Trump has an army of lawyers trying to determine whether it's legal or not for him to keep his holdings. Some are indicating that state use of Trump hotels is illegal. Some are indicating that having his children run the empire would be illegal. It hasn't been tested in courts, and the laws are unclear - for President.

But the legality if it moot: someone with massive control ownership of the media should not be able to hold public office, it's one of the most glaringly obvious examples imaginable. (Aside from someone in public office handing out contracts to companies they own directly.)
All I know is that it was a TV programme in the UK; sorry, I know that's not very useful!
California being the example, and in the tech sector. Less progressive states take a bit more draconian view, but typically seem to involve bosses taking team members and not team members clumping together.
RN is great but it disturbs me that this bug:

https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/4968

Which is severe but has been open for so long just hasn't had any attention from the core team. It's clearly a massive problem and the packager code is... less than friendly.
Not really..

I would consider heating human. I have nothing against another mammal. However, I would require humane treatment of said human (or any animal or byproduct I eat).

I'm not going to pretend I'm some morally superior being. But I'd like to at least reduce suffering of beings. After all, something else must die for me to eat (and I can't live on milk and honey).
Oh yeah, I had a conversation with a less-wealthy parent on this topic within the last couple of months. I got the impression she was searching for some sort of secret or hack. I told her that the student should take a couple of practice tests and grade them herself so as to understand what happened. She didn't believe that would do any good, even though she sought my advice specifically because I got 35/36 on ACT several decades ago.
lets say you're looking for lucrative industries to 'disrupt'... why not just ask employees of poorly managed companies? Brilliant!
I suspect they spend a ton of developer time. It is their #1 source of income. What they won't do is releasing it unless it is 99.9% certain that it yields an improvement.
Did that 18 years ago. Haven't looked back once.
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Do FB engineering candidates have to be approved by an anonymous hiring committee to receive an offer, like at Google?
Unfortunately, it's not cheap. You're looking at $10+ per roll in development, and I'm guessing one roll of Ektachrome will be $10+ if it's anything like Provia/velvia. $20+ for one roll and that's without scanning which many have a lab do.

Don't get me wrong, I love slide film and I'm so excited to shoot this, but it's not exactly easy to make a habit out of shooting E6 for hobbyists.
Here is an illuminating (to me) post that shows how the Go approach to solving algorithmic problems might be different from other languages (in this case, a generic graph data type + Dijkstra's algorithm):

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-nuts/Rj5t1h_ztx...

Sure, the final implementation still has a couple instances of interface{}, but they are much more innocuous than your example.
They do, but it's actually worse that they're getting paid.

The incident prompting this article is a child pornography case - which would be fine, since there's a reporting requirement for techs even without pay. But rather than getting reports on incidental discoveries, the FBI is apparently paying techs for each discovery; effectively using them as commission-based employees.

That's bad because it creates an incentive to search every customer's files for anything reportable, but it's awful because it allows the FBI to rout around warrant restrictions. "Private searches" are legal without warrants, so rather than paying people to do searches (nonprivate), the FBI is giving them money for results (nominally private, with nonprivate motivations).
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>I love how completely alien they are compared to us.

If you want to read a book which takes this idea to the extreme check out Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. It deals with a living ocean which has been completely incomprehensible to humans for hundreds of years - a neat thought exercise on the limits of knowledge.
http://havelang.org/

It's how C++ started. Unfortunately, that's how it will also end for Go, because of Go designers ignoring the past.
Historically, Common Lisp's preference for symbols over strings to represent text is due to the nature of equality comparisons. Symbols are equal based on their pointers. Strings are equal based on their byte sequences. Clojure leverages Java's immutable strings to allow pointer comparisons.

I apologize for not being clearer. The point I was trying to make is that Lisp programs often used lists in a data centric manner and my example based on the 1978 paper was optimistically intended to illustrate that.

Perhaps there's an analogy between lists in traditional Lisp programming and text in *nix systems in so far as each is used as a standard interface when composing systems from sub-systems. Or perhaps not.
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US population in 1776 was 1% of what it is now.

So, the 'wealthy' was a significantly less elite group. Basically, the top 1,000 people back then where the equivalent of the top 100,000 people now, not the top 1,000.
HipChat has become an abomination of a client across Windows and Mac.

Ha, try using it in Linux!
I'm guessing that many people at Volkswagen participated in or were aware of this conspiracy. Will most of them be charged with crimes? Or is it a matter of whether they happen to be in the U.S. and can be arrested?
I kinda see Jira and Trello as separate target markets. Jira = Enterprise (for me) and Trello = Small-to-mid-sized companies and personal use.

My company uses Jira (correctly) and it is great - for software. I keep all of my personal lists in Trello.

Also - VersionOne <<<<<<<<< Jira
> I know people will disagree, but a skilled photoshopper can often reproduce the look and feel of film with digital.

But why go through the hassle of photoshopping when you can just get the image out of the camera the way you want it? This is especially the case where you're taking a lot of pictures. All of that photoshopping would be tedious.

And why is a more "accurate" photo superior? Like take any famous photo and ask yourself: If the photo showed even more detail would it be better?
Yet somehow you figured out what he meant.
> Given the absence of evidence that it was the Russians, this looks like the Iraqi WMDs all over again.

I always though this argument was a kind of ideological test - like it's demonstrably terrible on it's face, but the people espousing it do so to show they're willing to disregard logic and evidence in order to show their loyalty to their 'side', like the Trump supporters who have told me with a straight face that they believe global warming is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese. In truth, plenty of evidence has been made available and public (most damningly the report into the spearphishing campaign), and reasonable people can debate whether the evidence is conclusive - but to say there is none is ridiculous on it's face.

The second terrible part of this argument is the comparison to Iraq's WMD program, because it boldly reinvents history. In truth the IC was very pessimistic on the question, and the actual history is that Bush and Cheney literally invented a new office to 'process' intelligence before it was reported to them. But apparently, because a Republican President lied, we need to believe a different Republican President and not believe the IC. Some beautiful logic.

>One thing nobody seems to be pointing out is this: if there is one country in the world that cannot complain about interference in the political process of another country with the slightest shred of moral authority, it's the U.S.

Can't be a political discussion without an appeal to 'what-aboutism'.
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Your one day prototype will costs thousands to bring to market. Lets look at just the electronics. Have you priced out FCC certification? The wifi module might be already certified, but the whole product isn't. That is $5k to $10k minimum for US only. It also plugs into mains, which means it might need UL certification to it won't burn down someone's house.

Your $20 BOM just gets you a board and loose components, not a complete product. The cost of a complete product is called "cost of goods sold" or COGS and includes things like assembly, testing, and shipping, etc. Even if $20 was your COGS, how much would you have to charge to make a profit? It all depends on how many you sell. If you only intend to sell 1000 or so (likely the case here), you need to charge accordingly.
> whether this reflects a "manufactured narrative", I cannot say

Based on what you know about the human primate, what do you think the truth is?

Too harsh or not harsh enough, who knows. All I know is "fake news" will be used to describe news you don't agree with, for whatever reason you like. Let's at least be honest with ourselves.
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How would any reasonable person think that all humans will completely stop having children?

It makes about as much sense to me to continue the trend below zero, and assume that eventually people start consuming children.