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That's a valid point. I think it depends on the company and how they define Product/Project Management.

TL;DR - In my experience it's a combination of both. You need to come up with a vision, convince others (non-direct reports and higher ups) that it's worth spending company $ on, and then be responsible for its success (however that's measured).

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In some companies a Product Manager is more of a Project Manager and working on a product someone higher up has chartered. My comments do not apply to those roles because the company is probably less concerned about product vision and strategy from the candidate. And to be honest, many companies don't need Product Managers as much as they need Project Managers who help keep the engine of incremental progress running.

Other companies rely heavily on their Product group to come up with new and innovative products. I know this is the case with companies like Google, Facebook and many startups. It's easily visible by seeing if the company has recently launched anything truly different into the market.

Your level will also determine how much strategy and vision you'll be doing. Entry level Product Managers won't be asked to cast a vision for an ambitious product and release it. But as you get more experience you'll be doing more of that.
The Tea Partiers were actually really effective in their tactics to continue to call their representatives, showing up for every election, and running their candidates for every single position in local government.

Calling and showing up counts.
Precedent: "The term RADAR was coined in 1940 by the United States Navy as an acronym for RAdio Detection And Ranging[1][2] or RAdio Direction And Ranging.[3][4] The term radar has since entered English and other languages as a common noun, losing all capitalization." -Wikipedia on Radar
Such networks where you "download a bunch of stuff you're not interested in for the sake of" the network already exist.

Perfect Dark (a Japanese P2P system) is a direct implementation of that concept, where you automatically "maintain ratio" as with a private torrent tracker by your client just grabbing a bunch of (opaque, encrypted) stuff from the network and then serving it.

A more friendly example, I think—and probably closer to what the parent poster is picturing—is Freenet, which is literally an onion-routed P2P caching CDN/DHT. Peers select you as someone to query for the existence of a chunk; and rather than just referring them to where you think it is (as in Kademlia DHTs), you go get it yourself (by re-querying the DHT in Kademlia's "one step closer" fashion), cache it, and serve it. So a query for a chunk results in each onion-routing step—log2(network size) people—caching the chunk, and then taking responsibility for that chunk themselves, as if they had it all along.
Because the people who do do are willing to pay more.
Only way to "exert political pressure" is to get big money out of politics by any means necessary.
You seem to understand what I'm saying
and agree with me

Literally the opposite. Your initial statement was

Measuring memory usage is hard on a modern OS.

Which you've agreed was false as /proc/$PID/maps is easy to read. Then said:

Defining it is what's hard

But these statements are not mutually inclusive nor does the later imply the former.

I stated measuring is literally the simplest thing. You said ah but what you measuring. That isn't dependent on the tools, or OS. So why did you state it was?
For Velodynes you get some spurious points that look like noise cuased by reflections or rain/snow. Any mature system already has some kind of filter so it's tractable. The rate is on the orders of 10's to 100's per second which is low compared to the million/second of the sensor.
It would be a thing of beauty and wonder if someone could accurately re-dub all of Batman Begins with Adam West dialog from the original series. Instant meme-success.
As much as I like LIDAR sensors, and as much as I'd like to see lower cost units, I have a suspicion that they are ultimately going to be unneeded for self-driving vehicles.

There's been plenty of demonstrations by various players that self-driving vehicles can get a great amount if not nearly all needed information from camera-based systems, and drive well using them.

Other sensors will be needed, of course - and maybe LIDAR can even play a part there; the more data you have, from more sources, the better - this has always been true in robotics.

I just think that LIDAR won't play a primary role, but rather as a backup or accessory system component.
> "Sure you have to have some amount of privilege to afford it"
The combo of The Great Suspender + Session Buddy makes tab management so much better, and easier on resources.

Leave open the tabs you know you'll need soon(ish) and let the Great Suspender throttle them, and save (then close) groups of tabs/windows you won't need right away using Session Buddy.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/session-buddy/edac...
Yep, all good except I think you meant to say "1/0.6 hours" in that second-to-last sentence. Another thing worth keeping in mind is that discharging (most) Li-ion batteries below a certain voltage is harmful, and thus you can only usually "get" 80% or so of the energy out of the battery.

In simple terms, C rating is how fast you're draining the battery. Most batteries are rated for between 1 and 10C. This is the runtime you'll usually get from C ratings: 0.1C/10.5hr; 0.2C/5hr; 0.3C/3hr; 1C/55min; 1.5C/35min; 2C/25min. You'll notice how this doesn't track the expected values perfectly; for example, at 0.1C you get 5% more runtime but at 2C you get almost 20% less. This is because at 0.1C heat is negligible, but at 2C you're discharging almost 30 watts per cell. A good rule of thumb when running over 0.2C is to subtract five minutes from however long the cell "should" be able to run. You can probably now see how discharging at over 10C is tricky.

Discharging at a lower current produces less heat and increases the cycle lifetime, as well as a few other things (e.x. decreasing the risk of explosion.) Since Tesla is discharging these at 0.6C, they will get more cycles out of them than if they discharged them at 1C or 10C, for example.

The number of cycles is very important here because these will be used at least one cycle per day, and given that most batteries have a lifetime of 200-500 cycles this is a maximum of 200-500 days. Given that there are 16-20 million dollars worth of batteries here, that represents a significant yearly cost.
>I am trying to provide context regarding the whole problem.

You're mistaking context as an opportunity to share your personal views and beliefs. OP asked very specific questions. Your view on renewable energy isn't part of those questions.
These days, due to my annoyance with pages reloading themselves when switching to a tab, I'm really not interested in packing more functionality into the whole tab switching mechanism. Like the back button, it should not be visible to web developers.
> Without this hack it might be difficult/impossible for a land owner to know with any certainty that they actually own the land they just purchased.

If they are owned by rich people, maybe that's not a bad thing. Maybe it's a way to spread their wealth to the lesser fortunate. Heh.
> simply because they know nothing else.

So lemme get this straight, if my ancestors worked hard to provide for their families and I, down the line, inherit some land or money I should feel bad about this? Why?
sysvinit brings far less determinism to the table

Hm. I was with you until that. The reason I don't have systemd in production is that it's like pulling teeth to get a deterministic service initiation order. For all their flaws, the good thing about init.d scripts was that you knew exactly what order things came up and down in, because it was spelled out in a shell script you could view and edit.

This was great for administrators, but absolute hell for distribution maintainers; I totally get why the distros went to systemd. But since it solves their problems, rather than mine, it's not particularly useful to me (I use GNU PIES in production, which is kind of a middle ground: it can run inittab and rc.d scripts, but it also has a declarative native format)
We've officially had "Loyalty Day" for 60+ years and George Washington was posthumously promoted in 1976.
What is going on with Asana?
I've been holding out hope that Asana is going to fix its ridiculous boot time -- my computer cold boots quicker than Asana loads.

But then I see product announcements like this and can't help but scratch my head:

https://blog.asana.com/2017/01/new-accessibility-feature-colorblind-friendly/

Is that seriously the top priority for the Asana team?
Since I've moved to an all-Kodi household, this is definitely interesting to me.
> mostly because of the lack of "family-centric" housing stock

An interesting anecdote: I live in Little Rock, AR, which, as I'm sure you're thinking, is just a booming urban metropolis. I don't know what is different about the city here, but every single apartment, townhouse, etc. is very clearly built with a family in mind. There's always a master bedroom and a child bedroom. (It was very frustrating when apartment hunting with a friend since neither of us were ever pleased with the child room.)

If I had to speculate, it's likely that the vast majority of people who can afford to live downtown are older. The city has a growing tech scene, but most of its employees are middle aged.
In the article the author mentions that it's due to the null assignment in the first line of the `coerce` method.

Look for the "Thanks, NULL!" section near the bottom.
This is an easy one. No it's not
Millenials are not very young anymore :)
I think 3D is so much more of an effective gimmick in movie theaters than at home. It's kind of a "special" thing to go out to a movie, etc. so I think the effect kind of works there.

3D at home... on a smaller screen... just doesn't work as well as a spectacle.
What browser engine does it use? Couldn't find that from the site.
At the same time, his justifications for how this "only hurts the insurers," and not the end-users aren't exactly right either.
Wow, even HN has been infected! JK, but Rift tracking is great too. For "room-scale" with good tracking you basically need 3 sensors (you can buy additional sensors). For some games that cause heavy occlusion due to needing to lie on the floor or whatever, you would have to put the sensors in ceiling mounts to get the full volume tracked accurately. And the tracking volume will be smaller for the Rift compared to the Vive, but very few people have a bigger than 2.5m by 2.5m space, which the Rift can track just fine.

I just got my third sensor a couple days ago, and it has made a night and day difference (there is also an option for 360 tracking with two sensors, but I didn't set that up). But even when I had two sensors the tracking was fine except under certain situations where my body would occlude the controllers. Not a problem anymore after the third sensor.
Like Germany condemning Snowden, but having no problem using his leaks in their investigation of the NSA Bundestag hacking.

It's not a post-truth world, it's a post-hypocrisy world.
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> 3D takes up time slots that could otherwise go to 2D showings, so it's zero-sum

3D is typically enhanced price, and serves as a way of extracting more money from the segment of the population willing to pay more to see movies in the theater. Without 3D pulling in that segment, the profit-maximizing 2D ticket price would probably be higher.
Why? Because of all the reasons most people switched away from Firefox to Chrome to begin with...

Firefox is slow, klunky and the UI is deplorable. Mozilla and also hates native platforms and therefore Firefox doesn't respect my OS. For instance - since the beginning of time, every Windows program let me close the window by double-clicking in the upper left corner. People have been asking Mozilla to change this for years and got ignored. Meanwhile, the Chrome team changed it immediately upon request when one of their builds lost the ability.

IMO, Mozilla is a second-rate has-been that turns out nothing but useless crap like Rust and Servo that nobody needs or uses since there are much higher quality alternatives already in existence - http://www.mozillalabs.com/en-US/projects/
But cloud.
I'm more into Post-Neocolonialism, myself
> Because all of the people making the claim backtracked the day after the result.

Much as remain advocates backtracked on their claims that a vote to leave would trigger the end of the world, economic catastrophe, would require an emergency 'Brexit budget', etc.

Both of the official campaigns were criticized in the run-up to the referendum for presenting claims they knew to be false.
If you don't support a browser, how do you learn whether its users are your customers?
Many of modern IDE features go back to Lisp and Smalltalk workstations.

Yet they still don't offer all their capabilities.

Had those environments succeed in the market, the whole development experience workflow would be much better.

Think of Bret Viktor style presentations.

Sadly due to their prices, many know Common Lisp via the open source command line compilers, instead of environments that trace back to those workstations like Franz Common Lisp.
Done now with Pikkety. Well, he summarizes it very simplified. I think his model doesn't necessarily mean that the person who was rich 10 years ago is richer now. It still works out if for example each year a start-up of the same size has a 5% bigger exit than the year before, but 10 years later the founder of the first exist is broke and homeless already. What I mean is it doesn't, afaik, consider fluctuation in each group. Also many economists criticise that money is only measurment of wealth, and some are quite hard to represent in $.
Money isn't the problem (sans disastrous allocation policies like No Child Left Behind). There are dozens of compounding network effects that can make or break a school district and having students with wealthy families is an important one that benefits all students. Wealthy families have more money and time to get involved with the teachers, district governance, PTAs, fund raisers, and extracurricular activities that benefit all students, rich or poor. A large number (maybe even majority) of Catholic private schools, for example, make less per student than public schools but they're often leaps and bounds better than most public schools.

When my public high school in a wealthy LA suburb faced steep budget cuts in the million of dollars during 2009-10, the booster club diverted more than half of the $5 million dollars that they had just raised from donors (families and alumni) for a new fake grass football and baseball field. This saved dozens of teachers, extracurriculars, and even some AP/IB programs. When the music program was cut district wide, dozens of stay at home and working parents got together and saved it by writing grants and running fundraisers (which they have to do every year now). Despite being low-middle class and having single parents who worked all the time, many of my classmates and I were able to participate in anything we wanted to because we could get second hand sports equipment and donations to cover expenses from team members' families. We always had a classmate who had a car or a parent with free time to drive us around, take us to college visits, and help us with science fair projects or model rocketry competitions. Even a few wealthy students can drastically change the support and infrastructure poorer students have access to and it makes a big differences (it certainly did for me).
Because owning multiple homes is something most of us will never experience.

It seems so extravagant; to some of us it seems funny.

My thoughts are usually, "It would be nice, but what do these privledeged people do with all that house/houses/mansions/land?"

I do know they never fill up all the rooms. As a teen, I worked as a Gardener in Tiburon, Ca. I saw my fair share of huge houses, and empty rooms. Usually, a misserable stay at home wife in the main living room. Their kids were happy until dad informed them it wasen't necessarily their homes, and cabins. "What daddy?"
This is so ridiculously false i don't know where to begin.
It's mostly something people who are too lazy to try anything effective tell themselves to make them feel better about doing nothing.

It's not all out of your hands and in the hands of "big money" or whatever boogeyman of the day is.
What I'd like is popping up plain warnings aimed at regular, non-tech user. "These tabs are currently slowing down your computer: <list>." Or, "This tab uses a lot of battery power."

Besides directly providing information that is relevant to a typical user, I'd hope such a solution would finally put some pressure on the companies to optimize their webpages.
> Land shouldn't be owned by anyone. Rather, it should be able to be used freely.

How would this work? Honest question.

I agree that the concept of land ownership is a little weird - it's one of the most limited, exclusive resources we have.

Hypothetically, I would love to be able to use this land that Z is "buying" under the current land ownership paradigm. But that free use, to me, would look like pouring a concrete foundation and building a structure with a bunk room, kitchen, bathroom, common area, with storage for a Hobie Cat, some surfboards, and SCUBA gear, and a patio overlooking the ocean. I'd want the rest of the land to be nicely forested. I would come out for a week every couple months. Would I have freedom to do this in a non-land-ownership system? What would prevent others from building in front of me, or using my structure when I wanted to be there?
Well, I don't think interviews are always about answering something correctly. It might just be nice to have an applicant's opinion on x y and z, to spark conversation, gain some insight into their personality and what is important to them, etc.
In my opinion, discussions like that can be invaluable: sure, someone might have all the technical answers correct, and if so that is great. But humans are more complex than just being right or wrong. It's also good to see if the candidate has a similar view on the role they would be fulfilling.
Gnuplot is free enough to be included in Debian. But no, not GPL licensed.
Any experience on how it compared to The Great Discarder from the same dev? https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-discarde...
As horrid as that is, I think it could go way beyond it even. In some form or other, we need privacy not "just because", but because it's vitally important to become and be a person. Not (just) to do evil things without others knowing, but because a mass is not a group of persons, it's just a mass. Everybody needs to be alone sometimes, everybody needs to be able to be alone, at least I think so; and consciously or subconsciously, known or not, the fact of everything being recorded and look at and/or datamined to hell and back, forever, to be twisted into new narratives completely out of the reach of the person living their life, might have very drastic effects, in the long run.

We "killed God" and Nietzsche asked if we have even the faintest idea of what that implies, and I feel regardless of that, killing man is already well underway, with a similar sleepwalking quality to it. It might start with garden variety rush tyranny and mass murder, but maybe it goes way deeper than that, deeper than even AI or automation, wiping personhood (for lack of a better way to put it) out at the root with nobody even feeling it. We get used to everything, why not get used to regressing to individual mindlessness for the sake of some ill-defined greater good of some ill-defined greater entity? Crazier things have happened.
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Then use https://github.com/Manishearth/rust-gc if you're willing to pay the price of a GC (still experimental). Or better, stick to a GC'ed language.

If you don't need manual memory management, it's obviously going to be a burden. There are still use cases for manual memory management though, and that's where Rust comes in.

Use the right tool for the job.
What do you find condescending in pointing that the clear sentence with enough information was edited of its most important part and that presented as "unclear"?

The way he quoted the comment, it's not even visible that "the comment mentions" like you suggest. He kept the formula of the principle and only edited its very name out. Which is a direct name of the entry in Wikipedia.

What do you find condescending when the person asking doesn't show that he even tried to read not only what the original sentence pointed to but also what the previous answer directly links, both times on such an obvious place as Wikipedia?

I see it more either as intentional trolling, or as somebody who could actually profit of learning to read what's already written, and I don't see I'm wrong here. But I welcome if you explain exactly why I should pretend somebody didn't do what he did in my answer, or even more important, what most of the readers would benefit from? I'm much more a reader than an active writer here, so that's an important question for me.

I very often ask here for the clarifications of the statements for which I can't easily find the answers to. But here the editing out in the single sentence couldn't be more blatant.
"but they offer "free" read-only snapshots, which can be very useful if your backup software or script does not perform its own snapshots."

I really need to say two things here ...

First, the zfs snapshots that are enabled on all normal accounts[1] can be your entire retention scheme. Which is to say, you can just do a "dumb" rsync to us ... no retention, no schedule, nothing - just an rsync every night - and on our end, we handle creating, maintaining and destroying your schedule[2] of full clones of your entire account. It's just like apples time machine, although more efficient since its using ZFS (bits) and not hardlinks (files).

Second, as the parent implies, they are immutable. They are read-only and cannot be destroyed even by our local root. This means that if an attacker destroys your local data, and then gains control of your rsync.net credentials and wipes out your entire rsync.net account, the snapshots will still be there. You can't remove them.

[1] But not on the discounted borg accounts, since we assume smart folks using borg set up their own retention schedule and that is how we make the accounts discounted - by not adding/rotating the snaps.

[2] Yes, you can define whatever snapshot schedule you like - the 7 daily (<1TB accounts) or 7 daily + 4 weekly (>1TB accounts) are the default, but you can add whatever additional snapshots you like (more dailies, weeklies, monthlies, quarterlies ...)
> Sure you can see those movies in non-3D, but they sure like having a lot of 3D versions in the theaters.

That's because large numbers of people like to watch 3D versions in preference to 2D, especially for movies like those in the Star Wars series (less so for, say, romcoms, which is why you don't see them in 3D at all.)
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Maybe they can print a nice thick amount for our new President. He seems to be in need of it.
Anyone that's driven in downtown San Francisco, or just seen it without even driving, knows those arguments are empty.

That's why, when the Uber self-driving car blatantly ran a red light, the joke was that it was learning from its environment.
Hmm, looks interesting. I've tried out several tools for organizing tabs, but none of them really worked as well as aggressive manual "garbage collection" for me. Usually the problem was that switching between groups (or whatever concept) was too complicated, or part of the tabs were hidden too much. Maybe I should give this one a try.