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The unofficial blog phenomenon intrigues me. This is a great post, but what happens when an unofficial blog (or Twitter account) posts something controversial? Breaks the law? What recourse does the company (or govt agency) have?

I'm not really denouncing the unofficial blogs, but I can see it making PR people uncomfortable, and understandably so. On a personal level, it seems like an easy way to use the name of your employer (btw, how do we know they're really employees of X) as a springboard for popularity, without the huge responsibility that comes along with officially representing the organization.
This is one of the hype filled and most valley answers I've ever read. You even used the word "revolutionary". Jony is that you?
This doesn't look right. In 10 Years, ship 5M+ Gear VR units? 5M units have already been shipped from November 2014 to January 2017, just over a 2 year period, doesn't shipping an additional 5M+ over a 10 year period seem a bit small? http://venturebeat.com/2017/01/04/samsung-confirms-it-sold-5...
Considering they had NeXTSTEP release versions running on x86, PA-RISC, SPARC, and its original home 68000, they did pretty well. I do wonder why the MIPS chips were ignored.
We have a few orders of magnitude more energy from sunlight hitting the earth than our global requirements. Why go through the effort of hauling all that into space when we can meet all our needs on the ground?
No, you can't reverse anything. There are more details at: https://www.calctopia.com/2017/02/01/on-the-security-model/
There is this hilarious O'Reilly report about Amsterdam (Yurop, of course, so not that relevant but it still shows complete disconnect from reality)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLJ56BfPoSg
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There is a case for case insensitive languages (pardon the pun!). You just don't get to write a lot of useless bugs because you mistyped the casing of a particular variable. I see that all the time in C# live demos.
Look at what ARM did with AArch64 though: it's backwards compatible via mode switching but is otherwise a fairly clean break at the ISA level.

AMD probably could have done something similar. They just didn't, likely out of risk aversion.
The google doc says at the bottom that slony only was used for a migration once, otherwise they use the replication features built into postgres.
Although this was the case when the lawsuit was filed, Zenimax has since promised more support for VR than many AAA game publishers, and they announced versions of Fallout 4 and DOOM for VR at their E3 press conference in 2016. Although you cannot buy Doom or Fallout VR now, they have shown both VR experiences (running on Vive at Gamescom and PAX), and are promising full VR support for Fallout 4 in the future.
Not just Intel but PA-RISC and Sparc as well, in addition to M68K.
As a New Zealand citizen who is a dual national of a country that I've never visited, I'm not necessarily opposed to non-residents becoming citizens.

I am concerned though, about people who are well known for using their giant stack of cash to influence politics and legal cases being given citizenship.

I do think that the outcome of the Hulk Hogan vs Gawker case was a good thing, but I don't think that Theil funding it was a good thing. Billionaires funding legal cases of unrelated people based on a personal vendetta isn't a road I want society to go down, especially such a target approach. If he was giving aid to various people suing various yellow journalism outlets for slander/libel, I'd be inclined to believe that he was being at least slightly altruistic.

And then there's the amount of money he's put into politics. As far as I'm concerned, it doesn't matter if he supported Clinton, Sanders, or Trump, it's the amount of money he gave.

I get the impression from the man that all he cares about is himself, and he'll just throw money at things to get what he wants.
I have no axe to grind with Buffet in particular. He just happens to be the topic of this post. What I do take issue with is the making of what I would call "meta-money". People making money by doing little more than manipulating the money of others. Warren Buffet just happens to be a great example of this. If you think of the world as producers and consumers, then what is it that Warren Buffet produces? What is he doing to add value to the world such that he is justified in making billions of dollars doing that?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying he is a bad person or that he is not highly intelligent or even shouldn't be successful. What I am saying is that it's hard to justify that he has added proportional value to the world that is worth the money he has made. To each his own, but if this were a world full of people who only wanted to benefit upon the production done by others, then this would be a troublesome world. Just imagine, could Linus Torvalds have chosen to turn Linux into a profitable venture? Could he have been all about the money and not about producing a truly great OS that people could build upon? I just don't think it's wise to put Warren Buffet as a success story above, say, Linus because he made so much more money. I'd rather live in a world of mostly Linus' than a world of mostly Buffet's.
Being hired to work on projects, using your companies time and money, and then taking that project to another company yourself, is stealing. Stealing is very anti-competative, and massively increases risk in investment. If anything, this case shows that you can steal a companies resources to make your own products, and if its a good idea then lawsuits are just a cost of doing business.
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There's some premium for face-to-face, but it turns out that even with remote work, price is still a good indication of quality.

I'm a freelancer and fully booked, so maybe those low cost competitors aren't so competitive after all.
> Historically, almost all attempts to replace an enormously successful product line with something incompatible have failed.

Except AArch64, which has a legacy 32 bit mode for compatibility but is otherwise a totally separate ISA, unlike x86-64 and i386.
Thanks for that, this is amazing.

I speak their language (it's German, but people from Switzerland speak a pretty strong dialect) and they discuss highly technical and serious stuff, but their language is just so adorable when they mix the English and the German. I always thought this communication is English only, nowadays?
Well the population of New Zealand, for one.
You are not overreacting. It's unnerving that a two-week old administration isn't willing to listen to anyone in their own government, or in our allies, and just thinks they know best. If they had people with experience, they'd understand just how much this policy messes with people's lives, and for no real benefit.
Yeah, that would be a really, really dangerous agreement for Intel given the market cap of AMD and how it would gut Intel's CPU lineup. I would assume their would be one damn quick agreement after the fact.
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Then the start up went bust and I was back to C++ before any newer version of VB came out. They really got reusable components right. I've never had an experience since where there is such a huge jump in productivity with a new technology.
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Jay Leno is all over this one I'll bet.
By "hand drawn" do they mean freehand, or drawn with manual pencil drafting techniques? Because both are done by hand, and really most trained draftsmen produced drawings of that quality (even lettering would look like it was printed).
It is certainly accessible to business people who's only early steps with programmming have been in VBA.

It is by the way an act of cruelty from Microsoft to only provide office users with a 20 year old language that hasn't been updated since the end of the 90s... What happened to VSTA??
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I'm being a bit hyperbolic, but I think my point stands that the US had many more factories left after the war, not to mention working age men. The US also had the Marshall Plan to repurpose that capacity into making products for domestic and foreign consumption.
I think you should release it now. It's often times hard for open source tools to gain attention as they don't have the same marketing that tools from companies have, but you've just hit the front page of HN. So I think you should capitalize on this opportunity and release it if you think it is in a useable state as this websites attention span is in 6 hour increments at best.
You do realize that amd owns a lot of the x64 patents, not intel, right?
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True.

I recently "bought" Titanfall 2, on DVD. I put "bought" in quotes because I wonder how much I actually own it, if at all.

It wouldn't run at all without first connecting to the internet and downloading multiple gigabytes of updates.

I wonder what would happen in the future when EA decides to shut up shop or change their DRM platform. Will I ever be able to play it again?

This is why I often feel like pirates "own" the content more than legitimate buyers.
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But we aren't closing the border. Doctors aren't coming in droves from those 7 countries either. They're coming from Pakistan, India, and countries not on the current list.

This too sounds like "jobs Americans won't do" which we know isn't true. Right now we're seeing hospitals saying that they need to import more Filipino nurses, yet we have new nursing graduates here in the US saying that they are unable to find jobs.

Sounds like a lot of high tech jobs that we supposedly need H1Bs for.

We do have graduates in STEM. We have some top notch medical schools where people are graduating from. We've had a shortage of doctors for a while now, but it doesn't automatically equate to "we need more immigrants." There are plenty of high school students born & raised here that might love to go to medical school. Why can't we help them instead?
Release it now!

> Also, what's the correct way to tell people about a tool like this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/submit

Preface title with "Show HN: "

Might also share it on an appropriate Reddit subreddit.
Sometimes you can put in all the checks and balances you wish, but humans will just make a, well, human mistake.

All commercial aircraft have checklists in place, and a two person cross checking system in the cockpit, as well as mechanical means to detect potential problems - but aircraft still every now and then land with their gear still up etc.

Does it make economic sense for an organisation that has invested possibly millions of dollars in training a pilot to immediately sack him/her for a costly mistake like this? Sure, disciplinary action and possible demotion within the ranks is a given, but will you get rid of the one person who will be almost fanatical about never landing with the gear up again?

If they consistently make technical mistake and are sloppy in their airmanship, then sure, fire away. But it is going to be pretty much impossible to design a 'system' that can prevent human errors from creeping in.
Atom hasn't been discontinued; low-end "Celeron" and "Pentium" chips are actually Atoms.
I am on IPad with 10% battery and the last thing I want is 10 looping childish gifs running for 15 minutes while reading
So sell some shares. It can be better than a dividend for tax purposes. This is a common topic at the annual meetings, and Buffett has addressed it in detail before: http://www.fool.com/retirement/2016/12/02/warren-buffetts-st...
Was this being worked on in the apartment? One of the pictures shows the right side is only a couple inches away from the wall, but it's on jack stands. How did that happen?
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Bingo. First person I found in this entire thread that knows what actually happened.
I'd like to see more of a focus on extension methods rather than the pipe operator in tutorials and such, and tupled args rather than curried args. Also make the OO aspects more visible. It's not so much a language thing as a presentation thing. I think these are the things that confuse mainstream developers, and it's silly to present them all up front when teaching the language. Intellisense and C# compatibility works way better if you go this route too.
> That really sounds like a winning proposition for Apple, given that Intel's own 64-bit arches historically sucked.

Yeah but for various reasons any usable amd64 CPU needs backwards compatibility with x86 - which, if Apple doesn't want to go the Fat Binary emulation approach again, requires that an Apple-bought AMD must achieve a licensing deal with Intel to maintain said compatibility.

Then again, Apple these days doesn't give a ... about BC anymore anyway, so they might as well go down that track and use only amd64.
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Did I get a retainer or a signing bonus?

I have been an "at will" employee for too long to believe that acquiring that status with anyone is worth anything at all. I was once "hired" by TekSystems in Madison, Wisconsin, to work at American Family Insurance. I filled out all the paperwork, got the coffee mug and pen, and was ready to go. Then, the Sunday evening before going to work, I got a call.... Don't bother showing up tomorrow.

So the next day, instead of starting a new job, I called up my American Family Insurance agent and cancelled my policies. That wasn't even the first time that I was "hired" by a company and then never actually got any work assignments or pay from them.

"Hiring" doesn't mean jack squat. It just means that the company has decided that it may, in the future, offer you a work assignment without requiring additional contract negotiations, pay you for it, and then report your tax info on a W-2 instead of a 1099. The essential relationship is the exchange of labor for pay. Anything I can do as an employee, I can also do as an independent contractor, and any "employment benefit" can be exchanged for an adjustment in the contract rate. So what is the "hiring" part worth? $0.

It is the height of arrogance to think that being able to say "I am an employee at Company X" is worth more than one square of low-grade single-ply toilet paper. And it is the height of stupidity to claim that you have to be an employee to exchange labor for cash.
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> VB actually GREW in popularity in the last two years.

Or people have been using the term "VB" to to refer to VB.NET as old-style VB falls out of the general consciousness, distorting Tiobe's web search engine based methodology for generating ratings.