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I work on a team of three so I get to talk to my manager (who's technical, BTW) several times a day for immediate work-related stuff. We then have monthly one-on-ones for higher level discussion, with no need to talk about low level day-to-day stuff. We usually go through the formalities first -- upcoming leave, progress on development plan, etc., expanding on these as appropriate. We then usually have time to talk about other things like any interesting techniques/technologies we've discovered that might be useful, good books/videos/talks we've read, etc.
I think there could be some instances where people suggest or build stuff with SQLITE when a more robust database solution is called for. Or they start test/develop with SQLITE when the final target is, say, PostgreSQL and delay too long the time they get tests and rigor in place on the real database (or avoid doing so outright). I don't know that you fall into any of those camps (I don't know you after all), but if you did I could understand why you'd find yourself on the wrong side of opinion.

However, SQLITE is great for ad hoc data manipulation as you say, and there are application niches, particularly on the client side where it can be great. By itself, everything I know about it is that is an excellent piece of software and the tests are practically a case study in rigor (again, from what I've heard).... so how could you not love that?
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Your maths seems off. 600 years at, say, 25 years per generation, yields 24 generations. Doubling each generation gives a factor of 2^24, or around 16 million, not 1 billion.
> Is your checklist copyrighted?

I think by US law it was copyrighted as soon as I created it.

> Can I use it?

I give you or anyone else on HN the right to use it verbatim and without restriction.
Is it better than pt-online-schema-change from percona-toolkit? That thing creates a new table which is the same shape as the old one, runs an ALTER on the new table, sets up triggers on the old table to update the new table, and then copies the old rows in batches while monitoring replication slave lag. Then it renames the tables and drops the old one. You do need storage for twice the space of the table, at least temporarily.
It should be noted that transfer learning is an umbrella term for many ideas that revolve around transferring what one model has learnt into another model. The method described here is a type of transfer learning called fine tuning.
Whatsapp was also never profitable either. They almost didn't even bother to make money (the subscription thing is a misnomer since they waived it left and right).

And by their own admission, they intentionally tried to slow user growth.
You could buy a Chevy Volt.

50+ miles of pure electric-only driving for the majority of your normal driving needs. But can also be filled up with gas for 200+ mile driving days.

If your considering buying an traditional car anyway, it gives you the best of both worlds.
This open source hardware requires closed source blobs, so in the end there's not much point in it.
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I had perfect omniscience on this one. At least I thought that was the direction they were taking FirefoxOS. In fact, I sent a product request over to Panasonic to make a FirefoxBook about 6 years ago[0] and made sure I mentioned it to Eich as well[1]. Since they were integrating it into their TVs I figured they were my best bet to push the product idea onto.

I'm a Mozilla fan and wanted a privacy respecting, libre thin-client that kept advertising money coming into Mozilla's coffers so they can continue their mission.

Focusing on that and Firefox was the way. Unfortunately, Mozilla is a little lost.

[0]https://twitter.com/yenic/status/493525970628771842

[1]https://twitter.com/yenic/status/502297565199872000
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Easily move? It seems to me that you have no serious experience in the real world. There's something called "data gravity", and the non-secondary issue of how to migrate a "live" system (in production) from one cloud to another over the course of typically several weeks.

Moving from one cloud to another, even with containers, is never easy at large scale.

(source: I have worked at AWS for 6 years, at VMware for 2, and I've seen hundreds of clients go through this exercise)
This is true. It may not be a truth people in professional circles like to here. But PCs used to be mass market consumer products in the 90s (during the internet boom) but now Smartphones, tablets and in some cases set top boxes have taken their place.
There's not much to see, it's just a window sticker like the registration. It has the highest allowed odometer reading. For cars this is just checked against your dash odometer, for heavy vehicles (over 2.5 tonne iirc) it's checked against a tamper proof hub mounted odometer.
You could use a tombstone record instead of deleting outright, and the batch update could skip copies that have corresponding tombstones.
https://qz.com/694340/the-richest-families-in-florence-in-14...
I don't know the answer yet (my being a parent is still work in progress, you know...) but I think my son will earn my trust to let him go to and from school by himself in a few years. I don't think there will a sharp demarcation line at 18 or any other age: you are under constant supervision up to here, and completely on your own from here on.

It's just that I don't think it's so important for him at this age to learn to negociate the street traffic, even if I was roaming the streets when I was his age. Can he do it? Sure. Are there dangers? You bet. Are they negligible? Maybe, some people say they are, some are freaked out. But we have a huge bias in our perception: we are all alive. We enjoyed our freedom when we were kids, but some of us died, and we, the survivors, tend to not include their experience in our assessment of the dangers.

I did play with carbide cannons as a kid, and also with matches, firecrackers, I climbed trees, and of course, I got in numerous fights with other boys. And here I am, safe and sound, living proof that it's ok to do all of those. Only the proof is flawed. One of my coworkers had a classmate die while playing with a carbide cannon. It's really not that safe to play with carbide cannons, or with fire, or to dash across the street right before a car was passing (forgot to mention I did that too).
Find an ISO of the Long-Term Servicing Branch distribution - LTSB. It has all of the crap stripped out, and is quite fantastic. All the goodness, nothing that people complain about constantly with Win 10. No Edge, no Store, no Cortana, no ads or telemetry.

I accidentally downloaded it from MSDN after my laptop's hard drive failed and I couldn't find any of my previously-burned DVDs or USB sticks.
Yeah, I visited Rome last month, which is a city filled with small fuel efficient cars and really expensive gasoline. I didn't see a single electric. My guess is that because people live in apartments, they haven't figured out how to get charging at street level. It seemed there were parking permits for residents, but people don't own their spaces. For now its an interesting, unsolved problem.
And among the hundreds of thousands of older apps are apps built by smaller teams to supplement other things i.e. web services that struggle to keep everything maintained.

It's far more important that the apps remain usable to their end users than it is that they adapt perfectly to a slightly larger screen size :s

Apple's development platform moves too quickly for many developers to keep pace with. It's not that all these apps are not valuable or misleading to customers.
Just furthers my point.
Heaviest app on my phone ever.

Yea I don't have the latest Nexus smartphone, but I am sure it's not coded as good as it could and should be.
It always boggles my mind how often I come across people that don't understand how our tax system works...
I do agree with this... Microsoft handled this terribly and the opt-out should have been obvious and permanent.
You have two options. The first is to not move to phase two until EVERY record is duplicated. Looks like that's what they did.

The other option is the on-demand option you mentioned. The biggest issue I see is the latency to fetch that information is suddenly a lot more random. If it's not in DB B then you have to fetch from A and write into B before returning the information.
Israel is the 7th largest arms dealer in the world. The US aid has not killed anything of it. On the contrary, it has helped it grow since (until this year) 25% of the aid given was given in cash and could be spent on domestic weapons. Today he Israeli and US weapons industries have many competing products thanks to the aid.

It is true that Israel is supposed to not export sensitive technology to China, but that is more a factor of being a US ally than strings attached to the aid. Canada also shares a lot of stuff with the US, but does not align themselves with China despite not getting any military aid.

And weapons are fungible. The $3.8 billion in weapons the US provides the state with means that it saves exactly $3.8 billion to spend elsewhere. Giving away free weapons is a very poor job program in comparison to funding jobs that would help the US economy (such as building and repairing infrastructure) rather than hurt it.
> 2. Like Whatsapp, server has to store the message until the receiver is online again (until they open the app).

The server actually has to store it for a maximum of 30 days [0]. Snaps get deleted after 30 days (even if they're unopened). They're deleted immediately once the Snapchat servers get confirmation they've been viewed.

[0]: https://www.snap.com/en-US/news/post/how-snaps-are-stored-an...
In another article [1], the GAO says that they cannot talk about any information in the report because it is still in preparation and has not been publicly made available, so others cannot even verify the claims of the author. The preliminary report must have been leaked to the author of the WSJ article.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/2/14490946/spacex-rocket-engi...
This is mostly marketing bullshit [1][2] and misses the point entirely. There is competition on mobile because it's a captive market: the device ships with an OS with integration into first-party services like search and maps, and the default first-party app and content store, where the house takes a cut. Whoever controls the platforms gets the eyeballs, thanks to the power of defaults.

Until recently, the highest marketshare desktop OS, Windows, was a utility and not a content-monetizing platform, but Windows 10 brought it up to the level that was long standard on mobile. Google Search, Chrome the Browser, Chrome OS and Chromebooks are Google's progressively vertical takes on inviting a user into the Google data ecosystem in a non-mobile form factor, proving that Windows's weakness was that Google could monetize these users without having to control the hardware, but getting cheap first-party hardware into the hands of people is always a plus.

In all likelihood, the same would've happened to Firefox OS anyway if it had become successful -- the celebrated 'open' mobile OS would be just another entry point into the same exact platforms that managed to rise to prominence on Windows -- a proprietary but laissez-faire ecosystem where anyone could run an application to do just about anything. Over time, a few players bubbled to the top, and now they're shipping their own hardware to cut out the middleman.

[1] http://www.smartinsights.com/mobile-marketing/mobile-marketi... [2] http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/10/29/technology-device-owne...
To say you are comparing apples to oranges would be an understatement. Your comparison went from kind of making sense to making no sense at all.
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I'm impressed by someone being able to write their own decoder, wrong color range or not.
Astoria was the start of a lot of the technology behind the Windows Subsystem for Linux, if i remember correctly. I use WSL every day, so that was definitely not a failure in my book.
this is good news for having only to test for <10 but bad for my Node.JS projects with native bindings which have been only fixable in recent versions due to node gyp.
He just got to 2^30, which implies a 20 year generation time. Pretty reasonable before the 20th century.
I've actually contemplated building something similar, but to find if a product you want to use is run by someone who has previously screwed over the customer base of a previous product of theirs. Like allowing an acquisition and immediate shutdown of a product.
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I remember a discussion on HN (I think) about the Skype windows client, where an ex-dev told tales about how horrible their code base is. It sounded like an engineers nightmare. They also employ(ed?) several obfuscation techniques and stuff like runtime memory encryption, just to 'protect' their protocol from being reverse engineered. I can imagine that things didn't improve much over the last decade and that their Android/iOS app doesn't look much better internally.
Uber's business practices have at times exhibited a disregard for the rule of law and in Austin a disregard for the will of of the people expressed through local democratic process. The Uber CEO's tech celebrity status does not impart status as a voice of reason (nor does it disqualify them) assuming that we have a solid definition of what constitutes a voice of reason. My take is that the Uber CEO's action was political speech for political and business ends and that like all political speech it came with political benefits and political costs.

I also doubt it will mitigate the effect of the Uber hashtag. I don't think there's much general goodwill among most people because most people have had crappy jobs and see the sharing economy for what it is...surge pricing and no health care and no paid vacation and a job that might go away because some drunk complained of insufficient kowtow.

Uber didn't get out front of the hashtag and is playing PR catchup against a well constructed propaganda campaign and some group of investors is making money and money is always associated with White House politics and smart money plays both parties (and only having two parties keeps costs down).

Finally, in my opinion it is usually a political mistake to dismiss one's opponents actions as naive or lacking reason or absent of critical thought. Expressing political will is a naked form of reasoned thought and the hashtag is such an expression for many people.
I think Techcrunch read:

We have committed to spend $2 billion with Google Cloud over the next five years

and decided "that's $2B/5=$400M per year."

In reality, it's probably more like $200M, $300M, $400M, $500M, $600M
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Ha! Assuming we're discussing the US, I'm consistently amazed at how complicated it is. The number of tax accountants and wide success of TurboTax lend credence to the idea that it's more complicated than a lot of people want to deal with.
Hmm. Cloud computing expert here, too. I partially disagree.

I would simply say "it depends". For companies with specific use cases, e.g. Dropbox, it makes A LOT of sense to build at least 60-70% private, and the rest on AWS or GCP. Snapchat looks like a special case to me.
EVs would be completely viable and cheaper then ICE right now if we had more functional government. It is not terribly difficult to add inductive charging to roads from an engineering perspective.
What happens when you need to split one physical database into two physical databases?
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Commercial truck drivers can have their log books inspected at weigh stations, if they haven't had the required rest (or don't have a logbook), they have to stop and stay off the road.
I guess I should have been more specific. Really I mean the basics like how tax brackets and deductions work.
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Tesla is under $190kwh for their battery packs and falling.
Interesting read. Looking forward to Star Citizen and Squadron 42 releases for Linux.
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The battery doesn't generate any energy though, it just stores it. I mean, technically, the gasoline is just storing energy too, but it was generated naturally long ago. You still have to burn some fuel somewhere to recharge the battery each time.
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I pay pretty close attention. I browse with showdead on. Can you clarify what you mean by "don't show up at all"? Posts by banned users are dead as soon as they're posted, but I think you mean something else. Do you have a couple of examples of what you're talking about?
Can I get someone's opinion on Snap? Is it worth paying attention to?

My understanding is that it's a package manager that installs applications in their own isolated Linux sandbox, meaning you can install/distribute them on any distribution.. right?

Does that mean software like node.js or nginx/apache will be available via Snap?
Yes. If it is your habit to stake other people's lives on your subjective opinion that you don't need sleep to be a safe driver, despite evidence to the contrary, those other people have every right to deter and punish your choice.
Skype wasn't originally written by Microsoft, so who knows how the code looks like. I know the linux client was god awful.
That's no longer the case for some time
Correct. There are multiple different ways to transfer knowledge in between tasks. We are talking here about transfer learning with deep neural networks where it is proven to work with several advantages over training a model end to end on your own. There are multiple decisions you need to make even with transfer learning like which layer to use for transfer, how much fine-tuning should be done, based on how much data you have which we are trying to automate.
>You can "increase" your battery capacity by ordering a $9,000 software update.

Thats only for certain specific model and delivery time combinations.

i.e just before they introduced the 90kWh option in production, some 85kWh cars were shipping with the 90kWh pack.

If you ordered a particular pack before the next step size started shipping, then that's all you got.

>Tesla batteries only show very little degradation because their capacity is limited by software

Not true. It's mostly to do with active management of the battery, and keeping it within the optimal conditions for much of it's life. These are things your phone and laptop can't (or rather: don't) do.

Everyone tends to plug in their laptop/phone and charge to 100%, then leave it there for long periods of time. Plus, laptops and phones tend to get very hot, and there's no active cooling of the battery.

This combination of conditions tends to reduce the life of batteries significantly.
Here's a link [1] to a description of the point-based immigration systems in Australia, Canada and the UK. They all seem to be much more permissive than the US. And no, they don't allow everyone in.

[1] https://loc.gov/law/help/points-based-immigration/index.php
Facebook is worth $377B today. Could you explain why Snapchat is or will be worth that much?
CM is dead for sure.
If the tests don't simulate flight stresses, they are bad tests.
So the US wasn't a government until 1875 when the first immigration law was passed?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_Act_of_1875
I can't tell if you're joking but Snap is Snapchat. So not a package manager at all.
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I don't see how you reached that conclusion.

He's written about this in his book. He exaggerates and says something controversial in order to get people talking about things they'd otherwise like to ignore. Why isn't this a possibility in your mind, here?
Looking closer, you can't incorporate GPL code in a EUPL project, but you can incorporate EUPL code in a GPL project. The EUPL explicitly is allowed to be used as part of GPLv2 project, and indirectly as part of a GPLv2 project via the CeCILL v2 licenses which has a similar provision.
Even deductions can get pretty hairy, in my experience. And frankly, if you have to say "just the basics", you're talking about a system that has more than just the basics. :)
Has Steve killed himself yet?
Anything specific about their tests? I found this doc: http://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
Is the layoff part wrong too?
Those are good points... I guess was just implying more along the lines of a larger scale citizens oppression a la rounding up people on a national scale. Kent or the march are akin to police shootings that we still currently have happening as far as scale/injuries but I guess that's being semantic.

Riots (even imposed by the people there to "control them") will always be difficult, confusing, awful situations. However the hyperbole of this problem being akin to Nazi Germany bothers me. Our military would simply tell a President to go get fucked before they would round up US citizens.
> What problem is this code trying to solve?

I think you missed the point of this hack - the problem he's trying to solve is described in the article:

> The common issue associated with switch statement is typically maintenance; especially where the set of ‘valid’ values needs extending.

He wants the efficiency of the switch statement for all the cases he knows about and a fallback to the less efficient if clauses if that fails due to new cases being added. It's a pretty silly example but let's face it - it's more for fun than elegance.
I love sqlite, and I also love MySQL/MongoDB/PG/HBase/TiDB...just use the right tool for different job.
Well, it isn't called the Main Street Journal!
Pretty sure those other companies declared an intention to make a profit. Saying the opposite is indeed news.

And sure, the company might turn the corner. But seriously why would investors pay $3 billion with a pitch like this? I guess they're just playing other investors in the end. There seems neither money making capacity here nor the promise of it by their own admission.

Are you saying we should ignore their clear words on this topic and decide the management is wrong and they'll probably end up profitable?
So like any other country, Saudi Arabia has factions with their own interests?
The filing says:

> On January 30, 2017, we entered into the Google Cloud Platform License Agreement. Under the agreement, we were granted a license to access and use certain cloud services. The agreement has an initial term of five years and we are required to purchase at least $400.0 million of cloud services in each year of the agreement, though for each of the first four years, up to 15% of this amount may be moved to a subsequent year. If we fail to meet the minimum purchase commitment during any year, we are required to pay the difference.