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Feynman is great, very amusing and obviously brilliant. But I've also worked with folks like him before who end up as fish out of water in fields they don't know the conventions for and can't be bothered to learn.

Lots of time is wasted trying to figure out how to get the rest of the company to communicate with the lone genius, and it's obvious that they're smart enough to go away for a week and learn enough of the field they're working in to try to use the language and vocabulary of that field to be minimally effective.

I've been on the receiving end of these kinds of analysis and the result is that they seem to exist purely to showcase how smart the individual is and to provide no other meaningful input to the effort. In this case the engineers ignored Feynman, did their own analysis anyways and followed their own conclusion...the subtext here is that multiple people were not getting along with Feynman's way of doing things.

He turned out right in the end of course, because Feynman, but there's lots of people who think they're Feynman and aren't and it's hard to tell the difference sometimes.
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For me, the best sentence in the essay was "Nothing made him angrier than making something simple sound complicated".
Making mistakes is part of human nature. It's best to expect that a lot of things will go wrong, items will be lost, deadlines won't be kept, driving won't be done correctly, your boss won't know that doing $thing will cause $badthings (including annoyed employees), code will be written suboptimally, people will say stuff that hurts other people, people who hurt other people will claim they acted perfectly normally, etc.
I read that as, "The First Braille Sandwich"
At many gas stations, at least in Europe, you can only drive trough in one direction. There is just no space to turn your car in the other direction without getting blocked if the station is busy.
The cynic in me things this is a case of "We use chrome so we developed for chrome - we'll fix other browsers later" (Yes I'm bitter about the state of the cross-browser development sometimes)
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I think this is the first real tactile display product I've seen go to market. Have there been any other big ones?
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It's unbelievable isn't it? I live in the UK and had the same experience with a big telecom company. I'm calling them up to become a customer and give them money and I'm treated with rudeness and indifference. As someone running a startup it feels totally insane and I wonder if all big companies end up like this. Then when something like this new service comes about the incumbents are up in arms, how do they possibly expect any sympathy.
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You can just request a checkmark from https://support.twitter.com/articles/20174631.

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And you would also have to make the model available to the client, which is not reasonable in many commercial applications.
> I don't like the outcome of reality so it must be fake.

Im actually beginning to suspect that american liberals are batshit insane.
Can't you spell words letter by letter if it's fast enough?
> TFAA

Huh. What does this abbreviation mean in this context?
I'm at a total loss here, and the only relevant google result is this thread.
I thought REST didn't define much so basically every API can be REST conform.

Just because HATEOAS makes REST APIs better, doesn't mean those without the use of it aren't REST.

Even SOAP can be REST conform.

Anyway, I guess with the rise of GraphQL, which is more strict (at least in its definition) REST will go away and we will have better dev life's.
...and the "other half" (as if there are only two perspectives) scapegoat just as handily: corporations, racist people, sexist people, homophobic people, Russian hackers, Fox News, the bourgeois, disloyal white women, people who "vote against their interests", patriotic people, spiritual people, uneducated people, cherry-picked structural injustice, and pretty much anything that doesn't support their preconceived notions of the world.

I'm frankly tired of people seeing problems and immediately outgrouping others, attaching blame, and spewing hate. This will continue to be a disease in our culture until people can learn to understand and disagree and live and let live.
> But over time numerous people started told me that no it's actually all wrong for one reason or another. I've heard that I should never use anything except GET and POST.

I used to work for a place where people said exactly that. It was then followed with comments that anything other than GET and POST posed a security risk.

There's still a staggering amount of ignorance out there of HTTP; even amongst those who claim to be web developers.
Thanks for building this! What data did you base the graphs on? Did you extract these data from Gartner reports? If so, which ones?

Although I see a bunch of things on the graph, I don't know what they imply. For example I see Heroku in the "challenged" state -- challenged by whom? As far as I know Heroku is still big and growing.

And I see PostgreSQL being "more challenged" than MySQL. What backs up this claim? I get the feeling that PostgreSQL is getting significantly more buzz and development after the fall of MySQL (as a result of the Oracle takeover).

I also see containers being on the verge of being challenged. But I thought containers are still very much up and coming? So I'm confused.

More explanation would definitely help.
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I said it when they released allo (or was duo?) but this one is going to be a huge success! /s
Are there any alternate communities that have actually had that as a goal? If not, you can hardly count that as a failure.

Most alternative communities were set up to explicitly de-emphasize the goal of material wealth in exchange for emotional, religious or environmental wealth.
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"teach them to ride a bike one at a time"

(as parent of twins trying to be "fair" :)

"apologise early"
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Ask HN: Why isn't VoIP better?
I'm very sensitive to bad call quality. I'm very easy going about most things, but poor sound quality or an intermittent connection on a call, make it completely impossible for me to maintain normal communication and also makes me extremely cross.

As a result I am very attuned to the general quality of different call services. I always know when I'm on a PSTN that terminates to another PSTN - yes maybe the voices are a bit trebly but the connection is so consistent and wonderful. I actually appreciate the quality of those calls.

Skype, Viber, our own corporate VOIP system (whatever the hell it is) all drive me completely nuts. I have 240MB/s at home, but still VOIP lets me down: about 1 in 3 calls is of a quality I am happy with.

I guess my question is: will this ever be solved to my satisfaction, or is it simply the nature of the beast and "good enough" for most people?
Yeah this one hit home a bit too close.
When you say you want the server to assign the identifier and additional fields, then I guess this would be considered read-only metadata against the resource. I don't recall seeing anything stating that in my RESTful travels.
If only Hangouts had a native client on Windows or Mac it would have been enough already. It works like a charm on iOS devices.
'The gently caressing article above'? Maybe? It's new to me, too.
Well actually in the next few paragraphs they do end up trusting Feynman's analysis and go with 5. And it worked.
Only if the winner is the one that deceives more users.
You ask for guarantees that an account will never be suspended, or that a service will never be discontinued.

I don't think that's even possible.

For one - abuse is a real thing.

Just ask Amazon about abuse and spam on their AWS platform. There is a reason that you can't just type in any credit card, and spin up 100 EC2 instances, or send 100,000 emails - depending on signals, Amazon seem to manually verify some accounts. But on top of that, they take proactive steps to suspend accounts acting in suspicious ways.

We do much the same.

It is a hard problem, and undoubtedly there are false positive and false negatives. That is regrettable - but I don't think allowing AWS or GCP to become a free haven for spammers or abusers is the answer.

You are correct that we need good procedures to deal with appeals of these things.

Regarding never deprecating a product - Google has started many products, and some of those have been shutdown. I know there's a lot of angst on HackerNews about Google Reader in particular - I myself used it a lot in fact. However, taking off my Google hat - of all companies, they are usually the best about letting you export your data, or migrate it away. When a product gets shutdown, you usually have 6 months, a year etc. to export your data. Even before I started there, they had Google Takeout which basically lets you export your data from any Google product in portable formats e.g. mbox, JSON files etc. Open standards are important to us - e.g. see our work on Kubernetes.

If there's a specific are you think we're failing on - please let me know, and I'll see if there's anything I am able to share, or if there's somebody I can link you up with.
You are not looking for the word "socialism". The word you are looking for has the highest approval rating in this poll. Then everything makes sense.
Maybe the code base contains a bunch of edge cases where they assume 140 and trying to do anything else causes crashes or other poorly defined misbehavior. (Not what you were talking about but also a legitimate but unfortunate answer)
The hose would stretch, but it could touch the body of the car and filling on the other side isn't as convenient because the hose gets bent near the handle.

A similar number of cars with LHS/RHS filler caps would make for some nice load balancing at the pumps, but the problem is that most European and American manufacturers put it on the right side, regardless of vehicle model. Japanese cars sold in the US and Europe mostly have it on the left because the cars were originally designed for LHT and the engineers didn't bother to switch it. Many Nissans also have the dials of the dashboard in the center in order to cut some expenditure in producing LHT/RHT cars.
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Their JSON have an key called payload which saves a String rather than an Object, is there any benefits to doing this? since they also escape the " in the String
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Norwegian hoses are, in general, too short to reach over the car. (If they're long enough, you've probably wound up at a truck pump, and had better think twice before pulling the trigger on the filler pistol...)

My filler cap is on the left (Toyota Land Cruiser); my wife cannot remember which side the cap is on, but she DOES remember that she can spot the lid using the mirrors, so we're both happy.
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Good luck to those losing their jobs, and good luck to the university staff and students - you're going to need it. HCL is terrible.
How about we get basics down first...like being able to send snippets/screenshots with hangouts.
No, if you read properly you will see I am claiming these community engines have a lot of road to travel and tires to burn, before they can compete with Unity,Unreal,CryEngine and Cocos2D-x features and tooling.
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I'm writing an NaaS in Idris as we speak.
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Cellular automata-- a dead end.
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It kills itself to fast.
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see the article i linked to, there is a good number of new games where the 6900K is faster than the 7700k or at least on the same level.
The Costco near me is the first petrol station I've been to in a long time that doesn't do this!
I wonder what Feynman would be working on if he was a programmer today.
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I came across this before and found the section "An Algorithm For Logarithms" interesting.

As pointed out (in second para. of that section) Feynman's observation about representing a number as product of terms of the form $1 + 2^{-k}$ reduces the problem of estimating log to computing those values k which appear in the product. (Btw the article incorrectly claims the representation is unique.)

There's an obvious linear time algorithm for finding a sequence of values k but I don't think that would really perform so well compared to, say, Newton-Raphson.

So I wonder why this was a good approach. Perhaps there's a smart way to estimate the k or perhaps it just happened to fit the constraints under which they were working.

Anyone have some insights?
Nothing you describe hasn't already been done by others.
Yes, but it's not really $500 for 1 GB if you're getting the board for free.

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I was thinking they should host the little green check mark icons on s3.
That's nowhere near as cynical as "the more things are exclusive to Chrome, the more market share Chrome gets through lock-in and so the more data we can harvest." Which is what I'd guess is the real reason.
From personal experience I can say a smoky bar feels really bad. I feel it in stomache and throat (and it smelled so aweful I couldn't even keep the dirty clothes in my room).

No science needed, please let me have a beer without smelling like an ashtray and needing medicin to calm my stomache.
Why don't they just drive in from the other direction?
Google is going to have to reinvent a federated chat protocol just to reign in their own products...
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I had to replace the filler tube on my Land Cruiser a while ago; I was momentarily puzzled why there were a couple of angled pieces of sheet metal tacked to the lower tube interior.

Then I realized that it would make it near impossible to get a hose of any significant diameter into the tank.

I bet some Toyota engineer had to experiment for a while to come up with a solution which enabled the fuel to flow down the tube fast enough to avoid a diesel geysir - while still making siphoning impractical...
That's why one of my options is a custom hash algorithm table; Multihash has explicit support for using your own hash functions. AFAIK part of the implementation of custom hash function table entry in Multihash is a protocol to encode metadata alongside the hash, e.g. by appending the salt to the hash, perhaps separated by some special character (e.g. base64 encoded hash + ":" + base64 encoded salt). This is not part of the table, so maybe that would make it inconvenient to use. I haven't read enough of the code to know.

I do think it would be much nicer to have this in the Multihash library itself. Easy hash function migration is a great feature to have when you have to store user passwords.

I also find standardized text-based formats for storing multiple types of hashes in one field interesting, but I'm not sure if it's worth the effort to implement myself vs. extending Multihash. I like that Multihash encapsulates the parsing logic and that it has libraries in many languages, so I can easily interact with the DB entries from e.g. scripts or new codebases.

I think the cool thing about Multihash is the very broad platform support, the small scope, the convenient API to interact with a DB + hash function table, and the default function table; I'd only be missing out on the default function table if I were to use a custom function table.
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Every braille display strip ever? I mean this isn't exactly big itself, as in, it hasn't proven to be big yet. There was also a tactile clock, iirc involving a pair of spheres on a dial instead of pointers.
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It also explicitly supports using your own hash function table, but I agree it'd be useful to have password-storage suitable hash functions included in the defaults.
Sorry for asking, but you might have a better insight. I have two questions, which you might answer:

- Is it possible, officially supported way, to have both GTX and Quadro at the same time in the machine? I prefer GTX for rendering speed (Redshift renderer), but I need 10-bit output Quadro has which GTX doesn't have.

- Are there GTX (1080 TI in this case) cards out there which don't take double PCI space? I don't need multiple outputs and I can hook them up to the water block, if needed. I need as many cards in a single workstation case as possible for rendering. I've seen people saw/solder off stuff from cards in order to get at that, but not something I would do personally. Ideally I would prefer to have eight 1080 TIs in a single machine along with a single (modest) Quadro for 10-bit output to three monitors - are there even motherboards that could support that?

Note that I'm looking for workstation / deskside solution, not server 747-fan-sound-behemoths.
Where do you live where you can get 2 gigabit speeds at home?
Feynman died almost 30 years ago ... I think it's pretty safe to assume it's not recent news, even without the (1989)
Surprisingly, when I tried it, NFS outperformed virtio-9p handily across the board. I really was not expecting that result. Perhaps there is a way to tell the host to assume the VM is the only writer to that the exposed path, so the client can do efficient caching?
It's more likely he meant 240Mbit/s
Yeah, plus what happens now is you get these almost garbled, code-like sentences with emojis, inB4 type abbreviations, truncated URLS, hashtags, @ references and its unreadable/unscannable. I would totally prefer a 140 character block where the hashtags, @references and links fell outside and I coukd parse the tweet more naturally.
"We'll do amazing things tomorrow!" and "We'll do amazing things the day after tomorrow!" are still amazing things; Musk timelines just come pre-Hofstadter'd.
240 Mbps. So AFAIK 240 megabits per second. Is my original notation ambiguous?
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But the BB is ~$50? Literally 10x?
> It was just too advanced for its time

As in, too advanced to implement the basic functionality before being that advanced. But I think there's enough evidence: only those who were physically forced to use it could have used it then. Which was my initial opinion.

P.S. Have you personally used VisualAge C++ in the nineties? Can you tell a bit about your use too? I see you're linking the other things that weren't and aren't that VisualAge C++ thing. Thanks.
No, it's like a virtual proccess but with simpler memory layout. If you try to read or write memory outside of the allowed range it will trap (which is like segmentation fault on Linux) but it doesn't check any individual array for out of bound access because it doesn't actually know where are arrays in the memory.
It doesn't look like he disabled it, I can follow him.
Receiving megabytes of untrusted blobs of compiled code from websites? Perhaps even DRM encrypted? What could possibly go wrong.

At least js could be unminified and many standard libraries are somewhat trusted.
Nice project, needs a bit of work though, mostly in the form of explaining the data in the graphs.

Also, two points:
* It's SQLite, not SqlLite.
* Yeoman has been around for ages and I've never met a person who actually uses it. How is it under "Release"?
This is just the next iteration of hangouts, which was already pivoting to enterprise, re-branded. Kinda necessary, since hangouts doesn't really suggest business use.
That isn't just a Google issue though. You'd have had the exact same trouble with AWS/RDS if you're running with no replica. The lack of filesystem access is a security "feature" for both. If you have no HA setup then you have no recourse but to restore to a new server from backup, or wait for your cloud provider to fix it.
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In any case their wealth shouldn't be redistributed to the American middle class, rather the global poor, as should the wealth of the American middle class and poor.
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It's probably because most people have horrible quality microphones.
To be clear, I think we're talking about REST without HATEOAS. And I think this is better, imo, as you can write your client knowing the protocol. I've not come across a convincing description of why HATEOAS is a good thing at all. And I say this as someone who thinks capability based design is a good thing.

The reasons I have against it are that

1. I think it complicates the client because it needs to discover the api at runtime instead of just coding it up in a straight forward manner.

2. Receiving the capabilities seems to imply that these are the activities that can succeed. But they don't have to succeed. So you still have to handle errors. So you may as well know up front what the whole API is and handle errors, etc.

3. Dynamic apis are resistant to pipelining if you don't know what the next url will be.

But I'm here to learn, so please hit me with a clue stick and explain why REST sans HATEOAS is not better.
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Did anyone actually check if this isn't just the same codebase repeatedly released as differently-named products, in hope that eventually one sticks?
Possibly OP was incorrectly confusing Mbps and MBps but in Japan Sony offers 2Gb/s for home connections.

I had their 1Gb/s plan for ~6000JPY/Month when I was living in Kyoto. Was great
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I find I agree.

- lossy vs lossless codecs
(PSTN isn't analogue end-to-end any more, but is lossless as far as I'm aware. VoIP seems to have been about squeezing as much traffic down the pipe as possible, at the expense of quality.)

- circuit vs packet switched networks
(Congestion, contention, jitter on shared packet switched networks. While I'm sure PSTN doesn't have "physical" circuit switching any more, I do get the impression that high-bandwidth bearers are chopped into fixed-width chunks, like 64k ISDN, and will reach capacity and stop accepting demand rather than degrade individual connections)

For me, wideband audio helps, even with the jitter and lossy codec. This is starting to become common in the UK on cellular calls between smartphones, even between different network providers. Audio bandwidth is comparable to Facetime Audio.