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Internal or outsourced?

If it is outsourced keep in mind you are most likely going to be hiring just for the coding side of dev work.

You will still need to handle requirements gathering, design, specs, wire-frames, quality assurance, project management, project vision, scope, etc.

I'm pointing this out because most of the time an internal dev handles a decent chunk of these tasks.

I'd always recommend at most a 1:2 ratio of internal to outsourced.
For good or bad reasons, you made the right choice: the article was full of crap (bad understandings, lack of historical knowledge and just technical knowledge even about current tools versions, bad references, bias, repeating blindly wrong or outdated rants, etc.).

You could also have guessed it when you noticed it was a kid student showing up (and off) with a lengthy critic on the historical evolution of UNIX tools and others OSes and tools that he discovered a couple of years ago, while you possibly were using them and watching them evolve while he was still in his father's bollocks (and some of us (not me) were working on UNIXes while his father was a kid). You know what to expect in this case, especially if you remember having produced the same kind of over-confident and yet uninformed rant in your days :-) (I do :-D )
Excellent point. The long cycle life will make them very attractive, and weight is not a problem for a stationary application.
Wow, Teen Vogue can teach the Guardian a thing or two about how to listen to relevant people and how to get the facts right.

The whole Guardian incident shows the desire/need of media outlets to write sensationalist pieces even though the stories are completely misleading and could potentially cause at risk users to move to less secure communication platforms. Anything that triggers outrage always gets more eyeballs which translates to more ad revenue and this seems to be the driving force for media outlets these days.

It's obvious that the authors and editors over at Guardian are aware of how misleading their articles about WhatsApp's so called backdoor were, yet they have no incentive to acknowledge that they were wrong and retract those articles. Another case of media outlets' incentives not being in the best interest of the general public.

Also worth mentioning another case where media outlets chase sensationalism over facts, proper research and due diligence was the Wallstreetjournal's piece on Youtuber pewdewpie being anti-semitic. WSJ again ran misleading articles about pewdewpie and took a lot of videos completely out of context to make him look like a nazi. That piece led to many deals/contracts with media companies being canceled because of public outrage.

The point is, fake news has real consequences. Imagine the consequences of activists adopting email or telegram to exchange messages in oppressive regimes, becuase of Guardian's articles.
I'm curious how much of a boon Chromebooks/low cost laptops were for schools in low-income areas. I can imagine they made quite a significant impact!
Yes, actually I have. It fits in a niche which a lot of Java was previously used (backend servers).
Unrelated to OnStar but similar issue here. I have a common name @ gmail from 2004 and get all sorts of information.

A MetLife VP keeps sending me confidential financial stuff. Several other people around the world too, bank stuff, car stuff you name it.

I've stopped trying to "fix" the situations and just mark them as spam and move on.
For your first search, I see "Operator Glossary - Haskell Lang" as the 9th result.
Here's a timeline of the Guardian's coverage and subsequent response. They tried to stand by their misleading articles, then said their ombudsman was on holiday, and were never heard from again.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nqlE6UQjbUmgoMeJCePVcY5f...
They don't need to give the kids laptops or tablets to take home, but having each child be able to do individual computer-supported exercises at their own desk—in effect, turning every classroom into a computer lab—has important benefits for lesson planning.
I'd say the current stories about people enforcing poorly written rules at the border prove you wrong.

People say yes to scientists, but not if they're from certain countries. On top of that we have scientists from Europe being stopped at the border, making it unlikely that they or their compatriots may try to make the trip in the future. I know of at least one computer conference that has discussed moving the venue outside the US to try and mitigate the issues at the border.

While you may be right that no one debates elite people in their respective fields from moving or coming to the US, the enforcement is causing exactly the opposite to occur.

So, I respectfully disagree with you that what you suggest would be acceptable.
It's sad, but Apple has completely lost it at the low end. The value proposition just isn't there any more. This goes for iOS as well as Macs.
Each 48 core cpu lists for $800. So why does the base system start at $6399?
> provide evidence that they find compelling

A link to their tweet about the status page not working because the building was burning down around it seems compelling.
I remember the huge push when the iPad came out and all the talk about how it would replace textbooks and exercise books.

It could only be because school administrators were won-over by the engaging user-experience - completely overlooking practicalities - back in 2010 even into 2014 iOS lacked decent enterprise-management tools that would enable staff to lock devices down as they're obvious distraction devices - things are made worse by Apple's decision to not have multiple user-profiles on the iPad and confusion with how Apple IDs work. I understand they've gone some way to address those issues - but other concerns still apply, such as the vision of a wide range of high-quality (and interactive, no-less!) iBooks to replace textbooks - simply hasn't happened due to massive cost of authoring even a single iBook. But the main blocker I feel is that staff (both teachers and school district IT folks) just don't want to have to manage them. I know an IT contractor who resigned his job at a private school after having to deal with setting up hundreds of iPad Mini devices for every student - he just simply hated the work involved.

As Apple is neglecting the desktop market, they're just as well neglecting the education market: remember when Apple had massive education market penetration in the late-1980s? Now there's not even an equivalent of the old eMac unless you count the now 3-years-old Mac Mini models.
> companies normally try to price it so it goes up about 20 percent on the first day

Can someone explain this to me? Why would a company try to sell its shares for less than they could get? When I see something like this - 44% up on the first day - I immediately think that this was a complete failure as an IPO, because the company left so much money on the table.

Am I crazy? Or can someone set me straight.
It's one of the worst offenders I've ever seen.

You know those carousels everybody hates that everybody puts on their websites... this startup made their entire website a carousel :(
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> Being able to directly pass s-expressions between between programs without the format/parse/typing hokey-pokey of Unix and Windows would be nice.

Genera did not have programs, it is all just function calls.

There was a multi-user LMI Lisp machine that ran Unix concurrently, that used streams to communicate between the two Lisp and one Unix processors: http://www.1000bit.it/ad/bro/lmi/LISP-MachinePR_Photo.pdf

Formats for inter-process communication are hard and far from a solved problem. Just look at what has come out in the past 10 years: Thrift, Protocol Buffers, Cap'n Proto, FlatBuffers, SBE, probably twice as many others I haven't heard of.
I've used a MacBook before, yes. And, so, don't get me wrong, I've hated every moment of using one. I don't like the OS. I don't like the aesthetic. There is absolutely nothing about the MacBook I like.

But I am very able to recognize that I am not everyone, that there are a lot of people who like their MacBooks, that Apple's build quality is the best there is, that Apple's support is top-notch, that you can FIND Apple support in any major city in the US. That they are built to last. A Taiwanese MacBook visual knockoff running Linux isn't a MacBook killer. If you want one? Good for you. But the majority of the market for a MacBook, in fact, is not buying them because of the color. Making your laptop the same color as Apple's doesn't make your laptop a competitor.
Hyperthreading is not a virtual core and as it doesn't exist as a separate core its hard for it to be idling. Bad analogies make for less than adequate understanding.
Ironically, the people that said "No" just answered a binary question for $0.00. So, does that mean their answer is "yes"?
> When you connect your Gmail to Signal, it infers who your strongest relationships are

Guess how it does that... they say on their own page it scrapes email addresses.
What about when you factor in mobo costs?
Ever wonder why Oberon keeps popping up here?
The premise is that when you to inject tech into teaching it is unarguably better and always an improvement. Why it's better is rarely explained sensibly and so far as I know never really supported with data. I think there are good uses of tech in classrooms, but much of the time it's forced and pointless and expensive.
But they've lost it at the high-end too: the MacPro's internals are now over 3 years old with still no update in site, AV pros are switching to HP Z-series and the MBP is high-end only in price and design: perf-wise it's quite lacking.

The MacBook Air (with its low price to clear their stock) and Mac Mini are priced right for education, but spec-wise they're poor investments, especially as even web-pages now require beefy specs to display at a decent framerate (blame ads).
How do you know that the owners/staff aren't experienced as landlords or professional property managers?
> Some ornithologists have very strong feelings about hyphens.

Does this article ironically use as many hyphens as possible for comic relief?
That specific example isn't actually true. Even with no prior history if you search "python" the first result is the programming language.

That's because Google is smart and despite the fact that more people know of Python as a snake, when somebody types just "python" into a search query, it's almost definitely true that they mean the programming language. Few people Google for types of snakes.

A similar thing is true for "ruby" and "rust".
Re: macOS: I'm having a hard time seeing how copying a directory with everything necessary contained in it is not a good install procedure. Install a program: copy to the Applications folder. Uninstall a program: Cmd-Delete or drag to trash.

Compare to Linux, where a piece of software is scattered around /usr/bin, /usr/lib, /usr/share, /usr/doc. (Or /usr/local/*, you never know which) Oh, and those fun times where something depends on a libxxx.so.N but all that's on the system is libxxx.so.N.M.O and libxxx.so.N.M for some reason, so you have to make the symlink yourself. Or the distribution has a minimum of version N+1, so your option is to find the source for the library, figure out all the -devel packages it needs, and compile it up (hopefully), or just symlink libxxx.so.N to libxxx.so.N+1 and hope it works. And then the fun of figuring out what the package is named. pdf2text lives in poppler, who would have thought. Need gcc? That will be build-essential on Ubuntu last time I needed it. (Not build-essentials, either)
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> Now things are different when you are talking about non-citizens, but at the end of the day I think we should strive to that same kind of standard. Don't use things like religion, ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, or other things like it as a basis for "flagging" someone.

Don't forget age. Remember, this is America and we are all just consumers. You just ruled out the 5 most obvious things that differentiate one consumer from the next. I guess it's OK in marketing.

> If they are violent, then disallow them based on that.

OK... This falls in the no shit category, but what if they happen to say they aren't violent and have a fake passport, or ID?

> If they surround themselves with violent extremists, then disallow them because of that.

What if they were carrying a clean phone and computer?

> If they publicly speak about how they want to hurt americans, then disallow them because of that.

Fair...But what of they claim to be someone else?

> But don't group someone from the same religion in with them.

Whether it is a human, an animal, a statistical model, or a machine learning model some sort of reduction must occur in order to have any chance comprehension. Deliberately ignoring a significant feature is a form of bias too.

> Yes, that means that it will be harder to "secure our borders" and yes i'm sure that means that bad people will get through at some point, and yes I know that those bad people could very well do a lot of harm. But I really truly believe that more good than harm will come from it simply from the amount of good people that will be coming into the country compared to the bad.

This is legit and a totally reasonable statement. Next time just open and close with this. Skip the do's and don'ts of fair practices at security checkpoints.
In original APL, there was only arrays, and inside each cell in an array you could put scalars. A scalar was simply a number or a character. A string is a single-dimensional array of characters, which is quite logical.

Now, with this design, how do you manage a collection of strings? Turns out you can't, so what old software used to do was so have a two-dimensional array of characters. This works reasonably well, except that this means that all strings have to be the same length. You can work with this, but can be very annoying.

What APL2 introduced was the idea that you can not only put scalars inside an array, but also other arrays. This is of course how pretty much every other programming language works, but at the time (as far as I know, this is way before my time) this was seen as very controversial since it made the language less clean, or "elegant".

To go into some details, you can consider a scalar as an array of dimension zero:

⍴⍴5
0

(⍴⍴ returns the dimension of the argument to the right[1])

Once you have nested arrays, you can also wrap an array inside a scalar. This allows you to more easily treat arrays as single objects:

s ← 'hello' ⍝ Assign the string "hello" to s
⍴⍴s ⍝ Confirm that s is a one-dimensional array
1
s2 ← ⊂s ⍝ The ⊂ wraps its argument as a scalar, assign the result to s2
⍴⍴s2 ⍝ The result now has 0 dimensions
0

[1] To go really deep into the technical details, it returns the dimensions of the dimensions of the argument. A scalar has no dimensions, do ⍴5 returns an empty array. The second ⍴ returns zero because an empty array has zero elements.
I had the same issue with the Galago keyboard. They sent me a replacement board which was far, far worse than the original--it flexed dramatically with every key press. Replaced mine with a 2013 Macbook Pro, and I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
Such as?

I think having computers at home is the one compelling reason for all the "let's give everyone laptops/ipads" initiatives. It means that everyone has a device they can do typed reports or homework research on. I'm much less convinced that computers in the classroom are a clear value-add in many cases.
Maybe a parallel system needs to be implemented, like how OS X originally had a Classic OS 9 system running alongside. Once everyone had come to OS X, the classic environment was dropped.
Right. The platform I was thinking about was mobile, so bots may be prevented there? Also the human bots would probably be bottlenecked by the fact that there would need to be askers asking the questions. Essentially, I am thinking of charging 8 cents to the askers per person.
Who administers the servers after you eliminate those positions? Sysadmins mostly do operating system administration, not hardware maintenance. AWS boots you into an empty operating system that still needs to be configured, secured, backed up, etc. You still need sysadmins! In fact, cloud tends to require more of them because people spawn a lot of instances.

If you have a bunch of idle sysadmins because you thought you'd have to replace a system's drive every week and hired 4 extra hardware-only sysadmins, you can probably fire them without moving to the cloud and save even more money, right?
I'm a HS teacher. I was so happy when my school finally phased out iPads as the designated device for our year 7 students. It's such a rubbish device for content creation. The touchscreen is a POS for anything other than web browsing and casual games. Teaching coding, image manipulation, file manipulation was utterly painful or impossible.

Typing on them is beyond painful and of the hundreds of students I taught, fewer than a dozen actually bought a physical keyboard. This meant that every task took 3x longer than necessary.

On top of this they are expensive. To anyone even remotely IT savvy it was clear from the get-go that this was going to be a failed experiment. Unfortunately education, like most other things follows the fashion of the time and everyone had to learn the hard way that a traditional computer is superior in every conceivable way.

Chromebooks are rubbish too, so I don't really see the move to them as a positive either.
>(1) is the question I like the most of the bunch. I think the goal there is to make the interviewee more comfortable; getting people to talk about something they like also gets a very good show out of most people.

If the goal is to get people to talk about something they like, then you should just ask that directly.

Tell me about something you're passionate about.

I've started asking this in social settings now, when I meet somebody for the first time and I want to avoid the awkward chit-chat. I don't think it matters what the topic is, I enjoy listening to people talk passionately about something new to me.
I can't wait to see more than 4 cores in a laptop!
I'd guess advertisers are desperate to target audiences <30 and particularly the youth susceptible to the bandwagon effect who also have access to disposable cash. If the mobile game market is any similar indication of other markets, the top ~1.5% are enough of a market to validate these campaigns.

http://www.recode.net/2014/2/26/11623998/a-long-tail-of-whal...
One feature which seems to be unique to Fable is that the repl doesn't rely on connecting to a compiler on the server. If I type some F# code, apparently it can be compiled/transpiled right in the browser!
So if life started on this planet shortly after it was formed, it must mean that life did not begin through the random combination of molecules. That something else happened to create life, whether it was transported from outer space or divine intervention.
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"Charity" being the keyword there
The popularity of HBO prestige dramas would contradict that... plenty of people watch hour long shows.
> Chromebooks are rubbish too, so I don't really see the move to them as a positive either.

What to your mind would not be rubbish? I'm a Microsoft employee, so I have a vested interest in Windows devices being the dominant choice for schools, but I don't see anything realistic students at the high school or below level couldn't do on Chromebooks.

Also, where do you live/teach? "Year 7" is not high school in the US. That is distinctly junior/middle school.
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That common opinion is odd, in hindsight.

Natural selection ought to quickly do away with an organ that served no purpose but to occasionally kill one of the luckless organisms that possessed it.

It should have been obvious that it was doing something else, or more specifically, that the gene(s) for "having an appendix" were.
I'm pretty impressed myself, I'm a layman when it comes to emulators, but I've been following along with the Dolphin Progress reports since JMC47 started posting them in May 2014!

They really strike a nice balance between getting all the tech stuff out there, but also being extremely engaging for laypeople. And they been super consistent, I don't know if they've missed a single month in almost four years.

And it's starting to spread to other projects as well:

RPCS3: https://rpcs3.net/blog/ has started doing a monthly one since they started their Pateron and exploded their development progress.

PCSX2: http://pcsx2.net/281-q4-2016-progress-report.html They are doing a pretty nice quarterly blog.

It's really an amazing time for these kinds of open source projects!

I kinda wish all the major projects I used/followed would do something like this!
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If you can treat your instances as ephemeral, it's a lot easier to manage them.
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> It's sad, but Apple has completely lost it at the low end.

When was Apple ever targeting (or winning) the low end? Apple was never the "value proposition" for affordable devices.
Speaking of APL, the HN user behind the following posts has agreed to do an AMA to explain his fascinating work on an APL compiler+runtime for GPUs, all in 750 lines of code:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13565743

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13638086

We'll probably do that this weekend. (The intention was for 13638086 to be that discussion, but we dropped the ball, so we're going to do a retake.)

Edit: planned for Sunday at 11am PST!
We really are going to run out of jobs for young people if 94 year olds refuse to give them up.
Yes I thought this was a service that basically would be my rental agency for my property but it's not. It's like a wework
In this case, Resolve has been on Linux since 2004 when it launched as a turnkey product using proprietary processing cards.

Before that, they used Linux workstations to replace SGI O2s for controlling their 2K color correction machines.
That number was a lie btw.
In regards to the air/mini, I'm not convinced they have no place as you're describing it. My 2012 MacBook Air handles stuff just fine with modern browsers and modern applications. The numbers and specs are fine for a computer that "just works". A webpage has never been the culprit to make the thing sweat (excepting bugs with flash/Java plugins). They probably could afford to bump the specs easily if they wanted to run a new line, but to suggest the user experience is bad on these machines just based on numbers is incongruent with the reality of said devices.
Can't speak for OP, but in Australia we only have Primary (K-6) and High (7-12) school.

Edit: Yup, their website lists them as being in Adelaide.
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