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The main thing I love about twitter is the 140 character limit. It's an elevator pitch. Many times, when I am trying to communicate an idea, I put them in 140 character chucks to better refine the idea. Especially in this Trump era where people are confused by throwing too many words that do not many any sense. Concise - that is the need and twitter is concise.

Twitter should stop comparing itself to facebook and compare more to wikipedia. Twitter is an idea sharing platform. Journalist can use it to get their articles to more audience where the gist of what the article is about is given.

Let's not forget the role twitter played in Arab Spring.

140char should be ONLY for text. Links & embedded media should be excluded from that limit.
If your use cases allow for graphical apps, there's a couple that are heavily used by the web app. security testing community and have quite a bit of useful functionality for inspecting/modifying HTTP(s) requests.

OWASP ZAP Proxy - https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Zed_Attack_Proxy_Proje...

Burp Suite - https://portswigger.net/
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You can do greenlets or prefork concurrency. With prefork concurrency you get 1 process per fork. Gives you concurrency at the expense of a bit of memory.
I don't know why people attack Blockbuster's business model.

Blockbuster had a phenomenal business model, and effective leadership, that lasted 25 years and went through several re-conceptualizations. What happened to it wasn't a human failing.

The market simply got disrupted by Netflix. Businesses aren't people, they can't just turn the ship around at a moment's notice. What would you have had them do? Not have ever been in the video rental business in the first place and leave all that money on the table? Have the foresight to see Netflix coming?

I can understand why non-techies would use Blockbuster as a symbol for all things tech-disruption-related, but we can do a little better than that I hope.
Launch a new but simpler product. Its the most difficult thing but very rewarding when done right.
Yes, yes it is. If the extensions would be anything like the OpenGL extensions which make changes to the core api functionality, you'd be right. But take a look at the extensions and tell which one(s) would cause a "write once, port everywhere" situation.

I can't name a single extension that would be causing any friction in Vulkan, unlike OpenGL where there's lots of code paths that need to be implemented to do even basic stuff (and all the core/ARB/EXT variations).

Yeah, Vulkan has some extra complexity stemming from being cross-vendor and designed by a commitee. But it's nowhere nearly as bad as you imply.

In my experience with Vulkan, it's all the optional features and device capabilities that need to be queried at runtime and decisions made based on that that's causing complexity with portability (you don't need to care about most of the extensions, and the ones you do have to care about are simpler than their OpenGL counterparts, ie. WSI vs. GLX/WGL/EGL). And apart from a few pain points (like numbers of queues exposed), it's relatively straightforward and comparable to D3D or Metal in complexity.
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HTML is based on XML, and most people seem to like it.
There is a lot of custom 3d game engines used even for commercial projects, I remember reading a survey where it was about 20-30%. Although companies do not opensource them since they see no value in it.
yes i guess the evolution of our vision was driven in part by hunting (being able to resolve animals at a distance) and gathering (being able to discern colours of berries)
Last thing I heard you could annotate XML so the receiver would actually know what kind of data was supposed to be in a field. A no-go with JavaScript. You should _always_ have a big surprise when you parse data.
Octane is the only real example of this I can think of. Nearly every other tool I use is openCL.
Thirty-odd years ago, an acquaintance said that he liked going to runners' parties: an hour after they started, you could still see across the room. I remember going to an art gallery opening and finding myself one of two non-smokers, huddled near a slightly cracked window.

It is astonishing the effect of the cultural shift between routine indoor smoking and it being frowned on.
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Where did Mozilla say that they didn't have revenue sharing with those?
Hmm, that is an interesting thought, but at most gas stations I've been to the pumps have about three car widths between them, at worst, two and a half. Also being on the driver side judging distance to the pump right next to you is a lot easier than doing so from the far side of the car.

I have a Mazda so I've got a driver side gas door. Personally I like it as I just step out, swipe my card, plug in the line and wait. No walking around the car necessary.

It seems to me driver side is for gas station convenience, passenger side is for road-side safety. Both are fairly minor conveniences so it seems manufacturers just pick a side and stick to it.
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I still dont understand what Google was thinking when they killed Google Talk when there was no replacement in place. Gtalk was an excellent app. The desktop app for gtalk was very light.
Indeed that is the origin of one of Braille's forerunners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_writing
Since they invented the term, I think it pretty much does.

It's nice that "open source" is now so commonplace that people think it's a natural term to use, but if you think about it, it really isn't (something like "source available" would be more normal).
A sincere question: Why have IT involved in those things? Just flood the place with wi-fi, put an RJ45 in every room, and good luck. That's how it is in my house, both personal and business use, and it works just fine.

Most of the staff are buying their own computers anyway, because academic employers don't pay for computers. My spouse won't let IT touch her computer because they screw it up. Her lab still uses thumb drives to move data between computers.

At the worst, IT creates hurdles like you describe. At best, a university does need some services, such as to let students sign up for courses, and maintain their records. But even those services could be outsourced. My daytime employer doesn't maintain those services at every work site, but either outsources them or manages them at a centralized location.

In a certain sense, a university in SF is like a person who wants to live in SF but isn't in a lucrative enough field to afford it. Such a person (e.g., a teacher or a baker) would simply leave town, but the university wants to maintain its presence.
Just because the company is based in India doesn't mean all the staff is. There is probably "remote hands" or light network engineering on site with the bulk administration being done remotely.
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The proprietary, closed, vertically integrated tooling in Unity and Unreal are what make them such terrible tools for use in a professional development environment. All of the best programming tools are free, open source software. Yet somehow we're meant to believe game programming is "special" in some way that it shouldn't use the same ecosystem as every other area of software development. Yeah, right.
I do not think there is an engine which can be used to create game such as No Man's Sky without a lot of custom code. This is open source so it can be used as a base for such game.
It would be great if programmers got more responsibility with increased skill and experience. But that is often not the case. There are very few jobs for highly skilled and experienced programmers and hackers.
Is that a recent development? One of Quadro's feature over GTX was/is 10-bit output. No way around it if you're using a 10-bit monitor like EIZO ColorEdge or whatever.
Unless you are doing some manual work at the same time, like ironing or something else that requires very little mental focus, I can't really see why?
Allow rich text attachments to Tweets. Instantly it's a blogging platform.
who gives a sh!t?
Depends on content and quality level.

For proper quality in VR MSAA (and not other anti-aliasing methods) is highly recommended, which already makes this 4k. Not really, because MSAA isn't the same as actually rendering in higher resolution, but close. Or, "close" depending on your shaders and render pipeline configuration...

And by the way, about render pipeline: MSAA means you'll be using forward rendering, not deferred, which also limits you in terms of amount of light sources, for example (but makes transparent stuff much easier). But wait - may be this 1080Ti will allow us to implement MSAA on deferred renderers, finally giving us VR folks all their goodies, like HDR? Well, no - unless it becomes a minimum requirement, nobody's going to support two rendering paths in their games.

Also, you mention 360 degree - but who actually needs that? We only need to render what the player actually sees - and if we finally get stable eye direction detection, it means we will be able to decrease the angle even further, rendering all outside the focus zone in a much decreased resolution. The same goes for "per eye" as well: another usual optimization tactic is to render everything that's far away enough from a single camera, saving fill rate.

Oh, and by the way - we still didn't talk about what texture resolution do we want, what shader features do we want to use, what amount of objects in the scene and in camera, amount of triangles... But we would need to create a series of prototypes (gameplay and graphics at least) before answering these questions anyway.
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That would be a 3-speed manual with the shift lever on the steering column. I never understood how all those complicated linkages from the column down to the transmission ever seemed like a good idea to an engineer...
LSD cannot be patented, so Big Pharma cannot make money on it - they'd have to compete on price, which would lead to really slim margins. If LSD is kept illegal, they can sell patented "alternatives" at huge margins.
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Any reason for the blind to use this over earbuds paired with Siri, Alexa, or any other voice-based interface?
Network neutrality doesn't really have anything to do with QoS. Network neutrality says you can't prioritize packets from Comcast over packets from Netflix. It doesn't say you can't prioritize packets a customer has marked as more important over packets the same customer has marked as less important.
Likely for security among other reasons. As soon as someone uses something like Dropbox with a weak password and it's hacked, then the university's data is out there or at a minimum it is perceived as the university leaking. Or a thumb drive with personal information of staff/students is lost and then leaked by the finder.
Java also has the problem of long startup times while the JIT is doing its thing. Javascript has always just started executing right away. Waiting a minute or two for a Java loading bar wasn't fun.
Oh, do you read a lot of poetry tweets?
>Not that it would have spared him from fizzbuzz on the interview these days..

I'd hope an interviewer would view an applicant's fizzbuzz as a pleasant surprise if it came with a bit of casual mathematical proof.
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That is very very helpful, thank you! And I'll definitely try to avoid the truck fuel.

Well, it will be helpful once I am legal to drive. Both my spouse and I forgot about my driving - he didn't own a car when I moved (we own a cheap one now). Quite unfortunate, considering the cost of driving classes, but probably a plus considering winter driving seems a slightly different beast comparatively..
So you're saying making sound decisions regarding driving for Uber requires good economic skills, long-term planning capabilities aswell as insider information regarding Uber's policy ?

This sounds like an unrealistic expectation. One would argue Uber was either disloyal or disillusioned if they rely on such people to advance their business.
also the medium in which we primarily exist (i.e air).
If we existed in water, or in soil, then the collection and classification of light would not be as important.
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I think Doom 4 performs so well because ID software usually has one of the most optimized engines (for everyone) and I believe that AMD cards have more raw power then Nvidia, but it's usually unused(I think due to unpopular APIs). Thus Nvidia is generally known to perform better in real world cases.
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While I understand your sentiment, unmitigated access to treatment modalities is generally not a good thing. People, often children with no real informed consent, die every year because they forsake science-based medicine for quackery.

The efficacy and safety of a treatment are not something we want left to personal anecdote.
You should totally check Eone's watches then https://www.eone-time.com/. A friend has one, they look amazing as well as allowing exactly that.
Isnt the "Macs are expensive" meme getting old? The prices are actually very competitive and I'm not talking about vs upgrading the ram in your system 76 laptop.
Study the ownership charts and it all becomes clear. There are not 10 companies producing 10 channels. There are like 3 to 5 companies producing everything you watch. So in your scaled down example, there's only perhaps two companies each producing 5 channels, and using the miracle of economy of scale they only each collect $10. You might very superficially think each channel costs $2 but because of economy of scale and intentional government regulation it costs like $9.50 to produce one channel, $9.75 to produce 2 to 4 channels, and $10 to produce 5 channels. The lights go out on the whole system if they don't get their $10 of revenue so they have to charge "around" $10 for one channel, you can forget $2 or even $5. Well, not everyones viewing patterns are going to match one corporation, so most people are going to end up needing to buy from both companies which is $20 so a la carte is dead. In an artisinal world of bespoke channels made by individual companies or people, a la carte would work, but economy of scale and financial pressures means everything you see comes from a very narrow funnel. And that narrow funnel is why its culturally changing from broadcasting to extreme narrowcasting and revenue is collapsing, but thats another issue.

Another analysis mistake is thinking channels are all equal and of equal value. Most channels are filler taking up bandwidth to keep competitors at bay. It is exactly like retail brick and mortar software sales in the 90s where you'd have a gigantic cardboard box containing a half sheet of paper and a CD in a sleeve rattling around in there. The fillers make little to no money but they make sure that a competitor doesn't have the space to set up something that could be a hit (its quite a downward spiral).

Eventually the cable companies are going to give up on trying to manage a system that delivers every channel to every station all the time, and then the game will really be on, and its a game of logistics and scaling and financialization that the cable co has already won, so best of luck to the new entrants, but other than provoking some short term innovation...
Incentives related to increased cash flow, lack of domain knowledge of the management teams, and a good "packaging" and sales from the outsourcing companies that is hard to compete with internally as all the warts and pimples are visible...
This is almost always a latency issue, and because nobody has figured out a way to milk extra cash for providing inter-network packet prioritization. In other words, this isn't an engineering problem, it's a money problem.
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The Moon is a terrible "start" for Mars. They are very different places, and require solving very different problems. In many ways, Mars is a lot easier (the atmosphere can do a lot of the work of slowing you down, you have the raw materials to make methane (the rocket fuel SpaceX will be using), etc).

People tend to think of the Moon as a "staging point" on the way to Mars, but in reality, it would be a significant detour.
Maybe you could help make sure the engine doesn't die on the vine by contributing.

Just so sick of this mentality that single-contributor projects aren't worth spending time on. This is how we get the problem of "open source" send to only happen if it's big companies like Google, Mozilla, or Facebook doing it. It's not like they haven't killed many a project just because it wasn't the gigantic, multi-million dollar success they needed it to be to justify spending their effort.
Haha, 10meg down. I'm lucky to get 5.5...
How much of the VoIP contention is on the user end vs the ISP end though?

I have a 1 Gbps connection at home and can still have a VoIP call across the world mess up since I might not have the best route to whoever I'm calling.
TB by default saves 1x file per folder (e.g. MBox like) -

This means depending on your storage configuration and how you use
folders, potentially writing 100MB, 1G, 10G, etc. back to disk on folder
content change.

For batch processing though, I use the CLI tools - thunderbird
is view/compose only (procmail/formail/archivemail/offlineimap,etc)

I was hitting performance probs on bigger folders,
and setup some more strict archiving to archive older mails to
subfolders/zap offline using an 'archivemail' job, etc,
and the problem went away, with TB being quite snappy.

as I understand it there was some effort to support
1-file-per-email, which might be an option now,
but this has it's problems too.

Outlook has it's PST corruption hell...

Basically, in my opinion, email is a pain, each client shows it differently,
though I am admittedly not up to speed on Opera Mail.
Both HTML and XML are children of SGML which is a child of GML.
You're paying Heroku to not have to think about deployment or scale, which is also why their marketplace is successful - who wants to think about managing a database, when two clicks and a few environment variables later you can have one. Heroku is great for devs who don't want to think about ops and can afford to throw money at the problem (it gets really expensive really fast).
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I've been in the VoIP industry for over a decade now, and in almost all cases of 'bad VoIP' I can trace the blame to a bad implementation of it. Let me give you an extreme examples...

- It's fairly common practice in countries with poorly enforced telco law for people to resell access to the PSTN. They will connect to the PSTN (either via a GSM gateway or a server with an E1 card) and resell that access to a 'wholesale VoIP business'.
- That 'wholesale VoIP business' will have an infrastructure, cobbled together with open source technologies with no ability to scale, in the operational or technical sense.
- The same 'wholesale VoIP business' will undercut the cost to access the countries PSTN (compared to accessing it directly via a tier 1 carrier) and sell the access to other tier 1 carriers.
- The other tier 1 carriers lap up this cheap access, an embrace it because international calls fulfil a small portion of their multi-million revenues.
- Therefore, when someone in another country tries to call that country with poorly enforced telco law, it will route via the resold route until it's shut down by the law or it breaks because it's poor infrastructure.
- This is currently happening on a big scale in lots of African countries, some central american countries and in the middle east.

I'll leave the context of 'office to office' comms to the other answers as it's been covered in detail elsewhere. But I will say VoIP, all it's forms, is an old technologies, and problems relating to poor bandwidth.. voice quality.. backwards compatibility have been solved for many years.
Seems strange to me, too.
The website lost all credibility after I read that.
I do a lot of 3d rendering with Blender Cycles so I'm really happy to see the bump in cuda cores. The gtx 1080 didn't offer any significant performance boost over the 980 when it comes to rendering in blender. Right now for Cycles you get the most performance per dollar by buying multiple 1060s (blender doesn't rely on sli when rendering with multiple gpus). I've got my fingers crossed that this card will offer some tangible performance boosts.
The made the mistake of asking this to my gf who is a teacher for visually impaired kids. Braille is reading, and listening to earbuds is not reading. We teach our sighted kids to read even though they could just all have audiobooks, just like we should teach children Braille even though they can still listen.

Another good argument she made was it's about multiplexing. What if someone wanted to learn the time while listening to an engaging conversation, they wouldn't want to stop listening just to check the time.
Hm, then how is it that companies like Google have millions of users and virtually no support?
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That's the site Google points you to for more information if i.e. Google Maps doesn't load on your browser
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This was a typical Richard Feynman explanation. On the one hand, it infuriated the experts who had worked on the problem because it neglected to even mention all of the clever problems that they had solved. On the other hand, it delighted the listeners since they could walk away from it with a real understanding of the phenomenon and how it was connected to physical reality.

I've never seen this article before, and I love how the author managed to leave me delighted in the same way, feeling much smarter than I actually am, especially about theoretical physics.
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Has any runtime anywhere had 100% compatibility with anything ever?
> Pretty much everything that Steve is remembered fondly for -- his success at Apple and Pixar -- came after 1995.

I strongly disagree. I think Steve is more remembered for the Macintosh than for the iMac/iPod/iPhone/iPad, at least amongst HN readers and the like.
I love this. I especially like how insights fall out of the presentation. For example, looking at the Product Development graph, there isn't anything that's really an innovation trigger there. Not seeing something there makes the mind want to put something there, and there is your insight on the status of Product Development methodologies; a space ripe for disruption.
That last line is killing my internal JS linter. No reason not to make it ===, right? Also, inconsistent semi-colon usage in the code he showed in the post.