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I'm guessing that investment is now up 100% minimum..I wish I could have invested too when it was only worth $3 billion.

The question is, how far down the chain is a disclosure necessary? It seems like calling out conflicts of interest is a way to discredit someone or something without having to actually create an argument against it.
For me, three reasons:

- Pacman (with pacaur on top of it)

- The Arch Wiki

- Bleeding-edge software
Path Finder is great, but I've always hated how on OS X you have to pay for 3rd party replacements of even the most basic software.
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The language of science has shifted before; I don't think it's reasonable to assume it won't again.

The language of diplomacy used to be french. Some of the cultural remnants of this still remain today, even though the role that french used to play is now played by english. If it were to happen how long would it take for english to lose favor as a language of computers?

I have tried to explain to my non-technical friends how strange it is that computer programming language == english proficiency (usually) - because it seems like the large majority of discussion around programming and computers happens in english (open source communities, bug reports, documentation) - I wonder how that will work as the field of computers matures into it's 1st and 2nd centuries- how much and to what level will programming and programming languages fragment? What kinds of things will remain in english/latin and what will transition- what kinds of programming related things will only be in chinese or devanagari (india) script?

Even the act of typing is predicated to the idea of a latin alphabet, I wonder to what degree the languages will continue to change to adapt to that and to what degree the technology will adapt to compensate for the language.

Once you start thinking (as a native english speaker) how much of the world of computers is naturally biased towards latin/english it kind of blows your mind.
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I recently finished grad school and accepted a data scientist job a couple weeks ago in part because the job description mentioned expertise with Julia as one of the preferred qualifications (it's rare to see a listing that mentions Julia). It's the language I used for the bulk of my research over the last four years, and has been improving rapidly since it was released. I like Julia a lot more than Python, and I hope it continues rising in popularity. I think once it hits v1.0, we'll begin to see a lot more companies adopting its usage for data science, statistics, and machine learning.
You would definitely have to do a pivot into more hard aerospace engineering field. If your country try has a defence industry, you could work for them in improving their missile technology (our early rockets were just missiles anyways).

The other option is to get rich and then just found your own space company
Is there a limit on the $5 plans? because they're still better than DO's.
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How does Politico compare to Vox in terms of that liberal skew?
What does he say in response to being called out as an absentee? I'd be pretty aggravated; I feel like if you buy property you should do something with it, and would support use-it-or-lose-it approach.
Off the top of my head for commercial operation:

There are a ton of biplanes from the 1920s you can buy rides in. A friend of mine has a 1918 Curtiss Jenny that's mostly original. It's still flown and displayed at shows.

The airplane with the most time on it in the world is a DC-3 with over 100k hours. It's had the engines replaced with turboprops, like many of them.
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You only need a green card to work on ITAR restricted materials at companies such as SpaceX
Montréal?
You might want to look at specifically _where_ the population keeps increasing. It isn't in the West where we have modern social values but rather, um, less enlightened places. The United States is currently below replacement birth rate and Japan dramatically so.

A culture and society which devalues having children and raising them properly, even as a side effect of a nobler purpose, is one that will die out and be replaced with another.
It's very clear that this is all about gaming and game development. Please 302'd yourself to glorious /r/pcmasterrace.

> On the developer side? Nothing, unless you use XCode

> Their hardware is underpowered

> Gaming on Mac, which initially showed promising signs of life had started dying in 2015

> brings dedicated gaming features, full OS-level VR support, color customization

> NVIDIA GTX 1080 graphics card is an insane work-horse that can play any game

> On top of that? I can play recent games without the PC breaking a sweat, and I’ve started experimenting with VR
Frank Black (from the Pixies) did a lot of his solo studio albums this way too: http://forum.frankblack.net/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=961
UPDATE — since then, I have not used the flows or manually send thank you notes anymore. Better err on side of caution than risk being spammy.
that is not true. people use clearly more windows laptops in germany
Have you ever been outside of North America.
I see Mac's all over Europe all the time. Not only in developer friendly environments. Busses, trains, coffee shops,...
There's definitely a green tint that sometimes develops on my Mac after a long usage and a simple Google search shows that I am not alone.
I am using bash extensively on the newest insider build (so this is coming in creators update), bash is working flawlessly.

I have no problems with scaling with a combination of 4k, 1080p and 2736x1824 monitors. (It's working great, though it's true it didn't work like that a year ago)

With a surface book you get hardware that's even better quality than any Apple laptop, and actually has a detachable screen I can write on (this isn't a gimmick, I'm using it daily as a software developer).

No idea what you mean with saying "Windows is still a mess", maybe give an argument for that?
How are they actually screwing their drivers? Are they forcing, misleading or tricking the drivers?
Interesting, any idea where you saw those numbers?
This discussion originated here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13565743

...and the live stream offered there happened here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13638086.

We asked the author to do one more thread about it because the latter didn't get much attention, and we thought you might find it interesting. It's rare for work this technically sophisticated to also be this deeply counterintuitive.
I think a pretty good summary is about 3 years ago Microsoft realized it had a couple of failed stratagies.

1) Catering to casual. Xbox one launch is probably the best example. They wanted to become the home media center so the entire launch and discussion was centered around sports streaming and social media. + Kinect.

2) Desperately trying to get a foothold in mobile.

I think they realized people weren't going for either. Sony focusing on games and hardware killed it initially in sales, and still kind of does. Apple and Android had two corners of the market and MS could make a space for a third.

They pivoted, targeted "professionals" and that's what you see in their approach for Xbox & PC. I think it's overall good, but saying Apple abandoned developer is sort of desparate fear mongering.

Apple's strategy has always been pretty consistent, focus a lot of resources on making a good ecosystem. More recently it seems that's changed to "focus a lot of resources on making the best systems, and allow for a great ecosystem" with sponsoring third party monitors, and apple's home automation front.

I think it's still a pretty good strategy, but with windows catching up with some "pro" features like their own premium desktops and laptops and adding in old features like "workspaces" people jump to say Apple "abandoned" them when they're still kind of sticking to the same successful strategy.
The comment I was responding to was specifically calling out biology as "squishy". As a computational biologist myself, I have experience in getting my purely computational papers rejected before I learned that you have to collaborate with experimentalists to get a really good paper.
Acorn Electron for home use, the Model B was a bit pricey.
>I really want to stop having to type killall Finder because I dragged too many files.

For what it's worth, I think this will be addressed by the switch to AFS.
His insinuation is that the "Instacart receipt" that the customer received is the discounted one that reflects the bulk discount. If an individual went to the store and got the same list of items, it would be more expensive, so the markup wasn't $140 - $80 but more like $140 - $100.

I have no idea if that's true or not..
>Gaming, VR, upcoming 3D

Am I missing something or does this seem like one thing? Or is there use case for VR that isn't gaming? And what is 'upcoming 3D' exactly?

>if workload X is too slow on the fastest mac, it may well still run on a windows machine

Can't argue with that, but what are such workloads if you are not game developer? Wouldn't cluster of Linux servers always be a better choice? Unless of course you are die hard Windows fan.
Just did fresh W10 install a few weeks ago and had to go through that pain.
Beating anyone at Google who will listen over the head with the idea.

This seems to be one of my better formulations.

https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/B1DAw7aq...
Wait what, flash.
Does that still exists.
I thought we buried that back in 2015.
Eastern European states fill that role in the EU, though I'm not sure how great the scale of that is.
I may be in the minority here, but I find Siri just about as annoying as the old Clippit thingie in Microsoft Office. It's the first thing I turn off.
I've been running on vultr $5/mo boxes for years now. No complaints - the boxes are snappy and the web UI/dashboard is nice. I originally picked them because they supported FreeBSD out of the box, and let you upload your own ISO to boot from if you want to run something else (like OpenBSD). I've only ever had one interaction with their support staff, and the service was prompt and professional. I've been on AWS and DO as well, and am happy with the vultr experience by comparison, so can happily recommend them if you're curious to give them a shot.
Small symptom of a larger concern. "Wealth" and "ownership" are not simply material. More importantly, they represent control over institutions and the livelihood and welfare of those institutions employees, members, and managed resources.

Past a point, if that control shifts welfare too far from some sort of common good, should -- and can -- the "ownership" shift to counter-act this?

Or, to put it in old terms, in their way not entirely outdated -- certainly not in sentiment, regardless of those specific words: Noblesse oblige.

Some of our current elites -- like always -- think this should be "trickle down" and that they should retain absolute control. That they are inherently superior, and that their position proves this and justifies whatever they decide and do.

Well, no. It is much more dynamic than that. Just, most people these days would prefer that dynamism exert itself effectively without e.g. war and wholesale exploitation.

My perspective is, more people doing better makes for a happier, more enjoyable, more interesting world.

But I find myself butting up against a lot of not just me-first, but also zero sum gain -- belief and behavior.

When people are using their control to make a bunch of other people unnecessarily miserable, take it away from them.

Perhaps our greatest achievement is the means of doing so without guns and death. Maybe. Sometimes.
That's really impressive, I'll definitely be testing out Vultr for my next project. Great work.
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What word do you prefer to 'analytics', if we are talking about taking data and analysing it to extract insights?

This does not have to involve machine learning, and "pattern recognition" is an academic term (and might be confusing for laymen).
Still have mine but dead, for now; infamous for ribbon keyboard decay, and the Ferranti chip may have died, also an infamous component. But both the earlier kit and the assembled computer made us start thinking about what to do, what can be done.
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Big ups to Vultr for doing what DigitalOcean wouldn't do - supporting OpenBSD.
Strictly speaking it's not a way to avoid capital controls (which means limits on how much money you can take out of the country). It's a place to put money that has already escaped capital controls.
Perhaps you're failing to view things from the perspective of the average user?

I see the MacOS Finder and see unlabelled icons. My elderly folks are terrible at remembering what various icons do, and what error messages are for, etc. I've trained them to pause and read the words on the toolbar, read the words on the window, etc. as they're generally self-explanatory.

So the finder that is more convoluted for a more proficient user, is the one that my folks can actually more reasonably navigate.

Okay, your criticism is on point: the Explorer Options button has a redundant click. To me, that would matter if I ever used anything other than keyboard navigation. To my mother, father, and sister, "yay! It's f'n labeled!"

My nieces don't give a damn either way, because they're too young to care about one unnecessary click, and they don't forget what the icons mean.

Your point isn't wrong, it's just not that clear-cut an issue when dealing with different people with different levels of proficiency and needs.

But the fact that we're down to "labels vs. reasonably intuitive icons, plus or minus a redundant click" suggests we're well into the weeds of trivialities.
I'm a professional developer, I don't want a new toy language. I'm buying a powerful laptop, I don't want cloud storage. I want the possibility to dual boot or share drives with other operating systems, I don't need a new proprietary filesystem. I don't want compressed memory, I want 32GB of RAM. And while I'm at it, I want a laptop with a real keyboard, not keys that have so little travel they feel like a touchscreen.

In short, Apple is spending a lot of effort making features that I, as a professional developer and 20 year Mac user, don't want.
If you're referring to the Pebble, that used Memory LCD, not EInk, and it's a completely different technology.
My mother would find the Windows one easier to use. There is text on the buttons, so if she presses something by mistake, she'll have more confidence to press other things to put it right again.

Which even is the options on Finder? The cog, I assume. If I'm helping over the phone, can a user describe the current state of Finder? Not really. But I could ask for the contents of the address bar in Explorer.
Vox was launched in early 2014 and has seen blistering traffic growth since. Given that they were able to grow so rapidly in an already saturated news media environment dominated by Washington Post, Time, CNN, WSJ, and New York Times, suggests they are doing something right.
Showdead is pretty useful--there are occasional gems worth a vouch.
But at the same time, wouldn't issues on Friday evenings have least impact on customers? Thinking around B2B enterprise companies.
I think it's probably somewhat cheaper for new competitors to get up and running and operate than it is/was for Uber.

Uber had to spend money to test the waters and figure things out. Competitors can just copy.
I'll agree with most of this. We had a new hire come in with his personal Windows laptop. We tried to get him connected to the corporate WiFi, and into the corporate net with our own client certs and private CA.

Uh... no. No, you can't do that.

WiFi configuration was annoying. Lots of clicking. No consistency to the UI. And for a relatively new laptop, it was slow. OSX in comparison was simple, relatively straightforward, and responsive.

Certificates were a joke. We could import certificates and CAs. But once imported, they didn't do anything. Access to the corporate intranet was still blocked with "unknown CA". When we went back to see if the certs had been imported... nope. No certificates. OK, import them again? Nope, still no certificates on the machine.

We gave up and let him use a spare Mac Mini.

I hate where Apple has been going with OSX: Slow strangulation by oxygen deprivation. But until it becomes entirely unusable, it's still better than Windows for me.
> The uncomfortable truth

Which you've just fabricated on the spot based on some racial stereotypes (and your presumably very important feelings).

The data reflect the same basic anti-black racism as the rest of society.

https://theblog.okcupid.com/race-and-attraction-2009-2014-10...
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> Rest assured, I know what the real world is like. It's the same one we all live in

Thanks for proving my point. Greetings from the privileged poor south american barrio I grew up in. And that wasn't ironic, as my dad was literally born in a mud hut and beat the odds to provide me a comfortable life where I can read in a foreign language how willingly ignorant some people are as to appear virtuous.
I think Politico general skews pro-hype, rather than pro either party. They run towards scandal.
I don't believe you're calculating vacancy rates the same way the article is. You're talking about single-unit vacancy over time, the article is referring to citywide vacancy over volume. Depending on how that number if calculated those could be wildly divergent values.
It's nice to see all this competition ($5 Linode, now $2.5 Vultr) but don't they risk overallocaton?

Let's say they have physical machines with 96 GB mem that hold 200 1 GB VMs each, in the hope that no one uses more than half their ram. Same for CPU or disk I/O or whatever resource.

Now that the entry level prices are dropping but the offered resources remains the same, people will spin up more VMs. Doesn't it become dog slow for everyone?
which adapter exactly are you referring to here? I have a 2015/2016 thinkpad yoga for work and I don't think it's the same/similar at all to the magsafe adapter. Magsafe comes off even with the gentlest, but firm, tug even at an angle. I can't say the same for my thinkpad
If I already have a Mac and I'm invested into the Apple ecosystem things on Windows needs to be 10-100 times better for me to make the switch.

If you are just starting out or you aren't in the Apple's ecosystem (e.g. you don't have Idevices) then Windows might be the place for you. I'd still go with Linux personally, but that's just me. Or if you just need more power, but I'm guessing most people here don't actually NEED that much power
Maybe for regular Joes like you and me. But do you think the ultra rich are still just trying to buy comfort and things with the heaps of money they store up?
I agree 100% with that. Microsoft stacked new features without deprecating old ones. Nowadays you can do things in 32 different ways; some ways are the same as they were in Windows 2000 and XP, but maybe some "advanced tweaks" are not available in the "old interface", so you need to struggle to find two different interfaces that achieve the same essential function.

This is, IMHO, a backlash of Microsoft's long update cycle. The yearly update Apple pushed to MacOS, along with free updates, allows for an easier deprecate-then-remove approach that gently transitions users from the old to the new approach. It's hard to do the same when people got used to an OS for many, many years. Maybe W10 with its "rolling" approach will suceed, btw.
I used to shop on instacart but the lack of transparency made me switch back to going-to-the-store shopping. Started using prime now for about 2 months and love how much more transparent it is about its costs. They charge the same as the store and add a default $5 tip as suggested tip. Wish instacart would get their shit together. Delivery business is a growing market and would love to have multiple great providers. Also feel for instacart since it was so much early to the game than all of its current competitors.
Not to mention that the first move itself is a guess. I'm not sure about all variants, but certainly on the classic Windows minesweeper there were times that my first click was a bomb.
Yes, a magnet has both a peak magnetic field (which is what is usually quoted) and a magnetic dipole moment that is roughly proportional to diameter. The magnetic field at a distance is proportional to the moments, but falls off proportional to the inverse cube of the distance.

So, yes if the magnet dipole were the size of Mars and it needed to be 5mT=500,000nT at 320 Mars diameters, then roughly (ignoring higher order effects) you would need an average 16kT around the surface poles, which isn't possible with current technology.

At 1 Tesla you would want to cover an area 50 times the diameter than Mars? That's pretty fanciful.

OK, either my simple calculations are bunk, or this is a truly crazy idea.
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Plenty of social reasons: people like sending their kids to Canadian/USA schools, and it acts as a status symbol.

There's also a bit of the emotional security blanket that if things go to shit in China, an owner would be able to seamlessly move to the other side of the Pacific. Though that's often overstated IMO.
I did not downvote the parent.

My claim: almost every human adult has had at least one sexual partner. I can only find decent studies surveying modernity, but for example: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/19374216/. Assuming most humans having sex is not a recent development, any evolutionary pressures, if they exist at all, on the sexually active population are unclear at best; however, there may be pressures against the tiny few who go through life abstinent.
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This makes sense when the difference between a 3 year old Mac and a new one isn't that great.
> These problems sound more like inexperience in using Linux to me than anything else. ... unless you somehow broke a whole lot of other stuff by deleting dependencies without really understanding what you were doing.

That's the problem right here. There's a vanishingly small percentage of people who can afford a laptop who are also willing and able to spend the time to gain "experience in using Linux". Sure it's much easier than it used to be, but it used to be a completely unmitigated disaster (I remember things like having to teach myself enough C to fix a wireless driver that didn't want to compile under a newer gcc version) so that's not saying much.
I don't think its the filesystem. Finder itself seems to be the problem and it started with Mavericks about the same time as AppleScript stopped updating the Finder windows without a close/open.

Another fun problem is copying a bunch of files out of a directory that Finder has currently opened and watch Finder go catatonic. I get the feeling someone did a lot of programming in Finder without proper testing.
Unfortunately, no. There's a lot of code demonstration, some REPL work, and interacting with the source, so I'm not sure that the transcript would communicate things adequately without significant editing and adaptation. I would like to put this into some sort of guided documentation, however, at some point in the future.
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I've heard somewhere that Vultr retains your stored credit card indefinitely (even after you close your account). It sounds a bit weird, that's why I avoided their services. Can someone confirm this?
The only decent solution for this problem in Jerusalem would be to house the millions of refugees streaming out of next door Syria. Israel has accepted none so far.