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Synopsys | Senior R&D Engineer | Marlboro, MA | full-time, www.synopsys.com

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The FC R5 is a HUGE case, and it's as good as my mac pro 2008 really. Lighter too! Very, VERY well designed, excellent filters, and I run 3 140mm fans in it so it doesn't make a noise; the fans are permanently just over the stalling speed. Really very good cases.
There is very little substance to this article. This is the core "strategy":

"This suggests my new Bitcoin trading strategy, which I admit I have only tried so far on paper. [...] Bitcoins go down in value when the demand for them as transaction instruments decreases. When that Russian oligarch sells his shiftload of Bitcoins for US dollars, Bitcoin value goes down. When that happens — when Bitcoin prices drop by 20 percent or more — BUY! The price will inevitably come back up, I assure you.

When Bitcoin prices rise by 20 percent or more — SELL! You just made 40 percent on your money.

Rinse, repeat, automate, get rich."

This is also known as gambling. I'm not judging gamblers, but if it were so easy, the author of this post would have implemented it in a few lines of code and actually gotten rich instead of writing a muddy, unclear piece of trivialities.
The Rise of the DIY Hedge Fund
There doesn't seem to be a monitor that offers a large display (27-32"), 5K resolution, and USB-C ports with enough power to charge a 15" MacBook Pro while using it like a "Pro". The 5K UltraFine comes just short of this but I also worry about it's build quality. Other nice to haves would be 2 thunderbolt 3 inputs so you could for example use 2 displays through daisy-chaining. Maybe GSync and HDR for gamers and game developers.
I'm part of that generation and made that mistake for sure.

> The thing that irks me about this the most is how it's the people who were doing exactly what they were told that got hurt the most.

The takeaway here is, in part: don't do something just because you're told to. If our generation stops doing what we're told (which seems to be the case), then this will be a small price.
Is 1TB not large enough, or is it a cost issue?

Sure, they IMO should increase the minimum past 128, but many people don't use close to that and the 1,300$ price point is attractive w/ 2.7GHz i5.
I remember doing similar in MIT digital lab in 1975. My team built Conways Game of Life out of TTL gates. I did the display on the oscilloscope. The grid was 32 by 32, limited by memory sizes at the time. Memory was the most expensive chips at the time, so the lab rationed them. We had double buffer design. One chip held the current generation for display and input to the game engine. The other chip held the next generation.
Exactly. I think there's a lot of that.
In fairness I've been running Sierra just fine on my Hackintosh, though I did wait until 10.12.1. If I recall correctly the first version had issues with the Nvidia Web Drivers (some strange bugs) but they've long since been resolved.

I would agree with the overall sentiment though and add that even on a legitimate Mac it's usually a good idea to hold back a bit on updating. I work with audio a lot and it's common for audio units (and Pro Tools if you use that) to break initially.
I wish they'd revisit the first ever flat-screen iMac, the one that pivoted every which way and could easily be positioned at any height. I think now they've realised the design of the actual computer is pretty low down on pro-desktop purchasers' priorities, they'll go all-in on the display instead. Imagine the very best display Apple could make — maybe like the above with an almost bezel-free front, 5K, etc. — with an old-school Mac Pro tower full of expansion possibilities. It would be a dream pro machine.
Is property management cheap in your area? We rent a couple of apartments, and hiring a property management company would be ruinous, unless both the rent and our personal time was very expensive.
> Look at OpenOffice compared to LibreOffice, for an example of this. If there wasn't a GPL version the community would have rallied around the Apache version.

OpenOffice not working at all is not due to the license, at all. OpenOffice didn't work for a long time. Distributions have always added a huge patch to make it work nicely for them. There's been calls for ages to change things and not much was done with it.

Eventually they started LibreOffice and focussed on making it easy to contribute.

In above, nothing is about the license!!
From my perspective:

If MacOS had: up-to-date OpenGL support, Nvidia made drivers that supported new cards for it, was not locked into Mac hardware - that would be tremendous.

On the other hand, if Windows had a proper shell and cli tools, like cygwin with zsh, but native and not Ubuntu layer inside - that would be tremendous.

If Linux, any desktop variant (Fedora my poison), had Adobe's support for their DCC apps and great battery management for laptops - that would be tremendous.

If Windows and Linux had the above + Preview from MacOS - that would be tremendous.
Not quite. I was probably actually replaced by someone fresh out of college, who failed to learn anything during that 5 years. I am 99% certain the contract requirement mandated bachelor's degrees (and in a relevant field) for all software developers.
This is true, but better touch tool, moom, divvy, etc all leapfrog windows or ubuntu window management.
The network drive problem, I have not run into with my NAS, so idk where to help you there.
tl;dr : they designed themselves into a corner with the current Mac Pro, next ones will have modularity as a primary goal.
#2 and #3 really don't make sense any more. If you can't afford a $100-200 TV, then how the heck do you afford $20+ tickets? The TV will pay for itself very quickly. TVs are dirt cheap these days, and the "small" ones are not much more than $100. (I put "small" in quotes because that's for a 32" screen, which when I was young was considered a fairly large screen.) And if you can't find easy access to that movie, then just watch another. Basically you're saying that cinemas are for people with exceedingly poor impulse control.

As for #4, I can only "force" my bladder so much. At home, I can pause and take a bathroom break; I can't do that at the cinema.

As for the "loud noise", deafeningly loud noises are bad for your hearing. At home, I can set the volume to an appropriate and comfortable level.
It does, you simply need to change a default configuration for keyboard shortcuts to be able to jump over UI elements with keyboard only.
Great, just wanted to make sure!

I think young adults are really into their mobile devices so, mobile development could be another fun way to go.

I personally got a good leg up on becoming a web developer through codeschool.com. Their videos are top-notch and their sandbox exercises are pretty helpful. There's a bit of a leap to actually setting up your computer to actually develop but they've added some videos to help with that as well.

If he can be a self-motivated learner then I'd recommend doing something like that, along with edx, udacity, and coursera on the more academic side, or udemy and pluralsight on the more technical/professional side.
I generally recommend that people building hackintoshes get an external USB / Firewire / Thunderbolt soundcard. That way you're pretty much guaranteed to get official macOS drivers that'll work without issues.
Yes, but when Americans (e.g. college students) talk about "roommates" they mean they share a bedroom! Literal roommates
> They look good (and are good if you are programming on them) but the UX is still lacking a lot. (Never mind the confusion of the different flavors, packaging systems, and configurations).

How can plaintext configs be confusing for a competent software engineer?

On Linux, you can make your OS work for you just the way you like it.

Good luck changing anything significant in Apple's walled garden
yeah, it was an expensive lesson in the downsides of uncritically accepting large scale social narratives
Perhaps some people think "the preservation of proprietary software rights" is a good thing. I have pointed out numerous times the only restriction the GPL imposes on developers is on the "right" to deny others the freedoms the developer enjoys.
Do you typically carry your car seats/strollers with you to your destination and back?
This. Can we remember that Apple is making a box with fans and a motherboard? It takes them five years because they have to be inspired with some original concept that marries form and function, and then deliver something novel and daring -- not just a new computer, but a new kind of computer. This is not in customers' interest, and they are right to be upset.
If "specialized skills" are not sufficient for H1B, it doesn't matter where the candidate resides...

And if the candidate has enough those specialized skills - what's the problem?
If he's from China (and I'm assuming so), I'm not so surprised. It's a status thing culturally. I've had my ideas at work dismissed on the basis of my not attending an Ivy League school by the sort that spouts concepts like this.

A more amusing instance of this outlook at work:
http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1940-china-one-p...
I've never had a problem with Xubuntu besides the occasional hiccup that stackoverflow easily solves. Maybe you've just had bad luck?
Secrecy has plenty of benefits, like keeping plans secret from competitors, dominating the news cycle, and delighting customers.

None of those things speak to a hemorrhaging segment of users whose needs are performance and expandability.

It's a show of strength for the modern era of Apple that they are willing to switch strategies when necessary.
Ultimately I think driverless technology can revolutionarise high density public transport too:

It gives us exactingly detailed information on what journeys people need. The dataset will be immensely valuable in allowing the companies that sit on them to first start doing quasi-bus services:

Order a bunch of minibuses. During peak hours, offer an option: Wait for the next dedicated car to be free, or ride share with quicker availability and a discount. Limit detours strictly - there'll be plenty of "Follow road X and pick up 6 people on the way to station Y" type stretches that will make people happy (little time lost; feels efficient if there's not lots of turning off).

Then you can see them partnering with bus providers to dynamically fill in during peak hours, or even bidding for bus franchises and proposing contract changes that would allow for more dynamic, demand-based scheduling.

Ultimately this can feed into planning train type services - companies offering these type of drive share will be able to e.g. let people order "end to end" journeys of the type "pick me up at address 1, get me to address 2" where they show journey options that include rail when it makes sense. The key beying that if they do so, they will know the entire desired journey, and would be able to offer insight into the most efficient interchange locations or other changes to train services would be most desirable.
Personally, rather than thinner/lighter I'd pay for it to be a bit bigger but capable of letting me open it up and replace RAM and the SSD as was possible up to the 2013 ones.
I was earning a London weighted salary of 10% on top of my basic. I've since moved to Cardiff have lost that weighting but gained a house.

It's swings and roundabouts, Cardiff isn't as happening as London or even Bristol (certainly food wise) but money certainly goes further. The worry is if I lose job at 'Thisbigcorp' there are fewer places that would offer a package this good.

Working from home is fairly standard a couple times a week here too.
Creation of Website – Generated CS Papers with Hugo
How is "did exactly what they were told" different from "did not think for themselves" ? Any kind of large decision demands a cost-benefit analysis, including opportunity costs, time value of money, etc.

The labour market does not change that much in 4-5 years (barring something like the 08-09 financial meltdown). It should be straightforward to check whether a degree is necessary in order to land a decent job - apply to those jobs without a degree and see what they say.
He discovered reversion to the mean.

I made some money doing that. I made more just sitting on coins.
I think "These requirements present risks to the preservation of proprietary software rights." (an objective fact, like you said), is being read as "Proprietary software rights MUST be preserved!"
Well all the current update is is them dropping the price of configurations they already owned and killing off the previous base model. It's very much a matter of flicking a switch.
Here are some examples of what can happen on UK talk shows:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTd4hw7mZEI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4sGU_eFc40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_RAE98uE7E&t=393
Why not Israel?
* We have multiple fiber links
* A lot of AWS heavy workloads comes from Israeli companies
* Easy connection to other location through Egypt and Jordan
> This sort of intuition is seductive, because we're generally told "debt bad, equity good!" But it's not correct, for the very simple reason that debt and equity are, in many ways, fungible: each type of financing can be utilized to replace the other.

Debt can be viewed in many ways. I'm not saying that it's wrong to view debt as another form of financing - like you I studied Modigliani-Miller, just that there are other ways to view it.

My point is only that it's not right to disregard market cap entirely in preference to EV. EV is generally a "more comprehensive" measure of company value, but it doesn't supersede market cap.

EV, for example, is susceptible to distortion between leasing and buying capital assets. For example, a company with big capital assets financed via debt could note that the company would be more profitable if they sold them and leased them back. The company is now more profitable, and its reasonable to say its 'better', but its EV has gone down.
It's worse than you think for those with low balances.

Gas stations and some other companies 'susceptible to fraud' Have the ability to withdraw cash before the whole bill goes through. So the swipe has $70 withdrawn, then redeposit it (with a long delay), and then charge your bill. So you end up with multiple overcharges for one transaction if the first withdrawal is too large.

Account features like paying/auto-transfer from savings being disabled if you trigger arbitrary rules.

Normal banks and even most credit unions are purposefully exclusive in policy. Though I imagine a lot of it is "this is just how it's done" than purposeful. Though it does all feel pretty hateful after banking at military banks, since there is a working model right there.
A modern GPU would, IMHO, be the main thing.

I don't think they've updated the iMac GPU since 2015.

If you build a hackintosh you can at least run an Nvidia GPU and get CUDA support.
> a market failure or market inefficiency caused by an politically induced scarcity of housing through zoning density restrictions.

This is true, but it's also a failure of policies that have led to the majority of job growth being in the biggest cities in the country. If we could spread things out a bit and keep smaller cities a viable place to create jobs, the bigger cities wouldn't be impacted nearly as hard.
Sounds like you need a queue of some sort. What I usually see is something like each web server will dump these details (json is fine) into a file. Then at some scheduled time these details can be inserted into your database in batch. (nightly, hourly, etc)
More people need to realize this. Not only does it allow people to put down roots and let local economies everywhere grow, think of the benefit of getting all those cars off the roads. Less CO2, less traffic, less need for new roads (a big CO2 producer on it's own).

If policy makers really wanted to make a dent in fixing our problems, subsidizing remote work positions (within US borders) would be a huge benefit.
To be honest the age of the CPUs isn't too bad. I mean, they're old but the CPUs they have are still perfectly acceptable and competitive. The issue is that the GPUs just aren't worth bothering with at all compared to what's out now.

They talk in the article about being backed into a thermal corner and that's easy to believe. They simply didn't know that GPU technology was going to accelerate in advances in the way it did, and particularly not in single-GPU workloads.
"email" isn't even a single protocol. Even just talking about SMTP you'd run into lots of "common edge cases" where different servers respond to errors differently, a lack of TLS uniformity, variations in auth, variations in host detection, etc. And that's before you take collection into account (POP3, IMAP, IMAP+, ActiveSync, etc).

Email is a mess of kludges and frankly could benefit from a ground up re-implementation. In fact many have tried. But like with creating a decentralised social network, it doesn't matter if you have an arguably better implementation if you don't generate the snowball effect attracting users to your "better" platform.
Haha this seems like maybe you haven't rented many places. My brother used to talk like this, but on his last move-out he got totally shafted. He and his wife had meticulously scrubbed every surface, then they hired a cleaning company, and they still got none of their deposit back.

The "easy" solution to this, although it does have some drawbacks, is simply not to pay the last month's rent.

The only time I haven't gotten screwed over by a landlord is when we knew each other through our university alumni association.
That's easy to say in retrospect. But when you're a naive and scared 18-year-old trying to navigate a life you don't understand you may not be thinking quite so clearly.

For example I have one friend who was an immigrant. First generation college graduate, parents don't speak English, and his parents take home more working construction than he does. That wasn't what was sold to him, but he bears all of the risk and all of the responsibility.

For those that aren't immigrants your most likely source is parents or counselors or advisors, nearly all of which were encouraging the same thing.
Yea, Austin isn't cheap anymore but it's by no means expensive when compared to the coasts. It used to be something like a factor of two more expensive in SF or NYC, and I don't think it's quite that large a gap.

The Austin city center is also so much smaller than many major cities that it can be misleading. Just 1.5 miles from downtown the price of housing starts to drop substantially.
No. That's probably illegal.

Don't break the law.

It doesn't matter what fine print the customer signed, if the contract is illegal.

Consumer protection laws protect us from this BS.
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Weirdest Footnote Ever: Research Supported by the Federal Prison System
> It doesn't even allow me to press the yes/no dialog only using a keyboard

cmd+first letter of the dialog option.

I actually find OS X far superior with shortcuts than Windows: More discoverable, actually configurable and more consistent.

One of the only things I miss now I've switched to Win.
Sorry if I'm wrong, but wasn't libre office partially started because OpenOffice stagnated?
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Necessary: Proficiency in using SQL for data summarization / aggregation, e.g. for reporting and analytics Bonus points: Good applied statistics skills or experience in machine learning

Needless to say, Bogotá is a very exciting place to live in, Colombia offers many options for getaways and exploration (think beaches, mountains, plains and jungle rolled into one).

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Feel free to ask me any questions you might have (city, office, team, application process, ...), email in profile.

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To be honest I feel like the touchbar MBP gets a bit of undeserved hate. I do think the touchbar is a total gimmick admittedly but what else did people really want? More RAM, sure, but that'd mean lower battery life.

I was admittedly disappointed at first but then realised there isn't really anything else that they could've done to interest me anyway. I'm genuinely very happy with my existing 2014 MacBook Pro. I just also think it's telling that I as someone who's spent far too much money on Apple hardware also uses a hackintosh desktop.
Now imagine how awful a chatbot made by that same web developer would be...
Effects of self-selected light-dark cycles and social constraints on human sleep
I've never quite figured out how sirs work. I know Knights were addressed with sirs and the Queen had something to do with it, but how does it work in a multicultural UK?
I would pick a rental area which has a college (or colleges) or with a large rental market. In my experience, the presence of a student rental market keeps prices down for property management, but high enough to make rentals viable. However, each person's situation is different.
I use Photoshop a ton and currently I'm convinced it doesn't even TRY to use the ram. I open it up and it just seems to use about 2GB and happily chug away on swap rather than taking a bite out of my 32GB
This. I recently switched to an all-renewable tariff[1]; if I had an electric car then that would have been all that was required for me to be running emissions-free.

[1] https://octopus.energy/where-does-octopus-energy-get-their-e...
Looks like HN is bombarding it, so:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:SwQAer7...
> and your users rights

How are you giving away your users rights? The permissive licenses don't impose any restrictions on your users. They can do as they see fit.
Yea, it's more of an orienteering ultramarathon
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> On the other hand, if Windows had a proper shell and cli tools, like cygwin with zsh, but native and not Ubuntu layer inside - that would be tremendous.

It is PowerShell, and it really is. Until recently I thought Windows had poor CLI support, and I discovered PowerShell and now I favor it even more than bash.

Am I crazy? Possibly, but PowerShell is truly a piece of gem in the CLI history. It is a thoughtfully crafted product regarding what "command-line interface" should look like.
I've always used licensing for indemnity and nothing more. Copyright enforcement is a pretty costly pursuit, and it's fairly unlikely anything that we develop would be worth that litigation, and the assumption that at no point we ourselves were not culprit of some other infringements allowing for counter-suit. so for just not being held responsible if someone uses something of ours that blows up in their face (possibly literally) I just stick with good old bsd.
Yeah, and $100 of Bitcoin in 2011 is worth $100,000 today. But like you said, you have to know the future to only invest in wild successes.