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Could I mention the legendary artist Mark Ferrari for your consideration?

http://markferrari.com/art/digital-concepts/

(I know there are hundreds of others, I'm hoping people might reply and compile a favourites list for you ^_^)
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No. Apart from the mapper chip used to address 8MB of ROM this demo requires no additional chips on the cartridge. Everything is done by the 68k CPU (running the effects) and the z80 CPU (running the sound engine).
Does anyone remember the terminal software "Terminate - the final terminal"? Does anyone know what happened to the original author, Bo Bendtsen? I'd love to send a registration check, since I never registered it as a youngster! There's a Bo Bendtsen from Denmark on twitter but alas it's not him (I asked!).
> Sparrow, Sunrise, Wunderlist... all the good apps just get bought and killed.

Consider it as a lesson only to use open source apps so that a group of convinced users can at least hire a programmer to fix bugs or add new features.
It depends a lot on what you are selling.

If you go to a small retail business (say a cafe) when it is not the peak hour, you might find the owner working there. It is usually not hard to get them in a conversation, many of them will talk your ear off. (Sometimes this even works for a supermarket or a large chain store.)

On that front, people usually like to be heard so if you do a lot of listening that takes the pressure off you. Often a good sales call is 90% or more listening to the customer talk.

I've gotten good prospects through LinkedIn and simlar means and have had very good luck (much better than 80%) at sending a message or email and getting an appointment for a phone call.

If I have any challenge here it is that there are people out there who really like to talk and talk and you can easily wind up having an absurd number of calls over a long period of time and get no sales. However, almost always in B2B sales you will need to make several calls over a period of 2-3 months. Big companies lke IBM can tolerate a sales process that runs longer that, but you can't.
When WiFi finally got to the point when 90% just works was huge. 2009?
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similar experience with ionic. yeah, I don't know 'angular' (well, didn't) but have still been able to be very productive very quickly (20+ years as well).

and... the 'impostor' thing... quite true. easier for these people to slip in to larger companies, I think, but it's a problem all around.

I would expect someone with 20+ years of experience to be able to help juniors troubleshoot in any language/stack, though, whether they expect it or not. :)
Because "free market" in practice means "what the big fish allow to happen with the help from their friends at office".

The only one who can guarantee a free market (e.g. big players not monopolizing, abusing their position, underbidding and then killing small more efficient players, etc) is the government/law.

But the government is also often in the hands of big players, and passes laws to their favor.

And even when it isn't, they have the upper edge in other ways (purchasing and negotiating power, better lawyers, more money to burn, etc).

Heck, even the simple fact that "bigger player = more advertising money" can make free competition from a newcomer a non-starter. Even if the new company can make something for cheaper (despite the better economies of scale of the big players) people don't buy cheaper, they mostly buy what they know.

Hence, free market is a myth, perhaps even more so than communism.
The amount of exposed components and the control stick in particular makes the device look pretty unfinished. The stick in particular is pretty unwieldly; it should be a handheld remote. That big metal pole is probably a safety hazard falling off when hitting a bump...

A good choice by the designers to use standard Li-Po battery packs, but the cost of the unit without batteries is ridiculously expensive. Okay, good quality materials and manufacturing, but still... And at 33kg not including the ball (another 5kg) or batteries (who knows), that thing is frikkin' heavy!

Not saying it isn't a good idea, but I don't particularly like the execution. I'll stick with my electric skateboard.
Really like the idea of computers built for Linux, but I configured a system on their site and it came out to $3000, whereas when I added the components up it seems like less than $2500.

So I'm not sure there is quite enough incentive for me to pay the extra $500.
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> The cleaning worker does not have many connections to CEOs, to wich he can sell his services, but the middle men have.

Bingo.

Additionally, in many cases the person/team carrying out a procurement process may require (often by law or company policy) a ridiculous set of documents that some sleazy company is an expert in navigating, and exploiting any loopholes or poorly-written selection criteria. They deliver crap service that barely qualifies, but the procurement person/team can say, "well technically they fit the criteria" so their ass is covered. The procurement team is not rewarded for selecting the best candidate, so they minimise their own exposure.
For those looking for a good alternative to Wunderlist, you've got Lanes - https://lanes.io.
I tried deploying a django app on EBS and node app through code star. The whole experience was really simple. It adds a whole new level of abstraction on deploying and maintaining apps on production level. Though similar solutions exist in market such as pythonanywhere and heroku, but all of this from AWS is just simply phenomenal. I 100% agree that code commit is just amazon trying to push through one of its products. But i don't think that really is the intent of codestar. They want to provide one opinionated workflow for your entire development lifecycle, which works incredibly well for teams of all size. And plus I wouldn't really worry about the lock in situation, thats a good problem to have if you reach a stage where you need to think about these issues and given aws's and overall amazon's stance on pricing I personally don't worry about it at all. Had this service been provided by microsoft I wouldnt have gone for it because of their history of over pricing and creating artificial lock ins.
I had tried configuring EBS prior with one of my apps, but the quirks of setting it up had always left me quite frustrated. But this is actually a game changer. I am sure aws will add more templates for different stacks and add more options of extensions - right now only extension is jira. Overall I see codestar evolving into the central core of developing, maintaining and deploying web apps for companies of all sizes.
Hey, you do you. I'm just here to say that not everyone agrees, or should, that real-world best practice necessarily involves a giant pile of transpilers and bundlers.
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> Do unicode URLs actually provide any real value?

yes. Not everybody speaks english.

>Every web user must be already used to typing Latin characters because so many major websites use them.

s/web user/existing web user/

Unicode domains are one more piece required for the net to be as inclusive as possible.
Hate me. Down vote me. But I need to know. This is a serious question and I don't mean to troll.

MS version of R, MS version of JS engine (ChakraCore), MS version of Atom. Is the MSJVM history repeating?
SRE: because DevOps isn't buzzwordy enough these days.
Well, if that is the case, the free market is a pureley theoretical concept, that is not realized anywhere in the world. And it cannot be realized, because there is always inevitable some form of information assymetry.
> it was the public internet before there was a public internet

The internet was invented several times. Many people assume that it wouldn't have happened without ARPAnet, but that doesn't line up with history. I remember the olden days :-) and anyone with two or more computers tried to hook them together by inventing a network.

It's like when the steam engine was invented (to pump water out of mines), one of the first things people tried was putting wheels on it. It's just obvious.
it also largely seems to be university students. Basically, it always seems to be those who are doing alright by the current system and don't want to have to work. Work will always have to be enforced until society is mostly automated, and even then the automation will need to be maintained.
That's not the case always. My first cheap thinkpad worked great, but the 2nd expensive one (T440p) has bad driver support for Wifi (on current and last Ubuntu LTS). Connections are unstable and throughput is ~0.3x of the dongle I use (both 2.4Ghz 802.11n). Hardware - Realtek RTL8192EE PCIe.
1) Fix the alert

2) Fix the root cause definitely

3) Delete the alert

If you can't do any of that, just delete the alert, and also, that means you are not SRE, you are a powerless ops monkey who's getting spammed by other people's alerts (very common in many bad places).
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Still, having depressed colleagues around you does not help with a persons well-being. It helps to have a healthy working environment with nice and permanent flight attendees. They could notice when a pilot gets depressed before something bad happens.
It's pretty much a replica of the original app. It's being developed by the same team that made Wunderlist as in Chad Fowler and company (he has a larger portfolio now). Most of these comments are probably unnecessary. The original team still works at MSFT The app is simply a rebrand that's trying to add additional features over time.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/fowlerchad/
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>Rich people in many countries definitely send their kids to posh schools through their connections (e.g. slots available for those with a parent who attended), go to different bars and follow different sports (e.g. rugby union vs football/soccer, depending on the country obviously).

Yes, but company owners in many countries weren't that rich that the other people they provided services to. Consider a company with 10-20-100 people, serving a city.

Now, those jobs go to huge conglomerates and companies with 1000s upon 1000s of employees, and CEOs that are 100x as rich as the people buying their services.
Hackernewsers was a thing from a few years ago, not his fault it's shut-down.
Why invoke the placebo effect? Because it will be having an effect. The question is, once you remove that, whether there is any remaining effect that is due to the drug.
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I agree, but this is more of a documentation issue than anything. I stopped bothering to look at the Ubuntu "supported hardware" page a few years ago because I could tell from the graphics card listed (and not listed) that it hadn't been updated since about 2011.

I appreciate that hardware testing is complex and expensive, but I'd love to see an annual "high spec" and "low spec" Ubuntu reference build, with a price tag of maybe $1500 and $600 respectively, that have been tested and confirmed working with the current LTS.

That having been said, I wouldn't pay system76 a premium for it. I'd do what I've done every year so far, which is search a bit and then ultimately buy what I want and cross my fingers.
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It's not really killed. The original Sunrise, Accompli and Wunderlist teams still work at MSFT and they're working on their new apps respectively. Chad works on Wunderlist. Javier still runs outlook. They just absorbed a bunch of other apps too
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OK I gave it a try and you are absolutely right. For the nvidia-smi, I could run it the /dev/nvidia0, which is cool.

I was also able to run it unprivileged. I guess my mistake was to believe the example from the docs and not test without.

Thanks for sharing that, I'll update my charts and the post accordingly.
That's fascinating. Maybe nasally-orientated organisms conceive themselves more as ambient presences than as hard-bodied social atoms?
> Is that the salt?

Yes. Oceanic salt water freezes around -2C. (or possibly below as surface water freezes "pure", the salt content getting transferred to lower layers).
In my experience there is far too little respect for well written specifications.

Most colleagues of mine and a few managers see them as a waste of time ("you're over thinking this", or "we'll figure it out later") yet somehow the projects with a specification always end up being done more or less on schedule.

The thing about specifications is that you need to be open to changing them if you find it's not working out. Specifications are not synonymous with waterfall development, and it's harmful to treat and view them as such.
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As far as I'm aware "solid state" always means "no moving parts", at least when used to describe electronic devices.
Yes. It's very odd to need to adjust your own language to fit into ASCII.

I can easily continue replacing "þ" and "ð" with "th", continue removing diacritics, but it feels like being robbed of an aspect of your language.
And the additional emissions from air conditioning, retail product manufacturing, and travel would raise CO2 levels even higher?

We need to develop an ecologically aware definition of quality of living, rather than one that prioritizes extracting value for humans from a supposedly separate source of natural resources.
> So - Diamonds. Classic monopoly. Physical good, limited natural supply captured completely by a single business entity.

You should reconsider using diamonds as examples and analogy: https://priceonomics.com/post/45768546804/diamonds-are-bulls...

It seems to me the reason you don't understand facebook monopoly because you seem to believe it was achieved through a good product which is not at all how it happened, (if the product is any good it's for facebook). They got there through a lot of tricks from the black book of shunned upon dark tricks to control supply (new registered users).
They kickstarted by seizing the universities students in ways that got them a lot of flak at the time then grew further by breaking their initial promises and more black book tricks and dark patterns.
Once they reached critical mass and user lock-in, the people themselves would recruit new users and further improve network effect.

There's also the shadow side that happened behind the scenes and can be pinpointed to around the time of Peter Thiel involvement.

So "Facebook has a monopoly through network effect" means that due to the sheer number of people registered it has an effective monopoly.
If you peruse the HN comments (or elsewhere) about facebook you will often see people that complains about facebook being a pile of crap that they can't leave because other people they want to stay to stay in touch are all there and some are only there. This is monopoly through network effect.
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> Board executives at JPMorgan Chase, PNC and the other banks that caused so much destruction in 2008 should have been thrown in jail next to rapists, paedophiles and murders.

What strange ideas of justice the world has!

In an ostensibly advanced country, America, one side of the political spectrum would be have us remain willfully oblivious to police abuses, corrupt prosecutors withholding or fabricating evidence, and the systematic dehumanization not simply of prisoners, but of any peripherally involved with the machinery criminal justice system, especially for the purpose of deporting undesirables.

(The prison guards who put an inmate in the shower and turned on the hot water until the skin was peeling off his corpse? Normal. The immigrant detained by ICE for months and months, given aspirin for his developing penis cancer despite agency doctors' recommendation to get him to a proper examination until it was far, far too late? Incredibly normal. Predates Trump.)

The other side of this political spectrum skims over meaningful questions of actual fraudulent or unethical business practices, issuing instead a blanket equation of the practice of making loans to people who assumed their house would apprecuate in value with crimes such as murder and child abuse.

And these aren't even extremes. Both positions are pretty mainstream, real crowd-pleasers.

What the hell is wrong with us? Can we not aspire to build a world where there is actual justice, and not mere retribution against our political foes and other un-persons?
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If you need another tester I'd be happy to help out :)

Currently I use OmniFocus, primarily due to the start dates which hide things until they're relevant, which so many apps (including Wunderlist) lacked. Sadly the Android support is poor and only covered by 3rd party clients that lag massively behind in functionality.
If that extra $500 comes with solid support, down to calling a rep and having a replacement box show up the same or next day, then it's a no-brained for any kind of professional.

If I lose a couple of days to having to figure stuff out with a faulty machine, as opposed to solving the immediate issue of having a box that works right now, I will have lost significantly more than $500.

This is why I buy Apple hardware with Apple Care, by the way. Whenever I've run into an issue I walk into an Apple Store or call customer service and have the issue resolved right away. Sure the up front cost is higher, but the time and money saved on not having to care is priceless.

It has to be said though, that the hardware is only half the story. I also make heavy use of spideroak and iCloud for backup of pretty much everything, as well as init scripts to get a brand new machine configured in less than an hour.

If these guys can provide the same solid hardware + support + cloud story (by themselves or through partners) then I'd say the price tag is competitive.
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Interesting. Thanks for the response.
>they didn't know how to hire system administrators, but they knew how to hire software engineers

Setting aside your partial jest, I think Google's approach of hiring "programmers" to fill the role of SRE makes perfect sense for their organization.

The "sysadmin" can have a wide range of meanings and responsibilities but many will have experience managing COTS[1] software like Oracle RDBMS, Peoplesoft HR, MS Exchange email server, etc. A typical system admin can then use complimentary COTS tools like Microsoft SCOM System Center Operations Manager, HP OpenView, IBM Tivoli, CA Unicenter/Spectrum. On Linux, it would be similar tools like Nagios, Zabbix to monitor Apache webservers, Mysql, etc.

In Google's case, they didn't cluster a bunch of COTS Oracle dbs together to serve web surfers. Instead, Google wrote a proprietary platform like BigTable or Spanner[2]. As a result, they also want additional software that monitors the health of Spanner. Since none of the monitoring tools from enterprise vendors like HP/MS/CA are adequate (because they have no out-of-box software-agents for Spanner), they need another layer of programmers to write custom management/monitoring tools. Those programmers are the SREs.

All the above enterprise tools from HP/MS/CA/etc including the mother db server, the agents, the plugins are written in C/C++. If your hiring job description is "system admin", most candidates will not have the skills to develop those enterprise monitoring tools from scratch.
Yes, many sysadmins have programming skills to write Bash/Powershell scripts. E.g. a bash script might have a polling loop that checks for an error file existence and then has if/else/fi to send an email. However, that's not the same programming skill as developing a proprietary version of HP OpenView and MS SCOM. Most traditional sys admins do not write low-level C code like Zabbix.[3]

Basically, if you're a company that writes complex proprietary softare and none of the existing enterprise monitoring tools can manage it, you'll have to hire programmers instead of sysadmins as the baseline skillset for SREs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanner_(database)

[3] e.g. https://github.com/zabbix/zabbix/blob/trunk/src/zabbix_serve...
Why should anybody be wrong? It all makes sense considering from where someone comes. I'd rather discuss why people from your context call them "tabletop RPGs".

As discussed in another subthread of that post: Even the word "RPG" is context related. The group I'd call "Pen&Paper players" consider their "RPGs" as "The RPGs". People like me who mostly played them on computers and consoles consider cRPGs as "The RPGs" and call non-c RPGs as "Pen&Paper", while considering Warhammer and Monopoly as "Tabletop" (actually we call them something like "board games", since English is not my mothertongue, but "tabletop" is the closest translation; there's even a Youtube Show called TableTop that reviews these games exclusively).

Now I think you call them "tabletop RPGs" because people from your surrounding don't play non-tabletop RPGs that are only played with paper and not with a board on the table (a little like when actors train for a scene, just talking, figuring out what the characters would do, sometimes not even using dice). Also maybe in your areas people don't play many tabletop games that are not RPGs. Or you do and call them differently. E.g., do you know "Settlers of Catan"? How do you call that kind of game? Do you distinguish them from "tabletop RPGs"?
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I configured a SyncThing[1] between my devices with the taskwarrior file included in the synced folder and it's been working well, without having to setup a taskwarrior server.

[1] https://syncthing.net/
WWIV BBS and "doors" (games, basically) were my intro into system administration and further experience programming back then. I had so much fun setting that up. My parents even let me have 2 telephone lines so that I could have 2 users (plus someone in the house) on at the same time. I had exactly 1 multiplayer "door", but that was fine.

My favorite door was Legend of the Red Dragon (LoRD) and I remember playing it a lot back then. My users (all half-dozen of them) did, too. It was a small town, and I was surprised to get that many people.

So much nostalgia, and I can definitely link it to my career today.
From what I remember, the plan was Voyager crossing the Cassini division and they were glad when they realized it was not as particle free as we used to think at the time. The region between the planet and the inner ring is much cleaner.

Cassini has been around Saturn for a long time now and I don't think there will be too many surprises on its final cruise.

And, if there are, Cassini will just have discovered a new way to destroy space probes.
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I use a Thinkpad X230 - it has a 12.5" display with 8 or 16GB RAM. The latest model appears to be X270 -- same size display.

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The free market is only efficient when

- property rights exist, and are enforced

- there are few barriers to entry

- transaction costs are low

My money's on transaction cost issues. BigCorp has teams of people dedicated to making customer acquisition more effective and efficient.
A screen saver todo is a good idea! Is it open source? Care to share it?

Heh, asking if the code is open source in this context feels like panhandling :)
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