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Motors have gotten more efficient, but new cars weigh more. Those things just about cancel out.
Politics is the answer with regards to communications. I suspect that may also be the case for other technology in Australia.

The only reason Australia needed a NBN was because of the sale of Telstra as a vertically integrated monopoly. It should have been split from the start into wholesale and retail as happened in New Zealand. Apparently they were starting to roll out fibre when the sale was announced. It was politically good to sell it as a single unit at the time.

Then when the NBN was announced the opposition and specifically Tony Abbot lacked the vision to see the value and believed that it was just an advanced video game system. Given the power I believe he would have stopped the build entirely. Instead he handed it over to Malcom to "fix". Malcom in order to remain on the cabinet and hopefully push to become prime minister did as ordered and "destroyed" the NBN. The result is what we currently have. The present government cannot fix it because Malcom hung his entire political career on the NBN and to admit that it isn't working would be political suicide for the present government.

This issue seems to occur all over the world where you have fixed terms in politics and politicians who lack the guts to do what is right because they only need to do enough to get re-elected and long term plans are off the table.
Yeah, naively using errexit won't get you the whole way. BashFAQ, ShellCheck and StackOverflow have quite a bit of information, and you can often write things that are pretty robust if you take in all the information. Particular cases that come to mind are:

1) command substitution. you can catch this with an explicit error handler inherited by child processes.
2) pipefail SIGPIPE false positives. pretty hairy, command dependent whether this is a "real" error. often not, so you can work around it by ignoring SIGPIPE
3) process substitution. As far as I know, there is no way to workaround this whilst still using the convenience syntax. You have to carefully use explicit named pipes and carefully use wait on the PIDs (carefully!). Maybe still with races...

In my experience, you can write moderately robust shell scripts if you care enough and use all these flags and linters. But by the time you are at this stage you probably shouldn't be using shell scripting. More like training to spot problems in other people's code.
Even if no law has changed the fear of a hard Brexit might lead people to not risk their family to move to the UK and then been thrown out.

And yes, there's a possibility that a usable agreement comes out at some point in time, but by then companies might have decided not to wait, but move to the continent. Thus giving this a longer-term impact.
have you ever, ever watched back a concert you've recorded ?
But the pound is still stronger than the dollar, brexit hasn't changed that. Americans get paid more sure, but the cost of living is ridiculously higher, and you also have to basically take out another mortgage to afford your health service. Not to mention the work ethic is a lot worse in the US, you can expect to spend a lot more time in the office over there.
The startup scene in Pakistan is going good. Companies like Finja and Planet N Group have are launching fintech solutions. Markhor and Colwer made it to YCombinator. Nadeem Hussain is probably the largest tech investor in Pakistan who has invested around $8 Million in different fintech/tech ventures. Daraz by Rocket Internet is an eCommerce giant that should be mentioned. Find many startups from Pakistan here: https://www.startuplist.pk/all
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It's the exact opposite of general purpose though, it's several specific purposes.
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I work in financial services (I'm an accountant), where I'm convinced blockchains are the future. I feel like my experience should be relevant here, but all the positions I find are for developers. How could I break into this nascent industry?
I have not. I usually use `sed` in such instances but admitting the superiority of Perl in such instances surely this is insufficient on its own to use Perl? Seems like a rare use-case and if that script grows large then Python has superior language features but if the script stays small, then a Bash script with `sed` will do just as well.
I hope Cloudflare wins this one because screw patent trolls.

I have to say though, a company that's looking at massive patent fees vs. the paltry $50k offered for someone to play lawyer for them, and the fact their security bug bounty program gets you a whole 1 year's free service + a limited edition t-shirt (!!) + on some website hall of fame...

I don't understand why their policy is literally "Let's toss 1 dollar bills at people and hopefully someone will go to bat for us!" instead of paying regular fees for real lawyers or anywhere near industry standards for bounties. It seems almost insulting.
While I agree that their HR division was at fault. I simply can't agree with your observation about this being a service for the "rich".

If I wait for the bus (which is hourly) I tend to lose more than I'd gain by going in to work on an Uber, at only $4 more.
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Archived copy, which can be read without JS enabled:

https://archive.fo/zjFdt
For some reason the notion that an arbitrary piece of desktop software might be an unholy mixture of proprietary binary blobs from different companies, and to which no one entity has the complete source code, fills me with dread.

Yet, dissonantly enough, this is exactly the model you accept if you use proprietary drivers on your system. Arguably, it's the model you accept if you use any proprietary software - programs are not perfectly isolated from each other.

If you found this revelation about Skype to be vaguely shocking, as I did, consider if your reaction is consistent when it comes to the other things in your life - like your Android phone.
Still no good CuDNN equivalent from AMD for machine learning that would make their cards competitive for that use case
Related (yesterday in The Guardian): "America has become so anti-innovation – it's economic suicide"

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/11/tech-inno...
"This self talk is the basis of Default Mode Network"

That idea interest me. Can you elaborate it? Maybe some link?
Thanks.
(1) Windows 10 smartphones currently make cellular voice calls so that feature is already in the mobile version of Windows 10.

(2) There's no reason why Samsung or one of the Chinese manufacturers couldn't make a Windows 10 phablet. Microsoft made Windows free on small-screen devices, so I assume it will continue to be free, or at worst, "zero paid".

[Microsoft had a Windows offering where OEMs paid $10 for the OS but got a $10 rebate for setting Bing as the default search engine. So technically, Windows wasn't free, but OEMs didn't pay anything to use it.]
> Europe's best hope for keeping tech talent from going to the US may be Donald Trump cracking down on visas.

The opposite could happen. The spamable H-1B lottery where you're left in suspense for months to maybe get an H-1B sucks for you and the sponsoring company. But if e.g. the H-1B minimum salary is raised, you might actually see an increase in Europeans coming over. (I believe the DHS & TSA is doing far more to keep us out than Trump :P)
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Most probably, a fall of Silicon Valley would make Wall Street tumble. Then, the government would have to save the "evil banksters."

Of course, all is fine when the money keeps rolling in, no questions asked.

Greedy lending needs greedy borrowers.
Hi all, This is a side project I have been working on since a few months. Since I am fairly new to production level programming, I would be very thankful if you could critique the project by giving advice related to coding practices, feature suggestions, or anything else you think is necessary.
anecdotally i had in Malaysia noname Spice smartphone, never had hardware issue, then i had in China Amoi smartphone, never had hardware issue, then I had Lenovo, never had hardware issue, now I have more than year Xiaomi, no hardware issue

what exactly have these anecdotes to do with quality of Android smartphone and switching to iPhone?

also for that matter i use mobile phones 20 years, must have more than 20 of them (in 00s i used to have two phones at same time and switch them every year), guess how many got broken? zero
Some newspapers are obsessed with migration.

http://www.unhcr.org/uk/protection/operations/56bb369c9/pres...

> Overall, the Swedish press was the most positive towards refugees and migrants, while coverage in the United Kingdom was the most negative, and the most polarised. Amongst those countries surveyed, Britain’s right-wing media was uniquely aggressively in its campaigns against refugees and migrants

[...]

> The discussion of refugees and migrants as a cultural threat or a threat to community cohesion was most prevalent in the British press (10.8%), followed by Swedish (8.2%), Italian (8.1%), Spanish (7.4%) and German (5.3%) newspapers. Another noticeable finding was the high incidence of threats to welfare/health systems in the UK press (18.3%) which was much higher than the other countries in the sample (Sweden 11.4%, 7.9% Germany, 7.3% Italy, 6.7% Spain). The prevalence of negative refugee frames could also be seen in the greater tendency for the British press to link refugees and migrants to crime (8.2%) than in other countries (Italy 4.3%, Germany 3.7%, Italy 2.6%, Spain 1.7%)

[...]

> In contrast, coverage in the United Kingdom was the most negative. Despite the presence of newspapers such as the Guardian and Daily Mirror, both of which were sympathetic to refugees, the right-wing press in the United Kingdom expressed a hostility towards refugees and migrants which was unique. Whilst newspapers in all countries featured anti-refugee and anti-migrant perspectives, what distinguished the right of centre press in the UK was the degree to which that section of the press campaigned aggressively against refugees and migrants. This could be seen in the preponderance of negative frames and the editorialising in favour of Fortress Europe approaches.
"... don't need financing"

Only this can create problems of its own. Some dealers will refuse to work with you if you are paying with actual money instead of a loan. My parents went through this. They sold some farmland and decided to buy a new car with the profits. A few dealers simply said no. The car they wound up with mostly depended on where would actually sell them the car.
My own hypothesis is that maybe our memories are stored in DNA in our brain cells. This article made my hypothesis a little more likely... Also, read the article "Microsoft experiments with DNA storage: 1,000,000,000 TB in a gram" at Ars Technica. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/04/micro...
First, ethnocentrism would require an ethnic group as the subject.

Second, I prefaced to ensure this was taken as tongue in cheek as intended. Clearly you missed that part.

Third, having spent many years researching Buddhism we must agree to disagree regarding your suggestion that self-targeted compassion and Pali metta[0] are similar.

Finally, a passing generalization is clearly not the same as viewing everyone as identical.

[0] http://www.accesstoinsight.org/index-subject.html#metta
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My friend claims that her boyfriend managed to unlock her iPhone using his finger, although I can't 100% verify that claim.
Man, my public GitHub profile ties my email address to my photograph. And that stuff is also in each of my public commits.

With modern Android's anti-spam features, I can even dodge spam calls to my phone, so this is not a problem for me.
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I started using Spotify Premium while I was travelling recently (stick to Foobar2000 at home) and the UI seems utterly counter-intuitive.
That's the biggest issue for the UK attracting tech talent. Compared to other countries, the salaries on offer just are not that enticing compared other big hubs.
This blog post from Google engineer Neil Fraser made the rounds 4 years ago: https://neil.fraser.name/news/2013/03/16/

He traveled to Vietnam and observed a high quality Computer Science education in primary / secondary school. Talking about grade 11 scholars, he wrote:

After returning to the US, I asked a senior engineer how he'd rank this question on a Google interview. Without knowing the source of the question, he judged that this would be in the top third. The class had 45 minutes to design a solution and implement it in Pascal. Most of them finished, a few just needed another five minutes. There is no question that half of the students in that grade 11 class could pass the Google interview process.
And you get every situation to shit on FOSS people and praise ms, right? Do you get paid for this?
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"In light of Brexit, have you considered moving to work in another country?"

70% said yes. I'm sure a lot of people, in all industries, and even before Brexit, have considered this, especially when it's been raining for a fortnight or there have been particularly annoying Tube strikes. But there's a big difference between considering doing something and actually doing it.
> for the highly skilled from other parts of the world it will likely become easier and cheaper to migrate to the UK (and the government has been making noises to this effect)

If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you.

Also per https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/08/conservativ... - even if the UK were to accept "more skilled" immigrants, the overall number would be extremely limited.

(As it stands, they propose to limit it to "tens of thousands" including students, which means either the collapse of UK education exports or a virtual end to worker immigration)

Oh and see also http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/brexit-ministers-mis... : cabinet ministers will simply say whatever lie they need for the particular audience.
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I would be (given living standards are already dropping).
Even taking account of this, it's still a lot less than other hubs.

When UK Techies leave the UK for California. They don't come back. They have golden handcuffs money wise.
Nope, it's the one spending the most on PR and useless projects which attract tech noobs.
I don't understand why the quoted author took issue with Quip in the first place. Modern life is increasingly complicated, and full of small burdens on memory and willpower that add up to a huge background stress load. If I can pay a small amount of money to alleviate just one thing to remember (refreshing my toothbrush every couple of months) and could do that for every other annoying little inconvenience of modern life (car maintenance/insurance/tax, renewing and comparing financial services, buying in food and finding new recipes, tracking my dietary composition and fitness, backing up my computer, expensing mileage, and so many hundreds of little things) then life would be a lot more enjoyable. I have nothing but praise for the companies who focus on the little things and do them well. We could all do with not having to think about and remember so many things.
That would be one way, but what's commendable is that they went further and HIP is actually also a common thin API on top of CUDA and their own platform. They could've just stopped at converting code, but they did not -- and that's something that might save them and give people enough incentive to support their products. You can keep your NVIDIA path that'll be compiled with the nvcc backend and target both platforms with the nearly the same code, especially on host (and often also device side).
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I'm joking a bit here, but I was expecting that Nigerian entrepreuneurial spirit to actually turn to the light side for a while now, so it's not a suprise that Nigeria is developing a thriving startup scene.

Before anyone says that I'm mean or anything, I'm Romanian. Our IT scene started with people pirating software and hacking servers left and right. We were banned from Paypal for quite a few years...
That's a good point. I agree with you that, in the short term, there's going to be use for solutions to the parking problem. But how big can it really get?

It's not just self-driving tech. It's the ride-hailing paradigm in general, which the self-driving tech makes incredibly cheap. As soon as it becomes more cost effective to use ride hailing services than to own your own car, those 2 billion cars will all leave the road basically overnight.

We're not going to have to wait for the old cars to die.
"All this has to do with the fact that people don't have money to upgrade to the latest lease."

1. A lot of folks still find leasing cars to be a bad money decision due to restrictions on miles, messes that families make, and never actually owning the car.

2. I truly think this is more that many don't have the money to properly care for the car. I've seen folks that do all the maintenance and fix problems as they arrive. 500,000 miles (800,000km) later, their cars are still running, though they look worse for wear.
Most of the time automation is not only about time saving (and XKCD is just for fun).

It's also about: decreasing errors, allowing for stuff to happen when operators are not around, ensuring testability and reproducible behaviors, scaling up processes.
If you think there is no problem, you are wrong. The blog post does not show all the information leaks that this implies. Example: I can modify the script to monitor all the numbers I've in my phone, so that based on the online/offline status in a few weeks I can be able to guess who is having conversations together, discovering cheatings, work affairs, ...

EDIT: Practical example. After collecting enough data about user X I create a table about the probability of this user being online in a given few-minutes time ranges. Then I check the online frequency of that user compared to the online statuses of another user Y. If the difference compared to the expected probability is significant, than I can suspect the two are chatting.

Another thing I can use is that attivation delay of the online status, since often X sends a message to Y and this results in, a few seconds after, Y to be online, and then the contrary.
We suggested and could show that the tech can be completely plug and play, and support any logical network topology. There is no installer risk because power doesn't run over optical fiber. It's a big misconception that you need specialized installers. You don't. And it's the labor cost that is responsible for biggest chunk of the expense in building a country wide broadband network.

As I said in the linked tweet, you could hire the handyman down the street to do it, or you could pay the major contractor Ericsson 100X as much per property to do it. If they somehow screw up plugging something into something else, it just doesn't work - it doesn't affect the integrity of the network at all.

In my opinion, it's the existing approach that lacks credibility. It's corporate welfare. That's why Australia's broadband lags behind Turkey, Poland, Mexico, and many others even though it's a much richer country per capita than all of those.

The funny thing was when we came onto the scene the most interest we got was from Ericsson, with some email discussions and heaps of their people showing up on my profiles, etc. That was flattering but apparently they needn't have worried about us spoiling their cash cow. I can understand their paranoia. Life must be sweet when you own 100% of the purported supply.
> For example, in the not-to-distant future, we won't need parking spaces. You'll just hail the self-driving car (or similar) using your phone. People won't own their own cars.

Why won't people want to own cars? What if people want to drive for the fun of it, or do not care to use self-driving cars? what of motorbikes or even regular bicycles?

In the future people could lounge at the pool all day and have everything done for them by robots.
Use ansible instead of bash.

Everything bash can do, ansible can do it better.
"uniquely aggressively in its campaigns against refugees and migrants"

Blame societies ills on the poor and weak - one of the oldest political tricks in the book and something that makes me physically ill to contemplate.
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Friends of mine only swear by them. I'd like to collect your opinions on this online banking service. Is it really that good ? What differentiates it from other such services ?
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Not at the moment, but when Venezuala finally turns away from socialism/communism and rebuilds itself; it will be interesting to see how well they can do in the tech sector.
In that case we're no different to each other.
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Ireland is open for business folks!

-Fastest growing EU country

-12.5% Corporation Tax, pro-enterprise government

-Large amount of the biggest tech and pharma multinationals already using it as European HQ

-English speaking

-Educated workforce

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-Safe, low crime, politically stable

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-Decent schools, low cost university education, state healthcare

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This was a compromise to allow people to actually see results.
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> But the pound is still stronger than the dollar, brexit hasn't changed that. Americans get paid more sure, but the cost of living is ridiculously higher, and you also have to basically take out another mortgage to afford your health service.

Most tech jobs have good health insurance. At the moment 1 GBP ~ 1.3 USD. I think a (good?) salary for somebody out of uni is ~30k GBP, and ~120k USD. For a software dev with a few years of experience it's maybe ~45k GPB vs ~200k USD (total comp). And depending on where you are in the US, you might be paying less tax.

A few more hours and some soul-crushing meetings doesn't seem so bad considering you can do it for a few years, come back and buy a house - in cash. Of course, you might find you enjoy it and you stay... ironically that's how I ended up living in the UK for 7 years.
I've been to Lithuania before, great country.
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