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There are two kind of mathematics books, pure mathematics and problem oriented. Pure mathematics text books needs not give real life examples or context, that is the way they are supposed to be.
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Greetings.
I'm posting this because it gives some insight into the online world in 1992.

It talks about a small number of Americans, about 6 million homes, with computers and modems.

It also mentions the subscriber counts of two services:

> Compuserve, which says it has 903,000 subscribers; the Prodigy Services Company, which reports a million members

And the cost of going online at the time,, an eye-watering $12.80 per hour:

> Subscribers in major cities can tap into Compuserve or the other services by dialing a local telephone number, so there is no long distance toll, but Compuserve charges $12.80 an hour for connection time. In addition, O.A.G. assesses a surcharge of 17 cents to 47 cents a minute for using its service, depending on the time of day. (There is no additional fee for using Travelshopper or Eaasy Sabre.)

(OAG was the Official Airlines Guides Electronic Edition)

($12.80 in 1992 is about $20 today.)
(I'd have liked to answer your earlier question on the LGBT movement and my opinions thereof, but found the thread killed and replies unavailable before I had the chance. If you remain interested, drop me an email to the address in my profile, and we can proceed via that route.)
I bake this sort of project time into my job search in the expectation that I'll have to do a handful of them. Personally I much prefer these sorts of practical tests over "gotcha" whiteboard algorithm interviews. Then I just add them to my github portfolio.
I have ~10 yrs exp. Till date I have got non-competence clause 4 times, of that I removed the clause 3 times and did not sign the time they refused to remove it.

I just explained my case logically, respectfully and directly (face to face) to my line manager. My case was:

- Its understood that I will not work a second job. Though I will volunteer for some charity.

- Considering my domain expertise, I am more likely to get a job in a similar domain. If my future employer demands me to implement the same tech as my pervious employer, its a red flag that this company is clueless and will sink soon. If I volunteer the details of my previous companies operations, it just means that I am untrustworthy and I will not be trusted in the new company. So sharing details of my previous job is a bad idea.

The 4th company manager was not even willing to discuss with me about my agreement and wanted me to go to the legal dept directly. That was clear sign that this was a very bureaucratic and not suited for me.

Of course, I have only worked in small to medium sized company and they was no secret algorithms worth in the millions or billions involved. That I am sure is a different case, like the current Google vs Uber over the tech stolen by Otto from Waymo.
You are driving down the interstate, message pops up saying it needs to refuel, you don't hit the button fast enough, your cars shuts off, and you spend the next 15 minutes parked in the middle of the road with cars honking behind you.

Or you wake up, get dressed for an important meeting, unlock your door, and suddenly realize you're going to be late because your car decided this was the best time to finish refueling in spite of your instructions to refuel at another time of day.
I don't particularly care why an organization would want to maintain a piece of software indefinitely. That's not my problem.

I do think that's important to recognize that there is model under which an organization can. I'd even argue that it's a more "free market" than that of single-source proprietary software, too. If there's a market in maintaining non-proprietary software someone will pop up to fill it (even if it's just a lone-wolf consultant). With proprietary software that can't happen.

Whether or not an organization or individual chooses to maintain software is an orthogonal concern to the model under which they maintain it. Even when there is a free market for maintenance some will opt to eschew maintenance. Personally, I'd like those organizations to pay the cost by way of data loss, downtime, going out of business, etc.

I'm not overly worried about it. I think traditional regulatory and risk management will eventually catch up. Someday (hopefully sooner, rather than alter) businesses won't be able to get basic insurance policies unless they can prove they're doing IT maintenance, for example.
I'd argue that current techies haven't become conservative enough to consider removing net neutrality.

There's an entire school of conservative thought where government's only role in the market is maintaining a competitive market. It's unfortunate that this voice has been lost.

In 10-20 years, when we have more competition among ISPs

How's that going to happen if the current duopoly reinforce their position by removing net neutrality?
The "robots are taking our jobs!" folks seem to miss one very important point: commerce is not about the production and trade of things to keep people alive. In fact, that's an extremely small part of it. Most all commerce is because humans are social and like trading for social reasons. That's not going anywhere.

So activities that provide needed social capital aren't going anywhere. In fact, some may become quite more valuable. Things like white water rafting or fashion consultant. Things that involve the rote production of life-sustaining products? Sure. If your job can be replaced by a robot, it will be. There are many, many jobs that can't -- and my money says there are a lot more of those kinds of jobs coming down the pike.

If that doesn't persuade you, imagine a world with strong AI where robots can produce anything you like. Would humans suddenly stop trading for things or collecting things? Of course not, in fact, it would become highly more nuanced. We're going to see industries emerge that seem incredibly stupid by modern standards, but which will be immensely influential as time goes on. The fact that we can't predict the future is a feature, not a bug of our existence.

Having said all of that, it's certainly possible that we'll see a lot of economic stress in the coming few decades. Just like in the previous few decades. Perhaps even as much stress as we had during the Great Depression. But it's always been like that.
this is regarding an ICO, you all know what that is I hope ;)
That article would be more believable if Microsoft (as well as other companies) hadn't slipped all kinds of stuff in earlier updates which are not on the interest of the consumer at all. (Starting with annoying UX changes and A/B tests, to telemetry, to advertising, to removal of user software and DRM)

Oftentimes it looks suspiciously as if the (rightful) need for security and quick responses is used as an excuse for "OS-as-a-service" shift that mostly benefits the vendors.

What happened to the old practice of clearly distinguishing between "security" and "feature" updates? What happened to actually educating the users?
The most annoying thing is that a restart is required.

KSplice shows that you can update a running system without restart.

Real shame that MS, Chrome etc don't all manage this.
Where? In the US?

I am not sure this is the case in markets with hight growth rates.
"Tonight at 6: Company does not have the capacity to handle every single user request and fix every single bug. The horrifying truth about Software Development revealed!"

Actual story: "Man who works for Company tweets snarkily, failing to realize having his company referenced twice in his profile makes people assume he speaks on behalf of his company, damaging the company's reputation for no good reason."
Follow-up the next day: Company's PR department requests the man cease from tweeting for a while, or do it from an account that does not scream "I work for BitBucket and I am in charge of decisions"
I think it's also strategical. Math is an area of science that most of the time is not worth as much as it costs to continue. But sometimes, one of these little things turn out so huge that they change all our lives. So we really need math, but most of the time there is no logical reason to invest in it (knowledge, time, money). What to do about it?

One way that seems to have begun common in Math is to make it magical. The entry burden is hard as hell, and most reasonable things in math are expressed in a way that as best sounds mystical to common people.

This gives math some kind of credibility. Nobody wants to be the one to say how little they actually understand about it, so they continue to support the crazy magicians instead of losing face. And in the end humanity is better off for it.

PS: You can see that it is not necessary to be so cryptic but still math continues to do so, when you compare it to programming. For instance math continues to use a greek letter ∑ (sigma) to express it. In programming it's mostly a "for loop" or a "sum() function". Most people can understand "sum([1,2,3])" or "for <something> do <something> done", but they don't know the greek alphabet. So it's possible to encode math more readable, but math continues not to do so, and as argued before, probably also has good reason to do so.
Taskbar > Context menu > Cortana > ( Hidden / Show icon / Show search box )
Off-topic, but I think that traditionally, the longest official word in German was "Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz", the name for a law about testing and labeling of beef, now repealed. This word (63 letters) was of course not in everyday use by most people, but it was actually in the law.
How many WannaCry victims are too shame faced to come forward? I have heard that several warships belonging to a NATO nation run on WinXP.
article should be rewritten as: don´t tell people to use windows, just don´t
This has never happened to me unless I've actively ignored it and I sit in front of a Windows PC for 12 hours a day and have done for 19 years.
The cleverest move was to integrate Cortana with local file and application search, which many users likely use as a universal command line/shortcut (hit windows key and just start typing). I find that when I disable Cortana, local search becomes severely degraded. If anyone has any tips on how to fix this, I'd appreciate them.
> If static linking, the calls into the kernel might have changed or data read from /etc, /dev or other type of expectations from target OS.

No, Linux takes binary compatibility seriously. I can run statically linked binaries from 1992 on a modern system just fine.
Is Satellite an option, that sounds pretty expensive.
> A good firewall would protect from WanaCrypt

The attack could come from the internal network (it spreads first via email). Also, don't forget the upnp shenanigans
How much do you make at Google Japan?
I work at a large company in Japan and am considering moving to Google Japan. Just so I don't get my hopes up, what is the salary like there?

Is the 10.5 million figure here base salary or total comp?

https://en-hyouban.com/company/10053079977/report/?PK=D92033#report01

If it is base, what is the total for a T3 or T4?
The reason I moved to GitHub from BitBucket, over 3 years ago, was because they (Atlasssian) failed to implement code search — something I now use all the time on GitHub.

It took them until last summer to make it available; I remember getting pinged quite regularly over the course of 2 years of people asking in a support thread why it still was not available.
Uber doesn't even have competitors in many markets they expanded to. Well, save for traditional taxis.
By removing all kinds of search, yes.
> It's an interesting problem. Live updates without requiring a restart is going to be a complex task, how do you reload a library in use by a program without crashing it?

Well, how do Linux and other unices do that?
What do you consider a "real computer"?
Oh no. The forced updates were the 'gift' for running Windows 10. Although I would say this is also certainly a part of it.

I also have more than a few stories of people hiring me precisely due to a hijacked OS install of Win10, accompanied by slower machine and worse usability. It only takes a few of those and a whole social circle will warn about it (because of the time and harassment).

In fact, I remember this getting so bad, that local news media was talking about how to stop having your machine hacked by MS with a forced Win10 install. In all honesty, if this were you or I, we'd be facing CFAA charges for this shit.
MacOS handles this perfectly. It clearly notifies you when an update will be installed if you restart.
Minnowboard sounds like the open source equivalent. It also has gpio, i2c, etc...
Yes, another example is Wells Fargo, stock not that much affected - yet. It takes time, but consumer sentiment is eventually unstoppable like water wearing down rock
I never thought about it like that before. Interesting.

The 'arms' in 'right to bear arms' is not clearly defined, and the founders would not have had any concept of software or weaponised software, but I can't think of an argument against people owning malicious software if the argument for owning firearms is also in play.
It makes me really sad that young children will never get the experience I had when flying, of going into the cockpit during a flight and looking at all the buttons and talking to the pilot. :(
microsoft needs to change how they push updates.

If I have a desktop pc and I shutdown, I don't mind an update. but if it's a stealth download of windows 10 pro when I have home, then NO.

if people never shutdown, then yes maybe force a reboot for critical updates. but windows needs to figure that out.

if I shutdown a laptop because i'm running out of battery, then updating windows for 30 minutes is not a good idea.

and sometimes you'll get 30 updates in one go when I've shutdown the PC every day and it should have installed a few in that timeframe.
28,000 people stopped using these powers - less than 56 people charged (no specific number for that so it could be significantly less than 56 as that's the number of arrests). When the authorities are given such a powerful tool (and such a violating tool) it should have to prove significantly useful to continue to exist. Schedule 7 clearly hasn't. Also quite shocking that only 0.2% of people stopped are arrested and non-compliance == arrest. That's a lot of people just handing over data and passwords without a fight.
If you are in remote africa, with a sattelite uplink, windows updates/traffic should be configurable.

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/4mcdon/i_live_i...
How nice for you! Having active hours be ignored, and the machine update itself in the middle of a workday, has happened more than once to me. (Once would be enough.) It's happened more than once to a lot of other people, too. How far do you expect to get with this argument by implication that that's not the case, and we're all just full of it?
> Yes RU/NK are doing worse things. But the USA just elected Trump

Funny you mention Trump. Trump wasn't involved in prism, Snowden, or Assange. The establishment that predates Trump is the real worry.
I understand that this is notebook where user can write ML script and execute? How are you going to handle data upload to your service? Which libraries will be available? Do you support R and python?

How do you compare to Kaggle kernels?
Just realized that my app responded to the top comment rather than the post itself.
This is the plot of _The Demolished Man_ (Bester, 1953)
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For that matter, why are we seeing so many updates? It seems 1/4 of my CPU cycles are used to keep the system up to date.

ChromeOS updates the system once every 6 weeks and still has a far more secure system.
Skype crashes quite regularly so I think we've a lot of ground to cover before "reloading software that never stops" is a problem.
Both the xhyve and hyper-v drivers for docker does the same thing, boots a tiny Linux VM that can run docker for you.
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These look great. Shame they're so expensive outside the US. There's an ebay listing for ~£40 there. Lowest I can get here is ~£120. It's almost worth importing.
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Code search is very important indeed, and it works beautifully on GitHub.

We must remember though that BitBucket (Cloud) is not Atlassian's core product, unlike GitHub. Most of Atlassian's revenue is (probably) still the licensing of their software.
Could not find any numbers on this, sadly.

It is not an excuse for Atlassian, but it is a reason.
I believe at one point the windows 10 complete installer was downloaded to everyone, 'just incase' they decided to install. Really narrow-minded behaviour.
I would have agreed with this until Windows 10.

As implemented, Windows 10 feels like a system to deploy code and update computers that happens to run user software.

It's obnoxious. Many people I know have solved the problem by moving to Apple.
I doubt it but..

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=python%2Cjava...
Ironically, my own experience and observations from salsa dancing have been biased towards long-term relationships. There are so many happily-married, engaged, or otherwise long-term couples in the London salsa scene.

Obviously there's plenty of short-term stuff too. But you kind of get out what you put in. Other than the initial motivation to take classes in the first place, I do salsa because I like salsa.

Surely the more important question you should be asking is why are you only having short-term relationships when you want a long-term one? What's stopping these relationships developing?
I'm still inclined to blame that on MS really. Poor ergonomics. I can understand the OS telling me to reboot if I haven't restarted the computer in a few days after an update took place but there's no reason to harass me immediately after an update got installed (unless it's a critical 0-day patch I suppose).

But really, it's getting worse. I remember seeing a bunch of articles last month about how to preemptively defend against the "creator's update" because it came bundled with a bunch of software people didn't want. They use windows update as a trojan horse to install new applications, that sets a very bad precedent.

I've even stopped urging my friends and colleagues to enable auto-updates because I'm worried that they'll end up having windows auto-update to a new version and break something and then I'll have to help them through it. I just can't be bothered anymore.
software: can upgrade binaries and libraries without affecting already running programs

services: they are specifically designed to be updated and restarted

kernel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ksplice
> I love the way he's compared the people who tell you to turn off auto-updates with anti-vaxxers; it's quite an apt analogy.

This is a good analogy, but does it work in different circumstances? (Apologies for the derail)

Over on Android, the apps have got so big (and the storage was until recently so small) that automatic updates _cannot_ be installed - the new apps are too big, the phone is full. What do we do then?
On that note, is is possible to sandbox wine so that it can only access the c_drive folder, not the whole host fs?
This is absolutely brilliant! After looking at the demo video, I'm at a loss for words to describe how fantastic the user interface looks and how easy it appears to build components. I'll definitely have to find time to play with it.

One small suggestion: think of a student who only has access to the code on github and would like to create their own version to see how it works. (Perhaps, for some reason, the site boolr.me has been taken down.) Can you think of simple steps to write to your README file so that this student could get started?
No. You can still have local search. Unfortunatly this seems to only possible with a GPO rule.
Satellite isn't an option. Satellite here is used for digital TV only.
To be fair, if you have a vulnerability in a .so used by e.g. Firefox, you'll also have to restart Firefox after updating to have it pick up the updated library. But you're right I would prefer the Linux update model, where I run a command once a week when I like to pick up the latest versions of software.
You could add a comment to the doc like others did.
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If Windows Update is vaccine administration, what is NSA?
Oh never mind, I solved it, thanks! <end of thread>
For a comparison, at my university dorms its roughly 65 square feet per person.
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The degradation is intentional. In Windows phone, speech to text and quiet hours doesn't work, and the accuracy of shape writing is significantly reduced, when Cortana is switched off.

Ms is trying to turn Cortana into the Google play services of Windows So they can consensually(forcefully) collect data from every windows device.
> A good firewall would protect from WanaCrypt

No, unfortunately not - it spread using SMB internally on LANs, but travelled internet-to-LAN by "regular" phishing. It downloads its payload off the internet, but most good firewall would allow that (was the WannaCry payload detectable by virus scanners at the time of the infection? A "good" firewall might be one expected to intercept and scan all downloads).

> A legitimate reason like "this Windows runs on a medical/factory/etc. device that CANNOT go offline to install updates willy-nilly".

"Cannot go offline" implies that it's operationally critical. If you operate such devices, it is an absolute imperative that you have a procedure for taking them offline regularly for updates (not "willy-nilly" and anyone using that word about running a two-year out of date OS on a critical device is objectively not qualified to run them - and anyone buying such a device that can't be upgraded isn't qualified to buy them (and anyone making such a device...)).
That's a workaround.

Besides, flying less from an island is tricky for some.
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> services: they are specifically designed to be updated and restarted

I write plenty of daemons (you call them "services"). What exactly do I write
specifically for them to be able to continue to run when a library is
upgraded?
I really enjoy using Textastic with Working Copy - you can mount your git repo from Working Copy as a folder, edit in Textastic, then commit and push via Working Copy.

This (exposing your internal file-system as a mount point) is available to all apps, since iOS 10 - it's just only Working Copy and Textastic that seem to support it.
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> I remember getting pinged quite regularly over the course of 2 years of people asking in a support thread

Unfortunately, this is standard for all Atlassian products. Years ago I naively subscribed and +1ed a few "I can't believe this is not possible" style issues, occasionally I see a hopeless soul adding another "still no update?" comment.
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