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The article claims that the base of Amazons success is their approach to make internal services compete externally. I think this is just an implementation detail.

The broader concept is their willingness and ability to keep improving the user experience. And that is something they have in common with many market leaders.

You could as well look at Google, Booking.com or Facebook. They did not win by inventing their niche. They won by creating a better user experience. Compared to them, their competitors user experience was and is atrocious. They built a company culture of high standards and putting the user first early on. And since it worked, they kept it that way.
Many of these will be ground and power, which directly terminate into plane(s) and aren't routed. Things like memory buses are put onto the socket such that they are routable to the memory sockets (the location/orientation of the memory sockets is prescribed by the processor socket!). Other interfaces are arranged to "make sense" as well.

I expect it's pretty much the same problem overall as with the (much smaller) pinouts of SoCs and such.
> The basic problem of our world is that it is ruled by 20-sometings that loath working on "old" tech.

disagree completely, it's not the 20-somethings that come to you and say "the budget we have is limited, and we have to prioritize, feature X might get us more exposure, so work on that and it doesn't matter if it breaks backwards compatibility, users will adapt"

If upper mgmt goes after "oh shiny" there's not you can do at the individual contributor level, and if you know you are in a "oh shiny" management situation there is also no incentive whatsoever in spending time making sure you think about the future when developing, since you're going to have to throw everything away anyways in a few months or a year at the most.

It's all about "being nimble" and "velocity" and "being innovative", where all of them are more or less shorthands for "churn things quickly until something sticks". Stable, reliable, dependable software is unsexy, if the company you work for is large enough you might be able to find a team that works along those lines and be happy, otherwise it's fighting fires all the time.
It's only lock-in of you've tied yourself to AWS only features. If you just use EC2 as VMs, then switching is pretty easy.
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The claim is that it benefits Amazon, not that it benefits sellers. I have no trouble believing that the FBA seller experience sucks, but since Amazon is where the customers are, I see no reason why the FBA seller experience sucking makes a meaningful difference to whether FBA benefits Amazon.
Let's take it one step further and let the passengers directly control the plane in this way. Then you wouldn't have to worry about pilots at all. Twitch Plays United Airlines.
When it comes to your safety, would you rather overkill or underkill? Especially when it comes to something as important as self-driving, I think it's absolutely reckless to try to "maximize profit" and "get it out there ASAP".

It would be an absolutely disaster if the technology as a whole gets a horrible reputation, or even worse, banned in places, just because some company skipped some steps and wanted to be the first or cheapest to the market.
Are you being serious? That's the most absurd argument I have ever heard. "The government" is not an entity, it's a collection of separate organizations run by democratically elected officials. Military and law enforcement agencies have no relation to domestic programs.

Furthermore, it could be argued that your examples actually demonstrate the effectiveness of government programs... I oppose surveillance and warfare, but citizens keep voting those politicians into office, and those programs are achieving their results with astoundingly undesirable effectiveness.

I suspect our domestic problems would be resolved overnight if they had similar funding levels.
I want to highlight the difference between people who are self-thaught programmer but with engineering/math/etc. degree and people without any technical education. From what I see for engineers the life is easier even they did not study CS.
The problem is in this case, the guy is specifically in a grey area of "enemy of powers-that-be in the country he's entering." He deals with for example cases where western nations torture terror suspects.

If we leave law aside and think only in terms of "sides," that means that he is "opposed" to these governments, and it would only make sense for them to be hostile to him using their powers (arrest, taking his laptops, etc).

Now let's continue to leave the law aside, because that's what our governments can do when they please, usually by not telling us (Snowden showed us this several years ago in no uncertain terms).

So, human rights or no, a hidden-partition mechanism is merely allowing a civilian to use the same tools a government is - non-legal ones. In an ideal world, everybody (governments and civilians) would follow perfectly fair laws. That's not this world, those aren't our governments, so we all should be open to resorting outside the legal system to protect ourselves.
They're already doing this to an extent by buying up private label ecommerce brands.
I was lucky. Our high school system shared a DEC PDP-8. This was in 1974. Each year, Digital equipment would publish a manual. Some years were better than others. Somewhat like a vintage wine. The choice of languages for the PDP-8 were Basic, Fortran, and Focal. It also had a user group called Decus, which shared code - somewhat akin to GitHub. But, I didn't use much of that code, as it usually meant hand entering the source into a teletype. The storage medium was paper tape.

An alternative to the PDP-8 was the one class in writing Cobol on a mainframe. You had to hand write code on a huge ledger sheet, translate that into punched cards, submit a job, and wait a couple days for the result. Most of my coder buddies thought that was a joke.

Instead we stuck with PDP-8. Because the computer was shared by several schools, there was a huge inter-school rivalry. We would hack accounts, and write incendiary messages in the other school's directory, which could only be erased by writing assembly code.

When I went to university, the first computer science courses still used punched cards. The classes were incredibly boring: with PL-1 examples of how to move pieces around a chess board. No AI. In high school, we were already writing chess player programs, multi-user star wars, compression, social engineering, and infinite precision math packages.

So, I was a bit judgmental about the quality of the University courses and missed out on some important lessons. My first language was Basic. So, my code was a meandering mess of spaghetti. It took a years to unlearn that self-inflicted pedagogical brain damage.

Now, with SO + Git, coding feels like assembling flat-packed Ikea furniture.

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You could add shamir secret sharing and restrict your remote access to running a program that accepts your secret.
Agree and edited, although it really is two units under the same government - and that's where the blame belongs.
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The main reason they've been doing that is because it's been much easier to lower power consumption per core than increase performance per core. This way they could still claim "significant improvements" year over year.

It's also a way better strategy to make "better server chips", because it means you can add more cores.
> "As it is, are there specific examples of software used by firms and government that are not updated to current versions of Windows?"

Sounds like a hypothetical. What applications software is being purchased for which there is no equivalent and only a captive market?
Then why oh why do i keep seeing FOSS projects with limited to no commercial interest keep doing rewrites with the latest "shiny" in mind?!
To fill the queue on Linux goroutine wont be enough you would need to use libaio directly.

sudo apt-get install libaio1 libaio-dev.
I suppose what the Parent was getting at, is that it doesn't make any sense to have two sets of completely disconnected flight controls in the cockpit. That's a lot like having two different mice plugged into your computer at once...

I can't think of a situation that would warrant one flight control being pushed and the other pulled...

Most aircraft have both sets of flight controls physically connected (either via direct links, or actuators driven by flight computers). So if one pilot pulls back, the other set of controls comes back as if it's being pulled on. One of the advantages of this design is both the pilot and copilot can be aware of what the control input is at any given moment.
Our high school got some TRS80s in 1978 (+/- 1 year) for the CS class. I wasn't taking that class, but I borrowed the TRS80 Basic manual and read it in an hour while I was supposed to be paying attention in calculus class. After that, I could just go into the CS room after school and try stuff.
> It’s impossible to imagine a future 10 years from now where a customer comes up and says, ‘Jeff I love Amazon; I just wish the prices were a little higher,’ [or] ‘I love Amazon; I just wish you’d deliver a little more slowly.’

No matter when Mr. Bezos said this, there's slowly growing awareness of the mistreatment of workers, engendered by shockingly low prices, with Walmart the posterchild for businesses being horrible within the confines of the law. Things like scheduling workers for 39 hour work weeks to not qualify them for health-care, or driving suppliers out of business because they can, all in the name of "it's only business". On the other end is various ethical sourcing standards like Fair Trade, which originated long before Starbucks picked up on it.
It seems like the normal thing to do would be to develop for a runtime that does feature GC?

Of all the things you've ever encountered called "assembly language", how many supported GC?
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On desktop you can disable hyper-threading however I'm not sure it's possible on laptops.
> White people, as a group, do not systematically oppress non-white people, preventing them from attaining power and wealth.

If you want to challenge this belief, I strongly recommend reading The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (which I'm currently partway through). I'll still respect your position if you read it and continue to believe the above, but it's got a lot of good information and good analysis that's worth being aware of.
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> Also the yearly membership locks people to amazon to an extent.

True, but I see that as a strike against Amazon. I was really pissed off recently when I found Amazon were selling the DVD/BD of a popular recent movie as a Prime exclusive; non-Prime customers can't buy it from them at all, unless they want to roll the dice on that wretched hive of scum and piracy which is the Amazon thirdparty market.

If Prime becomes effectively unavoidable, and Amazon's sticker prices get to amortize the Prime fee as "discounts", then they no longer have much of an incentive to compete on true price. As a customer, that's not even a tiny bit compelling.
Redis is a database management system (DBMS). Badger is a storage engine.

An application developer would not choose Badger, but instead would pick a DBMS such as Redis.

A database engineer would use Badger to develop a DBMS that the application engineer could use. If the database engineer so chooses they could expose a Redis compatible API.
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I figured the built in browser debuggers wouldn't work so well for this.
I agree, reading the reviews on Amazon is like trying to divine tea leaves sometimes. I feel like they're going the way of eBay in terms of quality expectations.
TLDR: world=US

could author of headline be more self-centered? you know 95% of people on this planet don't live in US and most of them don't care about Amazon?
This is why I bought mine as well - what language are you using to access the GPIO pins? I've been meaning to look into using Golang, but haven't seen many people using it for that.
>Microsoft is responsible for their shit software getting exploited

This is an absurdly naive viewpoint. How are they responsible? What is their responsibility? How is it their responsibility when a state-funded group/actor targets their software and finds an exploit?

At some point you have to realize that 0days will always exist. It is an impossible task to expect software developers to ship perfect software.
Manuals. Compilers came with comprehensive manuals. When you paid for things like Turbo C++ or Paradox or MS Cobol you got a well edited, indexed and quality printed book that covered the entire language and tools comprehensively. From there you wade into existing code bases, learn by maintaining the work of others, and eventually you originate new work. Along the way you dog-eared the manuals.

The Internet has obviated the need for comprehensive books for the bulk of contemporary programming. I suppose there are obscure enough and/or proprietary platforms that still follow the "comprehensive documentation" approach, but it seems it's possible for widely used tooling to be poorly documented and rely on online forums to fill in the gaps with crowd sourced answers and examples. This makes "mind share" crucial to the usability of a language/platform.

I am sometimes frustrated with the contemporary model, but the old way wasn't a panacea either; just broken differently. If you want a good taste of "what it was like" find the manuals for Turbo C++ 3.0 (1991.) You'll learn things about C/C++ that you've never seen written down anywhere.
Ok, fine, we don't know what either company is collecting, but google maps can ONLY collect GPS and speed data, whereas Tesla has the POTENTIAL to collect gps, speed, camera, steering input, braking input, and acceleration input.
Something I ask in basically every WASM thread is: what is the conceptual difference between WASM ("good") and Java applets ("bad")? How does the system you describe differ from having the browser implement a JVM?
You could write something like www.isitchristmas.com :)
that is a good way to contextualize the value 96 dollars.
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Oh, hey, he's doing it with nail clippers, and checking the TSA site, it looks like those are allowed! Yeah, you'd be fine with one of those, as long as you don't mind messing up the edge a little - you could probably even get a massively overpriced nail clipper at the same newsstand where you get your massively overpriced 9V battery. No problem at all, in that case.
Of course it is something new. The supposition is that Intel just rebranded something they already had in the pipeline; something which they release every 18 months or so.

AVX512 was already planned for Cannonlake.
You are either being obstinate, or are comically naive.

Not everyone who disagrees with your apparent "libertarianism with zero exceptions" philosophy is a freedom-hating communist, and your position is indefensible if you are too myopic to even consider some of the very real edge cases where it falls on its face.

Get off your high horse.
You know that Amazon sells stuff other than materialistic bling, right? I mean, I buy soap and toilet paper and stuff like that on Amazon. No, that doesn't make me happier, but it makes my significant other happier which I guess in a round-about way does make me happier. :shrug:
It's comparable to LevelDB and RocksDB. However, Badger is not comparable to Cassandra, ScyllaDB or DynamoDB as they are distributed database management systems.

Cassandra, for example, has it's own storage engine that's responsible for writing bits to disk.
So, what, you think every medical issue demands the same level of expertise? Do we really need somebody with 8 years of schooling, residencies, etc. to deal with every little issue? Personally, I think the answer is "no".

That in no way suggests that there isn't a role for the hyper-educated / trained doctor, or for even more highly trained specialists. The point is just that not every situation requires them.
There's a big problem with it. Even Apple "has found nearly 90 percent of [their chargers and cables] to be counterfeit" on Amazon.[1]

You could also read the reviews on listing for products such as the popular Yeti cooler mugs, and you'll find many people complaining about getting fakes (wrong color lid, etc.)

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-20/apple-man...

*edited for minor typo
I'm in Europe and I buy over 90% of my stuff from Amazon.

Where are you and from which online retailers do you buy?
Not sure why you're taking digs at the free market since let's face it, Communism couldn't even reliably feed people or produce one right shoe and one left shoe on any regular basis.
I'd say the terrorists are winning.
This may work for highly technical users who also don't mind putting lots of configuration work into their Windows OS, but for the rest of 99.9% of home users out there, it doesn't help.
"Error: Management Engine refused connection. This probably means you don't have AMT"

$ ls /dev/mei0 -lh

crw------- 1 root root 246, 0 May 15 21:02 /dev/mei0

Is there a way to completely remove AMT ?
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Barnes & Noble. That was the go to resource for programming books.

I remember back in 2001 I'd been self-taught PHP for about 3 years and was able to be productive, build some stuff that I needed built and was generally comfortable with how things worked. As far as I was concerned I "knew PHP". One day I was stuck on a problem so I actually went to B&N and bought a big PHP book because it looked like it had what I needed in it.

Sat down, found that answer and noticed something else that I didn't know. Was shocked that I'd been programming so long without knowing that thing. Ended up binge reading the entire 600 page book over the course of a week and became a better programmer for it.

Ever since, I force myself to read a book on any language I plan to actually do more than tinker with because that comprehensive information is so much more valuable.

So yea...Barnes and Noble.
There are many great variations on this recipe. Lahey has a coconut chocolate version [0] that is wonderful, even with half the chocolate he recommends. Toasted sesame seeds and blue cheese (added at one tenth the weight of the flour each) is another winner. I also came up with a sriracha & crushed red pepper flake version [1] that is pretty great, if I do say so myself.

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[1] http://madscientistlabs.blogspot.ca/2014/06/diablo-bread-bre...
> non-Prime customers can't buy it from them at all, unless they want to roll the dice on that wretched hive of scum and piracy which is the Amazon thirdparty market.

Doesn't Amazon use shared inventory between first party and fulfilled-by-Amazon third party sellers, so that the first party market is potentially as much a hive of scum and piracy as the third party market. I'm quite sure that's been raised as an issue many times with regard to counterfeits.
But how do you know this?

I've come across articles on certain subjects that are far more illuminating than usual - these shouldn't exist if mathematics is just irredeemably difficult to learn. The only conclusion I can draw is mathematicians care more about advancing mathematics, than concepts in teaching; How many lecturers are actively involved in psychology of learning, or real testing of their students comprehension?

A lot of books are perfectly happy to bullet point list the properties of some concept, like feeding data to a machine, then try a combination of explanations and diagrams to describe how these properties fit together, or an intuition of their emergent properties.

It's funny, I've often gotten a lot more help from offhanded comments of characterisations of a concept, than from their formalities. It seems some lecturers are scared of making such observations, in case they mislead students, so they stick to the "safety" of irrefutable formality. set theory might be sufficiently abstract that it won't strictly mislead, but it won't enlighten either.

{ as an aside, it was years after my first undergraduate class that I finally realised that the integral notation represented a summation, and that it was literally the continuous form of the discrete "sigma" summation notation, I was surprised I hadn't realised it before! being able to relate the two gave me a stronger basis to reason about them in some ways - for example, I now thing of the variable of differentiation (dx, etc) like a 'counter' variable (the n=.. atop the sigma in summations), which helped when trying when reasoning about integrals etc with more than one (obv. if you try to derive a limit as some variable goes to inf., there is ambiguity if there are two unrelated variables), plus most continuous forms are based on discrete concepts taken to some limit. in fact, it even gives a little intuition about why an integral might be followed by "* dx", in such a way that the 'd' variable can be treated as an independent unit (taken to the other side of an equation, for example) - it is bound to the integral in some sense, but also represents a quantity in itself that can be shared amongst integrals }

I also get the feeling that mathematics is too "pen and paper", and ripe for an overhaul wrt anything that can be easily done using a math program. I feel the human part of maths should be high level concepts, not the actual calculation (although some understanding of what a calculation does is important) - hence, it is more important I understand what an integral represents, than know how to calculate it.

> an important number of math books are written not for laypersons but for mathematicians

But some math is useful outside of mathematical study, so 'maths for engineers' books are sadly too uncommon. Consider a software engineer trying to understand cryptography better, reading about elliptical functions..

> Not all mathematical concepts need to have a direct application

All but a few can at least be characterised somehow, even by mapping to similarly abstract social constructs.
I know there are non-compressing UHD cards; can x264 on a modern multicore not keep up at -qp 0 -preset ultrafast for 4k/24p?
Do not make it easy to disable the sandbox, but keep the user in control.

Linux evades a huge amount of virus and phishing just because you have to `chmod +x` stuff before running, for example. A "Software wants to do nasty stuff. Allow | Disallow" prompt just does not make it.

Also, users will want to piece the sandbox some times, do not make it an all or nothing situation. Make giving common permissions easy, rare permission hard, and give fine grained control over them.
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