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Android 7 on a Pixel device, and just browsing with Chrome will cause it to completely freeze (no panning, can't focus the URL, can't open task switcher) for seconds when first landing on a heavy page. This has been a problem since day one and with every single Android device I've ever used, as there's still a whole bunch of stuff on the main UI thread as any developer on Android will intimately know, and it absolutely will freeze when under a load. It's just fundamentally architected wrong, since you can block the UI thread it does block.
Mars has nothing to do with it. We simply do not have enough resources on this planet to provide everyone with everything they desire without destroying the planet in the process..
The scalar point multiplication method is vulnerable as it can be attacked as feature key in this case is very important
> Isn't terrorism (in the face of ISIS and the likes) one of the top menaces for the UK ?

Maybe in the top ten, but a long way after climate change, ill health, Brexit, etc etc.
actually big appliances don't make that much sense to build in China and import... because they're big. there are quite a few factories on EU territory for this reason. always worth checking.
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Same here in Germany, wondered a lot in the 90s writing my first eCommerce shop and the business owners talked about brown and white ware.
It didn't read to me like the parent was blaming anyone; just stating that this should come as no surprise. Management outsourced jobs to India to cut costs; if they find a way to cut costs cheaper than outsourcing to India then that is what management will do.
It's pretty hopeless. I used to think we'd adjust in time, but that was when the decline looked more linear (or at least I thought it looked more linear).

Of the many people who I know who are seriously concerned re climate change, I'd say 2 have taken truly meaningful steps .

It's not the handful of climate change deniers that's the problem. It's the overwhelming number of people who want to say they're green, but still own two cars, never take public transport, eat meat daily, live in big houses, and buy buy buy.

If you think climate change is a serious issue. If you're concerned that scientists are now talking about the low single-digit years we have to change. If you have kids. Why the *@#! aren't you taking drastic change?
What, really? I'm relieved it's not the #EEE on #FFF combo that seems so popular these days.
This is an accurate assessment yet you have to read a lot online to get to this understanding. Nobody in the mainstream media and no politician in the Western media will help you get to understand things as they are, so it is an interesting time we live in where more and more people are independently informed yet the 'great leaders' still think everyone is stupid.
your post reminds me of when actual bad guys call the investigation against them a witch hunt.
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For the same reason an airline mechanic doesn't care about the location of the fuel injectors in his car, but cares very much about the location on the engines he works on all day.

I won't claim to speak for everyone here, but there's almost nothing I install third-party that I care about during the startup process (on my laptop). And even if I did, they're generally closed-source apps I can't access the source of anyway. 99% of my day-to-day usage of a laptop is with applications I'm manually starting and stopping.

I care VERY much about services automatically starting properly on a server. 99% of my day-to-day usage of a server is applications that automatically start and stop.
I don't see how we can successfully make use of Earth's resources without destroying the planet in the process.
I've had this issue too with npm on my build server - sometimes things just fail, maybe it's flaky network, maybe it's some package update that didn't quite go as planned, but yarn seems to solve it and works a lot faster to boot, so I'll be sticking with it for now.
It is. If it ever crosses (generic-you) your mind to do that, don't. The revenge is very unlikely to be worth the very significant legal risk you are incurring. Stick to tradition and bad-mouth them with friends at a bar.
With crap and hassle like this in the year 2017 for something as "simple" as a web browser, be sure to remind your boss Ray Kurzweil at Google, "the singularity is near" ROFLOL
The British consumer magazine 'Which?' [1] routinely uses the term 'white goods' to refer to kitchen appliances.

[1] www.which.co.uk
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The Slack model works for applications that are constantly being used and is the center of a persons job. Like chat apps, code editors, creative tools aka Creative Cloud, Audio Tools, etc. It doesn't work for tools you only use sparingly. Like backup/recovery tools, database tools, profiling tools, etc. If you applied the Slack model to the previous set, it would not be sustainable. Your paying for value not use.
Also, Al Sweigart makes available many of his books for free on his website, including "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python", which also has a lot of good reviews on Amazon.

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I personally don't have any issue in Indian companies firing people at will. But they don't give employees the same freedom.

All these IT companies have a 2-3 months notice period. This makes it difficult to look for another job. If they want to fire at will, I should be able to walk out at will as well. But if I do that, I will not get my resignation letter and service certificate (I am not worried about the final paycheck left overs). And I need these papers if I have to get another job.
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The way to make it more humane is a generous severance.
I manage twice as much going to home/work walking. It's a luxury I get and I understand not everyone will get it, but I've been surprised by how many people tell me to take the bus.

For the record, I live about 20 (~100m) blocks from work, and it takes me 20-30 minutes. Since everyday I go with a backpack full of stuff (notebook, paper notebooks, a few books and a table), I'm also carrying 5 to 7kg of extra weight. And I try to never use the elevator, since it's just 3 floors up and down (on rare ocassions do it 2 or 3x in the day, but over a span of hours).

While all this seems exceedingly little, in the end it adds up so that I "don't do excercise" but I still keep a baseline shape. And I'm totally amazed at how many people will frown upon even doing as little as I do on a daily basis.
And the second cache miss: 1 for the cache miss, 1 for the actual object.
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>> This person is literally saying we need to be alarmed.

And why shouldn't we (he) be doing that? Actually the author's goal is transparent, to shake up perception, to provide fodder in the imagination of folks to ultimately change how urgently we treat this in public forums. I thought this was a quite trenchant point (from the article):

>>Over the past decades, our culture has gone apocalyptic with zombie movies and Mad Max dystopias, perhaps the collective result of displaced climate anxiety, and yet when it comes to contemplating real-world warming dangers, we suffer from an incredible failure of imagination. The reasons for that are many: the timid language of scientific probabilities, which the climatologist James Hansen once called “scientific reticence” in a paper chastising scientists for editing their own observations so conscientiously that they failed to communicate how dire the threat really was; the fact that the country is dominated by a group of technocrats who believe any problem can be solved and an opposing culture that doesn’t even see warming as a problem worth addressing;

Back to you:
>>I really didn't understand the part where they said methane has 34 times the greenhouse effect as carbon over a period of time and then changes the timeframe to bring the multiplier put to 84 times.

I also thought this statement was scientifically unclear, but I think the author was trying to say that the rate of methane release increases, thus, the impact on climate systems multiplies relative to an equivalent release of CO2 in that period (100 yrs v 24 yrs). If someone else can mention exactly how he got from 34x to 84x though, id love to hear it; i didn't get it..
I do want to mention, however the 30x GHG effect number is not set in stone. In fact, depending on the rate of release, there may be 'force multipliers' depending on how (quickly) ecosystems can absorb and use these gases. Ominously, this multiplier seems to go up anyways as temps rise. [1]

[1] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v507/n7493/full/nature1...
What software was used to make this nice diagram?
My 16mhz 68000 based Amiga 500 had smoother mouse movement than my 3.2ghz 8 core desktop.
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I'm not sure about it either, but I think the cost increase would be at least partially eaten by savings of companies developing further the more durability/repair-friendly business models.

> This wouldnt solve anything that the market hasnt already provided a solution for. This law is designed to push out "cheap" alternatives which is anti-competitive by definition.

I would hope this would solve one thing the market definitely doesn't provide a solution for - the very existence of crap products. They are being manufactured, transported and sold en-masse, and then they break, creating their own market (people who buy cheapest stuff won't be willing to buy the expensive one after the first one breaks, they'll just buy another cheap piece again). Basically, I'd hope this helps cut waste - and it's not really that different from basic safety and health regulations. It's all about providing a floor on how crappy products are, because market will always optimize towards the very bottom.
> Saying “You're Fired!” in a nicer tone is not likely “preserve the dignity of the individual.” The guy on the receiving end is still going to get the same message: he’s out of a job and has bills to pay.

I disagree. Sometimes layoffs are unavoidable, but you can fire someone with dignity. I think both tone and substance matter here.

For tone, management should be civil, polite and respectful. Acknowledge the employee's contributions to date, explain the larger context for the layoffs, express regret that they are leaving the team, and wish them well. Just because you're forced to deliver bad news doesn't mean you have to be brusque and vindictive. You give the departing employee dignity by treating them like team member you will miss rather than a minor, expensive annoyance.

Even kind words are cheap. Management should take substantive steps to ease the employee's transition out of the company. Earlier notice (weeks vs hours), severance pay, job search assistance, referrals, etc. all show the employee that the current employer does care about their personal well-being even as they depart the company.
Unless the you in question was plural. See https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thee.
ALGOL 68 was published in multiple languages, but if you meant that the interpreter could switch between languages, Perl and some others have you covered:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_...
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Thanks for the correction / additional info. :)
If he has no intention of selling or going public why would it matter? Even if he was giving out equity it would have no value since there aren't going to be any liquidation events.

To me it would be more of a red flag if he was giving away equity because he would be giving something that he knows will never have any value.
You own an iPhone designed to work in a specific way. You don't need Apple's permission to put arbitrary software on your own phone.

You can just do it! If you can figure out how and don't mind maybe breaking your iPhone.

Apple doesn't sell infinitely customizable devices. Anyone who buys an iPhone knows this going in or is being intentionally obtuse. The idea that it's my phone I should be able to do anything I want with it is completely antithetical to the brand Apple has built over the last 40 years.
The author must not have been to Tokyo because I've never had bad connectivity underground there.
It'd be crazy to think about the energy spent over time on building just chrome - turn that into a carbon footprint and itd be shocking! I always try to write code for humans and not over-engineer or prematurely optimize code, but sometimes I wonder about a section of code over the long term - that bit of javascript thats going to be run on lots of phones and other devices over years or decades - and how much electricity its going to cost more just because I used `map` instead of a `for` loop... I can't imagine working with a build process that takes that long to run.
Apple already solves this problem by way of their TSS update server: they can whitelist specific ECIDs to be able to sign and install developer customized firmwares. What the argument was was "if we sign on to your program, can you add us to your whitelist?".

The only issue I can come up with would be "what if a researcher who was registered with and known to Apple gave their phone to someone else as a fake gift to spy on them". If you really want to go there we could argue it, but it seems a little far fetched in terms of "amount of damage that can be done via this route that couldn't be done via other ones".
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XKCD does explain it very well indeed, but I submit that SMBC might do so even more amusingly.

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/path-of-a-hero
Those entrepeneurs have the money, experience, business network and portfolio from their first success.
I agree. Any ideas on how to create some additional forms of backpressure?
There is already insane competition for government and bank jobs (since these jobs are more or less guaranteed for life). I know so many people who did their bachelors in engineering degrees writing bank exams. These type of news will make Indian IT even less attractive.

Layoffs in IT sector lead to a dip in popularity of software engineers in marriage market:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/ites/layoffs-in-it-...
> Somehow I don't trust the UK courts

I trust them like I trust the BBC. They're equal opportunity offenders.

ref: http://newsthump.com/2017/07/07/bbc-accused-of-being-lefty-r...
No idea why you were downvoted. I think the reason you haven't got a good answer is because samclemens isn't answering and the rest of us don't know his (or her, or its) reasons.
That's the whole reason news companies are asking for an antitrust consideration: Google can hurt them massively by simply walking away from the negotiating table. Either they give up their content for free or Google drops them, and they hurt even worse.

Obviously for the news agencies, their hope would be that Google be somehow forced to pay them for access and not be allowed to shut down the service. Of course, it's hard to imagine how the government could require Google News to operate as a service.

The thing that's broken here is that in any other content situation like movies or music, the content is unique and copyrighted. If you want Katy Perry or Star Wars, you have to deal with the companies with rights to those, and the MPAA and RIAA are formidable industry associations which can swing a lot of weight and force a negotiation. If you want any "music" at all, really, you have to sit down with the RIAA.

News, however, can't really be copyrighted that way, since fact can be restated by anyone. It's fair use. In a traditional situation, all the affected corporations (like every major news org) would band together and set the bar for negotiation. Someone like Google would have to comply or lose out on a lot of information to base their services on. However, in the case of news, Google has an infinite amount of blogspam to feed off of that is cannibalizing and resharing the news from journalists. Google wouldn't be hurt enough by news agencies blocking them, at least, compared to how much it would hurt news agencies to not be distributed by them.
> How did we get here? Well, C++ and its stupid O(n^2) compilation complexity [...]

Wasn't large compilation time a driving force behind coming up with Go? Is a garbage-collected language not suitable for a web browser? I am just curious because I absolutely love writing Go
Also, something like this should work for network sound :) http://plasmasturm.org/log/soundserverhack/
I don't see how being born into a family of a certain political opinion and being indoctrinated for years can be comparable to choosing a phone brand.

I think you are analyzing this question from a very US-centric perspective and failing to realize that in other markets (like Europe and South America, the ones I'm familiar with), Apple has a much smaller footprint, and does not possess the "reach" of a political party at all.

Edit: typo
IIRC, on the Amigas the CPU was barely involved in the process of reading the mouse events and moving the cursor sprite on the screen.
Sure, just throw in several extra steps, huge numbers of syscalls and make any admin add complexity to their systems. For a busy service, this is a performance issue that the systemd devs simply reject out of hand as "doing it wrong".
There's too many spinning wheels. Stop it! People are going to just stop using the internet. If I could, I would. But I can't. So please just build simple websites!
> The British courts have always been
> nearly as politically supine as the
> Russian ones.

Citation?
And in the USA, we are led by people who seem almost uniquely incapable of grappling with our societies hard problems. Sad.
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Spoiler: Their four scenarios are written from the pov of a hypothetical hiring manager that offends the applicant with bullshit (the "bullshit" they refer to at the start of their post) no matter the context.

You think that they wrote those scenarios with their own voice, so you are misreading the point.
They can if the feature is implemented by the SPA framework/library/whatever, and if the JS loads and if there aren't any bugs (e.g. imagine a bug that means a fragment with an unexpected character can't be loaded).

Conversely, static HTML links (either links to id/name fragments in a large file, or links to specific pages if using separate files) almost can't fail, and it's incredibly unlikely a SPA would be even close to loading if regular static pages fail to load properly.
Not really, I haven't thought about this particularly yet. It should be the normal function of a political structure.

IMO I'd be more willing to try a flatter system where users, forming a similar emotional class, could share and help themselves in case of need. So promoting this behavior culturally should be done, and maybe enough.
Such a waste. Rusia should restore those sites so people can visit them.
Realistically, those old devices should have been shot in the head years ago. Energy wasters, space wasters, toxic materials used in their manufacture, environmental hazards.
That certainly has never been my experience. Oh, I've had repairs now and then. Ice makers are notoriously finicky in freezers. And there was one apparently designed PCB for the display in my oven. (A remanufactured board seems to have finally fixed things.)

But I've got a dryer that was old when I moved into my house 20 years ago. And everything except the washer--which also was in the house when I arrived--was installed shortly after I moved in. I think all my dad's appliances, except for the microwave, are at least as old.

Probably between lower prices in general and more delicate electronics the situation is worse today but major appliances really do last for quite a while most of the time. (TVs have been far worse for me but, then, there tend to be reasons to upgrade them over time.)
More interesting: "wealthier" person gives 1/2 their wealth to "poorer" person every turn.

Probably looks like Boltzman distribution describing velocity of ideal gas.
Try running Carthage update for an iOS app with 80 frameworks. Ever seen a Mac hit 55GB of ram? MacOS kills it. It takes many of these runs, and all this does is fetch prebuilt binaries. Yes, everything I said here is beyond stupid.
> If block creation intervals were lower it would compromise the security of the system and enable attacks with much less than 50% of the hash power.

Not really. The odds of an attacker successfully generating a double-spending block remain the same with a lower block interval. Many alternative cryptocurrencies have far shorter blocktimes: Litecoin has 2.5min blocktimes, and ethereum is less than 30 seconds IIRC, and they don't have problems with rampant double spends.

The problem with shorter blocktimes is that latency has a greater impact on mining profitability. A miner with a 600ms ping will lose ~0.1% of their revenue with a 10 minute blocktime, but will lose 2% of their revenue with a 30s blocktime.

This gives miners an incentive to centralize geographically to reduce their latency. No bueno!
A post listing some of these things (things that doesn't work on the kindle, not tomb stones) would be very interesting
"Nearly everyone spends too much of their income and saves too little for retirement/emergencies, so losing your job unexpectedly can have devastating financial consequences."

UK: in larger organisations (I mean big enough to have more than say 20 employees being made redundant) there is a consultation process that lasts a month or can last up to three months depending on the number of people being made redundant. There is a process that has to be kept to and there is a statutory minimum amount of redundancy pay [1] as well as payment in lieu of notice. Redundancy payments are tax free up to a limit

The result is in my experience less secrecy (consultation period) and some sort of financial safety net, at least a few months worth.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/redundant-your-rights/redundancy-pay
FWIW under German contract law, even in the case you describe the clause is only valid if you receive a compensation for as long as the non-compete is in effect.
Devices are going to last all sorts of times - from a few months to years. Depending on what you pay for it.

To legislate that no cheaper versions of things should be available, even making them illegal, seems blind to the issues of those of limited means. It seems like a society pawn saying "I always buy Gucci; I mean why do they even make other brands? Har har!"

Demanding a warranty for instance would be a softer approach. But to make cheap, low-lifetime options actually illegal shows some fundamental misconception about how a free market works.