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I wonder if this is a response to Oracle's Java9/Jigsaw push, where RedHat was forced to give up its position.
Every popular mobile OS has standard libraries for making HTTP requests and doing crypto.

I can forgive games for sacrificing size in favor of high-res animations and a blazing fast graphics stack, but I don't think LinkedIn, for example, is in need of particularly fast graphics.
Happy to see his Patreon is looking "healthier". I mean $1500/m isn't really that much but I'm sure last I looked it was much lower.

In other news.. consider supporting the people that support you! Personally, I spent over $100/month on Patreon. Most of those are creators rather than open source people but there are a couple of open source ones such as Ondřej Surý who works on PHP packaging in Debian/Ubuntu
Indian vegetarian food is great (I'm Indian). But its biggest problem is the lack of any "solid" food or texture (which is why you see raw onion on every Indian dinner plate - to give the necessary crunch to dal-rice).
It depends a lot on the card type, the location, the volume of the business and it’s risk profile, but eventually can get to a pricing scheme called interchange+, which is a fixed fee (generally <15¢) on top of the cost to process cards for your provider (so fee from the issuing bank + network fee).

In the US this varies a LOT depending on the card type, but most consumer cards are approx 1% interchange + a small fixed fee. In Europe these interchange rates are regulated at 0,3% for consumer cards. There are cases of special schemes (eg. CB in France) where processing can be even cheaper.
with Amazon's wildly reported low retention rate, you are going to leave in a few months anyway.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-08-17/a-job-at-...
Ben Thompson in my opinion is brilliant and extremely underrated (even for how popular he is).
WebAssembly is a similar idea, but it only encodes the ASM.js subset of javascript, not the full language.
I'm also under the impression the government tends to use RHEL when using FOSS.

I could be wrong, but I picked that up years ago somewhere.
Meat minus the guilt. A more moral meat, if you will.

I can get behind the idea. I can't morally justify eating one animal, loving another.
I think this is a political move disguised as technical move

oracle pays the developers of btrfs [0]

redhat hates the guts of oracle, since oracle released oracle linux, which is a clone of redhat enterprise (based on centos)

so, redhat wants to cripple btrfs and hurt oracle.

However, btrfs is my favorite FS, been using it on my home computer and backup drives for at least 6 years, before it was included in the kernel, love the subvolumes, snapshots, and compression; never had issues with it
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[0] https://oss.oracle.com/~mason/

[Update] Chris mason no longer at Oracle since 2012
It's been extremely volatile so at this juncture price means little. Give it some time before arguing it has any value, the market hasn't decided yet.
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"We're" already in trouble. Just like HN commenters wisely advise not to build your company on top of someone else's service, the entire planet has built their service on China's manufacturing. The thinking (if there even was any, I personally doubt it) was that we'd just use them for labor intensive but low intellectual assembly work, but it seems no one considered if China was happy to continue being the servant of the West indefinitely.

China seems like a country happy to play the long game, but I don't think they're even going to have to.
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Does anyone know what the omega 6:3 ratio of this fake meat is?
The CPU guy from Ars Technica was extremely good as well.
It's been years and people still don't understand what Watch is. Meanwhile, it says what it is directly in the name. It's a watch first, and everything else distant second. By the standards of wristwatches $300 is not that much money.
I said before that printing money using basic income would only inflate it. Ads are designed to increase consumption, and we have a debt-based economy.
I think you might be confusing with SuSE?

Generally though sadly btrfs just isn't getting the man hours from any commercial sponsor it seems :(
Go into about:config and set "privacy.trackingprotection.enabled" to true. This is default-enabled in Private Browsing.

Also, uBlock Origin and similar are perfectly functional extensions. Takes just three clicks to install uBlock Origin on a fresh desktop Firefox installation.

If you're wanting to tell me that this content blocker should be default-enabled, good luck explaining to webpage owners that they won't make ad money off of Firefox anymore, but should still support it.
> What is the exact definition of "known vulnerability"?

I believe the OMB's job is to fill in the details.
But why would anyone use a shitty company over a good one, no matter the service levels?
Elon is certainly not worried about the insect-level neural networks we have now.

Have you read or engaged with the arguments in Superintelligence? Elon has. Your limited knowledge of the arguments behind AI-risk is more pathetic than the uninformed lay-person's enthusiasm or irrational fear, because you pretend to know what you're talking about.
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Exactly, everyone who says China is doomed due to demographics overlooks the huge pool of under-utilized labor. People are looking at percentages when they should be looking at raw numbers.
for that 30% claimed market share, a large % of them had to search "google" in Baidu to get to google.com because they didn't know how to spell the word google.
I've been using my Apple Watch for 2 years now. It has proven to be an extremely useful for me just for the Apple Pay and Notifications alone. It causes a strange social issue though. If you're in a middle of conversation, glancing at your watch every now and again is a rude gesture. I have had to explain my habit several times and forced my self not look at it for every odd notification.
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Hi HN

I was the first employee at a tech startup in SV. I developed and lead many critical projects in the company, and my current title is principal architect (I'm 32 years old). The company grew a lot (100 people) and it's in a healthy growing state. The upper management wants to keep growing sales until it makes sense to sell the ship, and this will still take probably 4-5 years (sales right now are ~12M$/y and I think the plan is to iterate towards 50-100M$/y). In terms of financing, we are at series C.

My current compensation numbers are:

- Base salary: 230k$

- Stock: fully vested and exercised my 4 year stock option grant, and after dilutions I have about 0.7% of the company in common stocks

The problem is: I'm bored out of my mind and I want to explore something different. So, I interviewed for a couple Google-like companies and they offered me this:

- Title: Software Engineer

- Base salary: 190k$

- Performance bonus: 15% a year

- Signon bonus: 50k$

- RSU package: 150k$/y (600k$ grant over 4 years)

I then told my boss in all honesty that I wanted to leave, and do so in good terms, and after a few days he came back to me saying the company can put on the table another 4 year grant for the same number of stock options I received initially, so that would mean another 0.7% over the next 4 years.

However, the company valuation is now pretty high, so I wouldn't be able to buy those options when they vest and I'd have to stay here until the very final end (potentially 4+ years).

I am a very financially oriented person, so, does it make sense to diversify at Google at this point, or throwing away this additional 0.7% is irresponsible considering the situation? If the company reaches those target sales an exit might as well be in the 300-600M$ range, so you can do the math for that 0.7%...

However, I am afraid that with those "golden handcuffs" I'd just end up burning out in these next 4 years out of boredom.

What do you think?
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The two are converging in a lot of ways. Flow maintains it's impressive ability to determine types based on individual usages of functions. Basically checking type safety based on what you passed in rather than what the function says it's supposed to take.

Typescript is more of a traditional typing system and discourages you from using variable types in the first place.

The important distinction is that if you tell typescript a function can take in any value it makes no attempt to type check. Flow will look at each usage of the function and try to determine if the value being run through is valid.

My personal preference is to typescript so I'm probably biased. Typescript community, tooling, and general ease of use is better. MS has long been known for good dev tools and it shines here.

If you end goal is to statically type your whole application then flow has little or no advantages. In this case it's better to go with Typescript for ease of use, community support, friendlier error warnings, and better tooling. If your goal is to keep using JavaScript and use type checking as a fancy linter then flow is clearly superior.

Something else I noticed that may be very important down the road: typescript is easier to get rid of. The JavaScript it outputs is very readable and mostly looks hand-written. IMO the best tools are the ones easy to get rid of, especially since JS is such a moving target. If Typescript dies one day you can compile down to JS one more time and throw the TS code away and still have a decent codebase. Flow and Babel produce some really crazy stuff, and codegen of clean and readable JavaScript seems like more of an afterthought.
For some reason reducing APK size talks have been a constant presence in the last three Google IO and WWDC as well.

If you need to advocate this, it tells a lot about how much app devs care about the issue.
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Do any of these doctors you refer to also note that beer is a high source of phytoestrogens?
Just because wristwatches are overpriced doesn't mean that anything that takes their name isn't.
There's a point there that is obscured by the overreach to "romance novel": it's because it's a one-page encyclopedia article on a highly-technical and esoteric subject not a 300-page introductory textbook to be studied over the course of a year.

Then again "If someone cannot explain something in plain English, then we should question whether they really do themselves understand what they profess." - Richard Feynmann
Do you know if XFS can shrink volumes yet? As far as I'm aware, that's the only limitation it has compared to other filesystems of that era.
They should ransom the whole database of they're going away. It worked for certain software (Blender), it might for the music too.
Yeah, a lot has happened in the past few months. And there's still more things scheduled for the next few versions...
Firefox now caches bytecode, too.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform...

Note, however, that caching bytecode solves a different problem. Caching bytecode is great for the second+ load of a website. Making initial parsing faster is great for the first load of a website since its latest update. If you consider that Facebook updates its front-end once per hour, for instance, that's a lot for some (not all) websites.

Also, the size improvements may come in useful for applications written in, say, Cordova/PhoneGap.
Are you doing it for the money, or happiness. That's what will dictate the right answer.
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Wow, that's real dedication. What's the company (or, what is it you're developing)?
Note that "lazy parsing" means "do most of the parsing, just don't store the result". That's a consequence of the specifications of JavaScript that require all syntax errors to be thrown as early as possible.

This is something that would change with the Binary AST, hence allowing much lazier parsing.
> Demand for electricity has plateaued nationwide as a result of major improvements in energy efficiency

How quickly can wide-spread adoption of EVs change this part of the equation?
(Philippe always posts walls of text, even on the SVG mailing list; seems to be their thing.)

Hinting as done in TrueType is probably overkill for most purposes. But icons are often not displayed in arbitrary sizes, but rather in one of a few known-in-advance sizes. It's not hard to tweak the paths and shapes to fit to the pixel grid for all those. Also, as you approach higher pixel densities, it becomes much less important; basically you may just have to make sure that the smallest sizes fit on whole pixels and that's it.

Long ago I've automated asset generation in different sizes from SVG for an Android app I worked on and even without caring (much¹) about a pixel grid the results were good enough not to need tweaking.

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¹ When hand-writing SVGs I tend to care about integer coordinates simply to not lose my mind.
> After acquisition it is now in-house...

I first parsed this differently, too, but I think they just bought some software for PKI services, not the software company.
Chris Mason left Oracle for Fusion-io back in 2012 and then from there to Facebook in 2013
> It's certainly more difficult to use well than most ad platforms, especially for bigger companies.

I think this is going to be a big issue. Large advertisers want reach, not hyper-targeting a tiny sub with 3,000 subscribers.

While you can certainly make something that would appeal to, say, /r/edmproduction, would a large advertiser like P&G be able to create something for default subs (that have huge reach)?
Technically, the tool to convert back to JS is already implemented. For the moment, it loses only comments and layouts and even comments might remain (see issue #11 on github).
Agree with this: if you take an idea from somewhere, cite it. There’s no cost to you personally or professionally for doing so, and you’re giving credit where it is due.

>A large number of seminal works have never been published. The greatest mathematics paper of our lifetimes remains unpublished.

Is this a reference to a specific paper?
Chris Mason, the principal Btrfs author, left Oracle over 5 years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs#History

"In June 2012, Chris Mason left Oracle for Fusion-io, which he left a year later with Josef Bacik to join Facebook; while at both companies, Mason continued his work on Btrfs."
Looking forward to a proper cryptocurrency that will eliminate all middle-men!
Reminds me of this blender/OpenFOAM based tool.

https://www.ods-engineering.com/tools/ods-studio/
Still, in my experience, Facebook chats loads several Megabytes (that's gzipped size) of JavaScript upon startup. In this case, lazy loading gets into the way of performance, as Facebook chat ends up lazily loading 102 files (if I recall correctly).
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I know a lot of software engineering students here in Denmark who use your product frequently. It's a good product; thank you!
It's $1050, not $1500. I'm interested in two projects on Patreon (bcachefs and Matrix) and both projects are not getting nearly enough to be self-funded, so this raises the question if this model even works for Open Source. So far any advanced technology seems to be funded by some big corporation and it's not very good. But, I guess, users just don't care about good inner workings, they care about things they personally enjoy (cartoons, etc), so funding those inner workings is still an open question.
Isn't Brave based on libChromium? At least on Linux
There are just as many publishers that supply debs and not rpms. It really depends on what you're after.

But if you look at the usage, north america is generally more redhat-family and europe is generally more debian-family, even in the SuSE patch that is Germany...
Do we need patents?
South Africa is tiny, China is an 800 pound gorilla upon which the majority of the world's manufacturing depends. The decision of whether to "play ball" with China needs to be made at the government level, and 10+ years ago. It's too late now, the horse is out of the barn. China, and only China, will decide how they act on the world stage.
Offtopic, but if anybody from RedHat and especially Mozilla read this, go to that page with an Android phone, possibly with a small screen:

To RedHat: do something for that menu at the left. It stays in the way when scrolling and zooming. The X to close it is not immediately visible on a small screen. Expected behavior: the menu scrolls away with the page and doesn't stay fixed in the way of the reader.

To Mozilla: open the page with Opera and copy what you see there. Tldr: autofit the text in the screen width. Maybe Chrome does the same. Btw, reader mode doesn't kick in.
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I am honestly 50/50 on this. I don't want to live a miserable life, but if by "getting bored" for 4 years I can gain financial freedom by a huge margin, it's something worth considering (and that's what I'm struggling with).
With this AWS might eventually be able to shrink their snowmobile from a 45ft shipping container on a semi-trailer truck to the more traditional station wagon size.
I also never vote (which means my broker votes for me). However, I very much value the ability to vote. Owning stock is about owning the company, and if you have no vote, you have no ownership. If management doesn't trust me with a vote, what makes me think they have my interests in mind? At that point, owning the stock is simply gambling on the price going up. Maybe I get some dividends, too--bonus--but since my share class can't vote, what would make the owners give any dividends to that class, rather than keeping it all themselves? If management wants to keep control, that's great, I'm all for that, but then they should issue bonds, not stock.
> It's OT but how many people actually use RHEL? Or CentOS (more likely).

I'll ask the opposite question how many people in Enterprise don't use RHEL/CentOS?

> I'm not a fan of systemd, but have really loathed CentOS/RHEL compared to Debian/* for years.

Those two are orthogonal. A lot of people loathe Windows and Oracle yet they are raking in billions every year in licensing.

Then there is Government as well, try selling them a production running in Ubuntu or Arch. It can be done but it won't be very easy. There RHEL is king as well.
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I too live nearby and would love to try the non-processed food version.
Please use permanent links, this directs to a tag, and will be invalid as soon as a newer publishing article is posted.

http://approximatelycorrect.com/2017/08/01/do-i-have-to-cite...
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Illegal where? Perhaps inside the Eurozone but that wouldn't be enforceable anywhere else.
The default file system for the root partition of SUSE Enterprise Linux is Btrfs. So RHEL have stopped supporting it. It is the only filesystem that implements many of the features found in ZFS.
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