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I use a bunch of 8TB SMR Seagate Archive drives in a ZFS pool for backups and media storage.

I run ZoL, and honestly they've surprisingly been relatively solid drives. You can expect roughly 10-15MB/sec or so write throughput per drive, and latency is of course pretty bad. Across 24 spindles though, I haven't had too many complaints - it's archival storage and reads are fast enough for most use cases - about 50-70MB/spindle sustained for large files.

I would not try to say rsync millions of tiny files against this pool - it would not hold up well. However for it's use case - write large files once/read occasionally I'm quite happy - I just wish price would have come down over the course of 2 years as I had originally expected. You can expect to pay $200-220/drive even today, and that's what I paid the first batch when starting my pool.

Out of 24 total spindles I had 2 early failures (within 120 days of install) but otherwise no other failures. These drives were replaced hassle free via RMA. My I/O pattern is pretty light - probably 100GB written per day across 24 spindles, and maybe 1TB read.

Basically if you try to do anything but streaming writes you're going to have a bad time. They are a bit more forgiving on the read side of the fence however. Don't expect these things to break any sort of speed records!

If I were buying today I wouldn't buy 8TB SMR - I'd pay the $20-30/spindle premium for standard drives. I'd have to look at the 14TB costs to see if the huge speed tradeoff would be worth it. When I first started using them, the cost per GB was compelling enough to give it a shot and I'm pretty happy with the results.
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At that rate by my estimate, it'd take 324 days to actually write 14TB to disk. Probably not a great candidate for most applications.
The general advice I've heard is not to do this sort of thing. It's a loophole and when the SEC inevitably catches you, you are boned.

If it's obviously a loophole to you and me, then what do you imagine the SEC think?
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Yes and no. I've got the "attention detection" on which is supposed to ensure you're looking at it, and in the first, what, 12 hours of having the phone, I've had 0 problems unlocking it. One of my first tries was swiping up while riding my bicycle. I glanced down as I did so, and it was unlocked in the time it took me to take a glance down. TOTALLY seamless. Even with a bike helmet on, on a moving bike, with the phone at a totally non-optimal angle.

I've also found, with it sitting on my desk on a stack of cables I brought in to ensure I could sync and power everything during the transition (lightning to USB, lightning to usb-c, apple watch magnetic charger, you get the idea), that it would unlock just from a swipe, without even having to tilt it towards me.

After I've played with it a bit, I find you can be off by far more than you expect -- maybe 20-30 degrees from 'face to face' with the phone. And you don't have to be close.

It doesn't work in the lying-flat-on-my-desk use case, but if i pick it up and swipe up, it's unlocked. Period. I don't even have to think about how it's angled, or if i I'm looking at it, or what the angle is, or what the light is.

I'm VERY impressed. I thought the #1 thing I'd miss would be pressing the home button while it lies on my desk, but it hasn't been an issue yet. and the transition to swipe up instead of home button press took 0 minutes. I thought it would take me days or weeks.
Oh the horror. The clone I used was particularly troubled and the often-sensitive order of loading system extensions was farcically unstable.
It is only an issue for those that are Language X Developer.

As consultant and polyglot developer, using C++ and eventually something else for the view isn't a problem at all.

And it doesn't have to be C++, there are other portable native languages to choose from.

Also web developers don't have any issue changing frameworks or languages that compile into JavaScript, almost every month.
I read it as "surprisingly high", actually.
If you're an international student, a physical presence in the US is one of the things you're buying with your grad school tuition.

Conversely American grad school attendees are mostly career switchers who already have an established life in a place that's probably not Atlanta.
To learn to write good code you have to write a shit-metric-ton of bad code.

The problem with this is how do you know if your code is good or bad? A lot of programmers never learn. They only way is to learn from others and write. You won't necessarily will be a better programmer if you just write programs by yourself.
> Literally the first thing SPJ did after coming back was kill the Mac clones program.

That's because the clones were cannibalizing Apple's own hardware offerings - the clones were gradually putting Apple out of its own business.

This NYT article from 1996 talked about how the Mac clone strategy was playing out for Apple [0].

[0] https://partners.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/1230macs.htm...
Can you elaborate on what syntactic conveniences are difficult to implement and why? Language design is on of my hobbies, so I really would like to know that.
SMR drives really aren't intended at all for single drive applications.

Get 512 of them in a giant pool (especially if it's SMR aware) and the throughput issues start to be less of a concern for certain applications. Anything write intensive of course means you immediately look elsewhere.
I think Apple is a Design company, as in that's their main value add. Like Steve Jobs said, design is not just how their products look but how they work - something that requires both software and hardware.

On the other hand Google seems to be more of a software company, which reflects in their general culture and hiring practices.
Surprisingly, at least for me, i don't see here Robert C. Martin, Kent Beck or Alan Key...

Maybe they are old, and not the bussiness-succesfull-type but they are still Gods for me in the academic side. They can clarify a lot of things most people think they understood, or worst, i tought i understood.

Why? For me? Because the power they have modeling, the experience they accumulated in a lot of areas, how they move checking metrics and not only by what they feel or their instinct. And of course, because of the power of their ideas which made them famous.

You dont have to agree them 100% of the time. Of course not. But when you don't agree, check that twice, and check again after some years of earning knowledge and experience too. They deserve that.
pipenv[1] and other GitHub repos have a little badge in the REAMDE.md entitled "say thanks", which takes you to a simple form [2] where you can say thanks. I thought it was a cool idea.

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Not at all.

Apple did buy out NeXT, but then Steve Jobs and his team took ownership over Apple key positions from inside.

A situation that happens quite often where the bought company, manages to own the buyer.

So on the paperwork and bank transactions, Apple bought NeXT, on management level, NeXT bought Apple.
The only way to induce a consequence in a scenario is to have pattern matched the scenario. Pattern matching can be very abstract. It can use programs that may not halt. You are conflating patterns with exact details. A pattern can be as general as "[wildcard]." The human psyche promotes survival over *, every scenario.

You talk about representations and reasoning but are not assessing the fact that the human brain is literally a decision maker, acting on stored procedures and memory. Any representations and any reasoning will only apply to a select scenario or select objects, regardless to how you wish to define the pattern, the fact that a subset of abstractness/generality out of the whole of existence is specified, implies a pattern that is coded for implicitly or explicitly.
They're extremely price conscious in a number of ways.

Do you have a citation for the several hundred thousand dollar party?

Sports teams are...difficult. I dislike how much money goes to them, but they're a complex thing to value, as both student recruitment and alumni donations are entangled with the athletic program.
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You should not expect a service which has been exposed to the open internet to be hidden.

If your last defense is that nobody knows the domainname, then you've lost. Not knowing the domainname shouldn't be any defense at all.
I'm not sure how familiar with it you are, but that's kinda a result of flux/redux architecture. There's a global state that things are passed props to. If there is some change triggered as the result of a component being mounted, say a globalish "there's now a tooltip active", that may modify components including the component that triggered the change.

That's probably a simplistic example, but it really does happen.
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Find a problem and solve it, to make people really need you.

Find a place to sell your solution, to make people really see you.

That's business.
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Why? SSTables/LSM storage for file data is completely separate (and much higher level) from physical storage tech like SMR. These drives are very slow compared to even standard hard drives and probably cant even keep up with writes, let alone compaction.
It’s very sad actually that in the US my parents saved absolutely nothing for college because when my one parent that attended did it they could afford it with a summer job.
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I can't help feeling that you're operating on a very narrow notion of "technology". Without technology we wouldn't have societies where we could have schools, nor writing, paper, printed materials, the free time to have education, mathematics, microscopes, the global sharing and dissemination of knowledge, etc etc.
Just some rough numbers for you:

A GTX1060 6GB can mine ETH at around 80 watts. And currently, earn you $25/month of ETH with electricity costing $10/month. Cost of card is $260.

https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/calculator/eth?HashingP...
Supposedly Facebook is trialling them with cold storage -- think backups they must keep legally but don't intend on using much.

I could see a usecase for certain NAS / media storage purposes, but you'd have to not only use log structured filesystems, but also redesign the network protocols to support efficient writes, and possibly specialize block allocation to match the hardware constraints. You certainly wouldn't want say bittorrent writing directly to them, and even streaming-like services like MythTV may be a problem.
pencils are a technology, as are paper, chalkboards. Printing-presses, etc etc. Technology enables all of our ability to educate people.

When it comes to more modern technologies, like computers, I think we need to remember that, in historical terms, we're only just starting to make use of them. I would bet that in 100 years from now, there'll be much more beneficial applications of them in education than now.
> since the drive was already somewhat used

You are spreading a lot of FUD based on one single anecdote with a used drive. Let me counter that anecdote with my own complete satisfaction of using such drive for over a year of daily backups without anything 'taking days'.
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Paul Graham - basically I love reading 100% of what he writes. Everything brings unique insights and it's encouraging to see the hacker mindset in someone so experienced.

Joel Spolsky - also a great writer.

Chris Sawyer - anyone who could write a full game in assembly is really badass
Your option 1 is incomplete. It should read more closely to:

You go to grad school and spend ~6 years working extremely long hours at nearly minimum wage with no benefits. You then spend 2-3 years on a postdoc still with relatively low compensation. There still are far too few academic positions available. You now either become an adjunct (and get caught in that vicious cycle) or you do another postdoc. Repeat ad nauseum (or until you give up and move to industry anyway)
> I think Apple is a Design company, as in that's their main value add. Like Steve Jobs said, design is not just how their products look but how they work - something that requires both software and hardware.

That's just word redefining. And I have an old iMac 20 that has all its USB ports on the back and every time I have to twist my wrist to plug something I am reminded how Apple isn't that good at functional design. The thing is pretty though.
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This is quite neat. I'll probably look at the go-library to build something out of that.

In the meanwhile, crt.sh also offers a Atom feed of issued certificates. Definitely not realtime but also works.
Here’s a nice story from the New York Times that might shed some light on what I’m trying to describe: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/fashion/modern-love-a-span...
PhD students don’t take ‘classes’ - they do their own independent research. It’s a research degree. If someone else can teach you a class on it then it’s clearly not cutting edge enough to do a PhD on!
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So basically, bluetooth is still a PITA nowadays :/.

If I turn the key in my car, get the electricity running though the circuit, then the phone gets connected to the car. If I turn the key one more time to ignite the engine the car system lose the bt connection and I have to manually force the connection with the phone.

I just ignite the car as soon as I sit in now.
Why not go for Option 2, but do your post-grad part time while working? It might take 10 years instead of 6, but by then you'd have 10 years work experience, capital, etc.
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The command line example is a bit odd since any POSIX environment has getopt (GNU has getopt_long too) and most languages out there have well-developed command line parsing in their standard libraries (eg. Python's excellent argparse).
It's not a lot, but there are a bunch of pictures on google.com/about/datacenters, including a 'street view' inside our DC in North Carolina.

There are also a bunch of papers on the network architecture, https://research.google.com/pubs/Networking.html .

But yes, a lot is closed for the obvious reason that this is really core to the business Google is running.

(I'm a datacenter engineer at Google)
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I've driven ferraris in las vegas racetracks. Affordable experience. The fit and finish was far below any luxury vehicle by far. The R8 was miles ahead in comfort and luxury details, but then those cars are not not designed as a luxury vehicle.
You argue by assuming ignorance, and following up with insult and nonsense. Remarkably ineffective and immature.
> As a person living in a former communist country I find it quite amusing that after the communism was replaced by capitalism population increase went from a steady increase to steady decrease.

I live in a former communist country too, one that suffered under a North Korean inspired regime in the last decades before communism collapsed in a bloody revolution. And population was increasing at the fastest rate in Europe at the time, despite the miserable living conditions only because abortion and contraception were forbidden because the communist leadership wanted to increase the number of state slaves as fast as possible. Hundreds of thousands of children were abandoned by parents unable to care for them due to lack of food, lack of money and lack of space in the cramped apartment blocks. Countless children ended up in secretive state run orphanages that looked more like concentration camps. Here's a clip of one of those happy places

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOS3jBy3bl4

Anyway, yay population increase!

> But you know while we talk about how many people has communism killed, we never talk how much child labour and slavery has capitalism produced.. Anyway you get the point.

How did capitalism produce child labor and slavery? You must be pretty historically illiterate to not know that it was capitalism that made child and slave labor obsolete through technology advancements and automation. The very concept of childhood as we understand it today is the product of capitalist societies during the industrial revolution. And it was the capitalist societies that birthed the abolitionist movement and also exported it all over the world through various means more or less peaceful. Blaming capitalism for those things is like blaming the cure for the illness it removes.

> And by the way it's not that I care about communism. I don't. Never liked it although during these years I was a kid so I didn't have adult Experience. But I don't like capitalism any better.

Of course you don't like "capitalism", who the hell would like "capitalism" if it would mean what you think it means (that whole slavery and child labor bullshit).
Can you apply real-time effects to tracks in multi-track mode these days? A big limitation if you still can't.
> Interesting, but I think it also shows the neutrality of the company --- they would sell to anyone, regardless of what their technology was being used for.

You sound like you think that's a good thing.
Because of the order type.

Market Orders soak up all the liquidity as they need to be executed at the best price available. So, if the price is at $10 and I dump a huge amount of shares, it will go through the bids..$10, $9.9, $9.8...you get the idea.

Limit Orders kind of provide liquidity. It doesn't execute unless a certain condition is met. So I can dump a large sell at $10, it won't change the price. Anyone in the market can bid into $10 and buy shares if they want.

So, trading volume doesn't matter, order type matters. If Bezos had dumped his shares in open market it would cause the price to change dramatically. People will take it as a sign and jump out like rats fleeing a sinking ship.

Most of these trades are pre-planned and are limit orders.

The data has not been updated for the November sells you can see all the Amazon insider trades here (including the March selling noted in the article):
http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/amzn/insider-trades

Most are automatic sell and are pre planned. Disposition are trades which are off market transaction, selling or buying, directly with the company.
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I agree this is a big job. Overhauling an existing application means a ton of work for both the designer and the developer. However the primary goal of designers should be making users work effectively. Building something that also looks good is a secondary goal. Great designers achieve both goals. If skills or budget are not great, go for the primary.

In the case of Audacity, I remember that I have to google how to silence a selection every time I get back to it after a break of several months. I guess this means that the primary goal is somewhat missed.
php, javascript, python, languages with ad hoc data structures and no compilation, no jars, no dlls, no .o[bj], no .h

People hate these because they like structure over speed and ease and what they perceive as high quality. Those people are going to die sometime in the next 0-50 years. So how much is your rigid, time consuming, kid safe, "right way" worth if you were going to die tomorrow?

I've found that people overwhelmingly like to do things in the most complex, restrictive way possible when they are being paid to do it and finishing means they might no longer be paid.
In the large? Yes, generally and generically speaking they are excellent at pricing in the very short term. On the small they have all sorts of failure modes and perversions - there is no such thing as "the market" there are, however, market conditions in any given area which may or may not follow certain patterns of activity.
Maybe we just got lucky? I don't think 60 years of history is enough to draw conclusions about the systematic safety of nuclear weapons. Especially when so many facts are unavoidably restricted.

It is easy to become prone to a sort of survivorship bias. But nuclear proliferation guarantees that we will have more and more opportunities to test that safety. It only needs to fail once to be catastrophic at which point your argument would seem a little flawed.
Most helpful for me is some detailed info on how my open source "thing" helped them.

Like, hey...we use your library to do X with clients like Y, and we pump Z transactions a day through it...really appreciate the leg up.
Kodak made the transition too late, that’s the reason.
For foreign citizens, option 2 is pretty much a no-brainer because a US green card implies societal respect, relatively high income and subsequently marriage proposals from their home country.
I maintain a moderately successful JavaScript library and there are a few things that absolutely make my day: people sending me an email telling me how they're using it (I see dependent projects on NPM but I love hearing about cool things!), people saying thanks, and people sending me any donation. I've had a handful of people send me a few bucks over the years and I was absolutely floored each time. In total I might be able to buy myself a beer with the donations but it means a surprisingly large amount knowing someone is willing to go through the hassle to send you money.
I hope you then reported them.
Its pretty amazing that its ok to design $2 worth of hardware badly so you have to replace it and charge $80 for it.
Craftsmanship (and its derivatives) is a long talked about topic. I agree that it would be a great idea (or at least a great experiment).

What we did in the company I work for is create profession-based company-wide guilds. These guilds (that's what we call them too) back their members professionally and make sure their professional progress is not stagnant (among recruitment and consulting). In addition, the guilds keep the LOBs in check. A guild member can "snitch" about a bad practice that their boss is forcing them to do (skip tests in order to hasten the dev process for example). A guild master or the guild leader will then meet with the project leader and hold them in check.

Hopefully this can be cross-company but until then we can do it inside each (medium and up) company.
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Name an android phone that’s faster than last years iPhone.
Also typing from a Pixel 2 XL after having been a moderately satisfied Pixel 1 XL owner. The Pixel 2 XL screen gamut is totally washed out with blacks. Its horrendous for watching any show or cinema. Yes, I know that each app has to have the right gamut set in the Android app manifest -- but not even Google updated their apps or launcher yet!! And they expect others to do it? At least give us the option to force a higher gamut per app... Simple solution for such an eclectic decision on a new flagship.
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Write one and become rich. There are tons of graphical tools that lack a proper diff. Just lock at all the CASE tools.
I think we can have an honest conversation even if it hurts peoples feelings.
Class hours are a substantial requirement of many phd programs. You can't do independent research without knowing what's come before. :)
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