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True I suppose. Apple sells hardware and earns revenue through a platform they created for content. Google sells much less hardware, but made the OS the Platform, app store included, primarily to have control of the ecosystem for ad delivery. The primary difference in terms of security of their revenue streams is that Google doesn't need to sell hardware to secure their stream, while Apple's (apart from itunes for music on a PC) is directly tied to # of hardware units it can push. It's still always jarring when I realize, yet again, "Wait, Google is just an advertising firm. All else follows that."
Android dominates because Apple refuses to sell $50 iPhones. iOS app revenues still outpace Google Play, Android is the OS of choice for people who use it like a feature phone.
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"Tut, tut, tut... let's not change the subject now. We're dehumanizing Rus-- ahem, Soviets here in our Two Minutes of Hate. These are evil, evil people who killed an innocent dog and we should all hate them, even if we ourselves are killing animals for less as we speak."
And no one has lost any territory to the other since they developed nuclear weapons. All conventional millitary conflicts date from before they became nuclear powers.
There are passive cooling rigs for high performance computers (LinusTechTips video). If this is a valid market, one could make prebuilt silent rigs as radiators.
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If you wanted the money to go to your foundation, you would donate the stock to the foundation and sell it there. If you sell it first and then donate the cash, I believe charitable donations are phased out as deductions above a certain income level. (Or maybe the AMT wipes them out?)
+1 on the render prop style HOC. Wish I had the time to write an example, but a good one is React Router's withRouter HOC [0]. I've used this a ton and it works extremely well.

[0] https://github.com/ReactTraining/react-router/blob/master/pa...
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/11/01/ios-11-predictive-text-...

This bug has been annoying me, my family and friends for several days now. Nearly everyone I️ know with an iPhone. And the suggestion is to break predictive text to fix it. I️ really wish I️ would have bought an Android.
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I just started one of my first open source projects in the last few months and I've fixed ~3 issues so far. A thank you would be amazing. I'm not going to STOP fixing issues, but a thank you would really motivate me to keep it up. Kudos to this guy.
This actually makes a great search tag: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=B00C5R7F8G&type=comment
The utility of nuclear weapons is strategic, not tactical. The only relevant deterrent is their use against against major cities for which speed is not really relevant. What's relevant is maintaining launch capability in your control - hence major powers go for stealthy submarine platforms.
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Perhaps I am ignorant and don't know it, but the USSR collapsed, its nuclear arsenal was split, and nothing awful happened. Even during one of the most spectacular system-wide failures in modern history, a massive arsenal of nuclear weapons was largely kept safe and in tact.
Since HARC ended, I’ve been working on raising my baby so my wife can get back to her UX design career (not ideal, but it’s gone by much better than I expected).

I’m also planning a pivot away from doing research in live programming and instead looking at dynamic mediums for thinking (a common HARC topic). The two topics are fairly related anyways (tight feedback loops, reduction in representational gulfs). I hope to grab some time from child rearing to work on a new demo soon.
And, Macs had a debug button that when placed on the Mac and pressed dropped you into a low level debugger CLI.

And prior to AppleScript, there were a few other CLIs on early Macs: Terminal programs like telnet, the CLI in MPW, and CLI / scripting in Applications like HyperCard and others IIRC.
Building a solid design culture is extremely hard - in my experience having worked professionally as a designer and engineer, much more so than a solid engineering culture (which is already insanely hard). There’s a reason only a handful of organizations in the world succeed at both.

I spent time volunteering for Gnome many years ago (2.x days), and it was extremely hard there, even though it had a reputation for being one of the most designer friendly open source projects. It was a struggle to push for design considerations with obvious benefits such as accessibility - let alone anything remotely resembling aesthetics.

The issue with open source is that ultimately, the project maintainers tend to be programmers with programmers’ priorities and views on design.

Good design requires consistent, thoughtful sacrifice and compromise, and someone at the top to enforce it. If the open source UI squad makes recommendations that the Gimp maintainers choose to ignore, then what?
The article misses something I think makes part of it: grad school is a ticket to establishing some level of connection in the US for foreigners, and some use it as a spring board to getting a job in the US. They need this because a graduate degree actually is losing its value given the poor job market for PhDs. The prospects of a job after graduate school are diminishing the closer you get to a PhD; it just makes less sense to go to grad school when you can get good jobs with just a BS in CS for example...unless there is something else to make the ROI better.

Finally, the stats mentioned are merely fractions, not overall numbers. What could merely be happening is the growth is coming from international students, not that less Americans are headed to grad school.
Yup, agreed. 100%

Whenever I find a blog post/video that has information particularly useful to me, or a side project that has come real handy - the first thing I do is whip up my mail client and thank the authors. I never realised how much of a positive impact this has on creators until people started mailing me thanking me for my work. Brightens up your day really :)
I'm an American, and I just started graduate school. Georgia Tech OMSCS. Very nice program.
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Do we have any numbers of how many of these foreign individuals stay in the country after graduation? When you think about how immigration works, immigrants are very disproportionately likely to be high-performing individuals, given the criteria for them to enter the country. If they stay in the country to contribute to the economy after graduation, then all I can say is that I'm glad they still think that this is a desirable country to come to.
What market does Amazon have a monopoly, and how are they abusing it or what prohibited practices did they use to establish such a monopoly?

It looks like they may have 44% of internet retail by public companies; and that's big, but it doesn't include private companies, and it doesn't fit my definition of a monopoly. It is certainly large enough that they should be scrutinized and attempts to increase share through prohibited practices should result in enforcement actions.
I suspect the OP is saying that there is no room for neutrality in genocide. That an "absence of decided views" over the extermination of a race is not actually a viable position for any human being to take.
Let the author know so that they can delete the article.
> though I agree that because AMZN could probably simply 'turn on profit' at any time

I'm confused—Amazon is profitable already, no?
Tim Sweeney of Epic Games has some very interesting ideas on programming and languages. He inspired me to make a career out of it (for better or worse).

I’ve met and worked with a lot of inspiring good programmers in my life, so it would be difficult to provide a list of names.
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As Matt has said, essentially what happens when you get out of the coursework portion of your PhD is that you're now working on research. In a lab, at your dining room table, etc.

But it's important for a number of reasons that you remain a student. It allows access to student services, you maintain full enrollment so student loan related repayment things don't trigger yet, you're eligible for student health insurance, etc.

So you need to take whatever a "full load" is, and tuition is billed accordingly.

Except the university knows this is silly. You're not taking classes with instructor time, or in need of a classroom, TAs, etc. So you get a tuition waiver.

Basically, the sum total of this is to allow for an accounting workaround because there's limited ways to express "You're a full time student taking no classes".
And the lesson has been rammed home multiple times by now unfortunately... Iraq, Libya, Ukraine... so it's not even ambiguous. All politicians of calibre by now understand this.
This is a great reminder that simple manners and gratitude can go a long way.

What I hope is also apparent is that thank you notes will not be enough on their own to fix the unfortunate trend of entitlement, underfunding, and burnout that is attacking open source maintainers. Any step is progress, though, so long as we don't fool ourselves into thinking it's literally all we need to do.
Wow, I can apply every one of those to situations I’ve been in. What is fan-in?
I honestly agree with your middle sentence - it can be used to make outside funders cover students (though I'd argue part of this is actually correct, as there's no promise a funded student is in the 'pure research' phase - indeed, none of the three students funded on my current grants are).
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Building a silly web app:
https://github.com/patrickgordon/coothaback -
https://whatsyacoothabacktime.com

Working on an open source lib:
https://github.com/JumboInteractiveLimited/redux-cache

and trying to think of something new to build.
There's Azure Kontainer Service (AKS) in public preview.
Well, hello there! I'm am American doing a PhD at Tech. Wonderful school. I've heard good things about OMSCS. Let me know if you need any help :)
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How's the gender balance there? Few male Americans + many female Americans + many male foreigners + few female foreigners in graduate school seems like a surefire way to very quickly shrink the gene pool of intelligent ethnic European Americans, seeing how they're already reducing in numbers and that women tend to prefer men who are more accomplished, including when they're very accomplished themselves.
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Another amazing stat: the Mac will be 34 years old in a couple of months and yet is having its best sales ever.

Except for the iPhone, the Mac generates more revenue than any other single product Apple sells.
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I would note that it's also possible to get a tuition waiver from being funded by a non-external source, or from technically an external source that's functionally the same (A CA state agency paying a PhD student at UCSF, for example).
Having read IBM and the Holocaust, I'm not convinced that IBM actually had a clear idea of how the machines would be used until quite late in the war effort, at least until well after 1941.
I can't help but wonder what it's like to have that kind of money.

Does such a person ever wake up, and wonder how the dice rolled so amazingly in their favor?

Or do they wake up and stand proud, recognizing that they are so successful because of their own hard work and intelligence?

Do they ever think about how insane life is that they ended up with 94 billion, while some people are starving?

I'm not making any moral projection here. I'm not saying there's anything right, or wrong, about that situation. I'm just genuinely curious what it feels like to be in their shoes.
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Over 3 days of selling (according to the article), that's only an average of about 8% of daily volume.
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yeah, the game theoretic view of this, together with the sober leadership on both sides (haha), is rather disconcerting.

If you look back at contemporaneous accounts of the world wars, it all looked pretty manageable and locally contained at the time.
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It's interesting - when OMSCS started, there was so much speculation that it would be flooded with overseas students who would use it to get a cheap US degree that would ultimately help them to migrate.

Instead, OMSCS actually has a far, far higher proportion of American students than GATech's on-campus MSCS program...
It's a good effect in the same way that a startup struggling getting rid of the coffee machine is a good effect - it's technically trimming costs, but in a way that's a drop in the bucket, and doesn't even begin to address the underlying issues.

As for "Schools could cut back, but they don't" that will come as a surprise to my frozen salary, and every department in my university being expected to cut their budget for the next three years.

While still being expected to admit the same if not more students, support the programs to help keep them enrolled, and compete for more grant funding.
Lots of software that's considered free-as-in-speech-and-beer doesn't have official binary downloads at all. Ardour additionally provides the option of paying to download an official binary. Building from source is pretty much the same as anything else, although there are quite a lot of dependencies. If you're used to installing from source there's no reason Ardour should give you any great difficulty (unless you're unlucky and your distro doesn't supply the required dependencies or something).
That's a lot of power. Use it wisely.
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Oh. Wow. This is something I haven't done near enough. Time to write a free emails!
Really? It's possible to emulate most commonly emulated platforms on ios (that a mobile device has enough power to emulate -- obviously no wii u support).
> most GUI toolkits like C# Winforms, C++ Qt, HTML buttons, etc do not include a macro recorder in the default event loop. Therefore, to "reify" the GUI in the same fashion as chess programs or the audio software requires grafting data structures and programming extra code to "record" the button presses into a timeline. Programmers won't do this unless there's a customer need for it. (E.g. Photoshop lets you reify the GUI as "actions" for later playback")

In the MacOS System 7 days when Apple was still pushing AppleEvents/AppleScript heavily, a good portion of Mac software would let you record your actions in them through the AppleScript Script Editor (they would emit the AppleEvent equivalents of your GUI actions), generating an AppleScript which you could then edit. It was a fantastic system. It's still there in macOS X, but it's rarely supported/used now.
>> But not possible for ~$1 billion in gains

Quite possible given enough trust lawyers and accountants. Mitt Romney managed to own a lot of his stock in his Roth IRA. The PayPal gang is famous for paying almost zero taxes though the same tricks. Yes, you dont get to spend it until retirement, but he isnt spending the billion, he is just reinvesting it.
I took on a project in Java (web backend project) a few months ago, first Java experience, I was excited.

After a couple months, the gratuitous (or what felt like gratuitous to me at least) verbosity of the language and all sort of abstractions and intricate relationship of classes/interfaces in libraries (the typical Java programmer mindset) drove me insane. Icing on the cake was the atrocity of frameworks (had to work with a legacy Spring codebase) and the need for using an extremely complicated IDE with a billion options and knobs in order to write any sort of code.

I was incredibly happy when I finished and deeply regretted taking on that work. I didn't think it would have been that bad.

I think if Java was my only option, I'd probably switch to a different non-programming career.

To put things in perspective, I am a C (kernel development)/C++ (system programming)/Go (backend development) programmer usually, working with tmux+vim and respective plugins for lightweight code completion and navigation.
This. What it actually is is a tax cut funded by a stealthy cut to the NIH/NSF/DoE/CDC etc. research budgets.

It's eating the seed corn. Quietly, but it's there.
I'm building a 2d game engine in pure Javascript.

http://moonbench.xyz/projects/workshop/axiom/stable/

WASD to move, click to shoot, mouse to aim.

It has parallaxing backgrounds, sprites, collision detection and resolution, guns and pickups.

It also supports game controllers in browser.

It is a work in progress, but you're obviously welcome to explore it and the source code.

I have a few other recent projects on that same domain, such as a raspberry pi camera network [1] and a p2p image sharing tool [2].

All just for fun and education (so far).

[1] http://moonbench.xyz/projects/pi-camera-network

[2] http://moonbench.xyz/projects/shutterbit
Been working on my project https://www.docsapp.io/ for more then one year and now growing slowly.

Initially I work on this project to learn Scala + Play! Framework and now I turn it into real project with real customers.

What I learnt from working on this project:
1. Time to market - Push your product to market and find customers ASAP to get real feedback.
2. Hosting - Build on cheap hosting provider with self setup that support HA. Machine fail all the time even you use expensive hosting (Cloud)
What? I used to run 9front(a plan9 fork) on raspberry pi back in 2013. Their bootloader is closed source, so you have to use that to load your kernel.
Can you please comment if pillow-SIMD works with Windows at this point? I was trying to make it work with py2.7 as I needed very fast image processing tools (for something that works real-time) and my experience was that pillow-SIMD does not work with Windows. It appeared at first that an Anaconda package would make it work but even that doesn't work because of various dependency issues.
Perhaps having "skins" capabilities would allow the best of both worlds...though it might end up like WinAmp with thousands of unuseably designed yet popular skins.
Foreigners who went to grad school are very heavily represented in Silicon Valley. Perhaps going all the way for a PhD is not worth it (debatable, some of my CS PhD friends have done incredibly well) but a Masters is definitely a strong path to success.
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Irv Grousbeck, one of the legendary professors of entrepreneurship at Stanford GSB, says it over and over: thanks and praise cost you nothing but mean the world to colleagues.

And whenever possible, praise in public and critique in private.
I can't speak to overall statistical numbers, but of the 75+ international graduate students that I've spoken to, I would estimate at least 85% plan to stay in the U.S.

I find this particularly surprising given that their status is essentially that of indentured servants; their advisors can deport them at any time with only 14 days of notice. This one-way power dynamic can produce cruel, callous treatment and merciless working hours, both of which I've observed first-hand. And yet, these same professors will turn around and collaborate politely and respectfully with American students (assuming that they will take on American students in their labs; many will not!).

It's really very depressing.
FYI, many top schools (MIT, Harvard, etc.) have explicit quota on how many international undergrads are admitted per year (at MIT it's about 120 students, or 10 percent of undergrads). There is no such limit at grad level, since the money typically comes from research groups and grants, so the limiting factor is really the research group's budget.
That leads me to think what can be even more unsatisfying proof.

How about the following: It is easy to see that the last digit of x^5 is same as k^5, where k is the last digit of x. Then the problem reduces to proving that the ten possibilities, 0^5, 1^5, 2^5, ... 9^5 ends respectively in 0, 1, 2, ...9.
Good idea to do for projects with a small number of users and a more "personal atmosphere", but like many things, does not scale --- I'm pretty sure Linus Torvalds would rather not have an additional million "thank you for Linux" emails on top of the volume of communication he normally receives, for example.
one could also use crt.sh and the RSS feed.
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(UI) Designers don't want to work for free. This is more or less the observation I made in regards for Open Source software.

Having some side projects or helping OSS is somewhat expected from a programmer. From other professions not so much.
Is there any evidence that IBM knew that it was enabling genocide? It was selling to Germany, certainly. But the US didn't officially enter the war until Pearl Harbor in December 1941.

Also, the Nazis weren't just collecting data on Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, etc. They collected data on everyone. It was arguably essential for resource management for the war effort.
Indeed, I think this is one of the biggest strengths of the US. Think about many of the smartest minds in science of the 20th century— many were immigrants to the US.
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The highways that carry his shipments cost a lot.

The Commerce Clause that protects his sales from state sales tax and made his mail-older company competitive against local stores made him a bundle too.

Most Federal tax revenue is spent on military (low gas prices for Amazon deliveries) and entitlements, not infrastructure projects.
Most iOS updates are smooth and trouble free. Still the far best mobile platform in terms of actually receiving software updates and new features. In the case of iOS 11 I would guess all the software changes required for the iPhone X has caused a temporary a dip in quality. I don't think it's representative of the quality of iOS updates overall. Things could be a little bit rocky going forward though as Apple will continue support pre-iPhone X era hardware for the next 3-5 years. I believe this is the first time they've had to support two distinctively different flavors of iOS UI in this way at least since the iOS6->7 days.
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