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It was made with Delphi 2005, ImageEn [1] (a Delphi component for loading & saving image file formats) and the Centaurix Delphi Photoshop component. Sadly Centaurix went out of business. Their SDK was designed for writing Photoshop plugins, but it also had some functions for loading & testing Photoshop plugins, and I used those. There were a lot of bugs that I had to patch to get it working.

I made it because my products are Photoshop plug-ins [2], but a lot of people were downloading them without having Photoshop. People would complain after installing that there wasn't a program to run. I thought including a bare-bones standalone graphics editor (no layers, no selections) with the Photoshop plugin download would solve that problem.

Actually, it didn't move the needle at all. Seems the people most likely to buy already had Photoshop / PaintShop Pro etc anyway. But it's been useful for running tests on ReactOS, or back when I was using Wine instead of Parallels on my Mac.

[1] https://www.imageen.com/

[2] https://www.namesuppressed.com/
If I kill someone and rob them of the next 50 years of their life, how long should I be in prison for?

This guy, statistically, was involved in a scheme that robbed a whole lot more people of a whole lot more years than that due to the effects if pollution on public health.
Those top 100 names total 50 million people, out of a total US population of 250 million (at time of 1990 census).

That means that 80% of the US population has a surname other than those on that list. Assuming that 80% of the US poplulation are "foreign" because they aren't in the top 100 most common surnames, seems rather foolish.
> Are you saying that security and isolation is not enticing for ephemeral services?

Didn't mean to imply the reverse logic of my statement. I believe Linux Containers (and hence Docker) depend only on Kernel namespaces to provide isolation. In my admittedly naive eyes, they were not good enough/mature to replace my KVM VMs yet. Too much to trade off for little convenience/performance.

However, if Linux containers matured up and offered the same isolation facilities that something like KVM does, then I can think about switching to them in future, and enjoy the performance boost.

>I know that an ephemeral container is reset after a restart but I think that it's a bit naive to think that that is a good enough replacement for true isolation.

If I'm looking to run an application for which I care about solid isolation of resources, I'd spend my time running it as VM. But, if I'm running a one-time script that chews some data and I don't care much about it bothering other workloads in the system or other workloads bothering it, then I'd fall back on the isolation facilities offered by namespaces by using Containers. Nothing wrong with that.

Security view on these is another argument. If I can't afford the application escalating it's view and looking into other workloads in that system, I just wouldn't run them in Containers today.
R can be an annoying programming language, but for some reason I've found it easier to use for prototyping than even Python. I think it's because I can sloppily copy and paste between notepad and repl without much issue, whereas in Python I have to be concerned about the whitespace and things are a bit more verbose. I also get more out of the graphing capability of R, but that's probably because I don't understand Python's graphing well enough. Be that as it may, R just seems to have what I need to get things done as sloppily as I need. My workflow tends to be a combination of Python or Java spitting out numbers, and then using R to analyze and graph those numbers, all glued together with Bash scripts.
It's probably not impossible - this guy[0] has made a midi-to-text converter, which i've been trying to use to make some simple tracks.
With moderate success, but that's more my lack of practice and musical knowledge.

edit:
i forgot to mention that it's a completely different format - but it shows what's needed for such a parser.

[0]http://www.archduke.org/midi/
They have a strategy in the UK to get everyone to pay £40 tolls, regardless of your income - by stealth.

There’s been a trend towards digital tolls - that is, no physical means to pay, you just have to know that you need to go online to their site to pay within an hour of leaving the toll road/bridge.

Thing is, many operators have little signage, poor or unavailable websites, and you can end up in a situation where you don’t realise you need to pay, or can’t pay because their tech has failed, or simply forget. So - instead of paying the £2 toll, you get a £40 penalty, payable immediately, appeals at your expense, etc.

Now, it’s easy to go “conspiracy” but there’s one factor that strongly leads me to believe that this is by design. It’s cost. At £2 per transaction, acquirer and network fees will eat a big chunk - much more than the salary for a human, or the cost of an automatic change bucket. Therefore, they rely on the fines as core revenue.
The overlay navigation bar at the top is really annoying and now there's another bar at the bottom nagging me to sign up for something that can't be removed.
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This is true, too. I can see how that might be inconvenient for some other people, but thankfully I'm not concerned about my need to do the first or my ability to pay the second.

It's definitely ridiculous how unaccountable third parties can affect one's life in such a way, leaving the consumer scrambling to set the story straight about themselves.
The person who transcribed it was kind enough to send it to me, I'd be grateful if you could search for it: http://mormolyke.com/stuff/brewsters.mid
Add to that:

- documentation is all in PDF format

- can only install packages from the interpreter

- testing libraries not feature complete

- weird namespacing

- poor test coverage in popular packages

- no mature webserver
This has little to do with the 'technical' meaning of the term.

The big _practical_'distinction' nowadays between a 'proper computer' and a 'tablet/phone/etc' is between being open for modification, creation and alteration by the user, or to be a walled garden where only the manufacturer chooses what can be done and installed.

The Ipad Pro may be powerful as a computer, but we think about it as a tablet because it uses IOS and its walled garden.

The OP is complaining that MS is trying to push its new product into the computer space even tough it's locked down via Windows 10S. It's not true that nobody 'takes on Apple about this' - it's simply that Apple does NOT do that on its COMPUTERS (i.e. the Mac line).
I'd say between 15 to 20 minutes.
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Since Intel is hitting a wall on transistor size, AMD have a viable and competitive chip at approx half price perf/$ and Arm manufacturers keep making them faster it's going to be an interesting next few years to say the least.
I would like you to reconsider this point.

Specifically,

1. driving causes pollution

2. people local to the freeway are heavily impacted by the pollution,

3. global warming is a real issue - solo drivers are a heavy contributor.

4. the freeway cost money and should have to pay its costs same as transit systems are made to pay their costs.

fyi - i carpool to work / take transit. I would rather see free buses and heavily charged car usage.
Farmland is essentially a complete livelihood, whereas other land is just a place to park a house.
In the UK this is doubly true, because you also receive your subsidy from the EU for owning that land. In fact in many ways farming it less efficiently gets you more as you can qualify for environmental uplifts for using less fertilizer and keeping bigger headlands and hedges.
>"US views the inmates as "criminals", Norway views the inmates as people who did something illegal."

Interesting point you are making here. In Norway's case it's "what someone did", and if he stops doing it, it's fine again whereas if you think/say "these people are criminals" it appears as if these people are inherently bad, which is a worse basis to help people improve.
Zero. Update configuration in a central location. Push an update to configuration manager agent on each node (using a dead simple gossip protocol). The agent wakes up, pulls new configuration, writes it and reloads pgbouncer. Using an aggressive gossip protocol, the whole process shouldn't take more than 5 seconds on a large cluster, let alone couple of nodes.
No. Last successful update was just before this root bug.
And that's a huge indicator of why blockchain finance is attractive. The banking system is AWFUL. Exchanges are bridges between banks and blockchains, and it's quite reasonable to want to keep your money in cryptocurrency just for technical usability reasons. I can send cryptocurrency from a shell script -- that's not going to work with bank money in a million years, or if it does it's going to be because of the competition from blockchains. Blockchains enable permissionless innovation in finance, and that's HUGE.
I'm willing to be that the same company wouldn't ask Microsoft or IBM to see the source code of the software they buy from them. So I'd start by wondering why they can't treat your software, too, as the proprietary black box it is.

Is it because they're aware that you can't convincingly threaten them with litigation? Do they think you're too small to protect yourself effectively from the danger of IP theft?

If that is the case, then the answer is clear.

If the client actually has legitimate concerns- couldn't they ask you to run some specific tests, or make some experiments, and report the results to them? The amount of time spent to think of such tests should not be more than the amount of time needed to review your code and you could argue that examining the behaviour of your system can be more informative than looking at the source code.
System price for current generation AMD and Intel seem quite a bit higher than the previous generation Intel. Price/performance for the current generation AMD and Intel seem very similar. If you have anywhere close to a factor of 2 different please post your numbers.
At what price does Bitcoin become a systemic economic risk?
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Man I dislike R for its syntax. It does a terrible disservice to people who start coding in R and then think that they "know programming" while they have missed most of the basic programming paradigms any "normal" programming language has.

I think R has a lot of similar ideology as PHP and well everyone has their own opinion about PHP.

Also I found the tutorial seriously lacking I mean no data.frames, matrices, vectors, tables or factors? How to iterate over data.frame might be the biggest thing a beginner needs to know before shooting themselves in the head. apply, lapply, sapply or vapply - which one do I need? Well IMO apply is the best one to start with as it's the basis of them all. sapply is almost the same but it just transforms the result into a vector or matrix.
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> Since Intel is hitting a wall on transistor size

Well everyone is running into these problems.

However Intel's historical process advantage is probably drawing to a close (or at least the gap between Intel's best and say, TSMC's best, will be a lot smaller). So it's all about the micro-architecture from here on out.
I'm not saying add any runtime checking, but if undefined behavior can be proven at compile time, then it should flag that instead of doing something weird.
The unfortunate reality is that most of the people who win the lottery of life, and luck their way into high levels of the financial industry are essentially untouchable.

Exhibit A:
https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/thains-regret-not-sh...

Reaches for bailouts with one hand, and then does million dollar refurbishments. Then cracks jokes about it later, after moving on to being a shill wasting space on Ubers board, essentially wasting the time and resources of Uber, by being a paid voice of Kalanick.

His decision to piss money so thoughtlessly, and get precisely nothing as punishment is depressing.

My friends from Eastern Europe share stories of outrageously corrupt politicians, that everyone knows is corrupt. I sometimes wonder, if many parts of the western world are really so different. Instead of politics, the corrupt parasites congregate at the head of large businesses. It does seem to work out better for them.
I find fish interesting, because I thought it is what I wanted (throwing away the pain of sh syntax), but now I just have to keep switching between sh and fish and I keep forgetting which is which. I have to write too many scripts for other people, and I can at best assume they have bash.

I've gone back to bash, might try out zsh.
Thanks, I'll check out that supplement.

I looked up the list of those drugs (-floxacins?) and I don't recall having taken one of those. I was actually prescribed Ciprofloxacin earlier this year, merely as a prophylactic after a very minor surgery, and after looking into it I decided to not fill the prescription.
Bitcoin is not a bubble, it's a pin.
I thought everyone was very respectful.
I just tried on firefox 57, it does take me back, strange
Sounds awful. I had a girlfriend who took Cipro repeatedly for urinary tract infections. Another, fibromyalgia - I wonder whether she had taken those drugs. Most likely.
Sorry, I was referring to the program as a whole. I get why it did the optimization for that one function in particular, but in this case, it can be proven that the function call will result in undefined behavior and (in my opinion, not necessarily the way the C standard works) it should be flagged or not compiled.
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Maybe thirty years ago, John Dvorak wrote a jocular piece about what we'd all be reading if personal computers hadn't taken off. Among his possibilities were "advances in rolodexes", as I recall.
> but I'm unsure that prison is an effective mechanism here (or for many other crimes, for that matter)

If you acknowledge that prison isn't an effective method for many other crimes, what's your specific point here, in relation to this case?

What puts this person apart from, say, someone in prison for taking drugs?

If we agree that prison is a giant waste of time, should we really be starting with white collar criminals?
I've attempted to address the documentation issue at https://rdrr.io

The test coverage issue is what originally prompted me to get involved -- I was evaluating different EM solvers and found a lot of crazy obvious bugs (parameters backwards or totally ignored). There's a lot of room for improvement on the quality front. MRAN and Tidyverse are thankfully making some headway.
It's almost like being inherently deflationary is a negative property for a currency to have...but that can't be true, because lots of cryptobugs have explained to me at great length why this is actually Good For Bitcoin.
One really underappreciated aspect of R is that it's a lisp at heart. This enables the user (and enterprising package writer) to build really clean abstractions for the task at hand.

The tidyverse suite of Hadley Wickham is a great example of this, notably with the pipe operator %>% (similar to |> in F#) which is not part of the base language and yet could be very easily implemented. Julia's macros probably enables the same type of implementation, but I don't see how one would achieve it as easily in Python for example. Non-standard evaluation is another example of R's lispiness in action [0].

Also, consider how easy it is to walk R's S-exp. Expressions in R can only be one of four things: an atomic value, a name, a call or a pairlist. Wickham's Advanced R has a great intro on this [1].

I believe Wickham's amazing work with tidyverse (which really changes the way you code in R) is just the beginning of a rediscovery of R's inner lisp power, a kind of "R: the good parts" moment.

[0] http://adv-r.had.co.nz/Computing-on-the-language.html

[1] http://adv-r.had.co.nz/Expressions.html
matplotlib makes fantastic plots, it's just not a very nice API.

Seaborn is quickly becoming my favourite and a bit more similar to ggplot in terms of scope.
Are you imagining Clang actually did detect it and merely didn't tell you? That seems possible but it seems more likely that it didn't.
Also one potentially extremely controversial question would be whether parents should be taxed for their offspring.
> Having been transferred back to Germany, he came to the United States for a vacation with his wife and was seized as he waited for a departing flight in Miami. Why he risked arrest by traveling to the United States remains a mystery.

Because he presumed that he was untouchable?
Maybe they want to have their enemy close. :D
I meant Pony[1] obviously

[1]https://www.ponylang.org/
Why not just write scripts in bash (or, hell, Python?) and use fish as your shell?
> I wonder how hedging transactions will affect the mechanics of the bitcoin market.

The bitcoin market is astonishingly shallow compared to most commodities and nearly unregulated, I assume hedge funds and other smart money can and will manipulate the price up and down to their own advantage.
can only install packages from the interpreter

Not completely sure this is what you mean, but you can certainly run install.packages("package") right in your code, doesn't have to be done interactively. Usually want to first check if it is already installed, like with require("package").
I made the huge mistake of not investing more when I first heard about it back in 2011... back then, investing a month of rent could have now made me rich forever.

Bitcoin has some serious problems to overcome as a real consumer currency, but it seems clear that some crypto-currency will eventually become ubiquitous.

As far as the speculation game, Bitcoin is just barely starting to reach consumer investors. Whether it's a bubble or not, I'm not sure, but it has a long way to go.
Unrelated to the content of the article, but I took two courses with the author. He had a style of teaching that often broadly related the material to seemingly unrelated topics in ways that made lectures fun and easy to remember. I think that style comes across in his writing here.
It's not hard. The problem is operation team rarely exercise failures. Configure a test HA cluster in lab, and test it. If it works, push it to production. The production system, should be continuously tested with real failures to see whether fail over mechanisms actually taking over the responsibility or not.

OF COURSE every thing is going to work in the lab, BUT MAY BE there is some other corner case in the production that you haven't considered yet. --- Louis C.K. after a sleepless night of switching primary DB to secondaries.
Shiny does use javascript; are you against the wrap?
And when bitcoin crashes, and the exchange "gets hacked", goes bankrupt, and the owners run away to some international destination, who do you claim your USD back from?
The big problem with java is that you don't have non-nullable versions for most types; in my mind, the biggest advantage of Option is the default implication that "everything that's not explicitly Optional is really non-optional". Alas, that's not true in Java - if you have a non-optional type, you can (almost) never be sure that the value is non-null. It feels like just adding Optional, they only did half of the job.
> For some uses, now your only option is to implement an Electron app.

No, there are plenty of options when doing native development.
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Which makes it likely that there is some kind of deal in the background between Schmidt and VW. After all his inside knowledge of the subject matter would be a very powerful weapon for the prosecutors and very dangerous for VW.
If you're unable to learn, you're basically not even human.

Perhaps you missed of a word at the end of the sentence? (Not that this makes it much better, but at least comprehensible)

... unable to learn Python?
Why would it be particularly easier to manipulate bitcoin pricing over other stocks/securities? Simply because the authorities don't understand it yet, or something to do with the nature of crypto-currency itself?
What's going to happen to the SSH app? It was awesome for when I didn't have access to a full-fat client.
I have seen HN crowd hating R very similar to hating js. While I'm not getting into those details, I'd like to list a few reasons why I like R:

- RStudio is simply great. I know Python has got Jupyter notebook but RStudio makes a good IDE for anyone (even beginners).

- Python is great because it's easier for beginners to start doing magick without getting frustrated hence a good beginners language and it is more appropriate for R because anyone who wants to begin with Data Analytics, R is a lot easier - without trying to figure out how to install a new package, load a new package, make a plot or anything of that matter. Hence the fall out rate would be less.

- Tidyverse. Without denial, it's a better Universe than Marvel's cinematic universe. Not a single day in my job goes without using dplyr.

- While I've quoted tidyverse in general, ggplot2 - embracing the grammar of graphics has set a very nice standard for visualization libraries which matplotlib (the goto library of Python doesn't offer much)

- Pandas is nothing but a library built on Numpy to offer R like data wrangling functions hence I'd like to consider dplyr and R's inbuilt data manipulation functions superior.

There is no doubt that Python has its own advantages with single library scikit-learn and webservices, R is no way to be hated.

Even millenial companies have found interest in R https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/using-r-packages-and-e...

Edit:

Missed RShiny to simply create a web app (unlike in Python starting a Flask server and then writing stuff on top of it)
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So where do those illegal guns come from? Santa? No. The legal gun market.
It wasn't working. At least on my device MS edge became super buggy and unusable whenever I went to maps.