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You could also buy magazines with 1000's of lines of Basic code that required you to simply type it in and get it working.

So, programming learning methods were different.

First, you had to type in all that code, and inquiring minds would eventually wonder what each of those lines did. So you would learn something new with every month's magazine that arrived in the mail.

Second, you had to debug all that code you typed in, because no one can manually type in 1000's of lines of code copied from a magazine without errors.

it was a fun time to learn....
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How would you like the comment to be qualified? Most direct public confirmation I can think of would be the IG report regarding violations, I believe it was one of the Snowden documents, in which multiple people who tried to “test” search themselves or others and it failed to allow the query (They were disciplined either way, of course).

I don’t think there was a claim to the contrary, unless you’re thinking of targeted / secret FISA by FBI, which is a different issue yet a possibly valid point (due to lack of normal search warrant).
I have that "faint unease" too, i need to give it more importance.

In the beginning i learn to ignore it because the mentality of "moving fast and break things", and really worked because my tasks were fairly simple and it would have fewer critical points, but thinking now that is harmful when doing more complex things, i should slow down and trust in my 'feeling' more.
My elementary school kids are told about CodeMonkey in school, and they play with it a bit, but it is just so sad to see them exposed to coding in a task oriented, graded system, as opposed to the way I was introduced to coding in school, with Logo.
Burger King made a surprisingly good ad about net neutrality
You could change NSA to CIA and your comment would still be just as invalid. We aren't supposed to know much of the work they do. We know that ultimately their data helps law enforcement agencies do their jobs, and helps the DoD / Executive branch make more informed decisions about our adversaries. It is infinitely difficult to quantify the value provided by the NSA's international surveillance apparatus.
It's interesting AMD and Nvidia have no specific consumer GPU tech announced for 2018. It makes sense too.

AMD's cards are all sold out all the time - it seems they cannot produce enough to meet the market demand. There are rumors of them using a 12nm process better tailored for high power components like GPUs (their current 14nm process is apparently tailored for smartphone chips), but they don't need to. They will sell everything they can make anyway.

Nvidia basically also sells everything they have - Nvidia cards in general mine worse but are still profitable if you can't get AMD. Moreover, AMD is barely competitive with their current offerings (especially in performance per watt), so even without mining they have no compelling reason to start pushing new GPUs.

There's no incentive at the moment to release new GPUs. Hell, Nvidia and especially AMD could be wise to take some time and restrategize to specifically start catering to the new cryptocurrency market. Find ways to produce more rather than faster cards.

It's a stale market, and will likely continue to be so in the near future.
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> I would assume that a competent web developer should be capable of quickly learning a framework

Well, not that I disagree with you that a lot of employers are being awfully ridiculous when it comes to Angular background requirements, but... you're in for a shock if you try to pick up Angular quickly. Angular is more than a framework - or rather, Angular is a framework that depends on a sprawling ecosystem of other dependencies, each with its own idiosyncrasies. It's not just that Angular is a huge, complex, vast, partly undocumented framework that changes almost completely every few months (Angular 1 and Angular 2 are completely incompatible), but Angular is also heavily dependent on node.js and npm which are themselves pretty complex and prone to break in odd ways that Googling error message doesn't normally help much with. And that's assuming that you don't want to do any sort of unit testing, because the Karma/Jasmine/Protractor frameworks are themselves prone to unexpected breakage and version incompatibilities. But you'd better plan on doing a lot of unit testing, because debugger support is nonexistent too. This is all assuming you have a VERY good handle on HTML, CSS, and Javascript - don't even dream about trying to make sense out of Angular if you're not already an expert on all of those (especially Javascript, even though Angular doesn't use Javascript directly any more). I've been coding now for 25 years, and the only things I've seen come along that were as loved by executives and as fragmented and hard to troubleshoot have been Corba, EJB and Ruby on Rails... so I'm inclined to wonder if any time spent learning Angular will actually be well spent in the long term.
Yeah, but other currencies have minor units too, like pence and cents. If the issue is transaction times, then this is a really odd way of putting it.
Self discipline, inner peace and compartmentalize work and home. Still looking for a way to get them all I guess it's a long road ahead of me.
One of the best approaches, IMO, was Cringely teams' with multiple attempts.
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I had this problem with my similar script until I added 'sync; sleep 1; partprobe' after the writing the new partition information (before running e2fsck).
Not necessarily disagreeing but: facts? numbers? source?
How does it compares to other time series database? I mean, things like InfluxDB, Prometheus, Graphite, etc.
great info
Thanks for this. I was grinding my wheels much the same way, so hopefully this LWN article will clear things up for me.
Promiscuous vs. Monitoring mode
Can't downvote replies to ones own comment. Your comment was downvoted by others due to the "A lot of them get a big hit then disappear or become complacent in “news journalism”" remark and your accusing comment above is just inviting further downvoting.
The FSF announcement about it:

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/victory-for-libre-networ...

Look in particular at that cool video in it. Someone posts a video to Peertube, which gets federated to Mastodon. People comment on Mastodon and the comment gets federated back into Peertube. People reply on Peertube, and the comment goes back to Mastodon. Kinda nifty:

https://peertube.cpy.re/videos/watch/da2b08d4-a242-4170-b32a...

Btw, I have been greatly enjoying Mastodon. I'm @JordiGH@mathstodon.xyz in case anyone feels like chatting to me there.
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How about just show the whole thread? If it is a huge thread, so be it, we want to know.
I started at age 10 on a ZX81 when the only realistic way to code was in machine-code by typing in hex (it did have BASIC, but nobody used it because it was too slow)
The reason why I enjoy Tolkein so much is that I like the poetic, almost biblical prose. I know why it drives some people mad, but I really liked it.

I've never found anything that comes close to replicating it. I would love recommendations if people have them.
That only goes so far. One only has to look into "gutter oil"(1) to see that reputation is not always paramount in vendors' minds.

(1)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutter_oil

Also, the GI tracts of people in developed nations are more susceptible to some pathogens than people who have been exposed to those pathogens from an early age and have survived those pathogens in their foodsource.
I noticed that as well. It seems strange to me considering computers are a lot more accessible now. Back then there was no Internet, YouTube, blogs, etc, to learn. Just the occasional reference manual.
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>Things are just too easy for kids these days.

You can either have something be really difficult to learn, or you can have mass-market adoption. I'd wager that easier-to-use computers have a benefit that far outweighs any negative that comes from hiding the underlying code and commands.

I don't know how to fix the bus I'm riding on if it breaks down, but that's okay because most of the time it doesn't break down and if it does, there are other people who know how to fix it. And if I wanted to learn how to fix the bus... it's really easy to open my laptop and go to YouTube and watch a video on how a bus works.

There's no need to force me to build my own bus before I can ride on it. People who want to build buses will learn how to build buses. And people who want to build websites that teach you how to build a bus will learn how to build a website to teach people how to build a bus.

You don't need to force them to learn it. If they want to, they will.
Thrift stores. A metal pot. A tin can. Literally any heat-conducting container placed on a stove can be a kettle. This is a technology that likely predates the written word. I don't see it going away anytime soon. We have never needed the Internet to boil water. That isn't going to change.
That's a pathetic ad hominem strategy.

Your point is that there is no privacy so why bother, similar to the arguement that if you've nothing to hide you've nothing to worry about.

Sorry but, my dude, google, amazon, microsoft, apple, etc al, don't and won't get my business however much you think I'm wasting my time.
Good on them. Medium is Tumblr for people who are a bit too mature for purple hair and Steven Universe. The social currency earned through Medium can't be reliably exchanged for anything that matters.
If you bought a car in 1950 or a computer in 1980 you HAD to understand it if you wanted or not. That was a downside for many people but had the upside of bringing up people who knew how things work.

Most people don't care about learning how things work. Otherwise we'd all be engineers. And even among engineers there are only a few people who want to understand how things work.
> We’ll publish new content two weeks later to Medium (so the initial publishing of the content is able to get solidified as the primary source from an SEO standpoint).

Hrm interesting, but if it's the same content, won't Google rank the copy Medium very poorly?
I don't know the details of street rail - but I would say that if you wanted to, you could live anywhere between southtown and Alta Vista without a car, if you could also work there. And you can get across the city with Lyft and uber if you want to go elsewhere.

I won't argue with your qualms on local government.
Why are they "genuine successes", but only "alleged problems"? I think you're giving them credit for alleged successes and ignoring the genuine problems.
https://twitter.com/lightning/status/955920356052631552

I'll just keep sending these for you
How does it compare to other time series db? I've used influxdb, prometheus, graphite, Elasticsearch and even Splunk.

I mean in terms of complexity, manageability, performance, scalability...
How Google ranks the Medium post doesn't really matter in this case as that's not the point of it. Posting on Medium is about distribution to Medium readers.
I think the point was we're not talking about a "minor verbiage update." This isn't a wording correction on some TPS report fifty links deep within the Accessibility section. This is the public-facing expression of a major government agency's core values statement.
Aren't they just being honest by doing that?
10 PRINT “HELLO!”
20 GOTO 10

I’ll just leave that there for a bit more 80’s nostalgia.
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I caught the end of the brief period where people were more interested in programming itself, whereas now programming discord, even in hobby circles, seems to revolve around entrepreneurship and capitalism.
Are they? I "run" systems in my head all the time. I'm familiar with the code base, from that I'll know roughly where the bug is. I can tell you which function a bug will probably be in and how it's probably happening, just from having the symptoms described to me.

Hell, even when I'm not familiar I can guess what's happening based on past experience.

It's some sort of spatial ability, like navigating a map (though I recently found out I'm terrible at visualizing and almost completely lack a 'mind's eye'). I also find I rarely get lost in computer games and very rapidly learn FPS maps.

Maybe's it's one of those weird skills you don't even realise some of the population lack.

Personally I've always thought using traces are a massive crutch that are too expensive in cost vs benefit ratio, I don't get the point. Far too many extra lines of code for too little gain.
Man we are such cattle in this topic. If employees could publicly sell their stock, employees would share information constantly about things like this.

I cant imagine one measure increasing salaries and efficiency more than allowing employees to trade stock.
All of these social networking protocols feel like we're just re-inventing UUCP at a higher level.
You can't earn money by making things for people that have no money. We need to solve that first.
Dante especially, as it's packed with references to people who were famous/infamous in 13th century Italy, many of whose reputations didn't last 700 years. Without footnotes, none of those references get to add the color that they deserve.
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Wreck found by reporter may be the Clotilda, the last American slave ship
my thought exactly! At least add work of proof to fight with spam :)
I definitely agree. I'd much rather have my phone temporarily slow than reboot when I need it to stay working.
Totally agree. It can be summed up with something Larry Page said very early with Google.

He was asked about using AI to make search better and he responded that they are using search to make AI better.

It is the ultimate long game with many steps on getting there that might not make sense in issolation but all go together.
Health insurance rates have a number of factors to consider, the least of which is a flu vaccine given by your corner pharmacy by a Physician's Assistant.

Getting the flu, or having a more severe case of the flu increases your chances of 1) going to see a real doctor instead of a P.A 2) being mis-prescribed antibiotics 3) emergency room care 4) Torts originating from severe disease while in a Doctor's care
ثانيا:+العرب+بين+الشرق+الأوسط+الكبير+والشرق+الأوسط+الجديد:
I don’t think I know of windows users that use anything other than defender these days on their personal machines, but I (am forced to) use McAfee on my work machine. I suspect that the enterprise tooling is better for third party AV and that’s the only thing other than inertia keeping corporate desktops on those old AV products.
The game is pretty rigged in this regard, and investors are sophisticated enough to know how to maximize what they get at the cost of the common shares.
> There is no reason that I should have ever known that.

Take into account this is largely a cultural opinion. It is well know that in Norway, your salary and taxes are public. So you mosty know how much everyone is making.

It is possible that something unthinkable today is tomorrow cultural norm.
Pretty sure this is also in common-law countries: you cannot sell yourself into slavery even if you agree to with a contract.
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When personal computers was becoming commonplace and we kids were eager to learn all about them, I thought that, in the future, everyone would be computer literate, due to having had computers around already since childhood. Somehow, I overestimated people.
Keep in mind that a lot, if not all, of those countries exist under the umbrella of protection that the United States military provides, and thus do not have the same budgetary requirements for their own forces. Otherwise, time to start learning how to say "Please don't shoot" in Russian.

(edit: don't take the above as the complete-picture, by any means, it's just another rarely-mentioned factor that I wanted to bring up. I believe there's a sweet-spot to be found for taxation & social-programs that has a net-gain for society.)
I still remember programming in Basic in early to mid 80's. Making a maze program with warp holes was pretty cool

Today people would probably laugh at this, but it was fun for me and others in the class
I wonder how much blackmail material he was shown just before he dramatically reversed his opinion.

I am very cynical. But then a long chain of recorded history rewards my point of view.
This is a long-ish article, but there are a lot of interesting details. The pictures in the photo gallery are worth a look even if you're not motivated to read the entire article.
Sure but the 80s programming environments were useful. You could actually see your programs you made 10-11 years old used. For bookkeeping, or learning, or ...

No chance of that with Roblox and the like.
It's absolutely possible to use XMPP for microblogging, via the PubSub extension, which most servers support.

Check out Movim for an example: https://movim.eu/
I disagree. I trust my people. We all understand the idea that you get your work done. This gives them the flexibility to do what they need to do for their life. I have one guy that signs off a couple of hours a week during the fall to tend to his home/farm. I have another that takes time to make sure his girlfriend can make it to her Dr. appointment. These are also the people that I see working at midnight or such finishing things, because they realize at 8 p.m. they know how to fix something.

The key for us is communication. We make sure that each of us knows what the other is doing. Sure we have meetings every once in a while that we know we need to all meet, but for the most part we center our communication around ways to make sure that we can leave a message and they can get back to us when they can.
"Hey, we just robbed your country, take some pennies".

Employees wouldn't need that money if the tax cuts were spent on social programs.
The main implication of hyperconnectivity is the breakdown of physical borders as the most meaningful cultural boundaries. It has actually been happening for a while when you consider the rise of air power, ICBMs, broadcast communications, the internet, etc.

The Army is fundamentally a real estate focused organization - their role is to take and hold territory.

The Navy is about slow influence - control of the seas allows you can deploy and retract the threat of physical violence depending on the political situation.

The Air Force is about the ability to deliver devastating violence on space-age timelines. But they still require targets.

My cautiously optimistic view is that these forms of violence become far less relevant when geography is no longer the key dividing line in tribal affiliation. You will see a rise in low level violence, and that will be associated with a decline in the primacy of the nation state. But it will reduce the risk of globally devastating conflict.
He is asking, why didn't you build a columnar-store extension and just partition by time ? This way you also have columnar-storage features/customers.
Those are not the only two options. Maladaptive traits decrease the frequency of the carrying allele over time (as they hurt chances of survival+procreation), and even assuming that we're not catching a maladaptive trait in the process of being weeded out, its mere existence does not mean it's actually adpative, i.e., helping survival and procreation rates and increasing in frequency. Even assuming that the trait is mostly genetic, it can be neutral, it can be a common maladaptive mutation, and it can be a "net-positive" maladaptive side effect of an adaptive trait -- this is especially likely in a complex organ as the brain, which we know very little about. Assuming that a particular high-function brain behavior is adaptive just because it's there is therefore a stretch, even if it's reasonable to assume it's not severely maladaptive.
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When you import, you can choose a canonical source. So in Google's eyes, you're viewing it on Medium, but the "credit" goes to the original source.
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I applaud that. Medium makes it far harder to get a glimpse of the actual source of the article. Take this post, for example, HN lists (baremetrics.com) as the source. If it had been published on Medium it would have listed (medium.com) which is irrelevant.
People writing software are generally in the top 5% income level. Why do you feel that they are not being paid what they are worth?
Spot on re: currency exchange.
I've convinced that 95% if the "extension points" I've seen built into code over the years never get used to create extensions - usually because they have significant assumptions about what extensions would be required that turn out to be very wrong.
> Computing is simply so universal that today's children

> approach it with the same awe and wonder as you would

> electric lights or running water.

I think a better analog would (should?) be paper and writing, a medium not a tool (see Alan Kay). Just because pen and paper are ubiquitous and seem unremarkable (they are not, they are extremely remarkable and refined information processing/storage technologies!), doesn't mean they can't get used to create. And of course computers are used that way by a lot of people, but only in simulating old media. So in many ways "computing" is not universal. Tools built by computing and often simulating other tools are.
There is something, likely many things, in your life that you don't understand the details of, something that an expert in that subject may chastise you for not knowing. Something that you take for granted that it just works, and never stop to think about the logistics.

And that's fine. You have your specialty, they have theirs. And when you need help with it, you don't need to be an expert in the subject because you can hire one for a short period of time.

I'll be honest, I don't know how my furnace works. It just does. And when it doesn't, I call an expert to fix it. Because that's gas and fire and a whole lot of pipes and there's an air conditioner somewhere in the mix and I think that's a humidifier attached? Doesn't matter, I have more important things to think about and I don't want to break it even more (or worse, blow up my house). I'll let the expert handle it.
The other thing is enough bitcoin bros have made substantial coin from earlier investments, have sold off most of their holdings, and continue to evangelize BTC while they foray into altcoins.

And, I can't blame the people who fall for it. Its hard to argue with someone who cashed out $130,000 off a speculative investment.
I just use f.lux e mess all my calibration :-)

Another way to mess it is to buy a glass with "digital lenses" that will filter the blue spectrum.
It's somewhat reductive but still pretty accurate.
Exactly. Medium does what's best for Medium (which is reasonable). I want to do what's best for our business.
If only the Intercept would be honest and open about the Russia investigation we're facing in this country.
I think the man page¹ is the only readily available documentation.

>;word Write output to a temporary file. If the command
completes successfully rename it to word, otherwise,
delete the temporary file. >;word cannot be used
with the exec(2) built-in.

¹ e.g. https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ksh93&apropos=0&se...
The company's estimates and outside analyst's estimates are two different things. When they agree then I think the price gets reflected quickly, when they disagree it opens it up for more volatility.
I see this as just another way the administration wants to demoralize public service employees, and increase distrust by the public in those institutions.

Far more troubling than some values changes, is the administration wants to have a spy slush fund of its own that is not at all subject to Congressional oversight.
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