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I think it's better to only have one party fined over bribes, because then the other party can report the first one (kind of like it's happening with Apple and Qualcomm now).
I disagree completely. Why does it matter whether it's just correlation or causation?

Let's imagine that being black was actually what caused black people to commit more crimes and this was scientifically proven, how does this make it less bad to discriminate against some black guy who may or may not be a criminal?

From a business perspective, correlation is a good measure and making decisions based on it is perfectly fine (if the correlation is real).

From a moral perspective, it is not OK to discriminate based on correlation or causation.

The distinction between correlation and causation matters when you are attempting to affect the outcome. For example you can't cure someone's sickle cell anemia by painting them white.
At present time using separated user account gets very little from a security point of view judging by number of local privilege escalation bugs that are constantly found for common Linux setups.

In our case if the malicious code will run on those shared boxes, it implies either a bug in ssh or an Ubuntu software update bringing malicious code or an attack through a hacked computer of one of the users. In either case protecting other users from the effect of malicious code on those boxes will be the least of our worries. Yet the separated accounts do have substantial usability overhead.
I believe my #1 defense against mistakes is the faint unease in the back of my mind that arises when I don't completely understand the problem. If I become aware of this nagging doubt, and follow it, it leads to the part I don't completely understand, where mistakes are likely. You can spend quite a long time seemingly immersed in a problem space without really understanding all of it. I think I may unconsciously flinch away from specific areas I understand least, because it's more comfortable to re-analyze the parts I have a good grasp on. I find once I understand a problem well enough that I have any business checking in code, and there's none of that nagging unease, then it's usually mostly correct.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=3d%20fractal -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=935241 (Nov 2009)

But unless you read HN for 5+ years without creating an account, the exact discussion you recall may be some other search result there.

>mrob: the Wikipedia page is a better starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbulb

PS. Algolia seems a bit finicky, a couple of these were on the second page of results for the first search: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=3d%20fractal%20comments%3E0&so.... I always hate how they show different results for plurals, but this is a new problem I'll keep in mind (sort by popularity doesn't work?).
That's a great way of putting it!
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> tangible progress is happening.

It's just too bad that it's afterwards. I don't see why it was necessary to toss an old system before the new one is finished. It's not as if they can't coexist.

Sorry if this is a little harsh. The hard work is appreciated and as a developer myself, I know about technical debt and stuff. This is a huge project with loads of people to please. I just hope in the future we can build the new house before tearing down the old.
> I'd bet the testosterone doesn't help much, either :-)

Whoa there. Someone might infer from this that you believe men might generally make decisions / respond to situations differently than women with biological reasons being a contributing factor. That's a dangerous line of thought.
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Yeah, but I didn't write "Hetzner sucks because their disks are failing constantly".

One commenter wrote "Hetzner has an excellent reputation for rock-solid engineering" and as a counterpoint I wanted to tell my anecdote which opposes that "rock-solidness". So for that I get downvotes :)

In retrospect yes, I agree that we had to be prepared for such event, to have failovers and so on.
I don't sign them (in general), but my employer has agreements and I like my job enough to accept that secrecy and embargoes are on occasion a necessary evil.

In this case, however, it was handled horribly. During the embargo period, we kept telling Intel and AMD what they were doing wrong, and they wouldn't listen (or alternatively, they made clear enough that they wouldn't listen that we didn't even try). But really there's little more than I can do than hope that the next time they listen to us.
Isn't any competitive offer intended so the customer shuns the rivals?
What is 3rd party and how to visit it if you haven't been on First?
Everyone makes mistakes, the trick is catching them before you release to QA. In your math example, you should have some sort of test harness that tests your method against known inputs and outputs. It can be as simple as a throwaway console app.
Well, where I live that is not allowed by law. You must have an insurance and if you don't you will get an expensive one automatically to protect others.
The second problem is that if somebody causes an accident for me, that person needs to be able to pay. Without an insurance what's ensuring me that there's money on the other end? The only viable alternative to monthly payments is to have a big sum up front or the safety to take a loan if something should happen.
Ability to gather requirements, and then prioritize: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/12/20/the-best-technology/
1. run the code through a debugger as soon as you finish it;

2. run the code and purposely try to break it with all the edge cases you can think of;

3. run the code as if you are an end user who knows absolutely nothing about it;

4. have your colleagues try to break your code before you commit it.

https://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/On+the+Quality+Deat...

https://davepacheco.github.io/se411/release/fcs-quality-all-...
That presumes that people setting up "safe" spaces to police speech aren't jerks. Many people would disagree.
I have never seen better conversation come from Disqus than from originally hosted, or even "let's do this on Twitter?" comments. I have never seen value in such a centralised comment-tracking system.
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For me the most important part of reviewing any nontrivial changes it actually check out the branch and test every change I see. This keeps a lot of issues from reaching the QA team and catches issues they could have missed since they don't actually go through the code.
As if "core values" meant anything for colossal organisations.
In the beginning of this piece I couldn’t figure out who the author was referring to as Google “customers”: Google users or advertisers? If users, this Google employee didn’t know who the customer was!

Then when the author revealed the innovative business they were most excited about, it was pretty difficult to process. Really? This is the exciting innovation you want in life? Take out delivery?

Every day I have to remind myself everyone is different.
So he complained about Google just copying, and then boasts this new company is going to be "the Uber of South East Asia"? This is in all seriousness the 5th startup I've heard of that is doing this exact thing. And like everyone else here pointed out: the demand doesn't exist.

The only explanation is that if they really worked at Google for 13 years, they must have made so much money that they don't care about making good financial decisions anymore.
> 3. It's hard to trust someone's public code. It's trivial to clone a few open projects and take credit for the work, and a hiring manager doesn't have the time to dig in to everyone's projects to see if they've ripped the work off from somewhere.

A public code repo is more than just code.

* It's documentation

Is there a decent README or other background info on how to get setup? Sample data? Tests?

* It's activity

Was this a fork with one patch and nothing since then? Or is it a long-term project with regular/periodic activity?

* It's community

Is this project getting bug reports, feature requests? How is the owner dealing with them? Ignoring them? Being rude? Actively engaging? Delegating? Honestly admitting they don't have the time and asking for help?

There's a whole mess you can judge about someone that goes beyond "code" when looking at a repo. I know someone who was hired at a company a couple years back who was brought in because of a friendship but the "github" profile was referenced as justification. "This person has a lot of projects and stars - they're definitely active!". The person had starred other projects, and had cloned about 40 repos, and made (trivial) changes in about 5 of them. They had no original code. The person had been brought in to lead a team of about 6 developers, and left within 2 months because they had no experience working with actual production code or working with people on a team. That was quite apparent from their github profile.
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Ironically taking a step towards 'honesty'.
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Well to be fair to Bugs Bunny, he is a prey animal trying to avoid being killed. One might say that people just prefer underdogs winning.
Well, they weren't using them anyway.
One last time.

> Since at least May 2016, the surveillance agency had featured honesty as the first of four “core values” listed on NSA.gov, alongside “respect for the law,” “integrity,” and “transparency.” The agency vowed on the site to “be truthful with each other.”

Also, I'm thinking they should probably remove all of these, if they were truly honest with us. Respect for the law? Come on. They've been constantly misinterpreting what the surveillance laws actually allow them to do. And there's certainly no respect for the Constitution, because I don't think the Fourth Amendment means much to them anymore - even to the FBI, considering they can now get Americans's communications content without a warrant.
Hands down the best book. Plus the authors are really nice guys!
http://www.growing-object-oriented-software.com
It works out well for Apple, to be honest. The contact parts that them lock-in in to only one vendor just got nullified. They can now source parts from other vendors if they do choose - something tells me the ramifications of this for Qualcomm are worse than just st the fine... Apple can now do some hard nosed negotiating to reduce the price they pay for Qualcomm goods.
> Not the country's problem.

The country decides what the country's problems are and are not. DACA has widespread public support - 83% of voters support a pathway to citizenship, according a to a poll by Fox News (of all places):

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/09/28/fox-news-poll-83-...

So it's safe to say the country considers it a problem, and a solvable one at that. You don't need to use wholly inaccurate analogies when people already understand the issue.
I understand. When we have access to so many people and views, I don't think we're evolved enough to process it, so we have to guard ourselves against looking at each other as demons - while also protecting ourselves from those of us who are dangerous. It's not easy to navigate, and most people can't.
CSDB is for Spectre variant 1. The post is about variant 2.
Well, you could also see it like, somebody not interested in switching to better alternatives, even after 20 years.

Say, driving a 20 year old car even though there are safer alternatives available.
Find a good recruiter.

Make a practice of taking the occasional personal day / mental health day even when happily employed and not looking.
Gary Klein wrote a great book about how to learn from experience, based on research in naturalistic decision making, kinda stuff firefighters and NICU nurses do, but also e.g. design engineers for many decisions (https://www.amazon.com/Power-Intuition-Feelings-Better-Decis...).

His advice for learning from mistakes is basically to look for the cues or patterns you missed that caused your mistake. That way you find the hints that would've helped you catch it in time.

I've been doing this myself, and writing up results in a weekly email (https://codewithoutrules.com/softwareclown/) and it really improves how much I learn from mistakes. As in, I go from "well that was stupid of me" to "ohhhhh, I should've noticed that."

Example: early in career I submitted code with bad variable names (foo, bar) to customer who requested I write a library. She pointed that out as bad practice, I was super embarrassed over my bad code. My takeaway in one of initial emails was obvious one of "write readable code."

But later I revisited using the cues/patterns approach, and realized deeper mistake was not listening to what she wanted—in this case, source code. If deliverable wasn't source code then variable names wouldn't have mattered and it would've been fine.
Try this: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/opensuse-leap-42/9nj...

Its for OpenSUSE instead of Ubuntu because I like OpenSUSE more especially comparing apt-get syntax to zypper.

zypper refresh actually refreshes the repos and not apt-get update that doesn't update anything

zypper update actually updates the packages and not apt-get upgrade

zypper dist-upgrade moves from one release to the next as opposed to apt full-upgrade because apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't remove programs with a conflict. UGH!!!!!

zypper search actually searches for packages as opposed to apt-cache search

/rant over

WHY did chocolatey go with the debian apt-get syntax :(
I use both Lightroom and Darktable regularly.

While DT has a bit more bumpy UX, it makes up for that by being more flexible than LR and really fast on Linux with a good GPU with OpenCL support.
And there is nothing that LR can do that DT can't.

I.e. you don't need to shell out 6k for new box to make LR run fast. Just bite the bullet and learn another RAW editing app.

If you have thousands (or ten thousands, in my case) worth of RAWs processed in LR, just keep editing them in LR if you still have to.
I often hear this as a reason why people don't want to switch.

I switched to DT in 2011. Everything before is LR. I use LR when I get images from friends who use LR and want me to do some advanced stuff for them or when I have to touch one of my pre-2011 RAWs. It is always slow on the same machine, compared to DT, but it's quite ok if you use it occasionally. :)
I often don't go to a bed for a few more hours because I don't want to lose the optimistic productivity I can get. In the morning I generally feel like shit the first X hours. So I try to have fewer but longer sleeping sessions.

Which I realize only works because I am self employed.
> But on the other hand, why would you not take the deal?

Because it's literally and trivially illegal?
How to make <i>fewer</i> mistakes.
The ability to run entirely different operating systems from the host, for one thing.
Most probably, they could ban Qualcomm-based deviced from the EU market, which was 17% of the iPhone market in 2017.
the job isn't just about the candidate - it's also about the existing team, and the pairing together provides data points for both parties as to how they'd work together, regardless of the task at hand.
> We have repositories for the PHP backend, our database schemas, our iOS (Swift/Obj-C) and Android (Java/Kotlin) mobile apps, infrastructure projects written in Go, C/C++, Lua, Ruby, Perl, and many other projects written in Scala, Node.js, Python, and more

Why do organizations allow this? I realize that some platforms require their own languages (iOS, Android), but outside of that, just pick one or two and hold the line.
How does a user decide which third-party to trust for code verification?

E.g. do all/some “certified bodies” accept financial liability if their verification is later found to be incomplete? Since Spectre/Meltdown were not widely known, what happens if previously-certified code was exploiting this vulnerability?
Unless your current reviews are really superficial probably not. You can only review at your level of understanding, so if they're asking for more depth to your code reviews you probably need to develop a deeper understanding of the architecture and design of your codebase. A checklist would do the opposite of that in most cases.
"The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless." - Steven Weinberg.

Part of feels like, so what? If we figured out a mathematical model that described the phenomenon, what then?
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Yes, but how did you do that?
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If you're an awful company, you surely need to make sure that your data is more accurate than the competition. It's like running an awful store, it's doable with prices low enough.
"The only explanation is that if they really worked at Google for 13 years"

Just FYI, he's a pretty famous blogger. He also accidentally posted a supposed-to-be-private rant about Google a few years ago, which became pretty famous too.

So yes, he really did work at Google for 13 years.
I actually think getting a job delivering food can be a local maxima - you make a few extra bucks, but it ties up all your time and leaves you less open to opportunities and training.
That makes the assumption that you have modelled all the variables that make up the solution space. For the example the real, underlying reason might be poverty. So while for the purposes of the application the solution might be "good enough" but in the broader context (society) there are going to be serious consequences.
welcome to the collusion club. don't worry you'll never get the right to vote on anything. so even if you did get any kind of weird deal they'll just "fix" it in the next round, or your company goes up in flames.
Do any of these options provide a way to import existing site comments from Disqus? That's my main hesitation with replacement because I don't want to lose previously good discussions.
What's the point of having an app if you already have a website
I've been looking for a new fiction series to read, and you sold me. Thanks!

EDIT
And to add, I know this is an older series but I tend to read more science part of fiction and less fantasy.
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That's kind of the whole point of science. We can't know "what then" until we understand why.
What do you mean by

> ..a software industry ( which based on profit margins is a toddler )

I thought software has higher margins than most industries.
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might you be thinking of Florent and Lenka Krzakalas research?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0N6mn9L-GA&list=PLvKBgJ4p0p...
2016 MBP with touchbar reporting in. I have the 13” model without a dedicated graphics card, and I made the mistake of getting an external 4K display. The laptop can use the display, but everything is remarkably sluggish for a computer I paid $3000aud for. Especially safari with a few tabs open. The most embarrassing part is that I sort of got used to it and stopped noticing, until I spent time on my Windows gaming pc. The difference is night and day.

I’ve recently ordered an external thunderbolt GPU enclosure, and I’m hoping I can solve the performance issue that way. But in the long run ... I’m not really sure what I want to run on my next computer. To be honest all the answers seem a bit bad. Macs are overpriced and underpowered. Linux on a laptop still seems like an endless stupid time hole - I had the Ubuntu installer reliably kernel panic on me the other day. And windows ... does windows support smooth scroll yet? Can you turn off the telemetary and pre-installed games in the start menu? Will I be able to install and try out the database or exotic programming language of the week on Windows, or will it be more fighting?

Is it just me or did computers stop feeling better with each generation? When did we lose our way?
the price is not the only factor that matters in a buying decision.

It can be. What if Qualcomm gives discount only if Apple buy as many as it need which is fairly predictable. Then Apple would have enough supply and wont need to look for another supplier.
There is no such requirement in EU anti-trust law. Any deal that restricts the freedom of contract with a third party is illegal.
> The issue here is the phrase "fair share" - why is it a fair share? Because women get into fewer accidents? Cool, what if we get out of the statistical data that black people have more accidents(this is just an example, I don't know if they really do)?

Because actuarial tables say so. Insurance companies that decided it did not matter folded or changed their opinion after the losses
I think it's worth noting that this isn't actually emulating a Raspberry Pi. The option "-M versatilepb" to QEMU tells it to emulate a VersatilePB, which is an Arm development board that's now a decade or more old. It happens that this can be set up to use an ARM1176 CPU, which is the same as the one in the RPi. So you can run a kernel built for the VersatilePB on a VersatilePB model, and use the same userspace/filesystem as the RPi, provided that your userspace doesn't rely on any particular characteristics of the rpi hardware beyond the CPU type. Luckily for most uses that's close enough...
Just as perspective. Any sport gets me to a high that ends with a crash. Just like with coffiene for example. Personally it makes things worse for me.

Also i usually recommend sativa and to stay away from indica. Sativa turns my depression into productivity, indica into a careless couch potato (which may is what you want tho)
I've never seen a project where you go back to fix something just because its implementation is not ideal. If it works it stays, because there is always something more important to do.
I can do all that, but no one would want to pay what I'd charge for all that.
Might I guess that you are avid gamer or was one before? Since I had exactly same feeling when I read Mistborn and didn't find agreement on it with some people who are far more into books rather than games. Though I didn't have same problem with any other books probably because they have less action scenes.

All his magic systems have well defined mechanics and strict rules behind them so it's kind a expected and I feel like somebody who used to play a lot of games see through it more easily. Whatever it's good or bad depend on your own preferences in fantasy.

Personally I see this as a good thing since opposite would be ever repeating contrived coincidence of just-one-another arcane trick rediscovery. Probably these limits on what magic can or cannot do is one of things that make him improve his writing.
I add it to my list, thanks!
High profit margins imply very immature industry. As industries mature the profit margins drop.
Look at your intermediate steps, and ask "Does this look like the right answer?" at each point.

Nobody's memory is perfect - so it becomes a question of "How can I tell if I'm going down the right route, and how can I test to spot the mistakes I know I'm going to make?"
There are some, but you're right, it could be a pretty small minority. I haven't gone through them exhaustively to check.
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I guess at the time of building this PC, iMac Pro stil wasn't announced.
It would be great to hear what author thinks now about iMac Pro.
I absolutely disagree. Printing might take longer than sanding and drilling, but: I can model it in code, I can make sub-scale proofs of concept, and when it comes to actually making the real thing, I can throw it on the printer and go do something else. While your wife is yelling that you're still in the garage making noise and sawdust at 8:00 PM, my wife and I will be on the deck eating barbecue and sipping a margarita. :)
In the past they have upped the fine significantly. And of course they have the power to disallow Qualcomm products in the EU.