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> As for complexity of some frameworks, that was:

> a.) Learning step with new tools available.

> b.) Result of people attempting much ambitions projects then before with zero experience.

Disagree. A lot of Java frameworks are genuinely complex because the language is too simplistic to implement them, so each framework ends up having to build what's effectively its own extension to the language. Even well-designed frameworks are like this. Jackson's module registry and annotation-mixin interfaces aren't there because Jackson's developers are inexperienced or overambitious, they're there because to implement a JSON serializer you need that kind of functionality and there's no sane way to implement it in the language proper. Likewise Spring's magical autowiring, or its bytecode-manipulation-generated magical proxies that are used to implement things like @Transactional. Likewise Jersey's resolution from annotation classes to .service files with magical filenames to find out how to serialize a given entity. And so on. The frameworks are complex because the problems they're solving are complex; simplifying the language beyond the point where it can express the complex problem doesn't make the problem any more complex.

> People always loved to hate Java. Nevertheless, it performs in environments where attempting to something else invariably fails.

I've had a great career replacing Java with Scala, where the language is powerful enough that you don't need any magical frameworks, only plain old libraries with plain old datatypes and functions. It's much nicer to work with.
>fancy

You don't need this part. Per the article, it is a brand the author knows and has used reliably in the past, and has some knowledge of - you don't need to belittle his choices as fanboyism.
Yet I don't have driver issues, codec issues, bluescreens anymore. I don't need to fail compiling a kernel. I can watch a movie without downloading it, I can store a high quality picture on a floppy disc, maybe two.

Computers entertainment has changed: the internet works (no more unsupported browsers), gaming works (rarely hard system requirements like specific video cards). Business works too (no more emailing spreadsheets, accounting software works, shared calendars)

Applications did one thing, they didn't always do it well.
Evolution acts on genetic diversity present in the population. The rate at which new genes (mutations) appear is basically a constant proportional to the population size (i.e. double the population and you double the rate new genes are formed). The rate at which new genes under positive selection spread through the population is approximantly equal to the log of the population size. This means it only taken 3x longer for a new gene to spread through a population of 100 million as it does to spread through a population of 1 million.

The end result is the bigger the population the more evolution even if in a static environment most of the evolution is invisible. Of course the environment of farmers is very different to hunter-gathers so there has been a large amount of visible evolution in the last 5000 years.
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I wouldn't worry about it. In your career, you're going to forget a ton of stuff (if you're not repeating the same project over and over again). That's just how it works.

The win is that someday you will end up needing either the stuff you learned or the math that you used, and you'll find out it's way easier (and more illuminating) learning it the second time around.
>> the development team has been largely disbanded

> Source?

https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/21/14037686/apple-macbook-m...

TL;DR :

> In another sign that the company has prioritized the iPhone, Apple re-organized its software engineering department so there's no longer a dedicated Mac operating system team. There is now just one team, and most of the engineers are iOS first, giving the people working on the iPhone and iPad more power.
They might have trouble selling their chips. They optimize far more towards performance over price than Qualcomm does. Apple can afford to do that, because of its high profit margins. Potential buyers probably couldn't afford that tradeoff.
So can regular RC copters if you fit them with appropriate electronics.
Hiw do you think DPI helps here?
I don't need to, I'm fully aware of the differences between Fraunhofer and the others (basically PPP, applied sciences etc.).

I simply posit that (software) patents actually aren't needed for that.
Or to be more specific: economic exploitation of their patents - nowadays, I could e.g. imagine them to offer their considerable patent pools for defensive purposes, to "disarm" patent minefields in problematic fields.
Of course, that would be a tightrope walk in regards to cooperation with private entities...
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Seattle's light rail isn't bad, but it's expanding slowly and has a long way to go before it even comes close to matching NYC's breadth of transit service, let alone someplace like Tokyo.

Investment in the NYC lines is continuous, and although much more could be done to upgrade switching infrastructure and renovate some aging stations and train cars, it's still a remarkable achievement.
This is exactly why I only ever test at the edges of a project, using mock systems that are as realistic as possible given time and resource constraints. The industry has an unhealthy obsession with ultrafast, ultra-unrealistic, low level unit tests that tightly couple to implementation details rather than behavior.

I don't think this is over-engineering though. Even if unit tests didn't warp designs they'd be a bad idea. I think it's just bad engineering based upon stupid dogma spread by the likes of J.D. Rainsberger and Uncle Bob.
Yeah, no thanks.
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Tim Cook supposedly confirmed that a new Mac mini is in the works by way of email:

> I'm glad you love the Mac mini. We love it too. Our customers have found so many creative and interesting uses for the Mac mini. While it is not time to share any details, we do plan for Mac mini to be an important part of our product line going forward.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/10/the-mac-mini-isnt-de...
:-) I know, but isn't it sad. I'm forced bu Apple to switch to another server OS if I want to keep using the 300TB SAS storage.
> In V8, the hash code is just a random number, independent of the object value. Therefore, we can’t recompute it, meaning we must store it.

That's the most interesting point in the entire article, and there's no explanation associated. Why are they using random numbers for the hash code?
This is a total nothingburger. He hasn't found any security vulnerabilities; Strava is working exactly as documented. And you could do the same thing in Garmin Connect (probably other athletic social networks as well).
That doesn't mean they were completely isolated once they arrived or that evolution stopped once they arrived.
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You can add Texas to that list. They're aggressively working on building high-speed rail. They will beat California to it and do it at a far cheaper cost. Once they build the first line from Dallas to Houston, I think it's extremely likely they'll continue building more lines between other major cities. You do Dallas to Austin & San Antonio. Then you look at Dallas to Oklahoma City. They'll show it works, that it's financially beneficial, and that it can be done within a reasonable cost.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/transportation/2018/01/29/te...

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/business/Dallas-Terminal-Renderi...
Oxford Nanopore is burning through at least $1 million a week of their investors income with virtually no sales to support their market valuation. Will they be the next Theranos?

https://www.jcapitalresearch.com/uploads/2/0/0/3/20032477/20...
totally, but then again you won't be able to transact with the EU, besides all the diplomatic aftermath.
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Haha! I may change that over the next weekend. Also, PRs are welcome :)
> It should be pretty obvious that trees can't reproduce anywhere near as quickly as we can pull them down.

Of course not, but they do reproduce and can do quite fast for animal propagated tree species. We are talking about 3.04 trillion trees. Even if the natural germination rates are low, it would still be significant enough to make a difference in the assertion this article uses as introduction.

Like I said, a lot of things have to be taken into account, including local deforestation and its effect on desertification. Higher averages temperatures are forcing forests to move to higher latitudes, but they are also clearing areas of growth that are not yet inhabited by humans and were far too cold before for trees to propagate to.

I'm not suggesting that there's not a problem with the way we use our forest resources, just that the oversimplification of the starting premise of the article doesn't help at all.
Selection pressure doesn't just mean people being killed by things. Some groups having significantly more surviving offspring is also a selective pressure.
Or be able to derive them. PID was never explicitly taught on my course, but all the theory behind it was.
Can I recommend the mini-series with Gerard Depardieu

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0167565/
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You've obviously never read any netbsd code. Fortunately, I have, and I can tell you: Cleaner design.
I think it’s because they don’t want to call a hash(v) function on a heterogeneous set of values.
Well, then you missed an important part.

The use of patents by Fraunhofer is to ensure that the research is actually real-world usable (and the government isn't just wasting their grants) and that it is worth it to the industry, while at the same time ensuring that the industry helps in funding the research that it will make profit fron
Exactly, frameworks and tools are resume driven, everyone is putting new ones as a means to sell themselves to companies, do conference talks, set up their consultancy, ....

And when they move along to the new shiny thingy, those tech stacks die unless they achieved momentum beyond the usual adoption curve.
You can still set up a site and not have to worry about much, as long as you're not processing other peoples personally identifiable information without their explicit consent.
I think the same thing. Abandoning servers as it's not their main product is fine, but what about all those developers who want to build a basic CI system? For Android it's simple - a bunch of cheap Dell servers with Linux or something. But iOS? Most teams are using Mac Minis as servers, but they haven't been updated in years and are dual-core only, so they're not great options.
I feel like there is or was an assumption they'd be able to improve their tech
Hi shabda. I've seen your version when I was searching if someone has done this before. And you are right, I did it in Javascript because I wanted to share it with the world more easily.
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How the Yakuza could threaten the Mafia is nowhere near as interesting as how the police should do away with both, for good.
What do you mean by "get in check"? It's pretty well accepted that we deal differently with different species. We'll need to decide what counts as ethically acceptable, but blind insistence that "all humans are created equal" isn't going to fly when we have undeniably different species of human.
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It would be good to have other sources for this claim.

Claiming something happened 100 years ago and hasn't surfaced till now is a tricky claim to substantiate, and certainly needs more than what this article presents which really amounts to not much more than hearsay.
Also wondering this. I found a comment on StackOverflow from 2015 [0] that might offer some insight:

> "It's probably worth mentioning that V8 goes to great lengths to avoid using a hash table for object properties whenever possible, preferring to compile known property references into direct index references rather than run-time hash lookups for performance reasons (though this is only possible sometimes - depends upon the code)."

Since this blog posts mentions they store the hash code as a property of the object, that might imply they are using "direct index references" instead of computing the hash at runtime.

It does seem like a couple layers of indirection, though. This is way outside my expertise, so I would love to hear some more comments on this.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/30695791/7252597
Totally agree, Nokia had it in its hand to create a third option. Nokia had lots of consumer good will, the N900 (and Maemo) was super well received specially by developers but it could even compete against Android for normal consumers as well.

They should have iterated on this with every flagship phone and push it to the cheaper phones as well.

I was so sad and angry when this never came together. They just spiraled out of control after that.
Sorry, read my edit. IMO it's an incredibly reductionist view that it's only worth something to the industry if someone can make (most of?) money via patents from it.

And another edit: One could argue that's a side effect from the modern anglo-american tradition of patenting (that has seemingly spilled over to continental europe) that almost completele ignores "Erfindungshöhe", stripping patents of their inherent technical merit leaving exploitability as the only measurement.
That's not entirely true and your analogy is not comparable. Person A makes a claim that X is good and everyone should be doing it. Person A does the opposite of X. That doesn't prove one way or the other the truth of the arguments but it does call into question what the goal is with the arguments. There could be many reasons for such a discrepancy but a common one is manipulation.

As an example, if a crypo currency executive says their coin is fantastic and everyone should invest in it, but sells their entire holding does one not question the goals of such a statement? Note: this example is also not directly applicable to this article (at least I hope it isn't) but it's closer than your example was.
I thought racism was defined as:

> prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.

I completely agree that when looking at differences among population groups in a species, one should avoid normative statements such as "such and such makes this population superior," but is there harm caused by identifying differences in averages, medians, and variance in said defined population groups? In other words, if I am speaking about dogs, is it inappropriate to say chihuahuas are on average smaller than boxers and labs? Same species, but distinct populations.

I think that is at the heart of it. To be "colorblind" to both the historical and modern claims of specific population superiority in one dimension or another is misguided-bad claims made in good faith should be addressed head on, in requests for citations, evidence, etc. Similarly, to identify where differences may occur seems to be a reasonable action so long as there is recognition to cultural or historical drivers too, as GP implicitly identifies with the optical adaptation mentioned (though, TBH, I have not read the study he or she proffers and thus have no insight to the claim).
Can anyone point to countries which are not going down this same route? In my head Europe is doing better with protecting privacy, but maybe that's just an impression. Canada? Not Australia. Japan?
There are still selection pressures, only they are more focused on sexual selection rather than survival selection.
There still remain advantages to being smart healthy and athletic. What has changed is the lower bound on these required for survival. What has happened to pressures on these required for reproduction seems like a much harder to judge question.

Certainly though, those with advantageous mutations seem to have a better chance of reproduction.
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Reforestation scenarios are always very rough terrain. Everything that isn't marketable, which is a lot, is left strewn about.
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Just today I was going to go skiing but my foot hurt so I'm home. Let's pretend it was something bigger and I've been home and being paid on an insurance claim. My family makes a new facebook post of last years trip with all of us in the photo and no description or anything. Carpe does the happy dance and sends it to Allstate. Allstate says we are not paying your claim and canceling your policy for fraud.

Now I have to prove the claim, can't get insurance cause I'm on a blacklist and hell knows what else due to an inaccurate photo scraped by a company without official access.

You don't see a problem with that?
I've taken to wearing shoes that I can slip on/off easily, and a carbon fiber belt buckle. Well worth it.
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If people are being physically abused then it is completely unreasonable.
Yes, soviet (actually Russian) atrocities were far worse, yet we have to struggle every day to put equals sign between NAZI and Soviets
The only market I can think of where higher prices wouldn't be as much of an issue is the server market. Imagine that. High density, Apple designed, ARM SOCs for servers. Or maybe they'll bring back Xserve.
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Maybe it's just the company's spin, but apparently they are not keeping up with the orders. Also, the technology is working, and it is working competetively well for certain applications.
That is pretty much country specific.

Been with the same employer for several years, jumping between web and native projects in all those years, across multiple clients.

Inflation was never a problem.
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Can you actually link to these resources?

Because people have been doing it since the 90s. Google use this on their Chromebook. Some of the people working on Coreboot, Heads, NERF have been doing it for a long time and they all seem to agree with each other.

Also, please tell me why the Linux kernel is so bad, but the BSDs are not? They are not that different and its hard to argue that they are much saver in terms of bugs (just look at the BSD talk at 34C3).

You actually clarified nothing in your post.
> Companies will slash their investments in video compression technologies. Thousands of jobs will go and millions of USD of funding to universities will be cut.

https://www.ted.com/talks/rob_reid_the_8_billion_ipod
Too expensive with the current nanopore technology.

And with any other technology, including a miniaturized PCR implementation, it would be too slow.
Right, but the point that Pinker is missing that we are what we are because people fought to get us here -- the very same kind of people he dismisses.

Just a nitpick: communism has certainly not been "legitimately bad" everywhere. In my country (Israel), we have practiced communism (on a local scale, in the Kibbutzim) for much longer than the USSR (over 100 years now), and it's a more extreme form of communism (makes the USSR seem like a capitalist country by comparison), and while it has certainly not been an unqualified success (especially the communal raising of children), and it is certainly crumbling now (due to powerful external and internal pressures), it has been the complete opposite of failure. It has been entirely democratic for 100 years (with problems, but not unlike in any democratic system), and one of Israel's proudest achievements. So communism was an overall great success in Israel for a century.
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SAS can be daisy chained.
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So you didn't read the last two sentences of what I wrote :)
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Stopping distances aren't about to magically improve in the next decade such that any vehicle can speed down the street at 200mph (or anywhere close to that) safely.

This whole scheme your dreaming up is just not realistic, the faster you go, the more dangerous a road is for everything else on it, from pedestrians and bikers to other cars sharing the road with you.

Making your car drive itself won't magically double road capacity either, as you'd need much more traction & better brakes to support tighter packing of cars in any vaguely safe manner.
>Let’s get on with it now. Let’s use this to help people. Or to give people purple skin.

IIRC, the skin whitening industry in Asia, which hawks products of very questionable efficacy, is worth tens of billions. I wonder how much a CRISPR solution would be worth, given that it has a better chance of working than snake oil in a soap.

Jokes aside, is it really as simple to administer as injecting one's self with a, as he calls it, plasmid?
Ah! So they're selling a service, not a tool.
99,99% accuracy is enough, especially if you need 30X coverage.

Also, the initial Human genome wasn't that good either...
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It's not clear to me what the semantics of Signed-off-by is supposed to be, but at least for some projects (e.g. the Linux kernel), it doesn't imply that you are a co-author.
That's like a question that might appear as a gag in a SNL final exams skit. I'm for the odd unconventional question that might not follow a premise that was well-established in class per se (used deliberately, and sparingly)...but not a question which can only result in confusion and frustration.
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i've never played the game, but if it's on mame, wouldn't a simple evolutionary search yield good results?
If I'm just serving cat pictures, then I agree. But as soon as money and/or PII is involved, then a different set of rules apply.
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