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Man, I miss Windows Phone all the time. If you could have run WP8 on the Lumia 800 I feel like I might still be rocking it today.

I used an HD7 for years, as well as a 925, because it always felt snappy and "brand new".

I fired up my 925 a few days ago and it still feels fresh, quick, and gorgeous.
Microsoft is not good at keeping promises.

Google + HMD Global seems more credible combination.
What kinds of projects are you taking on in the land of electronics? I find this area very interesting, but can't seem to figure out how you can make a living on it....
For perspective. Apple shipped 77.3 million smartphones in Q4 2017. Samsung shipped 74.1 million. Huawei shipped 41.0 million. Xiaomi shipped 28.1 million. OPPO shipped 27.4 million. And everyone outside the top 5 shipped 151.3 million. So these figures mean that Nokia shipped roughly 3% of the not-top-five-brands in Q4.

https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS43548018
I had a lot of 'fun' trying to get a ZFS root on ubuntu a couple months ago.

Not my brightest idea.

Ended up having a small XFS root partition and putting everything else on ZFS. Works great, but I don't look forward to the day when my root filesystem fails.
I recently had an idea for doing something like this with encoded/somehow transformed/encrypted natural language documents—anyone know if such things already exist?
> For what it's worth, Windows Phone was actually an amazing platform for both users and developers, and shows a fundamental rule of technology: There Is No Third Ecosystem

I don't think this is fundamental. Microsoft really dropped the ball on Windows 10 Mobile. Building a third ecosystem is very hard, and it's a long term commitment. Microsoft had made good inroads on cheap phones with reasonable performance, and they didn't follow through with that for W10M; instead they were focusing on flagship phones. Flagship phone buyers are a lot more discriminating about everything including OS polish, app marketplace, and upgrade experience (edit to add, and a browser that doesn't suck).
This seems realistic and fair: a goal tied to the percentage of women in CS and a clear cap on duration from the outset.
Some people just desperately want to be angry over something.
In addition, there is a new Hardcore History episode titled "Painfotainment". It's the only episode, to my knowledge, that comes with a "viewer discretion is advised" warning at the beginning.
France to retaliate to cyberattacks with cyber and conventional responses?
Yep, works now. Thanks!
The AMD Epyc 7401P you’re using has 128 PCIe 3.0 lanes, which can provide way more bandwidth than the 4Gbps figure you’re getting (8 Gbps per lane, so 1024 Gbps on paper). The AMD Epyc platform has been benchmarked at 57 GBps (bytes, not bits) of random storage bandwidth: http://www.legitreviews.com/one-amd-epyc-processor-reaches-5...

There’s simply no way a PCIe x4 NIC is going to be able to compete with the bandwidth available within that server.
He's already answered but just in case we have any other Aussie's reading, we actually have a system that lets you do that called NEIS.

You have to do a short business course—From memory it was one hour a week for 10 weeks or something like that—and then you can collect unemployment while working on your startup for I think a year.

The bar to get in is pretty low. I'm sure that a lot of my class/group were intentionally unemployed and just looking for an easier alternative to pretending to look for work, and they didn't get kicked out. That said the metrics they were tracking to make sure you were progressing were more regular small business focused rather than trying to create the next Google focused. Revenue, customers, etc. That fit what I was doing but might not for you the reader.
' and now it's not that good (to bad either)'

looks like a few other skills have depreciated too
while that is very true, but what guarantees do I have that the people winning it publicly aren't actors, friends/family of lottery workers, etc.?

If I'm willing to pony up money at absurd odds for a chance to win a larger stack of money, honestly, I don't know how much private/public disclosure of winner is going to affect that. People go to casinos to gamble where the games are inherently stacked against you yet continue to do so.

I just think it is a concern for transparency that need not be there, honestly. Obviously, that's just an individual's opinion, but I don't think it benefits to the degree is assumed. There are some states in which you can win anonymously, and their lotteries are doing fine.
To quote the ornery David Bentley Hart, “Journalism is the art of translating abysmal ignorance into execrable prose.” I find it odd that Scott holds the Pravda on the Potomac in such high esteem [0], though I have no personal animus toward Vivek, only the usual confusion about why journalists insist on expounding on topics they have no basic comprehension of. The mass media must always be read in the same spirit one might read a less vulgar version of the National Inquirer. In this regard, Vivek’s article does not depart in terms of quality from the standard fare of popular science books and magazines.

[0] Crichton’s “Gell-Mann Amnesia” quote is fantastically apropos in this regard, and certain kinds of specialists ought to recall it so that it might temper snobbery and inspire a more charitable response. I can’t tell you how often specialists, often competent in their own narrow areas of expertise, produce some of the most absurd and ignorant nonsense ever put to paper when they falsely presume to have anything of value to say about topics outside of their fields.
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If the answer is "yes," it changes my belief in the narrative told in the Glasgow post, that everyone was okay with it and the only people who have problems are present-day outsiders trying to retrofit an agenda where it didn't fit. (In particular, it changes my opinion of the outsiders - if they were observing an actual problem that other people weren't noticing, and it holds up to scrutiny, that's now a credit to them.)

If the answer is "no," that changes my belief about whether today's cultural norms against sexist workplaces are an objective good.

(Both of these changes would be small but measurable updates.)
Too bad onions was compromised by the NSA. that makes speaking up against the Bad Guys a bit more dangerous.

Admittedly there is a high chance that the Italian high brass has NO finger on the American high brass, however as long as there is no certainty it's a safety risk.
Would be nice to have this articled updated for 2018. The new title could read "We took a hacker to the same public WiFi Café" and see what has changed in the last 4 years. I'll bet not much.
The problem is that it isn't upstream, so having it as a rootfs is somewhat dangerous - you need a custom initramfs).
Some are working on it: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/openzfs-raid-z-online...
It is very unusual for companies in the US to cite any reason for turning down. It doesn't really help them, and while it might be nice and help the rejected candidate, the probability that said candidate will believe he was wrongly turned down and file a lawsuit is just too high for comfort.
Yes, it is easier to build a TODO-list app today than ever before.

No it is not significantly easier to build a fully-fledged software business.

What is expected and required has also scaled up immensely. You can't just drop a Java SWING GUI on a simple tool and put it on a website with a PayPal link and wait for search to bring you business anymore.
It sounds like they need to issue smaller releases, more frequently.
Too bad Firefox was not available.... I was pretty happy with mine anyways...
Oh, right. To my defense, I feel like NSN always has been bit distanced from Nokia proper
Oh sorry, I wasn't clear about that. I run it first where every possible module is built 'M', and then once the system boots up, run lsmod to see which modules are loaded.

Then, I take that list of modules and set them to "Y", and disable everything else. That way, needed libraries are statically linked and unneeded libraries aren't built at all.
It's not just grocery stores, it's a lot of retail. Manufacturers of some products literally rent shelf space and provide the product for those shelves. The store doesn't own the product, the manufacturer does. The store just takes a cut of the sale price, provides checkout services, space, attracts customers, etc.

One of the most obvious places this happens is at Home Depot. The tools department is almost entirely manufacturer-rented. If you buy a drill or such and take it apart you'll find that the anti-theft magnetostrictive tag is actually inside the tool, not just stuck on the box!
> I am in my mid-30s and that describes every single anime or cartoon I watched.

Not relevant unless your parents were showing you that before age 2.
As someone who teaches Intro level students it can actually be a bit more difficult to get started. Not always (there's stuff like LightBot, Scratch, and Alice), but it used to be that HTML + JavaScript was a pretty good way to start.

Nowadays, programming for the web can involve:

* HTML

* CSS

* JavaScript, client-side

* JS framework(s)

* server-side language (possibly JS / Node)

* SQL

What's really messed up is you can choose PHP for the server-side (say) and end up with a single file that contains _all_of_those_languages_.

(Yes, you don't need to use them all at once, but even if you do the classic HTML+JS w/ document.write()'s your students are going to push you for the cool stuff they actually see 'in the wild')

This is not to say that you can't get started (and there's a lot of material out there to help motivated people) but depending on where you start the stuff you need to learn can be surprisingly voluminous.
I've seriously thought about buying an N9 again just so I can whip it out every now and then to show to folks for how far ahead of it's time it was.
You're not going to double your money, so cool it. Let me say that again. You're not going to double your money, so cool it.

My dad grew up in the Great Depression. He used to say "The best way to double your money is fold it in half and stick it in your pocket."
I'm no fan of MySQL either, but probably because they were already using MySQL and they had some Business questions they wanted answered Intelligently without setting up a bunch of new infrastructure. Sometimes at a startup you just need to get things done, and fix it later when (if) it becomes a pain point.
Yes, and one should recall that Android is just a Linux usermode abstraction layer. You can have Android apps within a traditional Linux distro, and Sailfish are already doing that. My understanding is it can be technically made work pretty flawlessly, but bundling the proprietary Google Play libraries is a legal hurdle. So you are stuck with an Amazon Fire OS type "Android-clone".
That’s a great deal, although so is the White House—only $21 million! (https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/1600-Pennsylvania-Ave-N...)

Zillow has it at around $400 million, which seems at least closer (although probably still too low.)
There's some ZFS whitepapers that explain the data structures in a code-free way ;)

Not to mention the GRUB driver. It's GPLv3 but I wouldn't be surprised if the GRUB project is willing to relicense it for a Linux kernel port.
I think you misunderstand my question. There are no new nexuses to update to and probably never will be. I'm still enjoying my 6P.

My question is, why should the next one be a Nokia? Is it just the stock Android and fast updates (which is why I always went Nexus, along with price), or is there another compelling reason?
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If my favorite services are not sustainable in a subscription model then I would rather they die off until someone more innovative finds a way to make it work without advertising.
My prognosis as bit of an insider popping in and out of Shenzhen.

All guns are pointed at _memory_

Memory is an uncompetitive industry, a cash cow unseen in history, comparable only to oil. The SEL empire is built not on top of galaxy notes, but on a pile of memory chips.

The easiest way to get an order of magnitude improvement right away is to put more memory on die and closer to execution units and eliminate the I/O bottleneck, but no mem co. will sell you the memory secret sauce.

Not only that memory is made on proprietary equipment, but decades of research were made entirely behind closed doors of Hynix/SEL/Micron triopoly hydra, unlike in the wider semi community where even Intel's process gets leaks out a bit in their research papers.

SEL makes a lot of money not only selling you the well known rectangular pieces, but also effectively forces all top tier players buying their fancy interface IP if they want to jump on the bandwagon of the next DDR generation earlier than others: https://www.design-reuse.com/samsung/ddr-phy-c-342/ . This makes them want to keep the memory chip a separate piece even more.

Many companies tried to break the cabal, or workaround them, but with no results. Even Apple's only way around this was just to put a whopping 13 megs of SRAM on die.

Changing the classical Von Neuman style CPU for GPU or the trendy neural net streaming processor changes little when it comes to _hardware getting progressively worse_ at running synchronous algorithms because of memory starvation.

You see, the first gen Google TPU is rumored to have the severest memory starvation problem, as do embedded GPUs without steroid pumped memory busses of gaming grade hardware.

When PS3 came out, outstanding benchmark results on typical PC benchmark tasks were wrongly attributed to it having 8 dsp cores, while they were not used in any way. It was all due to it reverting back to more skinny, and synchronous operation friendlier memory. The amazing SPU performance was all thanks to that too. DSP style loads benefitted enormously from nearly synchronous memory behaviour.
Even if you believe the NSA have some practical attacks against Tor, are you not still better off using Tor than not using it?
If Nokia could come up with a flagship competitor to Samsung s9 I would switch over in a heartbeat.
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Yes, if by "connected to a VPN" you mean two things:

1. You are connected to a trusted network via a VPN protocol. A trusted network might be your home network, a network you operate at a data center, or a network you operate at a cloud provider such as AWS or Azure.

2. You are not using split-tunneling, which is surprisingly common with some VPN clients. Split-tunneling will only send traffic destined for the remote network's address space to the VPN endpoint, sending all other traffic to the local network's gateway (in this case, the rogue router). You will want to disable split-tunneling in order to send all traffic to the VPN endpoint.

It has become popular to refer to connecting to a third-party proxy service that uses VPN protocols as "connecting to a VPN," but if you do that, you are putting your trust in a third-party vendor of proxy services. IMO it's superior to just operate your own private network using a more trustworthy data center or cloud provider.
You are right. In my head, Mobi files were always downloaded from Amazon (and here, they always come with a DRM, right?).
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It's one thing to hire. Let's check back in three years and see how many have stuck around.
Exactly. Most of these read as "I went into a different specialization of the same field".

Where is the engineer that just chucked it all and opened a donut shop? That's the level I want to know about. Most of these are just stories of people making lateral moves in the same industry.
Modify itself? OK, I will grant you that there are no sentient, self-aware steam engines.
TDWTF started modifying their stories significantly to avoid people getting in trouble due to telling the stories. Sadly this was used as an opportunity to significantly embellish the stories to the extent that often the major weird thing told about is all made up.
Opposite side of the argument - why would this overlooked talent bother to work for someone else (and luck out, or not)?

Also, you may hire based on talent, but still at a discount. Just because you can, and it is profit maximizing!

Personally, I'd rather keep the profits of my extra productivity for myself.
> Don’t hire someone to do something you’ve not yet figured out

Hum. I would say the reverse. Bring people that are smarter and know more than you.
better off staying silent
>Too bad onions was compromised by the NSA. that makes speaking up against the Bad Guys a bit more dangerous.

Any references you would want to provide for this claim?
The Greeks and Makedonians were renowned for their membership in NAMBLA.

Women in the Middle East are "honor killed" after they are raped. The god of the Israelites explicitly permits the Israelites to kill their own children if they are disobedient.
I'm surprised you can't set up a shell corporation to collect the winnings and then pay you a monthly salary or something. Probably not proof against the most sophisticated of account thieves, but it keeps your name out of the papers. Is part of the law that the person who bought the ticket must be the one to redeem it?

Or maybe just hire an accountant/lawyer to cash the ticket and transfer the funds to her account? I mean she's got the money now.
I was wrong about China Mobile, it is just WCDMA, but China Telecom is using CDMA.
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Did embedded software for a couple decades at numerous companies. Was good at it, but saw the path was going to slowly drift into the weeds (company was aspiring to build products competing with what competitors had discarded as obsolete). Noticed one of those rare ground-floor technology shift opportunities was occurring in the industry...

Told my students in my side/after-hours gig as professor "there's a rare ground-floor technology shift opportunity occurring in the industry, now's your chance..."

A friend was co-founder of a startup. One day, while in his home for unrelated reasons, he was on the phone with CIO lamenting their [then] inability to find iOS developers. He saw me, pointed, shouted "don't leave!", hung up, and asked if I wanted to do iOS development. "Yes!" I replied with enthusiasm. He then asked if I actually knew iOS development. "No! but I'd jump at the chance & reason to learn!" We arranged a 6-month trial period, I worked long hard nights learning & implementing iOS code, and within 3 months was hired as the 2nd employee.

A few years later, that business was sold, and moved on to doing apps for major corporations.

Upshot: technology & business path was stalling out, used an opportune connection to take a risk in jumping to the near-start of a new yet equivalent technology path. Was able to leverage deep "magic" skills (intuition, arcane knowledge, refined techniques) to "do-over" my career, starting with decades of experience into a realm just years old.
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Thanks, I figured some MITM for the SSL piece but genuinely thought that client side JS hashed the PW. So this was educational and I am uncomfortably naive.
When you get into technology, you should go under the assumption that you will be a student for the rest of your life. Otherwise you will get left behind. My Dad is in tech (I followed his footsteps). For as long as I can remember growing up he always had a book with him in his free time. He started with punchcards.
Also while there was IE11 on Windows on Windows Phone the web view was based on IE9 or IE10. So we were unable to port our app to Windows Phone. But I'm happy that Windows Phone lost the market becouse Microsoft cooperates with opressive regimes (unlike Google and Aplle) in order to be able to sell their Windows operating systems and Microsoft Office to civil servants.
It’s funny how, as you progress through a career and gain responsibility, those HBR articles go from seeming like a bunch of Markov chain corporate-speak to being on-target for that exact problem you had last month with the leadership team.
> ...it’s a blessing that my predilection for hipster technologies has not caused any serious problems.

It's entirely possible that this was the primary source of his problems with hiring, firing, testing, and a lot more.

The technology you choose determines which technologists you attract. And it's not a superficial thing, it actually says everything about the CTO's own technical skill, judgement, and experience.
Just Google it, I don't need to propose anything.

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/technologist
I think the summary of Seth Abramson's contributions is:

1. He's insane

2. 2016-2018 has been insane

3. They've often been materially insane in the same way. But sometimes not.

Russians are, in fact, under our collective beds, getting at our voting.
Same story, unavailable in all but the biggest markets.
Gusto's results are nowhere near 50/50

https://datausa.io/profile/cip/110701/#demographics

It's unrealistic to expect a 50/50 distribution in the workforce when it's 80/20 in the academia.
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I'd be interested too. I'm aware of the Yasha Levine theory, and complains about js in Firefox ESR, but not much else.
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Well then why is it if you actually try and sue a VPN provider for the logs, you won't be able to get them. this is the case for one scenario I know of where a subject got hacked and it was traced to a VPN service. Article is just FUD -- which this conversation could be warranted in some cases, but realistically I've found that it isn't the case. This doesn't mean that their outbound service isn't being logged by a third or unknown party like a government entity (which we know all traffic is logged), but hey it is what it is.
Well, anything special you do that covers your tracks may make you look suspicious. If Tor becomes more ubiquitous, maybe it won't draw suspicion anymore.
That speed is surprising to me considering that the EPYC is supposed to have 128 PCIe lanes. I think that you should check the motherboard manual, if you have one, or contact the manufacturer, and see how the board's PCIe is laid out. An EPYC has no need to share PCIe lanes through a PCH and shouldn't have one for the NVMe drives.

It's possible that by placing cards in different slots you could gain more speed. There may also be some sort of setting to configure PCIe between 8 16-lane slots (accelerator cards) or 32 4-lane slots (NVMe drives).

If you're running a single-threaded application you may be hitting the limits of the DMA and memory controllers.
4027.4MB/s (~32Gbps) with 100GB of random writes isn’t bad at all. Maybe you’re just maxing out the SSDs themselves, not the platform around it?
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Yes it is good to understand people and the business, but you are also hinting that much of the bad code around the place is some kind of big-picture smart optimum of technical debt. vs. development velocity.

But this is unlikely if you stop to think about how humans behave. Who in an organisation has an incentive to find such an optimum? Shareholders and the board maybe; but they can only drive things by rewarding and punishing middle-level individuals. And they can only reward impact that they can see. Thus the incentives are to create visible impact which can be spun as a net gain. If that creates technical debt, then that is somebody else's problem.
Not really, I've seen many grocery stores have sections dedicated specifically to local stuff because of the whole 'local' movement.
Sounds like they hit a paint point.
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