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>Microsoft offered what Nokia considered a better deal, though, especially if Nokia wanted only their services rather than "side-by-side" services.

Then why were Nokia services side by side with Microsoft services on Nokia Windows Phones? Also, the Nokia app store was nowhere to be found.

Additionally, according to a review of the Lumia 800, by The Verge[1], there was almost nothing to differentiate the device from any other WP device produced by HTC or Samsung. The extent of the Nokia modifications amounted to nothing more than Nokia Drive, Nokia Music and sounds, ringtones and wallpapers. Is this what Nokia had in mind when selecting Windows Phone to showcase their services and USP? Unique Nokia sounds, ringtones and wallpapers?

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5ZbwCI_nZY
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That's true. The tegaderm doesn't wick or remove moisture. It simply provides a barrier while the wound is healing.
I was with you until you said "I, personally, think smart phones peaked with the Palm Pre and WebOS" lol

I think it peaked couple years ago. When they started moving home and touch buttons to make room for edge to edge display and sacrifice 16x9 for no good reason, I knew we were done.

I have one plus 3t and it was super upgrade from galaxy s4 (which I still use). But other phones available don't seem like much of upgrade.

My dell 9200 just kicked the bucket after 12 years but it ran just fine. My current machine is 5 year old i5 3570k and feels brand new with SSD. Barring hardware failure, I can see myself using this until gubmint starts sending me social security checks.
I dislike that the only way they list to install is "curl https://get.please.build | bash". I know it's fast and easy but it really leaves your computer at their mercy.
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Start by actually talking to your management instead of just trying to be a rock star. "Hey, I'm spending a lot of time doing Team X's job and it's impacting on my assigned work, if you want me to keep doing this then put me in charge of Team X, otherwise let's all sit down together and clarify who is responsible for what."
Tech is nice but it's motivation that finally makes you learn piano. There's no replacement for a teacher that pushes you forward and of course you putting in the time.

Tech is similar to a siren calling you and then disappoints you. It might even be worse since you lose motivation and will eventually stop trying.
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Did get it setup from my computer, thanks! http://buymeacoffee.com/nabeards
One advantage of using NixOS is that GUI apps works flawlessly. Otherwise there needs to be some hacks to make it work. This is because some graphics libraries are global and then is expected to be in a special location which is the default on NixOS.
I can't imagine working at a company with this kind of system. Sounds a little too much like MeowMeowBeenz (http://community-sitcom.wikia.com/wiki/MeowMeowBeenz) from the TV show Community. ("MeowMeowBeenz™ takes everything subjective and unspoken about human interaction and reduces it to explicit, objective numbers.")

How do you feel bonusly avoids this potentially awkward gamification/popularity contest? I feel like most people I know would just give 30 bonusly to a random person on the last day of the month, but maybe your colleagues are a little more disciplined :)
I’ve tried Spotify but I cannot upload my own library (lots of mashup, asian music, remix, etc... that Spotify doesn’t have), use it and retrieve it later if needed. I’ve been looking for a service to do that and I couldn’t really find anything except iTunes match. But iTunes match is not really the same as spotify. So I did this spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ptV0sWO2tBT4c3G8aiB0...
>My only wish is they'd get off Electron (EDIT Chromium - thanks jjgod) and go native.

IIRC they moved to Chromium to ensure decoupled releases and faster iteration (starting at ~9:35: https://vimeo.com/85490944).
This is probably only true because companies will hire top faculty in their companies. And the universities can’t compete with real money and stock options .
> They are often weak signals of actual competence

I disagree. They are weak at separating the top 10% from the rest of the qualified people, but they are excellent at removing the people who have no business being there in the first place.

The first two that comes to the minds of most people are law and medical licenses. These licenses don't exist as a job qualifier. They exist as a legal qualifier. That means a gross abuse of the license requirements are cause for law suits and serious criminal offenses even though most lawyers and doctors are corporate employees.

If programmers had the realization that gross negligence could land them in jail or cause them to lose their career and property in a lawsuit I suspect they would take their jobs more seriously than merely writing code.

Programmers don't just write code just like doctors don't just prescribe painkillers and soldiers don't just shoot people. They make numerous critical decisions that have real world implications. Examples of gross failure are simplistic known security breaches that allow confiscation of millions of credit card numbers and PII. Other examples include discriminatory and accessibility violating software products.

These are basic foundational qualities of competence. In any other industry negligence of this magnitude would put in prison. Since the base line is so ridiculously low for hiring developers these are considered advanced qualities often transferred to third party firms and only after threats of pending legal actions. All we care about when hiring developers is whether they are literate and have a pulse.

Be serious, no change to any hiring process will fix that.

> They are not accessible by everyone.

Don't care. If a person want to achieve access to a given career they will find a way through their own internal motivation. If the industry wants to make the careers more accessible they will promote a desirable education path. This isn't a secret legendary arcane black magic.
I lent two prentice-hall hardbacks from the 1990s to my co-worker as a monitor stand. She has IP-Protocol-NG (it became IPv6) and Radia Perlman on Routing. Maybe in 100 years, they can feature in Atlas Obscura with the outline of a Dell monitor stand impressed in the binding?
I found this article very helpful in explaining generally what happens in the lightning network. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/02/bitcoins-lightni...
I'm just using the per user cost here.
$6.67/user/mo is the standard plan price if you pay annually.
You're totally right, my bad. I read it as ".. as a financial advisor to be available to consult AS the designated market maker" - thanks for pointing that out. :)
The secondary part is that they requested mass revocation of active certificates, including from brands such as RapidSSL which were not being browser distrusted AFAIK (even though some others were.. if I need to be corrected on this please let me know).

They did this without notifying their customers in advance, so literally, they were going to intentionally screw their customers by revoking all their active SSL certificates without their authorisation and without any notice. Which then happened.

This would have affected ALL certificates, but since Digicert said no, they then pulled all of these generated private keys from storage which they should NOT have been storing -- on their reseller web interface when you generate a certificate (which is a questionable activity but lets just go with it for the argument).. a few days after you place the order the private key disappears from the web interface. You would therefor assume they deleted it. It seems they kept a copy of all of them this whole time - which is doubly irresponsible let alone stupid.

All I can say is thankfully LetsEncrypt is making these guys mostly irrelevant...

The good news is, as far as I know, they're only revoking the certificates that used the generator at least (though I haven't confirmed that) -- so hopefully most people that used a normal CSR certificate won't have them revoked.

Bunch of morons, I can't see why they thought this was a good idea, and as the commentator above said, this response doesn't sound better in any way. It just proves they are intentionally screwing their customers for no real reason. Even if they were intent on this distrust process, they should have at least been ensuring customers got new certificates first and had plenty of notice -- e.g. how the chrome distrust worked. They didn't.
Please. Compared to the actual short story, the movie is utter trash.
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There are a lot of posts, articles, and general interest over the last 15 years (compared to before) on “being and maximizing happiness”.

At face value, this seems very natural. However I think a lot could be gained by tackling the necessity of even asking that question.

Nietzsche has this really interesting point that every philosopher since Plato was most interested in “the truth” without seriously considering if “the truth” was a bad thing, worth all the effort, or perhaps not as valuable as other concepts.

In the same way, a lot of religions invert the happiness question, to great effect. In Christianity, suffering is turned into a much more worthwhile and meaningful pursuit; other religions distance themselves from happiness and instead take more stoic and detachment-based paths. All of them don’t tend to address “maximizing happiness” though because I think, being the product of thousands of years of experience, any religion that tried to do that failed in the face of life and history and would not succeed in gathering adherents.
Wow. How is a system not supporting the most widespread desktop platform on the planet claiming to be cross-platform?

Having said that, there might be a way. From their FAQ:

> It might well be possible to make it work using Cygwin or MinGW / MSYS, or the recent Ubuntu on Windows development though. We aren't doing this work ourselves because we don't have any Windows machines, but we're happy to accept PRs in that direction.

Not sure I want to use a platform which the dev team can't test (and there are other alternatives), but it might work after all.

A side remark, the link posted below in this thread contains an awesome "awesome" list. For those interested, here is a (truly) awesome list of dataset resources: https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets.
I tried to buy you a coffee, went through Stripe checkout process, got a green check, saw a $1.00 Buymeacoffee charge show up on my iPhone via push notification, and then hit an error message;

“We were unable to process your payment right now !

If you encounter this message more than once, please contact support for further assistance
Or you can try again“

Went through the whole process again with the same card, didn’t work. Same error.

Went through the whole process again with a different card. Still didn’t work. Same non-descript error.

So your account in particular may be blacklisted or broken for some reason :-(

Sorry, no coffee for you!
Author says scalability, but provides nothing in the way of metrics. He says he has "almost a terabyte" of data and talks about partitioning when it gets too big. So the story here is that just about any key-value store can fill modest requirements as long as you implement your own sharding strategy.
Exactly, I was shocked to see Ackman betting against Herbalife, because I have seen Herbalife craze first hand in India. My office was in M.G Road, Bangalore, a premium spot of Bangalore, and Herbalife had a big distribution center right there (next to our office building). It was always crowded, people coming and going. My then roommate also got into the Herbalife cabal, and got his entire family involved. He claimed that his dad had lost significant weight after regularly having one of their shakes, and left no stone unturned in advertising the product, to the point that some people started avoiding him. But note, he never asked any of us overtly to buy Herbalife products and build a chain of Herbalife-peddling minions. I guess the point is, some people are attracted to the exclusivity factor, they think that wow these products are expensive, so they must be good, and praise about them to others. Some of these praise soaked people get interested enough to check it out, and the iteration continues.
I doubt it. Symbian was held together with duct tape by that point. They managed to make some things sort of work in the short term through heroic engineering efforts but it was clearly unsustainable. There were fundamental limits which couldn't be fixed without seriously breaking backward compatibility.
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> Also we chose the domain name before almost anything else (priorities!).

I'm glad I'm not the only one with this problem :P
Most companies tend to have more than one employee - especially when they decide to buy an employee chat software.
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Hahaha. Just last week I was telling my wife I should make a "buy me a coffee" site to learn how to integrate with Stripe and other payment platforms, pad my resume, have a few lulz, and maybe even get a coffee.

And... There's already a SaaS for that. Well done.
Damn I really wish I could title the book, it is on the tip of my tongue but I read the same thing.

What I found abhorrent is that the people interviewed in that book, ended up being prescribed meds by good professional Christian Doctors using all means to change their paths from evil. To avoid D&D as it was the devils work.

I would say that those parent's were mentally ill and/or uneducated and that the doctor's were mentally ill and/or uneducated.

Alas, religion.
An organized global response would probably dampen ambitions. In fact it's unlikely this would have happened except for in the current situation. There are a lot of ways to wield influence effectively.
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I don't pirate music anymore for the same reason. However, I also don't listen to music as I used to. I usually use Spotify to listen to what I already know, not so much to find new stuff. Before, I used to dive in depth into an artist/band, starting from their greatest hits. Once I got the band vocabulary, I'd download the albums chronologically and listened to every track, sometimes more than once until I got familiar with it. Now I don't do it with as much scrutiny, which is interesting since Spotify has all albums very well organized and even the discovery playlist. It would be much easier and better.

Is IKEA effect at play? Without Spotify, I would only start another artist when I finished the current one. So, with Spotify it becomes an information management problem due to the large amount of albums available at a click. Or it could just be that my life has changed and I don't have a time slot dedicated to music anymore.
Agree with all of this, and I appreciate the explanation, but "black hole" is just a name and not a model. We need a shortcut and not a thesis to talk about it efficiently, right? The name really only needs to identify, and not convey perfect and complete understanding, no? It's nice that the analogy is decent, but there is no name that could capture and communicate the complete meaning, that requires further explanation. True for most/all scientific subjects and physical phenomena, I think.

Given your description, "hole" still seems like a great and very literal analogy to me, if we had to pick a single word. It's capturing a sense of going in but not out, and it's also capturing a sense of darkness, and of going into or down via gravity as well. A one-way road that you can drive in but not out, and is downhill, and dark from the outside, sounds like a 'hole'.

We could call it a pocket universe, or a spacetime existence prison, or a one-way road to infinity, but I'd have to agree with John Wheeler, that "black hole" is brief and catchy, captures the essence of what we know about them in 9 letters, in a way that is accessible to non-physicists.

BTW, isn't gravity a phenomenon of spacetime? I don't understand your differentiation.
Humans are quite capable of violating the laws of robotics too!
> And yet suns with far more mass than is needed to make a black hole exist. Because simple heat pressure keeps the black hole from forming.

Ok, if you're going to quibble over irrelevancies, let me restate more carefully: in situations where kinetic pressure is negligible, no amount of pressure can prevent a black hole from forming if sufficient mass is present. And kinetic pressure is always temporary, because it depends on having a heat source, and all heat sources eventually run out.

> to have enormous gravity the density must go up. If you prevent that from ever happening you can stop the black hole from ever starting in the first place.

You can't prevent it from ever happening. You can only prevent it from happening for as long as a heat source is available. And that will never be forever. See above.

> It also means mass takes a long (infinite) time to get in.

No, it doesn't. The proper time for an object to free-fall to the horizon, and on inward to the singularity, is finite. Outgoing objects and light behave differently from ingoing objects and light in the presence of gravity.
Slack's SLA is 99.99%, so if they really believed in it they would refund 10,000x.

(They'd also go out of business, which shows the futility of SLAs.)
I worked for different sports book, casinos and poker companies there. Gaming licenses there are regulated and the environment is toxic. My work experience was very bad. Despite the regulations for that industry, mafia still drives the entire sector and is not something hidden.
FWIW you can usually ask for more (I usually get around $20), but you have to actually negotiate with the person on the phone. It's really weird, you would expect them to just be reading off of a script, but they actually negotiate like a trained car salesman or something.
I could see them using "plzbuild" as their version of "golang", for the same problem.
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Same here, but I didn't know what FXP was. Initially thought it was another release group.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_eXchange_Protocol
Good grief: Talk, Hangouts, Meet, Allo, Duo, Hangouts Chat... When does it stop?
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Add support for Russian and I'm in. This looks like exactly the language app I've been dreaming of--real language-native content with quick lookups for stuff you don't know.
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> Several people were asking about what's known as the "diameter" of Wikipedia, that is, the distance between the two articles furthest apart (the longest shortest path if that makes any sense to you). This was in fact the original goal of the project but it turned out not to be very interesting. Wikipedia has giant "tails", almost linear linked lists of articles that stretch out for 70 links. The worst offenders were the subpages of List of named asteroids as each is only linked from the previous one, and it takes about 70 links to get from anywhere to the last one. So, you find that the two articles furthest from each other are List of asteroids/145701-145800, linked to by List of asteroids/145601-145700, linked to by List of asteroids/145501-145600, and so on for 70 links until you get back to some vageuly normal article. This is far less interesting that I was hoping. Even when I special-cased out that string of 70 boring articles, a new one appeared (I think it was linked pages about administrations of Myanmar or something). Rather than special-casing out reams of articles, I decided to pick a different metric, one that better reflects the structure of wikipedia without arbitrarily removing parts of it.

It appears that the particular tail has been "cut" however.
The downside that I think about when I hear "pinning package versions" is how you go about distributing a patch to a security hole that affected many versions of a library.
Someone mentioned playing cards were allowed and with a bit of math, card removal, and a lot of shuffling you can use playing cards as somewhat fair dice.

If you remove Kings and any Jokers you have 4 sets 1-12, which mod 6 gives you 8 sets of 1-6 in a single deck (an equivalent to 8d6 can go a long way). For less card math you could just use the 4 sets of face value 1-6 cards. If you replace cards every "roll" and fair shuffle, you have relatively fair dice.

Of course, trick shuffles are too easy an unfair advantage in that situation that I wouldn't suggest playing something like Craps or Yahtzee with Playing Cards, but could certainly be fair enough for a collaborative RPG environment. Similarly, card replacement and amount of shuffling could be relaxed in a RPG setting if the table agrees to allow "unfair" failure/success patterns (which can lead to interesting trade-offs to roleplay; I can succeed at this first die check, but already know I have to fail the next).

ETA: Playing cards and spinners are both mentioned in the linked article. The article describes using a deck for 1d20 as opposed to 8d6 as mentioned above, which makes sense given a D&D context.
Why would you report income on my tax free gift?

Unless someone is giving you more than $7k per year, there’s no quid pro quo here, no contract, no barter, no exchange of goods.

Can’t see how this isn’t a tax free gift, but IANAL.
> Oddball exotic states of matter (quark stars, fuzz balls, whatever) might form in proper time within the event horizon, halting collapse before it reaches the singularity state of infinite compaction.

No, this is not correct. Once an event horizon forms, everything inside the horizon will hit the singularity, because the singularity is not a place in space, it's a moment of time, which is in the future (and the not too distant future for holes of reasonable size--the time from horizon to singularity for a black hole of 10 solar masses is about 100 microseconds) for everything inside the horizon.

> time freezes at the event horizon

No, it doesn't. This is a common pop science misconception, but it's still a misconception. The correct statement is that the horizon is a null surface: a surface generated by outgoing light rays. To someone falling through the horizon, the horizon looks like any other surface generated by light rays, and nothing unusual happens there.
Pretty sure most companies have more than one user