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> "Basic understanding of the field" does nothing for understanding Git.

Assuming one has at least read up on data structures, then one would have read about graph structures and have heard about what a directed acyclic graph is.

> You should not have to "read through prior research" to be able to use a basic VCS tool

You should have some understanding of what source control is and have read at least some of the documentation of the VCS tool you are using. I've never used hg and wouldn't know where to start without reading some of the documentation first. But having prior knowledge of VCSs and distributed VCSs would allow me to target my search for documentation about how to commit changes, how to publish them to a remote repository, how to make a branch, etc.

> We don't expect tooling documentation to require a phd

Many of these papers can be read and understood by students who are pursuing their undergraduate degree. But they do need to put some effort into it.

> No. It applies to very few tools that are used in software development.

Can I use grep without a basic understanding of how regular expressions work? Could I use a debugger like gdb without understanding concepts like the call stack and variable addressing? You have to be able to read through documentation to effectively use a lot of tools in software development.
Nobody's arguing that volatile has anything to do with CPU cache, or barriers, or locks, or any other nonsense! volatile is there to ensure that the compiler generates code that accesses the variable directly each time, which is necessary to write correct multi-threaded code. If you don't use volatile, and your code still works, then either the compiler's smarter than you, or you got lucky. End of story. The level of misunderstanding you guys are showing on the matter is beyond comical.

volatile's one of the simplest modifiers to understand if you care to actually learn the language. It has a clear, and well-defined purpouse, and i have no idea how you can spend so much time, and energy arguing that that's not the case.
People hate Circuit City. Not quite clear why you'd want to start with a hated brandname. There was the whole restocking fee thing, the DMCA thing, and a whole bunch of others. I don't quite recall them all. Plus, it was always overpriced.

No brand is better than bad brand.
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That doesn't contract my claim at all. It would only contradict it if I had claimed that the incompetent people estimated their rant as above some competent group. All that is required for my claim is that they overestimate their abilities.
Looks like the project could do with some help making self-contained Linux and OSX packages. Is there a good multi-distro way to do that yet? Ideally one that allows self-modification.
> Consortium members can call any developer at any time, day or night, and expect to get their full and immediate attention

I wonder how this works. For sure even the most dedicated developers will every now and then be on a holiday / concert / drunk.
I use Siri a fair amount from the Phone (mainly in the car or kitchen to be honest).

Going through those:

- Cooking & laundry timers - Yes. Works well

- Reminders (remind me to do X when I get home) - I find Apple geofenced alerts to be unreliable.

- Directions (Take me to the nearest X, take me home, etc) - Pretty good, search isn't as good as Google, but good enough these days.

- Checking hours of business (what time does X close today) - Never tried, doubt it would work.

- Initiating phone calls (Call X) - Yes - Works well

- Checking weather (is it going to snow today? How cold is it right now?) - Yes, works well

- Conversions (what's X ounces to ml) - Never tried. Just tried now - works OK

- Quick stock checks (what's X stock price) - As above works OK, says whether there has been a fall or rise.

- Playing music around the house (play X on the kitchen speakers)- works very well.
Your comment is misguided. When private actors behave badly, you can opt out and go for competiting services. When the state mandates something your options run out. It is a pure attack on Freedom.
The tweets are all about promoting editing, and the dangers of turning Wikimedia into a read-only source of Truth, rather than something that should be seen as a shared resourced to be improved and verified. She barely mentions donations, and only in a list of all the ways people can contribute.
C programmers, in my experience, will use a "goto cleanup" pattern to emulate RAII in this case https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/154980
That's hardly news, nor surprising given its done systematically on purpose. Imagine people would be aware of how they are being ripped off by the financial systems...that'd be bad.
There is a reason why finance basics or general life skills are not taught in schools (no matter if US or EU). Sure you maybe learn how to calculate interest but that's probably about it.
This site has OpenGL tutorials focused more on visualization: https://open.gl/introduction
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come on with that.
People need to understand the different parts that make the EU administration. The EU commission is not "the EU". It's the parliament that decides if proposals of the commission become law. The parliament has a history of rejecting stupid proposals (e.g. software patents).

But the Github folks are right! Please, tell your MEPs that/why this is a stupid idea - it's important!

(I sometimes wonder why the commission proposes stupid things. Uninformed? Corruption, uhm I mean lobbying?)
I'm not sure is a young people vs grown ups thing.

There are gadget lovers who get the latest at all ages, and tons of them are at the 'dad' age (30-40+), not younger.
.... Or they could have made play areas kids wanted to go to (when I was a child, going to Toys-r-Us was the ultimate thing), and sold toys people wanted (instead of branded sensory-overload crap).

They failed to adapt to consumers of 2018.
One should not overemphasize the environment either, especially for the early development that's discussed in the article (embriogenesis). Cognition, immutinity and the microbiome become relevant much later.
> Restricted access internet

This is already done in closed-doors forums and whatnot. If you mean the ID should be government-issued, you have Facebook where fake accounts area nearly impossible at this point and it's pretty close to a "Governet". In the Governet you'd still be censored because their goal isn't to sue everyone (that's expensive and doesn't always work), it's just to control them.
Almost every time I watch a film for the second time I encounter a scene which seems to have been mysteriously messed up. I remember precisely how it was the first time I watched the film, but on the second occasion the dialogue and actions seem to have been changed so as to give an inferior overall result. I used to think that perhaps there were multiple versions of all these films, but every time I investigated I failed to discover any evidence of the existence of an alternative edition containing the details that I clearly remember, so I now think it's just the way my memory improves things.

On the other hand, perhaps in some cases there really are different editions of the film that use different takes for certain scenes, though the films I watch twice are not usually the big-budget productions that are well-known for having multiple editions.

Anyone else experience this?
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> Not all developers can or want to have alternative revenue streams. It is completely unreasonable to expect a developer to support software for 10 years if you are not paying for this service

1. We’re talking about hardware vendors
2. Why is the tech industry magically different from everything else? I get safety recalls on things which are 5-10 years old but e.g. Lenovo can’t seem to ship Android security updates which Google gave them more than 1-2 years after release.

> Sadly, on Apple platforms there is no way of doing paid upgrades so there goes that.

This is why developers use advertising, in-app purchases and subscriptions, or releasing major versions as new apps.

The point wasn’t that the status quo is perfect but that it’s extremely wasteful and needs to change. The tech industry has a lot of people who thought that cycle of rapid growth was innate but are starting to realize that things are saturating in most segments. Buying a new device every 2 years only works if they’re very cheap or dramatically better.
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Because "having" (oh the humanity) to wear a watch was so unbearable?
About translators solely reliant on NN. The thing is, while 70% of output can be well passable, some of the rest can be very weird if original input was not learned. Like a string of gibberish turning into 10 full sentences.

You have to score the extent of wrongness too.
I whipped this up this morning after growing tired of the repeated Tweets linking whatever current Sci-Hub URLs work.

You can also visit https://whereisscihub.herokuapp.com/go, which should always redirect you to a valid URL.

Edit: I should add that I would not encourage the user of Sci-Hub, and am in fact myself trying to create legal alternatives [0]. This is mostly to hopefully clean up my Twitter timeline :)

[0] https://medium.com/flockademic/announcing-flockademic-academ...
so I've got a (maybe silly, but still) question: why Amiga wasn't successful to this day as a solid competitor to PCs and Macs?
>Nobody's forcing you to conform to outdated gender roles

Except good judgement.
It can be. That doesn't mean it is.

Going private allows a company to focus less on shareholder value (its legal first obligation as a traded company save for a legally defendable company charter that counters this in any way, which is rarer than it should be). That theoretically allows it to focus on growth or market entrenchment before profits, and take risks otherwise you wouldn't be able to take without risks of lawsuits.

It allows more freedom in restructuring and financial business decisions. The downside to that is when a vulture capitals like Bain or Ichan comes along, their motives are to extract as much profit from the 'asset' as possible for themselves regardless of the outcome to the business.

It stands in start contrast to venture capital firms that actually care about success. its usually obvious which one 'investors' are. If they're willing to put up money and take risks with you at the start, they're venture. If they're coming along after you're successful but struggling with a 'grand plan' to restructure and improve your business if you accept their money (and hand over way more control than you should), they're vulture.

All of that is just my observations of course. I'm open to counter arguments.
In Europe in the late 80s to early 90s, the Amiga was the computer everyone wanted, both for graphics, music and especially games. It was a natural successor to the C64, which obviously also had a gigantic following.

We never really got into the Apple II and its successors like the US did.
> Toys 'r' us is amazing for kids - but go back as an adult.

It kind of sounds like you're agreeing with the GP. Kids love mountains of cheap plastic crap so for them it can be exciting even if parents detest it...
>Haven’t you ever hit a product page for say, a pair of shoes, and the “colour” options are things like “Blue”, “Green”, “EXTRA LARGE”, “pair”, “SHOE”, “red” - each of which actually turn out to be different products from different sellers with different delivery terms. Or a listing for an SD card that combines different manufacturers for different sizes, except some of them are actually SSDs and other ones are 3.5” hard disks? I’m full of rage just thinking about it.

This is called ASIN merging and happens when a malicious seller wants to quickly boost their review count.

Please report it as a violation.
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Responding specifically to the question of whether people actually "download and use apps"... while I love my apple watch series 1 and wear it every day, I pretty much never use 3rd party apps. To me the apple watch is all about getting notifications, checking important info at a glance (e.g. date and time or my next meeting), and activity tracking. I hate actually interacting with the thing for the most part, and find anything more complex than dismissing a notification to be cumbersome. And since the series 1 only works when tethered to my phone, it's usually easier to go pick up my phone (which isn't too far away) than to mess around with my watch.

I think that changes a bit with the series 3 and LTE support. I would be willing to deal with cumbersome interfaces more frequently if it meant I could leave my phone at home and still have access to essential functions (phone calls, text messages, etc). And I could see myself downloading a lot more 3rd party apps to have with me just in case (slack, 1password, authy, etc).

The only thing stopping me from getting the series 3 is the fact that I get cell service through a cheap MVNO that doesn't support the apple watch yet. Hopefully it's just a matter of time now before it is possible to use apple watch LTE service with MVNOs.
Putting the "fascist!" comment aside, what alternatives are there than the threat of breaking from the EU if every legislation seems to* head toward a US style federation?

Think of it like the SOPA/PIPA/whatever fight: You manage to barely resist some bill from being enacted into law but then just a few months/years later another version of the same law is proposed.

*: from the perspective of someone
>Pretty bad op-sec for a tech guy.

In general, security does not seem to be his strong suit.
I am just not sure that would save this business model though.

IMO it is very much like Guitar Center for music. There is no way Guitar Center is around in 10 years and there is nothing that can be done on their part. The whole concept that the business is based on is outdated.
This guerrilla editing would be to the detriment of Youtube's own service in this case, so the fact that they don't support the service with tooling or money is a disservice to themselves.
The 10% of developers you mention are the ones who don't cargo cult program. They don't seek "Neo" architectures. They are the ones who knuckle down and solve actual, real problems, not some fantasy generalized version of it. They are the ones who code and hone their craft. They don't spend any time arguing over React vs VueJs, Rust vs C++, etc.

I think the average developer can do this too if they'd just get out of the programming echo chambers and trust their gut.
Necklaces were accepted for masculine people since pretty much forever, though unfortunately nothing particularly extravagant — nobody can stop you, though. Same thing with arm bands and rings. For a while ear piercing was frowned upon, but that's done since at least the nineties. Nose piercing works perfectly fine.

In other words, wtf are you talking about, you get to wear as much jewellery as you want. I mean, you're not obligated to, and limiting yourself to a watch is a nice, minimalist concept, but even then whether it will read femme, masculine, or anything else, really depends on the watch, and, uh, almost everything else. Including who's doing the reading.
I agree, I'm paid by the hour to deliver a set of features, and the client very, VERY rarely would pay for me to start 'diverging' and writing test cases for something they see as superfluous. A bit of field tests (ie, users as testers) and if it works, it ships.

I don't make the rules. The scary bit is, often, it works just fine; in many cases, it's cheaper to reboot/relaunch for a 1/100000 crashing bug than paying me to find it and fix it!
> It's there, so not confidently stating a 100% certainty in the existence of God is not something Christians just do as a matter of being Christians.

Okay. I thought that 100% certainty in the existence of God (who is also Jesus Christ) is in fact something Christians do as a consequence of being Christians.

For the latter two questions, I was getting at being thoughtful belies being a believer (in the sense of 'believing something without evidence') and questioning the reliance on statistical probability for any faith-based religious belief.
Every company, every person is entitled to decide what content they are willing to support. You are free to disagree with decisions that company makes, and take your business elsewhere. That is obviously, qualitatively different from an argument about proposed legislation being bad, that it's hard to see how one could draw a comparison between them in good faith.
It's likely this tech is released to only a small percentage of users, and at off-peak times.

Parsing an entire paragraph for context is expensive...
> every opponent of any legislation always starts with threatening the whole idea of European cooperation

Well, nothing else really works.

The European parliament in general tends to be fairly good on these issues, but it's not in control of the agenda and the whole system is very vulnerable to being captured by industry groups. It's inherently difficult for the public to participate and there's seldom any discussion in the press while legislation is underway.

There's also no recognition of or exemption for small businesses in EU legal thinking. It's one of the things that the UK tends to do fairly well, but EU law sort of assumes that businesses start at 100 employees with multi-million-Euro turnover and can afford compliance.

Copyright/patent is an area where the legislation has been extremely pro-status-quo for a long time.
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I think "reasons stop mattering" line is higher up.
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>Does Amazon let the same people list the same items under different sellers?

Yes.

>Is China actually a capitalist paradise where anyone can start a lifestyle brand of CD drives?

Yes, but you will be surprised at how difficult it is to succeed. For each of the brands you mentioned, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of failed ones selling the same product.
Can you provide some links?
Cool idea. Would be nice to have more information about where exactly these places are. Even just State/Province etc.
When private actors that have a monopoly behave badly you can go to another but you will have a severely degraded experience. For example reddit, YouTube, Facebook, etc. There is no alternative if they block you, you just have to accept that you're no longer allowed to participate in a certain activity.

GitHub is also quite like this.
The toy shop situation in Germany is desperate. The ToysRUs near Cologne looks like they are from the 60s and is hardly distinguishable from local Obi or Toom hardware store.

It is not an attractive place for the kids to visit.
Automated filters on content sharing platforms kill creativity. Entire sports disappear from Youtube because they are traditionally accompanied by music.

Think of ice skating. It's been years since I stopped uploading videos of ice skaters to Youtube, because they are automatically deleted based on music matching their filtering database. Others in my ice skating circle share videos on Amazon Prime Photos or similar platforms, never on Youtube.
I absolutely believe it.

Warren Buffet is working to fight this, he's made a series of "Secret Millionaire's Club" videos designed to educate kids about money. I think it's a great program.
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Even though at the time they only ban neo-nazis, the UK can now criminally charge you for having opinions they dislike. That's not a step forward. Also surveilance and anti-privacy laws in the UK are horrible.
> The 80s Transformers movie killed off all of their characters and introduced new ones to sell more toys.

Constantly introducing new characters (and letting others fall into the background) worked for them, but actively killing them off backfired badly.

Transformers saw meteoric growth, from the first introduction of the comics and TV series in 1984 to the star-studded cast of the movie in 1986, then viewing figures plummeted. They misjudged how invested a large part of the audience were in their favourite characters: mainly Prime but also others. In fact they brought Prime back only one year later, though the damage was done: kids were moving on to the next fads. The decline would likely have happened anyway due to the audience moving on to other things, but the movie for all its success is credited with accelerating that significantly.
So how does this work out for KKR, Bain Capital and Vornado? Surely if the business goes bust, they're left saddled with the debt?
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Well the British electorate can decide on whether they like those laws and kick out the executive and those laws if they do not. But I guess that's `populist`. Illegal is a loaded term. Bit like 'international law' which boils down to mean international agreements.
I'm sure there's no corruption going on here. http://www.euronews.com/2017/06/28/why-won-t-brussels-releas...
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Things like this or the GPDR favor the rich and the bigger companies who can, while not convenient, devote resources to compliance. It’s not just GitHub that would have to comply. I suspect that the code snippet sharing in Slack would have to monitor code snippets pasted in various programming chat areas to be in compliance.
To fully understand why the Amiga was great for his time, a good introduction is the book "the future was here".
> I think of Paul Graham's On Lisp[2] as the first wave of modern Lisp style, and Doug Hoyte's Let Over Lambda[3] as the second wave.

Both are seen slightly controversial by some. On Lisp for example indicates that PG actually wanted to program in a different language - and eventually did: Arc.
Don't forget the UK's own porn filter, implementation of which has been delayed following inability to answer the question of "how on earth is this supposed to work?"