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Good times! I never came across Tracer or Sculpt 3D, but I did start out with Real 3D [1] which actually was created in 1983 for the CBM64 and later came to the Amiga in 1990.

About the same time Lightwave 3D [2] came out which first was bound to Newtek's famous VideoToaster but of course someone found a way to emulate the hardware so "everybody" could use it :) even for us who needed PAL (disk swapping was a thing back in those days).

I recon that Blender is a very capable 3D software as well (and as a NLE video editor (!)). I never got around to properly use as I was a customer with Newtek but I kind of giving up on Newtek so I might dig into the massive information and tutorials out there for Blender.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realsoft_3D

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightWave_3D
Well, yeah.
I don't know much about the current state of the art (because I don't touch the CodeGen on a daily basis), but I kind of look into the future with hope that compilers will better handle at least those "simple" cases. :)
A company is comprised of many parts — including its employees. Calling it an artificial construct may be legally and semantically valid, but it’s also dismissive to the reality that any company is more than just the ink on its articles of incorporation (or whatever).

The argument is much more nuanced than you’ve proposed.
You get a diffusion of responsibility when there are more people who could do a task than are required (i.e., when anyone can decide not to do it).

This change allows you to prevent that from happening, by requiring as many reviewers to approve a request as your team has—so that everyone has to approve it. Previously, GitHub only let you set one required reviewer, which enabled diffusion of responsibility.
it's everything over 50 years. It makes a difference having a kid at 25 vs 35.
This is why starlets aren't posting their naughty pictures to Facebook.
I don't think the everyday alternative to a bad job should be a startup. That's such a different level of commitment it's not even comparable.
Companies are typically careful to keep employees atomized enough to prevent the disgruntled from organizing. Typically they suffer in isolation and just job hop until they find a place they enjoy working at.

There are also small things companies can do to make the lives of their employees better that are sometimes impossible to negotiate as an individual. Unified teams can negotiate some of these things.
How does it show that? The title is a reference to the popular rule of the internet.
Read the first sentence of your post. That's why it's necessary.
Ah, the early days of PC gaming - where one kid could program the most popular game and make a fortune off it without Apple/Steam/etc taking all the profits in an commoditized market of games; but also where they had to be written in assembler by hand, a single PC would cost your life savings, and distributing a game could require a (third) mortgage on your house... They were interesting times, but as a consumer I definitely prefer now.
> Canadian RRSP system

My understanding is that Canadian residents don't have the same number of low-cost index funds available to them as US residents. There's no Vanguard for individual investors, and no Schwab and Fidelity trying to compete with Vanguard's offerings.
I believe that when founders stock is fully vested, additional grants are an option to retain the founders beyond 4 years (or whatever the founders stock beating period is). 11 years as CEO likely led to additional grants. For a much bigger example, look at the additional grant Musk got this last week for Tesla.
The lightweight and modern Linux desktop. LXQt is what I used to work on (I still help out once in a while), and it just doesn't have the manpower and organization required to produce something really good.

Working on the Desktop is a really interesting thing. The goal is to turn machines into something usable for, nowdays essentially browsing the web or gaming (with the oddball app that does more than that).

It's a very rewarding thing. Hit me up if you are interested: Swing by the #lxqt channel on IRC and DM me (jleclanche, or agaida if I'm not here). It's a place where you can get to either work on stuff that already exists, or make up your own new ideas, or help bring standards together.
Yes, that is possible.

I can't imagine the US is going to extradite anyone for violating the GDPR, but there is no principle barring it. Kim Dotcom's case is probably of interest here.
You can also just buy to donate:
https://luckyironfish.com/collections/all/products/give-5-lu...
Welcome to open source maintainership
They use Instagram and Facebook to advertise iPhone's alot.
None that I know of unfortunately.
Are you making the argument that ethical progress is not possible?
I don’t have FB account for more than 5 years (for both privacy reasons and also cos it felt wasting my time for a platform that doesn’t add any value to my life) and today I’m very happy about that.

It is kinda funny how people are reacting just now because I am pretty sure people already knew what was happening to their data anyway. It was obvious, there was so many discussions around it. So it’s a lie if you say you didn’t know they are using your data.

But everybody chose to stay just because everyone else was there. (most)People don’t dare to move alone and that’s very sad and stupid.
Shkreli paid investors back with interest.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/29/news/martin-shkreli-fraud-tr...

> After their meeting, Sarah Hassan invested $300,000 in MSMB Capital, a fund Shkreli ran. He later told her that investment had increased to $435,000, she said.
[approximately 2 years later]

> Hassan eventually settled with Shkreli and she even made money off her original investment. She told the court she received $400,000 in cash, plus 58,000 shares of Retrophin that were eventually sold for an additional $900,000.
But then they won't be able to win the regulatory arbitrage game. Why do you think Uber left California to test in Arizona? If the regulations were equivalent, do you think they would have done that?
13 miles / intervention. These cars should not have been on the road. Period. That's pathetic. Uber should be held criminally liable for this. And so should whomever approved their application in the AZ gov't. Maybe the driver too, if she knew this statistic. Her manager who sent her out solo for sure. This is truly outrageous. I'm full support of autonomous vehicle development but not when there is clearly zero oversight by authorities.
Off the top of my head:

Lobby for improvements in labour laws to protect employees -scrapping non competes for example:

Representation: In Discipline & Grievance, labour or employment triburnerals.

Also as a source of pay rates etc ala BECTU, IATSE who also represent a lot of freelance workers and managers.
I see a lot of people arguing about how unions protect workers, and in some cases that is true, but in my experience many have been corrupted. You only have to look at the coal workers, steel workers, and several other unions, that's leadership has been corrupted, and serve their own interest at the expense of everyone else.

Additionally, things like agency fees, where even if you work somewhere with a Union, and you are denied membership, and member only benifits you can still be required to pay the union, for their "collective bargaining benifits."

There are also the nightmares of union fiefdom, if a light bulb burns out in your office and you want it changed, you can wait till a union employee comes to do it, or you can pay the union the minimum call out fee (usually a couple of hours) after doing it yourself.

Unions have completely failed at protecting retirement plans, and preventing age discrimination across the country.

I can't understand how anyone can honestly evaluate the performance of unions in the last several decades and think that implementing one would in anyway make for a better work life situation.
At least you can still buy fake IDs, passports, and "green cards" on CL[0].

[0] https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/tix/d/make-your-passport-dr...
It's only cheaper because it's operating at a loss. Taxis do not operate at a loss.
http://opensimulator.org
I agree - Uber's definitely not going to fare well. Maybe Travis' thinking/realization was that Uber is just an app and maybe the major auto manufacturers will realize that and not want to pay the Uber Tax and just put their cars out on the road using their own in-house hailing app? Also prior to the accidents - it was great free media coverage for the future IPO when talking with investors and recruiting smart engineers.
Obstruction of justice can be less bad for you than the offense concealed, so if the offense is bad enough, risking punishment for that may not be irrational if it offers a real chance of concealing another offense.
You've gotta keep in mind their product is not the day to day engineering work while you're engaged with Pivotal, but the transformation of your team.

If they're successful, you're left with a team who adheres to or even enjoys the rules and rituals laid down by Pivotal, and you end up with that team I described who can "kinda-sorta mostly get anything done... eventually... with the help of a few external vendors..." From a business perspective, this isn't a terrible place to be.

If they aren't successful, oops, your entire team churned during your engagement with Pivotal, but don't worry -- they're happy to help out with your hiring processes.
Mobile was barely a thing then. Amazing the decade of progress in personal electronics.
All unions have concrete ways to make people's lives better. That's why they exist. This website glosses over them but they are pretty basic.

Things like open salaries, control over agile process, overtime for on-call, overtime pay for crunch times, more control over hiring / firing.
It's interesting how so many techies initially had the knee-jerk reaction of "well, despite this accident, I bet these Uber autonomous cars are still safer than humans".

It seems like all information available to us suggests the polar opposite.
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I tell my kids that if they are calling me from someone else's phone or a school office phone I probably won't answer but they should be sure to leave a voicemail because I will listen to that.
> The peasant's free time extended beyond officially sanctioned holidays. There is considerable evidence of what economists call the backward-bending supply curve of labor -- the idea that when wages rise, workers supply less labor. During one period of unusually high wages (the late fourteenth century), many laborers refused to work "by the year or the half year or by any of the usual terms but only by the day." And they worked only as many days as were necessary to earn their customary income -- which in this case amounted to about 120 days a year, for a probable total of only 1,440 hours annually (this estimate assumes a 12-hour day because the days worked were probably during spring, summer and fall). A thirteenth-century estime finds that whole peasant families did not put in more than 150 days per year on their land. Manorial records from fourteenth-century England indicate an extremely short working year -- 175 days -- for servile laborers. Later evidence for farmer-miners, a group with control over their worktime, indicates they worked only 180 days a year.

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_w...

Does not sound like the actions of a group desperate for more work.
I needed a custom stacked timeline for the work system.

I was planning to do something horrible and then remembered d3 from a post years ago, day of futzing around with examples and it does it cleanly in less than 300 lines of code.

Genuinely impressive API as well.
Restaurant delivery is harder than you think
Exponentiation operator gratuitous and unnecessary?

WHAT?
One could argue that many of the artificial things are there just to counter the negatives of other artificial things just to keep the whole thing going.
Not the parent, but I would say that a platform should somehow add value to your life to be "good for you". HN, Reddit (depending on where you go), other sites etc can entertain, teach, and connect you with interesting people. Social networks I've found are value detractors for me because:

A. I don't care what 95% of people I am connected with are doing, and I regularly talk to the people I care about anyway.

B. I can't have any meaningful discussions on them

C. They are dominated by high volume posters who tend to be very opinionated. Very opinionated people tend to have extreme opinions which are usually wrong and aren't particularly interesting to me.

D. The networks present a false sense of reality which lowers happiness. Everyone always posts their highlight reel which makes you feel like the whole world is killing it constantly and you aren't.
Here is the supposed technological marvel, to the point where the NYT has some infographic showing the various tech whiz bang sensors on that rampaging SUV, but then someone hands them a 140p dashcam video with half the pixels in any given frame truncated to pitch black and no one at the Times thinks to question that particular narrative?

Instead we get a weak story about "pressure building before the CEO visit" and a bunch of blame on the unknowing scrubs Uber has "test-driving" them.
SaferCPlusPlus[1], for example, is a safe subset of C++ that has compatible safe substitutes for C++'s (and therefore C's) unsafe elements. So migrating existing C/C++ code generally just requires replacing variable declarations, not restructuring the code.

For C programs, one strategy is to provide a set of macros to be used as replacements for unsafe types in variable declarations. These macros will allow you, with a compile-time directive, to switch between using the original unsafe C elements, or the compatible safe substitutes (which are C++ and require a C++ compiler).

The replacement of unsafe C types with the compatible substitute macros can be largely automated, and there is actually a nascent auto-translator[2] in the works. (Well, it's being a bit neglected at the moment :)

Custom conventions using macros to improve code quality are not that uncommon in organized C projects. Right? But this one can (optionally, theoretically) deliver complete memory safety. So you might imagine, for example, a linux distribution providing two build versions, where one is a little slower but memory safe.

[1] shameless plug: https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus

[2] https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus-AutoTransla...
If you’re running a business
Ehhh, except that rust's borrowing system is a really great aid to prevent those sorts of things. And, one can easily make a thread responsible for deallocating the cascading objects. The point being that reference counting allows one more control over how deallocation is done.

Besides, the real time capable garbage collectors are basically just backed in implementations of exactly that. With reference counting, it can be written in the language itself, rather than as a tunable external part of the implementation, which is useful.
Should we update gophericons with the new ones?
I find Ex-Yugoslavia is entirely defensible and should have been cleanes up by EU members, US came in because noone stepped up. But that’s about the only sensible foreign military effort since Korea I can think of, and Korea was saved from having overly hawkish generals mess it up.
what's wrong with xfce?
Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job
If you have new folks who aren't fully socialized to the project yet, having multiple reviewers is much worse than having a couple of people specifically individually coaching new would-be committers.

I use a coaching approach for new hires at my startups.
I believe scarming is making a different point. While you're saying one reviewer from a pool means no one ever actually reviews the code, he's saying that with 2 (or 5) reviewers instead of 1, you're more likely to have the reviewers examine the code in less detail.

The responsibility (or blame?) for bugs is diffused over more people, so people will care less.

I'm not sure that I agree, but I can at least understand the argument.
Ubiquity for Firefox. It was an overlay that let you type commands to use and combine web services using natural language. It understood pronouns, so you could highlight text and say "map this" and it would look up the selection in Google maps. You would subscribe to command feeds that could be updated automatically for bug fixes or to keep up with changing APIs. By the time the project was abandoned, it had an advanced language engine with noun or verb autocomplete in multiple languages including different subject-verb-object orders.

https://web.archive.org/web/20101030050714/https://wiki.mozi...
That's basically my take. A lot of evaluation is properly subjective and qualitative. Both bosses staring at deadlines and union negotiators clamoring for paper trails and predefined metrics are going to be bad for the industry and therefore workers, at least in the long run.
Don't be all gloom and doom. I agree with your parent comment that it's a reasonable law, and the general sentiment that it's manageable both when you're small (not a lot of overhead in collecting one user's stuff and shipping it) and when you're large (automate all the things). And I don't think that many requests will come in, even while the new law is still hot.

Also, 99% of the law already exists in the Netherlands. I did my first request last week actually, after I discovered a company did WiFi tracking on me. I got a reply today, very professionally and complete (and fast, I should add: they had 4 weeks). I was impressed and it gave me a lot more confidence in the company. And it didn't look like it cost them a lot of time, either.
Are you seriously comparing a 85M satellite's destruction to deleting a Facebook page?
I'm a developer, it's still illegal for me to use holes found by other developers. He trespassed on private property, his being called a "journalist" doesn't much change that.
This is how I would deal with it if I was a regulator:
* Revoke Uber's license to operate - While they might not be found at fault, they have shown gross negligence by having an operator that doesn't observe the road, computer vision that can't sense a pedestrian crossing several lanes even when their LIDAR manufacturer says they could, and an algorithm which encouraged the car to speed 3 mph over the limit when it was dark conditions (that's when you are supposed to slow down due to decreased visiblity). I would then:

* Construct a test to be able to operate under day and night conditions. Periodically audit each operator to confirm they can pass this. This is essentially equivalent of a driving test but would be a controlled environment that simulates real cities. Maybe have robot humans to simulate pedestrians and obviously have other cars on the road.
* Require that operators test X miles of specific scenarios (city driving, highway, etc.) each month and audit their # of disengagements in each of these scenarios. When it his a threshold, their license is revoked and they need to go back to the lab. They should also submit videos of clips for all disengagements.
* Require all operators to have video on their safety operators and submit records of % of the time the operator has eyes on the road along with videos. Regulators can revoke license if they see issues with the the operator not paying attention.

We can't rely on a corporation to safely controlling their experiments, the regulators need to step up here. was uber doing anything for example, to make sure the operator was watching the road? The operator is looking down for most of the time during the crash video.
Unions are like lawyers members get representation irrespective of guilt or innocence.

Yes a Union cant stop some one being fired if they are guilty of Gross misconduct but they can make sure people don't get fired for say accusing a manger for unwanted touching or to make wahy for the CEO's nephew.

For example I bet James Danmore had no advice before his internal hearings that lead to his firing.
Do you know what passive aggressive means?
You may have noticed that it is increasingly difficult to use currency or transfer funds as a result of actions to control transfers. Try taking $10,000 out and using it.

Ditto on internet controls. Remember PRISM?
I like it but it feels like a webview.
Ever tried changing an owned field in a struct to a borrowed one with lifetimes?
Be prepared to change not only the struct and its fields but also everything else where it appears.
Yes, the compiler will catch your mistakes, but no, it's not something I love.
I abandoned Facebook instead of deleting my account.

I treat Facebook like a big phone book now and left a public status on my profile with an email address that forwards mail to my real email address for people that want to get in touch with me.

The main reason I did not delete my account is that there is one other person with exactly my name and very questionable values, judging the public content of his profile. This really sucks. My name is not common and unfortunately he married a distant cousin of mine and now has my name.

Now I don’t like the idea of people looking for me accidentally getting in touch with him thinking they are contacting me. Unlikely with his current profile picture in place, but still a possibility in the future.
Properly done 121's and APR's
What mechanism do they think lead to this "increase". RF we use for telecommunications does not have enough energy for the photo electric effect. At worst it just heats you up. If RF causes cancer then my own body heat should cause cancer...

Also cancers rates in humans have remained pretty much unchanged from my understanding. So if there is an effect is it limited to rat physiology/biology? Like DNA that is more effected by heat ect... Also if I remember right rats have a body temperature of about 38 C or 100 F. So if it is a thermal effect larger animals should have a better buffer.
I think the biggest problem with a lot of companies is that it's all about growth. Every year more money, more customers etc. Eventually something will give when you're trying to provide a free service and become a huge company. They have to sell something to someone who will pay.

So for a social media company that is free for users and requires a huge software development effort? What are their assets? Pretty much just users. Maybe their code based. I think it's almost inevitable that they put ads on stuff and then later sell your data. What else were they going to do? Start asking users to pay a subscription? Sell the software so that others can spin up their own social media websites?

Its become a cliche but "if you're not paying for it, you're not the customer, you're the product". Now obviously companies with products and services you pay for, are still going to screw you over. But yes, I think this is exactly what people should expect to happen.
The Computer Nonsense Guide (rc1)
You are missing the point. The question was about if I could change something in C.

I use stdint.h (and inttypes.h since fuck printf without it amirite) but u8 ... are just better.
> D. The networks present a false sense of reality which lowers happiness. Everyone always posts their highlight reel which makes you feel like the whole world is killing it constantly and you aren't.

This! I can resonate with all of your points. But this one is one of their major weaknesses.
Knowing consent that it's used for prostitution isn't required under FOSTA/SESTA. Merely knowing consent that there's facilitation.
John Brunner, Ursula Leguin and Alfred Bester (to name just a few) were covering this ground back in 60s and 70s.