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Nato.0+55+3d (released in 1999) was an amazing but notorious extension for Max that enabled live programming of real time video manipulation, networking and display.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nato.0%2B55%2B3d

"At the time of its release (the summer of 1999), NATO.0+55+3d was in demand as it appeared several years before other similar infrastructures such as GEM and Jitter (released by the makers of Max/MSP in October 2002). Earlier software such as Image/ine developed in 1997 at STEIM was drawing in a similar direction, but the fact that NATO.0+55+3d was operating inside the Max/MSP framework, using its "visual programming" protocol, provided at the same time greater ease of use and more flexibility, allowing the user to create his own applications and tools. It gained popularity among video artists and performers, who were using it for a large variety of purposes, prominently for live performance and interactive installation."

"The last version of NATO.0+55+3d modular was released in November 2000, while additional NATO objects were developed until June 2001."

I say it was notorious, due to the "art persona" who developed it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netochka_Nezvanova_(author)

"Netochka Nezvanova is the pseudonym used by the author(s) of nato.0+55+3d, a real-time, modular, video and multi-media processing environment. Alternate aliases include "=cw4t7abs", "punktprotokol", "0f0003", "maschinenkunst" (preferably spelled "m2zk!n3nkunzt"), "integer", and "antiorp". The name itself is adopted from the main character of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's first novel Netochka Nezvanova (1849) and translates as "nameless nobody."

Salon wrote an interesting article about her and her antics (including her lawsuit against Cycling '74, developer of Max): "The most feared woman on the Internet: Netochka Nezvanova is a software programmer, radical artist and online troublemaker. But is she for real?"

https://www.salon.com/2002/03/01/netochka/

"NN's reputation is based on mouth 2 mouth adverti.cement. When something is very well konstruckted and designed with a degree of integrity it stands on its own ... All the cool girls wear NN."

"As a community destroyer, she's fantastic," says Bernstein, the Brooklyn artist. "She's perhaps one of the Internet's first professional demolition experts. She's a real talent."

"The legend is entirely negative, in a sense. But it turns out that people are really attracted to that," says David Zicarelli, the founder of Cycling '74, a small software company in San Francisco,

"Her contribution as a Net artist is in some ways more culturally significant than her work as a programmer," says Beatrice Beaubien.

NN's response to that article:

http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-bold-020...

10. When thrown off a mailing list,

I have not been thrown off a mailing list.
I have been illegally transformed into a yellow flower.

A young girl one day found me, and with half closed eyes whispered:

Perfection,
Today you've peered in my direction.
I didn't actually suggest donations was a lucrative revenue model. Support could be though, for example, RedHat is a billion dollar business.
The problem with build systems is that people try to do too much with them.

It wouldn't be so bad, if there was consistent, thorough documentation available, including for the various plugins that people put together and shared.

But where things stand it's entirely too easy to have builds that only a few people really understand as they read through the build definitions.

At their heart, builds are simple. Pull in dependencies. Process templated files. Copy files. Run a test suite. Compile/link/etc.

Yet, with large projects there always seems to be something unique that requires a custom plugin or a day and a half trying to figure out how to move a particular step, or heaven forbid running the same kind of step twice at different stages.

The way I see it - if you have to spend a day figuring out how to do anything with your build system, you have eliminated the benefit of said build system. You might as well build a shell script in half an hour that does what you want it to do. If someone can come along later and say "that's easy with ant/maven/gradle/buildr/make/etc." and can throw it together quickly along with a quick doc explaining the steps, then fantastic.

I think time is better spent writing software than struggling through learning a build environment.
How did you find out he wasn't a spy?
Let's not forget that 5x is actually a big difference, especially in terms of the end user... You can also avoid much more near-the-edge performance issues/instability.

As you alude to it may not be worth a 10x increase in developer effort to try and do a bunch of rewriting when you could do something (as you said) like just replacing the bloatiest, slowest parts of rails and get large performance gains.

Have you written anything about this? I'd love to read more. As a person that is neutral/dislike on ruby and full-on hates rails, I'd love to hear from someone who's experienced running something as new as Rust in production alongside a rails application, especially from someone who likes ruby.
Yes, of course they were. They also made better use of Twitter, and took advantage of the broken clickbait-based news market by generating cheap controversies and using strong language to get free publicity. There's no meme that spreads faster than anger, people love sharing things that make them angry, and it was heavily exploited by this campaign. No matter what you think about his policies, Trump is a master politician that knows how to play his opponents and the media like a fiddle. It's low brow, and it's brutal, but it works.
Right, so the latter use would probably be illegal, but that doesn't make the former use illegal.
In the Witcher 3 you are playing a specific character created by the developers. It's a bit like a JRPG in that sense. Most western RPGs have you play as your own character.
> We're irreconcilably opposed, but I have no doubt that everyone on this thread is advocating their true thoughts. Please reconsider this mode of argumentation in the future.

When I say "I think you're not in good faith", obviously that's not an argument for anything. Take it as a justification of why I'm convinced that continuing won't get us anywhere and therefore not worth the effort.

And by the way... when I said that I was referring to someone else; I haven't been following what you've been saying.
I don't know about anyone else, but as an EU skeptical European I've never been more happy about GDPR. The tech hegemons clearly don't deserve the public trust and good will they've enjoyed for the last decade.
Hmm. Not sure why you were down voted. I’m interested in hearing logical arguments. I have no idea if your statistics are correct for “almost all guns are semiautomatic”.

One impression I’ve had regarding recent 2nd amendment rights arguments is that we need guns for hunting, home protection, self protection, and protection from the government.

1. I’ve never met a hunter that insists on semi automatics for hunting. To many that seems un sportsman-like.
2. Shotguns are very effective for home protection against the most common types of home “invasion” since they don’t need perfect aim. They are not generally semi-Automatic.
3. I understand that for many, self protection may mean a hand gun. Sure some are semi-automatic.
4. If a modern government “wants you”, no amount of currently legal private arms will stop them regardless if they are semi-automatic.

So of those scenarios, only #3 has a strong argument for semi-automatic imho. And we don’t often see hand guns as the main tool in mass shootings (though they are clearly a tool in general crime related gun violence - gang shooting, robbery, demos tic abuse, etc).

I’m interested in logical arguments why the gun lobby argues against this idea. Note, I’m not saying I agree with the idea that guns are the best solution for 2 and 3. I do believe in responsible hunting. I have fired a number of different types of guns.
While it isn't a metal its still amazing stuff. Sometimes I wish I had stuck with my PhD in Chemistry which would have been working for someone who made equally wild materials.
PC isn't an operating system. Please call it Windows if you mean Windows.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16753013 has more discussion, but so far nobody has figured out what exactly is going on.
Not really the US was lucky that one individual Dr Kelsey at the FDA dug deeper and did not lenience it for use in the USA.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/08/science/frances-oldham-ke...
They did. Look at Ultima Online and other very early MMORPGs. They were called 'Graphical MUDs'.
Fairly unfortunate (mind understatement). Especially for the US Corp which literally added mandatory uploading and sharing of random end user docs to Win 10.

Hopefully this starts the ball rolling on Windows being completely unacceptable for use by all non-US goverments and business. Giving your docs to an unfriendly foreign state isn't cool. ;)
I don't believe the numbers. Clinton outspent Trump 2 to 1. She had the most sophisticated ops (including Groundwork (Eric Schmidt-backed startup)). How could Clinton campaign have spent half the other when it was their area of competence ?
OR... it is possible that people researched the history and positions of the Bush/Clinton dynasties?
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Playing devil's advocate: it could also be that their implementation of the GDPR necessarily restricts functionality from the user's point of view. And they simply want their users to have the best (in their view) possible experience.
With cider, mead, and wine you want to watch out for back-sweetening. Since many consumers prefer a sweeter product, the finished product will have additional fruit juice, honey, or other sweeteners after suppressing additional fermentation. Beer isn't completely immune from it, either, but it's less common.
>but it will require a certain minimum of commitment.

But any inconvenience is a business opportunity unless you simply outlaw certain types of information-retrieval businesses.
Agreed but there's also nothing better than good management -- makes a huge difference
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It seems to me that the reason why they failed was because they were too expensive due to a reliance on OEMs like Alienware who inevitably put out overpriced junk. There were too many options. That's not how you win the market. Not sure they were really interested in doing so...it was more of a hedge against MS.
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Just want to let you know, as a person that worked at intel at one point -- 10nm is already plenty hard. @ 10nm and below, engineers/designers at intel (and a bunch of smaller more agile companies intel works with) are at this point just fighting physics as we know it at this point.

There are promising technologies coming about, but since they're so different the amount of time it takes to perfect the process is super unforgiving, and intel is trying to navigate all that while putting out products that actually appeal to customers in different markets, planning them out at least a year in advance despite not having any idea what the market will look like in a year.

Moore's law is super dead. If any company were to manage to keep up it would be nothing short of a miraculous revival.
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If it is caused by a disability (e.g. Asperger) the ADA does require reasonable accommodation - which in fact does make it up to the rest of the company.
That’s the point. Using tech isn’t what makes you a tech company, and never has been. Banks, airlines have been running cobol and what have you for ages.

When your product is software/hardware, then you’re a tech company.
I didn't mean windows, I meant PC gaming.
It's not something that can be solved on an API level. You can rewrite the C standard library all you want, you still won't be able to differentiate between this:

void handle_signal(struct signal_handler_arg *arg)

which does signal handling

and this:

void check_signal_info(struct signal_handler_arg *arg)

which validates a struct signal_handler, is called outside a signal handler, and doesn't do any signal handling.

Similarly, you would not be able to verify that this is okay:

void handle_signalstruct signal_handler_arg *arg)
{
...
some_global_state->some_cb(...);
}

If some_cb is populated at runtime, how do you know (at compile-time) that it's been populated with a function that's safe to call inside a signal?
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> added mandatory uploading and sharing of random end user docs to Win 10.

What does this mean?

Does Windows 10 automatically upload randomly-selected Word documents to Microsoft? Or something else?
A paper:

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2984511.2984547
It seems like a large part of the problem is the authority we put into seemingly random information on the internet. People tend to not put the same sort of trust into banter on the street.

We need to make the general public more critical to written text, the society haven't quite kept up with development of information flow.
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For Ubisoft, there's Uplay. But I don't think you'll like their client either. Also, Origin, EA's shop, carries non-EA games.
Possible that people researched something instead of falling victim of confirmation bias and internet memes? Unless you mean by researching something very different than me, you even thinking that is possible makes me guess your sample of "people" is heavily biased.
I think Proebsting's law [1] overlooks a number of points. Firstly, it is my understanding that compiler optimization made RISC feasible, and if so, then some of the hardware performance improvement over that period is attributable to compiler technology (at the very least, perhaps he should have compared today's optimizing compiler to a decades-old optimizing compiler, not today's compiler, optimized vs. unoptimized?) Secondly, he is extrapolating from at most two points (assuming his 'before' numbers are valid), and thirdly, with the (comparatively) low-hanging hardware fruit all gone, compiler optimizations have become relatively more useful (especially the work on optimizing concurrent and parallel software.)

Nevertheless, I tend to agree that programmer productivity is a worthy goal (and more specifically, those that improve productivity through making it easier to understand programs, so that programmers can more quickly produce programs that work properly.)

[1] See Marvy's comment for a link to the law: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16751813
> No amount of lego will make a lego brain. No amount of oscillation in an electric field will make a thought.

We can never build a Lego brain that is indistinguishable from a physical brain because brain cells are distinguishable from Lego, but this doesn't mean that a computer can't think. We accept that distinct humans share the property of sentience even though there are observable differences between them. Why is 'thought' required to occur in a cluster of brain cells that share the physical and chemical properties of human brains in general, but not the specific properties of any one person's brain in particular? Using your terminology, what is the 'causal structure' of thought?
I'm convinced 99% of T_D users who spent 12 months posting Pepe memes were actual people inspired by a paid 1%. You can probably save a lot of money if so many will "work" for free.
It was technology acquired from a Russian company called ParaGraph.(http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1993-07-26/business/93072...)
A PhD.
"Separating out the support process (to automation, to contractors, etc.) makes it easy to forget you’re not writing code to serve robots, you’re writing code to serve people."

This is difficult to do when much of what silicon valley produces is to serve, or promote, robotic habits and interactions.

There are sub-industries of tech that could not exist if they were forced to interact with, and respect, their customers on a human to human basis - the product and the intended end use of that product preclude that.
True, well I think everyone has a boiling point, some people just have a lower specific heat.
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NixOS 18.03 released
It may depend heavily on the content of the comment, but I would guess it wouldn't constitute data about you. Even your username is anonimisable by you.
I remember a indie dev saying that he won't port his game to Linux, since, even if it was working, he couldn't do enough testing to guanrantee a stable enough release.
"Can" as in quantum chemistry is one of the best applications for quantum computers.
FWIW, on Windows there is py2exe[1], but it is nowhere nearly as convenient as what you have in mind. It basically wraps your script along with any dependencies and the python runtime into a folder. But at least you can copy that folder to any other Windows machine and run the executable, and it will mostly "just work".

http://www.py2exe.org/
After all this time, all the leaks, and everything that came out, you are still willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.

This is so sad.
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Finally someone did it! Nice work.
On the other hand, software often follows the Pareto principle: 80% of the time is spent executing 20% of the code [^1].
Optimizing/migrating just that 20% would yield most of the benefits of a complete rewrite.
(Good luck if that 20% resides in your framework of choice, though).

[^1]: https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/49023/The-impact-of-the...
Some of the simpler muds worked quite well with the zMUD automapper[1] which would try to parse the room descriptions and build/navigate the map.

I remember trying to get it working for Discworld, but the richness of the world descriptions (which varied depending on weather, light level, and all sorts of other factors), along with spontaneous info messages, made it very hard to extract reliably.

My complete lack of knowledge about parsing & text processing probably didn't help matters, and I learned a lot building triggers and other (mostly tolerated) automation back in the day.

One particular feature/challenge I remember was the UU library, which in order to navigate around, switched from cardinal directions (go east; go west; ...) to relative (turn left; forward; forward; turn right), so you had to keep track of your rotation. Combined with deviously constructed routes, it didn't take much to get hopelessly lost, which as the entire point I think :)

A lot of that subtlety would be lost in a simple tiled map, as would all the (often extremely verbose and entertaining) world descriptions.

Add that to the fact that almost all were player/volunteer-built worlds, and graphical art is a much harder field to dabble in than text, probably explains why graphics-first waited until commercial developments like EQ.

[1] http://www.oocities.org/timessquare/dungeon/6091/automap1.gi...
Chrome on Android put a line break in the middle of a word. I assume that was an "invisible" character?
I don't assume people are so easily fooled. Especially by those two families. Take 5 minutes to research the latest creepy front runner (JB). There's not even a chance, but the central news pretends. I think the data (a solid win by an outsider) supports that.
It really isn't. Maybe I'm mistaken and then I'm listening to how you do it ?

The purpose of file syncing and backuping is very different, one is ensuring that a change on the source is replicated to the destination and is kept up to date on changes, the other is taking a snapshot frozen in time no matter what happens on the source.
I think a week later Team A apologized, replaced his ship and took him back.

But the accusation was stupid to begin with. He was a loyal member for years, living in the same Canadian state as another eve player is not really uncommon any shouting on TeamSpeak who is currently getting shot would not have been helpful.

Diplomats from Team B said he was not a spy.
Commute. It is what I have always done. My door-to-door commute is over an hour now anyway.
I've had to explain Reddit to my mom--she wanted to see what her kids were so busy with all the time--I can tell you that voting comments aren't nearly as simple as they might seem.

Neither is the concept of subreddits, the difference between text and link posts, subreddit discovery, the community and culture... These were all hurdles that she needed to get through and at the end she gave it up. Too complicated.

The difference between her and most Reddit users is that she was determined to get active on Reddit: she kept trying for weeks.

The difference between her and most non-Reddit users is that she's quite tech-savvy. She worked in tech for 20 years. She fixes her friends' computer problems.
The deal is that it isn’t aluminium. Seriusly, what’s with the clickbate headline? If you consider everything that contains aluminium atoms in the structure to be actual aluminium, then Saffire is also transparent aluminium.

The authors are diliberatly misleading their readers in order to cincrease interest. That’s a shitty thing to do in science even if do have a cool materiale on It’s own merits.
I don't think there are relevant difference between thinking things.

Thought is just a particular set of biochemical reactions occurring across particular kinds of biological systems (nervous systems).

When you get hungry, you start thinking of food. These thoughts are, literally, products of the innervation of your stomach.

I don't know what "thinking" is if computers are the kinds of things which can do it; I'd guess it would be nothing we are, in fact, doing.

Two pieces of glass may differ in size, but not in what makes them transparent. Two people may differ in all sorts of ways, but not in what makes them conscious.
If I had to guess, I'd say they were doing it because it is often installed with suid root.

Edit: also, there's a challenge about this in the program's README :-)

"Decide for yourself, of course, but it looks safe to me - there's only one
buffer and fgets doesn't let it overflow, there's only one file opening, and while there is a potential race condition there, it's with /dev/console. If someone can exploit this race by replacing /dev/console, you've got bigger problems. :)"
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
I don't know if it's in the spirit of HN discussion to judge someone's intelligence by their looks.
interesting, I wonder if that is why there are so many typos and grammatical errors in news articles these days
Yes, I read something like that too :-) It's definitively not clearly mentioned and we could (still) qualify the procedure as 'obscur'. Though the same would hold for France- or Delaware-based comps.

Generally:

- on boarding is easy and relatively cheap,

- off boarding is more difficult.

And if you want to close then:

1) you better do it right—it's a process with rules that can take weeks if not months;

2) you gotta pay unless you declare the business bankrupt;

3) it takes a lot of off-the-path back-and-forth exchanges with people that have limited incentive to help you.
Your misunderstanding guarantees you will make bad predictions. There is even a place for US citizens to bet money on it; predictit. Re-stating you statement means a 1% of frog posts wins elections. Why? You really don't know. By your logic you should be able to use it though. All JB needs is the right frog...
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