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Ember felt very Rails-y to me. The ember community felt entrenched in rails, and rails is reaching end-of-life. It is old-school thought. Ember made existing ideas better, a 2x gain maybe. I want new ideas, the 100x leap.
Already an example game in LambdaNative: https://github.com/part-cw/lambdanative/blob/master/apps/uSq.... Compile it and run it, or get it from the App stores
I made a reddit alternative that focused on removing the power from moderators. It never really took off, although I do keep it up at this point. https://linkgum.com
Weird, there seem to be two android apps for it, one old one with a quite low rating (3.3 / 5): https://www.appbrain.com/app/hello-com/com.hello.application and one launched 3 weeks ago: https://www.appbrain.com/app/hello-com/com.hello.network
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He definitely was not under oath. If that was a requirement he would of never testified.
Mainly "cross platform". Many people would interpret that as [desktop] platforms, e.g. Linux/Windows/Mac OS. Especially if you weren't previously aware of what Flutter is.

Adding a "mobile" in there somewhere would be a significant improvement.

In addition "movie app" is a bit underspecified. Maybe it's for managing movies? Editing them? Playing them?

Especially when both confusions are combined, it can be easy to get the wrong idea of what the submission is.
I'm dutch with a pretty good grasp of english and never knew "munt" was slang or offensive. You learn every day.
"Slashdot and voat..."

Slashdot yes, but I would have to disagree on Voat being an old-timer hive.
If I had to guess, there would be a lot of pushback before private companies back down and let regulators bully them into releasing their private source code and data.

With every major car company currently working on some form of autonomous driving either in-house or via partnerships, I don't see how a "winner" will end up being licensed by the others. It's just too much of a loss of control.

Even in this very late stage of autonomous vehicle development, it is still very unclear who the winners are. I don't see this dynamic changing any time soon, even if the technology 10x's its metrics.
I love how you managed you blame the opiate crisis on pharma companies, when it's directly tired to the consequences of drug prohibition by governments.
Not just drunk: munt specifically means you’re really out of your mind on drugs.

Usually in a happy way with friends, like “we were munt on the couch together”, but yeah. That’s what it means.

The URL makes this worse. To “get munt”, well. Yep.

Source: native English, now live in Australia.
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Tesla has showrooms. Tesla has service centers. They offer financing. I'm not a fan of car dealerships and spend as little time as possible in one when I buy a car. But there isn't a whole lot of evidence that if I started buying cars directly from the manufacturer, that car costs would be drastically reduced.
Facebook and Zuckerberg will tell you that they disagree with Boz's comments.

He wasn't fired.

He wasn't demoted.

He was promoted.

His responsibilities were expanded.

If that's not a silent endorsement, a message to the rank and file about where the company's values stand, I don't know what is.
Does this not waste a lot of space with huge executables? Furthermore, using shared libraries would help to save RAM as well.
Have the same thought quite often when google io is happening.

It was and is still typical to be shown something cool and useless which works perfect in San Francisco and thats it.

I think only 1 or 3 years ago, they talked about google services which have a light version so countries like india or areas with low bandwith can use them properly.

Not shit sherlock.

Android got bigger and fatter than after ages they announce go.

Nexus Q? 'this device has high end cpu etc. and for only 300$' and it should be in every room? Srsly?

The mindset of an silicon valley developer who has everything on hand, trusts his/her environment etc. is a very unique experience. I would compare it to an university. You working and living with your pals. After all lots of conflict potential things are gone: No one has to clean up, no one has to make meals, there is probably no theft and everyone earns more than enough money.

Than there is google io and protesters outside.

While google has an huge impact, facebook only does data handling. And it has such a huge responsibility which shouldn't be even allowed on our earth. But who are those pepoloe who build it? Those are anyone and noone. You don't need to pass any ethical moral test to become part of it.
Using a framework per se is a drag. If you want to do something quickly or have a bunch of choices made for you, it can be great. But as soon as those choices don’t make sense for you, it’s too late and you’ve painted yourself in a corner. You need to use their tooling and generally shape your workflow into what they’ve envisioned. Instead, it’s all about smashing a bunch of libraries together these days.

I know Ember has been composed as a set of libraries, but it seems like a lot of the advantage it offers comes from buying into things like their server-side rendering, templating approach and so on. There are plenty of engines out there already that will render a virtual DOM or whatever, though I’m sure theirs is really nice.

Plus, maybe people are just wary of something that doesn’t have the clear backing of a big company. Not that I’m saying people should feel that way.
Indeed. You can probably operate 4 or 5 SAAB Gripens for the cost of one F35, even though they are individually inferior.
Seconding Reddit is Fun - it has a very decent UX (about the only thing I'd love to see improved is the comment box, especially around quoting stuff). It's lean, bullshit-free, actively developed and offers all the features you'd have on the website (at least all that I know of).
The core issue is that if you would provide all the features in a software that the code provides, it would be more complicated than learning coding itself.

After using a lot of different dev tools, I disagree. There are orders of magnitude easier environments than others.
There definitely is... That's the whole point of Facebook's Senate hearing. If it stays within company and can't be used by directly by third parties for their own agendas like influencing elections. I 100% think that we should be weary of over centralized information but we are talking about two very different scenarios: even a small social network with relatively little information can be very dangerous if it leaks personal data.
You're proving that point spectacularly.
There's actually a whole subreddit (somewhat ironically) dedicated specifically to Reddit alternatives:

https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/

That may have a few to check out.

However, I still agree that forums tend to have better communities than subreddits over all, and the specialised ones really outperform the ones on said services. If your interests aren't purely in a general/top level subject (like music/TV/games/sports as a whole), you'll probably find better discussions on specialised sites.

I've also noticed a fair communities using chat esque services like Discord now, and those seem to be a lot more active than subreddits are.

And well, if you're after tech stuff... you're already posting on the best Reddit alternative for that field.
System calls are not the reason the kernel is bypassed. The cost of the system calls is fixable. For example it is possible to batch them together into a single system call at the end of the event loop iteration or even share a ring buffer with the kernel and talk to the kernel the same way high performance apps talks to the nic. But the problem is that the kernel itself doesn't have high performance architecture, subsystems, drivers, io stacks, etc., so you can't get far using it and there is no point investing time into it. And it is this way, because monolithic kernel doesn't push developers into designing architecture and subsystems that talk to each other purely asynchronously with batching, instead crappy shared memory designs are adopted as they feel easier to monolithic developers, while in fact being both harder and slower to everyone.
Look into waltr: https://softorino.com/waltr/

It’s perfect at what it does.
Do you think because of his responses and demeanor during the hearing or because of his overall leadership at Facebook? If it's both, which one of those made you consciously think about it first?
This is a silly argument I see repeated all the time. Do you allow racist views in your house because of free speech? Nobody needs to go out of their way to provide a forum for racists.
Decentralized is the only way to know for sure your data is not being treated server-side against your wishes. This will certainly be the future of the social internet.

However, blockchain is absolutely not the only decentralization support, and might be the worst candidate to store data ever. If your comment about that was not a joke, then maybe you should actualize your knowledge on decentralized algorithms (for example, strong consensus as in the blockchain can be achieved using stellar consensus protocol, and many decentralized services work perfectly using peer to peer technology - not only file sharing).

Also, I find your comment about "Jane Average" quite inappropriate. Anyone can understand it's bad to give too much power to companies whose interests are financial. Moreover, it's inacurate : the current scandal and outfire against Facebook mostly comes from "Jane Average" people, and not the technical community who's mostly saying "we already knew it".
Depends on what mood they're in
> more like refusing to build toilets in apartments and instead building them into car seats, because it's 2018, everyone has a car and a driver's license

Or maybe even making all kinds of interactive, surprising and unhygienic features on the toilet?

Some things should be simple and just work. They should work in a predictable manner and in a way that minimises risk for the users.
> The difference is that Google doesn't share that information with other firms.

Google absolutely shares that information with other firms:

https://developers.google.com/ad-exchange/rtb/start
I have been recently looking into flutter, because I want to start developing multiplatform apps. What is the coding time compared to android? How does it behave with networking/camera?
Neat idea, it used to be called friendfeed. Facebook bought it and shot it in the head.
> ... a retarded (not using this term in the inflammatory sense)...

Umm, I'm not sure that a "disclaimer" actually nullifies that.
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I don't think self-hosted forums ever left, really. But it's like IRC versus modern messaging apps; there's been a huge amount of inflation in terms of what user base "success" is supposed to look like.
> That's ridiculous. They're "censoring" all kinds of bottom-of-the-barrel racist and disturbing shit

They've also banned people legally arranging sales of alcohol, tobacco & firearms.
He may be sure but he's wrong either way. The Google real-time bidding spec outlines pretty clearly what data Google will share with third parties.
x86 is now 30-40 years old depending on how you measure it. Even "modern" x86 (post Pentium Pro) is over 20 years old. An awful lot of the patents have expired.
He (or really his team) should have expected that question and found out before these hearings.
First impressions: Bad UI, mobile-only, and seems to be that the feed is filled with Indians. I'm not racist but I don't want to see primarily Indian content.
Redditors asked the admins to confirm they won't remove the old style plenty of times, and there is enough evidence the message came through--here's one [1].

You can uncheck the style in settings or switch between https://old.reddit.com and https://new.reddit.com for temporary testing.
The settings also allow you to view the profiles in legacy mode separately.

For the tor browser the i. design ( same as https://www.reddit.com/.compact ) is the best, though, in particular since it's better not to resize the window.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/7ul5k9/hey_were_here_...
It doesn't matter if he was under oath — lying to Congress is a crime, oath or not.
Awesome. I love that you have a section showing exactly what CSS properties are used to create each letter.
He wasn't sworn in.
Millions will wake up with no goals and no structure to their lives because they have all of their most basic needs satisfied by UBI if the democrats have their way. Republicans will require mandatory public service to obtain UBI. Optimists tend to think this means more time for artistic passions and inventive endeavors. Pessimists think people will spend more time watching Big Bang Theory. Usually and answer is in the middle.

I will be investing in antidepressants.
Please stop spreading factually wrong information, especially on a subject as important as this one. Maybe research the material for a bit? The best place to start is doubleclick and their profiling options as well as the RTB spec. That will give you a pretty shocking (if I understand the level to which you are still in the dark correctly) insight into what kind of data is freely shared between ad tech companies amongst each other and their customers (agencies, advertisers).
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As explained in the article: The "library part" of our executables is very small in comparison to the executable size. Furthermore, the memory usage of the database itself is usually much greater than the size of the executable itself. Finally, one rarely deploys multiple instances of an ArangoDB server on the same machine, so savings by shared libraries are also not that great.

Therefore the "waste" is very minor and the advantages outweigh the slight increase in memory usage.
I'm guessing you're in the US where this type of behaviour is typical.

Fortunately that is not the case in many other parts of the world where incentives are not as perverse.

(physician here)
The way the hearings happened(I only watched the house hearing), it looked to me Z was gaining in confidence as it went on. Most of the congressmen IMO didn't make effective use of their allotted time; most used part of their time to make statements and not to ask pointed questions to Z; some really peripheral things like rural broadband and suspected online sales of restricted drugs and FDA actions on the same took a lot of time and weren't enlightening; and many were demanding yes or no answers to possibly nuanced questions.One female congressmember from Florida, Kathy Castor I think,, hardly gave Z time to respond, and thereby left all answers to her questions in fragmentory state.

There was much repetition, in some instances multiple speakers asked questions in very similar vein.At the end of it it remains unclear to me whether any laws has been contravened attracting any kind of liability.
'Ayes'.
It is still actively being worked on. It just recently converted from Microsoft based software to open source throughout. The work is fairly slow because there are only a couple of devs.
Yes but "app" is usually what you run on your phone, "application" is what you run on your computer, no?
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The idea here is if it worked its marketing but if it doesn't its market that has spoken.
Not only can it be both it should be both (or more correctly: all).
Gripens were in fact in final round talks vs F35 for Norway's tender. Costs were not too dissimilar.
Doppler only supports importing from Music.app which is synced with iTunes at the moment. Importing from other sources is coming soon (within the next couple of months)!
> It's plausible that people who are sleeping longer are doing it because (potentially undiagnosed) diseases are making them lethargic

That was the main theory behind that correlation, it makes sense since healthy people will naturally find it quite difficult to sleep longer than 8 hours (of actual uninterrupted sleep). Some people will also sleep longer because of issues affecting their quality of sleep (health or otherwise)
Before you believe anything the press writes about the hearings, go watch the question and answer portions of the hearings themselves. The Intercept tries to paint the senators as having piercing questions that Zuckerberg failed to answer. That is not at all the case. With a few exceptions, such as Orin Hatch, the questions were either bizarre misunderstandings of the basics or verged into word salad.
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Well, that's kind of what the README file is there for.

Here is my understanding: The C program assumes the C standard library is present. It is present, somewhere. Where, and in what version, is not clear to me.

Anyway, while the C standard library has an implementation of printf(), that implementation doesn't actually know how to do I/O. It relies on an underlying operating system to do the actual I/O. In particular, the library assumes that it is running on Linux, so once in a while it will emit system call number 146, which is Linux's writev(2) system call (http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/writev.2.html). But there is no implementation of Linux running in the browser! And if there were, its conception of I/O would probably be different from what you expect. That is, you might want "output" to go to one of many different places, and WebAssembly can't guess what you want. That's why the program also implements a writev_c function to simulate this syscall. The corresponding mapping from syscall number 146 to this function is implemented in the accompanying main.js file.

So to program your browser in C-compiled-to-WebAssembly, you must implement your high-level application logic and the relevant low-level system calls, making educated guesses (through testing) about what syscalls the hidden mid-level library layer will emit. I'm a bit underwhelmed by this approach. But I guess over time standard syscall libraries will pop up and included in WebAssembly projects to allow you to go back to worrying only about your actual application.
The loss I've suffered is the loss of the right to attempt to sell your friend the file under the terms I want to set. I have the right to set those terms because I did the work of creating the artifact. You're completely allowed to find that a bizarre thing to protect, but you're not free to just declare that view the only reasonable one and expect no one to argue.

If I made my livelihood by designing homes, and I was good enough at that job that people demanded my services, then yes, copying one of my designs and distributing it without my consent is stealing something from me.

And I'm not conflating morally and legality. I'm really not. The two correlate pretty highly here (as most laws do for obvious reasons), so I guess maybe that's what's confusing you. But if I write a novel, and you put the original file on bittorrent, I created all the value here. You dragging a dropping a icon representing the bits on a hard drive isn't valuable work. And I believe that morally, the nearly infinitely greater amount of productive work I did to create that copy than what you did entitles me to more creative control. I believe that completely independently of whatever the legal system says. I also know that the legal system agrees with that determination and sets penalties for violating rules set up to enforce it. But I'm not using that as evidence for my moral position. It's not immoral because its illegal. The causation goes the other way around. It's illegal because the shared ethical framework of the people and society that drafted the constitution found it immoral.
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I had a Go course (Ultimate Go from William Kennedy) and basically he says he's not going to teach you the language, it's simple enough if you've got a bit of programming experience. Instead, the first day was mostly about the pretty much 1:1 relationship between code and hardware, using show instead of tell, e.g. going through a 2d array row-based or column-based and showing the difference (memory is row based), and also a lot about CPU caches - although there he gratuitiously showed us a lot of footage from a great presentation from an Intel guy.
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I had this feeling for a while.

From a technical standpoint and from a political standpoint. Facebook feels like the small brother of all those big impressive companies who did things, invented things and formed technology like i know it. Google, Microsoft etc. Facebook on the other hand feels strange.

Political speaking: they are reacting and not acting.

This hearing made it more obvious than ever.
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As long as money and politics are strongly intertwined it is unlikely this will happen within the country of origin of the company. Lobbyists are just too powerful.

And that's before we get into the kind of tricks and entity like Google or Facebook could pull if they decided to become an active participant rather than just a channel for advertising. If that hasn't already happened.
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I've had some success building technical debt into my estimates. While I'm working on a new feature or a bug, I'll tidy up in the area around it - the tidying up is just part of the work necessary to complete the task.

The really cool thing is that eventually you're able to deliver large, complex tasks in very brief times and then spring on the PM/management that you're able to do this _because_ you've been refactoring. That's made a believer out of at least one of my PMs.

Obviously this doesn't work in all circumstances - it's not always feasible to get the really systemic, contagious debt cleaned up as part of feature work, and if the PM catches on then it makes this tactic difficult to continue.

The bigger obstacle I've had, though, is other developers who haven't fully bought into a culture of continuous improvement. Fear of breakages causes refactor paralysis, which makes it easier to break things when working on them, which increases fear, and so forth. I'm not really sure the best way to deal with that aside from adding a bunch of unit tests (which I still sometimes get pushback on)
Enterprise projects written in C?

All 10 of them?
Sure, for most things. I am finding this not to be the case with things like furniture, clothing, small finer metalworks that require something like a blacksmith, food, soap, etc.
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Of course it's about monetization. There's a difference between how Reddit-the-company (and its investors) view the site, and how its users do.

It's like with cafés - visitors likes them quiet, and would very much enjoy having an electrical outlet near the table (to charge up phone) and even free Wi-Fi. But cafés aren't in business of making peoples' life better and more enjoyable, they're in business of selling coffee - so they'll actively remove electrical outlets, remove their Wi-Fi and make the place noiser, to increase turnover.
For a country that is so weighed down by the health issues around obesity, it's quite weird taxes/incentives based on calorie per gram isn't anywhere in sight. The savings from not having to take care of so much sick people would be enormous.

It's clear from the situation that the free market choices are suboptimal. Who wants to suffer through most of their life and die early? Yet these choices are still made. If you can't educate, then tax fairly and force them to make the right choices.