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> [...] come up with all kinds of BS to patent [...]

I guess that that is the point. I worked for a similar company. They were not interested in groundbreaking one-of-a-kind patent. They were looking for something to use as a countermeasure if another company in the same sector sues them.

A new chemical process, a new antibiotic, or something of that scale can be used to create a new successful product, save lives, etc. Patents were designed to make sure that companies could profit from them, but that the knowledge was not lost just because they keep it secret.

In software development, I have seen a lot of "method to send content to a remote storage using gesture-based commands" (this one is made up). When they just mean that a developer implemented a drag & drop touch functionality for the phone that sends a file to a server. A necessary implementation, but hardly an invention as any developer will come with a similar solution in minutes if presented with the problem.
Of course they are. Don't you know that Coca Cola created Fanta for Nazi Germany because trade embargos meant they couldn't make Coke? Why, they're practically Nazi collaborators!

...my point is that politics is everywhere, whether you like it or not.
Yes, by accident. People went wild on Reddit. He called them weirdos and edited his face out of the video, then everything went back to normal.
DeWalt has really gone down hill. I recently switched to Milwaukee. I’m not a contractor but a have lots of friends who are, and they are almost all on Milwaukee these days.
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I think Trello should be doing similar scraping, automatically. My work does, granted it is potentially a bit easier in our case. We scan things like GitHub repos and looks for credentials into our system, and, if found, deactivate the credential and reach out to the customer.
How do you deal with mosquitoes? Also, have frogs/toads also made use of the still water?
It's the Blue Origins 3.0 Signature Edition.
Most medicine stores well.

A flying epi-pen / defibrillator might be really useful, though.
Any client worth working for is going to have an annual budget and the focus won't be so much on how much things cost but rather how soon you can start delivering business value.
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The ones that make me rage is where they say something along the lines of "Opt out of ad tracking" then have a disclaimer that says something like "you're still going to get a bunch of ads, they will just suck worse".

How about just offering me an option to pay you to get rid of tracking and advertising?
The issue is that sets a black and white option of not letting people find you through Google. But the alternative is letting Google scrape your content and give it to people directly from their site instead.
To eliminate fab cost from the equation you could price out what it would cost to get it built by a 3rd-party fab. It certainly wouldn't be as cheap as shown here, but still cheap enough to make the point of the article.
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This is very cool, but note that it is a microbenchmark comparing the overhead of calling plus(int, int). This is a very specific case of FFI that is easy and simple.

For my work on the Oil shell, I care more about moving strings back and forth across the VM boundary (not to mention bigger objects like records and arrays of records). There are many more design choices in that case, and I suspect the results will also look different.
Patents aren’t really equivalent to inventions. In companies where they are thought to be the same, abuse with frivolous patent applications is rife.
Not affiliated with Edel Krone at all - I just think this little camera robot is crazy cool :D
No more dangerous than Mark Zuckerburg.
Trying to install Slackware on a laptop with 4MB of RAM is my Linux coming of age story.
Thank you for this. I'm trying to do something similar with myself. I've realized that stress and negative self talk is very counter productive to learning new things.
> "That’s it. That’s why most companies don’t do it. It’s hard work, it’s wrongly viewed as unexciting, it can be hard to justify the initial output."

I have to disagree slightly here. While yes it's hard, unexciting and hard to measure, that still isn't why organizations don't do it.

The reality is that it just takes an incredible amount of time. This is especially true for startups and companies trying to move fast. You have to ask yourself — should I spend 2 sprints talking with customers about their problems, or 2 sprints building a POC that I can then test directly with them. In most cases, good PMs, engineers and designers have some basic idea for a solution that usually gets you 50% of the way there. So while I agree with the article is spirit, it's not a one size fits all process.
Its ugly but for global js variables I use Hungarian notation - eg `var gstrHomeUrl`.
Good point. I have to confess that I didn't think about that. Then again I know very little of how much air a silicon chip is exposed to from manufacturing to actual use in a working system.
He is on the Anglo-American side though.
Is "whataboutism" in the dictionary?

Asking for a sarcastic friend.
"Dangling salaries of 10 million yen", or about $91k. The fact that this is considered unusually high tells you all you need to know about engineering salaries in Japan. (And yes, IT salaries are in the same ballpark.)
Can you expand on this one?
It’s presumably a reference to the fact that norovirus outbreaks are common on cruise ships.
You really shouldn't have global variables in the first place, and this misses the point entirely; the type of something isn't what's important, the semantic meaning of it is. The type can be mentally inferred from that.

Hungarian notation 'solves' a problem here that doesn't exist in the first place.
GDPR sure.

But link tax and upload monitor? How do you avoid that? Never link to anything and never allow any uploads? What about comments, they could contain important excerpt from some book owned by EU publishers.
I would be really surprised if there were any significant difference between the actual batteries between manufacturers. There isn't that much variation you can do with lithium cells. Biggest thing that comes to mind are the high/low level cutoffs, or how deep the protection circuitry allows charging/discharging. And that is fairly straightforward trade-off between how long the battery lasts on one charge vs how many charge-cycles it can take.
Yeah a couple of things. They try to map their equation to productivity, but really it's just level of effort. In corp theyd prefer to see max results with min effort, so this intensity times time is not the thing you want to maximize. Alignment with the end goal is more important than intensity. And ultimately this article is about training. Corp is about execution.
Is there a reason Dart is so badly performing here? And wouldn't that have a big impact on Google's new Flutter project that they're building an OS around? I'd assume Flutter would need to be calling into FFI for each access to the Chromium graphics stack that it is built on.
Faraday bags work when you want devices offline - but it doesn’t make for a very useful device.
Looks like the pattern effectively linearizes the hierarchical structure. So you can stream or iterate over the ouput of a visitor run, as the author said.

Could one just implement an iterator on top of a tree structure? This would be similar but be imperative right rather than declarative as you would not provide a “callback”, but pull out nodes directly.
I tried to create a Trello board just now and the default visibility setting is private. I assume that hasn't always been the case, otherwise people really went out of their way to make these boards public.
Which part: the subservience of metaphysics or the the hypocrisy of the metaphycisists who deny science?
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Better read,

http://www.opindia.com/tag/baba-ramdev/
As annoying as being blind? I understand you're inconvenienced by the bumps but, c'mon, have some perspective.
You have the name of the action and the name of the action creator which essentially represent the same thing. I've never seen a project which had multiple creators for the same action name.
No, NRE is masking and tooling cost. Fab costs would need to be amortized separately. (Because fab costs get spread across many, many products; the 1000 wafers used as a guesstimate in this article is tiny compared to what a fab produces over its life.)

If anything, the Fab costs should be included in the cost-per-wafer.
If so much time is spend on problem definitions, wouldn't it be less time for engineers to actually build the thing? While possibly refining and reducing the scope of your product, I'd say that approach would reduce velocity (at least in the short run? In the long run having less product surface = easier iteration)
This is the worst GDPR or whatever implementation I’ve seen yet on mobile where the button to accept (I assume it is to accept) renders under (depth) the fixed social buttons at the bottom. And the modal is fixed, too, so no matter of scrolling exposes it.
It is worth mentioning that drugs are only so profitable because of their legal status. Drugs themselves are very cheap to make - additional cost is simply the risk of getting caught, security and so on. I think those factors don't exist for microchips, so the title is a bit misleading.
Miele, if you combine it with an oven, has no touch-controls.
https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

> Unlike (literally!) every other language with a similar operator, ?: is left associative. So this:

$arg = 'T';
$vehicle = ( ( $arg == 'B' ) ? 'bus' :
( $arg == 'A' ) ? 'airplane' :
( $arg == 'T' ) ? 'train' :
( $arg == 'C' ) ? 'car' :
( $arg == 'H' ) ? 'horse' :
'feet' );
echo $vehicle;

> prints horse.

In what world is this sane language design?!
"and earning 5% returns"

This is basically impossible for reasons explained here:

https://voxeu.org/article/suprasecular-stagnation

I'm old enough to recall the boom of the 1990s. Me and my professional friends were constantly invited to come to seminars about investing. All the mutual funds were trying to convince us to invest in the stock market. At that time, the stock market was booming, so it was easy to believe that investing in the stock market was a legitimate way to become wealthy.

All of the pitches recited the same set of numbers: we could invest in low risk mutual funds and get 12% returns, or we could invest in high risk mutual funds and get 16% returns. It was explained that when we were young we should prefer high risk strategies, and as we got older we should prefer lower risk strategies.

Then the crash of 2001 happened. Nasdaq took 10 years to come back to life. The stock market was flat for many, many years.

Around 2003 we started getting invitations to seminars that taught us how important it was to invest in real estate. We were told that the value of homes had never gone down, in all of USA history. It was the safest investment, and had significant returns.

Then the crash of 2008 happened. My friends who had bought homes were underwater. Even as recently as 2015, I still had friends who owed more on their homes than the homes were worth.

These notions that it is easy to get stable long term returns has not been born out by my experience, or the experience of any of my professional peers.

Our actual experience was very well described by the Bible:

"I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."

http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/9-11.htm
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*brakes
Take the grand parent comment as written by a consumer, not a producer.
I find that coffee in a thermos can stay good for almost a whole work day. Coffee on the machine in some sort of “keep warm” mode goes rancid within 30 mins or so. I have a suspicion it’s some reaction with the oxygen in the air...
Following from the sidelines I feel like there are similar comments made about all brands, both the "X has gone down hill" and "all my contractor friends use Y". I wouldn't put too much weight on such anecdotes.
Very unreliable for ground based systems.
Instead, consider simply removing Google Analytifs from your website entirely.
Such nostalgia!

I was 10 years old, and on the bus to summer camp every morning I'd read this dog-eared book:

https://imgur.com/a/kmBfx7Y

In between singalongs I learned to program. And loved it.

I was such a nerd. The counselors didn't know what to make of me. Dad complained I should spend more time outside.

Then I grew up, published my first commercial software title and turned that geeky addiction into a career. Thanks mom and dad for buying me that beat up old TRS-80! And thanks Mr. Kemeny and Kurtz for bestowing this beautifully approachable language onto the world, even if your original vision was shamefully bastardized by the time I stumbled upon it.

ps. You can read it, too:
http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Documents/Manuals/H...
I'll correct to "comparable", as it's more appropriate.

However, it's not a "clearcut no" or "very powerful in comparison", due to the number of cores (no doubt about the GPU, I had made this explicit in the parent post).

I've run the Phoronix test suite (which uses a set of real-world applications)[⁰], and, excluding the outliars for both parts (Redis/OpenSSL), we're talking about 10 to 40% advantage for the TX1, and little more for the TX2; XU4 has even the edge in one case.

They're definitely faster for the majority of use cases, however, I wouldn't classify them as "very powerful in comparison", at least, when considering the performance of an RPi 3B.

[⁰] https://openbenchmarking.org/result/1805276-FO-1703199RI52
You can also enable Lz4 compression on the dataset itself the ZFS data volume for even faster performance.

# zfs set compression=lz4 mysqldatavol
Drugs aren’t profitable if you can make money any other way.
I don't think that was always the case. Recently I was googling my name and I found out I have bunch of Trello boards for various student projects that I completely forgot about (think "startups" but we've never gotten anywhere with them). I was surprised to see that. I don't think we deliberately made it public.
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Snowforms by R Murray Schafer: https://goo.gl/images/1FHHXo

I performed this in France with my treble choir in 1990. Schafer sat in the audience looking grumpy. It’s a beautiful piece, and Schafer is odd.
Can confirm - was in India this February and Patanjli Corp. is everywhere. There are patanjli stores in small towns, big cities, posh neighborhoods and slums.

My parents know ramdev like they know a family member. 10 years ago my dad would start his day with yoga instructions from baba ramdev. FWIW getting people to do yoga was definitely good, because middle aged Indian men hardly do any exercise. So when Baba ramdev launched this line of products, somehow my parents put absolute trust in him. Nothing would convince them to look at finer print.

Patanjali corp. definitely looks like a heady mix of religion, politics and ayurveda. FDA equivalent in India will have hard time finding faults in those products because everything can be swept under the rug of "western consipariec" and boy power they wield.
I disagree. DeWalt has altered their battery type often and have a few different types. Makita seems to only have 2 types of fittings in the last 10ish years and the 2 4amp packs I bought together for $100 are excellent. There is vendor lock in certainly because once you own a large amount of batteries you can simply buy tools individually.

Makita makes nice tools, ive found
"Sir, I'm sorry but I don't know what you're referring to"."

In WestWorld the androids say "That doesn't look like anything to me." Art imitates life, and sometimes life imitates art.
Frivolous
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> None of the owners attended the three British men’s funerals.

Are they trying to spin it as something negative? Why the hell would you intrude into a private and family matter of a person you most likely have talked to only a couple of times in your entire life.
> Sorry, but you've been suckered by a liar and a con man. I've honestly tried to just ignore the guy, hoping he'll eventually go away, but since he won't, I guess I have to explain what's really going on.

After reading your response and digging into this a bit further, I retract my previous comment and no longer put any stock in Brad DeLong's intellectual honestly. I apologize for spreading it further.
As a grandchild of holocaust survivors this rings very true. I’ve always felt I had stress triggers that “didn’t belong to me” so to speak.
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In the USA, in restaurants, the wait staff get most of their income from tips. Because of this, they are ridiculously obsequious. Female wait staff tolerate a grotesque amount of sexual harassment, because if they complain then they lose their income. Compare that to the wait staff in Europe, which does not expect tips and who do not depend on tips for their income.
Tea in a thermos unfortunately goes bad pretty much instantly - something about being sealed in there in its own steam I think. With milk in it it goes even worse.
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The patent bonus at Nokia was just that, a patent bonus; the purpose of the program was to systematically collect a large portfolio of patents; such a patent mass is used in IPR negotiations with other technology giants. Those patents were mass-produced - I got paid for one too - but I wouldn't call them "inventions".

There were other, substantially larger bonuses for innovations made by staff, when these innovations had larger economical impact (for instance, optimizing the production line).
Use exploratory research to keep innovative teams going
Other engineering disciplines are very conservative. Due to age, this doesn't compare well to software.

There is tradition, but a lot of it military in origin, not civil: ARPA net, Grace Hopper, and the first bug, Turing and the Enigma. Stealworking as a military secret in comparison is thousands of years old. And so far, leaked DB content has per the official record not killed anyone ... perhaps a few astronauts but none of the people responsible in place to fix it, as would be the case in a family of incorporated electricians.

We need a code-code.
If you think that's "removed their ability to be mean" you're not thinking hard enough.

Ferinstance, Chinese players could make a grass mud horse...
No. They're required to know who the authors are for legal reasons.
What does it take for people to see that for all the problems technology and markets have solved, they have unintended side-effects that, after enough time, can become global problems?

Pain. Pain on the personally detectable level, and someone they trust to explain to them why they’re hurting. As it stands now few people feel that pain, and if they do, there are legions of smug pricks telling them tall tales about the cause. If the Arab “Spring” and subsequent crises had been clearly and accurately framed as an environmental issue first, people would be freaking out. Instead it’s gotten every kind of spin short of the reality of drought leading to skyrocketing food costs in depressed economies.
.. and they're afraid, very afraid that if you give them that kind of power, they will make the creators roles irrelevant.

By echoing this in the echo chamber, we've perhaps deprived ourselves of getting enough collective experience with powerful programming tools to be able to establish good norms to teach high power maintainable programming. We're instead stuck in low level language wars.

Using type systems for system design anyone? Use Beta abstraction systematically?
I think those kinds of controls aren't used because they're expensive, at least relative to the usual soft buttons incorporated into circuit boards, buttons constructed almost entirely by a pick and place machine. They're probably close to $1 apiece, and can't be mounted without additional (and probably manual) effort.

I'm not sure such a "buy it for life" machine would be viewed as a viable product by most manufacturers.
Discussed 4 days ago, over 160 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17137266
The title is very misleading. Had the author stuck to legit pill making, it could’ve made a fairly apt comparison, but they mentioned drug cartels which implies a very different set of costs / risks. I’d further argue drug cartels have a wider price differential between raw material and wholesale product too, but don’t have a source to back it up.
My strategy for dealing with the dip/valley of despair are a few simple rules that I have formalised for myself and are helping me a lot.

- Howsoever great the project is in the beginning, it will go through a phase where it’s going to suck for whatever reason. I know it. It doesn’t surprise me. I take it in my stride.

- I have absolute faith during that phase that it will get better on the other side. Absolute. And nothing is going to convince me otherwise.

- It is not a sprint.

- Mantain healthy relationships, mind (meditation) and body (exercise). Do not let them fall below a certain level because gaining these things back and being productive at the sometime is a struggle. From my own personal experience.
Most of my happy accidents are while I'm biking. When playing with things. When jumping quickly through all the details with a co-worker.

(Twitter and Facebook? Yeah, not so much.)

Do, could I be an outlier? Certainly possible. But I don't think it is a safe thought. More likely, I am a near average person. Which is why I would love studies actually demonstrating this.
Doing my part to keep his billionaire power in check.
If you are an actual drug company, I suspect politics and approval processes are at least as expensive to the company, as the actual R&D itself.
It is incredibly hard to get into the market with todays legislation.

Drug cartels probably spent a lot of money getting out of legal trouble and dealing with international police
It's not scaling issue, it's a refactoring / maintenance issue. Weakly typed languages cost much more to maintain because you can't have good refactoring tools.

In a strongly typed language, if I want to rename a parameter that is used in 20 places, I can hit "Rename," rename it, and it will rename all 20 instances with perfect precision, and that's it. With weakly typed languages, you have to search and replace, which is much more prone to error. This is much more of an issue for JS applications that are much larger than just doing some stuff on a page.

I agree, it's a tradeoff. Many languages these days can do both. The best is strongly typed until you are dealing with JSON or something of that nature.