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https://icannwiki.org/.icu says "General Availability: 29 May 2018".
The hobbyiest/ side project angle of this is the most interesting to me.

Most side projects end up in github at some point (especially if Microsoft makes private repos free - very likely). Azure’s PaaS offering is actually pretty good so having a simple deploy to azure button when creating the project could be a huge boost.
Professional game engines are not the only application for OpenGL, though. Many people would like to build cross-platform software without using major abstraction layers, such as game engines. This could be research software, prototypes, small tools in general.. -- I think there is a long list.
For these people life might get harder.
I've been very lucky in finding a job that has a good mix of typical 'trench digging' (read web app development) and really cutting edge algorithmic work. We are a 3D printing startup that use 6 axis robots + extruders to print large scale geometries. Some days I'm implementing CRUD REST APIs, today though I happen to be working on Octree based collision detection.

Finding jobs like this isn't easy and mostly requires luck - my last job was very different, it was just maintaining a plain old CRUD app. Not the most mentally stimulating work, but it's probably 90% of the work that gets done on a day to day basis by software engineers.

Try looking for people who are solving a problem that is technical in nature. Business problems use technology as a tool, technology problems require development of brand new tools or the use of existing tools in novel ways.
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Slightly tangent, I really hope these kind of things enable us to do more with code already written:

* Like I should be able to query based on signature of the function rather than just banking on its name.

* I want to see how different projects use this particular package- what are its most used methods; how any of its types are constructed.

* What are the best practices for using a particular package etc
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two lines and a big dependency...
Azure have support for every shell you want, the problem isn't there.

My guesses are the late entry to the market, the widespread hatred to Microsoft (it's softening, but it's still there) and the half baked state of many of the services in the platform.
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Decentralised as in "run your own for your family and any friends who do not want to run their own", not as in "run the node for this geographical area". As long as the management boundaries coincide with the privacy boundaries - i.e. data within nodes belongs to a group of people who already share said data since they are in the same family or friend group - the scenario you picture here would not come to pass.

Of course there are several attempts at building a decentralised 'social' network like this, e.g. Diaspora and GNU Social. Thus far they have not taken off other than in limited circles.
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Well, they don't specify what "checked" means.

As I interpret it if you don't actively checked that means that you don't opt out from it. Which really makes sense considering how the sole purpose of the entire feature is to confuse and tire people into submission.

The whole thing is opt-out, since it clearly states that pressing "Ok" (the only button that dismisses the dialog) is accepting tracking.
Oh listen I recognise your pain. I've known a few good folk who headed off to Redmond back in the early to mid 2000's only to return shortly thereafter completely disillusioned. I think Guthrie was well aware of this problem and began to slowly turn things around bit by bit.

Just to tack on a convenient anecdote...apparently the original ASP.NET MVC code was written by Guthrie....on a flight, this is the earliest evidence I can find of this:

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottGuMVCPresentationAndScot...

I also forgot to include Phil Haack who back then was also part of that gang that began steering the DevDiv ship to brighter shores.
I've yet to see anyone build a hardcore Mac gaming machine.

Oh wait, you can't.
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Code is data is code. Sometimes in a declarative and a high level language.
But why does it matter if a large portion of the users are leveraging a few big providers? The important aspect is that I have the ability of picking a small provider (or even starting my own) and still be able to interact with all of them.
I suppose that's a good approach if your aim is conformism and bland mediocrity.
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Better yet is to design an arithmetic encoder that models the state probabilities accordingly. Also, the state of the game should be refreshed periodically by compressing it without XORing, otherwise, when packet losses occur you may have losses or unacceptable delays.
It does have something to do with the electroweak force, the Higgs mechanism allows gauge bosons (like the Z_0, W_+ and W_-) to have mass.
> the App Store dramatically lowered the barriers to entry for developers

Is there any platform with higher barriers to entry than the App Store? iOS development requires a proprietary toolchain only available on Apple hardware, programming languages hardly used elsewhere, not to mention the $99/year developer fee and the litany of vague and arbitrarily enforced rules and content guidelines for App Store release.
Very very cool. I wish people built reactjs dashboard templates. I would literally throw money at it.
Serious question, are those damages covered by fire insurance?
The claim is that it never happened. Anybody can be a source for that :)

If it’s happened, then there should be some credible source detailing the case in which it happened. No such source exists.
you wish, more like each subcomponent of ubuntu will contain its own full operating system enviroment itself aswell.
Does it matter anymore? People are using less and less of the higher level stuff of OpenGL. Most of the graphics code is now in the engine. OpenGL is getting very outdated, who starting a project today would chose it over Vulcan, Directx or Metal? I would bet most small shops would prefer to use some sort of middle layer or engine from a third party. That pushes the problem of implementing the lower layers in Vulcan, DirectX or Metal to a small group of specialists.
I sometimes try to look for process improvements & optimizations. It allows you to use some of those problem solving CS skills even if the actual day to day work is mundane
That's tenured academics. A lot of academics are still struggling to make a name for themselves, which means more like: pick an interesting problem. If it gets any attention whatsoever, work on it and its variations for years. Maybe drill down into increasingly niche subsets of that problem. If at some point it appears there is no solution, make one up and defend it anyway, or add unrealistic constraints that will never be generally applicable, then promote the hell out of whatever you've got.
Video game console development historically has often required thousands of dollars in special equipment and sometimes even a special relationship with the console manufacturer.
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Seeing potential in the unused combinations: GitBucket, BitHub, BitLab.
Companies exist to make profit. As long as that is their purpose they have no interest in me as a person and I shouldn't have an interest in them as a large group of individuals. If t would be called an abusive relationship of it was real humans. It would be like a pimp and his lady, he has a genuine interest in her as longnas she is earning money, none when she doesn't. I know USA says that legally speaking corporations are people but I don't believe it for one second.
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The visuals are great indeed. Same is your reading speed. Now improve your level of understanding text as well while being distracted from beautiful visuals.
> there are little street-side stalls selling drinks and snacks every 50 yards in most SEA cities

This makes the absolutely spread coverage of 7-11 sound more romantic than it is. There’s a place I can stand on my street where I can see 3 7-11s, one Lawson, and one FamilyMart.
I wonder how such hose could manage stairs. To move in a flat surface seems easy to solve but the water against the vertical stairs could create opposite forces neutralizing the forward movement.
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I can't reply to original post, so here goes..

I was reading your post at, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16995260

you said that some of the problems you face are ...

- Doorman accepts dozens of package deliveries each day which get sent email ...

What is the problem here? that doorman has to write apartment numbers? sorry just little lost.

- I have to approve lots of expenses not knowing costs

don't you over time start to get an idea how much repairs cost?

- Contractors are unreliable

Don't contractors have yelp reviews?
Tailored to their hardware, more modern and is written in Objective-C which makes it much easier for Mac developers to integrate in their projects, since Objective-C interface nicely with Swift and most script languages.
I suppose perhaps you can try and write a library or SaaS service that you find interesting? Or join a company that does?
Targeting makes a big difference

even though the conversion rates maybe low.

The argument is that because the conversion rates are low anyway then the targeting doesn't make a big difference.

The sales/marketing guys are just doing what the hivemind says. Maybe I'm unlucky, but I seldom hear one suggest something against the grain. Usually they just say whatever hubspot says.
Did Moore's law really stagnate as much as we think or do we just have a lazy monopoly?
Oooooh burn!
A Frauenhofer spinoff in Germany makes 120mm .2-2mm CVD wafers. Iirc thery were mentioned recently. They also make curved "wafers" for use as a speaker membrane. Deployed in the new Bugatti. Which is where I'd expect it.
Notched phones have gained screen space, not lost it. Without the notch, the new screen area around the notch would not be screen area at all.
I think he's referring to the fact that most of the manufacturing once done in the US has been off-shored to China etc.

Why pay X for something if you can get it for X/3?
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The AC advertisements are in case you're someone who regularly buys AC units and installs them, I think. DIY landlords, general contractors, etc.

Advertising platforms sell that ad with the maximum bid at auction, given what targeting categories they can place you in. Value of serving an ad is roughly customer lifetime value (LTV) times conversion rate (maybe divide by about three, but that doesn't change the winning ad). You don't have to be in a key target demographic to get oddly specific ads, you just need to get lumped into a similar cohort that has enough targets that are valuable enough.

Remember those random television ads from law offices about mesothelioma? Same concept. Pursuing a civil suit was lucrative enough that the trickle of leads you'd get from blasting everyone with that message was good enough. Doesn't matter if it's relevant to <1% of the target audience - high LTV can make up for it.
I'm a consultant, currently helping a bank move to the cloud, creating the base infrastructure needed to allow a few projects to get started. It can be slow at times, as you still need to connect back to the bank, but the challenges are very interesting, and getting closer to having a production load running out there is rewarding.
Yeah, Volta should have been ready to ship in volume like 6 months ago.

Now I am not completely sure they are just sitting in a warehouse though. I understand Volta is currently in mass production and will launch around July/August.
My favorite is getting ads for the thing you already bought from the place you got it where you are very unlikely to need again anytime soon.

Most recently for me, it was a plumbing part. Now I have targeted ads everywhere for these parts. Sorry org, I finished my project and I won't be doing something similar, hopefully, ever again.
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Notice that the back streams of water moving the robot point towards the hose segments. They can build the hose with an ignifuge material also, and the water inside would dissipate the heat.
Github would have had trouble getting more VC investment. According to Bloomberg, there are ~21M software developers in the world, and Github has ~24M user accounts. There's little userbase growth possible there; they would have had to start increasing revenue per user rapidly to be interesting for another VC round.

Equally, on their $200M revenue (or whatever it was), they would struggle to get a multiple that would be interesting for their VC backers. Their market cap at IPO wouldn't have been much more than $1B (absent some growth story).

It's a great problem to have, to be sure, but the MS purchase is a great deal for Github investors.
The point is that the ads are a waste, and that the advertisers aren't getting their money's worth. It's really remarkable that they still haven't caught on to this.
blogspam, dupe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17201830
You talk of a subset. A lot of casual games on iOS a very good: Cut the rope, Angry Birds, Bad Piggies, Simple Rockets. Civilization for iPad was very good. I can't remember all the stuff I've played but a lot of games are not the candy crush kind.

Also a lot went wrong when Apple opened up for ads and in game purchases.
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Yes but given the opportunity, between retiring early with hundred of millions and keeping working for a few millions, most people will choose the former.
I'd never made an app, never written C#, and i got an app on the appstore within a few weeks and being downloaded around the world soon after. And that was 7 years ago before they made dealing with all the certificates not insanely annoying. If that's not a low barrier to entry i don't know what is.

In a way the barrier has increased recently with a lot of new requirements for apps (designing for the notch etc) and appstore listings and worrying about privacy policies etc.
Yeah still a bit more to do but definitely an improvement. Sorry to ask, but would you mind sharing this work with us? As a fork of the original?
Is it? Most people I’ve seen working with Docker have tried their best to use Alpine for everything. Even something with a lot of OS dependencies tends to end up at around 200MB on the high end.
Full technical and governance decentralization is an utopia based on computer science fundamentals. We need to start thinking about the constraints instead of just jumping to the decentralization bandwagon as if was a matter of choice.
It stopped me visiting the site.

Which is good becase that saved me a chunk of my life on Engadget who clearly have no respect for the readers.
Correct, github sold out to investors, which then owned them, which then sold them out to get an exit when it turned out the company was in no shape for an IPO which is the only reasonable other exit if you are looking for a 10x ROI on a company that burned through hundreds of millions. Investors were in this for a huge exit and they just got it. In fairness, MS bought a valuable social network of essentially the entire OSS and developer community.

As an independent entity, Github would have had to evolve in a very different way and gone more aggressively after making money, fixing their cost structure, like most of their competitors like Atlassian, Gitlab, and other companies selling developer tools as a SAAS service. So, even though these are comparable companies with comparable offerings, the value proposition is very different. There is no way in hell Gitlab is worth anywhere near what MS just paid for Github.

Being based in silicon valley means Github paid a premium for being there and burned through loads of cash paying for expensive developers, fancy office space, etc. Much cheaper if you are based elsewhere, have less emphasis on wanting to have every OSS project on your platform and more emphasis on selling tools to corporations. This is in a nutshell the strategy for Atlassian and Gitlab. Both also offer freemium layers for OSS but mostly their deal is upselling to their paid offerings. Growth that way is much slower. Though, I would say, Gitlab is now pretty well positioned to succeed where Github struggled.
What you are describing has been happening in New York and New Jersey for literally decades-

-so much so that we have lost electoral seats in Congress because of our population shrinkage, while Florida has gained.
So like firefox with the facebook container ? But with more PR ?
> Yes, but GraalVM is still a VM with all that implies.

What does it imply? For one thing, the term "VM" itself is vague. GraalVM isn't an "emulation of a computer system" in the way a "VM" like VirtualBox is.
Here is what I don't get. It is far easier for github's dev community to move to an alternate than Facebook users. Unless there is revenue to back it up, I don't understand the 7.5 Billion price tag. Heck .. Docker for 10 Billion might have been plausible. What are the barriers to another entrant?

This acquisition reminds me of the Minecraft acquisition. It did not make financial sense to me either. If Nadella keeps this up, he will eventually have issues with shareholders.
Are you sure? what is the latency for eyes -> brain -> muscle reaction?
Besides Almost all drivers are bad and can be distracted easily.
Wow, a surprising number of responses agreeing with boredom... I'll share a different point of view.

I've been running DNSFilter for 3 years. We're (still) facing interesting texhnical challenges - ranging from BGP community strings being used to balance a global anycast network, to handling volumes of time series data [1], to designing a golang daemon to ssl sign incoming requests on the fly for domains we won't know ahead of time, to figuring out new ways to pass data in DNS, and support cutting edge standards like DNS over TLS, DNS over HTTPS.

I was just saying to my wife the other day how ridiculous it is that most things we do are technically challenging, and you have to think outside the box how to get it done -- while I was implementing a block page for user agents which requires a 19 step process to determine the user's DNS Agent ID, and display the right logo on the block page ;)

Some might dismiss these challenges due to our use (abuse) of DNS for purposes it was not intended for. Fair. Also, welcome to the real world, and we're solving problems are customers are asking for... and just figuring out interesting ways to get the job done.

1: https://blog.dnsfilter.com/3-billion-time-series-data-points...
I’ve worked a lot on networked multiplayer games on the gameplay implementation side of things. Lots of fun and interesting challenges in terms of latency hiding, client side prediction and keeping everything in sync. Game development in general let’s you dabble in lots of different areas and gameplay in particular can cross disciplines. Obviously it also comes with a bunch of downsides in terms of pay and working conditions.

Now I’m working at a startup making a collaborative VR modelling tool which applies all the same problems to a more ‘serious’ end.

Both still have a fair share of plumbing work as well. But that can be a welcome relief. I find solving hard problems (particularly under pressure) can become obsessive and make it hard to be present with my family and sleep!
As someone who recently upgrade a GKE cluster with two mouse clicks, this whole post gave me a laugh. Basically an ad veiled as a blog post
Good luck, it will be fine either way :)

I'm employee #2 at a 5 person firm and we still have those problems sometimes ahha
Good point. So if our point of comparison is video game consoles, the barriers to entry have indeed been lowered. But is that the right point of comparison?
I've been to your talk in Kraków on the European Lisp Symposium! I love what you're doing!

Do you have any updates on that water-filtering molecule you showed us then?
tannhaeuser's point is worth considering though: Is Apple truly respecting privacy, or are they just refusing to share because they want to own all of the info? Are they not storing private information- like websites you visit and apps you download and such, and using it to target you in their store?
I host all my side projects on VSTS.

Free source control TFS & GIT.
Free builds.
Free project management.

Heck, i have a complete pipeline to build my code and deploy it to the app store.

Costs me zero per month.

Please keep in mind that is "free" (has limits), but for my usage is more than enough.

I can't do the same on AWS AFAIK or even github.
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If it's Intel demonstrating on Intel chips, does it really count as "over"clocking? Seems like it's just clocking.
I'm a westerner. But I lived a bit in tropical parts who where very different in lifestyles. I'm also an ex tech-lover (my generation was fed on it). Nowadays, I think I'd enjoy a bit of green between 10 to 1000x more than a UHD Qdot LCD and fiber connection.

I think that our lifestyles is toxic, especially for other places (africa, asia), for us too (stress, sadness, different diseases).. anyway, we replaced one kind of life struggle with another one.

And I do feel sad that 3rd world is somehow envying, even though it's not surprising, western life is pure eye candy, and designed to be so.

And I heard a few people leaving big western cities to go into medium ones, for the difference of pace and life quality (more space, more green).
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stratechery wrote: "the App Store dramatically lowered the barriers to entry for developers"

To which you replied: "Is there any platform with higher barriers to entry than the App Store? [...] , not to mention the $99/year developer fee"

His baseline for "lowered barriers" was retail channel distribution.[1] Think of shrinkwrapped packaged software like Quicken on the shelves of CompUSA, OfficeDepot, Costco, and boxes of videogames at GameStop.

Yes, $99 is a barrier but it's much less than the millions of dollars in capital required to get retail stores to carry your boxed software.

[1] if you click on the url link behind "lowered the barriers", you'll be directed to this page illustrating retail distribution: https://stratechery.com/2013/friction/