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Once upon a time, a certain large maker of a popular video game console lost the hardware engineer's laptop where the source code for the game controller firmware was. I don't know the nature of the catastrophe, whether the code was accidentally deleted, or the drive failed, or perhaps the employee left and the the laptop got recycled. In any event, the source was gone.

Source control? What's that? Sounds complicated and unnecessary. All you need are files on disk, right?

"Wait, I thought your laptop had the source code. Um..."

They wound up paying a consultant to disassemble the binary and turn it back into plausible C. For all I know, given the way that those firmware engineers wrote code, the recreated source was of better quality than the original. :-/

[I am trying real hard not to turn this into a "how bad can firmware code get" comment, but I do have to say that this was the same group where one contractor had written the firmware for a device, consisting of one massive function with a bunch of goto statements and static variables, with names like 'v' and 'x' and 'xx'. The contractor also seemed to think that removing whitespace from the program would make the binary run faster...]
Well, Google does have lots of information about Mirimir.

But what good does it do Google?
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This idea was developed into a mildly popular game in the early 90’s called Wordtris.

Here’s an example of the gameplay (Not my video): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EYO5WbBfp-E

The copyrights can be traced to Atari holdings, who also have a license for Tetris (who is turn pretty aggressively enforces the brand), so watch out for that.
the feature you're looking for is called opening a memory mapped file. I've seen tremendous performance improvements, but it's a really underused feature for some reason. Memory map Performance is incredible.
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When it is out of beta, will it be still free? I think I should try something more lightweight than GitKraken, it hangs up more and more often.
It has...I can totally agree with that my friend. I think it is slowly getting better, however.
I helped a sales focused tech company as their CTO for a few years. The sales team met at the bar for lunch and after work. Drugs were everywhere. The CFO kept a liquor cabinet in his desk drawer. There were parties all the time. Orgies were not uncommon.

They ended up being acquired before they could get full on wolf on wallstreet going but it was damn near close.

I drank with them but never took it any further. It’s a really unhealthy life both physically and emotionally.
> The FTTCs are 80/20Mbs-1 and the leased line is symmetric 100Mbs-1.

What's the "-1" in "80/20Mbs-1" and "100Mbs-1" signify? I've never seen this "syntax" or formst used before but maybe it's an EU/UK thing (I'm in .us, FWIW)?
> Nothing is arbitrary

Well it (the reason) is technically arbitrary (to people at the receiving end) until they explain themselves. "It's what we are doing now" and "it's a recommendation" don't help make it any less arbitrary.
Maybe it's just the latest ploy in the game of creating home grown internet companies. Weibo et al seem to do great behind the Great Firewall.
No, having functional Google and Facebook accounts that they can use to anonymously mess with people.

Basically, you need clean IPs and mobile accounts. Tor and VPN exits don't work so well. Creating your own VPN in a VPS sometimes works. But I gather that the pros use botnet slaves with genuine residential IPs.
The pumps at gas stations for cars have automatic backflow cutoff valves. I wonder why this technology isn't available for trains?
Same, why haven’t the defaults changed after all these years?
That link is so wildly cyberpunk! I love it... as janky as the future is it is here, isn't it?
Adventure Works, pffft... I’ll take Scott any day of the week.
I suppose the general reasoning is "innocent until proven otherwise", not the opposite. So my question is more reasonable as a question, although yours naturally imposes a stereotype that bears some validity but largely not meaningful in individual discussions.

And again, I am just asking a question.

If you think your question is an answer, then I have to say that this answer is not satisfactory to me.
My interpretation wasn't that it was specifically that it's non-volatile. Rather, that it's the performance:price of NVME that's "changing the equation."

The combination of NVME's IOPS and throughput, particularly for sequential reads/writes like you'd have with something like huge pages, begins making it a reasonable consideration for caching/secondary memory in certain situations.

edit: s/NVME/non-volatile/
Look promising.. will give it a try
Shouldn't the news here be that ppl use Samsung's msging apps?
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A strong rebuttal that fits the model the original commenter set forth.
OK - the "coming soon" page is live now: http://speech.cafe

If you leave your email address there, I'll let you know when it's ready.
You're right. But still, we got no response for all e-mails we sent. Google Chrome's official Twitter account didn't even respond us once although we mentioned them so many times.
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I don't think that you should compare GDPR with this copyright stuff. GDPR is fundamentally about protecting normal people. This here is about propping up obsolete business models.
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I've definitely considered blind UI, it's a different sort of paradigm. It should be nice for other cases, like using a computer with just an earpiece. It turns out some of my approach will make fully blind voice UI much easier, even on existing apps / environments.

You definitely don't understand the implications of highly dynamic grammars then. A couple instances where rapid grammar changes matter are: "I want to switch between my text editor, a terminal, and a browser, and have exactly the most specific and relevant commands available at all times with no delay", and "I want to have syntax-aware voice grammars that are very in tune with how my programming language and framework operate"

You appear to be talking about this without any significant research, sources, or knowledge of my software (which you have multiple times made fairly confident statements about that are not remotely true), please stop generalizing about what I'm doing without some examples to back it up.
Does Windows have any analog to madvise()? It seems like that's probably necessary to making things work well when you're mapping huge data sets, unless you're sure they reside on really fast storage.
Lucky you have the + to filter them out then.
Happened to my own extension this week too ( https://habitlab.stanford.edu ), except without warning - especially frustrating since I've been developing it for nearly 2 years and Chrome no longer allows users to easily install anything from sources other than their Chrome store. May end up having to port it to Firefox, except there's so much inconsistencies in CSS and webextensions between the browsers it would take a month or more. It's quite frustrating how these walled gardens can easily destroy years of work at someone's whim.
I'm pretty sure if he stopped streaming the followers would eventually move on.

Also it's later stated in the article that he didn't actually break up with the girl, it was just a smokescreen to get the community off his back about it.
I think you missed the obvious joke
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I'm advocating for coming up with a software design that we think can support all the requirements including performance. Not writing random code in the hope that it can be optimized to meet the performance requirements once the other requirements have been met.

The fighter jet design is upfront about all its requirements. Does the design require some tweaks one you start flight tests, you bet, but if it's on the completely wrong path the project is doomed. Just like software projects.
> 8-10

Not sure why you bring up Reddit
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Yep, see lmdb read performance. Or many search engines doing mmap.
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Performance can't be outside spec. Performance is part of the spec. Maybe it says "don't care" but it's gotta be in the spec and if it says "don't care" it better be you really don't care. If you have performance targets you have to design towards them - don't meet all the other goals and only then start thinking about performance.
Or just open the dev tools and remove the bgcolor attribute from the body tag?

Pretty simple.
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> employees hooking up with each isn't unusual
Of course they do. Employees are not slaves. They are free to bond as they like.
Yeah, SF is a shithole. I live downtown.

I’ve always thought that the analogy was Luanda, Angola.

Luanda, Angola, has, for over 10 years been the most expensive city to live.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/20/most-expensive-cities-for-ex...
Luanda isn’t expensive because everyone wants to live there like Laguna Beach or Beverley Hills; it’s expensive because it’s a boomtown shithole that people are forced to live in.

The Average 2-bedroom here in SF is $4,500 because we are so eager to live in such a paradise?

No, because we want access to those oil gushers.. you live in a shithole boomtown.

How do I know?

Because I grew up here and I’d be anywhere else if it weren’t for the gushers.
The plastic waste researchers may not be inclined to solving problems of space propulsion. Likewise, rocket scientists won't be pushing the field of plastic microbe decomposition or whatever. Luckily there are some of each here on the earth at the moment.
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I'm a little confused. What does the author mean by "software editors"?
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Sounds fun! America is so boring and uptight.
Perhaps that could happen in the future, but, it is not now. And if that does happen at some point in the future, I'd pass judgement on it then. Depending on the details I might see it as a good or a bad thing.
> Because it still creates a license requirement on a snippet of any length,

No it doesn't.

For fucks sake, the law is lousy, but we don't need shit articles from techdirt who are completely unable to read and understand law.
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(Australian living in Amsterdam)

Anecdotally, most cafes close at 5pm here. When I was in Melbourne earlier this year I found the 3/4pm close times a little inconvenient based on what I’m used to here.

On the flip side, very few places are open for coffee or breakfast out before 8am.
I've heard Americans go to strip clubs
Isn't signing supposed to solve some of that? You sign the binaries you host on your site, and the OS checks to make sure the signature is valid. (Maybe against a non-profit "Let's Sign".) If it's a valid signature, then you know it was signed by someone your OS trusts. Ideally, the OS would not trust signatures from malicious actors.

I've never been involved with that kind of thing, so I'm just guessing. Feel free to correct me.
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God bless the best coast.
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I'm going to focus on the US since that's what I'm most familiar with. The generalities will translate to other locations such as the EU, but the specifics will be off.

1) As others have mentioned the transition from engineer to lawyer doesn't make much sense for most of the population. Right now, the most influential law schools in the US (think Harvard and Yale Law) cost 60k+/year to attend for 3 years. Once you're finished, the typical engineer will see a salary dropoff along with a major increase in work. This is probably not the way forward in the US.

So let's take another look at the problem we're trying to solve. To restate the problem, regulation/law is made by those who are typically out of touch resulting in regulations that are often actively harmful. We in the tech industry would like to be involved or influential enough in the tech industry to be able to prevent these "bad" regulations from being created in the first place.

Ok, so where does regulation come from? Who do we have to influence? There are two primary sources of regulation, the legislative bodies such as congress and regulatory agencies such as the EPA, FCC and FDA. Secondary sources of regulation are executive orders/actions and the courts (common law courts used by the US and the UK explicitly look at judicial precedent)

There are already several well-known patterns to influence these regulation creators with the patterns in use by industries of every stripe. 1) Funnel more people from tech into careers as either politicians or their staff

To influence regulation created by these there are 3 well-known possibilities. 1) become politicians, 2) lobbying, 3) be an advisor or other person of influence. Option one is definitely a possibility but comes with the downside that many of those that choose this path will be older and out of touch. Option 2 is the one I believe has the easiest path forward. Today Facebook, Google and Microsoft have big lobbying efforts, although they pale in comparison to the lobbying by telecom and big energy. VCs already have informal lobbying they do on certain issues such as immigration and taxes on stock compensation. Grassroots we've seen the ability of tech to organize, especially around net neutrality and SOPA. The tech industry has seen successes, but hasn't been able to sustain it. It could benefit from formal industry-wide lobbying efforts. As for 3, tech could be more active during rule-making sessions and feedback sessions. We need to establish relations with politicians, regulators and their staff.
I was being sarcastic (I thought the tone and content made that obvious :) )
How does AI have a nationality?

Similar headline could be written for many US papers.
West Ham have had favours and Real Madrid have had a stupid amount of help from Madrid since forever.
> and the outcomes are in line with the negative predictions, what happens?

This law is bad, but the negative predictions are unhinged.

There is no link tax. Article 11 is a requirement for commercial sites using copyright material as part of their commercial work to either get permission or pay a licence.

I'd be interested to know how article 11 is any different from existing law.
And the us brought back 842 lbs of moon rocks according to wikipedia.
Hey! Hey! I live in Galveston.

I didn't know there was a citizen-scientist branch of this operation. (NASA did announce their plans earlier this year.)
I'm actually quite excited about this happening.
I don't see how any of this is true. The problem with SCTP is that middleboxes don't understand it and tend to drop it. This create an unfortunate situation where middleboxes refuse to support it because no-one uses it and no-one uses it because middleboxes refuse to support it. You can't just create a standard that says everyone should support SCTP and make everyone do it - standards already say that middleboxes should support it and they don't.

Its bizarre that you picked WebSockets, WebRTC, and QUIC as examples of how no one supports the standardization process. WebSockets were standardized via RFC 6455 in 2011, WebRTC via W3C, work with starting in ~2011, and QUIC implemented in 2012, with IETF standardization currently underway. These are all 6+ year investments by their sponsors.
Middle class usually has healthcare of some sort. I don't think you understand what you're talking about.

To be clear, I completely agree that there is a class of people in the US that lives like that, but it's not the middle that is bringing in $70-80k a household from jobs with benefits.
This does solve the case of people being declared dead, and then turning up alive -- but that's a pretty rare case, I'd hope.

It does make me wonder -- can someone wrongly declared dead travel to Europe, invoke the GDPR's right of rectification, and force credit agencies and the like to make them undead? This seems like it might be faster than getting appropriate court rulings.
Totally. My dad worked in sales at IBM and it seemed like a regular occurrence to take clients to strip clubs. This all happened on huge 10-100+ million dollar contracts and of course was all charged to the company credit card.
How far must the two parties diverge before enough space opens up for one or more new groups to reside in the middle? That might be a nice outcome to have, and the possibility is almost enough to make me hope the vicious cycle continues...
"We're all in on open source." [1]
Thanks for taking the effort to check. :) I believe this kind of attitude from MS is pretty problematic for Github.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/04/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-...
Why would they get acquired? They were doing good work in-between the partying?
Well except nat doesn't work and the ipv4 internet (which is the vast majority of it) is broken. I wouldn't call the vast majority of the internet something without value.
There has not been compensation stagnation in the US. When you include everything, total compensation has continued to climb.

Health benefits are expensive, have ballooned massively in cost, and are disregarded in the fake wage stagnation premise that gets thrown around.

The US has gone from 6% of GDP going to healthcare, to around 18-20%. That's where a lot of compensation growth has gone, paying that rising bill. It doesn't mean that compensation does not exist however, it's being spent on a service (that obviously should cost a lot less).

401k and similar compensation is disregarded by the wage stagnation premise.

The dramatic improvement in the US welfare state in the last 20 years is entirely disregarded. That costs a lot of money, heavily paid for by the top 1/3 who pay most of the taxes in the very progressive US taxation system. The share of US GDP going to the welfare state is now higher than other comparable countries like Canada and Australia, and it's climbing faster than both (ie accelerating away from them). That's an entirely disregarded factor in the quality of life for the bottom 1/3 who may find themselves needing to lean on the welfare state at some point, and or routinely draw benefits from it (that are not added into the income picture). When you look at the wage growth figures over the last 20 years, they do not show the large increase in welfare benefits being consumed. The point being, the picture is not nearly so dire as is often claimed.
Not when nationalism is king, and "make <whatever> great again" is the priority. That tends to lead to focusing on one thing, and doing it very terribly.
Please try to rephrase that by actually saying something. I'm genuinely curious why you think that absurd equality is so obvious it requires no evidence.
I’m not really sure what you mean by “discipline”.

Anecdotally, as the parent of a not-quite-2-year-old, I have found that when I treat 2- to 4-year-old kids at the playground with basic human respect, and pay attention to their interests and feelings, they end up following me all around subsequently (and e.g. running over to me when they see me the next week, wanting to show me their toys and tricks, ...), as if they were craving non-controlling non-judgmental human interaction they otherwise were not receiving from other people they interact with on a regular basis.

Watching other parents and caretakers, there are a substantial proportion who constantly deny kids’ feelings, tell them what they are supposed to feel and think, baby them by doing things for them that they could do for themselves, prevent them from doing not-very-risky things ostensibly for safety reasons, pointlessly force them to do irrelevant things they don’t want to do, etc.

YMMV.
> The employees raise rent and make locals homeless.

That's not inherently true. I will concede that it may force people to move to other accommodations that they can afford, but, they're not forcing anyone to be homeless.

> Landlords often don’t live in the small towns where they own property these days.

Maybe not, but, those landlords are paying property taxes locally. The guy who mows the lawns and the guy who unplugs the toilets all live locally. They are creating jobs inside that community and raising the standard of living for everyone.

> The employees buy gas and groceries from corporate outlets and shop online.

Why do you say corporate stores like its a bad thing? Keep in mind, even if you contend that they're moving profit out of the community they are still creating jobs inside that community. Someone needs to stock the shelves, bag the groceries and pump the gas.
Why do you think hyperlinks are illegal? What possible interpretation of the law are you using?

> What about bookmarks, all I am really doing is saving a link

Perfect example of the confusion caused by these fucking stupid articles.

i) The law doesn't apply in any way to your book marks.

ii) The only way the law could apply to your book marks is if you're a commercial organisation, and you publish them as part of a commercial venture, and if they are also more than hypertext links but include non-fair use portions of a copyright work.
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SpotifyTube was used to be a solution to download Spotify tracks, artists, albums and playlists in MP3 for free. However, SpotifyTube is no longer available. What happend to SpotifyTube?
Establish a daily routine where you are doing some moderate exercise and getting quality sleep. I highly recommend practicing job interviews so that you come across with the confidence and initiative that you would have if already employed.

You might want to get in touch with career office of the school where you got your CS degree as they may have resources that are useful.

Identify the technology that is most in line with your interests and the jobs to which you are applying and become proficient or an expert in it, preferably making something along the way that can be shown, demonstrated, or discussed.