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Even if this project never completely replaces Windows, it's existence ensure Valve gets favorable negotiating terms with Microsoft.

Of course, I'd really really love if the gap closed enough that Windows became completely optional for gaming (and now, VR for me). My Windows 10 upgrade recently was purely to run my HTC Vive with DX12 - there's nothing else on that partition.
Taiwan had its own seat as a country in the UN. They were a founding member and had a permanent seat on the security council. The UN has just adopted the "one china" policy and recognized the PRC victory in the Chinese civil war as legitimate. The UN is wholly recognizing the PRC's claims here. In fact, Taiwan tried to (re-)join the UN in 2007 under the name of "Taiwan", dropping the "Republic of China" bit entirely. No dice. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembl...
I miss EVE, the game has all over MMOs pointless :/ Its been so long since i played for real too. Still got a fair amount of assets, although i suspect 50 bil is probably pocket change nowadays.
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There's one startup on the list where I've had the idea, done some non-trivial work towards it in very garage-ey conditions, and applied to yc for it, and failed to get in. Still looking for funding. Oh well.
> I get better performance than on Windows

as anecdotal as it might be, I used to get better performance from wine'd dwarf fortress than with it's osx port, which is interesting I guess.
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A mess in what way out of interest? (I've not looked at the source)
It's a separate program though, so you're not repackaging, modifying or redistributing.

Let's take for example TortoiseGit, should they decide to sell TortoiseGit now, they wouldn't have a problem with the GPL because they're not redistributing git. They just say, download git and our program will connect to it. Git does not become part of TortoiseGit at any point. You could replace the git client with one that has the same interface and it would still work.
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Yes definitely, this is what I understood by the cultural effect httpsterio was referring to. I still stand by my statement though, I've had far too many meetings discussing this exact topic.
Atari is preparing the launch of its new linux console, the VCS (scheduled for next year). Apart from being a great toy for tinkering, it would be quite interesting if we could run a full steam client and some windows games on it !

Controls may be a bit hazy, but it's definitively something I would try.
They don't get to choose. They don't own the copyright on Redis, Salvatore does. He is their employee now but if they try to pull something like this I suspect he won't be for long.
>"we still use e.g. the same microphones as back then, and they're still expensive"

Good microphones were almost prohibitively expensive in the old days. Today you can buy something like an SM57 for €100, and that's normal retail price, no special offers or anything. Second-hand, they're usually less than half that.

Decent acoustic guitars can be had for less than €200, brand new. Sure that won't be a fancy name-brand guitar, but it'll sound good and play well.

All kinds of great outboard gear like the FMR Really Nice Compressor is €200, and it's one hell of a piece of gear, even at twice that price. Combine with an inexpensive mixer with decent preamps, and you're already well on your way. Yes, even Behringer is decent these days.

And you can run a pro-grade DAW like Reaper on an ordinary run-of-the-mill PC. An audio interface with a good amount of input channels is going to cost a bit, but if you're OK recording one or two tracks at a time, a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 is €120. And even inexpensive studio monitors have astoundingly good sound quality, compared to what people used to swear by.

You can get really far on a budget nowadays.
Public raw image datasets are rare, probably because most cameras, except DSLRs, don't support storing raw images.

Also, the nature of the inference may not require high fidelity raw images since they're going to be down-sampled anyway. Unless research suggests that raw images improve inference metrics, nobody's going to invest effort into building a raw image dataset. One notable recent exception to this is the "Learning to see in the dark" paper on low light image enhancement[1] - they found that training on raw images gives much better enhancement than JPEG.

The data availability problem may start getting solved in the near future because mobiles (atleast Android) support storing and processing raw images, and on-device learning and inference capabilities are getting better all the time on mobiles.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWKUFK7MWvg&feature=youtu.be
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I always imagined a contemporary beholder slowly following the path with her/his finger, considering and commemorating the corresponding narrative.

You also mention something in the article about the events being in recent enough memory to not require dates. I can't imagine a non-history-nerd person looking at a similarly under-annotated map of, say, Rommel's North Africa campaign and recalling much detail of specific dates or precisely what took place at Tobruk or the Kasserine Pass or El Alamein. Would 19th century viewers have been that much different?
I don't know why it is in my case, but I suspect it's because Wine and/or the AMD drivers on Linux don't implement as many visual effects as there are on Windows, which makes the game easier on the GPU.
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> C&C Tiberian Sun

I remember that music! Good old days :)
I totally agree, but I also think it's unprofessional behaviour to ask or expect someone to break the terms of an existing contract. Especially at the start of a new business relationship where building trust is really important.
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Because I don't want to? I like taking breaks at times but, fundamentally, I do also like having a job. I don't want to sit still in a room, I don't want to find satisfaction when not actually doing anything, and why should I?
To me this seems like the best list in years. More stuff that’s early stage and somewhat whimsical again, albeit run by ex-FAANG employees instead of college kids. The last couple years have seemed heavier on more prosaic dtc stuff.
Same here. Teaches you a lot about toxicity and how being constantly positive can make a difference short term as well as long term.
If the ms App Store is successful, then it is the end of valve as we know it today, so it makes sense for them to invest what is a relatively small amount (10 people at $150k/year for two years is just $2m - do they have that many people on it?)

The majority of the cost is actually borne by the studios/developers - compatibility testing and fixes - for little pay now (though possibly nontrivial one in the future). So it doubly makes sense for Valve
Almost everything requires a value judgment. However, in your example, if you don't think art is valuable, it seems unlikely that you would be an art dealer as you would have neither the training nor the inclination to learn enough about art and art markets to get such a job. So you would likely be doing something else, hopefully something you do value.
Expecting a conversation on philosophy would be completely understandable - if the vendor sold it to you with the tagline "it has all the parts it needs for a philosophic conversation!" Google Home doesn't do that, Tesla does. (Musk doesn't even try to weasel around it: says "full self-driving features", Tesla marketing materials repeat. That is, in my opinion, a blunt lie.)
There is a FAQ at: https://www.ycombinator.com/demoday/faq/

Each startup gives a two to three minute pitch with slides, one pitch after another. No questions. They have 15 to 30 minute breaks every 20 pitches or so.

Investors can express interest via a web app, and meetings are set for later. It is also possible to talk to founders during the breaks and in the hallway.
> a mess

by @mistaken, not Linus: http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2018/08/02/124
Good, I don’t want them using my projects then. If they want it to be a one way street, they don’t got the right to touch my stuff.
There are quite a few health-related startups in the latest YC class that seem to be doing important, such as Hepatx.
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On the other hand, having easy (just a click away instead of having to reboot) access to games requires greater discipline, in order to avoid procrastinating. :)
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Years ago I worked within walking distance to the office. It took only 10 minutes to walk there. I hated it. You spend all day and night in the same neighbourhood. At lunch I went to the same places I would go to at the weekends. Life just felt
so repetitive, seeing the same things every day.
Today I drive 15-20 minutes to the other end of the town, with just moderate traffic, and for me that's perfect. Less stressful than public transportation, and more variety than in the old office.
1. Building railroads is an order of magnitude harder than building roads (gradients, turn radii, clearance, yards).

2. Not even building, just repurposing. "This road/lane/whatever now SDV only."

3. Trains only run on rails. Trucks that could be run as SDVs on dedicated infrastructure and as human-driven on shared infrastructure tackle the last-mile problem far more efficiently.

4. Trains are built on the "smart infrastructure" paradigm (go straight at the speed which the signals tell you, until the signals tell you to stop); trucks on the opposite "smart vehicles" paradigm (road exists, everything else is your responsibility). This makes a truck rollout far more scalable (as in "just add this road to whitelist").
You don’t even have to go that far. This clause says the license trumps the clause, and most permissive licenses permit relicensing. So relicense without this clause. Problem solved.

It’s certainly not the intent, but I believe it’s what it actually says. Of course, IANAL and you’re an idiot if you take this ad legal advice, etc.
Apps like ShopWith are a good idea. However, what's going to break it is the network effect.

For them to be found, the influencers on whatever medium they are on, be it YouTube, Steemit, D-Tube, BitChute, YouNow, etc, etc then need to tell their audience to install another app and find them on there to purchase "stuff".

It's this extra few steps that limit engagement and incur huge drop-offs. Besides, with YouTube now adding in built in stores and Patreon like services. It makes it easier for influencers on there to stick with YouTube. For the other platforms that I mention, once they start doing the same. Well, the days of ShopWith would be numbered.

Finally, will ShopWith fall fowl of the same problems as Busker.co as they were forced to pay a Google/Apple Tax on purchases through the app and this lead them to close. Having not used the app, I don't know if any purchases then redirect to a webpage to do the purchase rather than on the app. Again, an issue which may cause drop-off points. As genZ may just wish to push their thumb rather than having to fill in a form, which may be a drag.

Disclaimer: I'm in the Ecommerce space and I think of this stuff down to a minute detail. I know all the different verticals and competitors in the space and what they are doing. I don't think I would have accepted them as the next 3 years are going to be very interesting and I don't think they will survive.
This is amazing, thanks for the pointer!
I don't think Spotify has a specific word for it, just "Normalize volume", with an option to set it to quiet, normal or loud.

There's a clear difference between well-produced songs and over-compressed songs. The over-compressed ones tend to be much quieter, because the normalizer goes by average volume instead of peaks. So well-produced songs get to go "over" for some amount of the song, to give room for dynamics.
To some extend, yes. Then again I enjoy my corporate close source job too. Honestly, I like it now.

There is also a lot of work involved in making function software that is just that - a work, oftentimes thankless boring or politically bullshit difficult work that needs to be done and is done by people who feel responsibility or duty to finish it.
You must be a younger person with a young wife and with no health issues. My wife and I are 60ish with one adult child. I have been freelancing for 15 years and health insurance is our major expense. Over that time it reached a peak of $2150 per month. Obamacare and stepping down a plan level has reduced that to about $1500 per month.
I live in Brno, Czech Republic. It is ~400k city, that grows by another ~100k when students return :-)

Tech scene:
* We have Red Hat, Net Suite/Oracle, GoodData, Seznam (local search portal, still somehow competing with google), and few smaller startups and local it shops.
* I did work at Red Hat for 6 years here, and the office was nice :-)
* You would find expats in larger corporations, you can get by speaking mostly english in larger corps (i.e. I had a manager who relocated from New Castle to Brno)

Salary:

From what I heard, based on your role, seniority and skill in salary negotiation, you get between 1000 and 4000 eur/month pre-taxes. So far I don't know many friends that would make more, but I have met few people that do consulting/own small game companies, that make N-times more. Cost of employment (social security, medical insurance, taxes) are around 40%, and as an employee you don't have many ways to lower that. Some companies allow to have you work as a contractor. Beware that being a contractor that is effectively an employee is illegal ;)

Cost of living:
* it is a student city. If you are content with single room in a shared flat,that would cost you ~200Eur/month, a two/three bedroom flat, depending on location, 500-700Eur/month.

* lunch during lunchtime costs you around 4Eur. Dining around 5-10. Loaf of bread costs ~1Eur.

* There is decent public transport, year-pass for the whole city costs between 100 and 200 Eur.

* I use Eur for the sake of comparability, Czechs still have their own Crown as currency.

Entertainment:

I don't really go out much these days, but Brno has good beer, and cheap if you like lagers (0.5l around 1E). There is several tearooms with high quality tea, some serve sheesha as well. Coffe snobs can find their coffe. There is board-gaming scene. There is climbing scene with several clibming/bouldering clubs. Rest I don't really know, but most of the things you'd imagine some subgroup of those ~100k students might want in the city, you can find here :)
The goons are currently on a power upswing, having been without any influence for a while.
If I claim my pizza is the best, and I never even ran it in a competition, aren't I just lying?

A (fairly mediocre) hamburger place back where I grew up heavily advertised themselves as "The award winning best burgers in town", reference (in tiny print) a test the local newspaper had done over 10 years ago. So basically it shouldn't be too hard to claim that your X is 'the best' according to some measure without having to outright lie.
> But my REAL wish: Because I'm like many people and have experience with dozens of languages. I want books that leverage that knowledge and experience. E.g., to explain monads, just say it's an interface specification, and give the API. It'll make sense to me.

I understand the wish but I personally believe it is a bad idea. I think Haskell is just too different due to purity and laziness and trying to adapt your intuitions from imperative programming is going to mostly fail, badly. I suggest it's better to approach Haskell with a completely blank mind and learn the correct intuitions through just being very rigorous at the beginning.

I have written a bit of Haskell myself but I still get surprised by evaluation order, for example. But it has paid off, I think, it's a lot more understandable and modular and beautiful code that I write in Haskell than elsewhere.
I think Verizon and other carriers should simply be required to advertise the lowest guaranteed speed, right next to the word Unlimited, in equal size font. None of this hiding it in the microscopic print nonsense; if it's only unlimited at 200 Kbps, then that has to be the big number. The plan is actually quite sensible if it's marketed correctly (unlimited base speed, with burstable higher speeds as the network allows within reason) but the current marketing is just entirely deceptive.
Well, if you are reading the chapter, it's because you want to understand it. Since everything in this book is verbose, you can't just skip the verbose parts.

Half the examples contain jokes or cutesy animal sounds (onomatopoeia). I like jokes, but it is distracting me. Especially when I don't understand the cultural reference.

My biggest gripe with the book is that the examples can feel quite contrived. Its probably super hard to make a book featuring all concepts without having contrived examples. But I remember reading a chapter and some arbitrary abstraction is introduced. Problem is, based on that example, I don't realize when the abstraction is useful.

It might be impossible to write a Haskell book that is neither terse not unnecessarily verbose.

Since you can get some chapters for free, I'd recommend you just download them and see if you like the style.
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The name + domain is already there, the question now is how and where the trademarks should be registered.
In your case I would try to relocate. I worked at Red Hat and from what I heard you could relocate from i.e. US to Czech republic and retain your salary. This was rare and I am not certain about the specifics, but I have seen it happen several times.
>The escrow agent just sat there impatiently twirling her pencil and sighing, but she never said a word

That's because you're probably 1 out of 100 that actually bothers to read and understand all of those documents. Your own realtor doesn't understand those documents and the vast majority of home buyers do not hire their own lawyer to check all of the documents and contracts they sign when buying a home. Whether it's worth it or not to actually read all of those documents and have a lawyer review them before signing or not, that's not what happens in the vast majority of cases. It's not an understatement that the majority of home buyers do not understand all of the obligations of their mortgage.

>One of the papers you sign when getting a mortgage is one that says simply "I have read and understood all these documents."

And I'm sure the EULA that everyone always skips says the same thing. That doesn't change the fact that almost no one actually has read and understood all of the documents.
Wonderful piece for those interested in early WWII aviation. There are lessons for software development in there. Brad Cox's classic Planning the Software Industrial Revolution [1] highlights the importance of gauges to Eli Whitney's project to built firearms with interchangeable parts, and asserts we need a similar technology in software to enable construction from reusable components. In Most Dangerous Enemy [2], Stephen Bungay points out that it took 2.5 times more man hours to build a Spitfire than an Me109. German production engineering was far better than British. This piece illustrates that perfectly. Rolls Merlin engine was a great piece of design engineering, but it was inefficient in terms of production engineering. What is intriguing about this article is the detail on the effort needed for Packard to port the Merlin design to their production engineering standards, and then for Rolls and Merlin to share design changes. Effectively sending each other pull requests!

[1] http://bat8.inria.fr/~lang/hotlist/free/licence/papers/cox/C...
[2] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Most-Dangerous-Enemy-History-Britai...
All correct. Also, I booted into Windows on Saturday to play a game, it hadn't been booted in months, so I hat to wait for a forced SP install and Windows wiped out Grub. Every time I boot back into Windows it kills Grub and I have to fix it again. Not only did I lose all my gaming time to the updates, I lost extra time fixing my bootloader because of Windows' aggressive BS. The sooner I can get it gone the better and I'll free up an entire SSD for games.
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Yeah the cartels are really really powerful. The political landscape is actually "the game" for many pilots.
Many smaller orgs long for further reductions of the meat-factory alliances. But you can't compete with economies of scale and the clout they have with the devs/management.
Demo day is i guess spread across a couple of weeks ?

> making decisions about all 60

Numbers game for them now ?
Salvatore is an employee of Redis Labs since 2015. AFAIK he still owns Redis itself personally, which is a very good thing.

That doesn't mean Redis Labs is the only Redis provider you should consider though. For instance, OpenRedis has been founded before Redis Labs (early 2011) by people who have been very involved with the community (contributed the Ruby and Lua clients, the original website...). They are a much smaller company than Redis Labs (bootstrapped, when Redis Labs raised over $50M...) so it wouldn't make financial sense for them to have Salvatore on their payroll.

EDIT: Salvatore himself is addressing this on Twitter right now. https://twitter.com/antirez/status/1032192722755571714
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Your problem is probably with distribution and distribution in modified form, i.e. freedoms 2 and 3.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software#Definition_and_t...

You don't need to distribute or license the software or process you use to produce the printer itself, I suppose.

Help is available to choose a license which fits your needs.
https://opensource.org/faq#which-license
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Different beer (I think), but cf. the famous 1973 beer tagline: "Probably the best beer in the world".

Interestingly I would be surprised if that stemmed from onerous marketing regulations as suggested above.
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"Not giving something"(term reduction in this case) and "taking something away" are very-very different things. You would have to be incredibly entitled to confuse them.
"Tell Me Something Good isn't supported in this region" I mean, it's not like I want national positive news, just give me some happy news.
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If you care about free software, why not run a free OS ? just wondering ...
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I've seen long time friends F each other for all they own or to gain favours in the greater political hierarchies.
It's savage once you get to a certain point in terms of resources or logistics.