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Well, just ask the Toibe index:

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

It looks like Elixier ist by far less popular than the other discussed languages.
Go 2.0 Proposal --- Immutability
Very excited to see this, I've been intrigued by it over the last few months but have avoided it because I was concerned if I built a successful project with it I'd eventually reach a hard cliff in terms of pricing. It's especially difficult to weigh cost benefit of an architecture with a new framework that has specific resource based pricing when you don't have a way of estimating resource usage because you've never used the framework.
This looks like a somewhat hasty response:

-"and we fixed all critical issues before the acquisition closed" - How can you fix issues when the acquiring party is not yet under your control?

-"We further strengthen our security posture by implementing our own hardware designs for critical components such as processors [...]" - Own processor design by Amazon? They have the Alpine ARM-processor, but that type of processor is not the type of processor that runs on the allegedly compromised motherboards.

-What is Amazon exactly responding to? Amazon denies knowing of the hack ("was aware of") when acquiring the company. That's the same denial as in the BB article. But the main point in the BB-article is that is was Amazon that found out about the hack and notified US government. That doesn't mention any knowledge before the deal was struck? Only Apple clearly denies ever having found a malicious chip.

The Bloomberg-article just seems to well-sourced to be that easily denied. Not sure what kind of communication would be acceptable for Amazon and their law enforcement partners they are (still, according to BB) working with.
I appreciate this little nugget of wisdom
I love the opening statement:

"People too often forget that IQ tests haven’t been around that long. Indeed, such psychological measures are only about a century old."

Yeah, because other metrics of human mental performance, or any kind of psychological property of humans for that matter are so much older than a century, right ? A century in psychometrics, is 13.5 billion years in physics, to make the "dog-years" analogy.

Reality: IQ is the oldest, best, and most solidly established predictive metric of success. In fact it's pretty much the oldest metric anyone bothered keeping at all (presumably exactly because it works, it seems very unlikely to me that it just happened to be the first one they tried. I remember studies that tried to quantify "nobleness" and "noble blood" in people and correlate that to intelligence for example).

Back to the article. The source for all this wisdom ?

https://www.amazon.com/Genius-Checklist-Paradoxical-Become-C...

(This book essentially makes the point that there is a lot or variability at the extreme outliers of genius. Even then, it is forced to conclude that while those extreme outliers weren't the very top geniuses at a young age, they were very smart. The just weren't top of the top early in life, even though they did become the top of the top later in life. It points out the corollary: genius increases the odds of success, which is very different from guaranteeing it)
kubernetes for some, miniature american flags for others.
I think the author might be overstating how unique Go’s position is in terms of making concurrency easier. Haskell has the best concurrency story of any language I’ve used. Super lightweight green threads, simple concurrency primitives like MVar and STM, good performance (possibly requiring tweaks, but not bad out of the box). Referential transparency (by which I basically mean immutable data) makes sharing data across threads much easier and in some cases more performant by allowing you to avoid copying. Plus, you have a type system which makes it much easier to reason about your code.

All that being said, I haven’t written Go and can’t compare the two. Also, Haskell doesn’t support the actor/message passing model out of the box (although libraries exist for it) or prevent deadlocks (although the immutability helps a great deal here). BEAM languages, clojure, rust, pony and others all have their strengths here — again, this doesn’t discredit the article at all but the idea that Go is the clear winner is debatable.
Hah! You must be in on another joke, because OP was referring to Rust ;)

> Rust is a systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety.

www.rust-lang.org

edit: /s
What other languages/platforms are out there that are as good with concurrency as Go?
Anything I can do to get you to become a Wallaroo user? <I at least have to ask>

Also, thank you for the kind words about our blog. It means a lot. We put a lot of effort into it and we hope that it both drives Wallaroo usage but is also valuable as a general technical resource.

> was the dual license nature really the problem, or is the "market" not as large as you may have thought, in reality?

The dual license was definitely a problem if the goal is to get usage. Would the people who balked at the license have paid us money? Maybe not but, they could have been valuable as members of the community. Could have helped us learn about new and interesting Wallaroo use cases. Could have acted as social proof for Wallaroo. We get none of those things if they are scared away the license. And I personally heard from a lot of folks who balked at the license.

I was talking to an engineer from very large company who wanted to use Wallaroo and would have made great press for us but, they couldn't without getting legal involved and the project died there. That was the day that I personally started thinking seriously about the license and if we had done the right thing.

It's hard to be out there telling people the real value of the project is in the ease of scaling but making payment required for that. Ended a lot of conversations.

> is the "market" not as large as you may have thought

Well, we went into this with "there's a small market now, but we see it growing". So, I would say no. We knew the Python streaming/event-driven application market was small compared to the Java one right now. But, we also see it growing at a steady rate (with signs of a big big jump at some point).

> What is the business model now?

Things we've found that people are happy to pay for

- Support/license that involves us giving them the same assurances of "someone being there" that they get with proprietary software
- "Managed service", we'll install and run your Wallaroo applications for you inside your AWS/GCP/Azure accounts.
- Enterprise version. We plan on creating products that live around Wallaroo that aren't of interest to the open source community but would be valuable to enterprise users.

In the end, what's most important to us right now is getting closer to more users and using what we learn from them to accelerate our improvement of Wallaroo. The more users we have, the more chances we have learn, and the more chances we have to continue to improve our product market fit.
You’re not wrong. No matter the available constructs, there on concurrency guarantees that you can’t make in any language with a shared memory model.

Everything has tradeoffs.
@zelon88 - You are a true business mind. Silicon Valley is full of pussies and you are the exception.
Client certs have existed for a long time. Most sites won't implement them without great demand from the user-base or specific security needs. This would also mean that sites would have to track all of your client certs from each device.

The upside would be that you could tie a cert to a specific hardware device and serial number, which means someone getting your certs won't be useful to them. Microsoft does something like this for xbox "machine" accounts. Each device can have it's own password that is tied to that serial number. If leaked, the password (or cert in this case) is not useful anywhere else. This is similar in concept to tieing an ssh public key to a specific network or IP address, except it is a hardware identifier in this case.

Unpopular opinion disclaimer: Anything else pretty much requires tieing into some 3rd party auth service or hardware token which have their own issues, such as vendor lock-in, managing server side libraries, leaking usage data to 3rd party providers, creating weak-chain back-doors to 3rd party vendors, privacy violations, etc.. I know those are all the rage right now among technical folk, but the general public adoption is quite low. Passwords will be around for a very long time.
I do not for one minute believe, that china, whose production floors are spotless, watched like a hawk and every product tested, did not know this was being added. They would have been able to tell themselves by weight. Yes, product weight is used for shipping manifests too.

This is obfuscation of the fact, that china as a state actor has perpetrated this crime against our country period. full stop.
I thought with a title like that, that this would be a guide on how to calculate emotions and numerical presentation of emotions. But it's pretty pictures.
I tried to find a paper or something on it, nothing (don't actually know how to search for papers, no scientist).

I checked the credits on https://mumbrella.com.au/naked-creates-font-for-rmit-which-i... where i see no psychology anything but maybe Behavioural Business Lab. Granted, this was no list of the scientists working on it, but there sure seems to be a lot of marketing and brand management involved.

I can't be sure on this one, but it seems adding science to a claim is just a good marketing practice.

Are there science news sites that add paper references or something to fact check against, to their articles?
You realize when we talk pins we mean authorizing your credit card chip&pin transaction? Nothing to do with your phone pin or maybe som other pins.

The pin we are talking about is what is customized on your credit card (directly in its memory) or its equivalent in your bank's HSM for the sole purpose of performing CVM step negotiated by yor card and payment terminal.
You're projecting our experience of time onto what is a timeless mathematical essence. The idea that OP is referring to is that the universe "exists" simply because it is internally consistent.
First, invent a time machine. Next, go back to the '60s and make a fortune on the stock market using your knowledge of the future. Finally, spend the '70s using your billions lobbying for something like the Paris treaty. Get it in place by the early '80s and you might be able to rest easy.

Short of that, there's little to recommend. We can't save the planet anymore, not as we know it; we've already pumped enough CO2 into the atmosphere that every ecosystem on earth will be permanently affected, no matter what we do from here.

Humanity will survive somehow. We do not appear to have any significant ability to deal with long-term, collective problems, but we're pretty good at engineering our way out of short-term crises. The worse the immediate problems become, the more attention they will get, and the more willing people will be to divert resources to their solutions.

I try to avoid worrying about things I can't change, and the fate of humanity is certainly one of them.
Developments to WebAuthn and FIDO2
I’m a Paramedic: Here’s How the Apple Watch Series 4 Will and Won’t Save Lives
That's what I was thinking. Nobel prize is like a lottery that requires a high IQ and a desire to work in academia and research among other factors in order to buy a ticket.

You also have to be lucky enough not to have contemporaries with equally impressive work in more popular fields.
[...] investigating all hardware and software prior to going into production and performing regular security audits internally and with our supply chain partners.

Does this imply that they are checking every piece of hardware that goes into a data center including looking at it for any additional or replaced malicious components?
Cadillac's Super Cruise ranked best automated driving system by Consumer Reports
What are people classing as personal projects here? I have a bunch of raspberry pi's running docker that I throw some things on to run, and have some custom scripts to pull a new image and restart the container when I want to do an update.

But they're tiny, tiny things that are very personal (i.e. they have 1 user - me)

If you're getitng to the point where you need to scale things using a kubernetes cluster or whatever it seems to me like that thing has graduated from "personal project" to an actual product that needs the features of kubernetes like reslience and so on.

I mean, I'd love the idea of having a kubernetes cluster to throw some things onto but I really don't have the patience to set it all up right now, it seems way too much cost and effort
Archival is an adjective. I will die on this hill.
I'm glad you convinced yourself, but this situation has been argued over for years by a lot of people on Reddit, and I really doubt you can bring any hard facts to the argument that aren't well-known.
You aren't alone in that concern. We heard that from a lot of folks. And I agree with you. When I stopped thinking as "VP of Engineering at Wallaroo" and started thinking about how I would evaluate Wallaroo if I wasn't with the company, I ended up with the problem you are describing. Basically:

"why would I spend time evaluating this thing when there's that cliff that I don't know when I'll hit it".
"the ability to pick a degree at _all_ is a privilege not automatically afforded to everybody."

I completely agree that this is a huge issue. A large problem for kids from "bad" families is not having any idea what they "should" be doing, and by the time they figure it out, they may have already ruined their life and missed opportunities.
They will merge with padString and addNumber foundations. /Sarcasm aside I've never heard of either and I've done an intolerable amount of node.js
I agree. Maybe this effect will only work if you rotate fonts every so often to one you're not familiar with. If this effect works at all.
culture != race
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> At which point, why would anyone do this?

A game is a perfectly valid reason to do this. We're running millions of crude, low level simulations today.

> I’d like to see a more credible and compelling proposal than hand waved ‘history simulation’

Civilization is a crude, low level "history simulation" that doesn't try to be accurate.

Our world might be equally low level and crude by the standard of a future with vastly more computational capability.

Also consider that if you're in a simulation, then you have no basis for saying anything about the size or scope of the simulation: it's not a given many people are simulated at full fidelity, for example.
It takes on the order of a few minutes for your brain to learn to read that font fluently. It all seems rather silly.

Does RMIT have a good reputation?
You're setting up an entirely non-falsifiable argument.

Do multiple publications of obvious nonsense in peer-reviewed journals prove nothing to you? How do you know there are no other authors doing the same thing with different intent? What level of nonsense would have to get through for you to question the validity field?
Ahh so the BBM stuff. AFAIK they never sold out their enterprise customers.
With minimal effort I was able to find videos on youtube having this problem with apple-brand chargers too. No load meter at all or the load meter being on the live side of the charger instead of the USB isde. (Simply search "iphone xs charging problem")

It seems people can make it work with a macbook pro usb c charger and other fast chargers but not with the charger that comes with the box, which IMO points to some severe QA issues.

So it seems wrong to me to claim that this doesn't happen with apple-brand hardware, this should have been caught in QA, period.

If the charger in the box together with this phone exhibits such a failure mode, I'd return the phone.
I previously considered the idea of creating a cloud storage solution where customers are only billed for what they use. This was spurred by looking at dropbox's $10/mo plan for 1TB of storage. But I decided against it.

Storage is already free for the average user. 15GB with Google is enough. If you want more, the option is there and not that expensive. $2/mo for 100GB. I see no reason why a consumer would switch to my lesser-known service to save $1/mo. $1 is nothing. So my market would be users that store a lot of data. In that case, $10/mo for 1TB doesn't seem all that bad. Anymore than 1TB, customers probably have a bit of technical knowledge and may aswell store it themselves.

This market is already extremely saturated. Every single big tech name has a part of it.
Shining Light on WSJ’s Attack on ShapeShift and Crypto
Yes. Because mainstream is what you should select for when choosing your tools.

On a more serious note: I’m very wary of people that have discovered the one true language, framework, etc.

That’s how you end up with 100 lines of go instead a one line bash script. That’s how you end up with “java developers” that are more concerned with design patterns instead of actual working code. I could go on.

Learn about as many things possible, form your own opinions, choose the right tool for the job.
My interpretation after reading several articles is that there had to be collusion from within the US's own ranks. The CIA itself and that what you will later find out is that this is what the Clintons "sold" to China was our own corrupted intelligence agency.
1982 Siberian Pipeline Blast Allegedly Caused by Trojan Horse (NY Times)
Can AI free your sales team?
IC fabrication and packaged component assembly are very different things. China doesn't have anything near this level of sophistication, at least not without any outside help.
Wooosh

Edit: I made this post, but I thought afterwards, what if you were you being dense on purpose, and I didn't get the joke?
I don't misunderstand.

My beef with CORS is that I have to encoded the validation logic into its HTTP headers.

But maybe what I want doesn't fit in its headers, e.g. I want to allow requests from *.example.org. So then I am writing server code, and if I am writing server code anyway, why have the extra step of encoding validation logic in CORS headers in the first place?
I hypothesize that its one or a combination of these three things.

1. these people have run out of research ideas.

2. they want a series on the Discovery network.

3. they are scamming gullible billionaires into funding the "research".

The fact that Tyson has something insightful to say makes point 2 a strong possibility, I say better than 50-50. I am disappointed to not see Kaku pitch in.
I settled it with support team via ticket, thanks for the offer though!
Toys ‘R’ Us Cancels Bankruptcy Auction, Plans to Revive Brand
Marketing, industry structure

1: People will buy what's new and shiney.

2: companies produces what can integrate into what sells

3: loop
Glassdoor is often useful. Sort by "low" and read with a grain of salt. If it's large enough, specific issues will bubble up.
Well, it’s a pre-interview signal, like anything on a CV. Previous employers, alma mater, extracurriculars, yadda yadda. If I’m compiling a shortlist to interview, completion of a relevant MOOC from a quality provider such as EdX, the Andrew Ng course, etc, will increase the probability of them being on it. It’s not just the technical skill either, it’s the good attitude of starting and finishing something above and beyond normal duties.
Yeah, it's surprisingly attractive and easy to read.
Culture is not equivalent to race. Cultures that permit slavery, for example, are not that great.
The JS Foundation is already hosting a lot of popular projects that run in back-end and build/CI environments -- webpack, ESLint, Esprima, Grunt, Intern, JerryScript, Mocha, QUnit, NodeRed, webhint, WebDriverIO, etc. Adding Node.JS itself to the mix would seem to make a lot of sense.
We’re talking about business. To many people, those other companies are conducting legitimate business in China, not committing a clearly inexcusable crime, like your example. Google is competition with those companies worldwide, and it could easily be construed by shareholders that their refusal to participate is harming the business. A clear case can be made that choosing to not participate in the largest market in the world for moral reasons is not a good business decision. The comparison you’ve made fits the situation poorly but I’d welcome a better analogy.
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Recent physics graduate, math minor (bachelors of science), seeking employment in data science or software engineering. Highly ambitious, enjoys self directed learning and difficult problems.

I quite enjoy the learning process, and especially working on complex problems, breaking them down into their component pieces
, and figuring out a best approach for each piece.

Currently reading Python for Data Analysis, and Effective Modern C++.

Recently read a good chunk of TCP/IP administration 3rd edition, Land of Lisp, and Data Science from Scratch.
Apple only has 5 accounts to downvote. its cute.
Additionally our perception of time as moving does not demand a simulation is moving. This could be a flat file, our experiencing of reality merely being a series of pre calculated frames with an illusory sense of self. The fact that we experience things does not mean things have happened. You can’t guarantee time hasn’t literally just started at even given moment. Every frame of existence may just be a single slice now opened up, and everything else you perceived as happening to you in some concept of recent time may be sitting in a database- not actually called upon ever.