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When you ship a rebranded OEM product, you don't have to recertify it if the original white box product was.

It is ironic how all kinds of certifications, originally conceived as a mean to kneecap Chinese/Asian exporters, now play into their hand.

Now, it is Western companies that don't want to develop a thing on their own, or make any original products as such, as that will require them to undergo certification for every self-developed, original product. Unlike with white box designs that were specifically designed for OEM industry, and allow for all kinds of effortless customisation without losing certification, and reaping the benefit of economies of scale (one OEM design being sold to many customers under a single certificate).
The commenter's point is that the "predefined methodology" can be indistinguishable from active investing if it's sufficiently complex and frequent. It starts getting pretty silly to call it passive. Otherwise an active investor could simply codify their entire investing methodology into an algorithm and start following it passively, then declare that they're just adhering to a very complex index. But quantitative investors are still active investors.

If you take a widely accepted, reasonably broad market definition and an index to track it (such as the S&P 500 for equities), then sure, you're investing passively. The portfolio reallocation and equity inclusion happens according to rules which organically rise from the market definition itself.

But you can creatively define a market for any kind of security and then an index methodology for tracking that market which may involve a complicated set of inclusion rules that are arguably just active investing. This is something Matt Levine has talked about in his column on a number of occasions - some active investors are now rebranding their funds as index funds for creative, synthetic indices.

The practical distinction between beta and "smart beta" is a lot larger than the distinction between "smart beta" and alpha, regardless of philosophical underpinnings.
Back when hedgies were the masters of the universe and every punk and his dog was starting a hedge fund and when you could beat treasury bills with "market neutral" strategies people used to blame correlation on hedgies.
Hey, for once my former life designing HA infrastructure is actually useful!

The reality is that hardware HA was almost always terrible. Of the platforms you described:

- Sun had no hardware HA ever, down to the unfathomable design that all of their E-class machines had only one power cord. They had SOME hotswap hardware, but the rules were byzantine - it couldn't be the first processor board, and it couldn't be the last processor board, oh and by the way, if a processor or RAM went bad, the machine would crash, but when it came back up it would take the bad processor offline and if you were lucky enough the bad processor wasnt on the first or last board and then you could hotswap it.

- The only HA hardware from IBM was the mainframe, and even there, it was definitely possible for a software fault to take down the entire thing. The P-series boxes had lots and lots of fancy sounding HA capabilities, but they would only certify a configuration as fault-tolerant if you bought two of them and clustered them with HA/CMP (i.e. software HA).

- Compaq had the NonStop servers, based on the Tandem acquisition. As the downthread comment correctly pointed out, there was a ton of hardware redundancy in that platform, but I think it ran a proprietary OS. They also had their OpenVMS clustering, which offered amazing HA - but it was all delivered in software, and your app had to be either a) stateless or b) cluster-aware

- HP bought compaq, but the HP-UX machines relied on software for their clustering.

This all dates back to when people thought servers were special in some way, and needed to justify their insane price points with all sorts of fancy marketing features. Some were useful (I remember an early IBM linux box with RAM mirroring that actually kind of worked), but in the end, a Veritas cluster of decoupled nodes almost always worked better, more reliably, and faster than any hardware nonsense.

EDIT: fixed my wrong assertion about Compaq tech.
They did do a Guardians of the Galaxy one, but in general, not a lot of movies.

They did do a ton of work (exclusively?) with other people's IPs, which may have been what they were trying to say.
In the article they got rid of goroutines to get to 3 million connections.
imagine the chaos that would have ensued in the ancient world if donkeys could pull carts at over 80mph.
True, but wow SPARQL is a terrible language.
The papers are exactly what one would expect from reading other types of postmodernist "critique". The whole reason reviewers missed the blatant absurdity of their thesis is because standard buzzwords of the field hide meaning. This is what Orwell warned us about in Politics and the English Language.
In Europe its called "Social Security"
You can turn this off. I haven't done an update in at least a year.
I disagree. I want an environment that works with me, not against me. There's no guarantee that Microsoft won't make ads harder to remove in future versions, and it's a worrying trend that they're there at all. I don't want to invest in a system that I don't feel is aligned with my personal values.

The name Windows 10 Professional suggest that it's suitable for Professional use. I was happy using Windows 2000, Windows XP Pro and Windows 7. But ads are a step too far, and something I don't expect to see in software I've paid for.

I'm happy enough with Linux on my workstation and macOS on my MBP. I can get up and running quickly without doing any pointless tweaks.
It is indeed a change in local surface temperature - that is, if you have a thermometer there, it will read 0.24 degrees higher (average across 24h) than it would if there wasn't a nearby wind farm. And yes it's apparently due to atmospheric mixing. I imagine it would have similar effects on crops, evaporation, etc as a global temperature rise.

The next question: should this be subtracted from the measurements of any weather station suitably close to a wind farm?
I still buy Staples branded stuff for the office.

I don’t see it as anything shocking. It’s a logical move.
The example is clearly hypothetical only. We're never going to cover one third of the continental US with wind turbines.

The more important information to me is that neither wind nor solar have the power density that has been claimed.

For wind, we found that the average power density — meaning the rate of energy generation divided by the encompassing area of the wind plant — was up to 100 times lower than estimates by some leading energy experts

...

For solar energy, the average power density (measured in watts per meter squared) is 10 times higher than wind power, but also much lower than estimates by leading energy experts.

Then you have the separate problem that the wind doesn't always blow and the sun doesn't always shine, so you need a huge storage infrastructure (batteries, presumably) alongside the wind and solar generating infrastructure.

IMO nuclear is the only realistic alternative to coal to provide reliable, zero-emission "base load" power generation. Wind and solar could make sense in some use cases but not in general.
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I just refused an (unpaid) technical test the other day when the guy insisted I have it done by Monday - I am not taking up a day of my weekend a short notice like that, especially after just an initial phone screen.

He then said that they were interviewing around 20 other people. So that would be a 1 in 20 chance.
But that wasn't an adaptation of the movies. It's an original story, and based on the comics not the movies.
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Any other ex-salesforce people here. If you think JIRA-GH is scary. Remember GUS :O
What's wrong with boys? That was your fault.
Questioning motives in response to suspicious behavior is not ad-hominem.
You make it sound like "private brands as a service" was a bad thing. But unlike the numerous direct to customer nonames on aliexpress, amazon or ebay (the platform is irrelevant) who will never have a reputation to lose, a "private brands as a service" provider is dealing with long term customers. For them, quality issues will have consequences. Even if they both sell the same design, a "private brands as a service" manufacturer (or reseller) will have to balance price and quality, whereas a pop-up noname brand will only ever compete on price.
Sometimes you simply got to let the data speak for themselves:

https://imgur.com/a/2tR4WVX

It's so strange how the prestige around the brand was not correlated to the sells numbers. It so strange how their demise was so unexpected by the press and gaming communities when the writing was on the wall long ago.
completely agree. i'm just saying it mostly isn't found on the desktop, neither on the iphone and you could argue neither really on android, so not in places where 'normal people' look. these people don't look at the backend so developers are free to pick whatever they want - Linux, Windows, unikernels, it doesn't matter for the end user.
> But when Leahy pressed him, repeatedly over a span of excruciatingly long minutes, to explicitly request and comply with an investigation, and Kavanaugh dodged and bent over backwards to avoid doing such a thing

Because it was an obvious trap and he was right to avoid stepping into it.
The intent there is presumably to construct a "worst case" - US powered entirely by wind - and see what the magnitude of the effect is. If it was 2.4 or 24.0 then it would be a more serious problem, knowing that it's 0.24 is a good result.
Some of us find the language highly productive, and extremely accurate in its usage in many different spaces.

In terms of webassembly, there is a sweet spot for Rust, which is in speeding up CPU bound JS routines. There is a project, wasm-bindgen, to make building these high performance pieces and injecting them into JS easy.

Some of us even want to see it grow as an alternative language for full web development. There are a few projects that aim to make this easy (compiling to wasm): stdweb, cargo-web, js-sys. It’s already a fully capable language capable of targeting the web.

The features you get for this that many of us appreciate: no garbage collector (ie bounded memory usage), strict error checking, strongly typed null checks, an amazing type system, etc. Productivity means different things to different people.
If the personal is political then we have no refuge from politics. And the only people that say this are the type that want only their specific brands of politics to dominate public and private life.
The new version fails to restart properly. Your site is now down. You upgraded the package so now you no longer have the old version on disk and can't easily start the previous version.

Let's not pretend that blindly upgrading a package is the same thing as safely rolling out the new version of a service.
I provide a feed but how many people actually use RSS these days? I personally use IFTTT to forward RSS feed updates to my inbox, but I don't use a traditional RSS reader.
NEA has some great negotiators depending on the state. But of course they do hire lawyers and people to represent for bargaining.
I doubt that anyone but Amazon can sell Amazon brands on Amazon.com since they already know they're the only possible provider.
Reading "who believed the company’s refusal to diversify gameplay had led to creative stagnation" makes me laugh.

That would be like a Call of Duty developer or Assassin's Creed developer complaining that the company not diversifying the gameplay leads to stagnation.

I can see from an artists perspective why that's annoying.

But from an investors standpoint, if you have a profitable, winning formula, you use that formula!!

Telltale Games had a unique and successful storytelling formula and some extremely impressive partnerships, and it would be surprising to have seen them abandon their niche just because it got boring.

Of course, they were run into the ground so it's neither here nor there...
it is incredible....
I enjoyed the article very much, but I question the premise of building a framework around bragging that sets it apart from normal conversation. I preferred the ending where we had the opportunity to understand how the lines between bragging and information sharing break down, and that riding that line can be a positive experience for both parties. I especially loved the end where we realize that our reaction to bragging can offset the impact on ourselves and bring joy to others simultaneously.
Explicitly no. Though practically that seems to be the effect.
This sucks for people who work in house. Most backend work seems to be like that.
indeed, in the UK if there's not sufficient money to pay statutory redundancy then there's a national fund to make sure the employees get their legal entitlement

(and if this happens the company's directors are likely in the shit as they've probably been trading while insolvent)
Yes, Aliexpress does not have its own private labels.
what an over generalization...
Perhaps read the article?
I assume you are talking about Amazon. Who cares about past income? What matters is future earnings and it's clear they have lots of earnings potential.
I've been extremely impressed with Privacy Badger with the past couple releases. It doesn't use bloated and impossible to keep updated block lists. Instead it uses heuristics to learn which domains are following you around on the web and block them. One major downfall with this approach is that it has to learn first. An update from August [1] allows Privacy Badger to now come pre-trained from the top 2,000 sites of the Majestic Million. Its great because it the same heuristics based approach - no lists to maintain, fully automatic. Combined with this new update, Privacy Badger is quite an effective tool with an extremely simple to use interface.

Of course, I still use other extensions combined with Privacy Badger that are list based and gives fine-grained controls like uMatrix and a Pi-Hole. I would never recommend uMatrix or a Pi-Hole to a non-technical person, but I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Privacy Badger.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/08/giving-privacy-badger-...
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Puts these somewhat irrational Trump claims from July into context? *This is speculation/conspiracy, but if they've been looking into this for years, I could see the Trump admin using this as leverage to bring Apple manufacturing and/or offshore cash back to the US in exchange for covering up this alleged national security issue.

>https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-claims-again-apple-is-...
Is this before they became successful or after? Once we reach a certain level of success, it gets much easier to get other people to talk about us. But when we are just starting and unknown, who is gonna sing our praises (assuming we are good at something) other than our moms? :P
Apparently making the same game over and over (with different intellectual property to tie it up) does not pay off.
Haskell is being used for their spam filtering system, Sigma: https://code.fb.com/security/fighting-spam-with-haskell/

I'm not sure what else they use it for, but they hired Simon Marlow, one of the main guys behind GHC a years ago. It's still not their primary language, but restricting the interpretation of "professional" and "uses" to what you had in mind is not the most interpretation of your comment to me.
Turtles all the way down...
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Honestly, my bigger issue with Amazon is the fact that they have a real problem with counterfeits and the way the comingle FBA inventory without any indication to the buyer makes it impossible to avoid by buying from trusted sellers. It's especially bad with electronic components.

I needed a solid state relay a few weeks ago. I buy most things from Amazon because of Prime, but I ended up ordering from Digikey, paying extra shipping, and waiting an extra couple of days because I needed to know that the component I was buying was actually legit and could actually meet its rated specs since I didn't want to risk a $20 part potentially wrecking a few hundred dollars of equipment.
Enjoyed the article and was surprised by how exhaustive the brag type list is. It really activated my restrospection. The pictures I could have done without, though.
Not to say you are wrong, but why do you claim that your one source is more right than the one source that is the article? Just saying that there's a book that says otherwise shouldn't be proof. E.g., I bet I can even find a book that says Trump is our savior, Jesus 2.0.

*edit: I knew this would get downvoted. Why discuss logically when you can downvote, right?
There is "Unemployment Insurance" in America, and companies have to pay into it for their employees by law. Any employee who no-fault loses their job can draw from it.

This company used a "cheat" in the legal system in America for labor where they illegally labeled their employees as "independent contractors", which are treated differently under the law. These contractors aren't "employees" and aren't eligible for unemployment (because they were not 'employed', they were contracted).

For example if you were to hire someone to work on your kitchen for 1 week, you wouldn't pay unemployment insurance on their behalf. If they were self-employed doing remodeling/contracting, they would be expected to pay their own unemployment insurance.

It is unfortunate how the illegal abuse of "independent contracting" in America has created these terrible situations though.
Just wanted to say great job on the gist with the details on roles, funding etc!

I hope to see more of this sort of communication in job postings in the future.
It's useless if other people are doing it too, but if you are ahead of the curve there should be money to be made.
Why do you so blindly believe amzn/aapl over bloomberg? You do realize that reputation is a huge part of success, particularly in the security and hardware space. Of course amazon and apple will deny this story. For starters, they are probably under a gag order from the government to not leak anything regarding their findings since the investigation is still ongoing. Secondly, it is of no benefit to admit they failed in oversite on their side with this one.
Your suggestion makes sense, and docker images + docker compose config maybe simplest way to provide self-hosted option for web app that is already exist as cloud service. We used this approach to enable self-hosted option for our BI tool (SeekTable), and it works perfect for us.
Bloomberg’s chip story reveals murky world of national security reporting
Is Online Education as Good as Classroom Learning?
How so? All you have to do is not collect personal data, which is easy.
Important to keep in mind here that all sales numbers for digital titles are, by necessity, estimates because major marketplaces like Steam not only don't release numbers but place limits on what kind of information developers can release. Previous services for estimating sales numbers were shut down by Valve. SteamSpy was at least fairly accurate up until it was shut down, but it also leaves out sales on consoles and non-steam storefronts.

Another factor is that many of these games are 'prestige brands' like Minecraft or The Walking Dead, which means there may be partnership funding involved. This is demonstrated by how Telltale spoke about keeping a skeleton crew around to finish a game in order to fulfill obligations to partners - if that's happening it's because money changed hands.

(I agree in general with the premise that the writing has been on the wall for Telltale, just not that a steamspy chart is proof that the company was already dead in the water)
For me it is a balance between book learning and practical learning.

For instance I spent a long time watching anime and I picked up some words on my own, but when I started studying Japanese from a book things just clicked: time over time I'd have this recognition that I'd heard a phrase thousands of times and I'd remember it perfectly from that.

Similarly with programming I use a mixture of the two.

Sometimes there is no substitute for just sitting down and banging out code. Other times you need to understand things conceptually.

My main language was Java for a while and then I wound up doing Python because Python work just kept coming. Python has an adequate user's manual so I've focused on learning the manual inside and out so when I need an answer I don't go to Stack Overflow or the splogs that dominate Google results but I know how to look it up in the source before idiots inject errors.

Python is entirely conventional and it doesn't require new concepts. Other languages are harder.

For instance the manual for Clojure is by no means adequate for getting your head around how to use immutable data structures. The guy who wrote Clojure wrote an O'Reilly book that does explain that stuff and you should buy it and read it if you want.

Similar problems come up if you want to learn scala. For instance the "cats" library has something called an Applicative Functor and rather than explaining what that is it points you to a theoretical CS paper with a lot of strange symbols that aren't greek or hebrew but rather something the author made up.

For scala I've found that the O'Reilly "Scala Cookbook" is pretty good because it gradually builds up the use of Scala idioms so just like experienced Scala devs you can write code that looks really simple. If people never see you fight with the compiler they'll think you are really smart.

Try to learn Maven or Spring from Stack Overflow and you'll be destined for the circle of hell where you have to maintain XML files written by people who cut and pasted stuff from SO until it almost works -- but it is a house of cards because the slightest change causes "spooky action at a distance" that breaks everything.

Really understand the manual and those systems don't look complex.
Unless I’m missing something, that’s not per se what loglan/lojban sets out to achieve. Does Turkish have precise, unambiguous syntax and morphology? Meaning there is never (other than context dependent semantics) any way for one sentence to be parsed two different ways?
> But this is a job interview

This makes me angry every time I read it. A failed job interview usually means you can just go back to whatever it was you were doing before you applied, none the worse for wear.

A job interview shouldn't require you to defend yourself against scurrilous personal attacks which result in you becoming an unemployable social pariah if you fail.
The games did have significant differences, but the extensive reuse of very old technology had a big negative impact on both development costs and reviews.
And if your employer goes bankrupt, there is an additional 3 month of guaranteed salary ("Insolvenzgeld", by the state) afaik.
Not even close. Walmart at its peak - prior to Amazon acquiring serious scale - had a dramatically greater dominance over retail than anything Amazon has reached so far. Currently Walmart has retail sales three times that of Amazon.

Walmart's version of this, is Great Value products. They have dozens of product categories it covers. They use it to restrain branded products from being able to easily raise prices. If Kraft Velveeta decides to raise its mac & cheese box to $2.99, Walmart will sell their Great Value brand version right next to it for $1.29. It's extremely consumer friendly and introduces price competition into the market place.
Has somebody experience with this? Is it comparable with Dell's?
Nice bit of code.

Just to clarify, wouldn't you need to order by parent_id for the row["parent.id"] != results.last.id to work? Otherwise, say you're ordering by child.date_modified, you could end up with two identical parent_ids in your array?
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One word: "airlines".