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Shockwave was generated by Macromedia Director (the spiritual precursor to Flash) and had a lovely IDE with a fantastic debugger and excellent 3D, video and audio support. You could make "proper" games in it, I once hooked it up to some hardware tilt sensors to make a Joust clone you could play by flapping your arms.

The scripting language Lingo was a little bit gumby but perfectly serviceable. The main engine limitation was IIRC you could only have 256 sprite channels. I was always disappointed that Flash took hold instead of the more powerful Shockwave platform.

To this day when programming Ruby I always mistype "puts" as "put" thanks to Lingo still burned into my fingers.
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As a Finn and prolific user of å, ä, ö, and € among other things, Python 3 was a massive improvement. Sure it forces me to choose what to do at the Unicode boundary but Py2 was rife with UnicodeErrors that would pop up at the most inopportune of moments. I do not miss Py2's string handling at all.
Many people call this "Enterprise architecture" and although painful tends to be worth doing.

You can think of it (simplified) as 4 steps:
1) figuring out and deciding which technologies to use for which domains and problems (these tend to be called capabilities)
2) getting rid of the ones you don't want to use
3a) enforcing use of existing, approved capabilities for new projects
3b) building out new capabilities

1) Tends to have the problem you pointed out: "it requires a greater level of technical depth in decision makers". Something that may work is to have some senior engineers in-house and embed them in the outsourced projects doing part of the real work.
2) This can be a multi-year program that needs to be separately funded. Think of it as enterprise-level technical debt.
3a) This can be the easiest part: your architecture should be part of the RFP process, with a well-defined escape hatch to 3b)
3b) Building out new capabilities needs to be i) funded separately but best ii) done as part of a real project. Otherwise you'll i) have crossed incentives with the projects as you pointed out, or ii) architecture astronauts.

HTH. There's plenty of literature on enterprise architecture, but there's no silver bullet, it's just hard work.
More like Wexford English (Yola), which was a remnant of old English.
Or this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18143802
Put it in a pink case! Sky’s the limit!
> Arguably food safety or energy supply safety might even be more critical than semiconductor safety.

Poisoning a population or depriving them of power is a great way to start a war. Peeking at their computers is merely espionage. So yes, food and power might be more important, but there exists sufficient political deterrent already.
An absorption profile centred at 78 megahertz in the sky-averaged spectrum
I can't read the original paper, but the article seems to be conflating the tropics and tropical forests, which are normally two distinct things. Perhaps the study says that the tropics (the region between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn) are now no longer a carbon sink, because the tropical forests have been so degraded?
Strong code review, enforcing good security practice (like sanitizing user input,) unit testing, fuzz testing, auditing, logging, layered security and more are things you can implement to mitigate risk. Obviously there's a trade off and almost anything that matters gets hacked, but it will show if you did your homework: you will know before your customers, and hopefully you have at least limited the damage.

A disturbing amount of serious breaches come from simply using versions of software known to be insecure.
US cellular operators are not competing with China and they are just customers to for technology.

If the "rushing to beat" is just figurative saying, then you are right.
My setup is to basically have two systems: a work laptop, on which I try to keep everything professional so that if and when it is hacked the damage will be minimal, and then a second laptop, which I use for anything personal and never connect to my work system.

Sounds like a perfect use case for Qubes OS.
Ms. Sandberg has previously posted an internal message calling Mr. Kaplan’s appearance at the hearing “a mistake.”

So if this is the stance Zuckerberg and Sandberg are taking, has that internal message been retracted? I'm in no position to demand or even suggest that some sort of consistency in conviction is warranted here-Sandberg is free to comment or not as she pleases, but it sure would be nice to see for once in these strange and heated times.

Seems to me you either respect Kaplan's decision to be present for his friend, redact statements that his personal political decisions were a 'mistake', or fire him as VP of Global Public Policy and admit it was because his appearance at the SJC hearings made for bad optics, and saving face matters more than consistent convictions and that this appeal to employees is proof.

Or do nothing and let people infer everything in between.
Cars aren't always to blame. It's just that it starts from the presumption that the car is at fault - which is the case in approx 90% of cases in the UK (although the UK doesn't have this strict-liability unfortunately)
We have a reasonable standard, Xorg.

Everything else you can package along with your application as a library.
Steam does this farely well and manages to work on every distro I have tried, even when they officially support(iirc) just Ubuntu.
Scientists traced signals from first stars to 180M years after the Big Bang
Wearing a helmet in a steel cage seems kind of redundant. Wearing a helmet walking at 5 km/h pace, likewise. I am wearing a helmet commuting daily, travel speed around 30 km/h. If you don't want to destroy your haircut, fair it's your choice.

Edit: To be clear, I was riding years without a helmet until a crash made me reconsider my priorities. Also, I am not in favor of mandating helmet usage on bikes.
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Mandatory helmets are one of the worst things that a county can do for cycling.
On second thought I don’t like my answer any longer: your knowledge and skills are conditioned on the environment where you were functioning/working. A slight change of environment and most of your assumptions and knowledge is out of the window.

What is important is a willingness and skill to learn new stuff; all else is in a flux.

Also I don't like this distinction between junior and old hands; it can make you complacent.
Actually there are insurance companies offering discounts on car insurance to cyclists as their data shows them to be safer drivers.
Is this posted for a quick p and d scheme?
I suppose I don't really understand. Why do you think it is bad to have rich people? It's often stated as if it's tautologically true, or self-evident. What do you think is the harm caused by that?

Would the rest of us be better off if we simply deleted the money of the rich?
Tell that to Brendan Eich.
I think this is what you are looking for. http://standards.ieee.org/develop/indconn/ec/auto_sys_form.h...
@200 [fatalities/year] I'm not sure it's factual to deem the Netherlands safe for bikers (yes we need to adjust for population and mileage, but it's surely not obviously safer than other places).
In English, reek is either a verb or a noun, not an adjective.
I always think back to Ze Frank’s “True Facts”: https://youtu.be/gNqQL-1gZF8
Well-formed HTML5 needs closure though, no? Hrm ... ok, looks like specs are far looser than I'd thought.

h[1-6], li, blockquote, pre, can all be specified via an opening-only syntax.

p, ul, ol, and dl can be omitted entirely.

Arguably anchors require closure, but the syntax is still briefer than HTML. Images likewise.

Header, footer, and aside don't exist (they can be supplied in a template). article, div, and span are also ignored.

Italic, bold, strikeout, code, subscript, and superscript require a lightweight closure, and are actually the main cause of grief in my Markup writing.

Tables are hugely more sane.

And footnotes automajickally exist. Swoon!

It's not that HTML is foreign or annoying to me. It's just .... more frictional.

And I have all kinds of nice words to say for HTML5. The base spec is quite good.
OP paywalled, but what's funny is that your comment could be read in two completely opposing ways:

1. Zuckerberg tells employees not to mistreat diverse views like Google did with Damore

2. Zuckerberg tells employees not to mistreat diverse views like Damore did at Google

I find there's a bi-modal distribution in how people interpret Damore's memo. It's like that blue-gold dress debate again:

1. evil sexist falsehood propaganda by a closet neo-nazi, meant to hurt

2. a well-sourced, accurate and well-meaning text by a nerd, meant to help

I read Damore's memo and reached my own conclusion (which is irrelevant to my point so I won't even state it), but isn't this dichotomy fascinating?
If I understand correctly, he's saying "if it would be unethical if executed by a human, it's unethical if done by a machine".

Depending on where you draw the line here, things like military applications, insurance price calculation, or drawing convincing Photoshops of famous people in the nude could all be in that category.
Companies act like sheep more often than not. It's why someone like Apple had to come into the market and revolutionize smartphones when everyone else was too busy studying how to best clone Nokia's phones.
As a cyclist (I commute daily + ride recreationally offroad and race) I disagree. By keeping your weight back you can slam the front brake without flipping.
Rather it would be an error to grab a Unix filename, figure your job was done, and store it directly into a string. So you'd... handle things correctly. Somehow. I admit I've never had the bad luck of encountering a non-UTF8 encoded filename under Linux before and can't claim with any confidence that my code would handle it gracefully. In any language, assuming you're using the standard library facilities it provides things will hopefully mostly be taken care of behind the scenes anyway.

What I like about the D approach isn't that declaring it an error actually solves anything directly (obviously it doesn't) but that it removes any ambiguity about how things are expected to work. If the encoding of strings isn't well defined, then if you're writing a library which encodings are the users going to expect you to accept? Or worse, which encodings does that minimally documented library function you're about to call accept?
Not all the sciences have many really -famous- people.

Geology has developed a great deal in the past 2 centuries; not many geologists are "stars". How many people can name those among the most influential geologists?

Apart from Darwin, who most people wouldn't think of as a geologist! And yet ... https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/rosetta-stones/darwin-g...
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It's use isn't solely currency, though. Git is a blockchain, for instance. I do agree that it's overhyped, and a large portion of people trying to use it right now are doing so incorrectly, but it does have a broader use case than currency.
I do, and we use that sort of hash trees for a lot of bi temporal data keeping.

I wouldn’t call it blockchain though.
Apple intentionally builds their keyboards in such a way that it is incredible difficult to replace, the amount of skilled labor required doesn't make it profitable to just replace the keyboard. Its eye opening seeing a keyboard replacement being performed: https://youtu.be/4KuVvb9DTaU?t=309

Who is to blame for letting it get so far? I think its not just Apples fault, its governments fault not regulating them and consumers fault for still buying and even defending their practices (which you can very well observe in this thread).
This is a very good point.

The description of my company is accurate, both in the positive and the negatives.

While the interpretation of the positive is usually straightforward, the negative should be taken in context.

An example is "outdated technology". We have both outdated and bleeding edge tech. The outdated part is for some critical legacy software which cannot be refractored for good and bad reasons.

The complaint should rather be "when I was hired or was not made clear that I would be working on X". Those who were told that and accepted the job are happy with the tech.
In what sense do you believe that it is not a blockchain? Because I would say that Git is an extremely compelling use case that satisfies all the criteria in that flow chart.
My feeling is that we need to define a fixed point like an API at the interface of software developers and desktop designers.

The fixed point would allow developpers to develop apps that would compile and run on any desktops, and desktop or distribution designers need liberty degree to explore, innovate and evolve.

POSIX did this for the unix commands and system function API, and it was a success. It isn't perfect, but it provided a fixed point. Windows has Win32, etc.
Licenses mostly.
Wow! I've never seen these works and they're brilliant. You've made my day!

And, yes, the final piece is perfectly what DFW was talking about.
> The employer can't get other employees

Yes, they can. They can just close down the branch in question, and re-open two months later. Why do you think Wal-mart is so successful at union-busting?

Or, they could actually negotiate on an equal basis with the union.

> employees can get other employment

Collectively? For an employer that's big enough, this is not at all the case. Their industry may not be able to absorb them, individuals within the union may not be able to handle the interruption in pay, etc. This is also why striking is used as a last resort.

> The closest thing the employer has to "get other employees" is to shut down the workplace, possibly outsourcing to a different country.

Trying to find another job is very similar to what you've just described. You cut yourself off from your stream of income, and often have to relocate to a different city, or country, at great personal expense.
What time UTC ?
His memo just seemed to me like the view a Republican holds on a polarising topic - so it's not surprising it splits into two polarised bimodal responses in my opinion.
I would also add that some side-projects linked directly or indieectly with Musk and/or Tesla also contribute to the erosion of goodwill we're witnessing. For instance, the boring company is marketed as if they've made this gigantic breakthrough in tunneling that no one else in humanity has ever come up while they're actually just a company that bought a commercial tunneler, and hyperloop is marketed as if they're the first guys ever to look at the problem of transporting people very fast through tunnels while they're actally demonstrating they're even completely unaware of some pretty basic constraints and very fundamental problems that need to be solved prior to increasing train speed. Therefore, it's hard not to look at these ventures as if they're real-world eeenactments of the simpsons' monorail episode, and if Musk and Tesla's names are linked to these projects then they simply suffer the backlash.
Brendan Eich wasn't fired. He stepped down voluntarily.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/03/brendan-eich-steps-...
I know everyone is suggesting Libreoffice (and it has honestly gotten a lot better recently) but I remember once when my laptop died and all I had was a shitty old Centrino someone lent me, I ended up using the Microsoft online powerpoint tool to make a presentation that was due.

The web versions of MS Office tools are actually pretty well build and feel pretty close to their desktop counterparts.
The prime glory of Einstein's 1905 papers is their accessibility.
Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper is famously devoid of footnotes, and contains no insurmountable math.

Of course he dashed off another three articles in the same edition of Annalen der Physik, all on the same level of comprehensibility, one of which scored him a Nobel prize.

The difficulty of relativity was and is a silly meme. The basic principles are straightforward. I understood them as a boy, and I am - by a regrettably enormous stretch - no genius.
The modern German word is "riechen".
~4 penguins :)
Except it was republicans and it was last year: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/04/06/us/politics/g...
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Anaconda now packages CUDA and cuDNN libraries for Deep Learning
Do you have an estimate for how expensive the attack will be?

Are you renting hardware from the cloud?

Any chance they will hardfork before you can attack?
Oh wow that's great! Did you two come up with any ideas or personal epiphanies about bragging and status?
The original devs for WinNT and NTFS made some interesting decisions with file locking. Hard locks in the Windows world are pretty difficult to identify, much less release.

The update stage all the files that need to be change and complete the release process on boot before any system processors are allowed to lock anything.
Cyclists won’t get training, take tests, get licensed, even read the Highway Code, stop at red lights, maintain their vehicles, wear any sort of protective gear or high viz... but it’s always the drivers fault if something happens to them. Apparently.

And as a pedestrian I am in far more danger from cyclists than I am from cars, such as riding illegally on the pavement, or again failing to stop at red lights when I am crossing the road
Stalk your boss timeline on GitHub
An iPhone is surprisingly repairable, and after the switch to the rounded chassis (with iPhone6) I’d consider it more repairable than the earlier iphone5 form factor.

The only part that is using any significant adhesive is the battery, it can’t be fit because it needs to be able to grow, so it is fit into a too large space using a piece of adhesive tape to not move around.

The phone is built to be quickly servicable by Apple technicians, so obviously no cables are soldered, everything is using easy to fit ribbon connectors.

I’d have no training and found it easy to replace many parts in iPhones such as e.g the screen.

There are parts that Apple have made harder to user replace such as the fingerprint/home button module but that at least has good reason.

I recommend the ifixit step by step repair guides that also make it obvious that repairing a modern smartphone is not much different if it says google or Apple or Samsung on the back. The only major difference is a user accessible battery in some models.
I do agree with the blockchain tech still hasn't reached a stage where 'general public' can experience their usefulness. But the outright rejection of broader scope of the technology and declaring 'ledger' as the only legit case is equally not true. The reality should be somewhere in the middle.
I'm not 100% sure what coin i'll attack. If people donate I might try for Vertcoin which will be $300-500 to attack. But if I stick with Einsteinium it will be very cheap, maybe $20-40. They could hardfork but I doubt they will. It's also sort of hard to implement a solution that quickly.
Vox had quite an interesting take from the left on how it's a bit odd that Facebook are taking threats from Republicans to punish them for alleged bias seriously. The example they used was Hollywood, Republicans hate Hollywood for being too liberal, they have an endless decades long culture war over it, but whenever a Republican comes into power they make sure to force other countries to enforce copyright laws that Hollywood wants and do precisely nothing to damage them. Just like Trump just did with Canada.
For the fellow Europeans that cannot read the LA Times: https://archive.fo/heTle
Depends on where you live. I've been both in the US and in Europe, and I heard it much more often in the states. In fact, it led to some ugly evenings, e.g. if someone finds out someone else is getting paid way more for basically the same job.

I also noticed that freelance stuff gets bragged about more often — how big their last contract was closed for, or what daily rate they got from a client.
Such rants would actually be believable when instead of cherry-picking the ultimate worst experiences and generalizing them you'd stick to more average statements, more reflective of the truth. I'm not saying this to defend Windows, denying it has problems would be insane, but just to let you know it's prerfectly possible to rant on Windows without going into extremes which sound ridiculous to people who actually know and use Windows on a variety of devices. E.g. I can rant the same way about Linux or OSX based on the worst experiences I had with it, and you'd recognize it would be far away from your experience. Also I can counter each of your examples just based on a Windows 10 install I happened to do a week ago so clearly something is off with your statements: after boot uses about 2.5GB of memory. Personally didn't experience lock downs, though I heard it from others as well, but not 'all the time'.. Driver issues? As far as I'm concerned it does what I tell it to, 'all the time'. I installed a terminal, text editor and IDE using a package manager. They all work for me and don't show adds nor licensing constraints.
None of what you wrote make dynamic language better for that particular task or easier to use for such task. It just makes it possible if you put in additional effort.

Of course big companies use all kind of languages, what they don't do is using it for enterprise bussines project. Javascript or kotlin being used for something else in same company is irrelevant.

The issue is not even syntax, that is why it is no problem to update Java. The tooling around it still works the same, ecosystem works the same. The issue is any programmers ability to figure out someone else's code - meaning importance to compilation errors being visible at compilation time, trustworthy "find all callers" etc.

Of course developers can learn something new. That does not mean that the new thing is suitable for task they are working on.

Also, framing everyone who disagree with you as incompetent is awfully dishonest tactic. Suitable for toxic corporations (and toxic startups) for sure, but not something that should work in any kind of rational workplace.
Love the sv design. Ordering one for myself.
Generally there is no problem with a board of directors making their in meeting discussions private just as long as they clearly communicate the results of those discussion to the membership. The problem here seems to be a section (8) in the new code of conduct which compels a director to politically support board decisions outside of meetings. Section 8 is now proceeded by the following message on the web site: "NOTE: ALL OF SECTION 8 HAS BEEN SUSPENDED BY ACTION OF THE BOARD
OF DIRECTORS PENDING FURTHER STUDY AND REVIEW." That seems problematic as it does not refer to a particular motion at a particular board meeting. It is thus not clear that the section has actually been suspended.

This whole thing strikes me as sloppy politics that eventually led to pointless infighting...
Caught me red-handed :D
Literally just pure marketing. Let's see Purism make a phone comparable to what's in the iPhone X, and have that be user-serviceable with a screwdriver and suction cup.