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>Excel lacks the community programmers have and also lacks the learning opportunities given by open-source software.

Source needed.

There’s crap tons of excel help, and the amount of excel queries+answers will easily put other languages to shame.

The difference is that excel is not usually treated as an engineering tool, with the various rituals that go with it.

In contrast, take a look at how financial analysts learn excel - a field where excel IS an engineering tool.

It’s the differences between being a home cook and a professional chef.
I spent far too long looking for a second USB charging block for my phone. The first page is full of < $5 chargers, none of them from a brand I'd heard of before, with mostly 5 star reviews from bots and a few 1 star reviews of "this caught fire and almost burned my house down"

You'd think to see an Anker product on the first page given their reputation for reliable electronics and (at least in my circles) popularity.
Some killer features from Netflix:

- skip the intros in 1 click

- access any episode of the season you're watching from the player

- see which episodes I already watched from the player

- have a summary of the previous episodes from the player

- english subtitles outside of the US on every Netflix shows

- i also think the search algorithm is better
> he learned about cum-ex trades. The term is Latin for “with-without” and refers to the status of shares before and after a dividend is issued

Where did this idea come from? cum is Latin for "with". ex is Latin for "out of" or "from" (as in "exit"). sine is Latin for "without".

Compare the Spanish for "with" and "without", con and sin.

...and somehow, this article talks constantly about cum-ex trades without ever bothering to explain what they are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dividend_stripping
How is the pricing sustainable at $20/hour or $30/month "unlimited"? Do you just employ overseas where labor is cheap? Or are you counting on people paying $20 for questions that only take a minute or two to answer?
Windows 98 you could also bypass Novell NetWare login by clicking 'Help' and then finding a File Open dialog in there
I'm sure some did. I base my decisions on risk ranking. Let's look at an elevator.

An elevator can go up or down and has inertia brakes among other safety mechanisms. Most of these mechanisms are regulated and inspected and can not be disabled by software. I have watched videos of elevators behaving badly, but it takes a comedy of errors and many inept people for this to be a thing.

An autonomous car on the other hand, can do anything a car can do and anything that the buggy or compromised software tells it to do. I will not be victim to the first angst filled 12 year old that is abused by his/her parents daily, or by some burnt out developer, or a serial number typo in an assassination attempt. The serial number of my car could be one digit off from some politician or spy.

By all means, have fun in these things. Nobody will convince me to use one of these cars. Not now, not five hundred years from now.
Archive.is alternative - https://archive.is/Zstq5 (gets around paywall)
Amazon Web Services is the one branch of AMZN that is actually profitable.

And the make or break for AWS is the assurance that when you're runnign stuff on one Amazon pizza box, your data are safe even from other users on that same box.

You HAVE to get your assurance from Amazon if you're a corporate customer, for due diligence reasons. If that assurance is established to be a lie, every single corporate customer they have would be obliged to migrate to MSFT/RHAT/GOOG or elsewhere. AWS would be dead.

I would say it's a calculated leak that happens to be materially false, meant to pressure CHina and kicj Bezos in the shin.
Because they are all closed at the same time?
Except in this case it's a 800 lbs gorilla trying to extinguish another 800 lbs gorilla. Where Microsoft had a giant weight advantage on a lot of the other guys, here it'll end up in an awkward prolonged hug.
Obligatory Comment: "Excel as a Database" by Rory Blyth, circa early 2000's.

"As a developer, you've probably, at some unfortunate point in your life (possibly several points, actually), been handed an Excel file that has been crammed full of 'data' by someone in marketing and told to 'do something with it.' "
http://wyorock.com/excelasadatabase.htm
Mentioned this above: pivots, vlookups any help: all the same cost for a 20 minute collab session
Yes it is - a tap doesn't need to be 100% sure that a given chip is selected like how we think when designing a circuit - it just needs to key off patterns that look like memory reads of interest. If you've got ambiguity you don't need to pull in more parallel bits, just record a longer serial history.

In fact I would think the most stealthy and robust way of bugging code would be to just ignore addresses and look for a context-free stream of instructions that does some security-sensitive initialization (either of the platform or of the application code). Turn off some flag that's supposed to be on, causing the code to continue running as normal but silently skipping certain checks.

Now that you mention other devices on the bus - those in fact would be a great chip to subvert with such a backdoor. Why bother fitting everything into a two terminal hack package when you could just have a malicious temperature sensor sourced from the "lowest bidder" that does the attack and jumps to its own ROM? (I think those are usually I2C but you get the point). Bonus points for only being triggered through some sidechannel - recruit a low level employee at the target, while they retain plausible deniability.
It’s perfectly reasonable to say something like “after working together for a few months we determined that we didn’t really ‘click’ as a founding team and decided to go our separate ways.”

That’s something that happens all the time, and you won’t be judged for it by any reasonably astute observer - especially for a project that only lasted a few months.

Depending on how far along you got on the project, another business savvy answer might be that the proof of concept provided the information you needed to determine that the business wasn’t going to be viable (or wasn’t going to be able to produce the returns you were hoping for), so you agreed not to invest further in a losing proposition.
If it's a small enough company, I would definitely suggest interviewing the founders from the perspective of an investor. Your line of questioning should be focused on asking them/yourself, "why should I invest my time in your company?"

This should raise all sorts of questions like, what's the value-prop of your product/service, what's your go-to-market plan, what is your experience building and scaling companies, etc.

If you can't personally be interested in the company after speaking to the founders - I think it's likely that it won't be of much interest to you.
How much do you take?
They are quite widespread in cars that are comparably priced with Teslas.
Farenheit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_(2005_video_game)
The truth is that Excel is an ODBC compatible data source, and can be scripted to run SQL queries against itself... but you didn't hear that from me.
This irritates me too, and is a step back to the old PC/Mac era of app silos.
Absolutely. I set one up from scratch on a cluster of Raspberry Pis and I don't know shit about Packer, Ansible, SystemD, and probably a bunch of things I'm only nominally familiar with. And that was a bare metal cluster, and it was hard; however, I don't think it was hard for lack of sysadmin knowledge, it was hard because I was learning K8s, I had to learn about ingres and MetalLB, K8s requires you to modify cgroups things that I don't know shit about, various RPI/docker/architecture tedium, and other K8s particularities that aren't "standard sysadmin" things. More importantly, as the original article mentioned, cloud providers do this setup for you for an affordable price so you absolutely don't need to know the standard sysadmin things.
This is true.

In fact it would be better to not indicate that the data was redacted. Instead of redacting it, change it to something else in the redacted range, preferably more common. With no hint about which pieces of data were changed, the attacker can't use what you describe.

Heck, merely including random small (unidentified) changes makes matching much, much harder.
"Trust the client" is terrible security. Isn't Grindr risking significant lawsuits, especially under GDPR?
Happened to me before as I used to be able to do VBA and use Excel's data analysis toolkit and then a lot of my assignments as a intern was to literally help department managers with their Excel spreadsheets even though that wasn't what I was hired for.
That sounds great! I wish I could also do that. Although, I do worry a lot about my form, so one advantage to going to a gym is asking the coaches to check mine and make sure it's good. How do you make sure you're lifting properly?
> Therefore it's useless to me, and to everyone else who owns a phone as well.

Brilliant!
When it comes to consumer electronics I have come to the conclusion it makes more sense to pay more for the best available now (an iPhone) and holding for longer, rather than try to pinch pennies by buying yesteryear's technology. It's the only way to get acceptable usable life out of them.
Does it matter? If the attackers can redirect the domain names to their own IP addresses then they can obtain DV certificates for those domains. The security of TLS depends on secure domain name resolution.
If we're sharing awesome excel videos, You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky has to be among the best I've ever seen. Joel, being on the team that made excel, has an incredible amount of excel knowledge.

The video is meant to be in the same vein as the You Suck at Photoshop videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c
Show him how to use Excel to make an invoice for your time he's wasting.
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Not the parent poster, but the chip can indirectly used for such an escalation - the chip would have the capacity to modify BMC software as it's loaded from a nearby memory chip; and BMC has direct access to main memory that enables all kinds of interesting escalation scenarios.
This was my reaction to Flash. It's not a "real" programming environment is what everyone told me. Yea but it was a great authoring tool for non hard-core programmers. I helped a designer write a few simple puzzle games in Flash and it was overall a productive experience. Had I attempted to do that in html/JS I'm not sure it would have gone so smoothly. I haven't tried to write web games in the last 10 years so maybe there's some collection of html/JS tools that lets me develop in a similarly. I'm willing to bet though they're 10x harder to set up and require command-line knowledge (fine for me, not so much my designer friend).
Cloudera doesnt have a managed cloud platform with (consulting) prof svcs?
I still like the book selection the best.

But I think edging out third party sellers may present regulatory problems for them as they are already 50% of the e-commerce market in the US.

I read some statistic a few months back that said something like 30% of all items on Amazon were manufactured in China.
Apple puts the user in charge how an mobile OS should look like or should behave and this is the biggest differentiating factor between iOS vs other platforms.
The user in charge? Interesting. I have both an iPhone and an Android handset. It has been this way for years (work is the reason). I believe I will never be able to fully accept the iPhone.

It seems like it wants to make a lot of (often stupid) decisions for me. https://www.reddit.com/r/ufc229livefights/ When I want to connect my phone via cable to transfer some files it is always a hassle. I can't sideload apps that somehow goes against Apple's will. As an example, NewPipe is a blessing on Android if you enjoy YouTube (not available via Google Play). The fact that full phone backups are done via an video/audio player (iTunes) makes zero sense.

I feel trapped and irritated when I use the iPhone. When I use the Android phone I feel like the OS trusts me to make my own decisions.

I should perhaps mention that I chose to run Android without a Google account or Gapps. I've gone from Cyanogen via Copperhead to Lineage. Ironically, Android without Google is the best phone experience I've ever had.
The quest for extreme selfies killed 259 people between 2011 and 2017
>You didn't think that those movie plots were original did you? Infinity Gauntlet is from the 70s.

Yes. The story begins after Thanos already has the gauntlet and has already used it to kill half the universe... because he has a crush on the cosmic embodiment of Death and wants to impress her.

I'm glad they didn't film that, it would have been stupid.
Do standard tests/certifications exist that grant certain L1/2/3/4/5 levels? (something like e.g. Euro X or WLTP)

I don't think so (never heard of) but I might be wrong.

I can imagine that they would be very complex to create.
iPhone SE or 8?
They should just cut out the middle man and have the VC's pay Brex directly. Then Brex can establish monthly payments to other VC firms and various SF restaurants/landlords. Much more efficient than the current setup.
Dissecting Video Server Selection Strategies in the YouTube CDN [pdf]
An interesting - and more tech-related question - is why democracy can be so easily suffocated these days.. and what we can do - or rather must do - about it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18151698
I am assuming that the PCB's are contracted out.
It would be interesting to see where the PCB's came from.

One side of me feels real bad for SuperMicro.
The have always been there for the small guys that like to build our own servers and for small OEM shops.

Who else are the real server mobo competitors?

Gigabyte and AsrockRack from my view and they are a very distant second and third place.

If SuperMicro goes down we all lose and IBM, HPE and Dell gains.
Word of advice - slow down your sliders. I read at an absurdly fast pace and I barely finish the "Our Experts" excerpts before it scrolls. I know, from testing, that I can mouse over them to pause them but that isn't intuitive to people who don't build these sorts of things as their day job.

That being said - bookmarked. I've needed this in the past and while I may not need it right now I probably will in the future.
There are some people who can be helped with speech-to-text but who can't be helped by cochlear implants or hearing aids.

I completely agree that a speech-to-text tool for the deaf shouldn't be doing any networking, but in a (hypothetical or not) world where the only viable speech-to-text equipment is doing networking, what do we do?
I spent two years at one of those companies. It's bitter but I don't think it's exaggerated.

The folks there were about 10% scumbags, 30% jaded, and %60 naive. The scumbags cause the B.S, the jaded folk work around it, and the naive don't notice it.

The scumbags are a problem (at all levels... Project Dragonfly) but they tend to get weeded out if they make too much trouble, or too many mistakes.

The jaded folks don't really care about the B.S. around them, they just want that paycheck. The Stanley Hudson character on the American version of "The Office" is the archetype: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Hudson "This is a run-down-the-clock situation, just like upstairs." I worked next to that guy. His name was Deepak and he was slightly warmer, but otherwise he was pretty much the same guy.

The jaded people are useful if you don't let them waste their time. They do not care what they do, as long as they don't get in trouble, so they will happily spend weeks or months solving the wrong problem.

The naive folks seem innocent and sweet, and they are, but it's only their naivete that lets the whole thing keep running.
The fact that "free" in this context means libre is precisely why "free" and "open-source" are distinct concepts, and why you can have something that's "open-source but not free", and even "free but not open-source" (which in this case would basically mean you have a binary rather than source, but you're free to do whatever you want with it; you don't have the source so it's a lot harder to modify, but not impossible, and if you did modify it you'd be perfectly free to distribute that or relicense it or whatever else you want). I know the GNU defines "free" as requiring access to the source code, but that's just their opinion.

Tangential rant: "Copyleft" licenses aren't actually free. The GNU claims they are, that the restrictions that copyleft licenses add don't conflict with the "central freedoms" but simply protects them. But they do restrict my freedom. If a piece of source was truly free, I should be allowed to make significant modifications and sell the resulting software (without giving out the source). Copyleft expressly prohibits this. I get that the GNU is dreaming of a utopia in which all software is open source and "free" and nobody ever makes closed-source software or charges for software. But we don't live in that utopia, and we probably never will; the closest we'll come is when we hit a post-scarcity society and do away with money, so no more keeping software closed-source in order to sell it, but there will still be reasons to keep software closed-source other than wanting to charge money for it. But I digress. The point is, Copyleft licenses rather significantly restrict my freedom as a developer. I'm not trying to debate as to whether or not that restriction is a good thing, just taking issue with calling the result "freedom".
No, a copyright assignment is not the same thing as a contributor license agreement. Copyright assignment is in all respects that this article cares about even worse.

Therefore the fact that one of the most extreme software freedom organizations out there argues for copyright assignments is very telling.
Getting off transit a few stops early and walking a mile and a half to work; doing the inverse in the evening. It helps that most of that last mile is through a lovely park.
If you like to get better in Excel learn some nifty tricks with tables then watch

You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c

Replace vlookup() with index() + match() combination.

https://chandoo.org/wp/vlookup-match-and-offset-explained-in...
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There’s a clear trade off in terms of time and annoyance, and getting good at teaching or communicating with different people.

Being able to share mastery is a key part of being a master at a subject, which is a political and image advantage.

I used my excel ability to learn how to best explain vlookup and got good at it.

I did get taken advantage of early on, but I learnt how to deal with those specific types of users, and not do their work for them.

In contrast to those people, there are others who genuinely respect you for your help, and then use your training to make their life and yours better.

Not to mention, many excel problems are not that hard. If you know what you are doing, it’s an easy win/goodwill for you, and a major problem for someone else solved.
> why should s/he wait to cross the street if s/he knows that the car that is nearing has an anti-collision/auto-break system?

In the least dystopian-surveillance-state future scenarios, there will be a giant array of cameras and sensors pointed at anyone who crosses this way. How hard would it be to identify this person and ramp up enforcement as necessary? You'll never completely stop it, but I imagine it could be lowered to acceptable levels.
As someone who is familiar with the term, great explanation!
Maybe a page or section number would help.
Last I recall from playing unreal 2004, there is a slider to select how many life players have when starting a death match.

Battle royale was available, long before battle royale was cool.

There were also a lot of other gameplay available on top of death match, all built in: team death match, assault, onslaught, capture the flags, domination, etc...
Fair, but I think it's arguable there isn't really a "standard" way for container orchestration, and Docker Swarm to me is starting to feel like a dead horse, despite protestations to the contrary from Docker. The requirements of different software always make each project's needs for zero downtime upgrades different enough, especially if you are dealing with legacy software.

Pick the one that works best for you and your projects goals (within reason...).
Why Blockchain Needs Sci-Fi Right Now
YouTube Architecture
https://blog.golang.org/ismmkeynote is worth a read. Apparently, the write barrier overhead makes it not really worth it for the Go ecosystem to adopt a generational or moving GC. I think WebKit also switched to a non-moving GC, but retained bump-allocation into empty pages.
I'd use it.

If there was a pro mode buried in a sub-dialog of the options panel, I would turn it on and see if I could make it for 10 minutes. Then 15, then 20 and so on. Instead of reaching for the mouse when I wanted to give up, I'd have to click on [File] > [Options] > [Advanced] and clear the "Enable pro mode" checkbox.

Wait... no. I'd have to enter [ALT], F, T, ↓, ↓, ↓, ↓, ↓, [ALT]+R (to get to Pr̲o Mode), then [SPACEBAR] :)
Actually there are some bloody good books on the subject. The help files and online from MS help are not too bad.

Debugging: "excel debug a spreadsheet" - quite a few decent returns on page one and two. Related searches in Google gives some more hints.
So not one of the fifteen Bloomberg sources knew about any kind of gag order or reason for Apple/Amazon to deny these claims? Just saying that seems unlikely.
The change from Windows server licenses to the cloud (Azure) forced this upon Microsoft.
Not all open source is free software. I'm certain there exists code to which you can legally gain access (thus the source is "open"), that is not "free software" (in other words, under a license that has clauses incompatible with "free software").
Not obvious to me until you pointed it out. That's really clever, the way the planet fills up the screen where the notch isn't.
Cool - bookmarked!
This guy excel troubleshoots.

God so many of those are infuriating the first time you encounter them.

On the flip side once you get the hang of it, you know right quick how you need your data set up.
Nothing of that sorts, but: The GDPR applies only to non-EU organizations when they specifically target people in the EU, e.g. local currency payment, shipment to the EU, local support hotline. This usually requires contracting services from EU companies. And while the violating company can ignore the legislation, their service providers might be fully liable for any damage in the chain, caused by gross negligence.
Funny that Google did this very thing to become the search and advertising giant it is today.
I’m able to do two things at once if one uses the language processing centers of my brain and the other uses motor memory and neither is particularly demanding of concentration. That’s about it. Either or both can use a bit of visual processing.

The human brain doesn’t handle multitasking well. I hypothesize that any effective multitasking is limited to one left-brain and one right-brain dominated task.
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You potentially would also have to do work to keep the generational GC happy. It can be easy to accidentally have allocations escape the nursery.
This evening,my friend and proffesional stuntman, Flavius Cernescu, start receiving phone calls from friends, telling him how sorry they are for his lost. Confused, he realized that BBC used the photo of him and his partner, for a very strange article( the one linked). When confronted, BBC didn’t responded at all, and literally destroyed their credibility and business too. You can see them perform at: https://youtu.be/zPebGQ7ioH8