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> However, there are good things going on in Saudi Arabia right now...

What is not given prominent coverage at the moment is MbS is the latest in the House of Saud attempting to prune back the Wahhabist power base [1]. There are whispers that Jamal Kashoggi might possibly be nefariously related to 9/11, and is at the least a "person of interest" [2]. It is extremely unlikely we will ever know the realpolitik behind-the-scenes story now, and going back to status quo ante becomes increasingly possible for the KSA the more days this drags on (it would be interesting to find out if the KSA has procured crisis management and/or PR expertise for this incident).

[1] https://www.albawaba.com/news/saudi-arabia-turning-against-w...

[2] https://washingtonsblog.com/2018/10/jamal-khashoggi-where-th...
I'd say by slow dripping the reviews won't they have to contend more with the "real" reviews? After all by pushing a bunch of 5 stars quickly the average will be bumped up substantially and be unaffected by real reviews. At least in this case they'll have to contend with legit reviews and will not be as easy to sprout all the way to the top of the search results for same reason.
Didn’t Microsoft reorganize a bit ago and let go huge swaths of their QA team? Seems to line up with their public beta version to try and get some free QA.

Like, it’s understandable that supporting so many chipsets is hard but it really seems like they were doing a better job 10 years ago.
The war in Yemen is a proxy war against Iran and it is tragic. It's also billed as a war on terrorism. It is also not covered well in the USA.

Killing a journalist is always a bad idea because journalists are the ones in charge of the message / media.
Yes. They are a private company charged with making money for their shareholders. They are supposed to be greedy and get as much money for the shareholders. That's their only reason for existence. Actually, that's the reason for every company's existence.

There are laws against price gouging and egregious behavior, especially if a company has a monopoly position. Is Apple price gouging or being egregious? Is it a monopoly? It's hard to say.

In a capitalist society, we are supposed to have competition which naturally guards against such behaviors. If one store charges $100 for a bottle of water, you can go to another that charges a reasonable price. But the modern capitalist system seems to want large conglomerates dominating markets. In agriculture, supermarkets and tech, it all seems to be merging and converging to a few market players.

Apple is interesting in that they are somewhat monopolistic but not completely. They seem to be overcharging, but not price gouging. They collect tons of your data, but only for themselves and don't sell it to others ( at least as far as we know ). They seem to be walking a very thin line where it's hard to attack them as easily as you can facebook or google.
This is covered quite extensively in the podcast, but the quick version is that we went to a PHP conference very early on to exhibit and found something like half the people that stopped by our booth thought GitHub sounded cool and would be interested in evaluating it, but it being a SaaS only product was a non-starter. We decided we wanted to serve all the developers inside Enterprise companies too and started down the long road of figuring out how to make that work. We had no idea how hard it was going to be, but our goal of helping ALL developers work better together meant it was something we needed to figure out.

Give the podcast a listen for more context around that and your other questions!
> I don't buy it . . . If a large number of Americans suddenly and unexpectedly die for some reason, it seems like the type of situation the government would step in to resolve anyway.

Like the AIDS crisis?
Welcome to the [Cancer] club noone wants to join. Good luck w/ your treatment.
Which question was that? Stop putting words in my mouth. You've repeatedly argue in bad faith, made bad assumptions and attributed statements to me that I did not make.
That's probably true but good luck when your primary revenue source falls off an utter cliff which is basically what happened with film sales. You basically have to build a new $20 billion company within a few years.
Russians acquired the design and production techniques for BMW motorcycles and sidecars from Germans. Basically german tech reproduced in russia.

"According to official accounts, after lengthy discussion, the BMW R71 motorcycle was found to closely match the Red Army's requirements. Five units were covertly purchased through Swedish intermediaries. Soviet engineers in Moscow dismantled the five BMWs, reverse engineered the BMW design in every detail and made molds and dies to produce engines and gearboxes in Moscow."
Or team up with a domain expert.
Doesn't Amazon have binding arbitration? I know they do on the seller side.
I feel like your reply is almost condescending, a "you will know this once you're old enough" kind of argument.

It's funny you mention teachers being bored because perhaps the problem is that teaching is done wrong, it's funny you also mention "maybe you should do an online U, or skip Uni and just read some texts", because that's exactly what I would do if wasn't so risky to trust that someone out there will take a chance hiring me without going through the systematic gatekeeping, with online Us there's an issue of finding reputable ones (at least georgia tech has an online MS program now, might give that a try at some point).

Here's the huge difference between grinding at work and grinding at school, at work you get paid for it, at school you are being made to grind because someone else thinks that's the best way for you to learn, it feels infantile, teachers should only be there to answer and clarify questions, and the material should all be written. Also there's a difference between grinding because you know it helps you develop the skills you need/desire, let alone money, and grinding because some jackass doesn't know how to teach and assess knowledge.

It's also not about being in the zone every day, people can be "in the zone" perhaps a few hours per day, being generous, there's a whole discussion to be had about productivity in knowledge workers in relation to hours spent working in a day, there's a point where more hours doesn't correlate with more productivity, but anyway, I guess if I'm going to sum up my reply shortly it'd be something like:

Not all work is equally exhausting, not all grinds are equally tedious, and not all grind is pointless tedium, busywork teaches obedience not knowledge.

I can recognize grinding is helpful, but I strongly believe university falls on the "extremely inefficient grind" end, and I feel entitled to criticizing it when it's supposed to be in service of the students.
Is there an alternative source for this? I'd like to watch it at higher speed, and vimeo doesn't seem to be providing a way to speed it up, or to download it independent of my skills matter login.
Can stripping the air of its moisture quench the world’s thirst?
Perhaps it the type of bug that only happens 497 days[1]? a few of these class of bugs slip through now and then (intiger overflow).

1. https://blog.ctm-it.com/it-support/blogs/matt-cannon/2013/49...
How is it indefensible? They're protecting their brand and serving their customers; this approach has actual measurable business value AND value to the customer.

I use Apple products (and in turn services) because I can be fairly certain that an aftermarket unit (Macbook) is going to work well. If I didn't know that I'd look for other brands that do exactly what Apple does now - and then I'd buy their phone and use their cloud so it works well with my main device.

If Apple stopped doing what they do, a lot of people will start to experience weird issues that didn't happen before - and they will attribute these issues to Apple. Additionally the resale value of Apple gear would go substantially lower and Apple would probably also stop offering free OS.

Since I assume that the cost of new device would remain the same, this could actually substantially negatively affect poorer people (to which right to repair would be relevant) - much more than this Apple policy does.

As Apple customer, I prefer their approach. Why should anyone else stop me from consuming a service/product however I and the company I buy from like it (and it doesn't hurt anyone) just because it doesn't suit them? Why don't they buy a Lenovo?
I fall into the basic mold that you describe (a capitalist and so on), and I felt the same until I read everything Y Combinator was doing regarding basic income. It made sense to me.

Here's the link if you have some time to read all the docs... https://basicincome.ycr.org/
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That's exactly what a security post-mortem should look like.

- What went wrong

- Why did it go wrong

- What can be done to ensure this doesn't happen again

Everyone makes mistakes once in a while, the key is learning from them.

Well done!
Somewhere at Microsoft some bean counters decided that formal QA was costing them too much and “agile” was a perfect excuse to scuttle QA (move fast and break things.) It’s bullshit that has been propagated throughout the software industry. “Well, Microsoft doesn’t do it this way anymore so...”. I work for an MS partner and this is exactly what’s happening in-house here. You’re just making your customers the beta testers.
Comparison to Avisynth / Vapoursynth ?
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>And where do you draw the line? What if a benevolent, enlightened, prosperous but essentially a dictatorship state from the equator wants to invest? And they could well claim to be a democracy.

I assume you’re talking about Singapore. Its not inaccurate but I think its not really fair to paint them with the same brush as the others.
After 15 years working in Silicon Valley startups, I am as jaded and cynical as they come, but this is really refreshing. A VC making a stand for values, and having the balls to admit that his own hands aren’t entirely clean? Outstanding. We need more conversations about integrity, and more high level players with the integrity to admit that they have been wrong in the past.
Completely agree. I think a better way to get reviews now is just to type "(product name) review" into youtube. Seems more honest review. Stay away from anything that is Chinese product. Most of it is so sloppily made.
If you don't mind me asking why Hurd? Is it because it's a microkernel? or is there other things I'm missing?
It is great to see people continually optimising Ruby and the experience of working with Ruby.
How do I know if I can flash the OS on one of these into a custom one?
5-10%. What’s “access”? Apple aren’t featuring your app unless you know someone. Otherwise they’re providing payment processing (<2% at Apple scale) and binary hosting.
While this could be seen as off topic, I don’t think it is: I strongly recommend purchasing that bike light from your local bike shop. If you have a local bike shop, it is likely struggling. But it is also likely that the lights they have on offer there are specifically selected for their utility, particularly their utility in your locale. Perhaps it will be a few dollars more than Amazon, but you will reap the benefit.
Seeing a lot of issues with Pull Requests.
The problem here is that you have to pay the fee, even if you think it isn't reasonable. I have no idea if 30% is a reasonable fee to charge or not, and because no one is allowed to compete with Apple, there's no way to find out. If you were allowed to install apps from alternate sources, app developers could offer discounts if you pay them directly or install the app from another store, and Apple would have to adjust its fees to match what the services it offers are actually worth.
but at the birth of SICP, is there any suitable imperative language to do that?

If we exclude the part of functional language, SICP is a quite good advanced text for CS major.
Thanks very much! Let me know if you have any specific feedback about it.
> How would you ship/deploy GitHub Enterprise (or FI) if you made the decision today

A few years ago I met the founders of Replicated, who were just starting to build tools to make it much easier to ship an existing SaaS product to Enterprise customers. I thought it was an amazing idea, having felt that pain so closely myself, and I became an early investor and advised them extensively about all the tooling we built to make GitHub Enterprise a reality. They have now built all of that and a lot more. It works quite simply for containerized apps and I would absolutely use Replicated to ship an Enterprise app today. I’m biased, of course, but I tend to invest in companies because they have awesome people and product, so read that however you like. :)
So you are saying poor people should just die I guess. Them and their kids.
So if you want free stuff just leave bad reviews.

The world is so broken.

My sister's used to do the same thing to the Coca Cola company when we were young. They would call the hotline and complain they had some come that tasted like dishwashing liquid and they would get loads of coupons sent to them for free coke.

I think they did it every time we moved house and we lived in quite a few houses. It was always entertaining.

Now that I think about it my 8 year old sister was committing fraud.

Well...
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Of course they do. But that's not the fault of the other countries, its because US politicians allow the pharmaceutical and health care industry to get away with it. The fix is not to force others to pay the same high price for life saving medication; the solution is to bring the costs down for all. But in the US we allow corporations and lobbyists to control the narrative and people actually think its ok to force someone to choose between being able to afford their medication or food.
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Indeed, ever since I realized I could get medical care without paying for it I've been going out and getting cancer a couple times a week.
>But my experience was...to trade people towards being academics...

Very interesting

>if you didn’t do any then you might be punished (eg made to wait a year before returning) even if you do ok in exams.

These are the rules I do not understand and find counterproductive, but your uni seems much more lax.

>you should find some harder classes

I have done this already.

>although they mightn’t be much help

Thanks for trying to help, but you are right, nothing would change, I am almost done with Uni so I'm about to put it behind, but I feel entitled to criticizing how inefficient it is, when a math class has 3 tests during the course of 4 months and they can be passed by studying for 4 days before each test without attending class, then it feels too silly and wasteful to me, but I have no choice but to put up with it.
> (the Honda Fit requires you to drop the engine to service the plastic fuel filter.)

Sure, but when do you do that? Honda says you can do it once per 100,000km (and you don't really need to do it until your fuel pressure indicator brings it up, I would think).

Far as I can tell, Honda's service intervals are very long (at least for Accord/Civic, maybe the Fit/Jazz is different), failure rates are very low.

edit: Also, not sure you're supposed to access the fuel filter in a Honda Fit by dropping the engine (!). The service manual[0] seems to say that you access it by removing the center console.

[0]: http://www.hondafitjazz.com/manual/A00/HTML/07/SAA2E07A20326...
I'm referring to tactics like Rossmann described here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVL65qwBGnw where US Customs is seizing imports of genuine Apple parts - for laptops they don't repair themselves anymore!

I see your point though, there are plenty of untrustworthy third-party repairers.
Awwww. Now I'm less interested.
These are also paid - the barrier to entry is just higher because the reviewer needs to have a little equipment and be able to speak cogently for five minutes.
LOL! I deal with two sets of users.

Some are users like you who get emotionally upset about bugs.

Then I know others, like me, who simply acknowledge a coding error, or a future fix.

It makes dealing with QA difficult sometimes. What should be a scientific CS debugging meeting turns into an emotional tear-filled bug crying session.

Why get so upset? Seems "out of scope".
I really can't tell you. It mostly depends on your environment. Where I live most people are quite badass and strong but were put down by life way too many times so they started quitting earlier than they should. On the other end of the spectrum, I knew quite a lot of people who (as I mentioned above) were pampered and couldn't handle any adversity.

And then you have the people who somehow thrive on the adversity. I couldn't understand them even back when I was full of energy and motivation.

That being said, there are behavioral signs that distinguish people. I believe you should be able to quite easily discern them if you have even basic interaction with them.
Stability is ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS priority #1 in an operating system!
I am lead to believe that it's true since they seem to be struggling to fit things like a headphone jack in already pretty big phones.
Amazon is going downhill quickly. I target shoot with a compound bow as a hobby, and as a result I usually buy a set of arrows a year. In 2015 when I would search for "target arrows" on Amazon the first page results would be for legit American companies who make exceptional arrows for about $30 per set of 6. Now, and for the last 2 years if I search for "target arrows" I get pages and pages of Chinese crap arrows (I purchased several sets and returned them). The crappy ones are also selling for $30 per set but they are made out of weak aluminum and come bent up. To get the nice American made ones I have to got 10-20 pages deep or search by brand name and even than the real ones are usually on page 2 with page one featuring the same crap from China. Now, don't get me wrong, I am sure they can make quality arrows in China, but what makes it to the top of Amazon is utter crap.

I noticed this with many other products as well, but the arrows is a particularly noticeable example because it's something I regularly replace as they get beat up and destroyed (I shoot a lot).
Isn't that the Kindle Cloud Reader? https://read.amazon.com/
> move the "wide variety of administrative, management, financial and medical tasks" into a proper group like the State Department or some new group with no final militaristic consideration.

These skills aren't distinct from the skills a military needs to function. Logistics is a huge component of warfare, for example - and would you prefer that combat medics be civilians? Elsewhere in the thread people are commenting about dual-use technology - these are all dual-use skills.
> I see no reason why basic income would be preferable to a Public Works Administration-style program that pays people to do these tasks.

Basic income naturally scales up with improvements in productivity driven by automation and reduces labor market friction and enables adjustment to changing conditions.

PWA beginners increasingly obviously pointless, wasteful soul-crushing make-work with progressive automation and increases labor-market friction obstructing adjustment.

The latter works as a short-term collapse in demand for a kind of work that is expected to recover, the former is a long-term alternative to means-tested else programs that mitigates adverse incentives and other inefficiencies.

Both are potentially useful but don't address remotely the same set of problems.
I suggest Amazon solves this by requiring ALL purchasers to leave reviews of ALL products they buy. Or by adding a $10 fee to every purchase that can only be refunded by leaving a review.
And by almost any measure we are no better than and frequently behind other western democracies in healthcare.
This. A million times this.

I experienced a similar situation just a few months ago. I'm now being asked to step in and take over the project from the very person who got the promotion because said individual never truly had the leadership skills to begin with, rather, they only had the leverage of walking out the door.

It's a very difficult pill to swallow when my manager turns this situation around on me, stating (I'm paraphrasing), "If you truly want to be a senior, you have to know when to swallow your pride and do right by the team."

Our industry is just plain bananas.
Yeah one of the first things I do when I want to make a project is google the name to see what is using it already. If its too popular or too close to what I am solving I dont use the name. Reminds me of that WAMP Protocol (which I found a stupid name cause the acronym already says protocol at the last P) which collided with WAMP the Windows Apache MySQL PHP project. The engineer apparently didnt care. I wish engineers would stop to think because poor naming could ruin a project or product.
Naming things is hard.
Yeah, been trying to post comments and new issues and keep getting "405 Not Allowed" responses.
Frozen Hell: The Book That Inspired the Thing
Earlier GitHub pages was "down for maintenance". Probably not related but might be of note.

(source: my website is hosted on github pages)
Imagine a system where you go to the GP, and just make a walk-in appointment. You sit for ten to fifteen minutes, see your GP. They check you over, direct you to go see the nurse, who checks your throat.
Then afterwards, the GP tells you that they'll phone you later on with the results.

You walk back past the reception desk, ask what the bill was, and they either say "that'll be $40 which you can claim back by taking the receipt around the corner to Medicare", or they'll say "Oh nothing to pay, it's all bulk billed".

You walk out having either spent nothing, or spent a few bucks which you get back after a five minute walk up the road.

That was my recent experience.
It's when I typically get an hour or two to crank out some open source PRs and issue queue cleanup. Sadly, the outage means I don't get that time to devote this week :(
Agile has nothing to do with releasing products early or in testing. It allows the development process to run more smoothly, but it should be completed by the time it is released to the public.
Yes I will be happy to listen to his opinion, shortly before dedicating my life to attaining his enviable position of flusher rather than flushee.

Truth ain't hard to swallow when you know just how fucking easy it is to dominate captains of football teams lmao
Story straight out of Confessions of an Economic Hitman — third-world island nation gets IMF’d into a partnership with a multinational corporation to upgrade its energy infrastructure.

I’m not saying it’s a bad thing to make the move to renewables, but completely revamping the electricity infrastructure of a 340 island nation is not a cheap undertaking. With a GDP of a mere $291 million[0], how long are the citizens going to be on the hook for the loans needed to subsidize this effort?

0: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
Or maybe very few people, who knows? Shouldn't the number be quantified before we assume what people want?

> You can get the mechanical issue really fixed, or you can have a less expensive repair.

Does it qualify as a repair if it's not actually a repair?

I'd imagine the same people who are happy with these kind of repairs with Apple would be the same ones to complain about planned obsolescence...
Makes me think of Theseus' ship. Change piece by piece out over time. Is it still the same repo people starred?

This feels a lot like what happens when a brand is sold. Is it really the same product?

Stars generally "work" because, I think, we assume repos converge to something. The older it is, the less likely changes are to be drastic. And maybe that's true. But it clearly doesn't have to be.

Of course we shouldn't rely on star count as any sort of quick and dirty metric of quality... But I think many of us do.