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This was soon after the switch to battle.net and I may not have realized that the address was actually 'battle.net'. I don't remember. Honestly, I still search from time to time even when I know the address (didn't back then) because sometimes it's fast, and sometimes it's just muscle memory.
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I have always thought this space will turn into the Netflix of food. First you differentiate by having a good array of content (food) but will eventually need to create original content with exclusivity (Uber creating or funding their own restaurants just for delivery) to differentiate.
Sure thing!

/sbin/init is pid=1, the single process that the kernel starts when a system boots. It typically runs a command to kick off bringing up userland to the correct runlevel, maybe something like "/etc/rc.d/rc 3". It doesn't do anything more than just execute this command.

The command is part of the RC system. Typically written in shell, it handles walking /etc/rc.*/ and running the scripts contained therein to configure and invoke the various services for a particular runlevel.

You can boot linux using your own init and skip the rc system. From grub, add "init=/bin/sh" to your kernel parameters and you will get a shell as pid=1 and no other processes -- from there you can run commands as you wish to bring your system the rest of the way up. If you were to run "/etc/rc.d/rc 3" by hand you would invoke the same scripts that normally run on bootup to runlevel 3.

You could also delete all these shell scripts and replace them with your own code for configuring the system.
I mean, the way to do it is to have a server for ssr and standard requests and another server for the api written in the language of your choice.
Actually. I meant shift and bitwise operations, not arrays.
If someone pays that 25% to convert dirty money, then the government is saying that crime is effectively allowed if you can get away with it AND the person who paid it is basically going to be under the lens of law enforcement for the rest of their life.
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> Microsoft's first CEO is still chairman and helping lead the company even from the sidelines

It'd be super awkward if TJ Watson was still leading IBM from the sidelines.
this is very cool, i want to stop all that i am doing and just fiddle with it.
I highly recommend getting the Mojo v3 and the O’reilly book titled “Learning FPGAs”. Both are great low barrier to entry for beginners, yet powerful enough hardware wise to do much of what you’ll need for quite a while until you need to productionize it.
You are absolutely correct. Keep fighting the good fight :-)
Would be nice if the `more` button replaced the existing stuff instead of adding to the bottom.
The sketchy aura of cryptocurrencies(at least with regards to Bitcoin and Ethereum) seems to be progressively fading away. And if you’re solely looking at cryptocurrencies as a long term investment vehicle, it makes sense for Fidelity to have an offering for their customers.
What percentage is small enough for you to consider it “not voter suppression”?
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Apologies for the tone. RoR website does not describe itself as 'full stack', neither is it a full-stack framework in the modern sense since there is no client-side library other than the ajax helpers.

Next.js is not a 'client side framework' in the usual sense, as it encompasses server side rendering, but it doesn't mean you'll be writing your backend logic in it (unless you want to) or that it will include an ORM.
Super pessimistic point of view. Why do you think these are all in danger? These are things that people and more importantly enterprises use. Why would IBM ruin that?
Yeah. I did a voice doodad for a client not too long ago and it was just a whizzy version of a classic IVR system. Worked really well and no one was the wiser.
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Next.js is not really a fullstack framework. It provides a server for static websites but as soon as you want dynamic content you can use any js api framework of your choice.
Sounds like car dealers.
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What are other opportunities where people are semi-forced to interact (that don't normally interact with each other)? How do the other opportunities make the profiler no longer profiling when the situation is out of a store?

I am not saying profiling people in stores is the only chance, as the profiling is already a base assumption. I'm saying the automation is taking away more semi-forced interaction point. My premise is that it's bad, as people can only really understand each other when they interact. And most people don't actively interact. The supermarket/shopping place is one place that generally is forced interaction.
The other problem is that POSIX is horrible. See eg:

- http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2011-12-17-POSIX-close-is-br... It's impossible to reliably close a file if you have active signal handlers that might be triggered.

- https://www.sqlite.org/src/artifact/c230a7a24?ln=994-1081 (discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17601581 "POSIX advisory locks are broken by design.")

- Seemingly anything to do with terminal devices or job control. (Allocating ptys, sending control sequences like ^D or ^Z, adding processes to a group that will all recieve terminal signals together, etc.)

- 'Basic' regular expressions (as in `echo baaar | grep 'a+' || echo WTF`).

- The existence of hard links as anything beyond a destination cache for symlinks.

Most operating systems have problems like these, but POSIX proceeds to enshrine them as unfixable 'features' rather than "DEPRECATED: DO NOT USE". (On the plus side, F_SETLK(W) and close seem likely to be fixed at some point and close doesn't tend to get maliciously exploited the way eg integer overflow does by C compilers.)
Their web site is indeed being shut down. :/ I hate Gab and all the nazis they host, but I am troubled about the difficulty in hosting the wider category of unpopular speech.
Have you tried sway instead of i3? Any reason you've stuck to i3 with X11 instead or just no reason to change?
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I don't have research, but I have found that most people outside of the financial services industry feel that they don't have the training or qualification to read a SEC document. The SEC EDGAR website's UI and the length of the document are not exactly welcoming either. Yet, I believe most key sections of the S-1 are very readable, and the folks who put it together have put in many hours so that people who are introduced to the company's story for the first time have a easy time digesting the materials. That's why I believe they have the potential to be read more widely!
Down votes, no comments.....
Exactly, these are products to monetize and make money from.
This is pretty counterintuitive. In the game described you should expect to see one 'wrong way' bus per play on average, not half as you might expect. On the other hand, you have an exactly even chance of catching your own bus before seeing a wrong one, so if your scoring system had been +1 for your bus and -1 for one or more wrong ones, then you would indeed score 0 over time. But with your point per bus scoring system your expected score turns out to be -0.5 per play.
I've always been told that ThinkPad should work, even relatively modern ones. Is that not true?
Serverless also implies 3rd party management and pay-per-use.

Regardless, I truly can not wait to see a topic about serverless that isn't primarily bickering about the name.
It makes perfect sense for the original medium: print magazine
Perhaps, but I've always had much better service from live chat than from phone calls in practice. Plus, you never have to wait on hold with live chat...
Every aquisition I've been a part of immediately resulted in a massive brain drain as everyone who made the aquired company great jumps ship. I wonder if Redhat's competitors are licking their chops.
Looking Glass is an amazing product. I met the founder in Shenzhen back in 2014. Nice guy, very smart, and clearly has the grit to keep at it for a long time. Can’t wait to see what people do with this technology.
Hardware validation is like hardware startups, much harder to do. With software, all you need is a computer, time, and will. With hardware, your toolchains have a material cost, a calibration cost, shipping cost, shipping schedules, in addition to a computer, time, and will. If you screw up your equipment or prototype, thats at least another week or month of waiting for replacement parts.

Software is like music, as long as the instrument is works, all you need is time and will to develop/create.
I would engage them if they'd have a guarantee that I'd be hired by whoever is trying to hire me. If they don't, then there's a high chance I'll be wasting time.
True, this was not built with the seasoned S-1 reader in mind who already know exactly what they are looking for in a S-1. And I agree the navigation is a big problem with this version – it ought to be easier.
I think the implication is that Canonical are in the same, shrinking market. Whilst I assume Ubuntu Server has a smaller market share (though I have no figured to back this up), are they not going to end up in the same spot where they can't really progress?
Thanks for chiming in.

Michał Muskała is a core contributor and his opinion weighs a lot so I am really glad you guys are working with him.

I did check out the PR and his changes seem to be on par with what I've seen in other repositories used in TechEmpower's benchmark. Not cheating, just making sure not to use extra baggage that can severely hamper a framework's performance.

As for rejected PRs, I looked but couldn't find what I roughly had at the back of my head. It was a while ago and since I can't find it now I will have to concede that I remember incorrectly. (Ouch.)

As I pointed out, my info was outdated. I see things have improved in the meantime, which is good news!

Thank you for being responsive and transparent. Much appreciated.
Cryptocurrencies, thanks to their unstoppable and uncensorable properties, enable organic commerce in a frictionless and scalable way.

At this time, I don't know if you can point out a single "industry" that will be revolutionized by cryptocurrencies.

But what's certain to me is that there will be (subtle at first but no less powerful) lasting shifts in how human societies are organized, which today rely so much on governments for order and enforcement.
Weather underground is a shell of what it used to be. They got rid of a ton of features and cluttered everything with ads
I would guess that most readers of S-1 statements are interested in the balance sheet, P&L, and the cap table. Would love to see you provide a clean summary of those three things with graphs and extra breakouts like gross margin %.
Slightly off-topic, but does it worth learning FPGA development for existing CS devs when considering future career?

I don't mean FPGA is worthless. I mean, as a former EE student, a FPGA career requires pretty high expertise which are quite far from the CS topic, such as HDL, signal processing, and low-level logic design. I hardly ever have seen job openings for FPGA devs that requires lower than a master degree in that specific field.
When I worked for IBM (via acquisition), I wanted to fix bugs in Cygwin (owned by Red Hat). Red Hat does not accept patches unless you get permission from your current employer. I could not get anybody in IBM to sign Red Hat's permission slip. Nobody would sign because it's all risk, no reward from IBM's point of view.
Having had a jury, there are way too many things wrong with that thought to know where to begin.

Let's start with jury selection. If a venireman (that's somebody in the jury pool) has anything objectionable known about themselves to either side, one or both sides will strike them. This leaves juries with muppets (in the sense of people who will never themselves make the history books) and the occasional stealth.

Juries aren't neutral to anything. The expert the state hires goes up and says, yup, DNA matches. Defendant probably doesn't get an expert even if he's certain he needs one. And that's only if the judge allows it, which is often not the case.

Half of the jurors are already pissed off at the defendant because that's how people are- he decided to protest his innocence and now I have to miss a week of work for less than minimum wage.

DNA unfortunately is all too often junk science, because in the instances where the forensic lab technician isn't adulterating the tests intentionally, they can be doing so unintentionally. The DNA you're not looking for can often get in the way. This is without Chimerism, and other recently discovered genetic oddities muddying things up further.

One need only look at Milgram's experiment to know how most jury trials go.
Mint is based on Ubuntu. There is a version of Mint based on Debian but that is experimental.
The ransom part is when someone says that you have to pay them in order for them to release something that otherwise costs them nothing to release (you're not paying them for work or for resources that they want for themselves).

In some cases, someone takes something from you and then offers to return it for a ransom. That sentence wouldn't make sense if the entire thing, including the initial taking was itself "ransom". Ransom is just the second part.

People are rightly upset at the very concept of artificial limitations. The more stark it is that a price has no connection to costs but merely to a marketing game, the more offensive it is.

I'm not saying the answers are easy, but there's a level of transparency and honesty we can rightly expect in our system.

So, if to produce products economically and satisfy market demand, we find we must rely on some people paying extra money and others paying less (because such a setup allows the low price to be lower and thus to reach more customers), then we can flat out say it. We can say, "this is the same product, same features, same cost to the company, but by artificially limiting the features, we can get some people to pay extra and then pass on some of that as a reduced starting price".

At least then people won't feel like they are being marketed to dishonestly. Of course, people can see reasons to object to the idea of artificial limitations, such as how they privilege the wealthy in ways unrelated to actually needing to use their wealth to cover additional costs (it's different to have rich people have extra software features than for rich people to have more land or other actually scarce resources).

Anyway, "ransom" is indeed a framing, but it's not crazy, it's reasonably honest. For example, people describe running a crowdfunding campaign to pay for existing software getting freed under an open-source license as a "ransom".

We could accept that Tesla's ransom approach is a good solution. Or we could suggest something else (maybe some sliding-scale pricing?)

In general, prices in our market are screwy and people intuitively get that. The more screwy or manipulated or dishonest they seem, the more annoyed and distrusting people feel.

Yes, people would feel different about literally getting cars with physical differences, but you're right that purposely producing a worse product at very-little cost savings just to hit the lower price point isn't actually better in the big picture.
Totally agree with you, especially if they think time is the limiting factor
> On other hand, this is such a double standard. In China, I couldn't even get a credit card because I don't have a Chinese ID number even though I had a job for 9 years + lots of money in their bank.

I don't get it when people point out double standards when living in different countries as if they should be equivalent in both places.

Just because X country offers Y to Z people, why is it normal to expect another country to offer the same thing? Different country, different laws for different people right?
I wonder if they are working with Coinbase behind the scenes on this or if this is a totally independent product. They have a partnership with Coinbase that lets you view your Coinbase balances from your account page on Fidelity.
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As for CRuby and JRuby, they are completely different runtimes. Not sure they belong in a comparison. Elixir only has one runtime, let's compare with the defaults.

Additionally, why do you use the scripting mode of Elixir (.exs file extension)? Why not compile it (.ex file) and run it? The scripting mode hampers performance. Can you update the gist with a compiled version?

And finally, comparing raw performance isn't really what we argued about here (at least I wasn't). I thought we talked about I/O and concurrency capped environments which are the conditions in which the usual web / API app lives.

Erlang/Elixir shine on a lot of things. But definitely not on raw crunching power -- that much is true and the Elixir community is realistic about it.
On a related note, arrival time predictions can be biased early to prevent people from missing buses, which also increases the perception of lateness.

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True. So assume they put down 20% and hae 20% equity. A sale will cost you 6% (up to 8% in places like NY where you have transfer taxes.) That leaves the person with 12% equity (of which 4-8% will wiped out on the purchase.) This is painful but they arent yet losing money they dont have.

If the house is underwater (which the OP discussed) then you literally cannot sell without making up the difference.* Meaning, YOU PAY someone for them to take the house. That is a horrible situation. Also, that means you have less than 0 left to purchase the next home.
Wasn't this mostly down to pound plummeting in value.

The UK can devalue its currency every time it needs a GDP growth spurt.

Just like Italy used to do.
I wouldn't have sold also, but IBM paid an 80% premium. Not exactly cheap.
Sorry to mod you down...

Antibiotics means Fleming, one guy worked it out, I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for him, my grandpa was one of the first to use penicillin and I don't see the bean-counters as having had anything to do with it, however, the war machine did.

Henry Ford was the man that got America and the world motoring. He is an incredibly complex character however, he did not go to the city to raise money and he had no time for bean counters, hence the Jew-bashing nonsense that he got involved in. As for early motor innovation/discovery in Europe and America, it was the bicycle workshop that made it happen, not the bean counters with their 'financial engineering'. We are talking organic growth from paying customers buying bicycles from people that had workshops. The Wright Brothers also started with bicycles, hence the left/right hand thread they also lay claim to.

Public roads also have a debt to the bicycle. Trains came before bicycles and roads ceased to connect towns when the trains were how people travelled. It was actually the bicycle and cyclists that got the roads paved, motorists were to come along a lot later. Your Interstate Highway System was again military-industrial complex, not some wonder brought to the world by bean-counters.

Of course capitalism and the need to raise capital made a lot of things possible, the railways were obviously a massively speculative bubble at first. However, the industrial revolution is not a story of financial engineering. The bean counters had nothing to do with progress. And Henry Ford was not alone in wanting to avoid 'investors' like the plague. In the UK - cradle of the industrial revolution - the prominent industrialists tended to be Quakers with god rather than mammon on their side. (We skip over the slave trade part conveniently here - but you don't want that because that really is 'financial engineering', a.k.a. rape and pillage.)
They're past KH-11. KH-11 has the solar panels on side like Hubble. WRIST has the solar panel on the top which blocks solar radiation which is a newer design.
Keeping track of an asset without a centralized authority? That’s the point of a blockchain - a sliding scale where increasing decentralization causes a decrease in efficiency, where the trade off makes sense.
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And more downvotes. Does anybody care to enlighten me? I thought it was a fairly well-researched post.
Not likely according to CNBC interview [1]:

> Rometty told CNBC that the deal should not be interpreted as part of any plan for her to transition out of her position as CEO at IBM.

> "I'm still young and I'm not going anywhere," she told CNBC.

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/28/ibm-to-acquire-red-hat-in-de...
Yeah the whole freedesktop.org stack is to a large extent RedHat folks.
The big difference is that I don't have to give Uber hundreds of non-refundable dollars weeks or months before I use their product.
Their iSeries service isn’t bad as soon as you get by the screening person whose grasp of English leaves a lot to be desired. Talking to one of their actual techs has solved everything I’ve asked. It does probably help that machine phones home when it needs parts replaced.
Wish it had been public but I’m still okay with this.
The tone of this article is really weird.

It openly admits that various banks we're being constrained due to their notorious bad behavior, but casts those constraints in a passively negative light, and then tacitly celebrates that these bad actors are now less constrained to act badly.
Why would you assume scooters would reduce fatalities?
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Standard acquisition speak. Means nothing.
Agreed, "serverless" is a shockingly terrible name for all the things it's used for.

Like, really really shockingly terrible.
Sure rationally the products should be a success, that's why IBM bought them. But GloboMegaCorps have a consistent record of acquiring great products then running them into the ground by smothering them with shitty internal policies.

It seems like a fair % of SVers haven't had the pleasure of working for one of these Kafkaesque giants. They operate on dream logic and risk aversion.
"regulators under President Donald Trump, the people said, it’s planning to open 400 branches"

really? "the people said"? who write like this?
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I didn't know, but I'm gonna check it out.
Big difference between 3C and -8C not to mention the wind. My friend who lives in Chicago wears a ski mask to walk from the car. I don’t think you realise quite how cold much of the US gets.
Make them do proper accounting, an empty promise costs more engineering dollars than a believable one, and the difference should not be determined by sales.
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