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Well, only the other day people were discussing how to keep the archives alive on the mailing-list. And the community hasn’t been very active in the sense of new projects, software ports, etc.

Plus the number of e-mails I get has been steadily decreasing over time...
Ah, the Twitch model -- where half of its users are spambots and the other half are viewbots.
Have you seen Project IceStorm? I don't know if ICE40 FPGAs would be good fit here, but they could definitely be more hobbyist friendly.

http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/
> Yes there is. It's called anti-trust law and a large part is about pure market share.

That's not a law against having one, only abusing one.
Where is the cluster configuration then?
Removing a book is censorship. Not carrying a broad category of books is a policy. E.g. if they didn't carry any book on autism, this would be a strange decision, but within their competence. Judging a single book is not.
Have you seen the pictures of what must be tens of thousands of bike share bikes just sitting, unused, likely never to be used, in fields in China?

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/03/bike-share-oversup...
> > I suppose being raised by your mother and being given away by your mother would have a tremendous impact on your opinion

> Yeah, that seems pretty clear. Although I don't see why the impact should extend to your relationship with other random people.

People aren't robots with perfect control over themselves.
Remember when internet companies were supposed to be disrupting the system, not co-opting it and making regulatory capture favor themselves?
Way ahead of you : https://energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/renewable/s...
Of all the people who smoke never once have I heard the social argument as you describe it. I'm not trying to comment on the subject of the analogy, but just on the fact that I trying to apply the analogy to this space is a bit of a stretch.

I've heard the argument of "I don't care what it does to me", or "I'm gonna die anyway, what gives if I shed a few years at the end", but never "I won't be able to connect to other people if I quit smoking" (in fact, I know people who quit smoking due to social reasons).

I know people who think they look cool when they smoke, or who get thoughtful when they smoke, but I've never heard of tobacco as a "social" activity like drinking alcohol is, for example.
I am not arguing with this. In my comment my intend was to show that the distinction between the memoized top-down approach and bottom-up (the approach that is usually taught as DP in a classroom) is significant in some memory optimizations.
So you're saying transport them to warmer climates for the winter... like birds.. flying south?
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Thanks man. Sender reputation is something I worry about. But half my clients get the email I send them using a simple phone script already. So I'm hopeful that is a good indicator.
Most of the time less features is preferable
They owe nothing for anything they legitimately use: that’s the consequence of open source licensing as a developer. If a developer expects a project to get a fair share of revenue from projects that use it, they are free to adopt a licensing model that dictates that. That is a perfectly reasonable licensing model.

I get it: I had an open source project that HP built a product around many years ago, but modulo a couple of patches from them, we saw nothing. Didn’t bother me: we knew when we open sourced it, anything that was done with it was out of our hands.

The best I’d expect from a company using open source is that they be good open source citizens and contribute back. Apple has. clang, WebKit, etc....
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There are very few independent artists on Spotify that get paid directly by Spotify. The absolute vast majority (easily 99.9999% of artists) are signed up via the four major labels or (if they are independent artists) via aggregators:

- Spotify only started signing up independent artists since 2017 or so [1] [2]

- Even there Spotify recommends you upload music through aggregators or labels [3] (I'm not even sure if you can get there as an artists without going through a label or a distributor)

> That is the problem with the music industry and their label signing deals.

The music industry has no other options but sign deals with labels. Because the major labels control the catalog of music that people listen to. Almost anything even remotely popular you listen to belongs to them: from Taylor Swift to Beatles, from Drake to Iron Maiden, from One Direction to Pink Floyd etc.

And the industry is too scared to say anything against the labels for fear of retribution. You go against Warner Music, they pull their content, and goodbye Slipknot, R.E.M., Skrillex, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Muse, Ed Sheeran, Eric Clapton, Ghorillaz, ... [4] You go against Sony, and... etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify#Spotify_for_Artists

[2] https://artists.spotify.com

[3] https://artists.spotify.com/guide/your-music

[4] https://store.warnermusic.com/all-artists
This is the Daily Mail being linked. It is most likely fictional, or at least highly manipulative.
That's not what planned obsolescence is, but there are certainly cycles of capital whereby businesses build great and useful products with the initial help of capital infusions, then slowly degrade the usefulness of said product or increase their exploitativeness in order to reduce costs or increase prices. Perhaps that is happening with facebook now.
You mean safety?
> so... native.

No. You're missing the bit where "native" means different things in different contexts; for code it means that the code ends up being compiled for the architecture it's running on, but for UI it means that you're using the platform APIs and following system conventions, which Telegram does not.
I think the article didn't say anything about performance requirements.

The app is Dust3D, a ease-of-use focused mesh editor which deals with simple meshes.

Certainly from the blog post you get the impression that programmer productivity is a consideration in his choice of language.
I've heard this about smoking weed, but never tobacco. I guess it's just a cultural thing that varies from place to place ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Theia is an independent IDE framework. It used by products like Gitpod (http://www.gitpod.io), Google Cloud Shell, ARM Mbed Studio (https://os.mbed.com/studio/?utm_source=blog) and so on. Che is going to replace own old GWT based IDE with Theia.
No, not exactly. You're free to buy from other stores, and suppliers can sell to them. A very important distinction.
> That you can't move those purchases easily to another platform

You do realise that there are technical reasons for that.

You can't just lift an iOS, Linux, Windows, Android, PS4, Xbox etc app and just run it on a different platform. Especially if your target platform is a resource constrained one.
In all seriousness, why should they? There are obvious diminishing returns and there's a point where the distances get large enough and the number of people gets small enough that it's unjustifiable. Opportunity costs exist, and it follows that advocating for money to be spent inefficiently is bad.
Wouldn't any addiction do this? I think the better argument to make would be that Facebook is addictive.
You're lying. Why?
Hah, Kickstarter idea: a control panel with knobs and buttons that interfaces with the on-board computer, so you have shortcut physical buttons for those controls...

It's the future, see!
Interestingly enough, looking at the HW, there is not much there that wouldn't have been feasible for hobbyist a decade ago. But of course the community and information has absolutely exploded during that period
There's also this annoying problem with the launcher multicasting stuff on network constantly.

https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/forums/bug-reports/battle...
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The rest of the country ain’t New York City.
Theia relies only on stable and documented APIs for compatibility which are not move fast and don't get removed, not on patching and exposing of VS Code internals.
Sigh... "This car has a higher safety record, it has a touch screen, that must mean touch screens are safer!".
It’s just as bad at Citroen here in the UK. I had to replace a wheel on mine after I dinked it. Citroen had a two week wait time for this. I managed to get a wheel off eBay next day for £60 and took it to the local hooky tyre outfit who put two new front tyres on and this wheel in 30 minutes while I waited without an appointment.
You can just put sand bags in the trunk in winter :)

My parents used to do that so they could drive our Toyota Hiace in winter. As a bonus, there's fresh sand for the sandbox every spring!
For anyone interested in learning more, I highly recommend this episode of the Darknet Diaries podcast: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/9/
You either allow lobbying or ban it. Amazon used a legal process to tip the balance in their favour. The entire lobbying thing does sound to me like a hack in the entire democratic process.

People should vote not companies.
> a lot

Subjective... many believe it's hardly anything (i.e. basically free to them, which is an ok belief).
So Apple does actually pay artists more but that's irrelevant because something, something "it's a PR move".

I would imagine that the artists probably care even if you don't.
I'd like something roughly the size and price of a Model 3, but with a bit more storage space. I'm never going to buy a Model X unless I find myself suddenly wealthy or a used one comes up for sale remarkably cheap. I think this makes a lot of sense.
Unity makes it very clear in their blog posts that Burst is a special vectorizing compiler. It is not a linter at all. I am not sure where you got that notion.

IL2CPP was required to be able to stick with C# and stay relevant for mobile gaming. They forced themselves into this corner by wanting to stay with C# and become relevant for mobile gaming.

Compare all this to Unreal. By sticking to C++, they do not have to commit the same amount of resources to programming language related tooling.
Whilst I agree with you and I honestly don’t know whether I would ever buy a car that was basically touch-screen only (although there are controls on the wheel), Telsas have a bunch of features that allow them to safely self-pilot, at least for the small amounts of time that you would take your eyes off the road to make adjustments like this.

I’ve only driven cars with radar cruise control (with always-on auto-breaking) and lane & blind-spot detection and I now find these features invaluable to feeling safe whilst driving and avoiding the pitfalls distractions can cause.
Ah, we may be talking past each other then. So I reiterate my point from upthread:

> Performant mesh manipulation code as a rule deals with largish float arrays (or other similar contiguous layouts, like AoS or SoA or indexed versions thereof). So there are no per-vertex objects to malloc/free or to track in GC.
Sadly, Perfectionists share a trait when it comes to building software, obsession to their craft at the expense of everythng else, shipping times included.
I've seen many people keep their blog to git.. I'll have a look at Jekyll, thank you for the recommendation!
Former head of NTSB said Boeing should have grounded the planes straight away

https://nypost.com/2019/03/12/former-ntsb-boss-wont-fly-on-b...
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It's a nice story but I've seen this parenting technique applied in our western society:

- "Don't do this or the police will arrest you".

- "eat you yogurt or that kid over there is going to eat it".

Isn't this fearmongering?
> It's pretty hard to get someone solving actual problems in a single day. Do you have some examples of how this might be done?

Solve a small problem - of which millions can be found in issue trackers.

Here is an example I just read on Github:

Somebody reports that reading a JSON file results in a value that clearly is an integer being misidentified as "Not an integer". The source code is a parser written in C and the code is quite readable.

Give the candidate an hour to try to figure out what is happening (obviously, the language and context must be a match for the job).

Important - I think: It would be good if the problem is unsolved and the interviewer him-/herself does not know the answer. Also: Don't send them into a room alone, watch them. I know that adds stress, but learn how to lower it, make it clear you too don't know the answer. If the candidate really can't cope with someone watching, well, okay, let them try alone, I just think if the atmosphere is right this is valuable. There is no right way to approach solving such a problem, but without and not meant for judgment, I think this is just interesting to see how different people approach problems. Of course, if the interviewer has string opinions about how it should be done that is a bad method and I myself would not like to be interviewee in that case.
> I may be blinded by my techie point of view about "popularized"

Yeah, unfortunately it seems like we're still in the state where UNIX/Linux can't popularize anything, especially themselves, unless they're repackaged by someone else :(
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Their new Shanghai factory (Gigafactory 3) seems to be partially built with the Model Y in mind so I wouldn't count against this actually being true.
It's a symbiotic relationship, but if it reduces to "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" analogy it would be:

* the app store is successful thanks to apps like Spotify

* Spotify is successful thanks to the app store

I think the second premise tends to be more accurate to the case. If I make the most used app in the world today, I cannot take credit for pumping the success of the app store, because it was already there when I launched my app.

In either case, it's Apple yard, they set the rules and charge what they want. Don't place your main source of income in another person's yard.
I have close to 10 questions and it might be difficult to answer if I post here. My email is workinprogressblogs@gmail if you don't mind I can send them to you directly.
In what way is what he leaked “false”? Are the Tesla documents and VINS false? Isn’t Tesla’s report to the police objectively more false?

Should we really allow Tesla to get away clean after their report to the police while Jessie Smollett faces felonies?
It was a 4-3 decision on a court with a grand total of one Republican appointee. I wouldn't expect it to survive a SCOTUS appeal.
We can also say Apple Music wouldn't be the business today had Spotify not explored the business of music streaming years ahead. Now they just took the idea themselves and pretend that Spotify contributes nothing.
I don't think it's unfortunate that oil paintings don't generate much money. Hopefully books would be at least halfway up the list though.
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Moving past the profanity and stupidity, there are so many fandoms on Tumblr, literally thousand (and/or millions) of Harry Potter, Supernatural, Twilight, Divergent, and many many more have found refuge/a place to express themselves.

I know that "the internet is for porn", but, well, not ALL of it and especially not all Tumblr is serving pornography.
> My bet is they decided to respond due to PR issues

This is the strange bit, since Apple does this very rarely. Or at least, they used to…
So then Apple should pay KDE for KHTML, for WebKit is just a fork of that?
There is always option 3. Delay in processing of information and conflict resolution. It is possible the captains took to long to understand what is wrong, training or not and do the appropriate maneuvers to get the plane under control again.

Option 3 happening at 40,000 feet has a very much better chance of a positive outcome than at 4,000 feet
XNA is dead. Microsoft officially recommends MonoGame instead.

When a game seems to be written exclusively in a high level language like C# then there is almost always a massive framework underneath that integrates a lot of shiny C and C++ libraries for the real heavy lifting.
> Across the board, all the moms mention one golden rule: Don't shout or yell at small children.

Interesting to note, this is the exact same conclusion Louis Rossman had come to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRwuu0u3UFA
To be fair, if FreeBSD didn't want that to happen, they should have licensed under GPL.
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If you think they are lobbying now, wait till their Virginia HQ opens up.
They mention agriculture, not groceries.

Farmers don't get paid anywhere near the retail price. And that's excluding all the processed food where the farmers get even less as a proportion.
One thing that I don't see pointed out is that Rust is a nightmare if you are dependent upon mutable algorithms.

I suspect that mesh generation is very much a mutable algorithm domain and probably a high impedance mismatch with Rust.

For example, simple things like mapping a struct of three elements to a vector of three elements were, at one point, very difficult if not impossible in Rust.
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That’s a good observation, thing is, Rust just makes the manners mandatory.
There is zero evidence that Apple does not pay the 30%.

We don't see the internal accounting but it's quite likely they do. Internal revenue distribution is standard practice in almost all enterprises.
Indeed.

Epoxy even sounds like a stupid idea. I mean how are you going to repair that next time. It’s impossible to dig that stuff up.
The lack of choice is a problem. I’d support a law that mandated that all Turing-complete machines allow its owner to execute whatever code he wants on it, and therefore that iOS devices allow third-party apps (and third-party app stores) to be installed.
I'm a fan of [InoReader][1]. It's the best replacement for Google Reader I've found. Using it for more than ~5 years now and couldn't be happier.

[1]: https://inoreader.com
This is a thinly-veiled personal attack :/
Where are you getting 13% from?

If you pay yourself a salary from a ltd company there's ~14% Employers NI, 12%-2% Employee NI Depending on tax band, 20-40% Income tax depending on tax band. If you pay a dividend there's 19% Corporation tax plus 7.5%-32.5% Dividend tax.

So 46%-56% tax on salary and 26.5%-51.5% tax on dividends. Nowhere near 13%, unless you're talking about 'creative accounting' by running non-business expenses through the company to effectively get them tax free.
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It seems like they would indeed count at least a portion of your ISP bill, as it relates to media streaming services.
> In either case, it's Apple yard, they set the rules and charge what they want. Don't place your main source of income in another person's yard.

It's too late. Had people known it would become what it is today, nobody in their right mind would build apps for it. Not me at least.
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You also use the sand when your tires are stuck in the snow.
This letter is the exception, not the norm. I have never seen official statements from Apple this strong aside from the Bloomberg letter they published last last year.
Apple allows you to have PDFs and ePub files in their Books app as well.

So not sure what you mean.
That’s also why high street stores are now struggling while consumers are buying direct from the source or online where margins are tighter.

However I’m not suggesting that local stores are in the wrong either but it does illustrate how consumers have choice there is no such competition inside Apples walled garden. And that is the real crux of why their margins are high: it’s because developers and iPhone owners are locked into the App Store

The obvious counteragument here is that people don’t have to buy iPhones - and that is true. However people do and they still expect their app prices to be low, so developers are the ones who ultimately lose out as they either have to support Apple or be left out entirely and they’re the ones who then have to lower their prices to compete.

It’s also worth noting that the physical store, in your example, would have greater overheads than an App Store
of equivalent size so Apples markup shouldn’t include the same operational cost.
Talk is cheap, code is what matters. But maybe the interviewer wanted to save time not writing an incorrect solution if he believed your approach was wrong and you could talk yourself out of it? Did you get to step through how your solution would arrive at the number 14 given 2 eggs and 100 floors? And if you wrote it out, would it produce that number? (Personally I have no idea what you mean with the binary search approach, what is your logical list since doing it on the list of floors is wrong? But I've not thought about the egg dropping problem in a long time and have only seen the DP approach.)

It might of course be that the interviewer only knew one way to solve it, any other way was therefore wrong. Or admitting they don't understand a demonstrated other way shows weakness, so is also wrong. I'd be perfectly happy to receive rejections from companies with those sort put in charge of interviewing.
It is misleading because it is a very specific case in California/US. For people in other countries these things don't apply. We have 10k euro discount to Electric cars for instance. It would apply to both cars equally.
Definitions are useless, what one needs is a notion: a smallest working model of censorship. If a store doesn't have a particular book, it can be to a multitude of reasons. But what if one removes an existing book from a library? The book is not physically different from others, nor does it carry some unusual associated costs, it could be standing happily there for many more years. So why it's singled out? Because of what it contains? This is where we call it censorship. (Note that what exactly it contains is irrelevant.)

In this case the book as a product is not different from a trillion of other Amazon products. What makes it different is its content. So yes, this is censorship.
The app store is shoved down my throat unless I jailbreak my Iphone NOT a value add. I'd have ten times more apps on my phone without it. They'll lose this legal battle.
It can be circumvented quite easily and Spotify already does.

You can upgrade to Spotify Premium through a website which they advertise during their free tier ads.
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Do you mean the University of Kansas?
I use spotify and netflix without going through apple, the former on my linux desktop, the latter additionally on my smart tv.
Thia is true only if you have the foresight to write custom allocators. Unless you limit possible mesh topologies, you must deal with many tiny arrays for each vertex, edge and face and their lengths are not uniform.
You can look at macOS as an example. Using the command line I start searching through my home directory. I get a pop up saying, "Terminal wants to access your Contacts: yes/no" "Terminal wants to access your Calendar: yes/no." This is the kind of behavior I think most people would like.

An example of the bad side is that Nvidia says they cannot develop drivers for their cards because Apple hasn't allowed them to (Apple develops the drivers). I technically believe they can, but they would have to make the user jump through some very unreasonable steps (reboot into a maintenance mode and disable integrity protection).