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I think anyone who has done any consulting with a big organisation probably has one of these stories. As one of the other commenters says, if the end result is something that the client is happy with, and they actually pay you, you should basically consider this a success!

I spent six months building a single-page app (back when that was still an exciting sounding thing) for a major US financial institution; by the time we actually delivered it, the result was so watered down from the initial proposal that I could've just taken some screenshots from what my designer had produced six months earlier and put them in a PowerPoint deck and said "Done!" - because this was, in fact, what the VP at the company ended up doing, except they were screenshots from the web app we built that no one other than the VP himself ever used.

On the plus side, I became good friends with the VP and the project paid off a significant chunk of the mortgage on my first house.
Also I think all the people expelled for hate speech in EU could gain asylum in US. It does not mean that US thinks EU courts are not independent.
It's more down to what you do than if it's me or them. Doing stuff the locals do is not tourist. Queueing to take photos of the changing of the guard or that kind of stuff is touristy.
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Non-free standards are bad for open source and innovation in general.
Not only are you dishonest about them denying “science”, but you’re embarrassingly uninformed about a topic that you speak with such smug superiority about. Are NPR and Harvard also nut job conspiracy whackos?

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074...
At pressures a million times those experienced on earth. Still an advance, of course.
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That seems to lie entirely at Apple's discretion. The trade marked name in China is using the Chinese characters only.

It would be reasonable for Apple to take down all the uses of the Chinese name worldwide as a precaution. However, they should still allow the English spelling everywhere, including China. I'm sure they'll be able to work it out.
The point would be that smart contract make sense if and only if they can be meaningfully deployed inside a single platform. I agree that they make little sense for physical systems.

But something along the lines "I will pay you X bags if you send me a signed pdf with a specific hash" makes total sense.

They strongly should not be used for anything that would need a lawyer. That would just be a ticking bomb.
Cool application of ML in systems instead of systems for ML for once :)
This title is an extreme framing of the situation. A similar title would be "The Huawei Travesty Reveals Microsoft's Iron Grip on Windows NT".

Yes, copyright is a thing, and if you own a copyright, you are entitled to control its copying through license agreements. To characterize that as an "Iron Grip" is quite strange, as short of releasing all of this investment as open source, there is no other kind of "grip" that Google is entitled to.

Google has invested billions of dollars into applications and infrastructure for their most successful Linux distro, and yes, they own the copyright to that.

As far as I'm aware, Google does not market their current Android distro as "open source" to any great extent, so why is it more of a problem than any other piece of popular proprietary software? What about the millions of Linux-based kiosks, pub games consoles, and giant social media and advertising juggernauts who also have proprietary software that they sell access to?
How else would you after winning a court battle against University falsifying whole "study" to prove you are hurting people?
So RSA should be considered broken?
"Keeping apps fast and fluid with asynchrony in the Windows Runtime"

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsappdev/2012/03/20/ke...

As for the rest, I only agree it was a big mistake not to have a proper migration path.

However, WinRT was anyway the result of Synfosky's team (aka WinDev) being on the winning side, after they won over Longhorn, so not so much .NET love was going on back then.

And we had to wait for iteractive releases of Windows 10 slowly fix all those mistakes.
You could get good sound out of the Atari, as Alternate Reality did, with vibrato and note bending and more.

https://youtu.be/dABvjB_0o0w?t=140

(skipping past the first 140 seconds, because I think the emulator is not doing it justice, for either audio or video, until about 150 seconds in -- the game needed a real NTSC TV)

Gameplay with some weird sounds:
https://youtu.be/9KmPOb4PGBQ?t=36
Yep I cannot wait to see the days when thousands of patent trolls are coming from China.
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Summiting Everest is a scarce resource, why shouldn’t it be expensive? Limit number of licenses active during each week and auction them off to highest bidder, nothing wrong with that.
Interesting to me CC is basicaly a loan. That is not comfortable no? To me borrowing money seems like last emergency option. If i cant pay 400usd without borrowing it that seems like struggle.
Well, if they're confined they're not free. I guess they mean the spatial probability density (modulus squared of the orbital wavefunction in an atom, you might skip the orbital label if the potential is not central, but it's the same thing) of the electron in these artificial atoms. The title is misleading because the "geometry" of the electron is point-like (to all effects in this case).
Off topic here, but on a different comment there was a discussion about smart contracts. While they are often over hyped this would be a practical example where they would make sense.
Yes, you just need to set rotation in your software. For RPi it is trivial to do so.

I have done this in practice, wires go up rather than down, which could be argued to be even better as it can't rub against your cheek. I use Vufine's Pro mount, which has clips/ties for wires holding, so it doesn't matter which way wires go out of the device, forces balance doesn't change as you turn your head.
It is also easy to control the direction your receiver see it's signals from, to properly jam a satellite you need to fly the jamming equipment high in the air on a plane/balloon. A ground based jamming will have to be very powerful or close to block a receiver that is pointed to the sky.
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> Sad to see the same thing happening on Everest. If I saw that line, I would immediately turn around.

Unfortunately, in this picture, turning around meant to go back up, towards the summit.
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Maybe that's why they need 12k satellites, and it also helps with latency if the signal doesn't traverse the constellation.
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What court cases are you referring to?
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Not a marketplace, but LinkedIn should give you insights of freelancers in Munich easily.

google (and and the tech key words you like)

site:de.linkedin.com/in "munich area" freelance
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Only for tracks and albums I like very much, that I would be very sad if they were go to away.

Spotify just makes it so easy– click on "offline download", boom, done.
I wish everyone would just ban Chinese goods already
You don't need to make a ton of money to live of your music.

make 60k/year in concerts and you'll live without problems in a country like Italy.

It looks like a lot, but it means 150 shows/year at around 400 euros each + expenses (mainly gas, road tolls, some lunch on the road - sleeping, eating and drinking are provided by the promoter or the venue).

I've worked with bands that played more than 200 shows/year that earned around 5k + merchandise per show.

They payed me 100 bucks per gig, just to sell their merchandise.

Provided it becomes a real job and you have to work hard to keep it going, it's totally doable.
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A bit disappointing that the article doesn't go more into the technical details of the hardware and how the two designs differed, and how the Atari design influenced the 16-bit Commodore machines (the Amiga).

IMHO the 8-bit Ataris were a lot more innovative than the Commodore 8-bitters (including the C64), despite being a couple years earlier to market.

For instance the Atari display chip ANTIC was an actual co-processor, running a sequence of simple instruction via DMA to produce the display (very similar to the Amiga's copper).

The C64 (and other 8-bit machines) could only reprogram the display chip mid-frame by directly writing hardware registers with the CPU at the right time (often controlled by a raster interrupt).

The 8-bit Ataris were the actual predecessor to the Commodore Amiga (not surprising, because the same people who designed the Atari later designed the Amiga).
That chart you give is especially misleading to understand what is going on now:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#/m...

Note where the year 2100 temperature is going to be (that is, if we do something to limit the emissions, otherwise it even higher) and when the last time it was that high. Also note how fast it changes in the last 100 years and the scale of possible changes we can produce.

Also note the changes of the orders of magnitude in time in different sections of the graph. The rate of change we are experiencing now is unbelievably fast compared to what is known about the previous times.
As far as my brief reading has got me, despite what was my general understanding until now they generally eat very little meat at all [1]. I guess it makes sense in this case that they're never been found eating reptiles.

[1] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/how-to-eat-l...
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The OS is open source, Google Play Services isn't.

When you are developing Android apps, you can leverage Google Play Services for all sorts of functionality, such as push notifications and maps, and I would say more apps do use these than don't.

Huawei can still put Android on their phones, but not with Google Play Services. This means that many Android apps just won't work. They also can't supply the Google Play Store, which means that they need an alternate way to distribute apps.
Good thing there are no real problems left to work on in this world or this would be a gross mis-allocation of macro resources.

(No judgement on you OP this is the situation we're in)
How big is the project? Have you looked at running your own fiber? I imagine the residents wouldn't mind not having to manage their own WiFi...
> you can't really cheat the Shannon-Hartley theorem

No, but you can work within it's limits to achieve some fairly spectacular things.

I predict that if low-orbit sat service starts bringing competition to rural areas, we will see the cell companies start using spatial diversity antennae to dramatically up the available bandwidth.
Good is a relative term specially when CEOs of multi billion dollar companies are concerned, but you do raise a very interesting point.

I do wonder if there are truly good people as CEOs of big companies and but truly good I mean people that would be recognised as such by most people that have worked with them/for them
The full sentence from the article is:

> Frankly, I think this is more a symptom of people coming to grips with the true meaning of SSL (or TLS)

I did add 'certificates' so it read better (the system is PKI not SSL) but yes it's from the article.

Yep, they're x509v3 fields. Netscape was under no obligation to include them - they simply could have included CN only if they thought people didn't want to know the organisation they were communicating with.

However Organisation was included by Netscape and it was verified until GeoTrust invented DV (and later other CAs copied it to compete with the low margins of not checking identity. Totally agreed about the poor quality of verification during the 90s though (fax on company letterhead etc).

The one thing that hasn't changed in 20 years is that people still want to know who they're communicating with online.
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Germany is also a first-to-file country

Citation needed.

All sources I have read about this topic come to the conclusion that the entity that uses a trademark first wins over an entity that regsiters a trademark afterwards.

Example:

https://www.markenservice.net/marke-vs-domain.html
Or implement some kind of lottery system?
Is the article really right in this one?

" A country banning its resident companies from engaging in contracts with a specific company breaks how our copyright system works, and as a result, breaks how open source licenses work. -- If Huawei cannot enter into a contract with Google, then they cannot enter into the Apache 2.0 licensing agreement with Google, which means that they would not have a license to distribute the AOSP codebase."

If we look at the cited license (https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html) it's just a one sided license from the copyright holder, not a contract between parties, right?
Evil of the past should never be ignored. No point of overthinking and being too emotional about it, but there are good lessons to be learned there
Google has spent the last decade cutting apart the open part of Android and making it more and more proprietary.

Launcher, Phone app, Messages, Contacts, Calendar. All proprietary.

Notification API, Location API, SMS APIs and step counter APIs, and even the new app format. All proprietary.

It's a huge undertaking building an app for Android today without using Google's services, and sometimes even impossible.

If you want to verify a user by sending a code through SMS (think Whatsapp sign-up) you either have to use the proprietary API, or you'll be banned from the play store. Using the open source API instead gets you banned because it allows you to read all SMS — and Google never cared to build a new open source API because they already have their proprietary API anyway.

And nowadays you don't have APKs anymore but often app bundles, a special format which only the Play Store can parse.

And if you create a new app today, per default you don't even get the signing key to publish APKs yourself, but only Google gets to keep it.
Err, we did actually pay for it.

And what connection do the "natives" have, they weren't native to it. They'd lived there less than 200 years and were French speakers.

It's not an indigenous population.

It's more complicated than you claim.

I'm pretty strongly anti-colonial, but this ain't that and it takes the piss to frame it like it is.
That’s an interesting idea. Maybe something like

- We make the insulin and give it to them for free.
- They sell it
- They donate to us as a 501c3

The legal framework is really twisted and difficult to parse. Maybe this is the perfect loophole, maybe somebody would end up in prison. We’ve got some lawyers volunteering, but per not having much money its difficult to get steady legal counsel to brainstorm with about the legal risks
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It's the new-age version of the Western exceptionalism: Everything that happens in the world - as long as it is bad - should be attributed to the West.

Most people pretending to care about the environment, aren't really interested in protecting the environment from those that destroy it at all, they are just interested in - by any way - attack the foundations of Western countries so that they can build their dystopian dream from its ashes.

Of course that while they do that, China, and soon India, will pollute so much that will make it extremely difficult to live in here. But, that's really a small price to pay to make the West pay for their sins of the past - real or imaginary.
He clearly meant the swap file.
Not owned, but was partially funded by him.
State sponsored != state run.
streaming services lack a lot of content I love to watch.

I was trying to show a tv show to my girlfriend last week, it was from 2007, not crazy long time ago, it's just 12 years ago and there was no way to find it legally.

Teh only place where I found it was Amazon prime video, as a per episode paid download, not in streaming, but it wasn't available in my country, even though I'm a primenow subscriber.

I ended up torrenting it (and the only torrent site where I found it was thepiratebay, nobody else had it)
> I have a netflix subscription but I torrent all my movies/series for the convenience of the player.

You pay for a service you don't use. Why? That signals to Netflix that no matter how bad their service is, you'll pay for it.
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Although it's great to make insulin more affordable, wouldn't it be better to attack the source of the problem? In my opinion the biggest contributor to diabetes is our diet, we eat too many carbs and too little fat. Since fat delivers 9 calories vs 4 for carbs, we humans could suffice with eating way less when switching to fat. The food industry would suffer, but it could be a win for the environment.
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Are you suggesting to drip feed this in the water supply of rats
Apart from the expiration date issue, the British unilaterally extended their territory taking more land than they were assigned by the Utrecht treaty, several times. Sometimes using such scummy techniques as asking the Spanish government for permission to temporarily built sick houses outside their border during a cholera outbreak, and when the outbreak was over... they just kept that territory.

To be honest, I'm not a patriot by any means and I do think that Ceuta and Melilla will probably need to be handed to Morocco at some point, as enclaves in general don't make much sense. But the situation is not even remotely comparable from a legal and historical standpoint. I don't think the differences can even be called "subtle".
No, isn't Blend just a separate designer though? A big plus for Lazarus (and Delphi and C++ Builder) is that the designer is integrated with the IDE and you are working with 'live' objects which extends even beyond the GUI designer but also to visual object editors. I have written several non-visual components myself that are exposed to the IDE for visual editing (and if anything, my two main issues with Lazarus is that it isn't doing enough on that front - it isn't that others are better, but Lazarus could do even more - and that the component palette cannot install components dynamically from the open projects and need to installed globally, otherwise i'd be writing even more components to be edited visually).
>There are lots of people in the US that believe strongly in the rule of law.

I find this argument specious. If it were the case, Americas criminal, illegal wars would not be happening.

And they are criminal, and they are illegal - and the world is having a very hard time prosecuting the criminals behind them.

Which is why we need Assange and Snowden and Manning, and the people they inspire, more than ever before. Because real crimes are being committed, and the American people are complicit.
That's a problem if you're willing to pirate but unwilling to pirate.
Is the "first to file" topic even relevant here? It seems to be a way of handling patents. But this case is about trademarks.
Gibraltar isn’t illegally occupied, that said Spain has always been stuck between a rock and a hard place since they have their own walled off enclaves in Morocco and they also have problems with independence movements internally with both Catalonia and the Basques claiming independence to various degree.

This is why regardless of how much Spain wants to push the UK to secede Gibraltar they can’t push too hard.

The Netherlands have the same problem they also have remote territories under their control so again they can only abstain.
Software licenses are contracts.
First to file is for duplicate but independent work, it doesn't excuse theft. The patent law has first to file principle too, but doesn't allow to patent prior work.
I'm sure people are making WPF apps, but they (the apps) were always a minority and they always had issues like weird text rendering ignoring the system settings, recreated controls that look 'kinda' like the native ones but actually are a bit off, etc.
no shit sherlock !
> but it won't be installed on the roof of a car

How come?
> According to the article posted, these were not.

>> After finishing their ice cream, customers handed back their well-licked penny lick, and the next customer ate from the same cup. Because of the conical openings, Jacks couldn’t keep the narrow point clean if they tried. Penny licks became the perfect vessel for transmitting disease.

Yes, it says that.

The article also has some photographs of period penny licks. The description in the text doesn't match.
And in keeping with the spirit of the article charge murderous fees to help people with their "Big Data" Cassandra installations, only to find out after weeks of wading through a management quagmire that the data in question can be stored in a few KB text file.
Electron based terminal is truly an apex of insanity of our modern era.
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Surely if you are even considering keys that are 128GB, then just use one-time-pad which is completely unbreakable by anything?
Who is talking about standing up for china?

I rather talk standing up for free market.
In a free market system the government can't just order companys to stop doing buisness with someone unless very good reasons are provided. I don't see that with Huawei.
And china is Authorian?
Yeah, so is half the world. But it would be news to me, that only "democracies" are acceptable trade partners.
Not me, but one of my favourites would be when a guy joined our team. We were an agency and he’d been hired by the client to eventually take over. On the first morning I walked him through the codebase and showed him how it all worked, how to extend it etc. After a while I said “any questions?” He replied, “yeah, just one - am I meant to be a developer?”

Turned out that when the startup had brought him in as CTO they failed to mention that he was eventually going to be the sole developer.
Live thread:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2019/may/24/theres...
> blow the satellites up

!

They don’t just sit over China. There’s no way they could just start shooting them down without repercussions.
Apart from the launch method - how is this going to be different from existing VSAT deployments? They're quite expensive (starting from ~thousand dollars per month):

http://www.melatnetworks.com/price-list.asp

Or those, with prices around 50usd/gb:

https://www.vsat-systems.com/service-offerings/VAR-VNO-Deale...

I doubt every Tesla will have one on board. LTE is so much cheaper.

Quite useful for medium and large marine vessels, or truly remote locations tho.
> You could of course build a "file based" implementation that had all of these features, but you would just be rebuilding DASH or HLS.