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So we are all communists for pointing out that the press only report on public projects gone wrong and not the 1000s of projects that are on budget and on time? Please...

Maybe it's because publicly funded and managed projects have much greater scrutiny, and in many cases are required to respond to information requests. A private company is a black box and can use whatever means they please keep badly managed projects from becoming a story the press would be interested in.

Even the auditing firms are in on the game in the UK, so you really have no chance of knowing the truth until the bankruptcy is announced and the banks are lining up to get whatever assets are left.
> I'm aware. (I lived through those days, and was in law school and newly in practice during the Reagan tax cuts.)

So yes, like most people here, you did not personally file taxes as a one-per-center before the Reagan administration. Nobody here is expecting you to muse accurately on pre-Reagan tax filing and how people accounted for their wealth.
Just remember that nobody pays marginal rates on any money, ever. The deduction structure changed with the rates, as happened for FY 2018. The relationship between marginal rates and revenue/liability is modulated by deductions.

> Please explain how this is relevant to individual incentives and the "emergent behavior" that they create.

I'm saying that the "incentives" you cite (marginal tax rates you arbitrarily consider to be low) probably don't create that behaviour, because those same people have actually been paying about the same amount of tax this whole time; with the difference mainly coming in the form of subtle differences in compliance and in the way that people account for wealth.

If you want to tax the caricature baron-type people you seem to be talking about, make playing by the rules as cheap as the creative strategies they inevitably and understandably employ when nominal marginal tax rates are higher than the cost of doing business a bit differently.

Also consider that dragging down the rich doesn't uplift the lower and middle classes. If we have a monopoly problem (as the article's framing conveys), then we should maybe look at a solution to the incentives for excess corporate consolidation and anti-competitive behaviour, rather than getting dragged into the weeds with tired conversations about personal income taxes. Or if we're looking at the personal income tax side of things, at least look at something more relevant to the pain that small businesses face: people who are self-employed are at a tax disadvantage in the U.S, and self-employed people are often the ones who start businesses with their after-tax self-employment income.
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Tenhou is rigged though. IIRC, if you are a non-paying member (and possibly use a non-Japanese IP - a claim I haven't verified), the game will steer you towards a maximum of 25% 1st places. I have seen good (non-paying) players with thousands of games and they did indeed reach only that percentage. Of course, there are ways to minimize the rigging (basically never riichi if you are 5-dan or higher) but those only help so much.
Yes. If you’re a middle manager you’re typically getting directives from on–high that you have to implement indirectly by pushing buttons and pulling levers which themselves are pushing buttons or pulling levers.

Picture driving some sort of vehicle remotely. There's a slight delay to everything, right? You turn, and the vehicle turns a few seconds later. By the time you see an object on the horizon you’re marginally closer to it. And you know this all so you build in certain factors to change response time. But there's still a lag. And now picture driving the vehicle by telling the remote operator how to react. There's now two levels of lag, and depending on how you communicate, two more chances for mis–communication.

It’s why bottom–up communications get to be so bad in large organizations. The classic production line “the product is a piece of shit” transmutes, through absolutely normal and routine communications softening and filtering, into “our product brings things to life through its fertilization qualities.” And conversely, the top–down message gets filtered and manipulated by each layer of management.

It’s also why escalation culture becomes a thing in large organizations. IBM (in the 1990s, can't speak for today) had a notorious escalation culture: if I didn't do a thing you wanted me to do, and was in a different organization, you’d “escalate” up to some middle manager or executive somewhere who had enough pull to scare my manager into doing something, regardless of the business value or need. The executive doesn't particularly care, he or she just wants the issue off their pile, and it makes them feel good that they're doing something to help their product area.

Every organization is susceptible to this as it grows. It’s human nature.
until very recently emacs was the only editor that felt "smart". visual studio didn't really recognized grammar the same way. emacs semi parsing meant that TAB was a way to syntax check my code on the fly (50% of why I kept using emacs in college)
Until they do
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> Nine straight hours. Holy crap.

Day in the life of a full-time software dev.
Svelte is the most beautiful web framework I've ever seen
I've had these bulbs and done this reset process more times than I can count. For years the software was some of the worst I've ever used.

It would constantly lose pairing with the bulbs. In order to re-pair with the bulbs, all the bulbs had to be reset individually using this process, and then all configuration had to be deleted from the app and every bulb needed to be re-added as a new bulb. Pairing was error-prone. Firmware updates would constantly fail.

Not only that, but initially the software didn't even support turning them on or changing the color on a schedule, despite the hardware being capable of it (they added the feature later). If basic things like schedules don't work what is even the point of smart bulbs?

Looking at this error message from the app [1] might give you an idea of how sloppy their SW was. This isn't from the first version either.

After they added schedules it was a bit better since you could just set one and not touch it. And after years they've fixed some of the major bugs.

I still think smart lights are useful. Setting the lights to turn on in the morning (as a substitute for an alarm clock) is very nice, as well as changing to a warmer color temperature in the evening. But switches are superior to phones for just turning the lights on and off IMO. I think an ideal smart light system would use switches to turn them on and set brightness/color temperature, and only use the phone for advanced things like scheduling.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/Uauynh6
>It's technology. Talking about technology is speech.

Further, the main difference between tools and technology, is story.
I really prefer an over-the-ear headphone for an office environment because they keep out external noise and, I presume, leak less sound to my co-workers. After years of habituation, my brain focuses more when I wear them. I really liked a noise-cancelling headphone for airplane travel (when I was traveling a lot), but the one I had didn't have good enough sound quality for me for regular use. Although I like the sound quality of Apple EarPods, they don't fit me well and my eardrums feel assaulted after using them.

My two over-the-ear picks:

Sony MDR-V6: basically flat response, great price point (~100 USD). I can't compare them to higher priced cans, but I have enjoyed them for 30+ years. One difficulty, though, is that the ear pads can pop off (especially after they've been replaced once) so they require a little extra care when traveling.

Audio-Technicia ATH-M40+. I loaned out my MDR-V6 (long story) and I thought I'd try something different. ATH-M40 is also over-the-ear, basically flat response, similar price. I don't feel I get as much detail in the sound, though it's not dissatisfying enough for me to look further. They are much easier to travel with because they fold flat and the cord tangles less than the MDR-V6.
This kind of rhetoric is fueling the opposite camp. It really doesn't matter which camp you are in: we should admit to the vagueness this video is full of: "some scientists believe...", "this scientist thinks...", "there is at least some influence of...".

It reemphasizes the climate sceptists standpoints. They (most) are not denying there is a problem, but claiming there is widespread misinformation and propaganda around this topic and a strong exaggeration of the scale of the problem.

We have a kernel of truth around climate change. Let us cherish the kernel, instead of watering it down by popular media and scientists trying to jump the bandwagon by making vaguely substantiated claims.
Posted this about a week ago with pc mag commentary:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20252541
A vulnerability in mission-critical software has been known for years, and they're mad that finally someone got fed up enough to publicly draw attention to it in a way that couldn't be ignored or dismissed by the maintainers?

I don't think it's the EFF putting activists at risk here.
Best metaphor I can think of is coral - humans are the coral and we exist to serve the biome, not the other way around.
The most common employees at Apple are not engineers.
Maybe you are referring to this guy? https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJAVLOqT6Mgn_YD5lAxxkUA
You don’t have to go to a crisis before I would count performance as neither “[going] well” nor “adequate”. Things like the global financial crisis — never mind the collapse of the Soviet Union which led to Berlin becoming the capital again and leading to a need to think carefully about the airports — is why I said “most of the time”.
Ahh, interesting. So I suppose that means many companies add noncompete clauses into their contracts regardless, on the off chance that someday they can be retroactively enforced?
What about microwave assisted sterlization, or similarly , micvac.com(a in package cooking where a valve released all air, and than created negative pressure to make the package vacuum sealed) ?

Why aren't they more common in ready meals ?
Pressure cookers have a much lower pressure (~2atm) than what's happening here
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Based on what I know and have heard about middle managers, I don't have a sound basis for assuming best intentions.
I agree. General purpose pattern matching in both expressions and function dispatch is a great feature.
Quick glance at the source repo shows all the familiar symptoms of an abandoned project.
Even if it legal doesn't mean it should stop you to work with competitor, what matter is how likely it is to cause you trouble.
I think that is a large part of it, yes. There's been a good few kit computers in the last few years - the rc2014 being my favourite (not because it's particularly amazing, but because it's designed to be understandable and digestable), and cp/m is the most approachable (roughly dos-like) OS available for them. (There's also Fuzix, which seems like a monster accomplishment in itself - but I haven't tried it myself. I rather suspect that running a unix-like on an 8bit just ends up feeling like a very slow unix, rather than anything special)

(and no, msdos doesn't run on most 8bits. The Intel 8080 was 8bit. The Z80 expanded on that with additional instructions, and cp/m lives in this branch of the family tree. The 8086 gained 16bit instructions, and branches off in an entirely different direction birthing the x86 family tree, which is where you'll find msdos & most variants)
From a practical standpoint, does anyone actually enforce the noncompetes against regular employees? It never struck me as worth the money and bad press to enforce something like this against an intern or regular line engineer or manager.
What an utterly garbage article. "what are the chances that your child’s school will be in a shooting at some point in their life"? Why ask such an irrelevant, convoluted question* , instead of the obvious: what are you child's chances of being killed in a school shooting?

Because it turns out the chance for that is 1 in 35 thousand (per lifetime, not per year) [1]

[1] Using 118 school shooting deaths/year from 2018, which was the worst year ever, according to https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46507514, 13.41 mean years of schooling from http://data.uis.unesco.org/index.aspx?queryid=242, and 78.69 years life expectancy.

* Of course we all know why - because the author doesn't hesitate to mislead with creative statistics to push an agenda.

Edit, to add some context and explanation: Using mean_years_of_schooling/life_expectancy to get an estimate on the number of students in the USA. Now the chance of being killed in any homicide, in the same period of time as mean years of schooling, is 1 in 1400. 25-times larger. And homicides aren't close to the biggest killer: https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2019/05/Causes-of-death-i...
Yeah I feel like this is an underrated point. Does being there at the early years of a company justify a cut of an unfathomable fortune that took the other partners many, many more years to fully form? It’s not so cut and dry, especially when we’re talking about the kind of fortune being fought over.
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I'm no expert, but it seems like it would have to be better, no?

Pressure at these levels could damage cell walls but not break apart molecules the way heat does, right?
Your comment is pedantic, unconstructive, and rather missing the point.

If an article about persons varied interests and selflessness inspires someone to ask how to apply that to their own life, it seems quite on topic to me. Or do you consider the only relevant discussion to be that on Paul Allen’s life specifically, not on how it might inspire yours?
I'm not convinced. The public generally is not really aware how the money is being spent. And all parties tend to promise tax reductions that never come. How exactly is the population going to get out of this?
Fair enough. I'm a bit frustrated today and I let too much of that come out in my phrasing. Sorry to dctoedt and everyone else who felt I was too coarse.

I've moved things around a bit (without removing anything, for posterity, and so that the replies make sense), and moved the important statement to the top.
There are plenty of CP/M C compilers (I'm planning on including BDS C into cpmish at some point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BDS_C It's written in hand-tooled assembly!) but with the exception of Hitech C they're all Small C or K&R C. Hitech C works fine, but it's extremely slow and somewhat quirky. CP/M's really a bit small for an ANSI C compiler. (Also Hitech C only targets Z80, not 8080.)

The main reasons for doing this cross-compiled were: that's what I had; life was too short; I wanted something for the cpmish cross-compilation environment _anyway_.

Making cpmish self-hosted would be awesome, though.

Hitech C used to be a free-as-in-beer download from htsoft's website, but it vanished about twelve years ago. I wonder if they'd be open to open sourcing it...
Especially given that prior to Android, Google was pretty
much just a web company whereas Microsoft had dominated the OS market pretty much the length of the entire personal computer industry. It WAS a natural thing for MS to win.
Or on the more likely occurrence that employees will simply assume they're enforceable.
What would happen if we would publish each individual estimated CO_2 emissions of the past year? You'd be obliged to place it under your emails, on your Facebook and LinkedIn account and it'll be placed squarely on your WhatsApp photos. No way to hide it.

Published CO_2 emissions would include an estimation of the total CO_2 emissions estimates of the complete production flow of each product you buy, the distance you travel for work and all other energy consumption.

Would that incentivize people?

(for the purpose of this argument, assume we can actually make such an estimate)
Right. Just leave those refugees to cook under the sun in an overcrowded, broken down boat in the Mediterranean until they drown. Or be like Hungary: raise a fence on the border, with armed personnel at checkpoints, and hope that shooting people on sight becomes ethically accepted.

What's wrong with you people.
Cool, which languages do this?
I am doing a repeat with my granddaughter. We are likely to raise her. (Son has really fallen)

Just cannot see her suffering through the mess.
Glad you said that.

It’s so important and requires modesty to acknowledge ‘negative cognitive feedback’ or doubts to put it more directly.

Doesn’t mean you are on the wrong path but don’t silence that little voice. Let it have its say.
Flashing a new OS onto the SD card is not "some arcane procedure" for the RPi's target audience.
Just to maybe help avoid confusion:

VFR and air space classes are orthogonal. You can fly through class B (e.g. SFO, for me, learning in the Bay Area, when you transition north starting from San Carlos you first have to talk to SFO tower and then get to pass north just a bit west of the airport, right through class B) or any class. VFR/IFR means something different [0]. A flight plan too is orthogonal, you can file a VFR flight plan too. It is used for safety mostly, in case you go missing, for example [1].

[0] http://www.stephan-schwab.com/airtravel/vfr-ifr

[1] https://thinkaviation.net/how-to-file-a-vfr-flight-plan/
> I could see myself using Fuchsia IFF we get the GNU userland and full Posix

Then what the hell would be the point?
But but if people knew more about X11 half of the things we are stuck with right now would not have been invented and monetized.
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This guy has some incredible hacks, such as the mandelbrot for BBC Micro (in 6502 assembly) that uses a lookup table for squares of numbers, and takes advantage of the connectedness of the colours:

"It turns out that Mandelbrot and Julia sets have the property that any area which is completely bounded by a colour contains only that colour. (Because it’s simply connected.) (No, I don’t understand a word of that paper.) So the program recursively traces out the bounds of boxes, and if all sides of the box are the same colour it fills it and doesn’t recurse in."

http://cowlark.com/2018-05-26-bogomandel/index.html

Also a bootloader for the GPU of the rasperry Pi: http://cowlark.com/piface/
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Selectively? No. All published. In fact Wikileaks are the only news source I'm aware of that give you the entire source docs to decide for yourself without being selective for slant. Ignored trumps emails? No. You can't publish what you don't have. I don't think there are credible accusations of Wikileaks failing to publish anything of significance.

To do with the article? The exact same ridiculous defense offered, one is treated with utter derision and the contempt it deserves, the other seemingly is accepted.

Perhaps that's worthwhile considering as everyone turns up here to put the boot in to Ms Holmes. Am i being fair and consistent is a reasonable thing for all of us to ask ourselves even if that's inconvenient.
> Sure, the OP's question was what's bad about it. That's bad.

Why exactly is it bad, bad for who? It's likely driven by a highly talented focused team, there are numerous high quality OSS projects that are commercially backed and developed internally - not relying on external OSS contributors is not an indicator of software quality. Apple/Microsoft/Google have already done quite well developing their own successful OS without relying on external OSS contributors.

> There would be no merits. It's an OS.

I don't understand what you're trying to say, that OS's don't have value?

> Who would write the thousands of drivers and layers for various purposes.

It doesn't need to support thousands of drivers, Apple has no problems getting drivers developed for their own hardware. It's not even clear it's going to be a general purpose OS, it could be for embedded / or a close knit of selected approved devices. Regardless it's not even released yet so any conclusions to this point is moot, after they're happy for it to have wider adoption they'll open their invitations to participate and add support for it then.

> And no, google doesn't invest enough in it.

How do you know how much Google has invested in it? You don't even know the purpose of it, how could you possibly know how much resources they need to accomplish what they want to achieve?

> Google did neither so far, and so Fuchsia has fewer drivers than Haiku.

So? It's still in active development, maybe they want it stable and battle tested before freezing public APIs and inviting others to build on it, maybe they only want to support selected devices/hardware. No one will know their intentions until after its released or what their plan for adoption will be. Given they already have experience developing and distributing the worlds most popular OS I'm sure they have a good chance at making a Fuchsia a success for their goals.
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Chrome OS using wayland is almost as relevant as the fact that Intel uses MINIX in its chipsets is to MINIX's market share, its almost entirely Google internal, with very tight constraints on its environment both in terms of hardware and software, it does not generalize to the general Linux use case, or have much relevance to developers and development outside of Google.

Wayland could just as easily be HypotheticalDisplayFooServ and the result would be the same for everyone that isn't Google.
Remember when Allen was a patent troll?

https://www.wired.com/2010/08/paul-allen-patent-lawsuit/

Someone who became one of the world’s richest men for only a few years of work deciding to shake down a huge chunk of the web in a cash grab really isn’t a good look.
Fair enough. My language when I’m doing writing tends to sound a bit over the top because I’m trying to use super generic language (given I have no context about someone’s role).

How’s this:

“Hey! I’m John on the infrastructure team. I’m still fairly new here, and I’m trying to gain a lot of context around the different teams and team members. Any chance you’re free for a quick 1:1?”

Then, in the 1:1, probe them a bit more about how they fit into the team.

“Oh. That’s cool! I didn’t realize your team took care of that. How does your role fit into that work?”
As it was declared freeware by the devs in 1999, I would strongly suspect so.
To celebrate, he's answering questions from fans today in various forums...

https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/06/28/1933239/the-slashdo...
This June 28 was also my last day at IBM. My business unit has been sold to HCL America, and my team is generally optimistic about the deal.
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