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The important distinction is that Project Dragonfly was being built to serve a single customer and purpose, both of which employees were not comfortable with. GitHub is built to serve any customer and has a defined purpose that is generally useful. Employees are now uncomfortable with their generally useful tool being used as intended by a customer they do not approve of.

It's not really an apples to apples comparison.
With the added benefit of working on the local network without access to the internet (I cite that because I encounter this requirement recently at work).
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Sundar has been leading Google for a few years now. Larry/Sergey have been out and about for a while now.

I am a Xoogler myself.
As I understand it a big part of the problem is that stocks are commingled so that when counterfeits are discovered there's no way to trace the product to the seller it actually came from. Instead of fixing that they put the onus on the seller, and with no notice at that.

EDIT: I was a bit hasty. [1] and [2] confirm the commingling and state that you won't necessarily receive your own goods back if you ask to have them returned, I took that to be because they couldn't track them, rather than because they wouldn't.

If they do in fact know the provenance of even the commingled products, shipping the actual seller's product lets seller reputation actually mean something, so I stand by my argument that they could do better than shift the responsibility onto legitimate sellers to get permission from Nintendo et al.

[1] https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/fba-commingled-pro...

[2] https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/200141480?...
What do you mean by "it"?
My first big project, Snake game in Go!
Very true, though the flip side of this as that some of us take advantage of remote work to have more flexible lives.

For example, yesterday I had a block of deep work scheduled for the afternoon but wasn't really feeling it. So I went on a long hike instead, came home, and worked from 6-9.

I'd need outrageous amounts of money (even for tech) to consider pager duty though, it sounds hellish.
Right should I package it as deb, RPM, tgz, deploy, p5i, pkg, msi, msix, appx, apk, aar, ipa, ISMP or do you have any other favourite OS package format in mind?

As fun game you can try to map those package formats to their respective OSes.
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> If we can keep the poles cooler, we could increase the ice cap, reduce melt, and affect only a small number of living creatures.

And more ice means a higher albedo, so more sunlight is reflected back into space. But I see the challenges of partial blocking as a lot higher than in the general case - you need to keep two hemispheres in place and synchronise them with the tilt of the planet as it orbits the sun.
Postgresql is quite good easy to integrate alternative to Elastic.

It has built-in fulltext search: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/textsearch.html
>One question I have, is the real-time interests of millions of 16-24 yo Americans reported back to the Chinese government a national security concern?

Perhaps not, but the influence of a nebulous "algorithm" controlling what comes up next certainly can reinforce a message or way of life that line up with China's cultural norms
I'll never understand why (a) Vine was shut down, and (b) So many Americans are eager to rush out and use a Chinese social network.

I suspect (b) can be explained primarily through ignorance.
This is great if you code in pure Python! The problem is that every new Python version seems to break something. Python 3.8 was released almost two weeks ago, and some popular libraries still don't work with it, e. g. SciPy, Matplotlib, OpenCV, PyQt, PySide2 and probably a bunch of other libraries that depend on the above.
Are you referring to the Python 2 -> 3 fiasco? If so, I think that the Python language committee will never make such a mistake again. They've seen first-hand how difficult it is to get the ecosystem to move forward after a breaking change like that.

But within Python 3, I think the deprecation system is decent. As far as I know, it really only occurs with "uncommon" APIs, so the vast majority of code will continue to work as expected on later Python 3 versions.
Is Third place even a thing in modern cities nowadays? I feel like it has shifted online, and even online Third places (small message boards) have been disappearing... HN may be quite close to one.

In a city like NY or London or SF, what would be good Third places for HN-type people?
> I honestly don't know what to believe anymore.

Business is business.
I thought I'd look at audio. Netduino.Foundation.Audio seems to have support for playing a tone on a piezo speaker. Compared to Teensy audio, Axoloti, or Bela, this seems pretty unsophisticated? But maybe I missed something?
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Yah, I think this is the right answer. FreeSwitch is a great deal newer than asterisk and has a more logical configuration system imho. The big one is FusionPBX which is web based and runs on top of FreeSwitch - I suspect this is the main driver for do it yourself deployments these days.
Arguably the biggest impact on the early success of Microsoft was the rampant cloning of IBM PCs by third party manufacturers like Compaq, which generated competition that drove down prices and expanded the market for PCs. In that ecosystem, the cloned IBM spec was the "free" part that enabled the network effects.

Gates was smart enough, though, to negotiate a non-exclusive license with IBM.
T4 barely counts, as it's string- and not AST-based.
For meta-programming to be useful, IMHO it really needs to be part of the language and base tool-chain.
I certainly don't want to write code in Java, f'rinstance, that needs random compiler plug-in to weave in AOP calls, etc. But in Lisp, Prolog (and not Elixer, etc.) macros are part of "how stuff works".
It's interesting that people worry about "the basilisk" and all of this happening with AI, but not about the fact that future governments and revolutionaries are equally likely to look back on old data and judge you for it - and have a much greater capability to use that data to do you harm.
I work from home sometimes, and 1 of our team members is in the US (but still at the same company). We have no people completely isolated that never come into the office.
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also will try when on FF
So why is car-owning a relevant statistic for "peak American"? Why not, for example, miles of passenger-rail tracks?

Can that measure be extended to judge "peak Germany", when in the 1880s Germany had 75% or more of the world's production automobiles? No, clearly not.

All of this is a question of how you want to choose your numbers.

I'll point out that this isn't a "this site gets derailed into a discussion of identity politics" issue for two reasons:

1) The term "American" is identity politics. Benjamin Franklin is rightly called "the first American" because of his identity politics concerning colonial unity.

2) the opinion piece itself mentions "the pervasive racism and sexism", so further discussion of that topic is on track.
Pick your poison. Both have plenty of alternatives. Vacation housing and transportation services have existed long before the internet came along.
Happiness and suffering are tow sides of the same coin. They follow each other closely. Overdose of happiness will lead to an equal amount of suffering. Better to be indifferent to either and focus on equanimity, peace and harmonY.
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What people were asking was "make it obvious who I'm buying from (i.e. no commingling), and punish sellers of counterfeits". Just punishing sellers of counterfeits goods might have been enough (reportedly Amazon does have item level tracking despite commingling).

What Amazon is doing sounds more like stopping to be an open marketplace, depending on how hard it is to get approved. That's a solution, but at that point they are just another Target or Wal-Mart.
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I misread the headline and thought that they were no longer selling first-party nintendo products and that it was a horrible decision.

No, this is a superb decision and I wish that they would do it with other products.
Hmm, interesting. In Norwegian the word for computer translates to "data machine" (datamaskin)
generalized asn1 parsing can be super tricky and the industry is generally avoiding asn1 for new protocols. There has been some really interesting work from microsoft on verified parsers for asn1 https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec19-ramananandro_0.pdf
Our infrastructure is already in bad shape, a bunch of shanty towns is not going to help. The same people that want open immigration also want free healthcare for all and student loan forgiveness. Who pays for all of this?

Millions of American's are struggling, it's totally logical that people would look at this situation and say "why not help people who already live here before letting millions of more people pour in". The reason we don't help people who already live here is because we can't afford to. I'm skilled enough to make a good living but I'm taxed to the hilt and can't take on any more burden. Many others rightly feel the same way.
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Developper productivity is order of magnitude more important than performance on most software.
Dynamic typing is by design more productive at first.
Static type systems might allow better productivity on the long term (maintenability, scalability of à big, complex codebase).
If this advantage of static typing is a myth, or a truth (and by how much does it increase average productivity, for which project size?) is a really interesting question and I don't know any scientific study on the topic.
I did read a study that showed that static types catch only a few percentage of bugs and that practices such as systematic code reviews, documentation/comments, unit testing and integration testing, and methods such as TDD, each of them has a far bigger impact than static typing.
(it would be nice if they had measured too the impact of fuzzing, analytics, debuggers and language features such as having a GC).
This study does not say that using all those practices obscolete the need of static typing but it show the irrationality that many "purist/religious" developpers have by claiming writing a program in a dynamically typed language is a maintenance nightmare while not saying anything about enforcing the said practices despite them having empirically a far bigger impact on bug catching and thus "code quality".
With an interpretable model typographical errors are obvious in the result. For example, if the system denies bail because you have four convictions, but you actually don't, then the problem is obvious. If the system denies bail with no interpretation then the typographical error goes unnoticed.
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Warehouse Deals is just returned / damaged products. If someone returns a replica game cart to Amazon, it will likely end up being resold as authentic.

Unfortunately there's no real control here, but it's the same as any physical store. Cashiers are not counterfeiting specialists and scammers are crafty. Some will even shrink wrap and return an empty case. Ideally you would be able to track issues with the sale of returned products back to a single "customer", but not before several people are forced to return fake/nonexistent products.
(Public) TV used to be much more intellectual in several countries (including my own, Hungary). Partially because there weren't so many alternatives to compete with. The managers could afford to not care about dumbing it down and people watched it in lieu of more gratifying things.

Clickbait and instant gratification is now the norm and if you don't keep up, you just won't be able to attract enough viewers. Now theoretically publicly funded channels and publications could just ignore viewership/readership numbers, but their management style has also become much more commercial.

"Who wants to be a millionaire" used to be incredibly popular in many countries (it was huge in Hungary). In that show sometimes half a minute is just a person thinking in silence, staring at some question about medieval history or about an opera. How many people would watch this nowadays?
Love, love, love that all the problems you described are caused by the owner class, until the worker class checks them. If only we had some kind of 19th century theory which described the class system and the problems that arise from it, and suggested a solution that would fix all of this. (Marxism, for those who don't know)
Red is a property of a car totally unrelated to its performance characteristics. The language software is implemented in absolutely has an impact on the performance and behavior of the software.

This is more like "Carbon is faster than aluminum." Yeah, it's a generalization, but it's a useful one.
The globe increasingly feels so connected as to make people not question where things like social networks reside. In the mind of average people, until they have a political axe to grind, the Nation is all but obsolete. The only time the idea has any sticking power is when people are concerned about jobs. Other than that, nobody seems to care all that much.
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As someone who works with Google partners and partnering with Google's data, we see a lot of personal data in it.

You simply might be someone that doesn't work with such data. I do and we use a lot of it and it gets very personal.
With that, you have to run Linux, which you might not want.
F# quotations are nice, but it's really too bad that .Compile() doesn't use the actual compiler tool-chain and creates super-slow code. I understand due to history why it doesn't, but it certainly would be easier if F# used the Roslyn tool-chain.
Those Facebook lobbyists paid off.
Slow as technology or slow as being adopted to use mobile devices to engagement?
I wonder too if say you tried to advertise on TikTok but your company was not complying with Chinese censorship requests, or you employed an outspoken advocate, or you employed some folks who posted something about Uyghurs on social media elsewhere ... what would TikTok's response be?
I would support a wholesale ban on Chinese acquisitions of American companies until American companies are allowed to acquire Chinese companies (or otherwise operate in China).

These ridiculous double standards from China are not free trade, and we should stop pretending it is.
Data in what state?
Does data need to be stored long-term to be used in analytics?
The outcomes of those analytics is the data that is needed and would need to exist for a time, but the day-to-day, I don't know why you would expect all that to hang around.

Google isn't making money from selling actual raw user data, its selling data about that data.
Why restrict yourself to not use WSL? For me it's the best of all worlds currently - your favorite package manager giving you all Linux binaries you want, to operate on the same data that your windows GUI tools can also. Especially with VS code it is seemlessly integrated through remote tools and the "code" Linux binary. Only thing I'm missing is a terminal on the same level as Terminal.app or iterm, but I assume the coming update should solve that.
There's a good bit about data structure-centric programming in The Art Of Unix Programming: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html#id...

(Apologies for linking to esr but it's a good book)
In EMT training, they had to repeatedly tell us all to get watches with a second hand. It felt like the stone ages.
The legal minimum in NL is (the equivalent of) four weeks per year (20 days on a 40 hours/week contract), so not that much more than US. Some fields (healthcare, construction, education) get more than that.

However, none of that can be usurped by your employer for other things than vacation. For example, your employer isn't allowed to deduct pay or withhold vacation hours for doctor's visits during work hours. Major life events, like funerals or child births are paid leave. And for most professions, there's no such things as unpaid overtime: you work more hours, you either get more pay or receive more vacation hours.
That is a very bad analysis. The neg effect of driving car severely overstated. The effect of riding bicicle not only severely overstated: it is assumed, that it is linear, where results likely quickly diminish.

UPD. Read more of the article. He is wrong in so many places I stopped counting.
US companies (Twitter, Facebook, Google) censor people all the time.
Beyond the 12 factor app:

(1) One codebase, one application

(2) API first

(3) Dependency management

(4) Design, build, release, and run

(5) Configuration, credentials, and code

(6) Logs

(7) Disposability

(8) Backing services

(9) Environment parity

(10) Administrative processes

(11) Port binding

(12) Stateless processes

(13) Concurrency

(14) Telemetry

(15) Authentication and authorization

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The problem is that Amazon's goal is to replace retail stores with their website and to build a monopoly on consumer commerce.

Competition law exists precisely to stop monopolies from saying "it's our business so we can make the rules".
There is work towards a stable abi, that should help with such things, eventually.
I suppose my usage of the word 'political pressure' is nonspecific to US Government entities and more toward the general definition of a general entity's real politik. For example, i would consider a small business owner paying into a protection raquet by a local mafia to be 'caving to political pressure'