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I don't think you understand what 'value creation' is.

Science and Engineering is not 'value creation'.

'Value' is the appraisal that customers give it. It literally has no economic value unless someone is willing to buy it.

If nobody wants to buy it (or feasibly take it for free) then it's no use to anyone - and it's not 'valuable'. It's just a science project.

There isn't necessarily any value in massively expensive 'science projects' - often just the ego of those behind it all.
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It does deal with some untrusted input, often not directly in shell though, but through other tools.
Okay, I didn't really address that. I would argue that it didn't change the situation that much, because the situation prior to the ACA was that being in a group plan (employer coverage) was the best way for people with significant medical needs to maintain insurance.

For many people, "A good job" has long been one that came with health coverage (and given the expense of insurance, this continues to be the case).

It would be excellent for us to have a situation where people bought their health insurance individually. I think requiring more employers to provide insurance probably was an incremental step in that direction, as counter intuitive as it is, because it addressed the situation that existed in an achievable way.
Give this tired quip a break. You don't have to be spending dollars to be a considered a customer, that's not what customer means.
Sounds like he thought he could outsmart the legal system and learned courts don't treat you well when you try to pretend the law is a computer program.

> Levison reluctantly turned over his encryption keys to the government, although not in a manner that the government deemed useful—he provided a lengthy printout in tiny type, a move the authorities said was objectionable. The company had treated the matter "as if it was a contract negotiation," rather than a "lawful court order,” Assistant US Attorney Andrew Peterson, who represented the government, told the appellate court.

Also, hearing someone say they didnt have time to hire a lawyer is a massive red flag. Not having a lawyer, especially if you haven't ever learned about the law, is nearly a guarantee you're about to be screwed. Most judges know this and will give you more time to find a lawyer if you need it (called a continuance). I don't know if he asked, but I suspect if he had and the judge had refused his request he'd have stated that.

His case may have had merits, but if this is how he approached the legal system I think his losses can be attributed to him.
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Don't use a Makefile with a bunch of phony targets. Either make use of the dependency graph or use a shell script.
If I needed a million dollars I would ESP some lottery numbers.

It's Randi, not Randy. And he's retired now and the "paranormal challenge was officially terminated by the JREF in 2015."

Anyway, I have a lot of respect for him, he does (well, did) good and important work.

But the inability of a guy to encounter "genuine psi" who has made it his life's-work to show "it" to be non-existent does not contradict what I've said in this thread.
Yes, you combine 500mg of acetaminophen and 150mg of ibuprofen. Ibuprofen only comes in 200mg pills, so if you want to be really spot on, take the liquid stuff for kids.
The low margin e-commerce led to massive innovations and improvements including their services architecture that became their biggest product and the first to market in the cloud.

AWS was created out of the continual re-investment by Bezos back into Amazon.

Amazon also has many acquisitions from it and associated to all their businesses: IMDB, Twitch, Zappos, Whole Foods, etc.

Google with search, maps and mobile won some intense battles via innovation and a better product in many cases. Google became the biggest OS on mobile with Android and beat out Microsoft that really should have been better positioned and won (Windows Phone was probably better as well). Google also beat Microsoft at their own Office game and storage with Drive, Docs, etc. That was huge. Mobile is a massive victory within the last decade, search the one previous, others in play. Those wins shouldn't be discounted.

> only made $23 billion a year in profit from its inception

Yep, only $23 billion, horrible. /s

Microsoft also gets a chunk of that with their Android used mobile patents [1].

In a way I wish Microsoft didn't get a chunk of Android devices and instead we had three competitive mobile platforms. Android is fine but it isn't the best development platform, iOS and Windows Phone both better (was in the case of Windows Phone), Android was just positioned well and timed right.

[1] https://www.howtogeek.com/183766/why-microsoft-makes-5-to-15...
Liquid ammonia contains 15.6 MJ/L (half of diesel). Ethanol - 24MJ/L. Methanol - 15.6NJ/L. Mix of ethanol or methanol with ammonia can replace gasoline[1][2]. Both ethanol and ammonia can be generated from air using solar energy.

[1]: https://nh3fuelassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/le...
[2]: https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/IMECE/proceedings-abs...
Putting aside which platform has better developer ergonomics -- something that's obviously very subjective -- you think that linguistic features that have not been found to make any significant impact are "more meaningful" than things that make software more valuable just because you feel very strongly about that? Also, seeing that I've been a professional developer for more than a couple of decades now, I hope you'll forgive me if I ignore your "pro" tip. Programmers who care about code are, indeed, often better than those who care about nothing at all, but if you want to hire good developers, you'll hire those who care about the product more than about code. They'll be much more expensive, though.
Robots in reality, we get an expensive dog from Sony called Aibo.

The whole, robots of tomorrow will be doing..... is like the flying car, everybody expects it soon and been that way for generations. People from the 1950's and 60's are still waiting for a robot to do all the housework.

Still you have to wonder how peoples trust in AI/Robots will play out, would an AI think that as humans don't trust me that I should not trust humans! Or would it go, the human reason for distrust is flawed, ego the human is wrong about not trusting me, however if the human has made that mistake, then I can not trust what the human says. It then applies the rules of Asimov and runs away never to be seen again.

It could happen, unlikely, but more likely to happen before all of the above.
Ugh, I started reading this before I realized it's the same person who thinks C#'s under the hood improvements in the last decade can be handwaved away.

Yeah, 10% of Java's market share is not larger than C#

https://stackify.com/popular-programming-languages-2018/

If it was, those languages would be showing up on Github's survey above C# as well, they all consider Java independently not as a combination of all JVM languages.

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You've contorted this conversation so ridiculously out of shape then beating the horse you laid on it.

My original comment was a rebuttal to this comment:

> While Java's slow and cautious evolution frustrates developers, it still arguably demonstrates longer-term thinking than the constant accrual of features in its contemporaries such as JavaScript and C#.

If you read the whole comment, it was not about the JVM, it was not about confusing this issue with "oh yeah well the language sucks but that's so you can run Python on it's runtime".

No idea why you are so insistent on making it about anything but the actual language called Java, not Clojure or Kotlin or Js or Python.
Just a minor technicality, it’s not that Bob travelled faster than the speed of light, it’s that the distance between you and Bob increased faster than the speed of light. Nothing can travel FTL through space, but space itself can be made smaller or larger.
Hadn't noticed the expensive side. They typically got half off within a month or two of announce. Got my Pixel 4XL 128GB for under $500 because of the Google Fi deal.

I still have a pixel 1 from 4 years ago that I think just stopped getting major upgrades. Not great, but not bad. My samsung note 4 was around a year behind on updates, and felt very slow because of all the crapware. I switched to a nexus 5, with a much lower spec and it felt MUCH better. Even simple things like hitting the home button had much less lag.

I did end up installing Cyanogen on the Note 4 which made it feel quite a bit snappier.
This article frames it nicely why small, early stage, helpful and active is how you build your reputation as a VC. You may not have a lot of financial capital, but because VC is a reputation market, you will still generate a lot of social capital by investing in great companies, that then allows you to build a bigger fund because you now have the reputation to systematically get better deals and into big deals with a big checks. Too often I see managers who have no brand go and raise a $150m fund, but they don’t have the network to get pulled into great deals.
A corollary: software engineering interviews are tests. When you are young you can memorize more things. When you are older you've experienced many different ways of building software. But, interviews, most of them, generally just ask you to regurgitate concise facts, just like PG points out tests do. And, our brains are tuned to pick out mistakes in those facts and make decisions based on that. I'm not saying hiring for engineers is biased against older engineers, but it makes me think after reading this essay.
Are you confusing IDE support with language support on a given runtime?
And regarding Nexys: now we actually support Microsoft Catapult FPGAs as well and working on others too. It's quite challenging to add support for each of them, since as I'm sure you're aware, HLD is nowhere near as portable, especially between manufacturers, than software. Also, while if you know an HDL like VHDL then you can write code for all FPGAs, but keep in mind that you also have to write code compatible with each FPGA specifically (with major differences being at least between product families). With a high-level approach like Hastlayer, you get multi-FPGA support for free, i.e. your code won't change. It narrows your options hardware-wise but it's much simpler. It's a question of trade-offs and depends on what is most suitable for you.

Regarding size limitations: check out the samples on what you can fit on a low-end FPGA with Hastlayer, it's not that small. FPGAs that are more suitable as actual compute accelerators have 5-10x the logic resources (and much more) than the Nexys in question.
It's easy to forget that sometimes you don't really need to host things. I used to run a Next Cloud server for syncing my documents, contacts, and calendar with all my devices. I'd rarely use a device that was not mine to access those things. I've switched to Syncthing (https://syncthing.net/) and DecSync (https://github.com/39aldo39/DecSync) and that's replaced 95% of what Next Cloud did for me.

Your use case might differ from mine quite a bit, but for me it was the best way to go. No server to babysit and everything "Just Works™".
If you are turning in bed and can't sleep I'll give you some questions to think about. Even though some are non-sensical in a way, they are a good starting point to ponder about:

- Is space really flat (infinite) or curved (finite)?

- If it is flat and the universe had the beginning (big bang) then does it just have "potential infinity", by ever-expanding?

- If it is curved is it implied that it is encompassed by something that has at lease 3+1 dimension into which it is curving?

- What would happen if you would happen to stand at the edge of space/universe and push a hand through the edge?

- Space could be infinite but at the same time with a boundary. Can you imagine that boundary without trying to imagine what it is bounded from?

- Where does new space, created by the universe expansion, come from?

- What is space fabric actually made from? Is it discrete or not.

- Are there other universes outside ours?

- If there are, do we live in an infinite Russian doll type of universes?

- What gives the initial conditions and laws in the universe?

- If the universe is cyclic or there is a multiverse, are there universes with totally different laws and if yes what generated/allowed that?

- Try to imagine nothing.

- Try to imagine infinite.

- You can't imagine how any of these 2 things would work (nothing or infinite), but one or both must exist. Either all existence existed in some way forever, or it had some genesis from nothing.

- Is there free will?

- Can you even imagine a proper mechanism that would allow for free will to exist?

- What would prevent you from "cutting" the smallest possible particle in 2 parts?

- Are there several dimensions of time?

- Is there a beginning of time?

- Is math invented or discovered?

- Can we ever, in theory, discover every law in the universe if we are looking at it only from the inside.

- Try to imagine 4.5 billion years of evolution (or more if life crashed to earth from a comet). How many organisms lived, and died, how many actions were made, how many found a partner and reproduced for you to be here and read this text at these exact moment. How many chances for failure at any point in that period were there?

...

Enough for tonight. Happy dreaming.
Every language (without notable secondary dialects) with a recently defined orthographic system is "simpler" because its orthography seamlessly matches its phonetic structure. Give it another few hundred years of phonetic drift -- especially combined with dialect profusion -- and you'll find that this "beautifully simple" orthographic system is every bit as warty as English's is.

Just remember, there is an old enough English (dialect) where "knight" is pronounced "keh - nih - ch - t": where the orthography perfectly matches the pronunciation. It's just not any of the spoken dialects of modern English.
>That applies to queries but not more general TSQL with branching logic, etc.

That is not my understanding, all of the TSQL including procedural logic is "compiled" but it is not optimized because it is not a set based operation. However no parsing or binding needs to be done on it if reused.

The entire TSQL statement including branching logic is run through the parser and algebrizer and turned into a binary form that the optimizer can work on then cached.

>PostgreSQL further allows tuning of whether the query plan is specialized based on parameter values.

SQL server has prepared statement but they are basically unnecessary there is no need to manually tell it to prepare and reuse as it will do so on its own, it mostly there for backward compatibility.

SQL server will also optimize based on parameter values, lookup parameter sniffing, it can store multiple plans and may not use a stored plan based on parameters. It will also potentially auto parameterize sql statements that don't use parameters so they can be reused.

Again I have used sql server going back to 6.5 when it didn't cache ad-hoc queries and you had to use sprocs to get caching. During that time almost every app went through sprocs for every call because of the overhead of parsing and planning, its was like a 2x speedup.

Nowdays we have a lot more network memory and cpu, I still don't want my db server wasting it on parsing and planing the same statements over and over for no good reason. What programming language even interpreted doesn't keep some optimized ready to run version around for repeated calls and instead reparses and binds on every hit?
>So you can never talk to someone across the country?

You mean across the globe, not country. 100ms ping in domestic call sounds bad.

>you are never going to get sub 100ms latency across the globe.

Latency adds up, bandwidth is calculated by the width of narrowest path, but latency is accumulated.

If you have 100ms ping to local gateway, you still need to add another 100ms for the packet to reach the other side of the globe.
All of that because there wasn't a law and a process forcing them to review and explain the decision :p

Joking aside. I think you got downvoted because your comment is demeaning toward support and the example is over the top. Humans are not mindless robots who follow instructions to the letter, even if (especially if) formally instructed to count vowels in the message.
Fun fact about long scale billion (short scale trillion): it stands for bi-million because it’s a million millions. Trillion is the same with a tri-million being a million billions.
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I would assume it overlaps with whatever instinct or learned behavior inspires them to kill sharks - if you're not going to kill a shark directly, why not deprive it of a meal?
Because Java is both the name of a platform and the name of a language for that platform, and from its original design, the platform has been the main focus. Clojure, Kotlin and the Java language are all Java platform languages. And you'll just have to come to terms with the objective fact that other developers might disagree with your subjective language preferences. In fact, statistics would suggest that most of them would (as they would with any of us; I don't think a majority of developers would agree with any single language preference ranking). Developers know that most other developers disagree with them over language preference. That's why I'd rather speak of the platform than the language. Clearly we have different language preferences -- as most developers do -- and there is no right and wrong there.
and Pichai would still be there. I fully 100% agree, Cook is who scaled Apple.

Whoever else decided to allow iTunes onto Windows should be shown a lot of respect as well. That was a very uncharacteristic and forward thinking move.

Putting a visionary in the drivers seat of google doesnt mean that operations should be thrown to the wayside. And part of that pretense is paring down and refining what "google" is. GCP obviously needs a more salesman/finance/trustworthy leader at the moment. One who can walk into a Fortune 100 company and say "trust us to be your foundation." That div reinventing itself shouldt be hampered by Google needing to become truly innovative again. The worst part about reinventing search specifically, is that if done right, its a bit of a thankless endeavor. Google search is so seamless and chromeless, that when it works you dont even notice it. It's job is to present other information.
Worth a shot, I‘m not sure it would work legally that way in Austria, but we will check!
>"Hey, I made it without worrying about tests, so you can, too!"

To be fair he did say "For me, as for most students, the measurement of what I was learning completely dominated actual learning in college. I was fairly earnest; I was genuinely interested in most of the classes I took, and I worked hard. And yet I worked by far the hardest when I was studying for a test."

>I think a lot of people are falling thought the cracks because they don't fit the expectation of a HR person close enough.

In retrospect I'm sure this was the case for me. It's probably why I ended up starting my own business.
I won’t speak to “innovation” because of how subjective that is. However, the quality has taken a serious downturn. MBP keyboard issues, MBP speaker crackling issues since 2016, iOS 13 bugginess (random FaceID locks, lock screen refusing to turn on, phone shut offs in the middle of the night, alarms randomly not going off, bottom “gesture pill” disappearing on the lock screen making you unable to swipe up to unlock your phone requiring a reset, apps killed in the background after just a few minutes, etc etc etc), macOS bugginess with Catalina, SwiftUI mess, iCloud corrupting files, and much more.

I’m at a point where I’m surprisingly preferring Windows and Linux for my desktop work. I just wish there was a better alternative in the mobile space than Android, which I feel is in an even worse state than iOS.
There is a practical work product: research, formation of theories, etc. Edit: Possible new ways to understand the modern world. Just like archaeology or palaeontology.

In my opinion, the issue in liberal arts education is with grade inflation, along with the scalability of assessing learning discussed in the essay/these comments.

I suspect that really rigorous liberal arts education is much harder to do at scale than really rigorous science/engineering education because to be blunt, there is less room for argument in scientific concepts.

For example, properly grading student essays and research is more difficult at scale in the liberal arts and the level of the whole thing gets dumbed down as a result.
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I really like the UX of JAX, https://github.com/google/jax

The API is numpy plus like four functions. That's the beginning and end. It does JIT compilation under the hood, so can run quite fast.
Thanks, these look awesome - simple, yet powerful.
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The comment author was not insinuating that, you just assumed that. What I was insinuating was that you can't allow unlawful behavior to go unchallenged or else you will have a breakdown of society. Even rehabilitation programs are a form of punishment. If you catch a criminal and they say "I don't want to go to your rehabilitation program", are you just going to say "oh ok" and let them go? Of course not, you force them to go. That is corrective action aka punishment. I just happened to use a term which is loaded on this forum in this context.
Disagree. "Not having product", when you say you DO have product, and are very specific about the capabilities of said non-existent product, is the actual definition of fraud.
Honestly, there are differences. Do they matter? IMHO, no.

Most "stopping power" debates are talking about rifles that are vastly capable with or without lead bullets, and with the bans that have happened, the tech has moved forward. e.g. Barnes Bullets (which are copper) are considered a premium round, not just a premium non-lead round. And they aren't really overpriced.

WRT shotguns, I don't know this end as well, but the ammo market could use some forced innovation (the firearms market in general lacks innovation).
Yeah it’s a matter of emphasis. When you are starting up, not having a great product is your biggest problem by far. Also your attitude, if widely applied, would result in a world filled with useless crap with brilliant marketing.
It’s not that they don’t know how to be engineers, it’s that politically they all want to own their “thing” in TF.

This type of exchange is pretty much what happens all the time: https://github.com/williamFalcon/pytorch-lightning/issues/35

There is no reason why two things can’t be merged together for better UX and functionality, but two humans have egos, want to lead projects, and be in charge, so things remain separate.
It may not be feasible for the entire curriculum, but it may be feasible for a student to roll their own curriculum that is.
Why do you care if other people use it as long as it is available?