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> IIRC Windows 98 was released 2 months after the iMac, so Apple has received a lot of credit for hardware that was probably mostly intended for Windows users.

For some reason, a lot of the hardware intended for Windows users came in semi-translucent plastic cases.
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I feel that I have a lucid understanding of the lack of skills that I learned during my undergraduate program- that is exactly why I am frustrated with my experience.
And, if you write your dates that way, what will the one after that be? 30100103?
Companies could choose to assess the validity of the claim, they just don't for practical purposes.
The real problem is when you get to scale. At a company like Facebook or Google, it seems like you end up spending half your time simply looking for similar code that other developers wrote to solve a similar problem so that you can avoid duplication in the codebase. When you have tens of thousands of developers that becomes VERY challenging.

Code duplication is one of the biggest mistakes I made as a new developer. As you became a better engineer, you learn how to simplify and extract common patterns into shared classes/libraries/components to avoid duplication. Code duplication is almost a cardinal sin due to the complexity and bugs that tend to result.
It is? Only in some abstract sense. They all already have a cable that plugs into USB A. I'm supposed to throw them all away to move to a new standard interface in a different place?
In a thousand years, we might be on yet another calendar system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_calendars
I'd appreciate RDNA2 card for 2560x1440 too that's not crazily priced. Less power consumption and more performance would be useful.
Yes. 200, 301, and 404 are top-tier status codes that even the simplest system can't help but handle in some sensible manner. In the second tier you have the necessary support for partial content and basic content negotiation. After that is when it gets a lot more complicated.

The fact that "browsers render 404 pages" won't save you when you try to get "clever", err, I mean, "standards compliant" and serve a complicated HTTP page out on 402. It probably won't confuse browsers, which will probably just render the page and leave the user oblivious a 402 occurred, which is precisely why I included "(not browsers, but other ones)".

Browsers are forced to march together in some semblance of lock step. When you step out into the heterogeneous world programming language APIs, "convenience" code written on top of those APIs, frameworks written on top of that convenience code, internal libraries written on top of those frameworks... yeah... you can't get very many complicated semantics through that sort of pipeline. And that's not a terribly unrealistic pipeline, unfortunately.
It crazy that he was so confident the ship would sink he was willing to stranded, and he was right. I can hardly think of anything I am that confident in.
Where there is pain, it must our pain and your pain too. Identity politics, hating and us-vs.-them doesn't get us anywhere but divided-and-conquered into the greedy hands of the amoral elites. Hate the ideology but not the person, or we'll convince no one and divided we fall. Do you really want to go back to segregation, lynchings or pushing LGBT+ people off buildings so long as it doesn't affect you?
Error Propagation Patterns
Imagine you're in a public place and some stranger is following you around and replying to your comments constantly day in and day out. It's annoying and creepy af.

I can't order you to back off. But imagine this. You are approaching me every day in a public place and I turn and face you and I tell you to back off. This is the level of threat you are inciting. Your presence is not welcome and the environment is now extremely hostile. I can't call the police on you in a forum but if this were a public place it would be justified.

I am telling you to back off. It's your choice whether you do so, but I ask you to check your actions and really think about what you are starting here.

I find it highly unlikely that you are just coincidentally encountering me all the time out of nowhere. I'm dead serious. I don't like you, I don't care for your comments, back off.
I think Ryan just wants a single compilation unit, for the time being. I would personally just put all the code in one file if it's this small (though I think some text editors are not good at editing one file from multiple views, so I can see that being annoying for some).
Ah, I loved visiting here. Strongly recommended for people who appreciate the history of technology.

My one surprise was that it turned out the French apparently invented everything. There was even an iPod display that managed to credit the French.
Isn't that the next one regardless, just when it is depends on how you write dates?
Most important point, as far as I'm concerned:

Ok so - definitely, the death count is too low. We all agree there. But before you freak out, there's a bright spot. We CAN also put an upper bound with a fair amount of certainty on the general death rate. How? Because there have been enough cases reported globally already, and enough data from the patients OUTSIDE of China, that we can tell the death rate is NOT anywhere near 10% with a strong degree of certainty (many patients have recovered, and are just awaiting the viral test all-clear before they can be discharged. Most other patients are in stable and recovering condition).

So we don't know, from the China data, whether the fatality rate is 0.5% or 1% or 2% or 3%... but we can be FAIRLY sure it's not 5% and definitely not above that. Simply because otherwise we'd already see the mortality in International cases, and that's outside of Chinese control.

Of course, this assumes access to a hospital, so if they get overwhelmed, I would expect the death rate to be higher, but unsure of how much.
Hi all, thought I'd bite the bullet and link a blog post to HN for the first time. Any feedback would be extremely appreciated; looking to learn and grow.
It seems that he's specifically trying to make it accessible to a wider audience; why would that be off-putting?
I’m going to break character and talk about my work - I’m at a company, Scroll.com , that sorta does micropayments - but instead of having an account that you drain as you browse, we have a flat monthly subscription that we divide up among the sites in our network. Payout is based on the ratios of how much time you spent on each site. So if you read a lot or a little it’s the same, from your point of view. And generally it still delivers more $ per impression than advertising would.

Also, we hope that it will incentivize better content than impression-based payments does
Sorry, but what employers block the use of GPL tools? Most employers that write proprietary software don't want GPL code in their code, but using a tool like shellcheck to perform static analysis on your code doesn't make that software that was analyzed now subject to the GPL, so why would they block it?
Justin Kan opens up (Part 1)
Except they feel for all intents and purposes like tiny VMs.

If I gave a pre-Docker era engineer two terminals, one host, one in a container, they'd probably quickly figure out they are on the same physical machine. But unless they were super savvy at some very specific stuff, they'd probably conclude it was just a VM.

Every dev I've introduced to docker workflows basically treat it like a vm. The only ones that didn't already had experience with cgroups/chroot and related tools.

It's honestly better to think of Docker as "VM, but actually you use the same kernel" than "processes that are isolated".

Other poster compared it to electron models. Yes, "balls in orbits" is wrong, but kids are already familiar with planetary orbits, and that mental model works until basically Organic Chem II.
And not just a Foucault pendulum, but the Foucault's pendulum, the one that features prominently in Umberto Eco's novel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault%27s_Pendulum
You completely misread my comment.

MLKs quote is specifically an ideal; something he's hopeful for.

It's invoked today very often to dismiss or minimize the impact of race in any discussion, as if the ideal has been realized.

The concept of everyone treated as equal would have more merit were the effects of institutional racism not very, very pertinent in 2020.

You can see the absurdity of this when people try to push away any discussion of race by telling you that slavery ended 130+ years ago, as if the cascading effects haven't impacted the lives of most people of color through today.
I am totally going to throw a 406 Not Acceptable in production now. Thank you for the idea.

Not sure how I’ll find an excuse, but I have years to plan.

406 Unacceptable would have made it more useful for today’s tumultuous world.
Depends on the ship. Some ships, absent a miraculous bilge pump, are definitely going to sink.
The start of Gulf II involved quite a few army-army engagements that were over in minutes. 1980s armor and no air cover doesn't work out so great against modern armor and air support.
Shining Light Through Solid Balls with Quantum Mechanics–Poisson's Spot
Late stage corporativism...
In general:

Give hate and antipathy no quarter. Where there is pain, it must our pain, or there will inevitably be revolution and chaos. Love without discrimination, even with those you disagree with, because they cannot be moved if we act like impetuous children by refusing to talk to them. Prejudice also cannot be convenient, or we likely possess internal inconsistencies we must face if we are to be honest and have integrity.
Drones scold Chinese residents without masks as coronavirus spreads
> As an example, the largest plant in Arizona produces only 10% in January compared to June.

Utterly false.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesquite_Solar_project
This one really hits home for me. I’m at a cross roads in my life right now and kind of lost. I had a great job working as the number 2 at a small business that I lucked into, but for various reasons beyond the control of the corporation, had to close. I’m in my late 20s, and as this article puts it, merely a high school graduate. I can code and do IT work, coordinate problem solving between businesses, read scientific texts, understand statistics and am very capable of managing others, amongst many other skills. Indeed these were all attributes that allowed me to rapidly rise up the ranks. But trying to find a fulfilling job without a Bachelor’s is beginning to feel like a fool’s errand. My parents were both college grads and waited a long time to have kids, so I don’t have the problems with rationalizing and asking questions that article presupposes—indeed my inability to accept orders and not have intellectual freedom drives me to keep looking for rewarding work, against the odds.

Despite being described as bright my whole life, I’ve never done well in an academic environment for a few reasons, I could readily absorb the material but I was terribly antagonistic towards teachers who generally desire a sense of authority in their class rooms. I also as an adult have been diagnosed with ADHD, which to me at least explains a good portion of why I struggled in school. I never did my homework and was told endlessly that going to community college was the best financial option, and I was very freaked out by student loans, the problem being that community colleges put much more emphasis on grading coursework, which ended up being my downfall.

Part of me thinks I should just start lying on my resume about having attended a 4 year STEM program, because the credentialism seems so real and absolutely bullshit. I have work experience, if I got an interview they’d probably be blown away with this “high school graduate”, but I never get interviews, no matter how qualified I am. I’ve even been encouraged to do this by people in the “educated elite”. They tell me to just study a given schools curriculum, learn some names of professor and call it good enough. But I really hate lying about myself, it feels so contrary to my nature. As the article mentions, I feel very depressed with my life and reading people who say that a degree is a golden indicator is genuinely depressing. I don’t know what to do, and I honestly feel victimized by credentialism, which makes me resent the concept of dropping everything and taking on loans to go to school. (At least my interest rate would be good now!)
What about 20300302, 20400402, etc?
Thank you very much for your comment, it made my day. I have had a hard time getting started with these technologies, especially with everyone talking about these without explaining what they actually are in a basic state, that's why I tried to come up with an article that I wish existed when I started. There is probably a lot of stuff to improve there, but I hope it helps getting started with these topics somehow.
No, that's how learning curves work. Until we can Matrix beam info into our skulljack, humans will spend a notrivial amount of time having to make do with using things while not fully understanding how they work.

Unless one is 31337-rockstar-ninja-IQ150-programmer, the uptake of new skills is painful and takes time. The pedagogical process is important. It's totally OK to not know how anything works as long as you acknowledge that and are willing to learn.
The class analysis is right, but the economic one is a bit bonkers.

1. The people with college degrees are also debasing their own degree by pushing for more college, not just marginal college grads. That's not self-interest, just naivite.

2. As others said, college is vastly overrated. The author gets that there is diminishing returns for new college grads, but doesn't see we are already getting little bang for buck because there is a shortage of non-bullshit jobs, and what work doesn't demand society fails to teach.

3. Author should spend time with the UBI crowd. Contrary to the popular imagination amoung guilty costalites of emasculated coal miners having to find a new line of work, actua poor people understand work is not dignifying and their is no shame in UBI (even if they think there is shame in means-tested welfare!) It's the rich Democrats who cling to education who regurgitate the dribble they were told about work being meaningful.

Gah, the author is sooo close to getting it. Just need to combine with something like https://medium.com/@alexhowlett/introduction-to-consumer-mon... and they'll be there.
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I do not think I misread your comment:

> the article cites mlk's quote ... as a commonly invoked cover for ignoring inequality

The article does not. The article cites the quote as an example that will fail the political test. You are the one filling in motives.
Priority: People, Process, Product and Profit
That always gets me. I'll be writing some code and think I finally got really proficient with Rust because I'm not getting any errors or warnings, then I try to compile and find out an error in another file was preventing the compiler from showing me everything wrong in my current file.
My undergrad didn't teach actual courses in C, Ruby on Rails, Scala or in fact any other "style" of programming I've ever used in industry besides Java and Python.

And I went to a top-20 undergrad for CS. That doesn't mean it wasn't useful. It was. I use stuff I learned in my past education a reasonable portion of the time, now, as a researcher.

That doesn't mean that it was a more direct way to "get a job", had I the courage to try that path at the time, than just doing an apprenticeship would have been.
A very high percentage choose to buy a house or car, or have children as part of their life planning when things look fairly stable. When you grow up and have adult responsibilities, the youthful feeling of invulnerability starts to fade.
This is the moral equivalent of a white flag in the sense that were surrending the idea of free global internet. We shouldn't own the air bro. (You know after we've managed to snip in half all the wires).
Well, if you know Haskell the company where I work hires remote and is solidly opposed to credentialist bullshit.

If no Haskell, well, good luck!
Congrats, definitely going to give this a try as I get spam calls all day long!

I wanted to tinker around with other phone projects what provider are you using on the backend if you don’t mind sharing ?
ThinkPad Mods, Done Right
Well, crafting used to be about making useful things. It’s only since the industrial revolution that the term was relegated to artistic dabbling.
Real-time infection and death numbers of Wuhan Virus
Only true mobile phone numbers can receive SMS from shortcodes.

Here is a list of carriers that are properly registered to receive SMS from shortcodes:

https://usshortcodedirectory.com/faq/what-wireless-carriers-...

"... short code carriers have arrangements to exchange messages with mobile phone numbers only ..."[1]

[1] https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/223133447-Not-R...
Docker means JVM doesn't matter, the portability when up the chain further.
It made sense to me: qbasic had good localized help.
So?

There is nowhere in the docker-noob's workflow where the huge distinction between a docker container instance and a super light VM actually matters.

Source: I knew nearly nothing about docker a year ago. And now I'm one of my company's go-to people for docker questions. The pain is still fresh in my mind and I see noob-pain every day :)
Hurricane Turn
The Bloop project is doing amazing work as well in making Scala compilation leagues faster (even faster than SBT). I hear Scala 3 should help significantly in this area as well.

I wish this would be a higher priority generally, developer time being as expensive as it is.
Life is short! No rat race can can compensate for an incomplete life
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Most do not support the wildcard formula, this does.
Unsure why ICC was involved in your case. Mine was pretty much with BCCI and Sony, (the channel which owned broadcasting rights of IPL at that time). They pretty much had a very neat clause, which I should have taken a note upfront, nevertheless, the experience gained confidence in me to build applications. :)
Deal with it when it happens.

How much time was spent worrying about what would happen when energy was too cheap too meter? It didn't happen.

It's easy to come up with problems to worry about that don't actually exist.
Why Today’s Shopping Sucks
Works ok for me, maybe it was a load issue?

Edit: Oh, the live demo doesn’t work. I thought you meant the whole page was black, which sadly is apparently an option these days.
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I kind of hate stuff like this. Why three? Why not four? Is it three because the "rule of three" sounds quotable?

It's similar to KISS. Yes I get why simplicity is great but it doesn't mean it's universally great. Is this acronym telling me to follow some random principle because the acronym forms a word? Many Complex systems exist in the world as an antithesis to KISS, so this principle isn't universal at all.

Why not stop duplication in ALL cases? What is the statistical evidence or logical proof that justifies "three?"
Particularly in a field which is known for a less-than-enthusiastic embrace of female contributions, “every man” is less inclusive than “every person” or “everyone”.
I built an open source library that made our API easy to use. It ended up being a deciding factor between us and competitors for some customers.

The library itself was built with a lower-level part that covered every single feature, and a higher-level part that covered the most common use-cases, including enough to build a nice demo app with it.
So what?

Dude was a collector of art and old tools, sold his own art, was the architect for his own buildings, and wrote several books. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Chapman_Mercer

Most people (including most scientists, artists, writers, businesspeople, etc.) never “achieve something in particular” by this kind of standard.

Certainly plenty of “idle rich” do significantly less socially beneficial work than Mercer. If you start looking around at the rich more generally (e.g. people whose names are on university buildings) a substantial proportion were crooks of one type or another.
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As a huge basketball fan I think this is great. As a US citizen roughly familiar with the NBA and how they come after platforms that use their content in ways that they don’t condone (e.g., /r/nbastreams, RIP), I don’t see this lasting very long.
I'm on the fence about whether this is pedantic, but in the OSI model, this absolutely is the application level.
Project Euler palindrome problem.

https://projecteuler.net/problem=4
8 years ago? Can you share any link which has details about the implementation?
Hacker News “Idea” Tab
It would be neat if ycombinator had an ideas tab that you could pay to post topics and pay to comment with the rate being economical and the currency used wasn't something as simple as money. (My solution being to somehow tokenize community service hours in a way that makes them untransferable)

I'm just saying it would be cool to have basically news but knowing everybody who posts there really cared about it, and that anything that doesn't climb to the top is apparently something nobody cares about enough to endorse.

Basically take the idea of political campaign endorsements but leave out all the consequences and bullshittery.
Update: splitting files to 100M chunks increases search speed by 4x. So it's 1.5 sec to grep through 20GB. Smaller file sizes do not yield improvement.
What You Can Learn from an Unusual Investment
Love it, would be useful, maybe as a browser extension that acts as an addendum to the news article you’re currently reading.
No kidding. It makes big assumptions about how easy and clean the deduplication is to do. Time constraints. How likely the code will be to change, converge or diverge in the future or be junked entirely, etc, etc.

I’m not sure why you can’t just say, “Deduplication is often good, but use your own judgement.” I guess it’s not as catchy?
I recall having a similar idea a few years back. How do you signup clients who insist on a larger payout? Do you have any policies in place to dissuade content producers from displaying ads to your users?
For those in the US, also groundhog day and superbowl sunday (american football championship).
02/02/2020 is the most palindromic date ever.

https://youtu.be/4fE_sXZjxng

Not only that, but it's a strobogrammatic number when viewed on a 7-segment display.
If you read his various articles, and even in this article, he mentions that the Tor team is resistant to a lot of his proposed changes.
They aren't going to win anything until they fix their laughably bad drivers and keep them fixed. I have several Ryzens, but there's no way I'd go anywhere near their graphics cards.
Reminds me of the LOT 5055 / Il-62 / Soloviev D-30 that AgentJayZ talked about that ended up killing 183 people because the engine manufacturer was low on supply of LP main roller bearings, and so used half as many and sometimes the wrong sizes of bearings. He took apart 5 of them and they were missing these critical components, and some of the engines even wobbled by having a couple of millimeters of play when they should be solid perpendicular to the the shaft.