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Not really. The CEO of Microsoft is Satya Nadella. Satyella Nadalla doesn't seem to exist.
Not if they would have made it open source 2001 - or anytime later for that matter.
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>It’s simple. Just stop going to the sites.

That's true for me too.
Again, sorry, but I have developed a low tolerance for the nonsense that going around out there with regards to COVID-19. Nobody seems interested (or able to) fire-up a spreadsheet and do some math.

If you have half a million people using shit masks and shit tests we will overwhelm our medical facilities.

Do you have ANY idea what's going on in Italy right now. It's so sad. Doctors are having to choose who they let die. And no, we are not necessarily talking about COVID-19 patients. They are so overwhelmed that if a patient shows up with a stroke or other conditions they are having to choose between patients and let some die.

This is the danger. It is F---ING INSANE to propose that we test everyone with untreaceable kits and walk around with untreacable masks. If you want to see millions of people die, go for it.

The public-private collaboration the White House Coronavirus Team put together is going to have MILLIONS of high quality tests we can trace and rely on within days. 3M is spinning up US-based mask manufacturing operations throughout the country and will meet critical demand.

Sorry, we don't need more Chinese shit. The virus was enough.
That's true, and it has dealt with it, is the point.
As an ex-VB6 programmer, my view is that Microsoft has been fairly supportive of VB users.

- The IDE itself was supported for 10 years, till 2008

- The runtime is supported till 2024, which is like 26 years. I think you can get it to work on Windows 10 as well, though I haven't tried it myself. I still see people using VB apps.

My view is that VB.Net should never have been created, since it was closer to C# than it was to VB. Neither should it have been adopted by VB programmers (if they did a fair analysis), but Microsoft messaging around that time may have suggested it's a workable path forward.
Your point is taken, but positive tests imply future immunity (based on what we currently know, for those who survive...) and that may become valuable information. For instance interactions with nursing homes, seniors' facilities, most of southwest Florida, etc., could be limited to people who had tested positive and recovered.
> If by procedural you mean, nonsense, then sure

Why are you being snarky?

They clearly mean the issue of modelling partial functions which would normally be done by a side-effect in a procedural language but can’t in a functional language.
There was nothing cool about ASP.Net Web Forms.
I am gonna open source my video conferencing application which will redirect you to zoom.us
As someone who works with Windows and Active Directory primarily, PowerShell makes my life so much easier. It's glorious. I love PowerShell.
Trick to GET 500$ instead of spending 1.99 on HOsting
This just in, an open source OS has more CVEs over the course of 20 years compared to a closed source OS that is not even 5 years old.
Your last statement is unfair. The gaming industry might be different, but the general software industry has among the best benefits, working hours, perks, offices, work-from-home flexibility, stock compensation, etc of any industry. And we achieved that without a union.
I've noticed China is promoting the medical response teams they've sent to those countries on WeChat. I don't want to be so cynical that I reduce Chinese goodwill to a propaganda move, but it definitely is good PR.
Disclosure: Am a googler, know nothing about any of this other than public press

I laughed out loud watching it live and reading the quote later:

"I want to thank Google. Google is helping to develop a website. It’s going to be very quickly done — unlike websites of the past...Google has 1,700 engineers working on this right now. They have made tremendous progress."

"1700 engineers!" :-)
VB the _language_ obviously has its limitations and frustrations, but VB the _tool_ will be missed. It seems like every alternative mentioned here adds a lot of additional friction for writing simple, one-off utilities.

I don't always want to dink around with the Visual Studio installer to make sure the right version of the MSVC or .NET libraries are installed, or fiddle with code to get a GUI layout to look nice, etc.

Having the IDE, compiler and GUI designer in one big coherent monolith had its advantages.
Everlywell will make an at-home test for coronavirus
alias gerp=grep

For just that reason
It’s worse than that. They believe it’s a Chinese conspiracy. One of the few countries to control the spread, but the tests they distribute will be ‘tainted’ and ‘ineffective’.
You put words in my mouth. My concern isn't that it's not "good quality". My concern is, the thing is literally coming from the country where the virus originated from to begin with. Presumably, these things were made with human hands, of people in China, .. the country where this all started. So, ... you're telling me, you're just going to blindly assume these products have ZERO trace of the virus without any verification?
It is fundamentally different than YUV (PAL)/YIQ (NTSC). In those systems, the IQ/UV regions are monotonic. In the Jaguar color space, axes have different meanings depending on which quadrant you're in. In the (-1,-1),(0,0),(1,-1) triangle the vertical dimension appears to have no effect.

When Nintendo natively used the YIQ color space for the NES, that makes sense, because it simplified the hardware, because it's the color space used by NTSC. It's not apparent to me that there's an easy way to convert this non monotonic color space into YUV/YIQ.
While that's probably what he was thinking of, it's still a bizarre claim:

"Even that, though, was not the original plan. The Verge reported Friday afternoon, Verily had intended the site for health care workers only. After Trump unexpectedly publicized the effort, Verily decided it will let anyone visit it, but can still only provide people with testing site information in the San Francisco area."

https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-donald-trump-google-...
Windows 10 2004 will get a new Linux subsystem
In an ideal world, everyone criticizes things they know the most about and can do the most about, which is whatever is happening in their own country. When this is inverted, there is usually some ulterior psychological need and the criticism ends up not being anything genuine or actionable but a pissing contest. Anything goes in a pissing contest. Why are you surprised?
Senators are within the top 100 most powerful people in the US.

Since there are exactly 100 Senators, you place every Senator over the President, the Speaker of the House, House party leaders, and all Supreme Court justices. And Oprah.
ALL quality medical products and supplies coming out of China, all of them, are made under intense western supervision and quality control. Only after a factory has proven itself that it can be relied upon are they trusted. And, even then, the supervision does not go away.

I would not manufacture coffee mugs in China without supervision. No way.

Has everyone forgotten the iPhone chargers that go up in flames? How do you think that happens?
I'm just reading up on this now. But according to Wikipedia "CP/M used the 7-bit ASCII set", so then character 26 would be the "SUB (substitute)" character. No?

EDIT: Seems like 26 = EOF is a DOS thing.

EDIT 2: Some confusing comments: https://www.perlmonks.org/bare/?node_id=228760

EDIT 3: A pretty good thread (read NigelQ's replay): http://forums.codeguru.com/showthread.php?181171-End-of-File...
You know a handfull of people at the org, and were downplaying problems at the CDC last month.

The CDC slept on this during critical periods, and employees at the CDC did not step up and whistleblow when there was a chance to have a meaningful impact on the spread of the virus.

Stop making excuses for them.
Having a "password" pasteboard might not be a bad idea. Disallow reading its contents except by built-in system password input fields.
IIRC numexpr got about x2-x5 faster when they switched from numpy's implementation (which naively mostly works as you describe, one op at a time, refcounted, though no good reuse) to a VM that reuses temporary result memory and works in 8KB pages (thus getting way, way better cache use).

But I'm not familiar with an APL/J/K implementation that does.
Some of his political opponents suggested this move.

If it seems good (and bad) to both sides, it's probably something good for most.
No, they imply that the handling is done by returning a negative number.

I'm being snarky, as is my nature, to highlight the madness of a function called `getchar` returning anything but a `char`.
What's a pasteboard? Are we talking about the clipboard?
It's not like they're going to break VB.NET or drop support anytime soon. Existing software will keep working. At this point there's no real point in continuing to add to it -- new stuff should be written in C#. It's better.
At least I am not ignorant, or naive. That's dangerous.
Cosplay rend les gens confiants
Le cosplay est une sorte de forme d'art innovante qui donne à la personne un espace créatif et en même temps un espace positif pour le corps. J'ai déjà très bien cosplayé depuis la 4e année du premier concours d'anime, Anime Boston, et j'ai participé avec ma sœur et mon père. Nous sommes clairement du sang frais. Mon père était dans des vêtements drôles et prenait des photos de personnes étranges. Quand un homme de 40 ans et deux filles ont essayé de prendre une photo ensemble, personne ne s'est senti mal à l'aise. Au lieu de cela, il s'est immédiatement transformé en personnage anthropomorphe. Ce monde fou n'avait pas de fond, mais est devenu une partie de mon style de vie 15 ans plus tard. Nous avons effectué des observations sur place.
https://.cosplay-field.com/

Pendant des années, elle a participé à des événements d'Halloween et s'est habillée en costumes de la Renaissance, mais on sait peu de choses sur la communauté du cosplay au-delà de cela. Au festival de la Renaissance, nous ressemblons à des princesses Disney et nous demandons souvent pourquoi nous ne les avons pas. C'est le tournant d'Anna et Elsa à la Renaissance qui nous a apporté notre premier cosplay «officiel».

https://.cosplay-field.com/boku-no-hero-academia-cosplay

L'idée universelle du malheur, «Si vous le souhaitez, arrêtez un homme, le temps d'une tenue sexy», je suis fondamentalement en désaccord de ce point de vue. L'apparence d'un vêtement ne doit pas déterminer votre dignité et votre respect pour eux. Période Cependant, je tiens à préciser que je ne confonds pas souvent profession avec profession.

https://.cosplay-field.com/spider-man-costume-cosplay
Unfortunately because of the incentives that drive developer business, we have to treat apps with minimal trust for anything potentially sensitive. Clipboards often contain people's names, contact info, passwords, and personal writing. Carte blanche access is something that reveals these and personally I'm not comfortable with it.

There's obviously a balance to be struck with:

a) not introducing unnecessary permissions prompts, causing prompt fatigue in users (thus lowering security)

b) improved UX by saving a step for apps that may use clipboards for legitimate purposes (e.g. shipment tracking numbers, photos, emails, etc)

Here's how I'd solve the problem through improved App Store review:

1. Carte blanche access to pasteboard is removed, replaced with system data detectors, which delineate common data types like shipment tracking numbers, photos, emails/contacts, plaintext, etc.

2. During app submission, any request to access a specific pasteboard data type has to be met with a UX justification, specifically that it has to significantly improve the core user experience in a meaningful way, and developers must promise to not scrape or store the data remotely.

3. If justification is not approved, app may still be published. Routines that call for access to data detector pasteboard must be able to gracefully fall back to non-pasteboard access (since they are used solely for simplifying a UX step).

4. If it is discovered a developer breaks their promise, their app may be pulled from the app store.

(optional) 5. When users get to the particular part of the app that uses pasteboard data AND the current pasteboard data is of the data type that the app has been approved to use, user is presented with a permission prompt to allow it. The permission prompt should not just be boilerplate, it should show the current contents of the pasteboard the app is trying to access.

The last step is a judgment call based on balance of permission prompt fatigue and user trust. If its believed the app store submission process is believed to be a good enough filtering process, then don't present prompts. One way to approach is add the above 4 and see how developers respond, and if it seems insufficient then add #5 in the next iOS release.
How does Korea have 15 minute tests (from when a sample is collected) and we're excited about a 2 hour or 4 hour one? I'm not being flippant, I imagine that whatever korea is doing they've been open about it and we know how to do manufacture everything and perform those 15 minute tests, but I imagine there must be some reason that we aren't doing them.
This crisis sure is exposing a whole lot of things as quite possible that people keep saying is 'impossible'.
1. Upon opening, app for service XYZ sees your clipboard has the URL www.xyz.com/whatever and offers to navigate to that link within the app, saving the user from having to find it again in the app or paste the URL in the search bar (if there is a search bar).

2. When using 2FA, 1Password will automatically write your one time code to the clipboard so it can easily be pasted. As a convenience, after 45 seconds or so it restores your previous clipboard contents for you. To do this it has to be able to read them.

3. An OCR app has a "OCR from clipboard" button to extract text from the image currently in the clipboard.
I think just saying "paste and go" is fine, they don't need to know where it is going before I click yes
Okay, whatever, 150. This is an order of magnitude thing.
The Sudden Economic Stop
My applause to both political sides. It's great to see some cooperation.
Would that mess up things users actually copied?
"1. Every one of those 1M masks are not tainted with coronavirus."

Let's see - 1 of the masks is infected and other 999,999 are perfect and meet 0.3 micron standard or whatever it is to be effective. Following your logic you'd refuse all.

Yes my logic is BS but only because yours is exactly the same, just the opposite end.
NY Times links are effectively just advertisements for NY Times subscriptions. I’d really like to see HN/reddit/etc ban links from these domains, because there’s no meaningful discussion that can be had when the vast majority of users can’t even read the content.
Serious answer: If you're that concerned, disinfect the DVD.
I've noticed this a lot at my work and have narrowed down several common letter swaps to my system prioritizing one letter going first when both keys are hit at the same time. The one I run into most often is r coming before o when both are hit but it also happens with i before e or, in the instance you have noticed, g before h.
Why not spend a little time learning how long the virus can survive on any mask before making nonsense comment like this? It deserved a stronger rebuke than "cmmon man" since it's wasting everyone's time.
I've said it repeatedly, but I'll say it again. Here's the logic for you to refute.

1. Mask / test kit made in China.

2. Presumably, it came in contact with the hands of the people making it, in China.

3. If any of those people making the masks and test kits were infected, then there's a chance that the virus itself will be actually sitting on the masks and test kits themselves.

So, we just ignore that?
Mexico may consider border-crossing limits for USA
I would love to see a source that contradicts what I said. My source is the testimony of a virologist with 40 years of experience and other qualified people. I’m sorry to be blunt but there simply isn’t anything to brace for. The worst case scenario is that a very small number of people die before herd immunity slows the spread to nothing, after which the virus will basically disappear probably before we even have a vaccine for it. That’s what happened with Zika and some others. That’s what’s going to happen here. The number of people who die will be similar to deaths from the flu, car accidents and other things. Can you offer a single substantive counter argument to anything I’ve said? I will enjoy reading it.
Ok. Why are there so few people doing ScreenHero-esq dual-driver pair programming friendly remote control with this tech? Are the APIs just not there?
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If a C- chest CT is taking 30+ minutes, something isn’t right. A standard workflow might have them every 30 minutes to allows extra bookings to be plugged in where needed, without ruining the rest of the day.

Or at least that’s the workflow in the places I’ve worked.
A data cap has almost nothing to do with congestion.

Network congestion is a lot like road traffic, in that it requires the participation of others. A data cap is like trying to reduce traffic by saying that each driver can go only so many miles. If all of a person's data usage is at off-peak times, the data cap is completely useless.
Whether you like Trump or not, it comes across as petty to jump all over him for a misstatement like this, even if it is hyperbolic. In all likelihood, some aide probably mentioned that "Google has 1700 engineers building a testing website", that stuck with him and he ran with it.

BFD, come on people. Of all the things to pick on at a time like this, we've got a lot bigger fish to fry.
Right now we're focused on providing access directly from Sheets so you don't need to switch back and forth between multiple apps or pages. We also allow UI based filtering and sorting for those who prefer not using SQL.
> Sorry, we don't need more Chinese shit. The virus was enough.

Xenophobia is not okay.
Fond memories of PETSCII from my very first computer experiences.

Interesting to note that the Unicode 13 update will include 214 home computer graphic characters from the 70's and 80's [1]- I'm hopeful PETSCII will be included.

[1] https://unicode.org/versions/Unicode13.0.0/#Summary

Edited: 80s/90s corrected to 70s/80s.
I taught myself C on MS-DOS in middle school, decades ago. Could have sworn that ASCII 26 was named “EOF” even if modern text files don’t include it.

This is a supplementary source of confusion.
You can't sell products in the US, that were made in China, without FDA approval.
I think this is related to the fact that Microsoft announced a deal few years back that any entity with more than 4% stock ownership automatically gets right to have a seat on the board. During those times, stock was struggling and this might have been strategy to pull some investors who wants to have control as well. In my personal opinion, this was quite unfortunate because such strategies usually invites "activist" investors types. These types are rarely good for long term future of the company as they often enforce short term strategy such as massive buy backs, dividents etc to prop up the stock while actively prevent large capex needed to go after long term big bets.
If somebody helps me out of the potentially deadly hole, I do not give a flying feck about the motives. And that somebody can have all the good PR s/he wants from me as a token of appreciation.
But if the experts are imperfect and people are banned from helping themselves then there really is a problem.

I find it darkly ironic that in the US their centralised control of the medical system has royally screwed up the ability of people to access test kits and that is likely to become a rallying point for people who want more centralised control of the medical system.

If you do buy those things then you can share them with your neighbors. Someone is bound to want that stuff - a few more community sponsored ICU beds, masks, test kits and antiviral cocktails would be just what most countries need.
You seem to have forgotten logic and common sense.
'Controlling transmission' is only useful before it becomes 'community-spread'. I'm unconvinced the testing is any more useful than stats in a future wiki article. At the end of the day, folks needing hospitalization/respiratory support will exist in spite of any given test result.
Dropbox can integrate with the system screen taker for MacOS. Very useful. Automagically get a link in the clipboard every time you screen. I’ve seen this done so many ways
make it open source.
I think its a decent although not particularly unique idea. How much of a grasp do you have on the actual tech though? Detecting things like dog chewing on a a shoe is not trivial, just putting it through a model you found and edited a bit on github probably isn't going to cut it. Also you already have these AI powerhouses with strong technology who are capable of making something similar and haven't found that much success (e.g. nest)
So if you notice, you literally defended someone's "cmmon man" argument as NOT a waste of everyone's time. How about you think about this, for a second, hmm?

Studies as of now suggest that the virus can last for 3 days on a surface. So if you ship fly them over here from China, say a half a day flight, you have a good 2.5 days to potentially accidentally infect people.

Are you going to "cmmon man" me now?
That goes both ways though. GM/Ford/Tesla aren’t allowed to sell Bob a “less safe” version of their cars to undercut their competition.

I suspect the long term answer here might look a lot like the auto industry. You won’t be allowed to sell network-connecting devices that don’t meet certain minimum security standards. Manufacturers will need to commit to a minimum security update period (like car manufactures need to commit to spare parts availability - for at least 10 years after the sale here in .au), and purchasers will will be required to accept responsibility for device’s operation, some of which will be mitigateable by insuring against it, but irresponsible use will not be covered by insurance and become the owner’s responsibility. (Admin while Under Influence? Speed limits on pushing patches?)

I don’t see a clear path to that kind of regulatory control over $15 devices sourced directly out of China by every vanishing retailers/manufactures though, and there’s a whole raft of genuinely useful use cases for inexpensive net connected hardware that’d be impossible or illegal if the expense of the sort of regulatory burden place of car drivers was imposed on people with smart powerpoints or dash cams...
A stop gap solution is to add an api for “secure copy” that 1Password and the like can implement which makes it unreadable without a user initiated paste. This would take far less time to implement from Apple’s side.
“VB6 makes 95% of programming simple and the other 5% impossible.”