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I'm not asking for links (although that is nice). I am asking for an actual reference rather than a list of magazine titles. References look something like: Name of publication, date, volume or issue number, page number. E.g. something like Computer Magazine, Issue 10, 1995, page 15. You have claimed widespread usage so several references will be needed to establish that.
Steam's success as a platform masks the very real problems at Valve. When you have an infinite money printer, you can't even tell that you haven't delivered any quality products for years.

Steam itself seemed to be in maintenance mode with very little love until the last two years (when real competition emerged).

Valve seems like the kind of place with constant power struggles and office politics, even more so than a traditional org.

Separately, why are they still bothering with Source 2? Their competition is technically superior in pretty much every respect.
That is a pretty heavy burden you are placing on site creators... if you follow that requirement out logically, you are going to end up with some weird consequences.

So you say you shouldn't sell your site because the new owners might mess something up and harm users; does this mean you can't ever leave a company that you start? If you leave, the new people running it after you are gone might mess things up and harm users.

How is that any different than selling the company? In both instances, you are handing full control off to someone else. Just in one case, you are turning over control to someone you chose to hire instead of someone you chose to sell to. Either way, you are making a judgment call on their worthiness.

Are you really trying to say that if you start a company and want to leave, you have to shut it down?

This also seems to imply that when people sign up to a site, they are doing so because they trust a particular individual. Most people don't even know who the people behind a site are.

I think you are making out selling your company to be a bigger moral issue than it is.
I actually don't mind this too much -- because "Yeah", "Right", "OK" and so on are often just used as passive acknowledgements that I've said something, rather than an assertion that what I've said makes sense, is agreeable, and is fundamentally correct.
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Android. And things that run on Android like WhatsApp.
Hah, I made the exact same mistake. I didn't realize the park was behind those walls, I assumed that I must had gotten the location all wrong.
So does B2 (Backblaze), since fairly recently.
“THIS is the most private and secure phone on the planet” (video)
I fear the problems with Word and PowerPoint are mainly on the users, most simply have never heard about paragraph styles!

My personal hate object is the Windows10 client for OneDrive/Sharepoint. I have had it on multiple occasions remove locally created files from my laptop so that I could not access a file created a couple hours earlier on the same computer. Had to sync it back from the cloud, how is this a feature?
As someone who's spent the last few years writing a 170K line Rust project ... I consider it entrenched!

I stand by that blog post, though I recognise it's controversial. I think Rust clearly qualifies as "worth the cost of a new language". There simply wasn't, and still isn't, any other serious contender for safe GC-free systems programming. New contenders will arise but in the meantime lots of projects are doing safe systems programming that without Rust would have been done in C or C++ and would have had to be unsafe.
Should we adjust our maps now too? There's an unused plot of land near my house. That's not the United States?
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Probably a few actual fighter pilots, and quite a few more simulator enthusiasts who know a lot about the mechanics.
This is pretty cool, but there are definitely routes that pop up quickly that cross closed gates and trails that are not in good repair. I'd consider these to be good "Beta" routes, if you enjoy exploring and don't mind the occasional dead-end, but not super reliable if your time is limited.

Not a complaint, if I ran these are the sort of routes I'd love to explore.
Seems like the classic problem of Russians doing something because it's impressive and not because it's a good idea.
> computer construction kit to build the first computer of Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs

This really irritates me. Woz was the sole developer of the Apple-1.
That is a truly bizarre subreddit. It’s exactly what you say, people love to go there and get on their high horse.

I also suspect there are a ton of troll posts there. Too many “I am the asshole” questions that seem perfectly aligned to the politics of the day. And the stories seem perfectly written to create conflict.
We don't need to throw obsolete hobbies under the bus, but the people that are passionate about an obsolete hobby need to realize it is dying for a reason. You'll still get the odd-ball young person, but it is going to be increasingly rare.
> People do other things with computers. Draw. Make music. Edit music and video. Play twitch games. Get them to understand and respond to speech.

But these compute-intensive tasks are more often than not implemented in lower-level, highly optimised code like BLAS, CUDA, etc. I think your overall point is valid though -- I'm looking at the Gmail tab in Chrome -- but maybe not for these particular examples.
So was PMNRF? Is that fund public money that must be under rti (answer is it's not)
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only if you are vegetarian, otherwise you should be aware how the meat arrived on your table.
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Ah. I get it. You're talking about using a new branch name as a tag for an existing commit. Thanks.
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Feynman was sad that Mano seemed to have a low view of himself. He had described his work as trying to solve a “humble and down-to-earth type of problem” — in contrast to the supposedly more majestic problems that he had seen Feynman solve.
Can't you just use an account alias?

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/console_acc...
Thanks for bringing Pokemon into programming, I enjoyed your read!
Can't wait until they come for `server`

They're really going to eliminate racism then!
Both. This would mainly be WVR, but there are variations for use in F-pole/BVR in general, especially if there is significant vertical angle between both. In theory this could be adapted as an F-pole manoeuvre against a plane with an altitude advantage in which you could defeat radar and shoot off a missile at the same time.
He had a gargantuan ego... and gargantuan accomplishments to back it up. The Michael Jordan of late 20th century physics, in more ways than one.
> One of the first things when I got myself an RTX 2080, was learning how to use the ray tracing APIs to develop an idea similar to what you mention.

I love the hacker ethos here on HN. Most places, we would here about how high an fps a person obtained on their favorite game with the settings cranked up. Here on HN, we hear about using the ray tracing api to model sound. It is stuff like this that keeps me coming back: hearing how people are using tech in new, really cool ways!
You can put INC123456 into the search field at top right and it should take you directly to the incident page.

But yeah ServiceNow is insane. Not sure how much of this is product itself or gajillion of customizations.
If they were just paying hackers to build the backdoor, it might be better. Requiring a US agency request is basically a loyalty oath though, as their work violates the DMCA if that request is rescinded.
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> I don’t think pg is discouraging others from starting a forum.

He literally wrote "Don't start a forum". Yet, solutions to current problems with social media may be limited by the fact that only a few companies manage the content. PG is not motivated to innovate on social media tools as a builder or an investor.

We need better forums with better moderation tools that enable more users to participate in moderation. It is possible to do within existing forums or a new one, so I would encourage innovation on this rather than discourage it. There are a hundred ways you could empower better communities using things like annotator agreement or automated appeals.
To be fair, the same systems that enable supermaneuverability typically enhance "normal" maneuverability as well. I don't think the Russian engineers were designing these systems specifically for awesome-looking airshow maneuvers and 1v1 BFM.
I'm with you on this one. It takes a certain kind of hubris to reply "Correct." or "Bingo." as if I have just discovered enlightenment with which you were pre-ordained and now us proles are seeing "the light".
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Worst - small power generator - world didn't fall apart..

Best - bag of real flour from small local mill. My Mom mastered baking real bread without yeast. Cheap, tasty, healthy, simple. Will never touch what they are selling as bread.
He's the reason I own an excavator and a track loader and a dump trailer. And a power grease gun.
Literally any electronic medical record system ever built.

HUNDREDS of different systems on the market. Some with maybe a handful of doctor's offices using a particular system.

Worst UIs you could ever imagine. Limited interoperability.

In even well-established systems with large numbers of installs you'll see multiple bugs in production code that don't get fixed.

Switching costs are essentially infinity so doctors get locked into a system no matter how bad it is.
I think you're ignoring a vastly more applicable factor: 2006.
Table 7 p.43 is the list of "cognitive" and "non-cognitive" skills. Figure 12 p.46 shows the "enrichment activities."

From these the conclusions should not be surprising. "Reading a book" and attending a "before or after school program" may help with the non-cognitive skills, but those are only 10% or so of "enrichment" time, and the only non-cognitive skill homework (unless it has changed greatly from my day?) would significantly help with is "Demands a lot of attention."

(silly authors: enrichment isn't meant to develop skills[1], it's meant, by choice of enrichment activities, to develop the sorts of people the children think are "one of us" as young adults, to influence whom they will hang out with, whom they will date, etc.

In Brave New World this starring of sneetches is managed in infancy by hypnopaedic suggestion:

"… all wear green," said a soft but very distinct voice, beginning in the middle of a sentence, "and Delta Children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly colour. I'm so glad I'm a Beta."
There was a pause; then the voice began again.
"Alpha children wear grey They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfuly glad I'm a Beta[2], because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able …")

[1] I like the french idea of "education" (education), as having components not only of "how to" (savoir faire), but also of "how to live with others" (savoir vivre) and even of "how to live with oneself" (savoir être).

[2] the list of "non-cognitive" skills also shows a distinct bias towards (in Brave New World terms) Beta-Gamma ideals. How many of these soft skills does someone from a high SES background need to become, say, President of the United States?
Except Amdahl’s law.
Similar here, but without learning the CLI first, I would not be comfortable with the GUIs.
This, so much this. The main hero image is a tad pixelated to me and while not a huge deal, could be cutting into conversions.

GP, to simplify the main hero consider making it a png. I know as a user seeing a slightly pixelated gif screams out “unpolished” engineering and design.
I love git, but the command-line interface feels like it was grown over some time (which it was). It's just very ad-hoc in what commands are used to accomplish something.

The underlying architecture of git is awesome, but even if I know exactly what I want to do based on my understanding on the architecture, it's not obvious which command and which switches to use to achieve this. And I use the command-line all day, and I am good at remembering switches.

But still, for git I've written myself a list on what combinations to what, and when I need to do something more exotic, I look it up in that list. A more consistent CLI would allow me to do what I want without lookup.
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> first iPhone...excellent devices.

The first gen iPhone was unusable for anything other than email. The pitch was that you get "the real web," and compared to WAP on feature phones, the was true, but honestly, the mobile web was years away from being ready enough to be useful. Internet functionality was basically unusable on 2.5g. Honestly, it wasn't even ready until 4g. I remember trying to use Google Maps on an iPhone a week after launch. It took minutes to load the map of where I was. This was in SF. The App Store hadn't launched yet.
I can't believe Apple's the company making the strongest case for 2020 being the year of desktop Linux, right now.
I launched Mailmask (https://msk.sh) recently, trying to solve the same problem. Welcome to the club!
I do not find reference counting problematic in practice. In Rust you have to go out of your way to introduce interior mutability in refcounted values, which discourages problematic patterns.

I find that in most cases where ownership patterns don't fit the Rust model, you can abstract the problematic parts into some kind of collection type and hide them in its own crate --- or better still, find an existing crate that does what you need.

The only remotely common case that still doesn't get handled well, in my experience, is the self-referential struct pattern --- when a value needs to contain references to other parts of the same value.
Thanks, we started using Clubhouse about 7 months ago and have very few complaints. The main thing being it doesn’t have multi-second Lang after creating new issues.

Clubhouse is the first Jira replacement we’ve tried that the devs actually like using. Doesn’t have the laundry list of features Jira has, but meets our needs (team of 20).
Possible. For me, it's a bunch of small things. I have three mailboxes. For one, search is almost always slow and incorrect. To the point where I usually have to load Gmail's web UI to be confident that I haven't missed anything.

It's strange because I like a lot of what Mail.app does—it's simple, no bells and whistles—but the search experience, etc. just ruins it entirely.
Thanks for sharing this. I love how hackernews has grown organically
I wonder if the native app could use something like Terraform to manage the hosting on the user’s behalf?

They’d need to register an account with a supported provider and do the initial domain registration & dns pointing, but a step by step guide could be made for that.
I've wasted too much money on Android TV. I bought 4 little android boxes. The best of them being Mi Box S

In the end I caved and bought an Apple TV 4k. I'm just sick and tired of how laggy android tv is, it's lagging on TVs that ship with it, it's laggy on little android boxes, it crashes often, if it's not crashing the apps are.

Apple TV 4k is super fast and never skips a beat, never crashes, just wish it wouldn't flick to the Apple TV app when I want to go back to app screen.
The F-22 is such a marvel. I really wonder why the F-35 is plagued with so many systemic problems since it should be no more complex (and has the F-22 as an example for many of its own requirements).
> So far the field has resisted any sort of assembly line model

Are you sure? I mostly agree with this statement, however things like scrum/devops and frameworks seems to be pushing in that direction in my opinion
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Docker abstracts and re-implements a lot of the filesystem and IO stuff; almost all of the issues (often outright bugs) I've had with Docker on Linux are related to that, too.
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I can't speak for Time, which has gone through a lot of ownership travails recently (albeit not as dire as Newsweek), but there are certainly still magazines and newspapers that do fact-checking. Some have full-time fact checking departments; the New Yorker in specific and Condé Nast publications in general are historically known for that. Newspapers may not employ people with the title of "fact checker" (although the New York Times has at least one staff reporter who does, in fact, have that title, Linda Qiu), but it's something that's generally the job of the editorial staff to do fact-checking.

Sure, newspapers fail at this occasionally, especially with articles that get rushed due to timeliness -- and unless it's a big long-form investigative journalism piece, it's quite likely only what editors consider the major elements have been vetted. (The old saw "if the paper got this small detail wrong, how can I trust them on the big claims they're making" largely has it backward: the big claims are the ones they want receipts for, whereas the small details are more likely to get passed through without due checking. This is, at the least, what I was told by a newspaper editor many years ago!)
All those technologies died because they were replaced by something equivalent/better.

The only reason ham radio is not dead is because it has a hobby around it, just like ISDN wouldn't be "dead" either if there was a hobby around it and people were building/maintaining ISDN networks for fun.

In terms of practical use however, both ISDN and ham radio are near-useless to the majority of people, and the problem ham radio is facing is a lack of new people joining because ultimately, the benefits it offers (such as the ones you list) aren't problems the majority of people are facing (and the people that do are a minority that wouldn't be enough to sustain such a social hobby that also relies on real-world meetups to trade radio gear).
> In most cases he probably was the smartest person in the room.

Excepting the times, of course, when John von Neumann was there.
How can an ability be negative? I can always decide to not use it?
Oh wow that’s pretty cool. I must say that’s really good not a lot of people can enjoy that freedom. Just curious if you don’t mind sharing how did you achieve that freedom like what did you do to get clients or contracting gigs
I'd answer that first question with an emphatic "no", since we already know what happens when decorum goes out the window - we have most other popular forums with a political section to look at. Feelings are hurt, personal attacks come up next, good faith dies, all of those things are anathema to deep discussion. I am aware of no place online, or in real life, where discussion and trolling (or big egos) can coexist.

You don't need sophistication and polish to not be a dick. That's the low water mark, here. Not big words, just please, thankyou, and a willingness to entertain thoughts you disagree with and explain your own.
This sounds as dumb as the Excel ‘you can’t open two files with the same filename’ limitation.
As an aside I thought the prof's comment regarding having commercial co-pilots flying along with the pilot - via remote control - was interesting.

It would seem to me a logical first step to someday having fully remote controlled aircraft flying passengers (which as the F22 pilot notes - is every airline's dream).
Sorry if I've been slow, but is the hn user "dang" "Daniel Gackle"?

I never connected it to an irl name, I just figured it was an early grab at a fun username.
Cuelang is far better than jsonnet.
also, ideally the rate of return on whatever venture or investment would be higher than that interest rate, so even if the loan was not paid off immediately, it would still be profitable. it's just an extra chunk of money being offered but needs to be in a justifiable "business" sense.
"Spyware" is a bit of an exaggeration. Pretty much all the things it does are also done on Android phones, and it asks you on setup if you'd like to disable any.

Now, MS isn't an ad company like Google, and enabling data collection by default is the wrong approach for users. It feels like it was build with features (that you probably don't care about--Hey Cortana) in mind before privacy.
Obsolete hobbies could potentially have a resurgence, from all kinds of subcultures whether paleo (paleo diets), hipster (vinyls and typewriters), geek (Ren Faires, historical reenactments), or even survivalist/prepper. Millennials are stereotypically known for seeking older, "authentic" things, with perhaps a level of exclusivity, so there can be ways to spin ham radio into something fitting their aesthetics of cool.
Thank you for explaining.

If anything, this points to poor use-case study and/or execution. There is a case for channels and for individual chats: details of how files upload happen should be dealt with under the hood.

Frankly, it feels odd even talking about this issue; we are discussing file uploads, worth a few kBs, in a messenger. This really, really, shouldn't be a problem :-)
I agree, there's nothing wrong with having a hobby and playing with whatever tools/equipment that you like.

However, the difference between let's say blacksmithing/knitting and ham radio is that the latter is a social hobby and relies on having enough hams out there so that there's actually some people to talk to on the air, and the problem they're facing right now is that the amount of those people seems to be on the decline.
Why do you need to turn your nose that far that fast in a BVR fight? It may not even be possible in the flight regime you're in. There are a lot of other potential issues with this kind of maneuvering.

I agree that there are some potential uses in a WVR fight (particularly a 1v1 fight), but I think it's pretty fair to say that it's generally preferable to bleed off the missile's energy and preserve your own (which makes sense considering that countries tend to procure HMCS and HOBS missiles long before supermaneuverable aircraft). You don't get extra points for a missile making it to the target at a higher energy state, as long as it has enough energy to get there to begin with.
Pocket ( https://getpocket.com/ ). It’s really bad. Been using it for years and it’s always been broken. Crashes often, narration sometimes works most of the time it doesn’t, other times it works if you force stop the app and restart it. It’s very slow too. I depend on for my long daily commutes and I only stick to it because InstaPaper is also very broken and there is no reasonable way to move the stories from pocket to instapaper. I am convinced the people who build it never really use it for those issues are otherwise trivial to encounter and I would think trivia to fix as well. I hope someone will build a better such app and make them irrelevant.
TIL about this. I was using `git add -i` and using the patch function.
I mean, if this means bounty hunters sell their exploits to the US Government instead of selling it to a financial fraud ring, that seems like a good thing.
It should be possible from the right click menu like in every other OS, but for some reason it's not. Same for creating directories.
Could ham radio be something survivalists pick up upon as a post-apocalyptic form of communication?
yes. And he seems to enjoy the double meanings of the username
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The F-22 is designed first and foremost as an air superiority fighter. The F-35 was intended to replace half a dozen wildly different aircraft with a single plane. That was a horrible idea right from the outset.