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It's not Web 1.0 but it was right in the middle of Web 2.0/read-write web. Mobile/Facebook/Twitter/etc. are collectively a whole new generation.
> now that Tesla is meeting production goals

Where's the magic cross-country self-driving car that was meant to show up in 2016? And just how 'self driving ready' are those Model 3s?

> SpaceX is landing boosters

A mere decade or so after promised.

I think both of these are examples of dubious marketing promises, though the Tesla one is more egregious (the SpaceX one is merely extremely late). But either way, I wouldn't depend on any of their timelines going forward.
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Even in the most obnoxiously nerdy interpretation, it would be (2*n)^2, not 2^2.
But not the first personal computer, which was American:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenbak-1
I do sympathise with people who are unhappy about being taxed by a government of a country they do not live in.

I do not sympathise with people who are unhappy about being taxed by the government of the country they do live in.

EDIT: That's not to say I love the rate at which I get taxed at, but everyone around you is subject to the same rules, and so you're preaching (complaining) to the choir.

Immigrants suffering double taxation, both by the nation they live in, and the nation they're a citizen of, strikes me as massively unfair by comparison.
DLSS is black magic
> Marketing materials aren't plans.

That's right, they aren't. Which is why it's mighty brave of the BBC to call it "first interplanetary cargo ship". We'll see who gets there first.
It _is_ really weird, that didn't use to happen either. Started happening after some update of either Chrome or macOS, I'm not certain which.

In fact I think this is one of the most frustrating things of working with WebGL (or any of those slightly less common browser APIs, really), lots of small weird compatibility issues and instabilities.
A-10 Attack! was a truly wonderful game- the flight model was so impressive.
Minitel wasn't really the same kind of thing as the Internet or the web.
I see the urge to avid the tired cliche of "exponential", but being creative has risks.
Charles "Chuck" Moore of Forth fame does this. Uses his own CAD software to create his own chips which then run a Forth purpose built to run on that chip.
Both the scope and the time estimate can be wildly inaccurate. The theory here is that the team must clear up scope ambiguity at some point. If that doesn't happen, through inaction, that ambiguity gets "resolved" by a developer deciding what should happen while they're writing the code - or worse, not deciding so the ambiguity only comes up when a user tries the app. We've all heard horror stories about this - "It does X! It should do Y" Well, the spec/user story/chat transcript/whatever doesn't mention X or Y."

So, yes, the root cause is often that the scope is undefined or unclear. The process of having the team estimate how long something will take to implement (in fairly small work units - think hours, not days[1]) tries to solve both of those.

With my developer hat on, if I'm handed a user story like "Sandy wants to export her transaction history to CSV" to be implemented in this release, I'm going to immediately ask a couple questions: can the user choose the length of data to export? What app(s) does the CSV need to be importable and tested with, if any? Does it contain different fields than the Web view? Can everyone do it, even less-privileged users?

We don't necessarily need to spend hours debating this stuff, we just need to decide it before implementation rather than during or after/not at all. It's probably a 2-4 hour meeting with the team, looking just at the things planned for the next ~2 weeks. In my example, if the scope answers are that the user doesn't need any control of what to export, the CSV doesn't need to be compatible with any specific app, and the CSV should contain the same fields as the Web view for everyone, then I really may have 1 work item that probably won't take a lot of time/points. OTOH, for each answer that isn't no, there's at least 1 more work item :-) You'll also get better because after the release, you'll come back and say "Well, this took 3x as long because none of us spotted <some complexity>."

The important elements are: doing this as a team, not individually (so everyone can spot scope ambiguity and implementation challenges); understanding that the goal isn't to be perfect in release 1, it's to get better over time; that even if you're wildly far off, the return on the time will be positive merely for the scoping questions.

IOW, as a byproduct of estimating points for velocity, your team gets a shot at clearing up the scope.

[1]: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/help/articles/estimating_stor...
It does that in a one-sided way though. Do car dealers create value for car makers, or the other way around? The way revenue is measured seems to imply that retailers are the ones who create value for manufacturers, but not vice versa.

In that sense, revenue is more of a measure of “how long and costly is your supply chain, and how close are you to the customer facing side of it?”
It is more complicated than it seems. Many businesses depend so much on Facebook Advertising that they would have to shut down. I remember an article on the front page on HN talking about some businesses being idle when Facebook was down.

Personally it would definitely improve my life if Facebook went down and people around me stopped scrolling their Instagram.
So is the news this month that he plans to make it read/write again?
>rents are dropping across the US

do you have a citation for this? my experience in Boston in that landlords have stopped jacking up rents. that's about it. I haven't seen any come down yet.
I had similar experience with Facebook, not directly competing as they are just expanding into my area of expertise, but they had been looking to poach. The recruiter told me that the first step will be a test to determine if I can program so I told them I am not interested without even trying to negotiate out of it.
Shoebill is an emulator built specifically to run A/UX.

https://github.com/pruten/Shoebill
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Ecto-1 :-)
Another end of the company I work for (I'm in media operations, digital) is focused on custom content which is largely comprised of marketing materials, catalogs, etc (and they still print on paper!).

The company actually maintains a selection modern photo studios solely for use within the company. The clients still want that kind of quality. (There are a couple of glimpses of their large studios in the slides on the homepage https://www.stjoseph.com/)

Of course, I can't speak for the entire industry—but it's not dead yet! At least in the less sexy areas like product shoots for grocery stores, or car promos.
IMHO that’s what Discourse is about :)
I grew up in Germany during the home computer boom in the 80s and there was a definite anti-computer vibe at the time, my classmates thought I was contributing to the destruction of the high culture that was so superior to the US. Even though there were many cool platforms I think ultimately the pro-tech and pro-business atmosphere in the US drove the smaller competitors in Europe out of business.

Which isn't to say that European companies aren't strong in some areas. Here at hp we love STM32 micros (French/Italian), German robotics and automation equipment, optical equipment and of course ARM, which is a direct outgrowth of the pioneering European micro culture.
thanks, you are right, I edited my post
Software technologies from 20 and even 40 years ago run today, and programmers continue using them. Looking at history the most likely answer to your question is “All of them.”

Almost everything presented as something new in the software development field actually just retreads something from the past. Truly new ideas and techniques come along rarely.
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Yeah, they are. They just take electric scooters with delivery boxes on the back since they don't have to take giant pizzas with them :).
> In particular, what the signal says is, "We aren't yet ready to think about or support the needs of someone who's trying to use this in production."

> Which, if the project is also then pitching the software as production-ready, is a terrible mixed message. Maintainers really should pick one story and stick with it.

Yes, that's true, but you've got to realize that these messages are often coming from different teams. Versions are more likely to come from engineers, whereas pitches are more likely to come from sales. As an engineer, version numbers are one of the few tools I have for telling the truth when sales is lying. Engineers generally don't want to promise stability that isn't fully-formed, because if a valuable enough client starts using it, then we end up supporting some horrible half-baked interface until they decide to upgrade.

In that context, when you see version numbers disagreeing with marketing, don't point the finger at semantic versioning as "refusing to tag a 1.0.0 release". They're the ones telling you the truth. Point the finger at marketing.

In a larger sense, the sooner you start viewing all marketing as untrustworthy and basing your decisions on evidence instead, the happier you'll be. Version numbers are a small signal. Actual trial periods and getting to use the software should be the real deciding factor. And don't make the mistake of turning a trial period into a commitment without actually evaluating whether the software does what you want it to.
I read an article a few years ago about how authors have had to restructure stories because so many plots have hinged around people being out of touch except when at known locations. A lot of mystery/misunderstanding of plots (think: PG Wodehouse) no longer works.

I was struck by this article (within the last decade) as mobile phones and texting have been ubiquitous since the mid 90s (early 00s in the US). Funny that popular literature took a while to catch up.

Detective stories survive this the best (nothing is “real-time”) and historical fiction (no phones in Ancient Rome).

Ironically this traces a thread of literature. “The Moonstone” by Wilkie Collins was the first mystery story and also the first technologically “modern” story as it was the first in which people could telegraph to London and have a detective arrive by train later in the day! Still a great novel even though Collins has gone from the height of fame (Far more more famous than his contemporary Dickens) to obscurity today. Like the telegraph and landline.
The unique Apple CD Audio Player application pre-dated Mac OS 8 by quite a few years. It may have been one of the first widespread Apple experimentations with a colorful and somewhat different interface than original Mac updated only slightly for System 7.
thats a great analogy
Oh I see. Thanks. Considering it got up voted by 40 users it seems, based on other posts flagged before, anything critical of the USA eventually gets flagged.
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Some of them were consumer products. But they lost out (probably) because they were more like something a technical person would want and less like something made for a consumer.

Would you frame the reasons they failed differently? If TikTok users and gamers needed long battery life and elegant scripting tools we would have them. But they don't.
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Yeah, that's a fair point.
Link here https://judiciary.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?Documen...

... or directly on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVvv3JRCVQAl6ovogDum4hA
Oblig. link to the story about the fastest guys in the desert.

https://oppositelock.kinja.com/favorite-sr-71-story-10791270...
No harm done here. That case was stupid on all counts and just an excuse to try to dredge up some bad PR during investigation.

The mom -- not the shooter -- bought the guns, so the advertising aspect is dumb in that regard let alone that the reputation of the weapon isn't set by Remington in any significant way.

Next, Remington sells to dealers. If anyone was "selling" someone on a Remington, it was the gun dealer (if you're already going to the store, you've already been sold on the idea of a gun and are just negotiating the details).

There has to be better ways to use a judges time (even better cases involving guns and gun manufacturers).
Is there any relation with the effect used in pluvior.com?
Same. The person who wrote this clearly never has a 16 person standup that lasts 45 minutes.
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> is expected to cost billions

I'm annoyed by this innumerical journalistic habit where imprecise large numbers are only given as "millions", "billions" or "trillions".
> Selecting text or placing the cursor on a phone is an exercise in frustration.

That's just a difference in UI - a small phone touchscreen is simply not a very effective input device compared to even a plain touchpad using the exact same area. (To the point where I think all touchscreen-only devices should support "touchpad mode" with a pointer out of the box. VNC/RDP implementations on mobile devices have been doing this for ages, so it's quite physically achievable.)
That's probably because photos are an incredibly common task on phones and so the software has gotten a huge amount of optimization attention. I don't think it's a hardware issue.

Phone UIs in general get more love just because with that tiny screen and given the normal causal use cases users are far less tolerant of slow or poorly designed UIs on phones. The squeaky wheel gets the oil, and on mobile any UI issue is instant death. On desktop it's just an annoyance.
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This is nice! How does it compare to other options in this area, e.g hosting VSCode online ([1] [2])?

[1]: coder.com
[2]: gitpod.io
Good gawd, that would be more [sad|funny] than the mm/inch confusion. Can the rover use it's hands or not? Better hope they use American version of Instant Replay than the pathetic VAR implementation as well.
> can't reach me

She absolutely can if you are of any interest to her. See this talk by FBI director Christopher Wray that discusses Chinese influence operations against Americans: https://www.c-span.org/video/?473658-1/fbi-director-wray-chi...
How has your life been made hell? Why would you support a far-away dictatorship?
>> this terminology of "unlimited" energy from fusion.

All language exists in context. This isn't a math prof talking of 1/0-type infinity. This is a practical infinity, ie so much energy that we cannot contemplate how we would run out. With literal oceans of hydrogen at our feet, and more landing on earth daily in the form of comets/asteroids, speaking of infinities is understandable.
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The Netherlands is Dutch, not Danish. And he's Dutch-American now (and Python was designed in the US).
Thanks, you are right.

I wondered if Carrol Quigley addressed this. Content starting in page 954 [pdf 969] addresses the matter very directly:

http://www.carrollquigley.net/pdf/Tragedy_and_Hope.pdf
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If they were created in the US, then they're American, either in part or in whole.

You might as well pretend SpaceX isn't American either, because Elon is from South Africa. And Nvidia isn't American, because Jensen Huang is from Taiwan. Google is half Russian because Sergey Brin was born in Moscow.
Glider Pro probably didn't run well on a 68040. Of course with this emulator, speed is irrelevant if a copy can be located.
I don't see any other replies, so I'll try. Not sure this is what's best, but it's my experience.

This probably depends on what subdomain you want to look at, such as networking, software patterns, forensics concerns, or even individual framework/hardware/language issues.

Network-https://smile.amazon.com/CompTIA-Security-Network-Fundamenta...

Cyber security and forensics-
https://www.amazon.com/Engineer-Should-Security-Digital-Fore...

Patterns-
https://www.amazon.com/Security-Patterns-Practice-Designing-...
That customizability on MySpace was a security nightmare. My wife was the head of the security team back in the day and a lot of what they did to secure the site was duct tape and baling wire. It was kind of entertaining to log onto the hacker forums and see commentary on my wife's work for the day.
Are there any other industries/ cases where the manufacturer is liable for damage due to misuse by the consumer? It seems something like this is weak to begin with.
I find Ben to be out of his depth when he discusses the role of a democratically elected body should be doing to represent its constituents.

He still thinks the United States is a competitive market and that congress simply needs to open up competition.

What a wonderful, fantastic world that must be to live in.

Tech’s products are a series of unregulated skinner boxes vacuuming up data in order to segment each customer into Infinitely smaller market segments to charge them maximum prices they can afford while completely ignoring externalities. The average American is exhausted from playing this “free market virtual “game” in an ever increasing sociopathic world. The average consumer is simply ill-equipped to keep up and they aren’t earning enough to vote with their dollars.

Tech and America business needs to shape up or welcome a bunch of bullshit laws because Americans are tired of this and will welcome “big government”. maybe ben living in Hong Kong can’t see what is happening “on the ground” so to speak.

Read the room, Ben.
Yeah we were doing numerical linear algebra before everyone though it was the key to replacing call centers (well in my case after, but the field generally)

So the tech companies hired a bunch of us
I Spent a year trying to get a prescription for azithromycin before giving up.

I was explaining to a new doctor how my weird symptoms would go away on azithromycin or doxycycline for several weeks. He looked at me and said, oh you have an autoimmune disorder then. He even guessed the correct one. One I had never heard of.

He hadn’t read any studies on it. Was just something he noticed in decades of treating people.
You don't see a middle class people moving into the upper class here either. Social mobility is higher in Europe than in the US, and economic mobility is higher in Europe as well, excluding the UK.

For your first question, Europe has stronger protections for workers than the US, so Amazon would need to pay it's employees more and have more of them. This in general results in less centralized profiting. Bezos would make less but his median employee would make more, meaning as I said before, more social mobility for lower and middle class people like Amazon factory workers, at the cost of not having as many billionaires.
Saying that people are being "disappeared into vans" is a blatant mischaracterization. "Disappeared" has a very specific connotation related to Nazi Germany, or the USSR, where you literally disappear and are never heard from again. There is not a single case of people actually disappearing. There's a Snopes article elsewhere in the thread that goes into better detail about what is actually happening, and I suggest you read it (or literally any non-internet comment description of it).

It's wrong, a massive federal overreach, and I hope people are prosecuted for it, I but to equate it with the KGB killing people in government facilities or the Nazis shipping people off to camps displays a shocking lack of empathy or even the most basic understanding of history.
He compare "closed" to elevators, so I thought that "open" meant no junctions, but you can be also right.

Usually there is no operator onboard. But is still GoA 3 because emergency situations are handled by operators from a control room.
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He did not. This is a common myth with Mars missions that was started by a company called Mars One. This company was the first to announce a mission to Mars, but they never had a single piece of flight hardware, and only had fancy 3d animations. They did however have a lot of 'applications' for becoming an astronaut while the applicants had to pay money to apply. While I'm sure the founders of Mars One had good intentions, it resulted in eventually being a scam.

This unfortunately resulted in people thinking Mars is a 'one way' mission. Elon Musk has repeated that to make live on Mars sustainable, you need roundtrips. You can't keep making new rockets, eventually you need them back. Otherwise it would become too expensive.

Info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_One
Sorry friend. I don't have any advice, other than it sounds like it's time for a new job. There are places that will treat you better out there. Maybe put together a side project to learn a new technology that will make you more employable?
English is a strange language. "Twice squared" could be interpreted both as "Twice as hard, squared" or "Twice as hard, squared two times."

Think of the sentence, "A man, twice fooled, shall not be fooled again."
If they want to keep their architectural license they have to have their designs pass certain compatibility benchmarks.
Qualcomm, Broadcom, and Apple all license ARM designs. They're not the ones designing new ARM cores, they're licensing them. They're attaching all kinds of interesting other bits and bobs directly to those ARM cores, which is where their special sauce comes in. You can say the SOC design is all based in the US, but the CPU design is based in...wherever ARM does its CPU design. Which to be honest I don't know. :)

Maybe it's just pedantry since the SOCs are what has resulted in ARM taking over the mobile space (and also a big chunk of the embedded space. Your SSD and HDDs likely have multiple ARM cores).
Nothing in particular, save from the phenomenon of long form blogosphere, but in general the information dense websites. Now it's like some giant button click adventure to get where I want because of 'UX design' or latest craze, and I do hate it.
I'm not sure if figuring out best practices is possible or not, but from my observations of the field it is difficult to determine these types of things definitively. So I agree the emphasizing a singular set of "best practices" too much can be detrimental.

Moreover, I think when teachers feel forced to adopt a teaching method they dislike, their enthusiasm flags, and teacher enthusiasm is something that has a big impact on learning (I'd be interested to hear if anyone disputes the idea that miserable or apathetic teachers result in less effective teaching)

I think the most effective approach to this kind of research is a toolkit approach, where teachers adjust their teaching methods using different well-developed practices based on experience, different aspects of the student population, and the teacher's knowledge / enthusiasm for a specific technique.
Aren't there phase 3 trials already? Meaning that we are in fact already giving people experimental vaccines. Maybe if you had done it months ago it would have sped things up.
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Uh hello, Microsoft has a ton of telemetry setup in Windows. Microsoft’s greatest achievement is their data collection and how no one cares.
> or the inclination to spend on novel non-established products as much as the US market.

Moving from the west coast to Germany was definitely a fair amount of culture shock there. Americans love trying out shiny new things that are weird or different, my experience has been that Germans are much more cool to that kind of thing. They're simply less interested in novelty for novelty's sake.
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Outside of physical force, the way to make someone agree to what you have in mind is to show them how it ties into what they want.
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