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Ironic that he uses these examples as a non-incremental innovation.

> LISP, Algol, Basic, APL, Unix, C, Oracle, Smalltalk, Windows, C++, LabView, HyperCard, Mathematica, Haskell, WWW, Python, Mosaic, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Flash, Postgress.

while using the following as incremental:

> IntelliJ, Eclipse, ASP, Spring, Rails, Scala, AWS, Clojure, Heroku, V8, Go, React, Docker, Kubernetes, Wasm

What he doesn't understands is, everything is based on everything else. Many languages got inspiration from another language, or some other technology. https://github.com/stereobooster/programming-languages-genea...

There is no such thing as fully independent innovation. Not just in tech, but every single piece of innovation in human history.
That's not true. Most people hate Heroin. Some love it, of course.
No it does not, Trump is not in your personal life.
Maybe you should name it "caffeinate"...

Probably won't sell well in Utah.

The name might also collide with apple's program "caffeinate" too.
It was a reference to Kant’s so-called Copernican Revolution in Philosophy.

Philosophy existed before Kant just like program analysis existed before LLVM; I would argue that the state of the field is both fundamentally different and significantly more accessible than it was pre-LLVM.
Wayland replaced X.

Risc-v although it not software.

Rust.

Tools for running C-like code on GPUs.

Those are just the things I think belonged on the list but are not. And all of them take many years to mature and gain widespread use.
I totally understand! I probably wouldn't have been able to play it at a desk either. And BotW is better suited to the portability of the Switch as well. I can't imagine trying to play Skyward Sword on the subway or in an airplane seat, but BotW works perfectly for that, and lets you feel like you're roaming an open landscape even when you're being crammed into a sardine tin.

But I miss being able to break into a sprint, then at the right moment, jerk my left hand to roll through an enemy's legs and get behind them, spin around and draw my sword while they're figuring out where I went. Or chase them off a cliff with my little remote controlled dronebug. The combat does eventually get a lot more creative than at the start, and the enemies in Skyward Sword (bokoblins especially) felt like they had a lot more personality.
I got a guy who subcontracted a small task right away (drawing a basic login screen). Even then, they failed at that.

I'd say the way to use it is to keep subcontracting small tasks that are not time dependent, and charge a fixed rate.
That relevant quote is misleading to say the least and possibly sensational: the real reason such a modified version exists is to replace the cryptographic standards from US FIPS to Chinese-approved ones. Of course, they (like every company and government lucky enough to have access to Enterprise versions) can turn off that telemetry (there is no detail if it was indeed removed, but I wouldn't be shocked if it instead collects telemetry to be sent off to Chinese government-controlled servers).
>Neural nets share as much with biological brains as decision trees do with forests: nothing at all.
no cares US's patent troll crp , We are waiting for chinese chip to be sold in outside china
Author failed to mention the ML ecosystem, which has made significant improvements to products used by real people every day. A number of items on their cool/before 1996 list seem to serve little practical purpose. Which is cool, but it does lead to the question of by what metric we're judging a technology's importance.
I'm all for teaching personal responsibility & planning at a very young age, but I draw the line at expecting control over autonomic functions.

It's fine to ask kids to go when there's specific opportunities, but that doesn't justify restrictive policies during other times: Tiny bladders of small children don't work that way. Especially in grade school, it doesn't need to take more than 15-20 minutes to go from "I'm fine" to "I a really need to go". Especially when bathroom privileges are rationed out & tightly controlled and you become hyper aware of your bladder state. I have my two young kids "do a try" in the bathroom before we leave the house for any car ride. That doesn't stop the occasional "I have to go!" 20 minutes into the trip. And sure enough, at the rest stop it's like my kid turned from a 6 year old into an elephant from the amount that comes out of their body.

When & how quickly you develop the need to urinate depends on a lot of factors: Your specific metabolism, recent activity, what you drank and ate, body position, and probably more. And at some point mentally, you simply pass a threshold where one minute you feel no need to go to the bathroom, and the next minute you do. If that "next minute" occurs 10 minutes after lunch break, so what? What is gained by denying that need?
Circles is affiliated with NSO, and they use ss7 exploits.

Dont think they named directly who but they mentioned Circles, Rayzone in ChaosComputingClub a few days ago. THowever the link with the talk is dead for some reason - https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-11511-watching_the_watchers_-_how...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aero_Engine_Corporation_of_Chi...

The United States Department of Defense believes the AECC is linked to the People's Liberation Army.[5] In November 2020, Donald Trump issued an executive order prohibiting any American company or individual from owning shares in companies that the United States Department of Defense has listed as having links to the People's Liberation Army, which included Aero Engine Corporation of China.[6][7][8]

Err... LOL? And the the US MIC isn't? Their TLAs aren't using espionage to outbid competitors?

/me giggles...
I do know about stocking fees and display fees. And also that it is not the norm, even if some would like it to be. (And phyaical retail outlets can justify it to some extent because space is actually limited in many stores and obviously they would prefer to give the most space to products that sells fast and / or are more profitable.)

Apple has no real justification here, especially when it forcefully denies both the creators and the consumers a choice in the matter on many of its platforms.
To me it reads as bitterness about the uptake of his personal project, which he would presumably class with the cool tech from before '96. Some of the copy on that project's page has a similar feel to this blog post:

http://www.subtext-lang.org/

"This approach antagonizes both academics and professionals, but it is what I must do."
In most matters, as in life too, you cannot win once and for all, only push through constantly or lose if you don't. Being vigilant at all times about a cause you think is important is usually the only way to go.
They are able to match the performance of i5 , woooow
It sadly is a bit of a click fest to get the download installed.

First it warns you to not save the download.

Next up you get the warning from the screenshot

Then you get the normal UAC prompt that shows your company details.

After that the installer itself comes up.

I think I even am forgetting a click.

It is a pretty unpleasant install experience.
Another developer told me that you might be able to cure this by buying an EV certificate instead.

Yet another one said that the company he works for (pretty well known) has the same issue.

Of course I already bought a normal multi-year certificate which wasn't cheap.
So now I would have to throw that away and buy an EV certificate? Which are even more expensive and don't really offer more security beyond the "it's more expensive" limit.
> I can hit the call button on teams at any time. Sure it "feels" disruptive in a way walking into their cube didn't, but in actuality I think their about equally disruptive. Managers tend to underestimate the impact of "just swinging by".

I would even argue that a call is way way way less disruptive than "just swinging by" as it is was easier to someone control and manage calls (as I can turn off the notifications if I am in the middle of something super important, but I can't turn off your insistence on walking over in physical space unless I have not one, but two levels of door).
BLM at the very top. Pass.
Yes, but it is not the norm. And physical retail stores can justify it to some extent because storage / display space is actually limited and obviously they would like to give the most space to products that sells fast and / or are more profitable. (This is why FMCG - fast moving consumer goods - are so heavily advertised. Brand awareness helps their sales, and thus shops are more ready to stock it.)

Apple has no real justification here, especially when it forcefully denies both the creators and the consumers a choice in the matter on many of its platforms.
Nice work. What's on the roadmap for this? Also can I suggest a blackberry app.
Those cash shipments to Iraq were the Iraqi central bank withdrawing funds from accounts in the US. The money was Iraqi money, mostly from oil sales. They asked for it back. The US handed it over to the Iraqi central bank officials. Most of it was used to pay Iraqi government employees during reconstruction.
> just to be disruptive and/or to get out of class

Stopping making a big deal out of it will remove the disruption factor. If you can just get up and leave and nobody pays attention the act will quickly lose its effect.

> to get out of class

This suggests there's a bigger problem there if people are so desperate to get out as to fake a bathroom break, but anyway, why not let them? What's the harm? If these people are bored/disgruntled/etc then you already lost the game and no amount of force or coercion will change their mind.
I am not too surprised by this.

The secrecy and compartmentalization at Apple enables this sort of stuff to happen more often. This wouldn't happen as much at a place like Google with a perf review system calibrated across the company where the manager has little control.

There was a well-known incident at Apple where there was an entirely team that quit, except for a handful of folks who were dependent on the company for their visas and would have had to sell everything and leave the country if they also quit at that time.
Do you avoid sugar, fructose, calorie free sweeteners? Do you do strength training & cardio? Are you overweight? Is your waist to hip ratio ideal for your gender? Do you monitor your blood glucose? Get 8 hours of sleep consistently? Avoid stress? Do not live close to a highway / live in a place with high air quality? Get consistent screening for issues that your family has to catch them early? Get enough sunshine? Resolved depression or anxiety disorders? Have social connections you enjoy? Drink enough water? Do not smoke or drink alcohol? And sorry, the negatives of wine outweigh the benefits.

All of that is already hard to execute consistently in this society and is our most well known age reducing things we can do currently.

Edit: Some more: Do you fast semi regularly? Eat clean fish? Get outdoors in nature? Avoid allergens to stop triggering your immune system? Live in a dry and mold free house that still gets enough air circulation?
The problem with research is similar but even deeper. Researchers are supposed to show feasibility or existence of some result, then applied scientists and engineers take this off into industry or elsewhere to build on it.

But there's no direct trading going on at that state to ensure they deliver what is claimed, the research "product" is just dumped into papers. And those papers serve as an impediment to subsequent researchers, since you can't publish or get funded for the same thing that's already been done and supposedly proven by someone else. Of course you wouldn't have to if they had really solved the problem. But they just threw together some minimal effort to stick their name on it first before moving on to the next low-hanging fruit somewhere else. Doing a literature review can be really frustrating.
Point number 1 is very important to never forget. No matter what level you are at, HR's job is to protect the levels above you, not help you. If you are an engineer that means an opaque shield of HR policies to protect the company and all people in your management chain. Middle manager? HR will shield the directors and VPs above you, concentrating particularly on keeping the VPs safe no matter what they do.
I was speaking to a mate of mine just the other day,
a guy called Bruce Bayliss actually who lives up our way.
He's been living in Europe for the year, more or less.
I said "How was Europe, Bruce?"
He says "Fred, it's a mess"

We don't know how lucky we are, mate, we don't know how lucky we are.
WalterBright could probably comment on that as Empire (although long before my time) is apparently one of the first career-ruining-ly addictive games.
We wanted to do more simulations with Simulink models to help cut back on physical prototypes. We started tracking time spent to get the results of these simulations. Most of our engineers' time was spent finding the right models, setting them up, and configuring these simulations. They didn't have much time left to do modeling and testing work.

At first we just created some "Bill Of Models" to define systems and simulations. Slowly we've expanded the scope. Each BOM contains a system definition, components, subcomponents, interfaces, and some metadata. There's pointers to different repositories, parameter databases, and scripts to configure runtime environments. We have a small tool that reads BOMs and instantiates them as full simulations.

When someone wants to test a new system variant, they can usually just modify an existing BOM. If they have a new feature, BOMs give them an easy way to see and create every variant simulation to work with. We had to do a lot of standardization of our models, but that helped our efforts to move toward fully automated tests and CI/CD. We now have a web-based catalog of models and BOMs that are automatically generated, run, and tested. All of this has also helped get new people to use simulations for their work.
You may like Peter Gray’s article on the subject: [1]

If you are more curious, I would also suggest his book titled “Free to Learn”

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/freedom-learn/200909...
> If you didn't want those strings, then go buy a property somewhere that doesn't have an HOA.

The HOA is becoming more and more like your American ISP. When more and more properties demand an HOA, there’s only so many choices for you.

Though I don’t like the answer of “go do it somewhere else” because the real problem is not analyzed and/or solved, I do agree on the Apple front.
For me it’s Python code. Django views and models. Which honestly should be pretty fast because it’s all indent based but I’ve tried a number of things and while I would up with acceptable results they still aren’t lag free.
Realistically yes, but as a kid promised flying cars and off-world colonies it's less impressive. Blade Runner is now set in the past shrug. These are mostly hardware I suppose.

Instead we got social networking, ad tech, and surveillance capitalism.
I feel like this sentence holds the key to the author’s misunderstanding of things:

> This is as good as it gets: a 50 year old OS, 30 year old text editors, and 25 year old languages. Bullshit. No technology has ever been permanent.

Many successful software technologies are Ships of Theseus, where the collection of things with version N bears the same name as the version 1 product but nearly everything works differently or has been rewritten. Consider Modern C++ vs the original language.

Also the author just kind of ignores the whole Cloud Computing industry and virtualization.
The app was _featured_ in the App Store. They didn’t get away with anything.
That made me think "Yes, there should be". So I did a quick search and in fact it's not hard to find examples: https://fox5sandiego.com/news/parent-sues-school-after-child...
> can count the number of times I've had to work overtime with a null-pointer - 0.

Sounds to me like you've malloc'd all of memory.
How on earth does this post have this many upvotes? I find in nonsensical in almost every way, most importantly that the author just waves away or flat out ignores basically every major advance in software engineering of the past 25 years.

I mean, does he think the amazing revolution in machine learning, AI and neural networks just didn't happen? What about the absolute tidal wave of open source projects in general? In 1996 if there wasn't a library for some small piece of functionality you needed you either needed to pay for it (anyone remember the market for VB controls?) or build it yourself. These days usually the problem is figuring out which open source library is the best one for your needs.
Is it actually the case that we can call the comic industry Marvel and DC in 2020? I know a number of people in the web comics and independent publisher world, and it seems more and more the case that readership has changed quite a lot... DC/Marvel isn't where kids are discovering comics anymore.
You can download Mac apps outside of the Mac App Store.
IMHO, that's because to answer these questions, we need to research fields that are labeled as pseudoscience for no good reason. For example, no serious scientist who cares about career and reputation can study things like "animal magnetism" - he would be labeled a lunatic and get ousted from the community (no more grants, no more employment in academia). Plus the state of things in academia doesn't encourage big bets.
This is so awesome!

I can’t wait to try it out!

I saw it’s experimental currently, but are you planning on putting a lot of effort into it over the long haul? (I’m unsure whether I should look into it as a viable base for development.)
Getting Started in Robotics
This article is just the IT equivalent of 'no good music gets made today' and so on. It's a combination of nostalgia and advancing age, the observation he's making is really no different. I remember software in 1996 too, and most of it really sucked. If you want to relive the 90s experience just go use some Oracle or IBM software. That will show you true stagnation.
Bitcoin is a security closer to gold than anything. Limited supply and high cost of production.
Every corporate in the world.
I think you miss a crucial fact here - large part of Soviet block was incorporated by force and wanted to get rid of their influence as fast as possible. Nobody misses USRR here in Poland.
Today git is mostly used the same way as a centralized version control system, no?
I’m an ML researcher, but did my grad work in systems. Here are several crucially important technologies invented since 1996 not mentioned in the article, which are fundamental underpinnings of the research community:

- Jupyter notebooks, for teaching machine learning. I use these for teaching.
- OpenCL and other libraries for running scientific simulations on GPUs, gpflow for training on GPUs
- Keras and PyTorch (libraries for simple training of deep learning models). More than half of machine learning research exists on top of these libraries

Let’s not even get into the myriad recent discoveries in ML and libraries for them.

Parquet file format and similar formats for mass data storage. Spark and Hadoop for massive parallel computation. Hive and Athena further build upon these innovations. A good portion of distributed computing literature is built on these.

Eventually consistent databases and NOSQL. There’s so much here, hard to list everything.

ElasticSearch and Lucene and other such tools for text search.

Then there is all the low level systems research: new file systems like BTRFS and ZFS. wire guard is something that’s just been built that seems foundational.

I am running out of words but let’s conclude by saying the premise of this article is laughable
What's so impressive about V8? that billions of dollars have being pour into it to make it fast? for a problem that shouldn't have existed in the first place?
Sorry. Maybe I replied badly. You've carefully looked at those details, which is good of you; and I replied in an unnuanced way

Probably this is better: https://www.jurist.org/news/2020/09/un-experts-urge-security...

Or: https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2020/04/18/...

Short, but I think it's fair to say the BBC is missing the real facts

I used to think similarly to you. Would of believed the article's conclusion, and imagined we were doing good
> more persistence stuff. as I said earlier, it would also be cool if you could put arbitrary files in the subtrees, so .git, Mac extended attrs, editor temp files, etc all work. make it able to behave like a 'real' filesystem. also as I said earlier, some weirdness in the fact that tabs are so disposable; they have a very different lifecycle from most parts of my real filesystem. how to nudge that?

It would be interesting to have a "persistent" layer where you could store stuff related to a domain. For example you would store userscripts in "ycombinator.com" folder, and they would load each time a tab of that domain is open. That would be a clean organization.

Then, if websites are made with TabFS in mind, the gap between the concepts of "apps" and "website" is probably filled.
I’m in a hybrid senior engineer / project lead role with no direct people management responsibility.
I’ve enjoyed working remotely as my wife & I each have space for our own offices. I save 90min commuting, plus have quick access to food/coffee/restroom unlike in my crowded office which is in an upscale food dessert despite being Manhattan.

There’s been a lot of managerial meeting bloat which has only been tolerable because of savings on above time sucks and really being able to multi task through BS during zoom calls you cannot in a conference room. I find zoom has also been a great leveler as 30% of the team works in other countries.
So pre-covid 70% of us would be in a conference room the other 30% were dialed in through zoom and not participating nearly as much.

The issue is clear at the middle management level. Firms are making broad vague commitments to not forcing anyone back to office anytime soon. Senior leaders themselves seem to be enjoying the benefits of working from their vacation homes instead of their pied-a-terre. More family time, no commute time.

Sadly some middle management layers above me have willingly gone back into basically empty (10% capacity) offices for no reason. Sick of their kids & face time & workaholics basically. One team lead has actually bought a home closer to office while 15% of his team has actually gone the other direction and moved further away.

If you are already in an organization doing daily stand ups, bi-weekly sprints/closing/retro/planning, project backlog reviews, post mortems, (easily 10+ hours/week total).. plus tracking everything in Jira, with multiple active & lively Slack channels .. it’s unclear to me how middle management can’t do their job at home.

They probably feel unable to APPEAR to be doing their job to the same extent, however as you can’t see them huffing&puffing across the floor from one conference room to another back to back to back.....

Anyway I like it enough that if the pendulum swings all the way back at the end of 2021 to year-round, 5-day/week in-office 100% then I’ll answer some of those recruiter emails that have been piling up.
I concede that modernist architecture hasn't aged particularly well, but I grew up in a fairly deprived area of the UK (Torbay) and all the schools are in fairly good condition. The worst one I visited was a private one, even.

Point being that you can cherry pick any answer
Title bars and window text is in Arial. (Like the dialog box example at the top of the page.) It should all be Segoe UI.
While everyone can have an opinion, not every opinion is valuable.
I would rather work for a weapon manufacturer than Facebook. It is way more honest work to drill guns than to "bring people together" a la Zuckerberg.
"welding using daisy-chained car batteries" this is hardcore
The Windows Tone