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Couple of interesting things that the article did not describe. The addresses of instructions in the b5500 were decimal. Yes, decimal.

IBM came out with the IBM 380 model 67 in about 1967 with it's first implementation of virtual memory. I believe that was done in conjunction with U. Mich.

In the 60s there was lots of discussion about virtual memory, what size should the "working set" be, and so on. As for many things in that time and actually decades later, ideas were not accepted until IBM implemented them. Many folk at the time thought that IBM invented virtual memory.

What is missing from most of these discussions is an even more remarkable machine (in my view), the Burroughs B1700. It did not have a fixed instruction set size--each program had a definition in the header of the file that specified the size of the word, the number of bits in the instruction field, and so on. In fact, the instruction codes were not fixed, and changed several times. Only the compiler writer and the firmware engineer had to agree on the meaning of the codes.

And yes, I believe that Alan Kay is right about misguided hardware architectures after all these years. There was lots of disappointment when the 360 instruction set came out when it was compared to the instruction sets that came before it. The instruction set of the DEC-10 and relatives was a thing of beauty. The PDP-11 was also quite nice, and if you have ever looked at a Motorola 6809, you can see some resemblance.

The Intel instruction sets continued this negative trend. It has always seemed to me that the instructions were designed with an eye to optimizing the wrong thing, and prematurely.

What Intel is good at are 1) design wins and 2) fab process improvements. Instruction set or software design, not so much.

We need somebody to turn this cart over and straighten up this mess.
C can represent the type "array of 10 ints":

int array[10];

But probably you meant runtime variable values.
> school is a prison camp used by vested interests to teach American citizens from a young age that they have no rights and to stymie any sort of real intellectual development

There's a pretty strong argument made that that is actually the case and its intentional, backed by actual history.

Have you read The Underground History of American Education? It's extremely interesting and well referenced. Read it free here, or get the print book on amazon if you like. http://johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm
I know this is juvenile, but when I read the part about how this can be used as a spray-on coating, the first thing that came to mind was:

1. bored teenagers
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> "We had a limited amount of materials to pick from," Smith says. "I can’t say what they are, but we’ve patented the hell out of it."

Wait wait wait, someone needs to explain to them what the intent of a patent actually is.
For me there is a good chance that once you meet up with someone the conversation will go smoothly, as long as there's a fit, and that's what you are looking for using this app. The founder can talk about the project and see how the coder could fit. And if there's not a good fit there, is always great to know new people and know what's happening around :)
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Unions are a stronger force in CA than most states, so it will indeed get interesting once it's a real threat.

I can almost see it now, there will be a long interim period where even self-driving cars will require a union driver. You know, for public safety reasons.
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I don't think there's an objective way to divide the credit - different people are going to assign different weights to different parts of the process because they have different values.

That being said, it is clear many Apple fans (and Apple themselves, frankly) have gone way past a reasonable division of credit. Considering the last decade-plus of smartphone history, the idea that Apple should be suing HTC (among others) over products they developed with Andy Rubin's ex-Danger team is laughable. If either (or both) had spent a bit more time and money on patent lawyers in the early 2000s, they could have sued the iPhone out of existence. At least at HTC (at Google is a more complicated question), I'm sure there are a few people who regret that they didn't.
I think his point was that since Nevada acted first - California didn't want to be left behind, so they jumped on board.
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Is this technology at work in limited controlled environments yet? If not, why not?

I'm thinking large places like military bases, movie studio lots, big factories, tunnels at Disneyland, etc.
I'll hazard a guess as to what's going on here. The OP mentions the B5000's use of descriptors. I think it's decoding a descriptor and doing bounds checking on every array access. That would certainly slow down a machine that didn't have hardware support for these operations.
Huh? We're talking about a library to use in applications, web apps or otherwise, and finding ways to make them usable with multiple languages. That screams "C", as every language I can name can call C code. If they delivered libsaas as a C library, everyone can write a small wrapper and then have it in their favorite language.

Honestly, I don't know what "deliver integration over the Internet in a web app" means in this context at all.

I'm sure there are already C libraries to make REST calls easy and the rest is just creating the proper queries and parsing responses into usable structures, etc.
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My vision for these boards is not to display graphics, but to send/receive data from the internet and a local network. I'm not going to use a Pi to watch movies or some other resource-intensive task. I'd just as soon use the power of GPU that comes with Pi for some other task besides video.

What would be interesting is if one of these boards would be designed such that, by pure coincidence, it could fit into an Apple form factor (cheap/old/maybe used). I've read that in, e.g., Vietnam, people with soldering irons do all sorts of hackish things to iPhones.

Or maybe a market for curved edge form factor casings develops. Maybe it already exists. But I never saw any Apple-like form factors in the mini-ITX offerings.
Whenever you see something with a cool form factor, it seems it's always a proprietary package, hermetically sealed, not easy to tinker with.
The 'enter your e-mail address to get X' approach is spreading! Unsurprising.. because it works like gangbusters :-)

In this case, you get an e-mail that says: "Periodically we'll drop you a line if we have something interesting to share." (There's also an unsubscribe link.) They'll get to build up an incredible list with this.

I'm happy to see 37signals using this approach as it helps legitimize the technique of building a list using free content without disclosing a subscription up front. Till now I've avoided this technique but I imagine it could convert like crazy and build a good list if done right.
The other companies who will want this technology (car companies) are extremely well connected politically, and infinitely more experienced than Google at lobbying (see gas mileage requirements).

Google simply won't be allowed to monopolize the technology, no matter what patents they have.
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Let's play this game again in 7 days.
Unfortunately, Facebook is worth only $66 billion now...so about two Pricelines.
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1. Ctrl-W

2. Type in a terminal:

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and kill and restart the Dock

3. They say there's an app called Secrets that lets you play with such config stuff.
> but our big idea is much much bigger.

Tell us more!
I think there's a good lesson for startups building platforms: don't underestimate the importance of hustle.

I met James and his team at a hackathon this past March. Twilio (the company I work for) was a sponsor, along with Firebase and several other API companies. I had never heard of Firebase, and I don't think any of the ~100 developers there had either.

James and his team (~6 of so colleagues & friends) spent that weekend talking to every team there, understanding what they were trying to do and diving into their code. They were everywhere, buying beer, lending a helping hand, you name it.

3 months later, they raise a million dollars. Not a coincidence.
Then, by definition, you would not have run out of bugs.
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Remote control of cars by government authorities will be inevitable once this tech is in use. It's as certain a thing as there is.

Government access to your navigational records, which will exist on a centralized service, is only slightly less certain.

Not that I think it's a conspiratorial threat to our freedoms, but there are tradeoffs that will come with this.
Are you being sarcastic? I genuinely can't tell.
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Guys, I'm a brazilian eager to work for a startup. I'm still in school, but I would not care to make a six month sabbatical, to work on a startup.

What skills (tech and non-technical) and connection do you think I must have to work in a early stage startup?
> And only about 5% of phones have it.

This is a statement of the fact that seems reasonable.

> Devs have to prioritize. Obviously, power-users are going to be up-to-date, but the vast majority of customers are probably not affected. I would imagine the customers of The Economist on Android are less likely to fit the power-user profile than other apps.

This is a justification I entirely agree with. It doesn't mean that there isn't a fragmentation problem that annoys customers.

I understand why this is, there was never to be doubt about it. Just because it is understandable doesn't get to the heart of my disagreement with the headline: there is a fragmentation problem.
I got my current job from LinkedIn, and my network isn't all that big. I actually use LI for keeping up to date on industries and certain interests via the groups. So, no, there would be no incentive that would keep me off my personal networking. Besides, where do you think alot of these recruiters go to find talent?
There's a whole range of passes being made at this. I think the last ten years have been about the interpreted "scripting" languages and it's become obvious the next major PL niche is one of these safer-yet-systems-level languages, so in addition to the ongoing research it seems to me like there's been a burst of work on these, with more to come. D is among the most mature, and the least revolutionary, with all that entails. Mozilla is doing Rust. Go arguably fits into this area, though I'm not sure it's quite meant for kernels per se. (It is a systems level language, though.)

But given that 2040 was the year tossed in, I was also thinking the next generation after that, where some of the next-next generation of verification would be folded in. There you're looking at Haskell as being the gateway into that world (even though it is not really that verifiable in the strongest sense itself, it gets your foot in the door), and the Coq and Agda and the slowly-but-surely increasingly usable proof assistants, which would be useful for a provable-not-corruptable (via normal software means) software kernel.

Though... if one looks at the rate of advance in kernels over the past 30 years and then project out to the next 30, we get a distressingly high probability of it still being in C. Still, I cautiously optimistically (or pessimistically, depending) think that the hardware revolution that we are still only at the beginning of as we run out of Moore's Law is going to produce non-C languages that will eventually be irresistible to produce kernels in. There's going to be ever more constraints we want to maintain and it's going to get harder and harder to maintain them without some sort of language support beyond what C can supply.
Chances are that yes you are doing something wrong...if you goal is to attract recruiters. Linkedin has some secrets just like any other platform and one of them is that recruiters tend to like 2nd or 3rd level connections so that they can see who you network with.

There are also ways to add keywords to your profile that make it easier for them to search by certain competencies or experience.

The number of recruiter requests that I get has increased steadily as I have increased the size of my network. Once you hit over 500 connections it seems to be a tipping point.

There are some other settings that indicate that you are open for conversations on hiring, business opportunities etc - that make it easier for them to contact you. Good luck.
All in good time my friend. :) We've only just begun.
binary trees actually make a fantastic hook to interest people in haskell, because operations like defining, constructing and balancing trees are so much easier than in most languages.
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Isn't that basically ScotchGuard?
The embedded market has always been "bigger" than the PC market for processors, but Motorola was the gorilla until they fragmented into a bunch of companies. ARM has been mostly irrelevant until they got a foot-hold in the mobile phone market.

It'll be interesting to see if ARM can parlay their near stranglehold on the market now into further dominance into previously desktop-only domains, and possibly even servers.
Where on earth do you get a beaglebone for £55? Haven't seen it for < £70.
Why not use cloudfoundry.org or openshift.redhat.com/community/open-source ? They seem to be solve the same solution, but have substantial backing. Is there anything they don't do that you needed?
I completely agree. I wanted to like the HSR project, but between bureaucracy and negotiation problems like holdouts by private actors, environmental litigation by private attorneys-general [1] and so forth, it just looks doomed. The fact that they don't anticipate electrifying the rail lines from San Francisco to San Jose until 2020 is just absurd. Last time I went down to Stanford (~35 miles from where I live) for a conference, the only way I could get there by 8am on Saturday morning by public transport required a $60 taxi journey for the last few miles, or taking a bus to San Jose and then going back north from there.

1. Dredging the port of Oakland to allow larger ships to dock (thereby boosting the Bay area economy) sounds like such a simple idea, and yet it took 25 years of litigation and a major rethink in the management of infrastructure projects to get it done: http://www.law.nyu.edu/ecm_dlv/groups/public/@nyu_law_websit...
The startup ecosystem in Brazil is growing nicely. I would suggest you get some practical experience, working on your own projects or joining some others. Just build stuff, learn as much as possible. Non-technical people just need to do anything/everything else to make the business work.

Hope we can help you find a great startup in the future!
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Wow, I was just thinking of this the other day. I was opening honey packets into my yogurt and thought that some super-hydrophobic coating would get all that honey out of there.

This is really cool - it would be nice to see it coating piping as well.
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This is perfect timing. Can someone offer me advice? I'm young.

I'm in the process of negotiating to join a biotech startup in the Bay Area. I am a graduating undergraduate student, and interned with the startup team previously when they were working in research at BigCo. They left, licensed their own hardware patents from BigCo, and are starting up. They are asked me to join them in return for housing reimbursement, a meager living allowance, and an uncertain amount of equity.

I know it depends on how much risk I am willing to shoulder, but what would be reasonable terms for salary and equity, considering I'm a fresh grad?

They would bring me on as an early engineering hire, and they are currently bootstrapping from savings while working on the product and courting angels. Series A would certainly be far off. The founders have solid connections, and have brought in an experienced woman to act as CEO/advisor until they have funding. She was previously the CEO of a well-regarded company in the same space.

The equity would be in the form of RSU, and salary would increase after angel funding, and to market rate later on or with Series A. The personalities of the founders are great, and I believe in the product.

I don't have an employment history, but I interned at well-known research institutions each summer, later at BigCo, and attended (private) school on a full merit scholarship. My skill set extends beyond software to several other areas (that would, if mentioned, make it possible to identify me). I'm wet behind the ears, but capable.

I also have a regular "corporate" offer elsewhere, at a salary comparable to a low-end Bay Area market salary.
You have many strong and valid points, But I think it's possible to engineer a world where "Memory corruption related exploits" cease to exit. There are many high-level programming techniques that can be used to prevent those, and I was making a point that we can fix the low-level ones also, most likely formal verification is not the way there, but it does exist as a possibility.

That is a very far cry from saying we can live in a world with perfect security, which I think is the point you are trying to make.
I believe the physics concept behind this is:

- An object will remain in the same state of motion (or rest) unless acted on by a force.

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We are not going to evolve as a society until we abolish unionized labor. I know that this is a strong statement. And it is likely to attract serious disagreement. Take this as on man's opinion and nothing else.

It is my contention that in modern times unionized labor has done absolutely nothing good for our society. I understand that they had a time and a place to exist. Today, there's far more evidence of the damage they cause than the positive effects they may have been intended to produce.

Unions create a false economy. One where people are paid exorbitant amounts of money for work that could be done for less in an open market. Unions also create stagnation both in terms of innovation and of human capital. Union members exist in an isolated cocoon where there is no need to excel or evolve past your station. Unions damage competitiveness at a national and international level. Unions damage the economy and destroy industries by creating contracts with unreasonable terms, benefits and pensions. Unions in government create a nasty conflict-of-interest situation where hordes of people vote as a unified block supporting the very laws and politicians that regulate their own jobs (vote for your own pay raise, etc.). Unions also use this vote-by-mob approach to influence politics and the politicians that want their votes.

It is my opinion that unionized workers, as individuals, are generally good hard-working people. However, once their thoughts and actions are controlled by the need to support their "team" (the union) the collective can, and often becomes, evil in many ways. Case in point: UAW contract clause that causes car companies to have to retain workers displaced by automation. These workers earn full salary to do absolutely nothing. The Chinese have got to be laughing their asses off when they see us self-destruct this way.

Teacher unions are yet another example. The list of evils is too long to list here. The most basic one is the inability to fire bad or even down-right criminal teachers.

We would be able to move at a very different pace if unions went away. I won't hold my breath.
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Started to seriously learn programming about 2 years ago by joining a user group, reading lots of books and writing lots of code to practice. The only way to learn is by doing.
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Thanks for the fast response. No doubt that I will use your software to find one.
No it can't. Who is going to fight for the guilty if you can't even find enough people to fight for the innocent?
I certainly didn't mean to imply that you had that belief by any means. My world (much smaller than yours, of course) is utterly dominated by the cross-X/injection complex of security vulnerabilities (cross-site scripting, SQL injection, shell command injection, all the same thing in the end really). I've also lost track of the times I've encountered the moral equivalents of "limited admin permitted to make new user accounts is capable of creating a full admin account and controlling its password" or some equally brain-dead simple privilege escalation that doesn't even involve anything "clever". I was just contextualizing.
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Amazing. Finally someone is putting actions to there words. So many people have complained of this gender-specific toy issue and no one, until now, has really done anything about it (as far as I know). This is one kick starter project I can see really taking off.
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Interesting point. Realistically, Heinz would prefer that you didn't get all the sauce out, because you'll buy another bottle more quickly if some isn't accessible.
Visual Studio is a unique case in that it had the giant of Microsoft and their windows platform behind it, and IIRC, at the time no opensource free alternatives. I'm not sure in a modern world, Light Table advantages would afford it the same spread.
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