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The gaming industry does use it quite often. It is the Watcom compiler of the modern times.
"So let me get this straight. You are impersonating federal officers and also holding me here against my will. I want a lawyer--and you might consider getting one, too."
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That is good legal advice. Not necessarily good advice for a person's well-being. Cops throw people in jail and let them die there, or even kill them directly, for less than this.
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It is trying to act as a value add, but it failing consistently and pointlessly. The data, I think, are in. It is a waste of time and limits the number of possible good teachers.
> they are legally bound to...

The problem is that cops routinely do things they aren't legally bound to do.
In his defense, we're never going to have nice things (like being able to wear tiny cameras on our heads all the time) without shit like this happening at some point in history. One day we could have computers in our contacts, and at some point between Google Glass and Google Contacts, the FBI is going to accuse people of doing illegal things with them.
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AFAIK, Cairo is said to be the bee's knees. As in, I've heard multiple people refer to it as a yardstick of good library design.
Woz deserves recognition, lets do it guy.
I agree 100% with your comment; I think you described the issue very nicely, as opposed to just reiterating the "best minds wasted on making apps" mantra (whether or not it's true, and I believe it is).

> It's not as expensive as the actual wars we are fighting, but it's not too far off either.

It's not that much different as people may think. What the real arms race and marketing have in common, is that they're at their essence a bare, exposed* positive feedback loop. Marketing done right seeks to cancel itself out; if two competing companies do their marketing in an optimal way, it will leave the customer in the same state as if no marketing effort ever occured (ok, maybe a little more tired from listening to all that crap, but otherwise his/her decisions will not be influenced). In doing so, it can in principle use up (i.e. waste) unbounded amount of resources. That's why I sincerely consider marketing to be a parasite and a plague of our times.

You know one other thing that work in the same way? Political campaigns. Each year each side hogs up more and more resources for their campaign, but done right, they just cancel each other out, ending up providing zero value for all the resources^ wasted.

So yes, I strongly believe we have a problem here.

* - think about looking at a bare, exposed core of a working nuclear reactor. Not fun.

^ - I keep using word "resources" instead of "money", because the latter invokes some weird brain failure modes in people, that make them think there's no problem here. Positive feedback loops like those don't waste abstract numbers, they waste energy, fuel, mined resources, paper, human time and human lives, and screw up our planet even more than it is already.
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as far as i heard, Immigration, before issuing the marriage-based Green Card, may grill very seriously (various pretty intimate details, etc...) trying to determine whether the marriage is real. Don't think that IRS would do less when it comes to (multi)millions.

For example:
http://marriage-and-immigrationlaw.blogspot.com/2007/09/must...
Interesting story. It seems the case went to arbitration due to a clause in the Ilya Semin employment contract and thus out of the light of regular courts:

http://dockets.justia.com/docket/california/candce/5:2012cv0...
That is not the answer to the question that I had asked. The question is, if you have to choose, which world would be the sadder place? World without Jobs or world without Woz?

The reason to ask that question is because it gives a clue, which person and which principles we ought to celebrate more.
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Activate dev mode, get access to a full Gentoo-based distro....

Chrome alone is pretty capable too, especially with Chrome Native Client...
> if I choose not to cooperate bad things may happen to me (is it legal for authorities to threaten people like that?)

Oh that's a bit like: "if I choose not to pay taxes, bad things will happen to me", isn't it? I wonder if it's "legal" for authorities to threaten people like that.
> I think that it ALSO takes a lot of hubris to tell the nation's 300 million people or so+ that you know better than they do,

Of course he knows better than they do, given that, as you said, the choices are based on "more money on advertising", and that there are no real choices available, but only those designed to cater to the most selfish and short-sighed instincts of humans (i.e. that can sell easiest). Groups of people this size are not a collection of thinking individuals, they're a dumb fluid following well-understood rules that are exploited by individuals who understand them. The choice is an illusion here.
If I come into a building wearing a full ski mask, would you expect not to get shot?
You

>However, it is true that women are targeted much more (especially when they are challenging mens sports).

You

>Give a link to said study or go back to /r/theredpill.

Hypocrite.
> What the fuck is wrong with this country?

It's a police state, for starters?
The thing that's sad is that if Intel hadn't taken so many unethical approaches to keeping AMD down when it actually was competitive with Intel on performance, the market could look totally different today. Back in the Athlon XP and early Athlon 64 days AMD was routinely ahead in benchmarks as well as power consumption, while P4 blustered along with higher and higher clock speeds. If they had gotten the market share their performance "deserved" (in some abstract sense, of course), they could have put more money into R&D and developed better follow on products. Instead, their market share grew only slowly, and eventually when Intel got back to improving performance AMD just fell behind and never recovered.

Intel's engineering prowess has to be respected, but how they got there by abusing their market position is deplorable. At this point I don't think there is any rational reason to buy AMD at any price point, they've been dominated so hard. (Buying ATI may not have helped, but these days that's the only part of AMD that's even still competitive.)
Can they tell if it's good enough based on what they see on other web sites, that may or may not be using outsourced writers, guest posts, etc?

A tech savvy user is more likely to be familiar with the reasons and risks and ignore poorer quality writing in their evaluation.
+1000

You should also mention SDLC process to make sure that a rogue developer of the merchant app doesn't send credit card numbers to a server somewhere else.
You skipped Windows 2000. Windows 2000 was NT5, XP is NT5.1… same as how Vista is NT6, and '7' NT6.1.

8 and 8.1 are only considered 6.2 and 6.3...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms72...
It's covered in the linked document. To paraphrase:

1. It includes some extraneous things such as some CSS stuff.
2. There is some evidence that some of the canvas api may be covered by patents.
> A method to make a well-to-do individual or company even more well-to-do, despite a 2x or 10x cost to the competition or to society, is a winning business proposition.

A 10x cost to competitors is great (assuming no broken laws).
> Windows 8 knows what it is about: managing your computer as Microsoft sees fit. Windows 8.1 may have given back the start button but in exchange you are now forced to create and use a Microsoft account.

For the time being you can still opt out and choose a local account. One just needs to select to create a new account, followed by clicking on the bottom text for having a local account instead.

But I do agree it is not easy to find.
Agreed. It's more like dense technical writing than literature.

That doesn't mean that reading it is any less important, or that writing readable code is any less important, or that code is all an ugly mess not worth reading.

It may mean that the reading pattern for code might not lend itself toward a reading group in the same way that literature does. So we might need to either spend more time reading code in solitude or develop new ways to do reading groups that work for this style of writing.

And it just seems plain ridiculous to say that people don't spend time reading code. People do read code, but they don't think about it as "reading" in the same way as someone reads a book, so they don't have it readily at hand when asked.
We pulled the pin much earlier than most of your list, but if it helps add to the knowledge base: http://everydaydreamholiday.com/2013/03/25/dont-dream-its-ov...
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I guess the reason for that is because even the smartest of people, at best, have only tried to do things in x ways... So if your thoughts don't align with the "tried and tested" methodologies in x, at least according to this smart person, you will probably fail.
> Activate dev mode, get access to a full Gentoo-based distro....

If you have to do that, it is a prof that it doesn't fulfill the needs of the users.

Plus which normal user is going to do this?!

https://sites.google.com/site/chromeoswikisite/home/what-s-n...
I know of the JIRA, thanks. I'm aware that it is being actively developed, but I don't necessarily believe that activity is progress. Keeping a few different players in the mix helps keep everyone focused on progress.
I use a Windows 8 laptop at home (in addition to a MacBook Pro and Windows 7 at work). I have not had problems with it. I'm not sure the reality of Microsoft's troubled OS's is as bad as the perception. 7 and Vista seem very similar to me.

The only problem I've had with Windows 8 was quickly solved once I learned the shortcut to search for applications. Win-Q to open the search page, type two or three letters, and hit Enter. It's much simpler than clicking the Start button and wading through menus.
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I 100% agree. It's always great to try to implement complicated things, but it misses the point if what you're implementing is nothing like the original system. You aren't learning how Git works if you do it that way are instead just mimicking API names
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I am stuck on a design problem. While I want to facilitate the overall usage experience by making it easier and intuitive for the user, it comes at a cost of reducing freedom to account for certain edge cases.

Overall, I am simply unable to proceed. I can't move forward with coding because my mind is blocked. I don't know which path to choose because both paths seem equally terrible and equally good.

Do I just emulate what the competition is doing but secretly repress my own desires? Am I reinventing the wheel?

How can I get out of this mess? If I choose one, the fear and despair that this won't work or some imagined user complaining fills me with doubt and forces me back to the drawing board.
Another interesting read for anyone looking for a VCs view on this topic: http://pollenizer.com/learn/startup-focus. A good, easy to read book based on their experiences.
> Chromebook just filled the hole intentionally left.

A tablet is more usable out of the box than a Chromebook. No developer mode does not count, as it is not a simple configuration switch but rather traditional Linux installation party fest.

In Europe there are still lots of places, online and offline, where one can easily get Netbooks. In some stores even with Ubuntu pre-installed.
While this is an interesting side-effect of the expanding legal status of marriage, to my knowledge this 'wealth-passing' matter has been mostly solved by savvy accountants and tax attorneys. Dynasty Trusts generally provide a satisfactory mechanism for bypassing the GST.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynasty_trust
That's covered in the article (tl;dr: explicitly not allowed).
Windows 2000 and NT were "server" systems which sometimes were used on workstations.
The point is sending the patent into the public domain so anyone can exploit it. You could argue that the monopoly of the patent creates an incentive to monetize it. I am skeptical of that, but if it's true, then the government could auction the patent instead and at the very least recoup some of their money from it. If no one wants to buy it, then it can go into the public domain.
The part that doesn't make sense right now is that Backblaze has been around for several years, and if they had some kind of infrastructural issue with transmitting large amounts of data, I'd expect this not to be the first such case to come across my news feed. (BB has been featured on HN a handful of times -- no reports that I know of so far with retrieving data from them.)

With all due respect to your expertise, in at least 9 out of 10 cases where I've encountered something similar to this, it's been a problem on the client's side of the link -- bad traffic shaping by the ISP, faulty modem, glitchy router or switch -- and those often don't show up in speed tests or media streaming or web browsing.

I have an idea that would satisfy my curiosity, if you're willing: how about renting a VPS on DigitalOcean (who charge in small increments), with enough storage for zipped file size + unzipped archive size, and then see if you can download the archive from Backblaze to the VPS and unzip it on the VPS? See e.g. http://victorwyee.com/shell/getting-backblaze-restores-via-c...

If it works, you can rsync over ssh. If it doesn't work, then I'll buy that Backblaze has got a problem.

> "This is why I used Backblaze's advertised downloader application -- I got the impression that it would provide better stability, checking, etc. to ensure that the zip file did not get corrupted."

I strongly suspect that their downloader just implements http resume in some slightly brain-damaged way.

> "...my point is that I pay them so that I can restore my files conveniently, not so that I can be upsold to a $189 drive."

Ah.

You're paying them $5/month to store your data. That's it. It's a bit of a nit to pick, but it's important: for $5/month, they're not guaranteeing that you can download your data. So providing alternatives to downloading is not an "upsell" (especially at those prices).
No, that's not quite the right conclusion. Did you ever go to a music show around 1999–2000? I remember security would confiscate all cameras and cell phones. But not a lot of people had them back then. Nowadays if they tried to do that there would be a riot.

So the real takeaway is, be careful when you have tech that the whole world hasn't embraced yet. If 99% of people are wearing google-glass style things in 15 years, I guarantee there won't be incidents like this.

There is safety in numbers.
Cairo & <canvas>'s drawing models are rather similar iirc.
>Kimble is a fraud and an asshole.

Sort of like Sean parker, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, ETC...

All criminals. Do you consider them all in the same contempt?
It seems pretty evident that some people are going to be wearing computers on their faces, and all of these computers come with cameras. Bootlegs are always available (in terrible quality), anyway.
I don't know how you do it when you work for someone else. I've been developing software for 15 years and mis-management, ridiculous corporate culture, and being forced to work weekends to make up for the mistakes of my superiors nearly drove me from development completely.

Things got better when I started my own company.
> This is not an acceptable use of trademarks.

But if you were Intel, would you have your engineers work on competitors' products to make sure they are well supported on your line of tools? Before making an answer, consider that the core implementation of AMD cpus differ significanrly from those of Intel: instruction timings are slightly different, whether you look at them individually or in groups. It's not just a matter of turning a switch to get optimal performances, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Now, from a business standpoint, I think it could make sense for them to make their compiler produce fast code for any chip, but the legal implications of having a conccurent's product burn because of code produced with your compiler might make you think twice before going that road. Intel probably chose the safe road for a reason. Also, note that the produced code isn't crippled (as in, it doesn't make AMD cpu execute endless loops, or produce wrong results more than Intel's ones), it just follow the safest path.
I disagree. I don't think "retarded" was used with the connotation that you thought it was used in.
I'm not sure about Cairo, but IMHO AGG is probably one of the best C++ libraries out there. Great use of C++ capabilities like templates. Too bad, development isn't active anymore.

AGG - http://antigrain.com
It does if you trade your own money, and I'm sure that's more lucrative than working as a trader, but it's easier to measure a trader's output I imagine.
Make you wonder if our industry's mind share being wasted on web apps and consumer gadgets because of the profit incentive associated?

Engineers that work in defense/nasa/etc generally aren't on twitter, linkedin or facebook broadcasting, well, anything - you just don't hear about them unless you personally know some of these people. It's part of the job description to be private and avoid becoming a target of the media or a foreign nation. It also makes it difficult to stay in touch with colleagues when you're relegated to the rolodex-era of communication.

Quite contrary to your statement, this world might be 1000 times better if the same engineers working on government programs were to work in the commercial sector, pushing the boundaries of tech that is accessible by everyday people.
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7012329
No, your rights still apply everywhere. Unfortunately you don't have a right to board an aircraft so that is the only thing they can use against you.
great answer, I've sent you an email just now.
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I'd be interested in volunteering with the Long Now Foundation. How does that work?
I think the claim is "nobody reads code the way they read literature", which isn't a strawman in the context he's writing.
Oh shit, apparently the guy behind AGG, Maxim Shemanarev, died 2 months ago.

http://beta.slashdot.org/submission/3154635/rip-maxim-sheman...
I've seen interviews where Feynman talks about how everyone else was intimidated by Oppenheimer, while he was too excited about the physics and ideas to realize he should be intimidated. I also think the PBS documentary "The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer"[1] was really excellent.

However, I can just easily imagine not having come across either of these before.[2]

[1] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/oppenheimer...

[2] https://xkcd.com/1053/
As are pretty much all immediate-mode 2D graphics APIs, except maybe OpenGL (when used as such).
It's a cultural, psychological, linguistic mixup more than anything else. People do read code all the time, they just hesitate to respond to a question like "what code have you read recently". It's hard to answer that question in english without implying that you have completely read a program (rare) that was completely written (in other words, "finished", which is even more rare).

If you asked a different question, like "explain how you read code in the course of a typical project or experiment" you will get a ton of examples. They might describe how they look to understand the basic data structures, and then imagine some sample data flowing through the algorithm to understand the purpose, and then examine the details, edge cases, and interactions to see why some non-obvious choices were made. Then they might describe how they use this to find what parts of the code should be generalized, specialized, or extended to fit new functionality.

It might be interesting to incorporate code reading into an interview to see the strategies that people use. It would be quite difficult to make it a fair question, though, because patterns vary widely and it often takes more than an hour or so to adapt.
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In the end, the only opinion that matters are those of your users. You should talk to them - find out what they like and don't like ( to gain some perspective ) and then iterate on what works.

Try to reduce the amount of things you are working with to the bare minimum - ex. actors + action = result - and revisit the models you designed and determine how the action should change their state. Workflow diagrams sometimes help to visualize complex interactions too.
Entering into a marriage to evade immigration laws specifically made a felony by statute. (8 U.S.C. § 1325).

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1325
So how does this annoying paywall work? I clicked the link 5 times. At the 6th time it showed me the full article without the url-tail. Can someone confirm that?
I wonder which prominent physicist tried to throw him under the bus in the letter beginning on page 110? Teller, maybe?
Ask a lawyer for that. Borders are some weird stuff in the law. You can also read https://www.eff.org/wp/defending-privacy-us-border-guide-tra...
I get 1 Gbps for less than $20 where I live (Europe), and unlimited bandwidth, but I'm not bothering with the extra speed yet because I'm going to need a good 802.11ac router and an SSD-enabled laptop to take full advantage of it.

So I'll wait a year longer or so until 1+ Gbps Wi-Fi arrives in laptops and also in routers (second wave of 802.11ac routers will do that, first wave isn't quite there yet). By then SSD prices should be a little lower, too.
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The URL is mistyped, 2104 to 2014
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