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6. The 8-bit microcomputer madness. How many pieces of software were ported to half a dozen or more platforms?
GIMP doesn't support all of most people's ten percent, almost regardless of involvement. That is very far from delusional.
I'm intrigued.

This is a problem that many, many very smart people have spent careers on. Putting out a teaser post is brave and I have to believe you know what you are doing.

I am looking forward to the first taste. Do you have an ETA ?
Yeah I hear you. We put ton of long form philosophical waxing onto our blog in the early days. We're working now on taking all that and boiling it down to homepage-speak. Homepages are hard ;)
It was about medical equipment. See: Sony to invest $644 million in Olympus, become top shareholder
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/28/us-olympus-sony-st...
Couldn't you reword that to say "if you are unable to work on what bosses considers important then don't be an employee."

I tend to agree that some bosses are micro managing idiots. But I had a boss who told me what side of the desk my phone had to be on - even though I'm left handed.
I tested it in a VM. It is like a low latency version of what the previous version is. Extremely responsive.

Now I need about 6 ppas to add support for Trusty before I can upgrade my main system to it.

Including TrueCrypt.
Most of them, but they don't consciously realize what they're doing in most cases. The norms for their profession slowly creep towards over-pathologizing because of the profit incentive and also because of the effectiveness of advertising campaigns by drug companies. Social norms have changed across a broad demographic to accommodate the large scale systemic misdiagnosis problem. Just because the manipulation for profit is widespread and well accepted does not mean it's not happening.
It is as simple as the second most popular theory makes it out to be.

Holder is wrong. This shouldn't be surprising.
That was a very nicely written piece and he had me going until this part:
"We're on the cusp of what I think is not The Next Big Platform, but rather simply The Final Platform – the platform to end all platforms"

The problem is that under FB, this will end up being the metafaceverse.com platform, that you can only access under their umbrella, just as with the current FB "platform". And you will be subject to their terms and conditions within their walled garden both as a user and a developer.

That's not the kind of platform the internet needs. This won't be another WWW but another AOL.
Any other netrunner-os lovers here? Its an Ubuntu derivate with KDE by default, but with much more sane defaults and loads of goodness preinstalled (ad-blockers, YT-downloaders, Steam, codecs, etc.)

I love it! (but it's released several months after Ubuntu is released)
We do have a tap event plugin in our addons build, but we could definitely use more on this front :)
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I love these stories of lone (perhaps obsessive) developers laboring in seclusion for months, only to emerge with some awesome new thing that we can all get excited about. Must be a great sense of accomplishment, and a strong incentive to keep grinding away.
No need to be a wealthy law firm. $1100 for an obviously deductible business expense isn't much, about the same as a quality laptop (and far less than what people used to pay for a quality laptop). You'll see people using these on CSI or some other legal-themed network TV show before the end of the year, possibly even the end of this season. If I was a TV show producer I'd be on the phone to Sony right now begging for two of them - one for the TV lawyers to use on screen, and one for me to mark up scripts on.
I agree that mobile is critical to remaining relevant (along with security), two areas where Mozilla/Firefox have been pretty subpar. I don't think Eich has specific security or mobile expertise, but he is quite technical, which is a big improvement over a lot of potential CEOs, and I think a technical CEO is likely to prioritize security and mobile.

(The whole "donate to prop 8" thing is a red herring; Mozilla needs someone who is excellent at the things Mozilla most needs (hire for strength) vs. the absence of any weaknesses (politically incorrect donations); it's possible Eich doesn't have the right strengths.)

Is Mozilla not capable of attracting really top-tier people for senior leadership due to lack of an equity upside, or culture, or something else? I realize the pool is pretty small, but there are people with either mobile or security leadership experience who would probably take the job.
I'm not sure if you wrote it or if someone else at CB Insights wrote it but it is interesting. When you looked at the data, did you considered the following two possibilities:

1) The founders who raised from VCs for their seed understood how to raise money from VCs and were much more likely to be able to repeat the process.

2) The VCs had better deal flow and were able to finance companies with higher probabilities of raising additional rounds.

I spent a few years working with an angel investment presentation group at my university. I noticed that the deal flow was primarily companies that could have a $20m-$50m exit, but were never going to be mid caps or large caps and that exit value is largely ignored by VCs. The more angel money that funds those, the less opportunity for follow on rounds for the group financed by angels.

Additionally, the situation your data describes doesn't really fit the Y Combinator example since qualitatively they are very different. The VCs that invest in Y Combinator companies at the seed stage do so in batches without analysis. That changes over the course of time, after they have made the investment as they get to see progress. The fact that they make the original investment blind, then later make the second investment with better information causes your data to not be applicable to the situation.

Now, before you think that I am saying that the signaling is an issue, understand that I do not know if it is or isn't. I was simply pointing out what I believe the author meant.
Is there a PR for that on http://llvm.org/bugs/ ?
I don't get it. What is wrong with someone donating his money legitimately to a cause that restricts someone' freedom ?

- Should I leave my job if my CEO supports Gun Control ?
- As a government employee is it rational for me to leave my job because Obama's idiotic welfare programs are reducing choice for millions of people in education and other fields ?

How on earth it helps anyone including the LGBT community itself ? Likely this hurts their employment chances.
It's not just startup pages. Often open source software homepage is a news page, which means recent release change lists are what the user sees first.

I guess someone good at writing and wrangling the change system could submit change requests, but it's a shame that's needed.
Locked out of iOS. Under heavly competition on Android. Put the metro port on the back burner. Increasingly fighting to stay on feature parity with Chrome on the desktop. FirefoxOS still to make an impact.

I love Firefox. I'm just worried for it. With the world going mobile, I wonder if there's space for Firefox. It would be such a shame not to see it around 5 years from now.

I wonder if it makes sense for a small organization to spend so much time and money on a custom rendering engine. Is it such a horrible idea to fork and contribute to blink? Just thinking out loud. Mostly out of despair.
Breaking Bad episode Ozymandias (s05e14) has a rating of 10!

http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0903747
Core team member here. That's excellent feedback and we are definitely going to be pushing in that direction where we can. API simplicity will always be a primary goal and a modular core implementation will help advancement of mobile support and testability. The event system is already self contained and shouldn't depend on anything in React at all.
An OTA update to increase the ground clearance at highway speeds. Wow. Just wow. I for one welcome the future and please give this man all the money he wants.
This seems unusual. Isn't the board responsible for appointing the CEO, to begin with? How can it be that half the board resigns after their own CEO appointment?

Even if the appointment were simply a majority of the board, that in and of itself raises bizarre questions. Why is a CEO appointed only on a 3-3 (or 4-2) vote? Usually you would want unanimity in important things like this.

This certainly opens up a lot of questions.
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Thanks. That's actually more than enough to help me understand and compare. For completeness you may want to mention in your original review that you used a default wordpress install for the tests which is ~250-500kB downloaded and listed as "Bytes In" in a webpagetest.org result. Maybe you did and I missed it.

I started my tests with a default install too, but found that the actual sites I deal with are in the 1-2MB range so I imported "dummy content" I found somewhere to get more representative data and test different stacks of my own creation.

I decided to go with a $40/mo un-managed VPS 6 months ago partly because managed would have been hundreds of dollars more per month and partly because I wanted to learn how to do it myself. After approx 6mo of testing and optimizing various stacks with similar results to these managed hosts I have to say they represent a tremendous value. Configuration management, back ups, maintenance, security and disaster recovery of a high performance stack is a lot of work and I am not sure if I want to keep doing it.

That said, I could probably start my own managed hosting company that would compete well at this point!
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>Also, don't forget that everything is an object.

This is false. What point are you trying to make here?
This ignores the huge and growing influence of engineer-led companies, YC empowering founders vs financiers...

Do you think that engineer-driven companies are increasing? It seems to be going the other way. Maybe the bad guys aren't more numerous than before, but they've learned to speak our language. There are plenty of companies with horrible culture/management that claim to be doing machine learning and take in just enough talent to convincingly tell a story (see: Knewton, which presents itself as a "big data" company but (a) isn't really doing ML, and (b) has the worst kind of MBA culture).

I'd love to see you be right. I do think that, if you exclude elite tech-literate hedge funds, the Bay Area is still the most progressive employment culture in the U.S. That's damning with faint praise. It still has a lot of trash that I hope will be taken out when the bubble ends.

The tech leadership here is miles better on average than any other city I've worked in or know through friends.

I think you're right, sadly. For as much awfulness as there is in the Bay Area, I feel like the technical culture in the rest of the country is even less evolved.

The ethics are (surprisingly?) better in top hedge funds, and there's more of a meritocracy, but (a) that's not a very useful economic sector and (b) it can't scale up and employ more than a small number of elite people.

Google, Facebook, Apple, Twitter are all waaaaaaay more important than anyone taking VC money right now.

Point taken. But Google uses closed allocation and while that may be the right thing for Google, the idea that any company can be a cultural leader in technology (which Google still is, at least in reputation) and run closed allocation is cataclysmic.

this is a structural local government land use issue present everywhere in the US but more of an issue here because of SV's wealth (vs income) generation.

Fair point. The (mostly undeservedly) hated "techies" are almost an entirely separate set from the NIMBYs who are causing the problem.

The issue with rent, though, is that it encourages bad culture. Manhattan doesn't magically turn people into assholes, and neither does San Francisco. But when people absolutely need to be employed 12 months out of the year or risk total financial catastrophe, they can be taken advantage of in ways that you wouldn't see in more affordable locales, and that attracts... the kinds of people who want to exploit a pool of captive labor.
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Those are the greats today, and with a talent pool like that it's likely that many future greats will be created there. You have to do more than write good code to be legendary.

Maybe Facebook might end up being the Xerox PARC of our modern times.
OK, I'll bite.

First, sorry we don't have comments yet. I'm the author, so you no longer have to be enraged. Perhaps just annoyed.

Second, with Ruby 2.1, out of the box, this code:

while true do
"a" * (1024 ** 2)
end

leads to infinite process growth. There should be no need for "memory doubling" to run this code -- you're generating throwaway strings of identical size. Similar code, in other languages, does not lead to out of control memory consumption.

Also, the problem isn't caused by disabling the GC. This happens in stock Ruby 2.1. Disabling the GC (and running it once per request) is the fix for the problem.
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I think with regards to the Simpsons it's just that it was better quality pre-2000 or whatever. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096697/reviews?ref_=tt_urv you can read through the reviews and see several good points about it.
Is flexibility a particularly useful feature for lawyers? I've always kind of thought that flexibility was one of the shortcomings of paper in most situations involving writing, hence clipboards.
What I'd really like to see is a switch to macros instead of preprocessors, so you could use (almost) arbitrary transformers together. While not always possible, it would at least let one easily mix, say, JSX and generators from different libraries.
I know 280 though and Tesla S drivers although they often like to drive fast are generally courteous.
Do you have anything that does explain how it works? I'm very interested and would love to learn about it.
The JVM has at least a security model/system. Something the Ruby MRI VM lacks. i.e. a ruby program is never in a sandbox.

Using the JVM with JRuby or Ruby MRI as webserver are reasonably equivalent in security footprint. And in recent history MRI has had really worrying security issues too e.g. https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/11/22/heap-overflow-i...

I mean security can always be improved but you are comparing apples to apples and declaring one of the two to be an orange without decent evidence or support.
While you write that you want to avoid alienation, your language is inflammatory.

Beyond that, the scientific method is not vastly superior (morally?) to religion. The one is a system for examining that which is discoverable while the other attempts to relate to that which is not. In other words, they are orthogonal.
>I think the unfair early advantage these third party investors had is the real issue here, and much more in-line with changes YC has made in the past*

That makes more sense than the signaling issue.
64 characters with AVX-512? =)
Pretty much the same answer from a CPU researcher formerly at Intel, in a reddit AMA.

"I like FPGAs, but I doubt they will ever become widely deployed. They pay ~20x overhead, so any algorithm that is a good fit for them becomes a new instruction in the next CPU generation. The reprogrammability is only a feature in highly constrained (i.e. niche) environments."

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1yj77b/as_requested_i_...
Can you tell more what's your tech stack with TypeScript?
No, that's worse!

The page shouldn't say: "Today, developing apps is cheap, and founders want to take the risk themselves. There's no need for millions of dollars. Let's cut Wall Street out, and fund them ourselves. With Ramen.is, you can:

* ...
* ...

"

It should say, "Crowd-funding for app developers. Let your app be funded by those who need it, $5 at a time.

If you build it, it's because they came."
I think support for Rust and Servo shows there is recognition on the security front, and also that attempting to brute force it through people power won't work for them.

On mobile, I think there's a relative handful of candidates, and they're either gainfully employed or burned out. I've been in the mobile world for a decade and the people I know are jumping into "miscellaneous devices with a cellular connection" at quite a rate. My contention is Mozilla are too conservative, and can't accept the smartphone war is lost already. There are related markets for which their system could work very well though, such as e-readers.
I actually landed on that link a week ago, and gave up on learning reactjs.

I've heard of the various JS frameworks over the past two years, but only until this month I was considering using one (NIH mentality @ work). I tried out AngularJS and it made sense, but I had issue after issue with npm deps. I tired of web searching, and went to my default search engine (DDG) to look up reactjs.

Just an anecdote I felt like sharing. I upvoted grandparent because someone took the time to downvote him, but believe it or not, I wasn't going to click the link until I read the commends and had him clarify it for me.
I don't think CoffeeScript would benefit much from JSX, since the sugar for function calls and object literals applies well to React. For example, one of the examples from the React page translated to plain CoffeeScript:

JSX:

<div>
<h3>TODO</h3>
<TodoList items={this.state.items} />
<form onSubmit={this.handleSubmit}>
<input onChange={this.onChange} value={this.state.text} />
<button>{'Add #' + (this.state.items.length + 1)}</button>
</form>
</div>

CS:

R.div null,
R.h3 null, 'TODO'
TodoList items: @state.items
R.form onSubmit: @handleSubmit,
R.input onChange: @onChange, value: @state.text
R.button null, "Add ##{@state.items.length +1}"

A hypothetical CSX would probably be more along the lines of Haml or Slim than XML syntax (closing tags would be pretty weird and out of place), and plain CS isn't that different from them already.
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So is a Fork coming?
> If I was a TV show producer I'd be on the phone to Sony right now begging for two of them - one for the TV lawyers to use on screen, and one for me to mark up scripts on.

Bones. I expect to see this on Bones shortly.
I noticed the other day that PHP has 30% code coverage. Is HHVM working to improve that (and pass the same tests, bug for bug) or is it relying on the unit tests of frameworks and packages?
Could this be made to work on the iPhone ?
The West Wing: http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0200276

Sorkin co-wrote the first four seasons. I was expecting the dip in S05 but I did not expect such a dramatic upturn in S07.
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The "people familiar" with the matter (who presumably work for or are affiliated with Mozilla in some way) aren't authorized by Mozilla to speak publicly about the board member resignations.
The choice of Eich as a CEO also made me wonder - they took a year to find a CEO, and ended up with their own CTO. Is it fair to assume that they searched long and hard but couldn't find anyone? If so, that's a real shame. I want Mozilla to succeed.
I still love that book. Anybody wanting to learn what low-level graphics programming was like in the days of the 386, 486, and Pentium should buy that book yesterday (or view the free online version http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/technical/graphics-p...).
I have no problem with people pulling an oculus so long as they take money while still retaining control. Mark was able to retain control when he took money from investors. I don't see why it would not be unreasonable to make the same demand of Mark when he comes a knocking with a term sheet.

If Oculus had stated that they secured certain protections for their users as terms of the acquisition, such as:

(1) No requirement to use the Facebook login system, not no or ever.
(2) No sharing of private information of oculus users and developers with facebook.

... I don't think many of us would have been nearly as disappointed.
Mozilla bylaws doesn't seem to state the the mechanics of officer appointment- just that they do it? https://static.mozilla.com/foundation/documents/mf-bylaws.pd...
While I'm skeptical of the ketogenic diet stuff, what I have noticed is that the people on ketogenic diets suddenly eats lots less carbs. For many people, dropping carbs drops something like 40-70% of their dietary calories, so it is hard to work out what is due to ketogenic and what is due to dramatically fewer calories.
> Are your local employment options that bad?

Well.. I'm not even qualified to apply for job positions in the company where I work, when those positions are for grades two or three rungs lower than me.

And I used to be those positions!

That's the IT job market in the UK these days; infeasible technical criteria in every job posting. 3 years iOS required for a junior developer?
I have been sober for 6.5 years. I was a blackout drinker, and then ventured into narcotics. I thought that it all used to be fun. I did it to fit in, find acceptance, feel a part of. But at some point that changed for me. Using was no longer fun at all, it was more like work. I never felt "just right" but rather was always chasing the dragon. I got to that place of hopeless despair. Its a place not unlike where Dante passed in the Inferno with the sign that reads "Abandon Hope all Ye who enter here". Everyday I would wake up in fear, and with guilt shame and remorse. When I wasn't using, I was thinking about it, planning how I was going to get it next, imagining what it would be like- how it would "Be Different this Time". Always the same torment and insanity. At that point, i would use to feel numb.. to not feel anything at all. I didn't want to think about myself, or what I was doing. I wanted to just escape and not feel.

I turned 21 in rehab, in po-dunk Rock Creek, OH. Only after a few weeks clean, and the bitter irony of where I was in life, did I have that "moment of clarity" and have a little bit of willingness to accept that I was powerless over alcohol, and my life had become unmanageable.
AA does not have a monopoly on recovery, but it has worked for me. We suffer from a spiritual malady, and our recovery is contingent upon a daily reprieve. "what am i doing today for my recovery?"
I think you are posting this because you need to know, and you need to hear that everything will be ok. There is hope, I promise that you are NOT Condemned to live with active addiction. Know that you are going down a path that is not unique, so many before you, who have done worse things, and lost more things, and suffered longer have gone been in your shoes. And for them too, there is way to beat this disease. Anonymity is the greatest form of Humility. We are just people helping people, from one addict to another, I can empathize with you, I know how you feel, I have felt those pains before. Call an AA central office near where you live, send me a message if you need help