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What do the blue and yellow line stand for ?
edit: found the wikipedia page

> The diffusion of innovations according to Rogers. With successive groups of consumers adopting the new technology (shown in blue), its market share (yellow) will eventually reach the saturation level. In mathematics the S curve is known as the logistic function.

That graph seems to blur and merge the distinction between market share and saturation level.
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Geek humor? More like PR humor.
Without commenting specifically on the accuracy or lack thereof of Asian stereotypes (my assumption is that they're massively exaggerated, as a side note), the fact that you don't fit them doesn't really mean anything.

It's an accurate stereotype of human beings that they have two legs, but there are still people who can tell their story of how this stereotype doesn't fit them.
Well, the world does not move on ideal conditions. I have used AWS and Azure extensively. My use case has been mainly around hadoop ecosystem. Here is what happens on azure(HDInsights Specifically):

You have a cluster running, that does some work at certain times in a day. Out of the blue, Several machine would be "re-imaged" and that means it would delete all the logs, working directories etc.Its like a snapshot restore. So when this happens, you have lost any custom changes you had done on the cluster. You lose any 3rd party jars you had placed.

Those machines, join back your cluster and your jobs would no longer run because of missing jars Unless you program to download all files on every reboot.

Most important thing though is lack of prior notifications. I have had cases when a "re-image" happend when my CPU was 100% utilised and my RAM was used 90%. So my box was working on something and azure decided to apply a patch!!

As per frequency, its once every two weeks, sometimes more.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7319345
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Comparing the $99 version to the B ($35):

- Double the clock speed (1.46GHz vs. 700MHz)
- Double the RAM (1GB vs 512MB)
- 8GB of on-board flash
- Gigabit ethernet instead of 10/100
- A USB 3.0 port
- A SATA II port
- A PCIe 2.0 lane
- JTAG
- x86 architecture

Overall, probably worth the extra cost if you need the power and features. The question is, who does? I'm considering this for no other reason than I want a board in this form factor and power class that has SATA and PCIe.
Many developers have the ability to work remotely, which offsets this problem.
Looks like the yellow line is cumulative adoption and the blue one is adoption rate.
I think the best arrangement is private offices / cubes surrounding a central team area where more interaction can occur. Pixar had a really cool idea where Steve Jobs put all of the bathrooms on one side of the building in a central area so people were forced to bump into each other spontaneously throughout the day but only when they were already interrupted.
If only 70% of people in the UK have a smartphone, then we're not quite there yet.

I would suggest that the people buying Moto Gs are switched on enough to find a bargain via online word-of-mouth, but not willing/able to spend the extra money for a top of the line model.

Some percentage will have been bought for people by a more tech-savvy child/partner/etc. but overall I'd say that owning a Moto G would make you geekier than having whatever the latest big advertising push is for.
I'm with you man, but then again - I'm busy with doing some actual work, and the pranks that I do encounter are either from Google or a mindless click on a link, few times at most.

We should be allowed to have fun, but this is hardly funny - it's painful.
In addition to Linux, Azure also runs FreeBSD 10 now that Microsoft contributed Hyper-V drivers to FreeBSD.

Just in case you want to build the next WhatsApp ;)
Oh man, I started this and native bloom filters a summer ago and never finished it. These are awesome data structures when dealing with really larges sets and you only need a cardinality count or set membership test and not all the members of the set. I can't wait to start using them!
I let my co-founder call a person called Mr. de Leeuw (very common name in The Netherlands, translated Mr Lion)and gave him the number of the zoo. Was very funny, because he didn't noticed the date and really asked for Mr. de Leeuw. (Mr. Lion). I'll expect some payback from him now.
Old Joke.. but still very funny!
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But draws in a bucket of other issues.
That's fine - there are specific purchases I would always want to pay the protection premium for, including for some of your examples.

But the risk involved varies depending on the situation. In cases where I consider the risk low enough, I would appreciate having the option of not paying the protection premium, and going without.
> It seems every single company and publication that communicates via the web has a corporate communications department or something that thinks it's a corporate priority to come out with something for April Fools.

It's not really the lameness of April Fools Day, it's the lameness of internet businesses, social media marketing, or marketers and salesmen in general. They need to take over, trivialize, devaluate and destroy every thing that becomes special in society, in hope to get some additional sales. I also don't know how to solve this, but April Fools Day is only a more visible than usual demonstration of a problem that happens every single day.
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20 years ago, the average person was exposed to a handful of media channels. So, if they each produced one April Fools gag, they wouldn't have been annoying.

Now, our media diet consists of hundreds of channels, sites and blogs, and it seems like every single one of them does an April Fools gag

The result is tired, formulaic humor, repeated ad nauseam.
Are you trying to protest or get the information?
I'll take a typical context of a SaaS app, multi-tenant architecture.
When it comes to store the data of your tenants, you have to decide between different approaches which will impact the level of isolation of each tenant's data. I will not discuss the benefits and disadvantages of each because it clearly depends of your needs, security guidelines and sometimes regulations regarding your business, backup strategy, geo-isolation, sharding, etc ...

With MySQL, you can choose 2 way to architecture your data :
- the fully isolated way : each tenant has his own database.
- the shared way : all tenants share the same schema, you usually use a tenant_id column on tables to query your data adequately.

Some other RDBMS like PostgreSQL offer you a third way between the fully isolated a shared data system :
- all tenant access the same database but their data are stored on their own schema. It's up to you to decide if the tenants access their schema with the same database role (kind of user) or if you create a role for accessing solely their own schema.

Example :

App_DB

-- Public schema

-- tenant_id uuid

-- tenant_name (subdomain name for example)

-- etc ...

-- tenant (named after the public.tenant_id)

-- your application tables

-- tenant (named after the public.tenant_id)

-- your application tables

-- tenant (named after the public.tenant_id)

-- Some beta tables model for version n+1 of your app or whatever, you can add more table columns for this very tenant if he needs special features for example.

I hope it's non-documentation language but still english language :) (Need to improve my english and my writing skills)
> GMail was awesome, but it got worse as time went on.

Make that unbearable. Gmail getting messy and bloated coupled with Google's relentless push for Google+ was enough for me to move almost all my stuff off Google's services.
This is obviously an April Fools Day joke. Well played, sir/madam...
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Sorry, I missed that this had got quite a lot of attention!

http://uefidk.intel.com/content/minnowboard-uefi-firmware-eu... says

>The MinnowBoard EDKII Firmware kit is not available as a full open source release (BSD license). The CPU and chipset initialization code is currently provided as a binary module. The binary module is incorporated into the final firmware image as part of the build process.

So graphics & motherboard seem to be open, bootloader is open-ish.
I'm not sure on the exact numbers, but in San Francisco a programmer probably costs you on average $100K a year in salary. With benefits the total cost is in the neighborhood of $120K. So a programmer is a $10K / month investment.

For what it's worth: assuming white-collar employees, the multiplier is typically 50% to 100% depending on your location and how generous you are with perks, rather than 20%. If you only have $120k available in the budget to hire someone, don't offer a salary higher than $80k, or you're going to have a very unfun meeting with your accountant saying "OK, would you prefer I took the money from somewhere else in the business, or do you want to go to prison for not paying our portion of the payroll taxes?"

There exist many folks who have more experience with San Francisco hiring than I have, but the word on the street for e.g. funded startups trying to pay market salaries is that you should be budgeting $15k~$20k a month to increase your team size by one.
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This is the second post about how people don't like April Fools Day. Are we replacing the actual April Fool jokes with posts moaning about them? I'm not sure that's much of an improvement.
If anything, coffeescript is the status quo. People just assume it's the hip thing to do; that if you're using JS it's because you simply haven't bothered evaluating coffeescript.

What problems do you think coffeescript solves?
> How are we going to attract and recruit the best engineers unless we've got a reputation for the very best and most foolish April Fools trickery?

I would actually discourage anyone from taking a job from any company that takes April Fools too seriously. Having to put in extra hours to get the April Fools out in time is the only thing that's more soul-crushing than the stupid corporate joke itself.
Right.

If your job can be done in a closed office without interacting with anyone, why do you need to be in an office at all?
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> I'd be shocked if they didn't have it up and running already as a hedge.

This seems very likely to me. They presumably have a fair bit of the work done with iOS, which shares a kernel codebase and so on, and really, it'd be worth the effort just to have it to show to Intel executives during negotiation.
No April fool at all :-) You can build the "unstable" branch and play with it.
I used to be into online retail sales before I got fed up with all the money grubbing. It was all about Black Friday and if you weren't ready with a major production by then or at least Cyber Monday you'd miss the boat on a huge influx of potential revenue. If your Black Friday effort went viral you'd be riding the gravy train all holiday season. I get the sense April Fools has become the Black Friday of social media. If your joke goes viral you've got a huge opportunity for viewership and brand awareness. No thank you. My site doesn't celebrate any "holiday".
Their navigation is not very good... I couldn't go back to macaw.co from their signup page, and I didn't know what it is.

However, once I read about it, it sounded pretty nice. My first thought is that it tries to encourage the same workflow as Microsoft's Blend?
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The linked graph showing a decline in HFT...doesn't show a decline in HFT.
For me, noise isn't the problem. Since moving from the SF bay area to North Carolina, I work at home a lot for my California job.

I like to get out for several hours almost every day, though. I head to either Krankies Coffee or Camino Bakery in Winston Salem, and both venues have: a lot of people talking about family, studies, work, business, gossip; the espresso machine; music; and at Krankies the coffee-roasting machine. * Undifferentiated noise actually helps a lot! * I find the background din soothing and conducive to designing and coding. The one thing that's annoying is the occasional person who insists on carrying on their half of a conference call very loudly, but I don't see that much.

I've had pretty good experiences with open floor plans in companies too. They've never been the row-upon-row of adjacent tables depicted in the post, but close enough see/hear everything that's going on. In the open environment, a lot of the noise will probably be discussions about coding/design matters on other projects, or general office hijinx. There are downsides to that, but there's a lot of benefit too. You don't need to wait till the water cooler to see some matter needs discussion.

I can see how both the open floor plan and coffee shop environment will be distracting for some. I always hated libraries as a student, and always did my best work in non-quiet environments.

(I miss having coworkers just five steps over -- they're now 2700 and 8000 miles away.)
I propose to overload also the new line operator, for divisions. E.g.: X/Y may be represented by:
X with Y under it.
However some brainstorming is needed to differentiate it from Y^X
my thoughts exactly... you can't make a good prank anymore when it has become a "PR must" to publish one
Makes perfect sense, really; not only would it be a hedge against having to adopt Intel, but just the value of having it around to show IBM people when negotiating over the PPC would probably have been worth the cost.
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Eh. If you use the same browser, Google can just associate the two accounts. Also, it's more of a hassle than just saying "forget it."

It's entirely possible that if I went to a non-G+ page, I could be convinced to drop $60-100 on a whim. If you make me do stupid little things like remember credentials for a "throw-away account," then you lose the chance to capitalize on that impulse.
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Simple, don't read the news today. Really, it's just one day. You don't have a huge problem to solve.
this is why I wear construction earmuffs at work. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00009LI4K/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...
What if April Fool's jokes were actually funny ...

I think half the annoyance is most of the time, unfunny people reveal themselves on this day.
> Cortex A-15 can also run at nearly double the clock rate

Cortex A-15 _does_ run at nearly double the clock rate (though with a substantially higher energy consumption on the rare occasion it actually scales up all the way). Apple is historically very conservative with its mobile device clock speeds, and I'd expect that Cyclone has a fair bit of headroom here.
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I don't think you can really test creative problem solving. Quantifying this is very hard and you run into cross-cultural problems which I think is your major objection to what I said.

Also a second real problem with your thesis occurs to me, namely that Chinese-Indonesian culture really stresses competitive sports, where the domination aspect is most heavy. So it can't be about discouraging domination.

What I do see, again, is a question of how individual production ties into family and community. This is where the huge difference lies. In this regard, unrestrained creativity is a threat to order, but so is self-motivation, because both of these become in tension IME with the familial approach to business decision making that we see, at least with my in-laws etc.

In essence what I see (from close-up mind you) is that Asians tend to be more risk adverse than Americans, far more concerned about credentials and school records, and far more aggressive about tying individual aspirations to family obligations. I do think this has implications regarding innovation.

This is not to say there aren't things I really appreciate about Asian culture. The strong familial links has a very positive side to it, namely that adults don't have to save up for retirement (that's what kids are for) and therefore are more free to invest in the launch of their children. This is a lesson we are going to have to learn again in the West.
I can give some point here:
(A cluster below is hadoop cluster)

- Machines reboot without any notifications.
- Blob storage gets throttled ( i was told by a support staff) and at times become unreachable.
- Some clusters i create, go into "Operational Mode" in that beautiful UI. and there is no way to delete that cluster!
- At one instance, a cluster failed because, i was told, some internal azure tables got deleted!
- Start up time (for PasS) for a cluster is 13+ mins regardless of how many machines you have in it.
Yep, this is it. Neutered culture intended for mass consumption, right down to the utterly safe, whimsical April Fool's Day gag -- "wow, $CORP is so random!"
> But as Apple is baking their own chips, what is the market for Nvidia's Denver?

Essentially, Qualcomm's market.
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Ask PG: Why wasn't the iPhone invented in 1907?
Assuming you have more time to write essays now :)

Do you think you will be able to outline broad societal theories/hypotheses on why the iPhone wasn't invented 100 years ago?

This is similar to the "Spanish conquistadors" question that led Jared Diamond to write the book Guns, Germs & Steel:
On November 15th 1532, 168 Spanish conquistadors arrive in the holy city of Cajamarca, at the heart of the Inca Empire, in Peru. They are exhausted, outnumbered and terrified – ahead of them are camped 80,000 Inca troops and the entourage of the Emperor himself. Yet, within just 24 hours, more than 7,000 Inca warriors lie slaughtered; the Emperor languishes in chains; and the victorious Europeans begin a reign of colonial terror which will sweep through the entire American continent.

Why wasn't it the other way around i.e. why didn't the Incan's attack the Spaniards?

====

Similarly- why wasn't the iPhone invented a 100 years ago?
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So don't drink Pepsi. Better for you anyway.
>> "Do you not think it's a basic human right to marry who you want?"

Not a basic human right, no. Food, water, shelter, those are basic human rights. Marriage is a made up concept.

>> "To get the legal protections of that institution? To be allowed to visit your lifelong partner in hospital, for example?"

Again I wouldn't classify these as 'basic human rights'. It's disgraceful that people can't avail of these benefits because of their sexuality and that should change. Like I said, I'm 100% against discrimination based on sexuality I'm just objecting to your use of the term 'basic human right'.

I think the real issue here isn't that gay people can't get married in some places - it's that anyone who does get married gets benefits that non-married people don't get. For example if a heterosexual couple who had been in a lifelong relationship never got married they would also face the dilemma you presented of not being allowed to visit each other in hospital.
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Few people in the US seem to understand how broken and consumer-adverse their dependence on carriers and their subsides are.
People mightn't want to buy them if they did. These chips are _big_, which means that they're expensive to make. Apple can get away with it because their only costs are manufacture and licensing, and because they have high margins which can absorb a bit of a hit. If they were selling them, though, they'd presumably want to make a profit, and that profit would make the end product almost certainly the most expensive mobile chip on the market.

From a marketing point of view, too, it'd be a hard sell in Android-land. Apple has been very careful to steer clear of spec-oriented marketing, but can you imagine the less-sophisticated enthusiast market's response to, say, the Galaxy S6 using a dual-core 1.3GHz chip instead of a quad-core 2GHz?
Fastmail isn't free, but it has everything which made Gmail good in the first place. And since you're paying, you know email is the product and that you won't become collateral in a user-hostile Google+ like strategy.

For those interested in checking it out, feel free to use to use the following referral link while doing so.

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Obvious disclaimer: The link above is a referral link. I will benefit if you use it.
Most other cloud hosting platforms don't support mail() either. You're supposed to sign up for something like Sendgrid or Amazon SES and use that.
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There are open source programs out there that make assumptions as to the underlying architecture, such that they don't run as well, or at all, on non-x86 architectures, including OSes like GNU HURD. Sometimes the right tool for the job is x86.

Edit:

Grepped through the FreeBSD Ports tree for architecture specific ports, and the most common reason not related to using a binary of some sort tends to be that the program uses embedded assembly, usually floating point and/or SIMD extensions, and the developer hasn't coded a fallback of one sort or another. Some of them could probably be ported fairly easily, others may be more difficult projects where it'll be easier/mentally cheaper to just spend the extra money to get an x86 board and be done with it.
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Business wise, one interesting thing about the G is that it's launched online-only only(or online mostly) ,without big investment in marketing(since the product is so good it markets itself).Those savings are a big part why it's so cheap.

Usually ,in electronics products are priced around 3.5x of their components costs, with most of the cost difference going towards marketing and offline retailers(who than dictate online price). This is usually done in order to get a large volume of orders.

Hopefully the model will shift to online only, offering consumers much lower prices and better products,and a much easier entry point for makers - since getting access to retailers is really hard.
>I have a sense of humor. Really I do. I just don't find being pounded with systematic absurdity for an entire day every year as being very funny.

I don't know why its so funny to think of you getting irritated by this, but it is.
Actually, per the datasheet[1] it has 4 EUs. I could not find any information about clocking the core, but I didn't search the entire 5100(!) page document.

[1] http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/...
Thanks for the clarification.

It's even more confusing for french speakers as "Philippe Flajolet" really sounds like a made-up name ("Flajolet" means "white beans").
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Well, at least we aren't being sold anything!
Even if we ignore the social impact of marketing, it's pretty sad when people who work in communications believe that they are only required to be original once a year.

The original carnival days like "Feast of Fools" [0] were an outlet for subversive undercurrents in the otherwise immobile medieval societies. You could be Pope for a day, but you were still a beggar for the rest of your life and nothing would change that.

Marketers who play April Fools unwittingly paint themselves as the beggar in this scenario. It's like they're broadcasting a message: "I feel like my work has no meaning in this world, but at least today I get to pretend that I'm the one making the news."

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_Fools
I remember plenty of april fool's jokes on the radio and on TV.

I think your problem is just that on the internet you are just exposed to a lot more of them.
As far as my EE-addled brain is concerned, there are 5100 pages of deliciousness: http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/...
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