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I'm sorry you were fired without any hint that your performance was an issue - that's poor management. But the rest of the post confused me (the metaphors didn't help) - are you concluding from your termination that the old Pivotal is dead and has been replaced by an evil enterprise hell-bent on sucking money from "legacy" software companies? Seems like a bit of a stretch.

For my part I use Pivotal Tracker daily and have got a lot of value out of it. I'm not completely sold on the new design (although the multiple project view is great) but I've really seen nothing to indicate that Pivotal has gone bad or sold their soul somehow.
A interactive raycaster in 128 bytes and you "don't care". No matter what year it is, it is a feat that really says "BEAT DIS".
Sorry, should have clarified. Of the new wave of ed tech companies, there haven't been any big acquisitions. Both Embanet and deltak were founded in the 90s.
You are correct about the chart, but if you look at the second and third blog-posts, you will see how family structure has changed, and how it will have a similar impact on measured household wealth. I wish that I had a similar wealth distributions graph handy, but this was the best source I could remember, and I think it serves to adequately demonstrate the point.
This sounds like it comes straight from a movie. The Hunger Games, book 3 (no spoiler) mentions a bomb that goes off twice: once to kill the people, a second time to kill the people that have come to the aid of those injured. Now the video mentions doctors won't go near a place where a drone struck because drones do the same.
Owning a house with central heating / AC that can be controlled by a Nest Thermostat via your household wifi from your smartphone while driving home in your Mercedes is a pretty "first-world" thing.

Especially given that this works best for second homes like a weekend house in Tahoe where it might take a full day to warm up if you left the heat off all week.
I don't know exactly how you meant 'two screens' (two experienced screens, or two hardware screens?), but in case you meant the latter, there is only one screen.

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Oculus+Rift+Teardown/13682
>>It seems like any video enabled device can steal your passcode if it sees you enter it. The phone they used did even better in glass from 10 feet away.

The difference is that when you record someone with a non-wearable device, it's pretty obvious. In the phone example, you have to hold it up a certain way, which will immediately alert the target (as well as anyone in the vicinity) if they are paying attention.

With Glass though, who knows if you are recording or not? AFAIK there isn't a red "recording" light that comes on, right? So as far as people are concerned, you might just be casually glancing in their direction, except you aren't.
I think a version with vectorized doubles is more likely to happen.
I hope they make affordable VR gloves.
Interesting, but I tried them out in my Ubuntu 13.10 desktop and applying the whole lot completely killed Chrome. Strangely, certain tabs would consistently load fine, while others would end up with white screens - seemingly consistently per-uri over several browser launches and reboot. Other thing seemed to be working fine. Oddly, the settings screen was one uri that did not work. I took his file handle limits and scrapped the rest and it went back to normal. Something in there did not agree with my video card settings is my best bet.
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>>However, household GINI is definitely the more relevant figure...

Not relevant to the point OP made.

Whether or not it's "better," it still impacts the numbers.
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> people who succeed at them are the people who already have some higher education

At a conference I was at, one of the speakers claimed that a disproportionate number of the successful students in the group they were studying not only had some college, but had actually finished college and had a degree (though not always in the same area). It'd be nice to see some more solid stats on that. Their interpretation was that where MOOCs are most successful, so far, is as "continuing education" for people who already finished conventional higher education. Those people can use MOOCs to keep up to speed in their field, or broaden by taking a few courses in other fields that they didn't get a chance to study at school.
> Sure digital makes it easy to copy and distribute, but musicians keep making less and less and it is harder for them to actually use music as a career.

This is true of every single profession that involves creating digital media. Writing, journalism, video, film, game dev, photography, you name it. The money is falling out.

I think a large part of the problem is that in all of those fields, people love what they do. Of course, they work very hard at it too, but what that means is that there are a large number of people producing media for the sheer joy of it.

As the cost of production goes down, an increasing number of "amateurs" can create media, and as distribution costs drop, that media is more easily disseminated. The end result is that people willing to do stuff for free are crowding out the paid players.

There are some exceptions, of course, creative people who make a ton of money, but they're the narrow end of the power curve. For an increasing number of people, being creative isn't a lucrative gig.

I don't believe that's a good or bad thing, just a thing. What I do think is bad is when people who make great creative works don't have the time or opportunity to do that. It's a waste if a talented musician has to spend 40 hours a week at some lame job to pay their bills and only has a few hours for music on the side.

But that's not a problem with the music not paying the bills as much as it is with the bills themselves. If we lived in some sort of utopia where we all the essentials we needed to get by for free, then there'd be no reason to whine about artists not getting paid. They wouldn't need to.
Looks interesting. Curious about how much of an issue you find GC latency and how you're handling it. I tried something vaguely similar and it caused me a few problems with larger compositions.
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You can get plenty of resolution off an airplane. I have seen aerial imagery of sufficient resolution to do stand count analysis, which is basically counting individual green shoots of corn in the spring.

As another poster mentioned, though, spectral analysis shows problems in the leaves of the plant, where it is too late: if your plant is yellowing due to lack of water or nutrients, you've already decreased the potential yield from that plant. It's better to detect deficiencies in the ground.
From 44 meters away?
My SaaS isn’t growing +60% revenue, 1 year later…
Most humans are susceptible to various kinds of social pressure, which is what "blame" amounts to. Crocodiles are not. This is a fact about the possibly deterministic physical instantiations of humans and crocodiles, and is independent of whether that determinism is - in fact - present or absent.

To my mind, people care about free will because one or both of:

1) They want there to be space for a soul to be really guiding actions (otherwise God is punishing souls for no reason, and that breaks some theologies). Other dualist notions can also have troubles here.

2) They confuse physical determinism with classical determinism. Think Greek mythology; if something was fated, it would happen "whatever you do" - which motivates despair, "so why bother?", &c (for the Greeks, the answer was Virtue Ethics). In physical determinism, your actions are a part of what's "fated" - including your reflecting on determinism, including your making whatever decision you make - but if you were a different you, and made a different decision, or didn't try as hard, or tried harder, that would lead to a different outcome, so while you are uncertain about what you're deciding, you're also uncertain about the outcome, and you need very much to try.
Consider what factors, and in what way?

Also, whether or not something is depressing, surprising, or bad is entirely subjective. Something you do not consider surprising may in fact be surprising to another individual, so without knowing them it's sort of silly to say "it isn't surprising". If they say it is surprising, it means to them it was. If you do not think others should be surprised, it may be useful for you to explain what knowledge you have that prevented your being surprised.
> In the phone example, you have to hold it up a certain way, which will immediately alert the target (as well as anyone in the vicinity)

That's not really true. It's very easy to take a picture while holding the phone in a way that makes it look as if you're just reading it.
Yeah, but there is something to be said about Glass making it possible (and trivial) to record the sensitive information. Not only that, you can also be recording the person, and can later look up their face, potentially figure out their identity, and then proceed with identity theft.

You can't do that with just your eyeballs.
The comments in the Wired article are pretty ridiculous and it seems as if the article title is pretty sensational. The article also mentions that a Samsung smartwatch is just as accurate and an iPhone 5 camera caught the PIN every time. According to the article, a person with a $700 Panasonic camcorder can steal your PIN from 4 stories up and across the street. You don't, however, see any of the commenters in the article calling people with camcorders pedophiles and asking for them to beaten up. The hysteria is ridiculous.

I think the solution given by the article researchers that randomizes the locations of the numbers on the PIN entry is a much more effective solution than wantonly destroying people's property or assaulting them because of a perceived, imaginary threat.
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> Nope. That only happens if they're scarce. If they aren't scarce (or are otherwise deleveraged) they get paid minimum wage regardless of the value they create.

That is rubbish, mostly the left liberal hippy logic. If a person is valuable there is always another competitor who will hire him for a higher pay to get the competitive advantage.
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We'll have to adjust to a world where everyone has perfect visual memory and superhuman time perception.
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A developer can revert their own commits on their own branches well-enough by using `git revert`.

This is more for Github's "Enterprise-y" (or "distributed FOSS project-y") workflow, where you have

• a project maintainer, who never touches git, and works entirely through Github, interacting mostly with the issue tracker and only modifying the codebase by accepting/rejecting pull-requests; and

• a set of developers, who actually use git, and generate pull-requests to submit to the maintainer.

Until now, if the non-git-using maintainer accepted a pull-request they shouldn't have, they would have to get one of the developers to create a reverting commit, create a PR for that commit, and then accept the PR. Now they can just revert the PR itself.
Thanks so much, random guy on the internet.

I can't wait to see these settings cargo-culted onto systems of customers who then complain Linux doesn't behave the way they expect it to.

Next time, keep your sysctls to yourself.
Haha awesome.

Though I imagine that surpassing "2009 levels" is not very exciting. Wake me up when they surpass 2005 levels!
Hardly. Commercial content has been challenged and displaced by non-commercial, purely cultural content like never before. Young people would rather see a goofy image macro that their friend made than some lame sitcom by old white guys in Hollywood. For the first time ever, this non-commercial content lives side by side with commercial content on massively popular portal sites like Faceebook, reddit, and YouTube.
I hope not, everybody's doing that. They should make affordable VR gloves.
And then half the Internet complains when their favourite actually good show gets cancelled because the TV execs saw its viewing figures tumble below acceptable ad revenue levels in some graveyard slot while this month's major sporting event was on.

We are inevitably reaping the consequences of what freeloaders have been sowing for some years now. It still costs a lot up front to make good quality content, more than ever as we push the envelope in some media like the big name games and movies. If too many people just take it for free with whatever excuse instead of doing something that ultimately supports all the artists and other creative professionals who make these works, then those people are going to have to find other jobs to do to pay the rent, and our culture is left poorer for it.
The left liberals put themselves in high seats and decide who is being exploited and who is not. This is absolute thuggery. A Job and salary is the contract between two parties and everyone else should stay out of it.
If you think swap introduces latency, you need to learn a lot about memory management.
It’s a fair critique, but it really doesn’t come close to explaining the 2003–2013 data.

The ratio of 95th percentile household net worth to median household net worth doubled from ~9x to ~18x. That’s not just some artifact of changing family structures. That’s a massive increase in wealth inequality.

Basically, your point is interesting, but in context it’s mostly a distraction. (But I agree that a chart showing individual rather than household wealth would be nice to see.)
> “I think of this as a kind of alert about Google Glass, smartwatches, all these devices,”

Why is it that its always a fault with the new tech? I'm not a glass esplorer but still I take offense to this kind of idiocy. The problem is with passcodes/passwords in general, they have always been susceptible to this kind of attack, adding in a video recorder doesn't change this.
"After all, patches are themselves a sign of the legacy that will be surpassed"

I think there are plenty of cases that refute this - just a sampling of nonsense.
Real time computing, routers, sensors
What's odd about there being a rifle in the house? In many places owning rifles is fairly normal.
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Kind of sucks, when someone is telling you: Offer different and additional services, and spend more of your time doing it to make up for the fact that your content is now easily able to be pirated.
The US has joint filing for married couples so that's not the case, whereas it would be in e.g. the UK.
RT is a matter of time (no pun intended). In fact hard real-time is already done using Linux and RT_PREEMPT is believed to go in the main tree soon.
Obviously if they are not scarce means they are indeed cheaper and makes perfect sense to give them just a minimum wage.
"Anarchism literally means (in the original Greek) 'no ruler'; anarcho-capitalism fits that definition, no?"

This is clearly an irrational sentiment, completely void of history, bordering dogmatism, and at the very least childish.

It seems that ancaps, that want to keep the privileges but just do away with the redistribution of wealth, is really selective in their thinking. For some reason the full focus is always on direct force and how bad that is, externalities or indirect force caused by capital or property accumulation is played down - obviously because it doesn't fit the interest of the pro-property crowd.

"If a person is born without enough land or capital to be self-sufficient, and all the land and capital in the world at their time of birth was already used by others, then giving them enough land or capital to be self-sufficient would necessarily (assuming it wasn't given voluntarily through charity) require direct force to take the land/capital of others to give to this person."

This is an unlikely hypothetical scenario and not reflected in todays society. This is another instance of a dishonest way to argue. You argue for private-property as it's like in todays society where land is not scarce - in the sense of actual active usage. And your argument for this is in a hyphotetical scenario where all land is actually occupied.

Furthermore, in a proper anarchist, going with this scenario, a society where all land is actually being cultivated or in various types of use; I'm pretty sure people would not need to work, and as such need to own their own land, as in such a society work is what people would want to abandon. Abondonment of work would of course be impossible in a ancap society where the propertyless would need to work for the propertied.

Finally, your whole argument stems from the fact that you see private-property as some form of natural law where is not a privilege. This is just Orwellian, where owning more land than one can possibly, actively, use oneself is still regarded as a righteous possession rather than just privileged private-property upheld by some form of force. Private-property can't be sustained without some form of force. Even if that's for you ancaps is some kind of payed private militia or similar, it still needs to be upheld from people that would like to actually use the land for self-sufficiency. And no, to use the land by paying workers to use it for you is not using the land by oneself.
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That's another way of saying "I always overprovision my servers for their worst case scenario instead of their expected state". Not that there's anything inherently wrong with that, as long as the person signing the checks understands and agrees with the decision you've made for them.
My family almost exclusively uses iMessages for communicating with each other, and we share pictures using iMessage or PhotoStreams.

It's so simple, just works, and new photos can be added and are automatically synced.
The point is that it doesn't tell you anything about "wealth inequality" insofar as the socialists whom push this discussion want it to.
> "a second time to kill the people that have come to the aid of those injured"

This is a fairly old tactic.

For example, the Columbine school shooting (15 years ago) involved several (badly wired) bombs that were intended to go off in crowds of survivors and rescue workers.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/assessment/2...
From the article, they were able to capture the PIN code from across the street and two stories up using a camcorder. You're not even going see that person.
I didn't read anything about how the increasing numbers of older Americans who are not working might have a significant bearing on the matter.

edit: What I'm saying is, America has a baby-boomer generation that is retiring in droves, more power to them but don't do a study at a major university sounding alarm bells unless an important factor like a massively retiring baby boomer generation is considered.
To be fair I've heard these same kind of comments in real life about Google Glass users.
> I think a large part of the problem is that in all of those fields, people love what they do.

Also, the absolute amount of good content keeps going up. Those old Louis Armstrong albums aren't going away. People still listen to the Beatles and the Stones. And this is true of nearly all varieties of content.

The only timely content (sports, news, contest shows) is partially immune to this, but even then, attention is scarce and more quality entertainment enters the public domain every year. Right now it's mostly (classic!) books, but decades in the future, HD content will be 100% free to use and distribute and the bottom will really fall out of everything.
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Two years ago, the house behind mine was raided by Portland's version of SWAT, SERT. The scary thing for me was the house number matched my house number, but was on the next street.

Given that you read stories about SWAT raiding the wrong residence because they misread the house number, it made worried that the same could happen to me.

Picture proof: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/AqKIhXOCIAEaG9D.jpg:large
Seems like an easy solution: randomize the PIN keypad layout with every key press.
I don't know. Probably pretty low. Which is why it shouldn't be surprising that so many have zero or near zero wealth.
Gloves are a possibility, but pure gesture input just doesn't work (as repeatedly demonstrated with Wii, Kinect, and Leap Motion). Whatever they release, it needs to have at least a few buttons and probably an analog stick or two.
Aren't the arrays produced by a canvas object typed?
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> some additional downward pressure, although I am not sure what that could be

I'm not an economist, so these are speculative, but seem reasonable based on the fact that we're talking about loss of wealth from households below median:

Loss of life (specifically heads of household) due to the wars (I'm guessing most military households, being young and having maximum education of high school to "some college" will be below median)

Increased energy costs (gas being a marginal cost would hit people with less marginal income harder).

Loss of jobs to automation (I'm thinking secretaries, anything that can be replaced by an iphone, etc)

Declining birth rate (last I heard total high school graduations were supposed to peawould tend to lead to oversaturated teaching jobs, also relatively low-paying.

Chrysler was in distress long before the recession.
> cut profits

Every year, the average household spends proportional more money on entertainment than the year before. If you only look at one part the market, the conclusion will be equal incorrect. First it was radio, the cassette tape, VHS, P2P, streaming, ectra ...), and each time someone proclaimed this was going to doom the "industry".

The music industry could argue that illegal music is pushing purchases to the movies, and the cinema could argue that illegal movies is pushing purchases to music services. Why should anyone believe either claim when the total profits from entertainment is going up?
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"This is bad for the consumer."

I don't see how that follows, except for the terrible logic of less profit for the musician is automatically bad for the consumer because people will just stop making music if they can't get rich off it.
It looks like they're fighting back against exclusives and bullshit restrictions like "you can stream the first 5 songs, but if you want more you have to buy the album for $14.99", just the sort of thing everybody was complaining about two weeks ago when amazon launched their streaming service.

I understand that musicians like money. I can empathize with that, i like money too. But trying to frame it as good for the consumer is silly.