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> I think that in itself is a commentary on just how big a deal the internet is, historically speaking.

I think it's also a testament to how history is sometimes dominated by paradigm shifts rather than gradual change. Sci-fi writers seem reasonably competent at predicting future technology when that technology changes gradually.
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The one thing that pops into my head is Malvertising (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvertising).

The idea behind it makes sense (like gaming survey data which results in useless analysis), but I'm unsure how it can protect the user from accidentally injecting malware from malvertisng ads. Seems like a dangerous game to me.
Intel understood something that Motorola did not. Intel went for design wins, not for units shipped.

I worked only briefly with the 6809 from the compiler side. Reminded me a lot of the pdp-11 instruction set.
How so? What would you like to see handled differently?
Great job, Meteor has really helped me develop my programming skills as a beginner. It allows me to get instant feedback on the code I write. To see a real world prototype keeps me going!
Agreed. I'm on a low-data-plus-throttling plan on AT&T's prepaid subsidiary Cricket. I was on their lowest-tier 200MB plan for $15, and if I went over by even 1KB, I was "conveniently" given another 200MB for $15, effectively doubling my data bill. Now, if I go over my limit, I can still get texts and emails while I'm out-and-about, but I can't visit tumblr. I much prefer that, especially if I hit my limit the day before my billing cycle restarts.
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How to define the role of CTO is a question which has been asked for many years, and there are some "general" answers. I would recommend two things.

First, read these two articles. They're older, but provide some answers into how others have defined the role. You might be able to pick and choose to further define your role:

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spring12/cos448/...

and

http://www.brixtonspa.com/Career/The_Role_of_the_CTO_4Models...

Second, I think right now it's best to look laterally into the business world as to your role. You are essentially the "CEO" of your company's technology realm. The VP of Engineering is the "COO". Look and talk to your business-side counterparts on how they handle their roles.

Your job is to work with the business to develop both business and technical strategies, and oversee the development of the technical architecture to get you there. To monitor competitors technology. To monitor emerging technologies. To prototype. To provide business and technical analysis and advice for M&A's.

The VP Engineering's role is to handle the day to day stuff. To be more tactical than strategic.

In the end, the role of CTO is still ambiguous, meaning different things to different companies. And it's changed in the past few years--I'd never heard of developers being in the CTO role until maybe five years ago or so--and it will continue to change.
It seems you were right. I impulsively clicked that link and was promptly greeted with several graphic pictures celebrating murder. But still I'm wise enough to understand that I will never convince anyone to become vegetarian by preaching at them or controlling their discussion.
yes, for new customers, unlimited-throttling is better than flat+overages, but it is not as good as unlimited (which is no longer offered). the problem, as you pointed out, is that at&t baited & switched.

and to be sure, throttling is a limit. for those on unlimited plans and according to the way it was advertised, you should be able to get up to the physical limit of the network every month. if that's 500GB/month, the you should be able to use 500GB/month every month according to the agreement. allowing you to use 5GB at the normal rate and 5GB more (or whatever it is) at a drastically reduced rate is not unlimited. the fact that they didn't consider bandwidth requirements when they made the offer is not the concern of the customer who accepted that offer.
Aren't they the only case here? AT&T hasn't offered unlimited data plans for quite a while. They basically only had them for the original iPhone introduction, and got rid of them seemingly as soon as they could.
"but this formula has other benefits as it enforces minimum transaction fee amounts"

Why is this good/important?
//Although I believe espresso has less caffeine than regular coffee even for equal volumes.
//

This is a common confusion. Espresso has more caffeine by volume.

Looking at ~8oz/236ml cup of 'regular' coffee versus ~1oz/29ml shot of espresso.
Ha. Good luck... :)
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The reason they're so hated is a perfect combination of Service Quality x Frequency. The service quality is horrendous and intentionally misleading, for all the reasons you've stated, among others. But that's just the half of it. We, as consumers, have to deal with these companies on a regular basis. We get their crazy bills every month. We get outages, and we have to navigate a labyrinth of bullshit to get them serviced. We get their up-sales calls every month, despite repeatedly asking to be removed from whatever hell-spawned list we're on to get them. Every now and then, we have to deal with their customer service reps on the phone.

The point is, we have tangible, direct experience with these companies every year. By comparison, our experiences with the folks at Halliburton, Monsanto, BP, etc., are indirect. We might rely on their products and services, but we don't deal with these companies directly. This makes them more of an abstraction in our minds. Many of us despise that abstraction, but it remains an abstraction, all the same.

If you look at polls of the most hated brands and companies in America, many of them are brands and companies we engage with personally and frequently. Airlines, credit card companies, cable and ISPs, cellular companies, insurance providers, etc. Companies like Blackwater (or whatever it's currently calling itself) don't make those lists, because aside from hearing about them in the news, most people don't have any direct experience with them.
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There are actually laws written to prevent anyone but the government delivering "letters or packets" under penalty of fine or seizure: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1696. I don't know recall details or the outcome, but I recall a few years ago it was up in the air whether you could send documents legally with private services, or if there were fundamental differences between USPS and "courier" services.
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If your company makes a claim of X but doesn't deliver, perhaps instead does Y, it is an FTC issue. This is a lesson everyone who runs a company should be thinking about.

"Unlimited" or otherwise, throttling has been done for a long time by other carriers as well. I would like a refund.
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Can you make it simpler?
For anyone else that's interested in music copyright:

If you just want to cover a song, you can get a mechanical license, which have federal-defined rates. There are several sites that can do this(I do dev support for one.
If you want music to go alongside images, you're going to need a sync license which I believe is negotiated with the rightsholder. This is why prices for music can vary so much depending on the movie.
This is pretty normal. The community is creating enough issues/questions/possible improvements but the project can't possibly fix or incorporate all of them right away. Many of them are probably even bad, or just not the right approach. This stuff is hard and is something we've been dealing with at Ionic. No great solution yet, and I'm coming to terms with the fact that successful OSS projects have a high volume of issue and pr traffic.
It would probably depend on the background-image-generating websites TOS.
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Agreed, that part of the article is simply wrong. My neighbor's big fat fluffy cat comes over whenever it sees me outside and immediately flops over on its back and starts rolling around. It seems to luxuriate in having its belly rubbed, and crave touch in general. Flop and roll, belly rub, get up, rub something, flop and roll, belly rub, over and over. Eventually it's had enough, goes over and scratches a tree, then waddles off.
The number of non-hacking/non-news articles on HN that I've ended up enjoying is much, much higher than the number of times I've agreed with an HN comment complaining about a non-hacking/non news article.
Not to the same degree. I made a choice nearly 2 decades ago to say 'I don't know' more often - I was doing on-site networking and tech support for a living, and I was tired of trying to produce on-the-spot explanations for why computers were misbehaving in order to soothe clients, so I stopped doing it. This led to some pushback at first - clients would say 'well what I am I paying you for if you don't know?!' and suchlike, but by explaining that I had a diagnostic process and a fallback position if it didn't work (provide a replacement for a piece of hardware or back up and reinstall the OS or whatever), I could usually get people to agree that an ounce of patience was preferable to a pound of bullshit. This turned out to be a good strategy and I adopted it as a habit in other parts of life, makinh conversation much easier and more interesting - eg if I met someone interesting at a party, instead of trying to maintain intellectual parity I'd say 'I'm ignorant of [your field], could you explain [some basic principle]?' and so on. At the same time I developed a habit of trying to fact-check everything before making positive statements, or if I was conversing in person, citing my sources or qualifying my remarks.

This isn't to say I'm immune to ignorance, as I have assumptions and misapprehensions like everyone else, not to mention being forgetful, so I have approximate knowledge of many things.* But assuming it as the default in both personal learning and social contexts I've saved myself an awful lot of grief. Unfortunately this sometimes leads to equally fallacious overestimates of general competence, which is also part of the Dunning-Krueger effect :-/

* with apologies to Pendleton Ward.
I left AT&T because of this. My iPhone went dead data wise after 3GB of usage, on unlimited data plan. We went to arbitration and they let me out of my contract, and unlocked my phone. They clearly know they are ripping people off trying to force them to nickel and dime the tiered plans.
Love this: "Well, now you are pushing your joke too far," said the classmate, "surely the population has nothing to do with the circumference of the circle."

This still fascinates and resonates with me to this day and remains an impossible barrier for some non-mathematicians to cross.
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So here are a few thoughts:

1. A "pro" for going open-source: It is a comfort to your customers, knowing that if you go out of business, that they can continue using the software - either by hosting it themselves, or paying someone to do so.

2. If your product is OSS, it is also a near-perfect guarantee against "vendor lock-in" which is a big deal to some people. As the old saying goes "one of the best ways to get people to use your product, is to make it easy for them to stop using your product." IOW, people will be scared to risk investing in using your thing, and getting locked in, when they aren't yet assured of the value it offers. If you make it easier to leave, it's easier for them to make the initial plunge. It sounds paradoxical, but it seems to hold true.

3. Another "pro" is that you may actually get some contributions from the community, which could help you advance your project faster than you can do it alone.

4. A "con" is that some customers may elect to host it themselves and not pay you, instead of using your SaaS. My feeling is that those people were never really your customers to begin with, and represent no big loss. People who pay for SaaS aren't really paying for the software, they're paying for the idea that you will take care of making it Just Work, keep the servers running, handle scaling, backups, etc.

5. Another "con" is that a competitor can use your code and setup a competing service.

All told, I'm a fan of the OSS route, but I'm also an Open Source ideologue, so I'm not exactly unbiased. So take these comments for what they're worth. :-)
I gave up on trying to make good titles a while ago because they have been moderated back to the site provided title every time. :(
I actually am pretty happy with both my wired and wireless internet providers, although I know that makes me the odd man out. I have FiOS for the home connection, and they've been nothing but great. I have AT&T for wireless, and I'm fairly happy with them. It's not cheap, but for what I get it's not tremendously expensive either. I pay $130/month for two smartphones with 10GB of data and unlimited everything else, which isn't bad. They're actively discouraging the old contract system with subsidized phones, which was the source of a lot of trouble. I'll probably buy my next phone outright and they won't bat an eye.

I used to have Comcast and they were indeed awful. Terrible customer service, frequently clueless and unhelpful techs, and the service wasn't all that great either. Just trying to show that I'm not a complete corporate shill....

Anyway, I know that AT&T and Verizon aren't always liked either, but I think there's some substantial variation within the industry, even if maybe it's only between "awful" and "less bad".
Aren't block awards supposed to reach 0 after a while, so that tx fees become the only incentive for mining? In those cases optimizing may be well worth the effort?
Maybe it's where you are located. In WI, after my LTE/3G throttling ran out, my EDGE was basically not internet. My phone was only useful as a cell phone at that point.
And even more so with people's names, at least for me. For every name I know solidly there are probably two that I vaguely sort of know.

For instance, I probably know more about Irish traditional music than 99.9% of the American population. But if you came up with a real-sounding random name for an Irish musician and talked about him like he was real and of course I should know who he was, the odds that I would confuse that with someone I knew a bit about are substantial.

Or (speaking of Irish music) remembering tunes. There are tunes I own, tunes I think I know, tunes that are familiar, and tunes I flat out don't know. In my experience, I have the most trouble playing are some of the tunes I think I know -- more even than playing the tunes that I would just describe as familiar! Most of those I thought I knew I could probably sort out later given time, but in the heat of the moment what comes out can be nonsense.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, when I get in trouble is on the fuzzy boundary between knowing and not knowing. I don't mind saying "I don't know" when I know I don't know. But sometimes I don't know I don't know, and that's when the trouble starts.
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Here's how you can send the original owner a message so that you don't have to delete the account.

Log into their account, and order, to be delivered to their address, something that gives them the first letter of your message. For instance http://www.amazon.com/Sterling-Silver-Initial-Pendant-Neckla...

Then do it over and over to send them a message that their email address is wrong. You'll have to space them out by a few days, so they arrive in order.
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T-Mobile has an unlimited plan that doesn't throttle. That's what we're talking about.

No cap.

The difference between T-Mobile and AT&T is that one is unlimited, the other is 3-5GB for "unlimited"
Sadly, we know that what web compat relies on isn't quite what NN4(-ish) does, so the mere fact that that is available doesn't really help too much. :(
I think if you're truly (1) confident about your knowledge or mastery of a particular topic and (2) actually are knowledgeable, you don't have trouble admitting things you don't know.

Here's what I really hate though. When you are around multiple people who are the type to claim knowledge about things they truly have no idea about.

For example in social situations or work situations and you have multiple of these types around. When a conversation comes up and the knowledge of the people involved is put to the test. Maybe your boss is asking who knows how to perform a certain task, or who has experience with certain hardware or software, etc. Or maybe a friend is asking what is the best TV they should buy, etc. There's the people who claim to know about topics XYZ when they really don't, and you, naturally, admit that you don't know. But you might still be the most knowledgeable person about the general topic, and best candidate to offer advice or take on said task. Doesn't matter, you get labeled as the uninformed person while the "idiot" who claims to know everything about XYZ appears to be knowledgable expert. And worst case scenario is when your boss, co-workers, friends, etc. are dumb enough not to catch it.
"Low level customer service rep at Amazon just told me to log into someone else's account - and delete it."

Clearly, someone made a mistake. This is not some official policy sanctioned by Bezos and handed down from above, despite what the clickbait headline reads.
MMU is not manditory. Coherent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent_(operating_system) ran quite nicely both on the original IBM PC/XT and on the Atari ST (No mention in the wikipedia article--I can't remember if it ever escaped the walls of MWC). Coherent on the PC was shown at the National Computer Conference in Houston in 1983. The boot was packed 8 deep the entire show.
isn't it amazing how the companies that provide us with access to the internet are pretty much among the most hated companies in our country? I feel like I'd rank them almost up there with Halliburton, Sodexo and Blackwater.

Blackwater is a company whose employees kill people. Sometimes civilians. And sometimes for no reason.

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/22/blackwater-gui...

The incident for which the men were tried was the single largest known massacre of Iraqi civilians at the hands of private U.S. security contractors. Known as “Baghdad’s bloody Sunday,” operatives from Blackwater gunned down 17 Iraqi civilians at a crowded intersection at Nisour Square on September 16, 2007.

If, after reading this, anyone is still nodding their head and entertaining the idea that their internet company is in the same league as Blackwater, then they have some pretty strange value judgments.
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There's an almost current schematic on the "Theory of Operation" page:

http://moonbaseotago.com/onerng/theory.html

few (any?) chips that do 2.5GHz RF come in chips with traditional pins (too much inductance).

QFNs are completely hand solderable (with hot air, solder paste and a pair of tweezers)
I have fond memories of writing assembly for the 68000. It had many RISC-like properties (a large number of registers, few specialized instructions like the looping and string handling of the x86, not having to worry about memory segments, etc). I wrote some interesting B&W scrolling blitters after seeing the full screen labyrinth scrolling in Beyond Dark Castle. I can't remember if they used bit shifting or rolling, but I don't think I managed 30 fps because the Mac Plus had such a slow bus that only vertical scrolling at 30 or 60 fps was possible by reading from scan line offsets of the source image. I used Apple’s BlockMove(), which was like an even more optimized version of memcpy(). The horizontal scrolling jittered when it hit 8 bit multiples because I wrote an optimization that skipped the shifting. I actually commented that out just to get consistent speed (I later synced to the vertical refresh instead).

I often feel that Apple's jump to PowerPC was not worth it. Losing hand-written assembly was a major blow and took Apple out of gaming for years because no Mac port came even close to the optimized innermost loops of games like Descent. I remember running games on a friend’s 486 at full speed that only got 10 fps on my 60 MHz PowerPC. Those were bleak years. Luckily video cards eventually leveled the playing field (but brought their own issues, which we still struggle with until DSP instructions are brought on-chip the way the FPU was).
I refer to that experience as going "trans-dimensional" while the senses are heightened the mind/body split seems to be much larger and time is definitely not monotonic.

Same, 2-3 french press carafe 1/3 to 1/2 full of fresh ground coffee at the rate of one carafe per hour.

While traveling take caffeine pills to stave off headaches since the coffee routine as been disrupted.
I get these regularly, and for purchase notifications on sites where I expect the person will come back, I make an effort to track them down and notify them.

The only one where I actually put in quite a bit of effort was when I was getting the email notifications for downloading someone's CME (Continuing Medical Education) certificates as they completed courses. It turned out to be a real pain - I could find the person, but couldn't get hold of them. Approaching retirement age, rural, etc. - I think I finally ended up leaving voicemail on their son's # and with their church, though it probably would've been easier at that point to just sit down and actually write and mail a letter.

And the only one that really annoys me is the gun nut. I get more crap from whacked out black helicopter EEEEBOOOOOLLLAAAAA idiots now...... And he actually gave them money, so they just don't go away.
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> Know any legally blind people? How easy is it for them to find a birth certificate to get a passport?

I'm legitimately curious about this because it strikes me as an odd pairing. For a legally blind person, is "finding a birth certificate" or "getting a passport" significantly more difficult than finding/getting anything else in life?
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> More inefficient than using an engine rated at ~ 25% efficiency to propel thousands of pounds of steel, glass, and plastic to transport a single person?

Sure, as you're moving a lot more material per person (and even if the engine is more efficient, upright humans aren't optimally aerodynamic -- or even as good of an approximation as typical cards -- so end to end efficiency is still going to be a problem.)
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You can actually learn to control the rocket by looking at the trajectory as opposed to flappy bird which is just trial and error.
Calling the low tier employees scum is really unfair. They either do their job how management mandates it is done or they are fired. The lowly customer service rep isn't the reason Comcast is a piece of shit.
Just forward them all to privacy@amazon.com?
I thought you were forced to go to arbitration?
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I've been getting something similar from what I assume is a married couple for the past 4-5 years now.
From what I've been able to deduce from the emails, the wife has been putting down her husband's email address but constantly getting it wrong.

I've gotten American express travel itineraries, invoices for home furnishings, etc.
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