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As will AWS, Rackspace, Google, and a few other providers. (List as of "ones I knew of off the top of my head and could quickly verify via Googling.")
lol. "CEO".
iirc either McDonalds or BK has rumors of an internal rule that even the uppermost layers of management have to spend at least one full day each year standing behind the cash register and selling burgers.

It would be nice if a) this was more than an urban legend and b) if more companies embraced variations of this rule.

I believe it to be a good way to catch problems (e.g. unrealistic expectations of workers) before shit hits the fan like in a Mannheim (Germany) hospital where medical instruments were not disinfected properly due to too few workers and time - and reports to upper levels vanished in bureaucracy.
doc format is not documented, obviously.
"Apple has taken local files on my computer not stored in iCloud and silently and without my permission uploaded them to their servers - across all applications, Apple and otherwise."

Presumably they actually did have permission through some ToS you have to agree to if you want to use OSX - which begs the question of what insane amount of permission they actually have here. Seems that it probably boils down to that they can make an argument for literally anything on the mac being useful for continuity, so they can probably upload anything they like by default using that claim?
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> AI is back with a revenge after 40 years of hibernation in the Utopian nuclear winter. That should tell you one shouldn't bury a good idea to quickly - although I appreciate your post a lot.

You might be right, I actually would love to be wrong. But even as a thought experiment (let's suppose the SW was up and working and fully realized today) what are the use cases other than "changing everything"?

Are these use case the same or similar to just doing it through API access to some set of underlying relational databases? Would the API access give us better performance, even under a federated scenario? If not, what's the advantage?

> Bring an elegant tool in the ecosystem (JSON-LD maybe ?) : devs won't shy away in front of horrendous xml, and all of the sudden SW might get caught in a virtuous circle and become the previous big thing.

I'm conflicted on this. A big part of me says that if something ends up taking off, it won't be the ideas posited by the W3C and it'll just be something else that happened to work and now Semanticists are just co-opting it and re-labling it as "Semantic Web".

I'm deciding not to fall for it. The SW failed. If something else takes off that achieves similar goals but through entirely different means, it's not the SW, it's...whatever it is.

I think it's okay the SW failed. If I sound critical it's not because it was a failure, it's because of the people that keep insisting it wasn't in the face of overwhelming evidence.

The failure of the SW has brought us lots of important information about large scale distributed information systems from a technical and sociological standpoint. It's time to study those issues and outcomes and try something else.

Instead, the field is like the search for the Higgs Boson, except whenever the last particle accelerator the community tried failed to produce the Higgs Boson, and instead found some other particle, the community simple decided to call the other particle the Higgs Boson instead. It's kind of mind-bending to work anywhere near the field.
Unfortunately most of alternatives are sub-par, particularly search. I tried using DuckDuckGo as my primary search for a month and I found what I was searching for easily [i.e. among the top results of my first query] only about half of the time. [This was about a year ago so maybe it's improved since then.]
It doesn't look like a suburban park at all.
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To be more precise: don't use OSX. You have no control on what is happening, syncing, uploading, shadow-copying etc. in the background.
At my workplace, we have both professional and amateur programmers. I admittedly fall into the latter category. And we use different tools. The pro's have C# and Source Safe. I have Python and git. They produce and maintain a zillion-line-of-code software product. I do R&D, testing, algorithm development, etc.

The demarcation is useful. I can try things quickly. But turning my spaghetti code into their good code is a point where all of my conceptual errors and missed corner cases can be wrung out, and they know how to maintain stuff for 10 years without going batty.
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if your so concerns with privacy why are you writing passwords in plain text documents?
I especially mentioned in the the case where assembly is not available.

Examples: Shaders for graphics. OpenCL kernel language. Compute shaders.

It's the difference between getting 5TFlops or 2TFlops out of your GPU.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-storage-pod-4/ here is the latest version. I have loved being able to follow the iterations of the storage pod. They are very thoughtful about HW choices but leave it open which I think is the best part!
The doc (and docx) formats are actually very well documented, thanks to pressure from the EU:

[MS-DOC]: Word (.doc) Binary File Format

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/cc313153(v=of...

[MS-DOCX]: Word Extensions to the Office Open XML (.docx) File Format

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd773189(v=office.12...
Both claims are about population statistics and demonstrate things which are clearly impossible if you reason about population statistics like you reason about people. No group of countable persons is younger than they were 30 years ago, nor is any group of countable persons only 6 years older than they were 30 years ago, but people jump straight from "the poorest 90% of Americans are less wealthy than they were in 1987" to thinking a) there is a group of individuals being discussed and b) bad stuff has happened to them. (Neither is true.)
Exactly, school is a prison.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_DJAZ-ByV0

It would be nice to see more attention on unschooling-style homeschooling and also on non-coercive schools where children are free to play and explore for themselves, so-called "democratic free schools" like Sudbury Valley School in MA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awOAmTaZ4XI
See that's my point... there is only so much land in the middle of NYC that is zoned right for condos, so the competition really won't increase.

Also, real estate in general is a very capital intensive industry, which takes out 99% of competition anyways. How many people are there that can raise $200 million to build a project. Not many.
It's worse:

It would appear that iCloud is synchronizing all of the email addresses of people you correspond with, even for non-iCloud accounts, to their recent addresses service. This means that names and email addresss that are not in iCloud contacts, not synchronized to your device, and only available in an IMAP-accessed inbox are now being sent to Apple, silently.
The primary strength of using LaTeX is math typesetting. If you're not writing equations the argument gets to be very subjective. If you are writing equations there's nearly no alternative (at least one nearly as well proven).
My suggestion would be to get a nanny who comes in and watches the baby while you and your wife both work.

By being in the house, it gives you a measure of comfort/security since you are around while giving you the freedom to actually get work done since someone else is watching the baby. Also you can take the periodic breaks to check in and play with the baby. You really can't put a price on being able to get that kind of bonding time.

My wife and I did exactly did this for a while, with the difference being that I was the parent who was working outside the home. After a few months, I also took a work from home job and we were both at home while our nanny watched the kid. We would both take breaks to check in with the nanny and handle the occasional bottle or diaper change. It worked out great.
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I've seen their hard drive reliability blog posts, but I never knew they were so open about their storage server designs. I think it's really cool how open they are about something that is definitely a competitive advantage.
For reference: the google results -- http://google.com/search?q=%22small+server%22+%22hot-swappab...
It is most probably because of the new Handoff feature, no? Application state is shared between computers.
The biggest advantage of latex is that by (mostly) separating content from presentation, you can use revision control systems like git or svn to collaborate on papers. You can be in that final hour before the paper submission deadline, on a skype call with four authors scattered around the world, all simultaneously editing the paper (each using whatever tools they prefer), and be reasonably confident it won't all end in tears. That's when you really understand the advantage of this latex-style markup. Don't get me wrong - there are lots of things I hate about latex, but I'll almost certainly keep using it because of the workflow it enables.
His trouble seems to be not with LaTeX, but with materialism.
No matter what medium he put his texts down in, will he find that the text is somewhat bound to that medium now and it'll take work to modify and/or transfer it.
Pen and paper is "proprietary" in this line of thinking.
Make sure to scroll down on those really long pages, lots of photo goodies far down below.
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Given this feature has been around for well over a year with eg. TextEdit, I'm amazed at the reaction.

This is exactly the behavior I want and expect from Apple as a user, it would surprise me if they DIDN'T do this.
I'd love it if either Backblaze or a 3rd party makes a business of selling these pods!

edit: just spotted it, their boot drive is PATA?! Why is this, given that PATA drives are slower and more expensive than SATA ones?
Yes, it's what I do when I submit to a journal that accepts submissions as RTF/DOC. It even has acceptable recoding for the maths.

http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/
I'm in the legal/IT industry, with side projects in digital audio production and studio design. Moved to Canada first, so I can escape some of the economic handcuffs, and now I'm saving my pennies for a move to Argentina.
The multitude of third-party .doc readers would seem to disprove that assertion.

In any case, it's clear from the text that he uses "proprietary" to mean "specified only by the canonical implementation". In this respect, .tex qualifies but .doc no longer does, although .doc is so bizarre and complex that writing another parser from the spec is... challenging.
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In my experience, one of the easiest ways is to just get employed by a company, where coding is done in C. You will have to code in that language a lot and the colleagues can help you. I also learned a few languages myself in my spare time (PHP, Python), but that is not nearly as effective.

If you want to really be an expert on C (or in anything imho), you just have to do it fulltime.
The product doesn't have a twitter as the name was occupied by others. :)

Personally I don't use twitter neither. Email me if you need to contact.
I think you underestimate the momentum behind this trend: the vast manjority of users want it.
"Very well" is a euphemism here, I assume?

I worked in Windows Server when Microsoft was under the US DOJ consent decree and had to document every thing that looked at all like an API--even internal things that were just APIfied for design reasons / ease of testability / to make servicing simpler.

I can say with some confidence that no one gave a shit about producing good quality docs. Without exception, people viewed the government requirement as onerous and excessive and we produced docs that were perhaps technically correct, but did not provide insight into why things were the way they were. No effort at ease of readability was made, either.
Just some ideas off the top of my head:

Maybe construction? I'd think it would be really useful to have a good range finding/measurement system when doing almost any kind of construction. If you could get a really good set of measurements of, say, inside of a kitchen, then you could build new cabinets at a shop (saving money vs. building them on site) and then install them with out worrying about how well they fit.

Would it be useful in emergency situations? Woodland firefighting in particular -- could it be mounted to the front of a helicopter and used to keep track of where the fire is, and how it related to the terrain? Then it all gets mapped out, along with the GPS coordinates of firefighters and equipment and you'd have a good emergency incident command system.

Could the diffraction grating idea be used to improve FLIR systems?
Titles are tools, and you should use the right tool for the right job. Using the wrong tool at the wrong time makes you look like the tool, but in the right context they're useful.

I've found that using the 'CEO' title can make your company sound more established when dealing with people who aren't your peers - especially when doing business development with larger companies. Back when I was running an smartphone analytics startup, I had a 'CEO' business card for dealing with, say, Time Warner, and a 'co-founder' business card for dealing with indie game developers. This scheme seemed to work fine.
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> "There are two kinds of users in this scenario. Those who don't care (99%) and those who do." ... "The author is rightly sore that his bits got pushed to Apple due to his oversight" (emphasis mine)

This attitude is completely unhelpful. It throws those who are otherwise ignorant under the bus simply because they don't (can't?) understand how modern tech works. Is that really fair? Must we really divide the world up this way? Most of the public hasn't caught up to how modern systems work and what the trade-offs really are, and they certainly won't if this is the approach we choose to take.

It's almost reminiscent of Morlocks and Eloi from HG Well's Time Machine.
If you write a test that forces a particular codepath in the original implementation, like "parameter one is an empty string and parameter two is a null pointer, and verify the return value of the function call", then it should still be a perfectly valid test if the implementation changes, it just might not be a very meaningful test.
Unfortunately I don't have a video of his frame - My goal is to get one at our next meetup. It's hard to capture because the thing is zipping around so fast!

My videos (trying to iterate on getting better cinematic quality) are at www.vimeo.com/bnzelener

I believe his frame is CNC'd steel. It's really malleable, so when he crashes he'll just bend the bent arm back into place. He uses SunnySky 2300kv motors, KissESCs, a MultiWii flight controller, and a 1300mAh 3-cell battery.
LaTeX is a good idea with a terrible implementation. The popularity of markdown (+variants) is a testament to the usefulness of plain text writing. However, LaTeX syntax is a clunky and the ecosystem is a scrapheap-challenge amalgamation of packages with assorted cross-incompatibilities.
Latex to PDF converters are also shockingly slow for this day and age, a simple document can take several seconds to compile compared to browsers which can re-flow complex HTML documents in milliseconds.

IMHO this is because of the ad-hoc nature of people using Latex, its been cobbled together by researchers based on their needs at the time while HTML+browsers have been carefully designed and optimized by people who know the intricacies of document rendering. Researchers just aren't very good software engineers as a rule so perhaps its not surprising that they produce something that more or less works but is not very well designed
Knockout didn't come from Microsoft, it's not a Microsoft product, but it did come from a Microsoft employee. I suppose for the Silicon Valley crowd that's enough of a "black mark" to avoid it. Meh. I don't care if tons of people use it because it's just one simple piece of the puzzle (that I can maintain myself if needed). Also Knockout added a feature called "Components" to version 3.2 which enables modularization similar to Angular.

That Angular wants to manage the whole app is exactly why I probably won't use it for my own projects. I don't want to build "Angular apps" I want to build web apps. Angular seems unstable too, with regards to backward compatibility - barely supporting IE8 in 1.2, dropping it in 1.3 and then introducing all sorts of major breaking changes in 2.0 - no, this kit is not for people like me who want stability. Meanwhile, even Knockout's newest features work all the way back to IE6.
Sphinx has most of these, though not all (it doesn't have the literate programming part, it could probably be done though; and the standard builders are html4). And I'll acknowledge that ReST is hard to love.
e.g.

Take the following

a = f() + g() * h();

Now in this, it is undefined whether g() is going to be executed first or h(). The precedence in this case, I mean. Precedence is well defined for operators, but there are certain things, which I still haven't figured out yet.
Here is a link to the code. Couldn't seem to find it anywhere on the website. https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover
> a. It’s an operational rather than a declarative language.

If TeX was declarative you should wait for somebody to implement in the engine any features...
I completely agree with you. Especially after my work with numerical techniques to partial differential equations, I honestly cannot see why Fourier transforms keep getting people confused. Hell, even Laplace transforms trip people up...
This may sound naive but it is just bizarre that if you own a computer it is just not really "YOUR" computer anymore. It's like you are "leasing it" but you pay the hardware company with your data.
There's a lot of special conditions around having almost the entire playing field filled in.
latex2e is 20 years old. I appreciate that's not the same as permanence, but in terms of stability in computer science, it's far from shoddy.
45Drives http://45drives.com is one company that's selling pre-built versions of the storage pod.
I don't see how it is so specialized. It is an inner product, which can be seen as analogous to a dot product that pretty much everybody sees at some point in high school.
The images are pretty big, so they'll look good in print and on retina screens. If you run the build locally, you could include a step that ImageMagicks them down to a more reasonable size for a Kindle.
Honest question, why JFS vs say, ext4?
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I wish the meme about the supposed superiority of "declarative" languages would go away. They have tradeoffs, like everything else. "Make" is also declarative — and horrific.

TeX has plenty of warts by modern standards (and the LaTeX macro package even more so), but the suggestion that HTML+CSS work better for general layout use is ridiculous (the standards committee only heard that multi-column layouts are impossible without major hackery what, last year?). I tried docbook for a document a while ago, and it was horrible. SGML might be acceptable for machine generation, but not for human writing. The toolchain is even worse than TeX's, hard as that may be to believe.

A replacement for TeX would be fantastic, but its absence over the last 30 years suggests that it's difficult to get right and achieve critical mass.
Gray area? This is a dating app just like Tinder/Grindr etc. It's been live on iOS for almost 2 years with no issues and a high rating. It's also rated high maturity (ages 18+), and we are talking about occasional nudity here, not pornography, and we work hard to take down the nudity as soon as we see it. Our mods work hard, it's a tough job, and it sucks that after all the hard work they put in, the app still gets abruptly removed without explanation.

The point is that if Google would just take 5 extra minutes to tell us what they found that was in violation, then everyone would be better off, instead of having to go through this cycle of guessing what the problem is and resubmitting while in the process losing all reviews and rankings.
I came to this thread hoping somebody would say pretty much exactly your first paragraph. The author appears to be selling a code coverage tool so of course he falls into the trap. In real life you have to remember that hitting a line once is not the same as showing it to be correct. People who buy into code coverage tools make this mistake a lot.
The sadder truth is that the root problem is Not the NSA, it's the majority of Americans who don't understand the implications of their passivity. America by and large wants the NSA to spy on them. Given the number of protests swarming Washington about almost every issue under the sun, there have been a dearth about the NSA. America doesn't understand the problem and thus doesn't want to fix it.
This is pretty neat! It would be cool if I could get it to read given RSS feeds.
That link doesn't contradict xenadu02's claim. Do you have a link that better spells out that Apple is a willing partner in PRISM?
Will be renting there in a few hours. Hopefully will have a better experience.
When might makes right how far behind is a revolution to clean out the bullies and tyrants who made it possible? Have leaders not learned what turns the majority or vocal minority against them... not just at the ballot box, but by the guillotine, armed resistance, suicide bombers, snipers etc?
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I could also find a ton of nudity on Instagram right now if I wanted to.
For me c is kind of a wierd language. Wierd in that the language itself is incredibly simple, I think anyone could learn c syntax and usage in about 2 days max. But I think where most people get hung up with on c are the concepts, you do need to know about compiling and linking, static vs dynamic libs, lots of details about how computer architecture / memory works, and to get anything done you need know POSIX and the concepts behind any libraries you use. Its not like ruby or other dynamic languages where you could basically have no idea how HTTP works and still write a webapp.
It is unspecified not undefined. Important difference.
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By his definition, every document ever written in any DSL is in a propietary format.

Personally, I'm perfectly happy if I can open a document in a text editor and get the content that way. That obviously works perfectly fine with LaTeX, it doesn't work at all with doc.
I believe the intent is to sync state between Macs, e.g. a MacBook and an iMac.
You're right [0], but I couldn't find which march value [1] corresponds to the settings used for "x86_64-linux-gnu".

EDIT: running "echo | gcc -v -E - 2>&1 | grep cc1" shows the command line, which says "-mtune=generic -march=x86-64". I do not know what "-march=x86-64" implies, except SSE2.

0 - https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2012-12/msg00074.html

1 - https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/i386-and-x86-64-Options.h...
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Nice collection, I think I'll be using this!
What are your arguments against Java?

If you are disregarding Java when you are looking for portable options, then you are IMHO limiting yourself quite a bit and could be missing out on a good solution to your problem.
The engine is http://www.jetcatusa.com/p160.html. Only costs $4200, which is not too far out there in comparison to quad/hexa/octo setups.
Super cool, and I can't imagine how you could fly this. This is going to scare the hell out of the FAA and Homeland Security. I expect the FBI will start paying the turbine company a visit.
Math conversions tend to be lossy or involve rasterization (that inevitably ages poorly).