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But can networkd operate without systemd sitting as pid0?

Btw, that very line is why we have these debates. There is no clear way to indicate if you are talking about just the init part or the whole of systemd. This in large part because the name has stayed while the goals have constantly shifted.

And sometimes i wonder if the proponents wants it this way, as they can play the "superior" card by constantly "correcting" detractors on the difference. Fueling further the impression that the discussion is not technical but political...
Not at all. Emacs is significantly extensible. systemd has no notion of a plugin or module system, or anything like that. Other init schemes do, though.
For definitions of "big trouble" that include a class-action lawsuit being filed in Canada.
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but I stated that I do not wish to learn about how the internals of the computer works, rather than im more interested in the language itself, which is Rust. plus I saw Elixir, I didnt like it all :(
I've observed that there a few good examples of what it actually is.
I had a mac classic II (1991 vintage) that eventually stopped working in 2004-2005 or so (IIRC). Sometimes old computers live longer than average. I also had a PC XT clone from 1987 before that that I am pretty sure lived more than 10 years.
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just like cattle on a ranch? Mooo....
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You are 100% correct. It is something that infuriates me when I hear people say they love programming so much they would do it for free. That's great but don't say it out loud. Some people are not motivated by money and that's fine but when you work value is created and it has to go somewhere. Even if you don't need it, take as much money as you can get then just donate it to the local animal shelter. Because if you don't, someone else will, and they will not spend it as wisely as you would.

I see it all the time, silly kids who think there is something pure and noble about giving themselves carpal tunnel, sacrificing their 20s when they should be having fun and forming relationships, sleep deprivation and associated psychological problems, stress, getting burnt out for 0.001% of a company and their boss buying a Porsche and propping up his "habits". Lawyers and doctors are far savvier.
I think you need to look a little harder at other industries. Scorcese isn't an average person, any more than Ken Thompson (71, still works at Google).
How did Digital Webster differ from the dictionary in OS X today? You can look up any word on your screen by pressing cmd-ctrl-D
It would be nice to see what comments it thinks lead to certain beliefs on its part, but I am pretty sure it needs some work.
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I know. I saw that link and viewed it. I listed what verbs I figured out on my own (found within the game or guessed) as a comment on what the whole user experience of the game was like. It left me feeling like avoiding Lisp, even after I tried again and--only because of getting tips from the comments here--got into the Lisp interpreter part. It was still a frustrating guessing game with no point.
Isn't that common knowledge? First, there's no consensus among physicists on any particular interpretation, so right off the bat that should tell you that we are missing something really deep. Second, the Copenhagen interpretation itself is completely nonsensical. I'm convinced it is responsible for most of the millions made by Deepak Chopra.
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For x64 under both *nix and Windows sizeof(int) remains at 4 while the sizes of pointers increase to 8 bytes (64 bits), so anything in the compiler that depends on those sizes would also have to change. As for the opcodes, with x86/x64 it's a little weird since 64-bit mode actually defaults to 32-bit data sizes and uses mostly the same opcodes as 32-bit mode, with a prefix byte needed to override this to 64 bits. Addresses default to 64 bits, however. The 32-bit environment is "nice" in that pointers and integers are the same size; not true for most 64-bit in general (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit_computing#64-bit_data_mo... )

But still, trying to fit the x64 version in 64 lines is probably going to be the harder problem. ;-)
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Are people supposed to look on TV or other mass media outlets for proper information and motivation?

If so, I think we need a revolution because TV, Radio and now the Internet are controlled assets of the current system.
Quantum tunneling is a good, specific example. It is not predicted by classical mechanics.

If I have a particle which is bound inside a potential well, say an electron which is part of an atom, by virtue of being electrically attracted to the atom's nucleus, from time to time it can escape the potential well.

Say for example I have a hydrogen atom, with an electron and a proton, and a positively-ionized hydrogen atom - that's actually just a bare proton.

From time to time the electron will bind to the other proton, without appearing to cross the space in-between.
Could you elaborate why you choose this particular bit?

Aristotle's production is full of enumerations of the observable phenomena but the science as we know it today got going only after people started to figure out they actually should test the conclusions they drew from their observations and found out that Aristotle was in several places in fact not correct but merely blowing so much hot air to impress his audiences.

I was not questioning the cultural merits of his legacy, but merely the practical. His political and pedagogic writings are far more interesting, IMO, as studies of the human condition.

While the roots of science have several offshoots buried in greece soil the tree started to seriously bear any fruit only after Baconian inquiry was accepted by the european intelligentzia.
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Thanks. I wasn't really advocating unionization or really anything in particular, just marveling at how stunningly clueless (or, if you prefer, generous and egalitarian) programmers can be.

The amount of money we collectively leave on the table is staggering.
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The UN isn't a nation-state. The US obviously acts to promote its own interests, as it should. It doesn't purport to be an objective and an unbiased protector of human rights across the globe. The UNHRC does, and that's the whole point of its existence.
The vast majority of people follow the dominant religion of the area they are born and/or their parents. In practice this makes it interchangeable with racism in most cases.
Yet another reason to start or join a worker cooperative. http://techworker.coop
Yep. I think that applies to most things in life. It's like a separate category of emotion opens up of appreciation instead of things being pure enjoyment/entertainment after you know the work that goes into something.
The design of online auctions and markets.

It gives some insight on how we can design bidding and pricing systems to ensure that people only ever attempt to bid what they truly think an item is worth, given what they know and what they think other bidders know.

The broader goals are to establish when these systems might be "incentive compatible" (truthful bidding) and whether or not these results are robust to variations on the assumed information structure (assumptions governing what agents know, what they think other agents know, and so on).

For the HN crowd, it seems like the related field of algorithmic game theory is more practical. It focuses mainly on the implementation and complexity of various auction pricing mechanisms.

The section on 'coordination games and conventions' is also quite interesting and related to problems in distributed computing. For instance, byzantine fault tolerance and common knowledge of global state shares many similarities with economic systems in which many dispersed agents with subjective beliefs about the 'true state' of the world wish to come to some consensus over some market equilibria or economic fundamentals such as interest rates or market prices in the presence of faulty communication and/or strategic trading behaviours.

In these cases, game theory may provide insights on more robust fault tolerant designs, and economic policies that lead to stabler, and more efficient markets.
I've done DI many times for things other than tests - swapping out different algorithms is the most common case (BetaBanditCalculator -> TimeVaryingBayesianBanditCalculator -> HierarchicalPersonalCharacteristicCalculator, etc). It also makes testing easy, which is great, but that's far from the only use case.

DI tends to work great for the integration point between systems - e.g., connecting the REST or Thrift interface to the calculation backend and datastore.

The fact that a concept is hard to use in Enterprise Java is a poor argument against anything other than Enterprise Java.
It might just be that as they get older and wiser and look around at their friends, that they start seeing negative consequences of activities done earlier in life and want to protect those they love. Definitely the case with me.
Your first point is a non-explanation. If the conjecture is that the preference for CS is based on inherent factors, that doesn't explain why the preference ratio would change over time. Did the nature of programming change in 1985 and 2003 to make it more attractive to men?

Disclaimer: the sources below are controversial. The below is not necessarily an endorsement of these conclusions, but an attempt to address them on their own terms.

Regarding your second point. At the ranges in question, the male-female disparity is not enough to explain the observed results. I'm going to rely on SAT Math data, because that's more rigorously studied than what you posted. The male-female disparity among people with perfect SAT Math scores is less than 2-1: http://www.aei.org/publication/2013-sat-test-results-show-th.... So that might explain why only 40%+ of math majors are women. It doesn't explain why less than 20% of CS majors are women, or why that ratio has fallen by half even as the field has become less mathematically rigorous.

Also, there is quite a lot of evidence that women outperform their SAT Math scores relative to men: http://esd.mit.edu/Headline/widnall_presentation.html ("He found that women outperform their predictions. That is, that women perform better as students than their math SAT scores would predict. The effective predictive gap is about 30 points.") It is interesting to note that men also outperform women at the upper range of MCAT and LSAT scores, by similar margins. Yet, differences in observed performance in medical and law school by gender are slim to non-existant, and those professions have an even number of men and women, at least at the degree and entry level.

I don't think aptitude explains the disparity if you actually delve into the data. I think it can be explained by: http://iangent.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-petrie-multiplier-wh...
Yeah, they should call it "Linux for Workgroups".
So is this some kind of future AI?
How did you get over that? I was only able to get past those obstacles by fixing my credit history, which fortunately was relatively easy as it was a mistake by my bank.
It's an interesting macro-scale analogy. You can demonstrate interference in a double-slit experiment with oil drop.

But look what the article leaves out: You can't, as far as I can tell from the article, demonstrate the collapse effect of detecting which slit the particle passes through. In fact, you can always observe which slit the particle passes through, so measurement has no effect on the wave interference pattern.

If there is a "pilot wave" version of quantum mechanics, these experiments are only a suggestion of some of the mathematics. They appear not to be a macro-scale example.
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I can label a GOTO as well.

That languages are turing equivalent doesn't mean that they operate at the same level of abstraction; trying to pass one off as being "the same" as another is just silly.
basic OS building blocks

Is a meaningless phrase.

bringing up the network is part of the basic system

I'm not even sure what the implication is here. That such a thing was not possible before systemd?

And systemd (the project) is trying to be the basic building blocks from which you can build an OS out of.

So it's trying to obsolete the Linux distribution? You're going to have to define some terminology first, I'm afraid.
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I'm extremely relieved that sometime in the past few months I've dropped off the list.

In case you're wondering, IBM's BlueMix is a public installation of Cloud Foundry, which is an opensource PaaS. Disclaimer: I work on Cloud Foundry at Pivotal.
One extra point: what @barrkel is saying here works much better in a language which is fairly concise. In more verbose languages, any kind of change becomes more difficult (there is simply more code to change and more opportunities to make mistakes), so it is understandable that people want to build in "hooks" for extension.
There was a recent quantum doc on BBC which was a pretty good watch. I think it mentioned the term pilot wave but the message they gave was that Bell test experiments proved that hidden variable interpretations were impossible and that the probabilistic reality of particles was undeniably true so you have to suck it up.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04tr9x9/the-secrets-of...
Thanks to the wonders of the rocket equation mass that is only present on the first stage is much cheaper than mass that has to be boosted through the second stage as well. And air resistance is a big deal so it helps a lot that it's now working for you rather than against you.
While vivid, is that true? Given all of the people who have taken LSD, I would expect more reported accidents of the sort you describe.

According to http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/nationwide-t... , about 0.4% of the US uses a hallucinogen each month. According to http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-health/overview-alcohol-con... about 60% have had alcohol in the same month.

Thats a ratio of about 150. Let's round it up to 200.

Nearly 88,000 people die from alcohol related deaths per year (see http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-health/overview-alcohol-con... ).

Thus, if the risk factors for death related to hallucinogens is higher than that of alcohol, I would expect to see about 440 such deaths per year.

10,322 died due to alcohol-impaired-driving. Using the same ratio, I would expect to see about 50 such deaths related to hallucinogens.

I have failed to find deaths of the sort you described, which make me doubt that there's a simple causal relationship between the number of fatalities and the prohibition of a substance.
> You'll live a lot longer jamming the FM radio band

Speaking out of experience, yes. 1kW sorta-portable system on a hill in a car, no problems even after half an hour of running a pirate station.
The media uses the word "agent" to refer only to those who work in intelligence and defense agencies, so your explanation doesn't seem sufficient. And even if you are right - the word "agent" has a clear and different meaning in the context of intelligence, so at best this is a really bad choice of words.
It's funny you mention BVA. I joined them many years ago (before FSX closed gamespy) and I flew with them quite a bit. I think I was just a little intimidated by how professional they were. I did a few of their lessons, and then I went back to free flight in the offline sim where I could take off the from the taxi ways :).
Its hard.

when you have nothing to do, It becomes hard to manage your feelings.
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== 1. Senior R&D Engineer in Computer Vision ==
== 2. Software Engineer in Mobile ==

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We prefer candidates who are proficient both on a theoretical/algorithmic level and in practical implementation (mostly C++ and shader languages) of computer vision and graphics algorithms, and who can make contributions to our product and core technology from the start.

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Also, candidates should have the ability to discuss, design and implement UI.

== General information:

Our technology stack is for the most part Java and C++. Platforms we target are (in order of importance) Android, MacOS, Windows, Linux and iOS. We strive to make everything we do really really fast.

Our R&D team is still quite small so any new hire can have large impact on product and future developments.

Both positions are local and full-time. We prefer candidates who are able to spend at least 3 days per week together with the team in the city office.

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We are backed by Intel Capital and various angel investors. Our office locations are Houston, TX (manufacturing and order execution), Boston, MA (management, marketing, sales) and Wiesbaden, Germany (R&D).

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The issue with this though is it goes most of the way back to the STS; i.e. multi-month turn around instead of days/weeks. It saves manufacturing time and materials costs (not entirely due to fatigue checking etc), but does little for integration and turn around costs.
Questions asking us to recommend or find a tool, library or favorite off-site resource are off-topic for Stack Overflow as they tend to attract opinionated answers and spam. Instead, describe the problem and what has been done so far to solve it.

(just kidding. I don't like SE but I'm sure this is a great tool for people who do like SE.)
I actually don't, and I can't find a damn thing about it on Google. Weird.
It's probably the cost factor. The salary of a 50 year old will be way more than a 25 year old for doing the same job.
I don't use soundcloud too much but a related service that could also go through a major redesign is spotify.

Some of the things that bother me most:
1 - I use 3 platforms (Linux, android tablet and android phone), and that's 3 different UIs and features.
2 - really small buttons, lots of wasted empty space in every platform
3 - songs / albums / artists. If you save a song, the album and artist are saved too even if you don't care for those. There's an option to see full albums only on the Linux preview, but not on any of the android applications.

I really enjoy the service, but the UX can really get on my nerves sometimes.
Yeah, this a thousand times. I cannot prove but I believe this happy-go-lucky professional ethos is also quite expensive for the rest of the society since everything runs on computers. Were the programs implemented by a less numerous but higher quality workforce I think the state of software would be much better.

I think there is a kind of a institutional schizophreny on the role of the modern programmer since the first programmers were mostly a mechanical part of the machine translation process, punching cards for programs written by someone else. I believe this historical trait has skewed the perception of the requirements for the profession.
Since this thread is pretty popular, i'll try to latch on to it.

I too am a developer from India, college student to be more precise. I'll get my degree in 2016. I want to move out of India to US or a country in Europe and am trying to find a way to do so.

As for my skills, i have done a ton of open source work and am proficient in popular languages like Python, PHP(?), Go, Clojure, etc. and some obscure languages as well.

I am not sure which field of the industry i want to specialize in right now but have done web, mobile, game-dev, desktop apps (linux & windows) and a bit of embedded stuff.

Whats the best way to get a job and move out of the country?
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I forgot the count but it was between 10 and 20 eyewitness accounts and direct interviews by the grand jury state Brown charged at the officer. It's obvious you didn't look at any of the documents or read any of the online articles or television by news organizations who did read the documents and state the same thing.

One of the biggest lies told, in all this, is that Brown had his hands up and said, "Don't shoot!". Never happened but I'm betting you believe that, too.
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Imagine hearing this[1] for 12 hours straight.

Edit: Not saying it's bad music, but perhaps after the 12 hour point the constant beat would drive anyone crazy.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYC5VFuiblU
Because it is part of a particularly daft bit about the number of "points" and locomotion.

It is also there he insists that flies have four legs.

(Yes, there is a particular insect from his area that seemingly only has four legs -- but it is still daft.)
Which is a very funny statement, if you take into account the dozens of countries the US has invaded in the last few decades.
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Reddit discussion (from 9 hours ago): http://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/2p8mvd/skinny_p...

Earlier this year they tried to bill the US government: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/weird-news/metal-band-skin...
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