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Microsoft own 90% of the PC market in the 90s.

Netscape was the sizzle and you pay money to get a browser to surf internet.

Microsoft decided to package IE for free on Window.

Internet was wild west and mysterious. There's hardly any books on it and information wasn't traveling as fast for the masses to know much about internet.

But they do know there's this IE thingy that will give them internet.

IE destroyed netscape, very few people had a clue there was an alternative browser...

Hence this was deem as a monopoly.

Hell when I was a kid I didn't really know much other than netscape and all of a sudden IE. It didn't occur to me that there are choices but the fact that IE was a part of window and it just works out of the box. I moved to mozilla when IE was slowing down.

But the point was it was so integrated with window that it was apart of it, it felt natural as if the internet was apart of microsoft.

And in fact microsoft acted as a gate keeper of the internet for years that was their business goal. Their OS control stuff on the PC and that's how they made money. Which is why they lost to Google when they double down on their model. The way they acted and their many moves to monopolize it, one of which was IE.
> She claimed there was a secret knack for creating STAP cells, but has refused to publicise it, asserting it is a subject of her future papers.

Also, from wikipedia:

> In July 2014, Obokata was allowed to join Riken’s (a state-backed institute) efforts in July under monitoring by a third party. She tried to replicate her own study using genetically manipulated mouse spleen cells that glow green if a gene indicative of pluripotency is activated. She fails to reproduce ‘STAP cell’ to back up her claimed discovery.
This is overly harsh. The article may not be the absolute best advice, but it is probably illuminating to people who are already doing a worse job, living month-to-month rather than next-month-to-next-month, and it's completely harmless to people who already have a better system (hint: spend less than last month's income!).
Same here. I live in New York; if shit hit the fan in an hour, I'm not sure how much there is to be gained by leaving. At least here, I know the area, I can expect to stay reasonably warm in the current weather inside my building, I can work together with the neighbors that I know. We have enough food in our kitchen to last us a week, and we could immediately begin to stockpile water. We even have some medical supplies. Hell, there are always rats I could trap and eat if I were willing to risk bioaccumulating some poison.

If I set out for New Jersey, or Connecticut, or even Long Island, I immediately lose shelter, I am limited to the food I can carry on my person, I don't know where the nearest stores or houses are, and I don't know anyone there at all.

The only immediate advantage I can think of is that there would be less people around willing to kill me for my stuff.
>Anyway, why would you think I'd consider those to be beyond the judgment of foreigners?

The problem is that USA has a hollier than thou attitude that's not content in "judging" but also plays world cop.
>They never did go after Apple, or Google / Android, or whatever for doing the exact same thing

Duh. Because neither one had a monopoly.
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Of course, it is still an interesting question of whether it would be practically stable in Postgres or not.
That's why I put (most) in parens. While I'm generally disappointed with the majority of infosec, there are really good infosec people out there. In my experience the good people in infosec are really, really brilliant, and are also just as frustrated with the rest of the field.
Excellent, we can see that subtler differences are harder to identify, and that we can have subjective applications to flavour because humans are biased to like things in proportion to how they expect to.

But I'd put money that every experienced taster was able to deduce in blind tasting the bordeaux from the (insert other wine type??). Indeed as I understand it from watching Frasier there are clubs which do these blind tastings all the time.

In other words. I may tell you this bordeaux is cheap and acidic, but at no point was I mistaking it for a bottle of Rose.
While we're on the subject of pet-peeves, I hate it when people speak of an "existential threat". That has absolutely nothing to do with Existentialism.[1] What people probably mean when they use that term is "a threat to ___'s existence". "existence" != "existential".

I also hate it when people say "hackers" when the proper term for what they mean is "crackers".[2]

And I hate it when people say "Linux" when they should properly say "GNU/Linux".

But I rarely complain about these pet-peeves of mine, since I recognize that language is a living, changing, growing thing, out of the control of any one person or small group of people, though the French language police[3] and dictionary publishers may disagree.

[1] - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/existentialism/

[2] - http://catb.org/jargon/html/C/cracker.html

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_of_Culture_%28France%...
So you mean Everpix must have hit really rotten luck?
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I'm less scared because at least Chrome (or rather Blink / webkit) is open source so can (and is) implemented in other browsers. However I do agree with you that it isn't healthy for any single rendering engine to monopolise the internet.
I use that FF extension and have no complaints. The best thing I can say about it is that I never notice it, but it always does seem to put me on smile.
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I agree - I really like it and I'm learning a lot. However, i'm losing motivation due to the lengthy queue.

Task 6 currently has a two month wait. Given that you may have to submit multiple times to get feedback and fix mistakes, you're talking a significant part of a year to get a single task done.

I understand there's a massively unexpected surge of users, but I'd happily donate to help improve infrastructure (if donations were ever available)
I dunno. He seems pretty modest for a billion-dollar-club VC.
I agree that the proper way would be unification, but that's impossible - the UK would be the first one to say no.

They should "just" add a size limit or at least make it much simpler for companies to comply with the law.
Yes, those are all something for foreigners to judge. Why would you assume otherwise?
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At least I have always found (most) math to be highly theoretical with little applicability.

Any suggestions on applied math? I suspect I just haven't been exposed to enough of it to really connect the theory to the real world.
Yes - if you sell these digital goods.
When I say "code archeology", I mean the equivalent of "git blame" without assigning blame - just finding out why stuff is the way it is and not who's responsible because that would be totally pointless, especially years after the incident.

I do like your spin however :-)
Kindly refrain from blaming me for the attitudes of my countrymen when I don't share said attitudes. I am an individual, not to be characterized purely by the actions of the nation of my citizenship.
6 years before Fight Club the World Trade Center had a car bomb set off in it[1], so it's not like they got the idea from that movie.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_World_Trade_Center_bombin...
A better simplified budget might end with something like: 5. Subtract off a reasonable estimate for spending money, 6. Save the rest. Instead of thinking of spending money as unbounded, think of savings as unbounded, and bound everything else.
Oh yeah, I knew your meaning. Doing blame and bisect to find a deep-seated bug can be a lot of fun... or frustrating and miserable. I tend to give terrible on word commit messages when I'm developing, but I always do an interactive rebase to clean things up and make a reasonable view of history. We use Phabricator a lot too, which does a great job of letting you annotate code, commits etc.
If you think there is a better way to do it, you can send a pull request.
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I've come down to just using Terminator terminal emulator[1] (which allows you to open multiple sessions in the same window with a CTRL+SHIFT+E or CTRL+SHIFT+O) and a web browser. I used to care about which desktop I used (KDE or Gnome, etc) and how it was setup... but lately that just hasn't bothered me. As long as I can have 3-4 terminals open in the same window, and some browser, I'm productive.

[1] http://gnometerminator.blogspot.com/p/introduction.html
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8736787
In fact lots of people assumed that the marketplaces would take the heavy lifting here. However most of them are US-based and have said they won't be the ones to take care of this.

However, part of the problem is the authorities assuming that everyone sells through marketplaces, and that marketplaces would be the ones to tackle the issue. You'd be surprised how many people this is going to affect who are just selling a few items with PayPal - and PayPal cannot supply the required data to comply.

The people that got most vocal about this were mom solo entrepreneurs. I wrote a follow-up blog post about this: http://blog.satago.co.uk/2014/11/when-the-crafting-community...
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Iceland, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Norway all said they'd consider his asylum request if he made it from their soil, as their laws require.

We don't have to go far to find examples that disprove your "West acts as one" assertion. This is a thread about North Korea, so I give you Hans Brix (or Hans Blix if you prefer), and the failure of the USA to secure a UN resolution in 2003. The USA couldn't even convince France or Germany that the Iraq invasion was justified (let alone wise). If it wasn't for Tony Blair the list of US allies would have been very very thin indeed.
Does that still mean rest of the folks (after founders and investors) are third class?
Libraries must shed their old-fashioned image and become more like coffee shops
I am currently a full time freelancer/consultant. The best thing I've ever done is to put myself (and my family) on a flat, fixed budget. All the money from my work goes into my business account, and I write myself a check for our personal account on the 1st of each month that's always the same, just like a salary. This is the trick to making a variable income feel like a stable one. Just pay yourself a salary and ignore the rest. At the end of the year, chances are you'll have a good bit saved up that you otherwise would have spent if your budget changed every month like the author suggests.
I mean it's a necessity in that you need an elastic supply of labor to respond to the market forces that ostensibly drive a free market economy to meet the needs of its participants.
Microsoft have come under fire over other software they've bundled free with Windows as well.

IIRC the latest was Windows Defender.
"Supporting the EFF is all fine but generally a waste of time and money for effecting real change. The only way these programs end is if Congress is full of people who want this to stop and will ensure that it does."

If this is the only way, I have little hope.
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"Future" police state?
I'm sensing a marketing academic. I agree with some points and the echo chamber is very real

However, while I wish there were more people reading peer reviewed journals and debating the full spectrum of marketing, the literature is unfortunately 5 years behind what's actually going on in businesses and online (we are talking about SaaS here).

Research and empirical work takes time but consumers move quickly, especially online, so by the time reports and data are published it's out of date. The only half decent way to keep up with developments is to buy into some of these "neologisms" or you will be left behind.
Problem is because C LXC ABI is unstable and would prevent building docker under osx or win. ALso under linux you would need at least sources for liblxc(they are different for each distribution) and unstable docker daemon which is locked to specific distribution with specific version of LXC ABI is a bad thing.
There are easier and better ways to start a war with North Korea.
Wow, that's fantastic. My queries are littered with that type of construct. Unfortunately, we are using SQL Server and Microsoft hardly ever makes any developer-friendly enhancements to T-SQL.
I have sympathy for insects, and I do not want to harm more of them.
I think the hack of sending out a physical item with free digital download is a great way to bypass this ridiculous EU garbage.
A colleague who has some paid for digital content just started to do this last week and the customers seem quite happy about it.
It's more like 80% of the population, when considering expenses not covered by insurance. A hospital can charge you for anything and you're legally obligated to pay it.
Were these tests blind or double-blind?
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I don't think these links speak well for the patches you are talking about. I see a number of instances where the patches are being rejected for legitimate quality issues. It is pointed out that for PowerPC one piece doesn't compile with -Werror, and a bunch of configuration ifdefs no longer build. For ptmx_fops it is pointed out that the old code is better encapsulated and more maintainable if the ops structure gets new members. I did not see this answered. A lot of the diffs insert the "const" keyword in kind of unusual and unconventional places without much explanation, and without looking too deeply I kind of doubt it's the only place it can go to achieve the desired effect. This seems to be confusing reviewers on the thread because they are unused to the pattern. (It's much less of a wtf to see the whole vtable declared const than the individual function pointers, for example.)

Then to get all smug about it and call politics on people for doing a code review, rather than fix the patches or communicate their importance better... They could be doing good work but I don't think they come off well in these threads.
Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky actually has a role described as "programmer archaeologist":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky#Interstel...
Well that's true, my straw man doesn't quite stand up in this case. However it still doesn't explain why Internet Explorer was the target when there is so much other software that was bundled with Windows, which too had for profit competitors? Those people who exclusively used Internet Explorer as "the Internet" would too have used the bundled mail client (I can't remember what it was called back in the day) exclusively too and seen that as "the email"?
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12 parts be quarters split into three as easily as thirds split into four.

Though in any case it would be nice for the article to state why that division was used (even if the reason is completely arbitrary - at least then we'd know to stop guessing!).
> food, books, children's clothes are untaxed

Some food is untaxed. For example, cakes are untaxed but biscuits are taxed (or maybe it's the other way round). There was a court case to decide whether Jaffa Cakes were cakes or biscuits for the purposes of VAT: the court ultimately applied the principle that cakes were soft when fresh but hard when stale, while biscuits started off hard and then went soft; hence Jaffa Cakes were officially cakes.
I mean, you took three months off, essentially -- knowing that you'd have no savings at the end?

I'd suggest this, which I think has been said elsewhere in this thread:

Pay yourself a monthly amount and don't touch the rest. And base that amount on a figure that's somewhat less than the average of what you've been pulling in for the last year or so.

Have a crazy lucrative month? Great! Into the "business" account it goes -- you get paid the same amount. Have a crap month? No worries -- you get paid the same amount.

You've got to figure out techniques to smooth the unpredictable into the predictable. That's how you remain sane as a freelancer. And I've been freelancing for basically the entirety of my career, since the late 90s.

Also: Never put yourself in a position where you know you're going to have no savings. That bit about taking three months off and having no savings at the end. Ugh. Personal projects are great. Vacations are necessary. But as a freelancer, you have to earn those things.
i'm just a dozen blocks away and the app is currently telling me i'm outside the delivery area.... i guess the delivery radius is fairly small, in which case 1 hour delivery by bike messenger can't be that bad.
Worth noting that this is in the 'lxc' execution driver, which is no longer the default. The 'native' driver here is now the default:
https://github.com/docker/docker/tree/master/daemon/execdriv...
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A flag register is indeed an additional dependency and may end up in the critical path. But x86 and ARM already have a flag register. They already pay the cost.

And you don't need a flag resister to check for overflows. Trap on overflow (like Alpha) will work just as well. The difference is that traps are infrequent so you don't have to make them fast, just correct. You don't have to raise the trap in the same cycle that you calculate the integer operation. You just have to to do it before the commit stage. (And the last time I checked, the Alphas were quite a bit faster than MIPS.)

Of course hardware support implies some overhead and more complexity. I can see why people would oppose it. But there really is software that would greatly benefit from hardware support.
The alternative valuations are right there in the market. If
"alternative valuations"
I were to place an order to purchase 100 shares of apple stock at $10 per share simply because I favor an alternative valuation I could do so but my order will not be filled. This is because the valuation is not correct.

"alternative business models"
Publicly traded companies emphasize stock value because it is their duty to do so. The owners of the company have a right to collectively demand this. If the company fails to promote the value of the stock then the owners will sell their stock and the price will adjust to reflect this increase in supply/fall in demand.

"free public access to data/hyper-speed trading platforms"
They are publicly available but they are not free. Data is a good, goods cost money. Believe it or not it takes quite a lot of effort to deliver these products.

"bit pattern"
What are you talking about? DRM in finance? You aren't making sense here.

"There is no such thing as a market"
Yes there is. People buy and sell companies and commodities on various exchanges. These exchanges are called markets.

"buyers form cartels and dictate prices"
The market dictates prices. There are market makers who are legally obligated to buy and sell within a certain range of the free market price. This ensures liquidity and it is not some sort of scam.

"manipulation couldn't happen"
Your sarcasm is obvious. People commit crimes, it doesn't mean that the whole system is broken. Often they also go to jail for these crimes.
Unfortunately only in the 10001 zip code.
Finally! This should have existed much earlier to neat things up!
Marketing doesn't write the specs for the product. Product management does. It's okay, man. Marketing is a thing. It's just not all things.
Use this every day. Works great.
Almost everyone you'll meet at a big bank is there because they got stellar grades at an Ivy-league or near-Ivy school...

Good at coloring within the lines, and grabbing the brass ring, we might say. Nerds they generally are not.
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Did PostgreSQL just kill MongoDB?
This analogy breaks down given that SK doesn't shell NK, threaten them with total devastation or test nukes.
I'm really pumped about the update to GIN indexes, and the ability to concurrently update materialized views. Both enhancements are huge for the postgres ecosystem, and especially for productionizing postgres databases.
Yes. I've always framed this as a kind of simulation. When we can actualize things in our minds, we then can also process them in ways not possible in a basic sense.
Good to see this getting more publicity. The lack of a small business exemption is potentially devastating.
About two years ago, I was working as the part time CTO for a blog where the owners would write stories for Yahoo Sports that were featured on the Yahoo homepage. The stories contained links to related stories on his blog. Those links would routinely drive 250,000 unique pageviews in under two hours.
How much work is there for Elixir though? Asking as one who doesn't know.
You're right! I should've mentioned savings before spending. Edited the article. Thanks!
I don't think there was anything else bundled with Windows that explicitly targeted other for-profit competitors at that time.

Dr-DOS and the Berkley screen saver stuff are two other situations that spring to mind, both of which resulted in legal cases, but the size/scope of MS by the time the Netscape thing came around was probably the tipping point (considering their previous behavior already demonstrated a pattern which showed no signs of stopping).
It doesn't take time once you get Domain Admin, and there is no indication of how fast it happened. I've seen companies lose DA, and therefore their entire enterprise, in hours. You can then push malware to everyone on the domain.
For what it's worth. Fake accounts cannot down vote. I don't even have the ability to down vote. You need karma for that. People down-voted you because your comments are off the mark. It's absurd to think you're blaming anyone but yourself for that.
> That doesn't make anyone who adheres to one or the other dress code any better.

Ironically, that is exactly what tech was advocating for in the first place.
The degree of cooperation the article assumes is untenable on a global scale. Perhaps more isolated countries could coordinate, or maybe after the initial chaos some coordination could develop...

He ignores that the most plentiful source of food will be other people after a month or so...
The advantage of using the library is that you would be able to answer connectivity queries and traverse the connected components of the graph efficiently.

EDIT: If you want an example application, suppose you have a physics simulation with a bunch of connected rigid bodies. You would like to be able to quickly test if two boxes are connected by links to the same body or to detect if after breaking a joint the resulting body becomes disconnected into two different pieces. Using a data structure like this would be faster than brute force searching over the graph of all bodies every time you change a link by connecting/disconnecting two bodies.
The budget figure is probably BS. Their whole GDP is about 12 billion USD in toto -- and they give around 10-15% of state expenditure to the military budget (the peak was 30%, according to wikipedia, back in the seventies).

But even that figure ($10b) is comparable to places like The Netherlands, Quatar or Poland (hardly forces to be reckoned with), and 1/3 of what South Korea spends:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/spending.htm