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Neither does your post. I suppose it was just written for fun or learning experience.
There have been quite a few projects that did hack the kernel and drivers directly.

The majority of users are actually running XBMC on the Pi, and they don't care if it's linux or windows. But the early adopters do care, and they are all Linux people.
Are these kids hacking on the Linux kernel or something? Of course not. They will be using some app/language running on the OS. They don't need access to the OS source to do that.

I even mentioned libc. There is more to an operating system than a kernel.

In fact, this was an important part of my early computer education: when I was 12 (1994) I bought a copy of Slackware Linux because it had a free compiler (even Turbo Pascal was expensive for a 12 year-old).

At the beginning I just typed some small C snippets that I could find in books in the library. Then I started reading shell scripts and found out that a lot of the system is controlled through shell scripts and started writing my own. Then I started reading through the source code of libraries to find out how things were implemented.

At some point I got a Minix book (I was probably 16) at a discount at a book store. I started comparing the theory I read there and tried to find out how e.g. the Linux VMM differed from Minix.

Don't underestimate how important it is for a kid to have access to such information. Only a small subset dive deeply into the system, but they will be the hackers of the future. But you have to awaken the interest by making easy to dive in.

They will be using some app/language running on the OS. They don't need access to the OS source to do that.

I think you underestimate how important access to the OS (in the widest sense) has been to the success of everyone from Google, Dropbox, and Facebook to the newest of startups.
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> trustworthy

Do you really trust all of these keys?

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/secu...

Even companies like AOL, VISA, Wells Fargo, and the historically-problematic VeriSign and GoDaddy, and lets not forget the Even the companies with serious legal issues in the past, and several governments (China, Japan, Turkey, etc).

This reliance on a single point of trust is why the PKI systemd is destined to fail in the long run: that single point of trust also a single point of failure. The entire concept of a CA requires handing over key parts of our infrastructure over to a small list of "authorities" (which grants the CA a lot of power), while simultaneously trusting those authorities to never abuse that power or be corrupted from the outside.

> If everyone is a certificate authority, then no one is

This is actually the core problem with PKI. Not only does it presuppose that a "few" trusted authorities is even possible, it also frames the discussion by assuming that only a globally supported solution is required. This attitude also dismisses the capabilities to evaluate trust and merely asserts that most people shouldn't worry about this kind of security problem.

A better idea is to recognize that everybody solves pieces of the trust problem constantly in their daily life. Some of the decisions are made of personal experience or observation, but we also rely on others that we see as an "authority". These are powerful behaviors that should be built upon. Everybody can be a CA, because they already are in.

Someone that sets up an "authority" that is only used between a group of friends is perfectly safe IFF 1) stays at the scale where trust already exists, AND 2) the people involved have some easy way to select the trust basis they wanto to use.

Criteria 2 is the most important. The CA system is de facto boolean trust. (i.e. HTTP-vs-HTTPS). There is no sane way for the typical user to say they want, for any particular transaction or communication, to only trust some specific authority (or authorities). and then switch to a completely different trust basis as needed. Once this ability is in the hands of the average person, I suspect the key distribution problem will solve itself as people self-organize.
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C1 came first, is available now and has a fully open GPU whereas the Pi still relies on Broadcomm's mostly proprietary chip.

C1 also allows you to add NAND directly to the board where the Pi is still limited to MicroSD. C1 also confirmed to not have the same bus limitation that plagues the first Pi an is unconfirmed to exist in Pi2.

C1 also has a built in RTC and a 5v Barrel Pin jack so you don't have to rely on MicroUSB for power.

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It's simply much better thought out.
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It can be both a SPA and a document. They are not exclusive.
Feh. It's easy to talk about discipline when you've already decided on a (nominally) terminal goal from which the utility of all subgoals can flow. But what the people who speak of "motivation" say is: why should I act for negative expected utility?

Discipline is easy for the motivated.
> is completely different from what has been ostensibly refuted in this thread. The OP never said anything about Reddit controlling moderation.

As I explained in other comments below, I have extensive experience moderating large subreddits and in my time, have not seen a single shred of evidence which shows anyone is "paying to play". If something like that was occurring, it would inevitably be discovered and become viral news everywhere, just like how it was on Digg. I'm sure the administrators of the site keep an eye on the actions, messages and PMs of the top mods so there are more checks and balances on that kind of behavior. More than most people realize.
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The original wiki was a wonderful community, alive in that ineffable way that very few online communities are, totally free and public. I wrote a blog post [0] about how strongly it influenced me as a person and the gratitude I feel for it.

Ward Cunningham is a respected and intelligent software designer who works on open projects for the public good. The immediate cynicism and dismissal I've seen of his new project so far makes me sad.

Why not look into what he's trying to do? [1]

Why not try to learn something about how it works, rather than look at it for twenty seconds and then complain?

[0]: http://swa.sh/the-original-wiki/

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdwLczSgvcc
Nope. Lack of two-way binding is a blessing. It makes everything predictable.

>It seems going back to the method of handling data updates through onchange events in a manual fashion would be a colossal step backwards from say, knockoutjs.

It's not exactly "manual fashion" because React updates everything according to `state` for you. If you have many interdependent fields, make them update `state` correctly, and React will keep them in sync with it.

In fact I find it easier to make complex input logic with one-way bindings because the data always flows one way. It's a tad more code to write, but you see exactly where your updates are happening and what's causing them.

Two-way binding tends to get very complicated as soon as you need more complex logic. One-way binding doesn't have this problem.
Try scraping two quartz crystals together and you'll see it for yourself!

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Whereupon their creators it seems walk away and start the next dodgy company. Glancing at the Atlantic article "Jesse Willms is doing just fine financially—and he has a new yellow Lamborghini to prove it" and is advertising "just $1 for a vehicle-history report" and then billing $199 to peoples credit cards. Methinks the laws could be tightened a tad.
What will be interesting for me is to see whether Apple and or the Apple Watch is going to "up the game" in regards to the whole wearable technology thing. I mean there have been and currently are many Android and other watches but they're not much better. It might take a few iterations before they really nail it. First thing is to ditch the wired-charging. I can't get over the idea of plugging a cable into my watch at night.
Wonder if they fixed USB problems? (dma/internal bus bottlenecking or something)
WiFi on the Pi 'just doesn't work.'

You can get it working for a while, but it's nowhere near the reliability of standard domestic WiFi.

I've built various sensor/hardware projects and tried various dongles, and I've always had to switch back to a cabled connection.
It is certainly true that increasing bias/approximation error can lead to decreased variance/estimation error, or even to an efficiently solvable problem rather than an inefficiently solvable problem. But somehow I don't think that's what's usually meant.
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That is quite disturbing.
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It would be difficult in the near term. With lowRISC (http://www.lowrisc.org), some of us are working towards a complete open source SoC (i.e. the RTL is available under a permissive open source license). Although our longer term goals include being an acceptable SoC for a phone or tablet, the first iteration won't feature a GPU.
Looks pretty benign to me.

Of course corporations are going to post to reddit. Anyone who thinks that is nefarious in of itself is deluding themselves. If those people were trying to game the system in some way, to subvert the organic process, that's another matter entirely. Yet, there is absolutely zero evidence of that. Frankly, your dot connecting is like that of a paranoid child. It sounds like something from /r/Conspiracy.
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On the contrary, I believe it is making their progress extremely fast.

You don't have to wait 20 years in order to use something, like patents force you to do.

You don't need to ask for permission to anyone. You don't need to be rich.

For example if you can read a patent on making a chemical vapor deposition system for making semiconductors and implement it, you just can do it and start making semiconductors right now. They will be very bad quality, but you will improve over time because you are actually doing it, and being so cheap you will sell lots of them.

Of course, when a significant Chinese status quo has been created on all areas of technology, they will start respecting their own Chinese patents.
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I had a Moto 360 for a while, until I realized I didn't want the features. All I need are notifications sent to a tiny screen on my wrist. And the Apple watch has 1000 more features than Wear. I think I'm going to be very happy with my Pebble for a very long time.
They will surely open up their core as well when they see how much good open source is doing to dot net. Satya is a smart man.
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The Raspberry Pi requires nonfree software to start up. It can't reach the point of executing free software unless this nonfree program is part of the installed system software: https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/single-board-computers
Rust doesn't have exceptions.
Fitbit Charge HR works exactly that way - the IR leds on the back are constantly on....even when I take it off they keep on blinking. And it works for 4-5 days. Obviously it doesn't have a huge screen like the Apple Watch does, but it's certainly possible to be monitoring the heartrate constantly.
Plus, it's just another _option_. How can this possibly be a bad thing? You can of course still run Linux.
This is the dark side of the massive shift to programmatic ad buying and selling which nobody wants to talk about. Compliance has largely been tossed aside in search of maximum yield. Sad but definitely the trend for the future.
"finding these MS initiatives a lot like "hangin' with the cool kids" or "sounding hip"."

This announcement is undoubtedly partly publicity-driven. But its also about keeping Windows visible and relevant to groups who may not use PCs much. And if the RPi does become the standard IoT hardware platform, then Microsoft will want a bit of that too.

And embrace, extend, extinguish makes no sense in a community-driven ecosystem. MS knows that.
Kotlin has a notion of function inlining with the return statement being inlined too. This means you can do, e.g.:

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and you aren't returning from the code block, but the enclosing function. Yet behind the scenes forEach is being expanded by the compiler into a regular imperative for loop, in a macro-like way.
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Do you have any citation for this? I am not seeing more bad actors when working with various programmatic ad exchanges.
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I think this was answered. It's bad because teachers would push for a platform they presumably know more about -- Windows.
Is the switch complete yet though? The new wiki seems to have almost no content...
In my experienced years of development:
- with TDD

- implementation first and then tests

- just implementation without test,

I recently came to the following conclusion:

If you perform TDD, your specification that you try to implement are the business requirements / the goals you like to achieve.

If you don't perform TDD, your specification becomes the algorithm/thing itself you are developing and a (potentially fuzzy) idea in your head.
Here's the response from the developer: https://github.com/iiordanov/remote-desktop-clients/issues/3...

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> I have written this software for the betterment of everyone and it gives me great joy that people all over the world are finding out about it and finding it useful. I am following this discussion with great interest and once again thank you all!

Everyone else is going nuts with memes and witch hunts, while the developer sits back and is just happy that his software is being used. Unbelievably admirable.
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From the perspective of many, including myself, it is easier to develop apps for Windows than for Linux.

While having software that's open source on the Pi would be awesome, what would be even more awesome is tonnes of apps on Github that are easier to write for the Raspberry pi to allow it to do more than it can currently such as Media Streamers & Servers of all sorts with tonnes of forks.

For what its worth, this is giant leaps forward for Microsoft and vastly uncharacteristic of what they're used to. It shows that they're hell bent on driving their platform through developers. The typical R-pi purchaser is a dev after all.
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> Are these kids hacking on the Linux kernel or something?

Why not? Do you hod the opinion that kernel code is something impossible to mess with? If so, why?
VAT is easier to "cheat" than income tax. Just don't buy stuff in your own country.

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True. No more spaghetti ball-of-mud. I'm waiting for IntelliJ to release `Extract custom render method` and `Extract React Component` refactors in their IDEs.
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Why is the usability bad? Pages are pleasant to read in that aspect ratio and it seems to provide a good solution to what to do with the bits around the edges. I like the stack of places that I've been before as context and think that it encourages exploration and clicking around more than the original site.