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Apple happens to have good design and happens to be totalitarian, but I don't think the one comes from the other. Apple used to be a lot less awful in this respect, but their design and usability was still great (arguably better than today).
does that mean that these weight loss suplements actually work?
Well, there's no reason to fix it unless someone has a compelling use case. And there's never going to be a compelling use case built around it if it's not fixed.

And regarding the fix, which do you propose, change the spec or change the majority of implementations?

It may offend the sensibilities but we're stuck with the current state of affairs for the life of TCP I think.
Apple has a horrible reputation as a work place that seems to span all layers. Look up online employer reviews. I have a friend who was employed there doing iphone interface design (as I understand it) and he only lasted a year. He said the place was full of insufferable egomaniacs.
The analog act is a difficult act to prosecute under, which is why you see analogs often banned directly rather than prosecuted under it. BMPEA isn't an analog of a banned substance, either, at least it's far more removed than other chemicals[0]. Calling it an "amphetamine" is a bit of a scare tactic, although it certainly isn't a nice chemical and it should've been marketed exactly as it was, not claimed to be a "herbal extract". Frankly, they should be able to nail them under that marketing premise instead.

EDIT:
[0] Actually, I take that back. It's far closer to amphetamine than DMAA was, which makes this rather interesting actually.
But both of these things also apply to Google employees without special permission to 'moonlight.' And yes, it's possible to get it, and people do, but it's going to be scrutinized.
The only issue here is Dart is a special case. It relies on being transpiled to run on its intended platform versus running natively. None of the other languages had this type of issue. I feel like this is slowing down Dart adoption perhaps even stalling it.

Perhaps if a native Dart runtime becomes included into web browsers we will see it grow I just have a hard time seeing it without that piece.
I no longer expect the EFF to represent anything faithfully, really. They seem incapable of genuine honesty and mostly go for the shock-and-scare routine they've seen their adversaries perfect. Consequently, I've bucketed them into groups like the ESA and just ignore them now.
It's necessary to share file handles between processes using TCP over UNIX Domain Sockets. I'm sure some other mechanism could be devised for that though.
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Taptic feedback. Diversity in product design. Digital touch. Architecture of Apps.

Those are all unique to Apple's Watch as is pretty much every aspect of the look & feel. You can argue different watches having the same features but Apple's implementation will always be quite unique.
I have read part of the ESA brief. I have skimmed through the rest. If I was going to be charitable to the EFF when reading their article here, I would say that there is so much ridiculous bullshit in the ESA brief that the person who wrote the EFF article probably just picked the most egregious example they could find before their eyes glazed over (or bled) and then focused on that. Yes, the EFF has failed to encapsulate the ESA position well, but frankly the ESA position is based largely on specious logic and willful ignorance. To the point that I'm not sure that it's possible to encapsulate their position well, for much the same reason it can be difficult to encapsulate the position of an obstinate, spoilt child. They are ignoring important facts in places. Most places. They are taking conclusions predicated on heavily biased samples of irrelevant minutiae, and presenting them as sweeping indictments of the proposed exemption. They are, in short, arguing in an incredibly deceitful, deceptive way, even by video game industry lawyer standards.

Maybe we should demand more from the EFF, but I certainly would not want the job of having to take this sort of nonsense seriously. At any rate, if the EFF article gave me a bad impression of the ESA, actually reading the ESA brief did not improve it.
> Generally, the manner in which game publishers and console vendors secure those promises are recognized by the law.

So aren't you arguing for an exemption in the DMCA since contract law already covers this? What is the need to prevent this using the DMCA if it can be prevented on a case by case basis using contracts?
> I feel like one of the services the EFF provides is reading through these documents, summarizing their arguments,

Yes. And they do a poor job of it.
> Have you seen what happens when a Cloud gets hacked into, and the photo's get leaked? I have and it isn't pretty.

I've seen people lose the only copy of important documents when their hard drive crashes, too. The average computer user doesn't have any concept of off-site backup.

> Let people have control over their data back again.

When did they lose it? I've yet to encounter a platform where cloud storage is required or the only option.
"Employees don't want that."

It depends on the terms of the contract. If a company offered me a three-year contract for more than I thought I could earn anywhere else over the next three years (e.g., $500K per year), why shouldn't I take the opportunity?

The contract would need to spell out working conditions, of course. For $500K, I wouldn't lock myself into an obligation to work 60-hour weeks for three years straight. My health and sanity are worth more to me than that.

Some of the highest-paid workers in our society lock themselves into contracts: professional athletes, movie stars, etc. Would you want to start filming a high-budget movie if your leading actor could walk off the job at any time?
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May I suggest that when you leave a place, and it was not a positive experience, you look back on that experience, try to learn from what you experienced and generally deal with the emotional trauma of trying to fit in, in a place where you do not fit. Ben Farrell writes in his blog ...

"Road Less Travelled is authored by Ben Farrell, (online alias ‘nomadic_rambler’) – Freelance Writer & Photographer – That’s me!"

When I read that I thought to myself, this guy has so much passion and enthusiasm for understanding the world, it is a shame he took a job at a company that is as intensely focused as Apple is.

This is the money quote for me, "Finally now, for the first time in two years, I feel light, creative and inspired. I am again an individual with my own creative ideas, perceptions, values and beliefs. It may take me a while, but from what I believe – I’m now able to express such beliefs again." I really admire Ben for sticking it out for two years. The key here is that Ben was always the individual with ideas, perceptions, values and beliefs, and it sounds like that was not what Apple was looking for in this position. I've seen it time and again where someone races home after work to play in their garage band or rebuild an engine or practice some other art. And if there peers at work are staying late to work on something they believe in at the office, well that is a recipe for a problem.

I also think that if you find yourself in the situation of finally unwinding what turned out to be a painful choice in your life, its probably not the best thing to blog about it on the same day you take action on your future :-)
Possibly. At least, they have a far higher chance of working than other pointless placebos, however being an un-researched analog of a strong stimulant it comes with some serious risks, and not very nice side-effects.
The "not related to your employer's line of business" is the tricky clause. With a large diversified tech conglomerate like IBM, Apple, or Google, they could conceivably argue that anything tech-related was in their line of business. They may not win, but you don't really want to fight one of their legal teams in court, and so it had a chilling effect regardless.
The whole concept of a legal brief is that you devise every argument you possibly can and throw them all at the wall/venue to see what sticks. These are documents written by lawyers to advance legal arguments; they aren't position papers. It is a little unfair to ding them for following the protocols of the law.

Of course, it is deeply unfair of EFF to evaluate ESA's brief as if it was a position paper, and in the process caricature and mis-summarize it.

Once again: I don't want to get boxed into sticking up for ESA.
(can't edit, so posting correction) Looks like HTTPS Everywhere breaks FCC's website.
To answer the question about if life is rare we need to visit Europa and Enceladus in our solar system. If those places have life, then life might be quite common in our universe. If they do not have life, then we are likely very alone in the universe.
That is very subjective. For example, Lisp has a very simple grammar, yet many people find the minimalism complicated in how it manifests in paren heavy code. Likewise, Haskell's reliance on abstract mathematics is definitely going to turn many people off to it. "It's just math" is often taken as a negative, not a positive (depending on the person).

Natural language is built around all sorts of non mathematical ad hoc concepts, yet we seem to use it just fine. Of course, it might not be the best way to talk to the computer, but it is definitely "accessible."
I do think there probably should be some kind of limited, narrowly-tailored exemption, in the spirit of "interoperability", for restoring online functionality to titles whose online components have been decommissioned.
> This gem brings you advantage of type without changing existing code's behavior.

I'm fairly sure it changes the performance characteristics of code it is applied on. I'd recommend adding benchmarks to the README so prospective users might be aware of this beforehand.
Or you can just run OpenSSH (there are a few nicely packaged versions of it available for Windows) and use PowerShell as the shell. :-)
I don't think anyone here is defending the ESA's position. They are only noting that the ESA's position is not quite what the EFF says the ESA's position is. It is possible both for the ESA to be wrong, and for the EFF to have still misrepresented the ESA.
I feel like if you're a tech person with a child this is a great example of an extremely valuable public service you can perform. People out there are really looking for guidance and it's extremely hard to know what to do if you're not into tech. This article itself is a great FAQ to get started.
Taptic feedback and force touch come to mind, but let's get our hands on it before drawing any conclusions.
Id like to know the percentage of start ups are women led? This stat may be a reflection of the low volume of women in the tech industry as a whole...
Yeah I was kind of wondering what his take on something like this would be.

On the one hand you're changing an API, which is a promise to userspace. On the other hand, no one was using it right leading to most networking apps being vulnerable to a DOS.

Given the proven risk and how little the feature is used, changing the API to match what people THINK it does seems sane.

I have a vague memory or Linus making a similar 'change it' decision once.
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I'm not really sure that article even paints Apple in a bad light. Yeah, it talks about how much you work hard, but even just listen to them:

> I mean, it’s not that it’s not fun, it’s not that it’s not fulfilling, it’s not that you don’t get to work around all these brilliant people. The bad side effect is they’re all, like, workaholic, psychotic brilliant people.

For me, one of the best things in life is the opportunity to work hard at work worth doing. Apple gives me that, and I feel extremely fortunate.

I've been at jobs where the stress is very low and I had time to browse the internet at all hours and didn't have much expected of me. This is 100% the opposite of that, and I'm happier now than I ever was then. It's been 4 years and I've never had anything close to burn-out, because I've never felt that the work wasn't "worth it". (To me, burn out is a result of feeling like you're not getting anywhere, and that just plain isn't the case at a company where we consistently ship things with huge scopes, on time and to resounding success.)

Yeah, there's exec demos, and yeah there's dry-run meetings for them, but you know what? The execs here are fucking smart. Every meeting I've had with execs has left me awestruck at the level with which someone can be simultaneously so big-picture oriented while still being able to sweat little details. There's a reason they got to where they are, and I really feel that at Apple it's a true meritocracy.

It sounds like it's even harder work if you're in the direct email line-of-sight of an exec (which I am not), and I feel for the authors of your linked post about how hard that must be, but to me that comes with the territory of being so close to the success or failure of a product that you are under that kind of scrutiny. What else would you expect?
SSH uses the URG flag, IIRC.
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The article says Telnet works that way, it seems reasonable to think SSH might use it for the same purpose.
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With decades of people looking for low hanging fruit, they do get harder to find. Lycka till med ditt nya jobb!
Their employees just need to post more salary information onto glassdoor.
"Correctness guarantees" is a whole bucket of things you certainly have heard of, like: bounds checking, integer overflow protection, or statically safe memory allocation.

I'm not talking about a whole-program correctness proof -- although those do exist too.
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There is a difference between waivers of specific rights that courts will not enforce (for instance, employee non-competition agreements in California) and the notion that contracts are in the most general sense about enforceably agreeing to give up rights.

To make the Australia comparison more interesting, can I ask if there are consumer law rights that make anti-jailbreaking and copyright terms in game EULAs unenforceable there?
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From what I've read, ABP are just plain extortionists: "those are nice 'acceptable' ads you have; shame if something were to happen to them." Ghostery's business model makes it a bit untrustworthy, but it works pretty well as far as I can tell. uBlock is "you get what you pay for" freeware, so you can trust it as long as not many people use it. PrivacyBadger is developed by a small number of honest-to-God privacy zealots (in the best possible sense), so it won't get sold out, but will probably lag behind the curve.

I use a couple of them at once, block most JavaScript, usually run with cookies disabled, and pay a bit of attention to what's going on in the privacy news. For less tech-savvy relatives, I just install Ghostery and disable third-party cookies, since that seems least likely to break websites, and blocks most of the worst tracking.

Oh, and hosts-block tynt. Those guys should drown in burning kerosene.
I don't know much about filesystems. How can a filesystem have higher chance of corrupting data? And what is different about HFS that makes it likely to corrupt data?
You learn something new every day! Thanks for that.
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I own one, and here's my own slow motion video: http://youtu.be/tQUMl9NMb8Q

There shouldn't be much or any perceptible jerk. The glide wheel never actually stops, it's just slowed down a little bit eight times per second.

Accuracy is superb compared to a mechanical watch; mine has lost 3 seconds in the past ten months.

I also own a vintage accutron tuning fork movement. The second hand on that ticks 300 times per second, and is visually identical to the sweep of a spring drive movement. A very cool movement, too.
I'm kind of disappointed that this bug doesn't have branding. :-)
I think my favorite is the bug where you could delete any folder from a user's computer, just by linking them to a site with a few lines of code inserted in the source. I think it was on XP, and it would trigger Windows help to open at the same time.
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HP's Microservers can cope with gigabit speeds and the AMD models are dirt cheap, both compared to poorly engineered "NAS" devices, and especially for what they can provide in terms of server level features.

I've had the older N36L model, an AMD Athlon NEO II processor with 8GB ECC RAM running for years with ZFS handling a few big spinning drives for storage, it's been quite nice and trouble free.
Terrific write up. Recently I've been using the mantra "design transcends (choice of) technology" and nowhere is it more apparent than with front-end frameworks. Using React or whatever is hot will not make much of a difference at scale if the application is not well designed. And conversely, it is possible to design great apps with all sorts of alternatives to the brand du jour. I'm still a big fan of the shiny new stuff, but kudos for applying new and improved design concepts to your existing stack rather than jumping brands under some delusion that it will solve all your problems. The community needs more thinking like this.
This is why WADA signatories (high level cyclists, anyone on an Olympic path) strictly avoid supplements even if they are technically legal. Pissing hot can get you a 2 year ban.
I was a bit confused about at what layer this OOB byte would be sent, I think this article cleared it up for me[0]. TCP has a feature called TCP Urgent Data which can be enabled by flipping a bit in the TCP header. BSD maps this to the OOB feature as described.

This means that if your Node.JS app was behind a http proxy that's not vulnerable, like nginx+passenger, you would've been safe. Just a TCP pass-through would leave you vulnerable though.

All theory of course, since no one is really running a Node.JS server on OSX.. right?

0] http://www.serverframework.com/asynchronousevents/2011/10/ou...
Haha, I was doing the same thing in college. It was a great time for messing with OSes. I started running BeOS and QNX on a daily basis because for some reason my machine started crashing in Windows and I needed to get work done. BeOS beat out Linux because the install was simple, it booted fast, and the desktop was a hell of a lot nicer.

People forget this, but Sun created a Java runtime for BeOS before Linux.

I agree about QNX though, it wasn't as stylish as BeOS, but it was far more robust and polished.
Yes, culture will have to change. But the technological advances are coming an awful lot faster than cultures usually change, historically speaking. And even if we make it through to the other side, it's probably going to be painful.

You act as though the Puritan work ethic is just a thing we can evaluate the efficiency of, and keep or discard based on the results of that evaluation. I wish this were so, but my wishing doesn't make it so.
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He's definitely a shill. Imagine a couple years ago, when Gruber couldn't even bring himself to pretend to provide critical analysis of Apple products. I used to just flag daringfireball posts as soon as I saw them. These days there's at least information content in his posts so I usually leave them alone.

But Gruber also spends an extraordinary amount of time these days using framing devices to either draw false comparisons that put Apple on top, or minimize the cases where Apple clearly screwed up. You could easily cut this review down by 2/3rds just by getting rid of the superfluous framing he uses throughout and not lose any information at all. The amount of hemming and hawing in this makes me think that he's not really buying it this time. It's not a crap device, but it's not clear what it's good for and it's not strictly better than just a normal watch. He didn't really effuse about Apple's stated use-cases for the device. His hope throughout is that maybe it'll appeal to non-watch wearers?

You'll also notice that he carefully doesn't compare it to all the other smart watches in the growing segment. He pretends like it only is comparable to regular watches, like the Apple watch was introduced into a market vacuum, cut from whole cloth (Apple's magical genius cloth), and completely uninformed by the three decades of smartwatch development.
When most practitioners think of "typechecking", they typically think about proving properties about programs statically. This project seems equivalent to adding a runtime check at each call site to ensure the arguments and return values are the correct type.

This is certainly useful sometimes, as it gives programs the desirable "fail fast" property. But it isn't "typechecking" as most engineers understand it. Or at least, it should be clarified that this is run-time typechecking. As such, it negatively impacts runtime performance, unlike compile-time typechecking.

This project also seems to miss the primary opportunity of run-time type checking: checking properties that are difficult to prove statically! For example, checking that a number is even, that a string is lowercase, that an index is within the bounds of an array, etc. These exotic types require a dependent type system to be checked statically, but in a dynamic environment they are trivial to verify.

Two suggestions for improvement: 1) add "sum" types (i.e., discriminated unions), and 2) let the user define their own types via lambdas, such as PrimeNumber.
Pfft, this is nothing compared to the shit bodybuilders would take. See: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/16/ampheta...

Every year some manufacturer adds something "special" just to gain customers. It's scary because this stuff causes neurodegeneration and excess oxidation of dopamine to DOPAC , which increases axidative stress on your mitochondria that could drastically increase your odds of having Parkinsons latter in life, and this isnt even mentioning the toll this stuff takes on your cardiovascular system along with having kidneys that feel like beans due to peripheral effects. I could go on; but, why bother?
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You are wrong. The movement moves at 8 Hz per second, but it actually takes two cycles to actually tick once, so it's actually 4 ticks per second.

The old watches tick at 3 times per second on 6 Hz movements.
Yes but this analogy only holds true if every other car has hexagonal wheels, and the apple watch "car" has circular ones.
I think that when a "market leader" finally adopts technologies that were in use for more than a decade by their competition, it's safe to assume the tech got mainstream...
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The probability of humans colonising another planet and setting up a museum with a 747 is a little bit more than impossibly low.
I don't disagree. The point was directionally correct, mathematically inaccurate.
FWIW, Go has no VM, and neither does Rust. They compile real binaries.

And Rust gives you fine-grained memory control without sacrificing safety -- unlike the others it has no garbage collector, and instead proves allocation safety at compile time. In Rust you can know for sure exactly where your key has been copied and when it will get deallocated (to the extent that any program running in virtual memory on normal hardware can know that).

Although I agree that these are the less mature choices, and it's reasonable to reject them for that reason.
Would it not take as long to upload to iCloud?