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A real question, not for flaming but just for understand: is free as in beer or in freedom? I mean, is it also open-source?
I can just open up a google map and do it manually. I do that now. Waze just makes it easier.

If you don't want traffic congestion you might consider not living in Los Angeles.
Problem is that you're only considering base salary. If you get into IB/PE your annual bonus can be a lot more than that.

And yes, many overlook at the fact most MBAs already had considerable previous work experience.
"free" as in "beer" or as in "speech"?
See, I didn't even know that about Pear and Composer. And I totally forgot to mention npm and bower from the javascript world, both of which I use.
Should've picked a webscale langauge like Perl, Ruby, or Javascript.
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Thanks, done. [I was browsing muted and only read the live blogging comments.]
They didn't have Unicode back then :-)
In the UK for example in 1880 it was compulsory until age 10, and by 1996 by age 16. It's relatively recent that it's shifting to 18. [0]

In the largest EU countries like Germany, France, it's still 6-16, UK up to 17. Wiki may already be outdated and it may already be 18, but that goes to show that compulsory education to 18 is a pretty new phenomenon.

For example, the UK said 17 by 2013, and 18 by 2015, up from 16 less than a decade earlier.

As for France, as I mentioned it's 16, but it can be as little as 14 if you take up apprenticeship or work in your parents' company, there are exceptions that exist.

In Germany 18 is the default if you go and do your abitur, sure (probably everyone among your friends with whom you talk to about their studies has done it.) but if you get your Hauptschulabschluss you can be done at 16 or even 15. Again this is likely changing and may already have, but quite recently so.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_education

As for Israel, as far as I know it's been age 5 to 15 (k10) since 1949, and this was amended as recently as 2009 for k12.
The whole premise of social engineering is subverting what is considered socially acceptable.
I'm comparing the whole experience, so hardware + software. The hardware of the MacBook may be a bit ahead of my old laptop, but that doesn't have a major effect on my user experience.
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https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/tutorials/using-snapp...

I was informed about this just this morning.
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>I don't want to start a "war" about US vs insert-European-country-here productivity but, honestly, do you know anyone who actually does measurable quality work for 16h straight in a consistent way?

In short bursts, I think the diminishing returns of long hours is sorta overblown. Over the long term, 16 hour days will wear you down and destroy you.

I work in a big law and 16 hour days are too common. But people are successfully managing billion dollar deals and litigation while doing 16 hours fairly often.

But over a long period of time it takes a toll emotionally and physically.

One problem with organizations that bill by the manhour--law and consulting--is that even if the employee output diminishes, the firm still bills the same rate. There isn't a lot of incentive to keep your employees heads fresh.
Wasn't specified, so I'll conservatively say 'beer'.
You seem to be implying the higher education bubble is restricted to or concentrated within the tech scene in California.
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It may not actually have gone live yet. In the keynote it was announced as "releasing later today".
I was going to buy a cheapish chromebook to go on holiday with, because I'm not going to take my MB Air abroad. Especially on the off chance I may get rained in or bored enough to do a spot of programming. So I had a budget of £200ish to do this with.

I ended up buying a lowish spec Lenovo 50-30 (celeron) instead. Turns out it's rather heavier (but still quite slim) and it's 15". Allegedly 4 hours battery life too. Only problem ... windows 8.1 Should be okay when I install my dev environment up on it though.
Looks cool, but I meant for Linux specifically. Apple and Microsoft have ultimate control over their ecosystems when it comes down to brass tacks.
The page might only be live after the keynote.
"(if this link isn’t live yet, give it a few more minutes and then try again)."

It's literally right after the link. What did you expect? It's a breaking story, the product was just announced and in the conference it was announced as available later today.
I think you are talking about the posted project.

The CC itself will refuse to boot without an internet connection ..

Once it booted, it provides a limited offline functionality; if it requires to load `appID` from the internet, and it's not connected: it will block

Also since last February update, you need an internet connection to stream local content ..

I'm sorry Dave, you cant do that
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Or perhaps the city council should fix the actual underlying problem... That their road systems can't really cope with the amount of traffic they have currently.
When most companies say free they mean free of charge, if they want to say open source they say open source, because that’s the term the world understands. Basically only the FSF uses free to mean Free Software.
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I'm getting a weird error:

AADSTS50020: User account 'me@captnemo.in' from external identity provider 'live.com' is not supported for application 'caf83767-0da8-454f-ae8d-77f63deaf359'. The account needs to be added as an external user in the tenant. Please sign out and sign in again with an Azure Active Directory user account.

I'm guessing only proper microsoft accounts are allowed? (@outlook.com, @live.com etc). I understand it might not be live yet, but I don't get the "unavailable yet" error.
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Lol.. Welcome to Los Angeles. Traffic is and has always been bad and cut throughs always have happened. This is not new or news.
It's free as in XCode.
Apple is a bad comparison because the near-death-experience in the 90s combined with its contrarian attitude has put it in on a very short leash with Wall Street. I mean, aside from its years in the desert Apple has performed as well and as consistently as any tech company over long stretches. And yet it's P/E is consistently a third of Google's or Sony's.

And it literally won the war. They take the lions share of profits in the personal computer market and they have a huge moat. You could argue they will be in trouble when personal computing devices stop changing so quickly and are fully commodified, but I can't imagine that's within the next two decades. Honestly I find it weird their P/E isn't higher.
Most of the usage of bitcoin has been by people obtaining it on the commercial dollar exchanges.

I don't buy the idea that it would flourish without them.
It is a bit strange that Microsoft keeps wanting me to log in for things like this. I'm not sure.

If any Microsoft engineers happen to be scanning this thread, it correctly redirected me to our organizations login page for me to use my standard credentials, but failed after with a generic Bad Request error.
Holy shit.

I wonder if this will be open sourced in a way that would allow Visual Studio intellisense in Sublime Text. I want that for C++ so bad.
With this crap becoming "standard" then the implication is if you don't include your photo with your "digital" resume or "social media" profiles you are undesirable/not an attractive male.

I'm in my 30s with 10 years of experience. I look like I'm 12. I get mistaken for a teenager - very often. Nobody will take me seriously if I include a picture with my resume.
This is an example of the NIMBYism that's unfortunately common here. The homes in the areas with the worst traffic (ie, Westside) are very expensive (>$1million) and are also usually in hilly areas with twisty, narrow streets. While I can't blame the residents for hating the extra traffic, OTOH at peak times of day the main thoroughfares are almost literally nonfunctional due to congestion. I drove for three hours yesterday morning and went a total of maybe 8-10 miles--and that was avoiding the freeways and using 'secret' backroad shortcuts.

We really need to get serious about stopping subsidies for freeways and other outdated modes of transporation, and instead fund efficient, modern mass transit. Roads designed for single passenger cars are the steam engines of the 21st century.
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Putting aside any philosophical or moral debates about the pros and cons of copyleft (GPL) versus permissive (BSD, MIT) open source licenses, how have these two license types affected software development and technological advancement in practice?

One example I am aware of is the reluctance of the GCC developers to provide convenient access to their compiler's Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) due to fears that its front-end parser could be too easily taken by businesses to develop proprietary backends. (In this case, the stricter GPL license may be more of a symptom of the attitude of the project rather than having direct influence on the decision). This shows a case where the attitudes of the project, including the choice of a license, has had an actual impact on the utility of the technology. LLVM/Clang on the other hand, under a permissive license, has structured the compiler to allow exactly this kind of usage to great benefit.

Businesses prefer using permissive and avoid copyleft licenses due to the legal concerns and barriers against incorporating it into proprietary programs. How does this affect the development of the projects under those licenses? (Has Apple's heavy usage of BSD licensed code as the base for their Mac OS X and iOS Darwin kernel provided any technological benefits back to the community that provided this code?)

Are there any other current or historical examples of how the licenses have promoted or hindered the development of other technologies? (Would Linux be in a better or worse position today if the kernel was released under a BSD license rather than the GPL?)
This is the same problem that technology always brings.

The "you could do it before but required alot of work and now the technology makes it so anyone can do it" problem.

Google made this famous by allowing anyone to learn more than people wanted other to know about themselves.

The information was all there before google but google made it easy for anyone to collect with little effort.

To the home owners point, I do find myself doing this alot with waze in Toronto. Instead of taking Gardener or Front Street, waze sends me through the CNE grounds on streets that i didn't even now existed. I could have probably done this before waze but the technology made it easy for anyone to do.

It seems like the solution is the do what they've always done, improve core infrastructure arteries and put up speed bumps, slower speed limits and more stop signs to help deter people from moving through residential neighbourhoods.
To be fair, Stroustrup has made an effort to explain his reason for encouraging the Committee to drop the Indiana proposal ( http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/the-c0x-remove-concepts-decision/... ).

He's also mentioned the Indiana proposal led to increased compile times (as in at least 100% slower) and that the Committee came up with a ridiculous number of concepts for the standard library, which suggested they were looking at things wrong. For instance, there's little value in having CanCompareForEquality, CanCompareForInequality, HasLessThan, HasGreaterThan, HasLessThanOrEqual, and HasGreaterThanOrEqual be separate concepts; they should be grouped into, say, HasTotalOrdering, EqualityComparable, and HasPartialOrdering. The current STL gets this wrong, it wants a concept of HasPartialOrdering but it actually requires HasLessThan (and fakes equality comparison by assuming if a is not less than b and b is not less than a, then a and b must be equal). I don't fault Stepanov for this mistake, it's not obvious and it's relatively easy to tell people "just implement operator< for your types and we'll be able to sort them when needed" instead of "implement the relational operators that make sense; some implementations may use operator< to sort, while others may use operator>, and others operators < and <=, and yet others operators <, !=, and ==, etc."
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I'm not accustomed to logging into a link that's "not yet live."

FWIW, the response I get is:
Sorry, but we're having trouble signing you in.
We received a bad request.

(I'm logged in with the same account through other services.)
No, looking for a standard message bus that works across applications.

I don't mind that "each dbus-speaking application can define arbitrary methods with arbitrary signatures and arbitrary side-effects", as that's the whole point.
I'm a Software Engineer who thought that the way into management was to go and get some management credentials. So I went and got a PMP, then applied for a promotion - which I got, and then quickly un-got due to office politics.

A few years later (still a Software Engineer), working for a different (much larger) company, I decide to pursue management positions again. I go and get myself an MBA (part-time, so I could continue to work). I had a few interviews for management positions at my current company during my MBA studies, but ultimately no dice. I was laid off (as part of a mass layoff) more or less immediately after graduating.

Now, I no longer care. I've become a pretty good Software Engineer so I think I'll just stick with that. I let the PMP expire (it takes time and money to maintain, consider that), though I'm afraid I'm stuck with the MBA (at least my employer had paid for it). The need to explain why I got an MBA (4 years ago) during job interviews and reassure potential employers I'm really a nerd with no management aspirations is the only lasting effect of the degree.
So Chocolatey is gonna use OneGet in the back? I was thinking it would be a package provider for OneGet instead.
This was posted 10 minutes ago and you commented 5 minutes ago. Given I tried to download it and it failed with some weird error message on their site (not to mention registration walls suck) the logical conclusion is that you are not serious about your comment. That then begs the question why you would post such a comment. Looking at your submission history, one could easily assume you work for Microsoft.

If that is the case, I would suggest you guys grow a brain and remove the registration wall. It's 2015.
Looks like it's just free as in beer for now. Who knows what will happen a few months/years from now when it doesn't have a huge userbase and Microsoft isn't interested in continuing to support it alone.
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In the keynote, it was announced as available "later today". They probably haven't flipped the switch yet.
Blaming Waze is blaming information, because that's all Waze can provide. I'm sure it plays well with his constituency, though.
There's a lot of people saying that MBAs are a sign of the top. Others are saying all MBAs are evil. I think it's more nuanced. (Full disclosure, I'm a CS undergrad with an MBA)

Some generalizations....

1 - MBAs tend to be risk averse.

2 - MBA career choices tend to be driven by who shows up to recruit at their campuses.

3 - MBAs tend to be value capturers and maximizers rather than value creators.

4 - MBAs tend to have debt load and follow who pays cash. (This ties with #1)

Does this mean they are all evil? No. But you get what you pay for. A fancy MBA won't create the next great thing, but could help the current great thing be a little more predictable in hitting earnings.

For what it's worth, Amazon seems to like quantitative MBAs. Google seems to like them with CS undergrads. Apple doesn't seem to care for them too much. Does that make any a black and white model?
Slightly OT, but it's kind of strange to suggest enhancements to the import statement when the spec explicitly states that an import statement contains an opaque string.

It's the go build tool that add semantics to the values of the import statement, not the language.
I just heard about OmniSharp the other day and had some trouble getting it to properly work. But now that this has been announced I may just switch to that.

I still love Sublime and will use that for all other non-.NET/C# purposes.
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Open source doesn't imply free (or libre, if you prefer)
Yeah, one command - on every machine... Meanwhile on Linux, I don't need to do any special configuration to run scripts.
I'm curious about how the editor itself was built. Is it itself written with cross-platform .NET? And if so, what UI library?

Edit: Got my answer. Electron and TypeScript: https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/593454574297427968
"or 77 times less than your estimation"

Your estimate and mine are almost the same. 0.017 cents is $0.00017 is close to $0.00022. The difference is because I did some heavy intermediate rounding, what with olive weight being highly approximate to begin with.

You're right that in relative terms, the savings is tiny. But absolute numbers count as well. If it saves $40,000/year then that means one full-time employee can spend something like 25-50% of his time working on this problem and they still come out ahead.
Because you have access to a web browser/document viewer/ text editor.

Because it takes longer to reboot than it does to restart a Python interpereter.

Because you can learn more than Python with it.
http://www.omnisharp.net/ is what powers the intellisense IIRC (it was mentioned in the keynote).
Your comment reads like a reflex action based on the title. It contributes nothing to the underlying political question of the essay, which concerns how the authorities want to define that government accessible backdoor ("secure golden key") is not actually a backdoor.

This is of course incorrect. But without articles like this, it's easy for the authorities to say that it's obvious that backdoors are bad, but what they are asking for isn't a backdoor.
I don't like freemium models, they don't work in the majority of cases.

While I respect freemium can work for some, for the vast majority it is a completely overused model. You are not going to make money on freemium unless you have a large user base, period.

This _really_ makes me unlikely to take your product serious as I don't know whether or not you will be here tomorrow. I have been stung before by tools with freemium pricing that ceased operation. I would much rather you charged a fee that was sustainable in the long run.
I've lived in Los Angeles for the last 5 years and I can tell you that Waze really uses neighborhood routes in the hills, which coincides with the most affluent residents in LA.

Unfortunatelly, Los Angeles is built with 3-4 choke points to get from the reasonably priced suburbs in San Fernando Valley to the companies that pay for $100k+ positions on the west side and mid-wilshire.

Waze helps alleviate that traffic and I not surprised that a politician here in LA is so out of touch that he would recommend shutting down a tool most people use to get to work so that the wealthy can have less traffic noise outside their house at 8am.

Streets are public domain, and until I'm relieved of my road tax liabilities I intend on using any one I choose.
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> Also since last February update, you need an internet connection to stream local content ..

I assume it phones home to Google?
Yeah for a Harvard or Cranfield MBA your probably not going to do too badly second and third tier Universities not so much.
It pretty much always does.
It was probably put behind a login wall for this very purpose, so it's not leaked ahead of time. Just have patience.
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This looks like it is based on OmniSharp which is open source https://github.com/omnisharp
If we're going to be pedantic, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
fyi, same error with @outlook.com account
I've been working on the Skillz SDK for awhile. If you're a game developer looking for a different way to add social interaction, competition, leaderboards, etc. you may want to check it out.
Seems like it has lots of potential.

The product/download site should be at http://code.visualstudio.com when it goes live later today (it's currently showing a login page).
Cheers man!
I'm a pretty heavy user of IntelliJ but would never ever uninstall or not use Sublime Text, its like comparing apples to oranges. Any decent developer would know when to use either to be more productive.
Well since GitHub is only ~5 years old it is not very surprising...
You seem to be aware of the risk, in the event all you get here is lectures on why you shouldn't do it, the folks over at http://www.reddit.com/r/investing may be able to help.
That would be the modules proposal. And the standardized ABI.
I love this. You have taken pen-testing to a level of security-shaming.
Yeah, I know, that’s my point. The distinction is the reason companies don’t like to use confusing terms: “free” has only one meaning for them in the context of software.
I also don't think that necessarily means astroturfing. Few things in my life has attracted as much attention and debate as apple products.

People either comment "aren't they glorious" or "they're not that good and you can get better stuff cheaper". My friends and acquaintances aren't astroturfers. Something about apple just seems to compel people to make strident comments.
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ahh so no C++ support then
> Yeah, one command - on every machine...

I think Microsoft envisions centrally-managed environments, rather than those with lots of Windows machines that aren't centrally managed.
I do tend to agree, unless you reach large numbers of users and get around a 2% - 5% conversion rate to paid subscriptions I don't think freemium is good.

However, with it being a task management app it isn't impossible that it will break this kind of number. Though with the competition it may be a bit of a long shot.
Pinegrow is a new desktop app from a startup, but I'm not sure if they have VC backing.

http://pinegrow.com/
Looks like the existing APIs, like for Lync (terrible rename to "Skype for Business" that they secretly shoved out in Windows Update this month - confusing and pointless).

IIRC, NetMeeting also had some cool APIs, allowing you to easily get access to data channels and so on.
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No, the one with history going back more than an hour, and tab completions on anything except files in `pwd`.
That's just the nature of work though. You'll find that even general contractors do a great deal of pushing back on scope during a project in order to make sure things come in on both cash and time budgets. The only difference is we work in the virtual space which tends to disconnect people from the fact that things still take time.