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As a user, I'm glad it's there as an easy updating mechanism for Apple apps and a store for handy utility apps, but there's not much of a place for a centralized app store on the desktop. Steam poaches the most lucrative category and makers of prominent professional apps don't need any help with digital distribution... what's left? I'd imagine that this hollowing out makes it advantageous for software that might benefit from an app store (say, a $50 nichey app) to avoid it, conditioning/encouraging users to use Google and letting them keep all of the profit.

I could hypothesize about ways for Apple to turn the ship around... but I doubt they care. Apple's happy to have something conceptually coherent with iOS - an Apple Store employee can show a college freshman to "just update apps like on your iPhone". They decided long ago not to chase gaming. It's a pretty updating app.
Yes, given the solarflare I was expecting the article to end up with a receiver coded against ef_vi, which exposes the NIC memory directly (but you have to do the IP/UDP yourself)
I get calls about these every so often, people who sound lot like recruiters but give away the fact they're selling dodgy schemes after a while.

"We can enable you to take home more than 90%!"

"Err, Right, how can you do that then?"

"By structuring your profits through our scheme! We use a combination of tax-haven bank accounts and directors..."

"I'll stop you right there, isn't this what Jimmy Carr off the tv just got spanked for? No thanks, sounds highly unethical to me."

That said I do do things the 'usual' way and pay myself a small salary, with the rest coming in as share dividends. I'm not sure exactly what proportion I pay in taxes vs a salaried employee, but it's non negligible - 20% Corporation tax on all profits (before I get paid), and 25% dividend tax on anything I get paid over the Higher Rate threshold.
ADM, you are going to have to pry the coconut oil out of my cold, dead, greasy hands!
That's not an option for startups. Their choice is whether to sell equity to public or to private investors.

The ones that are borrowing the money are private investors.
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Depends on the situation. If it's just social talk, enjoy their energy and life force. These people can be truly magnetic personalities.

If it's about making real important decisions, questions like "How do you know?", "What's the evidence for that?" can be useful. "I'll have to look into X/think about Y before deciding" is another good line to have ready.

Is the problem that you are actually swayed by their confidence, or that you don't know how to formulate a response in a live meeting?
ML stands for many things. It all depends on the context. See the Wikipedia disambiguation page:

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Ah, yes, I too narrowly focused on this particular issue of trans vs. cis and saturated fats and incorrectly inferred what you meant by the "this issue". Taking a step back, yep, the postulated (and being tested by Taubes and company) carbohydrate hypothesis is a part of what your comment is addressing.
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I have no idea what the answer to your question is but I am certain that it's not a big deal and that I could handle it if I were in your position.
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> How did you start?

Early 1990s, writing HTML tutorials on a site I called "Website Goodies". I learned HTML myself from a GeoCities site. I had ads on there from the start, from TeknoSurf AdWave (now Advertising.com), ValueClick (now Conversant), and IIRC briefly some kind of ads from Microsoft bCentral (defunct). Enough to pay for the domain and web hosting, and eventually enough to buy a computer of my own and cable internet from @HOME under a parent's name.

WSG started with articles (outdated and long gone now), then I started adding "tools" as I learned to program. Originally they were all CGI scripts written in Perl with text files for storage. Later PHP and MySQL after reading Kevin Yank's tutorial, which was later picked up by SitePoint as a book, now on its 4th edition. I made hosted guestbooks, a banner rotator, a hosted hit counter, things like that. At some point I came to know of hosted web analytics tools. This was long before Google Analytics, and the cool looking ones were B2B products that cost way more than I could afford.

I made my own web stats program. Each website got a separate log table with a couple hundred rows before I purged old entries. Real-time reports based on querying that log for the top pages, top referrers, etc. I learned to use PHP and GD to draw numbers on images, made a bunch of counter backgrounds in Paint Shop Pro, and offered customizable counters that doubled as the tags for logging to the database for the reports. At some point I decided to move it to its own domain, and chose W3Counter for world wide web counter.

By that point I had just graduated high school. Got serious about earning enough to pay bills, started a bunch of e-commerce sites. That's when I found a need for e-commerce conversion tracking, and being too cheap to pay for it, made another analytics tool for that. Eventually rewrote it and tried to sell it SaaS as the poorly named "W3ROI". Learned from the couple dozen people I got to try it, started over from scratch in 2012 and Improvely was the result.
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I find lard and butter together are often best. It's amusing that GP complained about shortening becoming less buttery. Hmmm, I wonder how one could fix that?
I was thinking the jet stream at your tail actually does accelerate the return trip quite a bit.
> Bacon gets a bad wrap

"rap", not "wrap"

> because it is often cooked in unhealthy oils and smoked.

No, it gets a bad rap because its usually cured with nitrates/nitrites (including must "nitrate free" bacon, which isn't, it just uses celery salt, which contains nitrates that do exactly what other nitrates/nitrites do, but because its considered a flavoring agent and not a preservative and isn't synthized nitrate/nitrite, doesn't have to be labeled as a nitrate/nitrite), which have some adverse health effects in certain circumstances (though the USDA has taken action to require steps to mitigate those effects the same way that, e.g., the naturally occurring sources of nitrates in green vegetables naturally do, though the bad rap was already established by then), and also because of the high quantity of animal fat, which itself has a bad rap.

Uncured bacon obviously exists and doesn't have nitrates/nitrites (even stealth ones), but it probably isn't meaningfully more healthy than cured bacon.

Cooking bacon in oil is silly; its often used as a source of fat instead of oil in cooking.
Specifically I was talking about the situation where your clients are outside the EU and you wouldn't be charging them VAT anyway.

If you are working with UK clients I'd imagine it's most likely in your interests to be VAT registered.
Sorry, I meant free ([unlike] AlphaSSL])
On a tangent, why is this problem soooo pervasive? I would say the large majority of people I work with fall into the over-confidence bucket.

Perhaps it's that people in tech are smart, and usually right when they find themselves in an argument. Perhaps it's that the hiring process at many companies favors those who display egregious confidence.
If people think that things have "eroded" since 1960, then they should first go back to living like the middle class did in the 1960s and see how far their money takes them under 1960s living standards.

That means

1 car with a short commute, 1,500 sq/ft house, no internet or cable, 1 TV, no iPods/Kindles/Tablets, no phones (with expensive data plans) for each kid, no internet, 2 kids per bedroom, using a broom and mop instead of expensive disposables (like Swiffer and Diaper Genie, or even disposable diapers), no air travel (vacations are a weekend car trip out of town), babies/kids have a reasonable amount of consumer goods (no endless amount of plastic crap - having a 1,500 sq/ft home helps with this). With the amount of consumer goods kids have now it is a wonder how my parents made it to adulthood without all of that stuff.

Seems to me a lot of this so called "erosion" is a very broad increase in consumer spending without an increase in salary. Otherwise known as "living above your means."

Don't get me wrong - the big things that are a challenge nowadays that didn't exist in 1960 are healthcare costs and job security. Employment benefits also seems on the decline.
This is great advice - the socratic method is really key. It also helps to drill into the concrete details (aka facts) rather than staying at a higher subjective level.

I've also found it very helpful to write down the conclusion in a follow up email/slack. Writing helps people consider and rethink their commitments. It also helps serve as a record to self-correct in the future.
Yeah, being silent when you're only 99% sure is not helping your organization. It's mostly a way to cover your ass.

If you're not 100% sure, don't pretend to be, but for gods sake, help out my stating your thoughts.
I notice that business bank accounts are always mentioned in these sorts of lists. To me they seem like an extra overhead for no reason. You essentially have to ask a bank's permission and pay them just so they can accept your payments? So weird.

I could understand it if you had a business with employees and you sold products on a daily basis with loads of transactions, or if you plan to get into debt... but for invoicing someone every month? Personal account seems fine, and I'm sure people have several of them already.
Oh it already is, check out this blog about Geocities http://contemporary-home-computing.org/1tb/

And you can emulate so much software in your browser now, including rare stuff. In your browser - just click a link and play history. https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games

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Any more specific advice on enforcing payment if you deliver the contract early?
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>It's easy to lose track of all the newfangled apps kids are using these days.

I dare say it is impossible to not lose track.

Even I, far more connected in the IT world than the average adult, often lose track. The average parent has no hope. And what is the alternative: preventing your child from using the internet?

As far as checking the apps, that works when the child is being careless; but many apps offer you ways to delete conversations and hide contacts.

>Your approach is ideal with a child you can have an open dialog with.

It is also quite rare, and when it does happen it is far later than it should be. Too many parents are willing to give their 9 year old a smartphone but are too embarrassed to even discuss the most basic sex related topics. Covering topics like porn, sexting, and predators isn't even a possibility. Even in my case, I have to discuss it because our parents aren't willing to.
> And who should be responsible for this mission? Are you saying that the offensive and defensive cyber capabilities should be split between different agencies?

In theory, they already are. The Navy, Air Force, Army, and NSA all maintain somewhat separate cyber capabilities.
People are always dumber than they think they are, remember that. It's best if you can keep your cool and ask questions that dismantle the premise without seeming like you have an agenda. (Yes, it's unfair that you have to do this. Deal.)

Questions that others are suggesting like "what's your evidence for that?" are way too pointed to say directly in a business setting. Sadly, it's better to be less direct than that. Frame your questions as if you were learning rather than challenging a viewpoint (which is what you're actually doing).

A book like "Games People Play" (Eric Berne) may help with this.
Wow, I would never have guessed British didn't use pounds as a unit when weighting themselves. I thought you were just making fun of how there are always so many units in English for the same measurements, so I went an mentioned yet another mass/weight one. I honestly only remember ever using slugs in some classes in undergrad. I doubt anyone actually ever weights themselves in slugs. Actually, slug is a unit of mass, as opposed to pounds which measure a force. So a slug is the equivalent of a kg and a pound is the equivalent of a Newton. But there is also the 'pound mass' (lbs_m) and the 'kilogram force' (kg_f) to confuse us even more.

I always thought it was interesting that the SI system is based around mass, time, and length whereas the English system is based around force, time, and length. Which means that in SI, the Newton is derived from the kg whereas in the English system the slug is derived from the pound. Of course, wikipedia states that the 'stone' unit you were mentioning is both a unit of mass and weight -.-

Please correct me if I'm wrong though, that's what I remember from my B.S. in the States (I was born and raised with SI units). Also, is the unit of mass 'slug' ever used in conversations in English speaking countries ? I've never encountered it outside of science problems in my 4 years of undergrad (nor did I after, but I don't live in an English speaking country anymore)
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That makes me wonder what the Romans DID to those people, to blast them back to the stone age.
Am I the only one who think that this page loads surprisingly good?

I don't think a modern website with CSS3/HTML5 favored will load that perfect in 10 years.
Although Bruce Schneier suspects new leakers behind recent reports, for now anyway most data about NSA capabilities that we have comes from Snowden documents. From this data it indeed follows that NSA didn't break cryptography two years ago. But it would be plain unprofessional of them not to raise the game by this time, especially given world's backslash against leaks.

I'm not saying that NSA nowadays have means to break strong crypto. But they surely should have responded to the growing usage of crypto in some way. My money goes on increasingly employing insiders.

Actually, I'd say the probability of three-letter-agencies planting backdoors after Snowden leaks have increased: developer community hasn't responded with radically new tools and techniques that would allow us to detect and root them out on mass-scale, at the same time journalists burned lots of NSA's precious toys while IT-companies rendered others useless by mass-deploying crypto and modernizing their infrastructure.
The article very clearly states that the issue had nothing to do with queued or unqueued TRIM:

Our affected drives did not match any pattern so they were implicitly allowed full operation.

See the list:

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In a web browser implementation with NaCl support, downloading and executing arbitrary binary blobs is very much a feature, not a bug. The issue here seems to be that Chromium was configured, by default, to download and execute a particular Google-provided binary blob. And now it isn't.

Note that as soon as you go to ANY WEBSITE using Chromium, you are entrusting that site to download you arbitrary data, which could include NaCl binaries, which you're then going to trust Chromium to execute.
I got the idea to http://timeblock.com without knowing it :)

January 5th this year I did another adjustment to how we worked in my consultancy. Another bc. I have been trying all kind of stuff for many years, leaning on NetFlix, Valve software and many others who are trying to remove management, control and rules.

After three weeks I noticed I had started to sleep better than I had since I started my business in 1998. I told my accountant about what I was doing now and he was very excited, this made me think that I better tell some more about this.

The next company I told about the TimeBlock method switched to it within 36 hours, this made me realize that I was onto something. I then used a month to talk to potential users until I was sure that I had something. This something is TimeBlock.
Do Chrome and Mozilla have Let's Encrypt in their Root stores? I don't see them.
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> Android is Google's project to begin with

It wasn't always; it was an independent company that was acquired by Google in the mid 2000s.[1]

> and the closed components which are part of the Play Service Framework have been a part of Android since it's initial release.

No, Google Play Services was first released in 2012, whereas Google's first Android release was in 2008[2], so it most certainly has not been a part of Android from the beginning.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)#His...

[2] http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/09/announcing-an...
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> OTOH you can charge the company for your lunch every day, which means you get that paid for before corporation tax, income tax or anything else...

Hmmm. I think my last accountant told me things like lunch every day were not billable to the company. But they weren't very good accountants. :)

I didn't realise it was only spends over 2K that could be claimed back. Do you have a reference for that?

Overall, VAT registration didn't seem to offer me much (given that my clients are all outside the UK) but I'm curious to know if there are circumstances where it might make sense.
The truth tends to always come out, so make your point, make sure the people who needs to hear it hear it, and let the others believe what they want. Just keep quiet and humble, and when the truth comes out and they realize it, watch and savor. No "I told you so" and such, just watch and savor.

On the one hand, it's hard to keep quiet when you think you're right, but on the other hand, it actually takes less effort than trying to convince a fool.
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The business is a separate legal entity to you. A business bank account clearly demarks what is your money and what is not. I wouldn't be at all surprised if it's a requirement to work with a lot of companies, if not a legal requirement for working with a ltd company.

Business bank accounts can be had for free - most contractor-friendly accountants have an arrangement with Cater-Allen, for instance.
Is this true of Chrome as well?

If so, I will never run it again.
Interesting. I agree, though linear programming does get a spot almost all the way back in "Introduction to Algorithms", which I believe is a pretty common standard text for CS students (one of the authors is an IEOR professor at Columbia). My guess is that most algorithms courses don't make it all that far back.
I wasn't a CS student - I was a math major and did an MS in IEOR, and I was a little surprised to see this topic at the end of this book when I was doing some self-study in algorithms. It seems very different, and I hadn't thought of it as an algorithm before, but of course it is, just one that is heavily based on linear algebra.

LP and NLP do seem to be treated as a niche subject, something that would be taught in an Industrial Engineering (or barring that, a math) class rather than as a core CS topic.

Interesting that you mentioned excel - I agree that this is a good way to learn and play around with LP, but normally I'd have a good python library to point to. I used a python library a while back to do some homework problems, and I wouldn't' be surprised if it has improved considerably since then. Still, interesting that LP and NLP aren't part of scikit-learn (http://scikit-learn.org), which covers classification, regression, clustering, dimensionality reduction, model selection, and preprocessing, but not optimization per se, even though non-linear optimization is a key bit of mathematics behind many of these algorithms (regression that uses a cost function almost certainly uses some kind of NLP, right?). It really is notable that LP is not part of the main packages, front and center.

If you go on kaggle or other data science sites, linear and non-linear optimization don't seem to get much attention, either. Wonder why that is.
Anyway, interesting topic.
The best way to deal with these types is Socratic questioning. When they make a dubious claim, you continually ask "why?" until you uncover the leaps of logic that they've made without backing evidence.

This worked extremely well on a coworker who genuinely was a nice guy and meant well, but was prone to making these unfounded assumptions. He was the type that would get a production error report and rather than calmly follow the stacktrace, would jump to a guess as to what triggered it. Simply by saying "why do you think X caused the error?" and suggesting "why couldn't it be <other part of system mentioned in stacktrace> causing it?" would force him to confront the evidence and rethink his process.

Sadly he also had a habit of blustering on higher-level things to management, which eventually caught up to him when risky guesses didn't pan out enough times and management labeled him as a bullshitter.