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It won't. There were, like, three attempts to make launchd run on FreeBSD. All of them failed, because launchd is so full of Mach-isms/XNUisms/Darwinisms (lol) And pretty much everyone in the BSD community hates XML.

launchd is actually not bad, except for the XML.
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Plausible, but man, that's not a development velocity that matches the modern world.
That was fascinating, does anyone know where I can read more reports like this?
Torvalds & Nakamoto have produced much significant impact than Musk. I dunno how much money they have, and don't wanna, it's the private thing after all.
I have five years more "professional" experience, seems to be the difference - I had verifiable coding experience on open-source projects before that that would have demonstrated those skills. I've got more confident in my judgement but I'm not at all convinced that judgement has actually improved.
It's almost as if there's no solution that's correct 100% of the time
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Imagine the world as it is now, but, with Elon Musk and the effect he has had subtracted from it.

If you did this exercise with most people, there wouldn't really be much difference. However with Elon, it would be impossible to calculate the difference.

PayPal probably would've still happened, but not in the same way. And there likely would've been less of a subsequent impact from the investments and experience gained by the people who worked at PayPal.

Tesla has put pressure on the auto industry to be innovative in a way they hardly felt prior to Tesla. Aside from electric cars, theres the Gigafactory, and the new pressure on dealerships.

Aside from SpaceX, I've only heard of Virgin Galactic in the same area... and Virgin Galactic is not nearly as advanced as SpaceX.

The point is not that none of this would've happened without Elon. The point is that it /did/ happen, and it happened /because/ of Elon. Elon may not have the power of thousands of minds in his own mind, but, he has organized all of those minds in such a way that it creates new opportunities for everyone - not an easy task.
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Similar to why many play Asheron's Call. The levels of customization available, the time invested, the friends made.

Both these MMOs were highly player customizable compared to later MMOs where everyone is cookie cutter. Even the world was in a way less cookie cutter.

Plus in some ways developer interaction had been much more personal then. So I would say that investments made early have their pay offs. Get the community built and it can sustain itself. Reinvent yourself a few times along the way will help and hinder at times, but if you give players a means to establish a good community they will stick with it.

Finally, not shutting down when other games would call it quits is big too. Both Origin and Turbine attempted spin offs but neither made it, I don't even think any Origin follow up even launched. Players had their comfort level and moving on isn't all its cracked up to be
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Speaking as a sysadmin, I find something like launchd/upstart/systemd a ridiculously superior alternative to init scripts, in every way. So this is a good thing. (For various values of "systemd-like".)
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> I hope this doesn't fall under gratuitous negativity. I just don't see it.

I agree. I love chiptunes and the demoscene to death, but people (nostalgically) overstate their influence and underestimate the musical ability of early video game designers.

The simple fact is that the space of video games and pop music is too damn large to nail down any large veins in 11 paragraphs. Since about 1992, there has been so much activity in this space fueled by technological advances in audio hardware and software driving composition, publishing, synthesis, gameplay, etc. that a dissertation could be written about every five year period over the last 25 years.

The VGM world has taken at least three major shifts since SMB. 1. The shift to using whole mp3 tracks, a la PS1. 2. The shift to multi-track recorded audio, instead of chiptune/wave synthesis. 3. The shift to dynamically generated audio (see SSX for great examples). The first quite simply was pop music (with a techno edge). The second certainly lagged pop music. The third one has nothing to do with pop music.

> bleeps and blops of the 70s arcade cabinets impressed any musician,

agree.

> still no adaptive phrasing, AI composition,

It doesn't exactly exist, but there is at least adaption through bringing in layers, changing volumes, triggering phrases, scene synthesis through location/reverb, etc. Although this has even less to do with pop music which is still blocks of 3.5 minute audio, although there was a remix/mashup trend a few years ago, it's faded.
I take it all your friends are developers. Try sharing something you coded with non-developers on their devices that require app signing. It is not an easy operation.
I agree that there is a cult-of-personality around Musk, and I dislike his politely-ignored reliance on government subsidies, but, to modify a tweet by @ReactionaryCEO:

1965 Engineer: I'm working on a rocket to put a man on the moon.

2015 Engineer: I trick people into clicking on ads.

2015 Elon Musk: I'm working on a rocket to put a man on the moon.
I used to get annoyed by car stereos randomizing CD tracks rather than shuffling. My Honda did once play the same song three times in a row.
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I thought the whole point of the term "unicorn" was to indicate that you are referring to a class of employees/companies who just plain do not exist, but are nonetheless the objects of immense amounts of fantasizing.
This is pretty interesting, especially when you compare the reasons to other companies who are using contractors over employees, such as Uber.

I would be interested to know more about the financial implications of this. Not living in the US, and never having directly employed someone, I don't know what sort of taxes are involved, and what happens to the labour costs overall.
Just to help add some clarity, this isn't Blu-Ray in the common consumer sense. I've seen some comments on here about the stability of the dyes and capacity. This technology, as mentioned at the end of the article, is Optical Archive storage [1]. The media are in the form of cartridges with 12 discs in each cartridge, and Sony claims that the media is "50 year rated". Sony currently manufactures cartridges with up to 1.5TB of storage[2]. They also make a 7U, 10-cartridge library [3]. So, in a standard rack, you could fit a maximum of 90TB of Optical Archive storage. That's admittedly not a lot given the storage density of hard drives, so I'm guessing that Facebook's decision to invest in this is partly driven by energy savings or other considerations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archival_Disc

[2] http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/cat-recmedia/cat-oda/

[3] http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/cat-datastorage/cat-opticaldisc...
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They're Google's servers. If they aren't meant for your use they can ask you to stop using them without any reason at all. The fact that they provided reasons at all is simply to inform people how they're systems are not going to operate normally.
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That or Placebo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo

IMO, if doing a 'pointless' ritual reduces someones dependance on pain medication then it's useful.
marginally-profitable electric car company

_Electric_ is the operative word here. If it were an IC car company then perhaps on a stretch, it wouldn't be stellar.

propped up by hefty government subsidies

They are competing in an industry (oil/car manufacturing) where the incumbents already get a large chunk of subsidies. So the table is already tilted.

haven't "created solutions" for them yet

I think on the contrary, in case of Tesla, they have made an electric car practical.
Not only that, but so did monsters. And monsters had to eat.

At one point in beta, enough of the wildlife had been killed, and enough of the middle-difficulty monsters had been killed, and there was a bug where town guards didn't work quite right .... and a dragon strolled down the streets of Trinsic, leaving a trail of bodies behind it.
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Evidently you talk hyper-enthusiastically (and with the wrong terminology) for things even seasoned Lispers and Schemers don't, not to mention that your "magic bullet" praises are far from being computer science.

E.g. "any other language out there is just a subset of Lisp" is just a fun statement in a Greenspun's tenth rule way. You say it like you mean it, which means you don't understand the importance of syntax, semantics, type systems, and several more concerns (not to mention pragmatic issues like ecosystem and tooling).

You also yield "metalanguage" like its conventional CS wisdom that being a metalanguage is some magic bullet trait, that makes it "superior simply by definition".

(Not to add that you don't understand the definition of "metalanguage", which would also include things like Antlr, m4, PEG, transpiler generators, and such, for which there's nothing "superior" to a conventional language. Not sure were you picked the terminology up, probably some book or article, but it doesn't mean what you think it means).
Yeah, it needs a battery pack.
The problem with an explanation like that is three-fold:

1. It applies to agencies you know and more specifically parts of those agencies you have experience with. Many federal agencies have demonstrated that the left hand and the right hand don't always talk.

2. Other agencies are free to apply different policies (cough NSA cough DEA cough) that aren't in line with say, the FBI's policies.

3. This does not change the fact that the FISA court acts as a rubber stamp, the bulk majority of what it rubber-stamps might have met the requirement of EO 12333, some of ought might also have been legal under the constitution and existing laws or maybe the judges are so blasé that they just assume that most of what they see must be OK, it got there after all.
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Because he has a rare combination of traits which allow him to operate effectively under extreme stress. You will begin to understand this after you've experienced moments of high personal stress where you were also asked to perform (or wanted in retrospect to perform).

Here is an example from a friend of mine who went to USC with me, you're in a store and someone comes to rob it with a gun, the police arrive before they finish, and they line you up with the other customers against a wall, wave a gun at you and threaten to kill one of you if the cops don't let them go. The police storm the store and shoot the perpetrator dead right in front of you. Outside, sitting in the back of an ambulance being checked out, the detective comes over and asks you "What were the other customers wearing?"

Now in this case the police thought the guy had an accomplice who was pretending to be a customer when it went wrong. My friend realized he could remember nothing of the event other than the end of the gun barrel, and that the noise of the gun shots when the police stormed the store made the take down some sort of sad silent movie. Under that level of stress he just stopped thinking. And the police assured him that was absolutely the normal way of things for people who had not be trained to deal with these situations.

The CEO of a company finds out that there biggest customer has just cancelled its "non cancellable" POs and the company is not going to make payroll if they don't do something in the next three weeks.

Being able to operate under stress, being able to make good decisions under stress, things that Elon has demonstrated a number of times (and yes sometimes the stressful event was his own fault but it didn't take him out of the game)

And getting people to do something well. Easy to say hard to do, they have to want to do it. As you manage more and more people, you will get to experience a diverse set of personalities and traits, the larger the group the more diverse and the harder it is to get all aligned. To be a successful leader in a large enterprise you have be able to get the best out of people, even when they may not like working with each other, to achieve a larger goal. Bigger the group, the harder that is to do effectively.

So you take him out of the equation, and the reset falters. Take Steve Jobs out of Apple and Apple headed for the toilet. Put him back, and it comes back from the dead to the largest company in the world. Sure that is the work of thousands, but the guy inspiring those thousands has a disproportionate effect.

Over your career you should evaluate your CEOs. Some will be great, and some will be horrible. Look at what the company accomplishes under great CEOs and what it accomplishes under horrible CEOs. Do that enough and you'll develop a healthy regard for Elon has pulled off in both Tesla and SpaceX.
And I suppose you're going to expect the binaries to be packaged for every platform as well. Supporting Various Linux distros, Windows, and OS/X all with various combinations of target processors and word size is a pain that becomes a management nightmare which doesn't have to be endured with a dependable build system.
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This is one time when having the actual headline on the article can be misleading. The first thing I think when I see "A note from [company]'s CEO" is that the company is going out of business. My second guess would be announcing a funding round.

How about something like "Shyp Transitions Couriers to W2 Employees"?

This also encourages people to submit paywalled articles because they have better headlines, when (I assume) most of us would prefer to read it from the source.
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"Nothin to see here! Check out index.js"

Bad sign for me. There's many valid reasons to have a markup available for we applications. Embedding layout this deep into code is just messy for me. The best acceptable way (for me) so far is React.
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1. He is working on things that are hard, rarely attempted and extremely important with potentially huge long term impacts, e.g.:

- Making cars electric (Tesla) and electricity renewable (Solar City) which if successful in a big way will help to combat climate change and provide a step towards a 'post [energy] scarcity' world.

- His desire and efforts to settle humans on Mars (SpaceX) are one of the best chances we have to become a multi-planet species which some consider a very important goal for humanity in and of itself and also provides some insurance for the long term survival of our species.

2. He does these things in a way that suggests he cares about the overall advances produced by his work in addition to the profitability and success of his companies (e.g. by releasing patents). This could just be clever marketing and rhetoric but it appears genuine and of benefit to the world in general.

3. He comes across as an engineer and a 'nerd' - whether by being honest about failures or getting the in jokes. Even if it's all for show, he pulls it off well enough to endear him to large sections a crowd like this one.

Few if any others with the money and capability to be successful are working on these problems (and even fewer look like they might be succeeding). Where it is happening, it's often hidden inside secretive 'skunk works' type organisations which deny us the opportunity to imagine the impact they may have and elevate those responsible to 'super man' status.
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