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Laptops are a subclass of PCs. The microcomputer is by far the longest living of all generations, having survived through three decades.

Rob Landley once keenly noted the signature event that must occur for one computer generation to usurp another. It must become self-hosting, i.e. it must be able to compile itself. I cannot currently compile Android on Android or iOS on iOS.
The reason I bring this up is I am surprised that architectural choice is overwhelmingly the top technical debt concern. That doesn't seem right. I would expect it to be poor code due to time constraints.

1. The system grew alongside the devs' understanding of the problem space. There was never time to change decisions that were later found to be not the best (and the older such a decision is, the harder it is to fix).

2. The problem space changes over time. Either because the outside world changes, or because of scope or scale increases. This means that even good architectural decisions can become bad over time.

Isolated pieces of bad code can be fixes when/if they need to be touched for some other reason. Fixing currently-inappropriate architecture takes a bit more effort.
Except you haven't learned much after watching those two and a half hours. I would argue reading this [1] or this [2], while simultaneously mocking up a flexbox grid will give you at least the same amount of knowledge in much less time.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/Flexi...

[2] https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
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Editing pictures for facebook and creating comments in a forum are are not particularly "forms of creation". Photoshopping a magazine cover and building a website are.

As for photography, messaging, and gps. Well, of course. Those are a natural use for that form factor. I'm not going to take my laptop out to take a picture... (I'm kind of surprised you didn't mention that the phone is better for making phone calls too).
A person who needs this service likely isn't getting a decent interest rate (still important to consider even if you plan on paying the balance in full), or a high enough credit limit.
This concept isn't terribly different than what the FLSA rules for Fluctuating Work Week offer.

http://kielichlawfirm.com/fluctuating-work-week-flsa-calcula...
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Almost everything an autopilot should do should have a button and a switch for humans. The switch prevents the autopilot from doing it, the button makes it happen.

This isn't to disparage autopilots, but to assure control. The human should always be in control of the system, and capable of deciding when things happen.
One thing I do to try to slow down the rate of change on the web is to upgrade my browser less often than most people.

Specifically, I use Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR).

Mozilla resisted providing this "update channel" (Firefox ESR) for years, but eventually yielded to the desires of large IT departments. Despite Mozilla's writing that "Firefox ESR is meant for organizations", with only one or 2 minor problems (with plugins IIRC), which I easily solved by upgrading temporarily to Firefox's normal ("release") "update channel", I've used it personally for years.

Below is a link to the best page I've been able to find to download Firefox ESR, but note that both version 31esr and version 38esr are available from the page below. Version 31esr is still supported with security patches and is what I have been using. It is my understanding that before it stops getting security patches, version 31esr will automatically upgrade itself to version 38esr.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all/?q=e...
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- https://twitter.com/grkvlt/status/600998588475375616

This is the output I got on a flight from EDI to LHR at about the half-way point, decoding ADS-B transmissions.
I don't really follow SpaceX to know what Elon Musk is pushing for, but as a practical engineer it seems unlikely that he would be pushing for something that is outside the realm of what physics considers at all possible.
Sure. For a comment the size of a tweet, that's fine. I bet you're not writing long-form content on your phone, though. Or doing serious code development.

For some content creation, there's nothing that can replace a real keyboard and a real (large) screen.
They claim YOU don't earn interest. They likely put all the money together in on e big account, which probably earns a decent chunk of interest.
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> Sure, maybe desktops, but everybody I know has a laptop and uses them a lot for certain tasks (some of which have been superceded by their mobile, addmittedly).

Exactly. Some few tasks have migrated to mobile, and more will follow. But not all, and probably not even most.

Also, the "desktop" I'm typing this on is a laptop plugged into an external monitor and keyboard. Most times it might as well be a desktop machine. A smaller screen and keyboard will never be as good as full sized ones.

There will be evolution of platforms, and migration of tasks to platforms that fit the task better. But I'm afraid that sitting at a desk and wanting full-sized, dedicated screens, keyboards and mice is going to be with us for the foreseeable future. Not because mobile isn't powerful enough or because the UI hasn't yet matured, but because sitting at a desk is a better fit for some tasks.
It's all good. They're bringing more money to an industry that can then fund further development. Google, for example, is mostly an ad company. They've taken all that money and built some pretty cool stuff. Among other things, we should get self-driving vehicles and futuristic robots with that money.

So, the 62 mile high space tourist plane will turn into an one orbit trip in a few years. Then to the moon in 25.
I came from an awful IT environment and even my team met your criteria. I think you might be primarily exposed, due to the nature of your work, to the worst of the worst. We had/have a lot of technical debt, but the architectural ones are the hardest to fix (because they cost real capital). You wouldn't believe how hard it is to get sign off on new servers (at some companies). My team nearly made an executive decision to switch to GCP or AWS just to escape our own internal infrastructure group.
As I grew up in the 1970s we knew it wasn't a perfect world. My father's generation wanted to fix things and make it better for our generation.

We had family picnics on the weekends because back then hardly anyone worked on the weekends.

Around the 1980s that had changed and the family picnics had stopped. It was the Me decade, Reagan was in charge, everything had changed and the PC Era had just started with the IBM PC and DOS dominating business.

I got an Amiga 1000 with the 1020 5.25" floppy drive and PC-Transformer software to emulate DOS on it. That way I had all the features of the Amiga and could still run DOS programs like Turbo Pascal for my college on it. Later on I got the Amax dongle and Mac 128 ROM chip to run Mac software on the Amiga. The fact that it ran DOS and Mac software didn't matter as the PCs had dominated the Amiga when VGA and Sound Blaster cards became standard.

I think since the 1970s that the world did get better because we got easier to use software and easier to use computers to make things easier for a lot of people. The Internet made buying things easier and web sites automated things to cut down on costs.

What got worse is that our advanced technology needs carbon burning power sources that contribute to global warming aka climate change. The world is still hell to some people and they might not want to raise children, but some people still raise children anyway.

The truth is most of the people do the hard work to make the elite 1% richer who profit from their labor. The only exception to this is doing your own startup and then building something worth value and then IPOing for millions to make yourself rich. The trick is having a business plan that works, and not just another Dotcom cookie cutter business plan ripped off from another company.
Web and .NET are not mutually exclusive. If they were, C# would not be one of the most popular languages in the world.
> First question: "Backups?" followed by "When was the last time you did a restore?"

KDE almost lost hundreds of their git repositories in 2013 because they were not doing backups ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5432760 ).
Dmitry Vyukov - Go Dynamic Tools [1], is the one that stands out to me. The Go-fuzz project which was at the core of the talk was linked earlier today [2]. Gotta love a tool that tells you "here's an obscure bug, RIGHT HERE!"

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xrxRsIbSU&index=7&list=PL2...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9960450
I have a client, pre-funding but has some revenue, who is hell-bent on using their Rackspace credit for their production environment. "But we have a sysadmin who works for yahoo"

He tries to demo me what they have currently and the damn thing timed out during login. I laughed.

The cost of these headaches is easily avoidable. Get off the ground and running first, pay the kind-of-premium Heroku bill, and when you're ready to really scale, make the switch.

There are few exceptions to managing an infrastructure, such as RackSpace, a cluster of AWS nodes, your own metal, etc. versus something like Heroku.
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Financial Times -- which incidentally has just been acquired by Nikkei, a Japanese company -- has no particular affection for Putin.

You might be thinking of RT (Russia Today).
Nothing, think of it as the same as if you just emailed your friend a phishing URL. Except this way is much more convenient to do so :)

Pretty soon there will be a "block whoever sent me this" feature, but I haven't got around to building that yet.

Until then, just don't add people on Tabd that you don't know and trust!
Right now we call a tablet "mobile," but it seems to be to be more PC-like in function than mobile-phone-like (although more phone-like in form). There truly will be a blurring of the lines. It'll all just be some device that has computing power.
If ImageMagick meets your needs, use it.

However, after doing so, you may find that it's terrible code, slow, leaky, and a giant pain to use in production at any real scale.
Sounds like an easy thing to practice? Go to a pool with a boat, dive under the boat, and practice getting out.

Like people who do kayaking practice how to get out when the kayak turns upside down.
Think of it this way: Wavelengths are to colors... as Chemicals are to Smells.

Some [colors|smells] require multiple [wavelengths|chemicals], and sometimes two [colors|smells] that seem identical can actually be very different mixes of [wavelengths|chemicals].

Your computer monitor does not actually emit "a pure cornflower-blue wavelength", it exploits the limits of your vision and emits a mix of 2/3 wavelengths that simply seems the same. (Ditto for printer-ink.)

To continue the analogy, it's like if the Smell-O-Vision company sold a prepackaged set of chemicals, which could be mixed-and-matched to approximate certain smells. They don't actually release the raw chemicals of "Apple Cider", but they instead release a mix which approximates it.
Tried that in an incognito firefox window. Still paywalled.

Same thing in non-incognito chrome. Not paywalled.
That depends really... are they a bank/lender?

Seems like this is the million dollar question, regardless of what they think they are.

After all this though, I've got the following:

1. They seem to have a useful product that a good number of people could benefit from. A marginal step up from payday loans and credit cards.

2. They give off the appearance of transparency, but there is a lot there that doesn't add up. (In an other thread a founder seems to suggest that the bank retains all interest earnings on the "savings" accounts... that seems... off.) (Maybe that's how they skirt the regulations - don't collect any interest at all and receive some other form of payment... maybe a "bank partner fee" or something?)

I'm cautiously optimistic that I'm just a little internet jaded and these guys are all on the up and up.
Ah, I got to do some military training involving jumping into a pool with weapons, armor, and helmet. Swimming in boots is hard.
Sorry, I didn't mean to start a grammar war. It was just something that stood out as a bit strange, the meaning was understood fine though.
The daytime temperature in Mercury is "only" about 430 degrees Celsius. Plenty of less exotic materials can survive that, especially in the absence of oxygen.
We don't penalize topics. We penalize fluff, articles that contain no new information or have recently been discussed, etc. The goal is to have the most substantive articles on the front page. When substantive new information appears about Snowden I'm sure it will do fine here.
It's not a leak. It's integral to the way WebRTC works. The purpose is to implement a highly-secure, multiplexed audio/video/data channel on top of IP. To do that, you must exchange publicly addressable IP addresses.

There are already forced opt-ins for accessing the microphones and cameras, this should probably be fully extended to require the user to opt-in when any WebRTC feature is used.
This sounds a lot like Samy Kamkar's USBdriveby tool: http://samy.pl/usbdriveby/

USBdriveby is a device you stylishly wear around your neck which can quickly and covertly install a backdoor and override DNS settings on an unlocked machine via USB in a matter of seconds. It does this by emulating a keyboard and mouse, blindly typing controlled commands, flailing the mouse pointer around and weaponizing mouse clicks.
A rectangular pool with a flat bottom (probably accounts for the majority of pool volume world-wide) would be pretty easy to have full camera coverage over with minimal image distortion. Each object could be easily tracked for time underwater, depth, etc. (and expanded to track fine motion as well) Objects that stay near the bottom are suspect. The system could alert lifeguards to the exact location of a victim.

You could even have an auto-drain feature if you desired.
An IFR (Instrument Flight Rules) pilot in VMC (Visual Meteorological Conditions) is still responsible for looking out of the airplane. Even if the pilot was "under the hood" (wearing a view limiting device), the safety pilot (the guy in the other chair) should have ensured separation from the Cessna.

My guess is this is going to end up in court.
Three factors: user flags, the flamewar detector (a software penalty for discussions that usually aren't substantive), and a moderation downweight for not containing new information.
Do you honestly think the demand for "software engineers" with little to no practical experience and modest training at $90,000 to $115,000/year, seen almost exclusively in a few overheated markets, will be sustained?

Companies like Google and Facebook, large, profitable enterprises that can cherry-pick the best college graduates from the best schools and invest in long-term development, are one thing. But unprofitable, angel and venture-backed startups that are pressured to grow (and that includes headcount) are another thing.

A lot of the salary froth at the entry-level end of the market is being driven by the latter, not the former. This has nothing to do with the long-term demand for skilled, experienced software engineers.
> Delusions of infallibility, arrogance, defensiveness, and blind deference to rank and regulation over common sense have all been shown, through the history of aviation tragedies, to be much more dangerous than all other factors.

Basically the most dangerous type of people across any situation.
Not really, since they are never taking any portion of that paycheck away from you. It's all yours at the end of the day, they just keep it "in trust".

(The point I'm struggling with is how they do this without a) earning interest, and b) earning enough for themselves)
> The web has existed longer with javascript than it did without.

At least you admit that it existed before JavaScript.

> What you and I suspect most of the parents here who keep annihilating my karma is what the Internet was before the web, gopher, ftp, etc.

I want all that, and the web, the web that I grew up reading, the web that was composed of (wait for it) documents composed primarily of text, linking to other documents composed primarily of text. I want to read news articles which actually link to primary sources; I want to read personal blogs; I want the web.

> All of the things you guys want to do was already invented and working decades ago, and guess what, it still works.

It doesn't work when people like you continually pollute the web with single-page apps and JavaScript-requiring sites. It doesn't work when I have to allow every random advertiser, marketer and nation-state actor to execute random code on my computer in order to read some text.

> You can still setup gopher and ftp and do all the wonderful non-javascript document reading and media transfer with external viewing things you folks want to do without degrading the web.

It's people like you, who create single-page apps and other web sites that do not work without JavaScript who are degrading the web. I recently was looking for a company to ship me pre-boxed meal ingredients: every single site required JavaScript in order to show me pictures of food an text about food; every single site refused to accept a simple HTML form with my name, email addres & so forth. No, they had to use JavaScript to show me pictures of food; they had to use JavaScript to show me text about food; they had to use JavaScript to 'help' me fill out a form I'm perfectly capable of filling out on my own. They didn't use JavaScript to enhance their sites: their sites were nothing but shells to hold executable code.

> My original post way up still stands, nobody is going to take seriously a proposal to stop moving the web forward.

JavaScript-laden pages are not forward; forward would be hypertext, the Semantic Web, intelligent agents, REST and so forth. Forward would be a new, clean markup language; a new, clean programming language; a model which acknowledges the value of more than just the graphical browser (see CLIM for some interesting ideas along that line).

> Fork your efforts off somewhere else instead of punching at ocean waves.

Have you ever read any Norse mythology? They were convinced that they knew how the world would end, with the overthrow of the gods (representing order) by the giants (representing elemental chaos). And despite believing this, they stood with the gods: 'the gods are doomed, but I'm on their side.'

Well, the web is doomed, but I stand with the web. Better to fight for a good and beautiful idea than to live with mediocrity.
>From a consumer perspective, it's unclear why a typical person needs a pc or laptop.

Simple ergonomics. Forget dissertations, I get annoyed writing Hacker News comments on my phone. Technology may change, but human physiology doesn't, and until we get telepathic interfaces, a "human sized" interface is going to be most comfortable for any task that takes longer than a few minutes.
I was worried not about the list of topics, but rather about whether or not their coverage is mathematically accurate, which I would like to see a mathematician 'on staff' to ensure. To be sure, the best way to test the validity of that concern would have been to read the content, not to play credential checking.
Yep, that's the page I remember.
I'm very glad I don't and all power to you spreading the good word :)
Bad example. Many valuations are actually good. And if you say there is no global impact by Tumblr or Instagram, then you need to learn more about foreign markets.
> Avigad's Ph.D. is in Mathematics (from Berkeley) and he is a professor in a mathematics department.

Indeed, as are Antonelli and Arana. They carry joint appointments in math and philosophy, which, if I am being fair, should probably mean that their opinions should be given more, not less, weight in a book like this targeted at philosophers.

> More to the point, Mathematical Logic is a bit of a term of art referring in general to the study of formal logical systems and related objects/constructions. The term Mathematical Logic is typically used to distinguish from e.g. the sort of informal logic you might encounter in a course where one might read Aristotle and discuss informal logical fallacies.

Oh, thanks! I didn't realise this.

> Just playing the odds, it's somewhat unsurprising that a group of high-quality Mathematical Logicians just happened to not include any people with a sole appointment to a Mathematics department.

I agree that this would be unsurprising in a random selection from a random fixed department, but not so much in an institutions-spanning effort like this one. Nonetheless, as I mention, I should probably attach more, not less, weight to a joint appointment.
It's useful to "mount" the database to the app process via injected configuration.

Application and database servers are different animals. Not sure why a 'hybrid' approach would be surprising or unappealing.
I think that Israel has more advanced technology than Iran. Israel has more startups and has innovated a lot of things. During the late 1990s I was interviewed by an Israeli startup that did document management and they had cutting edge technology that they were developing for it. I wanted to work from my local city but the job was in Israel so I couldn't do it because my wife didn't want me to move. I had to pass up a lot of job offers because I couldn't relocate.

But Israel has advanced technology over Iran and Palestine, and if they wanted to wage a conventional war they'd have the technological advantage over their enemies unless some first world nation gives better technology to their enemies.

The thing about nuclear war is that eventually given enough time any given nation will find a way to make a nuclear warhead. The USA made atomic bombs using 1940s technology and dropped them on Japan. While they were primitive based on what we have today, they were effective.

In truth the fewer nations that have nuclear bombs the better, and we really should be disarming nuclear bombs because of their potential to destroy the world. But we still build nuclear bombs in an arms race with other nations, and other nations want their own nuclear bombs.
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hi there,
you might start with this mathoverflow thread:
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/106560/philosophy-behind-m...
And where do you work? What does any of the above have to do with the OP's question?

1. Data services, not true. There's MariaDB, Cassandra, Neo4J, Mongo, Postgres, among others. Yes, they're in VMs, but recoverable/reschedule-able persistent volumes in container clusters are at best experimental features anywhere you look.

2. NIH, compared to what? CF reuses etcd, consul, monit, haproxy, nginx, etc. will use runC and appC as those get hammered out.

3. Lots of people love BOSH.

4. If you don't like all the decisions Full CF makes, this is why Lattice exists, it delegates config/install to Vagrant or Terraform (which have their own problems) so anyone can take the core runtime bits with Docker images and use them in new and interesting ways.

5. What container or cloud platform project isn't based on code contributed by one or two vendors? Realistically? None. The CF foundation at least is an honest attempt to give all the IP to a neutral entity (including the trademark soon), has several successful variants (mainline OSS, Pivotal, Bluemix, Helion, Stackato), and has customers and users joining the foundation, not just vendors.