The voter registration hacks were mostly relevant in the primary since they were messing with closed primary states. It favored Hillary. That doesn't fit the Russia narrative, so they won't mention this.
The only way they have been accused of "intervening" so far is by sharing information with the American people is that it was all “real news” about newsworthy topics. Information that we should have a right to know about. AFAIK, they have not been accused of hacking votes or anything along those lines.
The only reason the emails were newsworthy at all was that the documents revealed information that the DNC and the Clinton campaign were trying to keep secret from the American voters. If the Russians were involved in the leak (and that seems like a pretty big "if" since there doesn't seem to be much evidence), they would only have been giving to the voters information that Clinton should have released on her own. In other words, these disclosures are clearly not “fake news”.
I'll say this one more time: information that the CIA has accused Russia of sharing with the American people is “real news” about newsworthy topics, and given how pathetic the "security" was on the servers it came from, it seems unbelievable that this wouldn't have made the news sooner or later.
Well, I could you're right. But it would be a lot of work because the code is littered with issues (unless you only care about x86). But there is also FireFox, which compiles and runs quite well on a variety of architectures with minimal patching aside from a few optional dependencies that I just leave out. I don't have a strong enough need for it to DIY (and it could be a fair point if people say that just proves that they don't need to target anything else, but IMO if they had just done it from the start it wouldn't have been much extra work... but now it would be pretty hard to fix it unless there were a compelling reason).
How about they fix all the crappy unaligned casts all over the place so I can actually compile the source on alternative architectures and have it work (among other issues with that code that pose difficulties for cross platform work).
And I might further add that even the distances reported by treadmills tend to be off themselves... but if you do a lot of your workouts on a treadmill they should still be relatively comparable to each other.
Same goes for calories... nothing is ever going to be very accurate unless you enjoy running while hooked up to a breathing tube, etc. The point is not to know the exact number of calories, it is to track progress and develop your fitness based on relative/statistical improvements.
No, most trackers don't do distance based on step counts.... some of them do attempt to guess based on that in "indoor" mode... and you can use other sensors to make that more accurate such as a foot pot (although I would generally not try to have the app determine distance on a treadmill, I would just collect what data makes sense and then prompt to fill in distance at the end since even the foot pods are not the greatest on a long run).
Wow, you've clearly either not exercised much, or you are utterly oblivious to how much easier it is to make your workout plans when you have apps that automatically record what you do so you can track your progress and incrementally improve. It is a major pain to do it all manually, I would never go back to the "old way" myself.
Pretty much all colleges are a joke these days. I would never just assume anyone knows stuff because they have that piece of paper. Grade inflation is ridiculous, you cannot tell from GPA who actually knows the stuff vs who whined and complained to the professors in order to get the same A as the people who actually know it. College is necessary for some careers because you simply cannot get around medical degrees, law degrees, etc.... but a large number of people waste a lot of time and money on stuff they could teach themselves.
Yeah, I thought LOGO was cool, but I soon discovered that GW-BASIC was on my DOS PC... I made all sorts of little utilities for myself including a flat file database for keeping track of my little league data.... LOGO was just the thing that made me realize that computers could do cool things. The only things we were supposed to do in class were draw simple shapes which got sort of boring after the first few times.
I mostly got started in programming from using LOGO on the old Apple IIg computers starting in 3rd grade. I played video games a little but I'm pretty sure that is correlation, not causality. I also learned a lot by using an HP-48 in my math classes instead of the "required" TI-82 starting in high school... math teachers all insisted that this was a bad idea because I would need to create my own programs instead of using the ones provided with the teaching materials... but I think I actually learned a lot more BECAUSE I wrote my own programs that were much better than the junk everyone else just copied from the book without even understanding what it was doing.
What did video games teach me? Not much. I suppose I learned a bit about geography from carmen sandiego.
Incorrect, he later admitted he botched the calculations. He neglected to use absolute pressure in the calculation. The actual starting temperature would have needed to be closer to 90... but that is assuming they were low by 2.0 PSI, and now we are hearing that the initial reporting was greatly exaggerated and only one ball (the one which the colts staff turned in) was that low, the others were much less, mostly just a "tick" below 12.5. So the temperature range does not have to be that large.
Simple, the executives want to live in the fancy neighborhoods with the best schools, etc. Their head explodes if they think about managing teams "remotely" a couple states over, in pretty much the same time zone.
That is not really true. Lots of people who aren't capable get into college and graduate, some even with advanced degrees. The percentage of incapable people is lower the longer the program because there is a higher chance that people will realize they are not cut out for it and switch to something else.... If they finish a degree even though they suck they usually end up spending a few years trying to be an engineer before moving on to management or other business functions or other careers entirely. The ones with true ability are more likely to continue for many years and gain a lot more depth of experience over time. People who are actually GOOD generally either are "that way" no matter how much experience they have, three months is probably plenty of time for someone with real talent to get enough experience to be productive in an entry level position. Certainly, they will continue to acquire more skills and knowledge the longer they work, not saying that someone with only three months experience is anywhere near as good as a senior engineer... but I absolutely agree that college is totally unneccessary.
College is a Joke. Degrees are largely worthless because grade inflation has gotten so bad that basically anyone with a pulse will graduate from the CS programs... doesn't matter if it is Harvard, or MIT, or Stanford, or lowly state schools. The students all whine and complain and talk to the dean, etc, etc... until they get a passing grade. It sucks for those who actually are GOOD because you end up with the same grades and the same degrees as the idiots who can't code their way out of a paper bag.
Why is java obscure? Sure you need to write a bunch of boilerplate code, but it is just a programming language which happens to be widely used. There is nothing about it which makes it particularly hard to learn or "elite". Python is not "easier". It just takes less boilerplate to do a lot of common things (although in many cases the performance suffers).
There are certainly things in the Java language which I'm not fond of, but show me any language and I'll tell you about its flaws. I have yet to find a perfect one.
Just connect to a VPN first and then use Netflix. You'll be able to clearly see how much Verizon is throttling. I've been using this as a workaround for a while now. I'm not sure why more people don't think of pointing this out when Verizon's tech support people claim there is no throttling.
Um, you are deluded if you believe that narrative. ASSEMBLED in the USA? Sure maybe parts of it... but no, your Dodge Ram is not MADE in the USA. The Toyota Tundra is actually a higher percentage made in the USA.
No matter how much you optimize your schema and your queries there are limits to what one machine can handle. Depending on what your application or business needs are, this may happen MUCH sooner than a billion users. For many, merely tens of millions of really active users are enough to exceed these limits, and when you are a startup trying to grow and add features it is easier said than done to ensure that every piece of code you release is so perfect that you will not rock the boat at all, since one minor slip effects EVERYTHING.
At that point your choices are custom sharding (expensive, painful, error prone). Or horizontally scalable NoSQL. Personally, I would just choose NoSQL from the start. It is not harder to use, and you have a lot more wiggle room to respond when you want to release features quickly and iterate over them to improve performance if you decide to keep them.
And yes, you can use functional sharding and multiple relational databases, but sooner or later if you are successful, you will hit the same problem.
And I might add that one of the most painful parts of migrating away from relational databases after you are already huge and bursting at the seams is that usually folks will have relied on the transactional consistency they provide for all the app logic and business processes. Suddenly wanting to change all that code to handle eventual consistency is not trivial at all, but if you were doing it all along because you started out that way... fewer pains.
Actually, more than you think should probably use NoSQL. It isn't really any harder if you build it that way from the start and if your startup happens to get gigantic you won't have a relational database to migrate away from as one of your problems. You'll still have problems though, and even with NoSQL you need to "do it right" or it will still have issues when it gets huge.
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The voter registration hacks were mostly relevant in the primary since they were messing with closed primary states. It favored Hillary. That doesn't fit the Russia narrative, so they won't mention this.
The only way they have been accused of "intervening" so far is by sharing information with the American people is that it was all “real news” about newsworthy topics. Information that we should have a right to know about. AFAIK, they have not been accused of hacking votes or anything along those lines.
The only reason the emails were newsworthy at all was that the documents revealed information that the DNC and the Clinton campaign were trying to keep secret from the American voters. If the Russians were involved in the leak (and that seems like a pretty big "if" since there doesn't seem to be much evidence), they would only have been giving to the voters information that Clinton should have released on her own. In other words, these disclosures are clearly not “fake news”.
I'll say this one more time: information that the CIA has accused Russia of sharing with the American people is “real news” about newsworthy topics, and given how pathetic the "security" was on the servers it came from, it seems unbelievable that this wouldn't have made the news sooner or later.
Tell me again how they "hacked the election"?
Well, I could you're right. But it would be a lot of work because the code is littered with issues (unless you only care about x86). But there is also FireFox, which compiles and runs quite well on a variety of architectures with minimal patching aside from a few optional dependencies that I just leave out. I don't have a strong enough need for it to DIY (and it could be a fair point if people say that just proves that they don't need to target anything else, but IMO if they had just done it from the start it wouldn't have been much extra work... but now it would be pretty hard to fix it unless there were a compelling reason).
Yes, it does... that was exactly my critique... I wish they hadn't gotten lazy and only targeted x86 because it works pretty well.
How about they fix all the crappy unaligned casts all over the place so I can actually compile the source on alternative architectures and have it work (among other issues with that code that pose difficulties for cross platform work).
And I might further add that even the distances reported by treadmills tend to be off themselves... but if you do a lot of your workouts on a treadmill they should still be relatively comparable to each other. Same goes for calories... nothing is ever going to be very accurate unless you enjoy running while hooked up to a breathing tube, etc. The point is not to know the exact number of calories, it is to track progress and develop your fitness based on relative/statistical improvements.
No, most trackers don't do distance based on step counts.... some of them do attempt to guess based on that in "indoor" mode... and you can use other sensors to make that more accurate such as a foot pot (although I would generally not try to have the app determine distance on a treadmill, I would just collect what data makes sense and then prompt to fill in distance at the end since even the foot pods are not the greatest on a long run).
Wow, you've clearly either not exercised much, or you are utterly oblivious to how much easier it is to make your workout plans when you have apps that automatically record what you do so you can track your progress and incrementally improve. It is a major pain to do it all manually, I would never go back to the "old way" myself.
Pretty much all colleges are a joke these days. I would never just assume anyone knows stuff because they have that piece of paper. Grade inflation is ridiculous, you cannot tell from GPA who actually knows the stuff vs who whined and complained to the professors in order to get the same A as the people who actually know it. College is necessary for some careers because you simply cannot get around medical degrees, law degrees, etc.... but a large number of people waste a lot of time and money on stuff they could teach themselves.
Yeah, I thought LOGO was cool, but I soon discovered that GW-BASIC was on my DOS PC... I made all sorts of little utilities for myself including a flat file database for keeping track of my little league data.... LOGO was just the thing that made me realize that computers could do cool things. The only things we were supposed to do in class were draw simple shapes which got sort of boring after the first few times.
Hmm... nope... I just looked up the pictures and based on what I remember, it I think it was just an Apple II actually.
I mostly got started in programming from using LOGO on the old Apple IIg computers starting in 3rd grade. I played video games a little but I'm pretty sure that is correlation, not causality. I also learned a lot by using an HP-48 in my math classes instead of the "required" TI-82 starting in high school... math teachers all insisted that this was a bad idea because I would need to create my own programs instead of using the ones provided with the teaching materials... but I think I actually learned a lot more BECAUSE I wrote my own programs that were much better than the junk everyone else just copied from the book without even understanding what it was doing. What did video games teach me? Not much. I suppose I learned a bit about geography from carmen sandiego.
Incorrect, he later admitted he botched the calculations. He neglected to use absolute pressure in the calculation. The actual starting temperature would have needed to be closer to 90... but that is assuming they were low by 2.0 PSI, and now we are hearing that the initial reporting was greatly exaggerated and only one ball (the one which the colts staff turned in) was that low, the others were much less, mostly just a "tick" below 12.5. So the temperature range does not have to be that large.
Simple, the executives want to live in the fancy neighborhoods with the best schools, etc. Their head explodes if they think about managing teams "remotely" a couple states over, in pretty much the same time zone.
That is not really true. Lots of people who aren't capable get into college and graduate, some even with advanced degrees. The percentage of incapable people is lower the longer the program because there is a higher chance that people will realize they are not cut out for it and switch to something else.... If they finish a degree even though they suck they usually end up spending a few years trying to be an engineer before moving on to management or other business functions or other careers entirely. The ones with true ability are more likely to continue for many years and gain a lot more depth of experience over time. People who are actually GOOD generally either are "that way" no matter how much experience they have, three months is probably plenty of time for someone with real talent to get enough experience to be productive in an entry level position. Certainly, they will continue to acquire more skills and knowledge the longer they work, not saying that someone with only three months experience is anywhere near as good as a senior engineer... but I absolutely agree that college is totally unneccessary.
College is a Joke. Degrees are largely worthless because grade inflation has gotten so bad that basically anyone with a pulse will graduate from the CS programs... doesn't matter if it is Harvard, or MIT, or Stanford, or lowly state schools. The students all whine and complain and talk to the dean, etc, etc... until they get a passing grade. It sucks for those who actually are GOOD because you end up with the same grades and the same degrees as the idiots who can't code their way out of a paper bag.
Why is java obscure? Sure you need to write a bunch of boilerplate code, but it is just a programming language which happens to be widely used. There is nothing about it which makes it particularly hard to learn or "elite". Python is not "easier". It just takes less boilerplate to do a lot of common things (although in many cases the performance suffers). There are certainly things in the Java language which I'm not fond of, but show me any language and I'll tell you about its flaws. I have yet to find a perfect one.
Just connect to a VPN first and then use Netflix. You'll be able to clearly see how much Verizon is throttling. I've been using this as a workaround for a while now. I'm not sure why more people don't think of pointing this out when Verizon's tech support people claim there is no throttling.
Furthermore, according to a recent study (2009 date on article I just pulled from):
Top 10 cars with most USA parts.
See what’s NOT on the list? No Dodges. None.
Um, you are deluded if you believe that narrative. ASSEMBLED in the USA? Sure maybe parts of it... but no, your Dodge Ram is not MADE in the USA. The Toyota Tundra is actually a higher percentage made in the USA.
No matter how much you optimize your schema and your queries there are limits to what one machine can handle. Depending on what your application or business needs are, this may happen MUCH sooner than a billion users. For many, merely tens of millions of really active users are enough to exceed these limits, and when you are a startup trying to grow and add features it is easier said than done to ensure that every piece of code you release is so perfect that you will not rock the boat at all, since one minor slip effects EVERYTHING. At that point your choices are custom sharding (expensive, painful, error prone). Or horizontally scalable NoSQL. Personally, I would just choose NoSQL from the start. It is not harder to use, and you have a lot more wiggle room to respond when you want to release features quickly and iterate over them to improve performance if you decide to keep them. And yes, you can use functional sharding and multiple relational databases, but sooner or later if you are successful, you will hit the same problem.
And I might add that one of the most painful parts of migrating away from relational databases after you are already huge and bursting at the seams is that usually folks will have relied on the transactional consistency they provide for all the app logic and business processes. Suddenly wanting to change all that code to handle eventual consistency is not trivial at all, but if you were doing it all along because you started out that way... fewer pains.
Actually, more than you think should probably use NoSQL. It isn't really any harder if you build it that way from the start and if your startup happens to get gigantic you won't have a relational database to migrate away from as one of your problems. You'll still have problems though, and even with NoSQL you need to "do it right" or it will still have issues when it gets huge.
Until not that long ago women were not supposed to run marathons either... because their uterus might fall out (among other stupid assertions).