Small correction, and I speak from first hand experience. The employees are not buying them, Msft keeps shoveling these at employees as Christmas gifts and so on.
Ideas and innovation happen everywhere, except most people dont have what it takes to make a meaningful change in the world with their ideas. Execution matters. Musk and Jobs are not great men because they had great ideas or they invented something, they are great because they made existing inventions work in the real world. Basic research is all fine, but most of it sits in obscure papers where it does nobody any good. IIRC John Carmack didnt invent fast inverse square root, he plucked it from somewhere and made a kick ass 3d engine on top of it.
Namecoin: 2015-07-29 Warning: severe vulnerability disclosed - be careful.
As an end user who relies on the software every n-th second in a random day, how would i know that ? And what the heck am i supposed to do with this information, who do i trust?
A lot of the virtual world relies on ( somewhat hidden from end users ) layers of trust. We trust that some obscure agency is running the DNS root servers properly, we trust random SSL root certificates on our box preinstalls, we trust that a library called OpenSSL is reviewed by many smart people, we trust Amazon reviews, we trust a random package in NodeJS ir Debian repo to do what it claims etc.
In real world, trust is not a fixed, frozen in time notion, is never a binary true/false value. Moxie Marlinspike wrote in his proposal about replacing SSL PKi about the notion of "trust agility", but the issues are more complicated and apply in many other domains than just securing web traffic.
What are your thoughts on this? Does free software inherently bring something to the table here, or is it an orthogonal thing? Who should own the " root keys" to the internet?
I think we should just go back in time and ban breeding altogether, I mean before we domesticated dogs or so. Because that's what breeding is, genetic modification, just slow. To be fair, being slow it also gives you a longer heads up if some apples go pear shaped.
Resource constrained and unconstrained technology development will necessarily have different development paths. Having less has a forcing function leading to more innovative solutions, but not always, and its a bit if a crap shoot. Having more leads to different optimums, see any car made in the 50ies. Beautiful, but not exactly fuel sippers. That said, with a few scarce resources with unique properties ( helium, PGMs, fissile elements ) its kinda obvious than having more is better.
I run a dev team in SV and I absolutely wrestle with diversity issues every day. We try to maintain diversity of talent, skills, ideas, approaches, tech stacks, work hours and God know what else.
What we don't really care about is diversity of genitalia, skin colors or funny accents, as this doesn't contribute fuck all to what we want to get done.
big deal. if I was Netgear or Linksys, I would be selling home routers that let you control how often your Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe etc software is actually allowed to check for updates in no time.
Huh ? Wall Street makes money from moving money. Every up and down move, the higher volume the more of it stays at WS. The net result of this scam: some investors lost, some won, but traders made a commission. Twice, going up and going down.
Greeks are OK, apparently. This is what Wikipedia entry on Greece kinda leads with :
Greece is a democratic and developed country with an advanced high-income economy, a high quality of life and a very high standard of living.... Greece, which is one of the world's largest shipping powers, has the largest economy in the Balkans, where it is an important regional investor.
> Non-iphone users would try to use your website and be unable to. This will make your software look crappy.
BS. You can traverse any number of urls in your favorite browser that are not supposed to open for you, ever, because they are API endpoints, behind authentication wall, or any other reason. Nobody prevents me from deploying a customized http://thenewestiphonesonlytha... and just plain redirecting anyone and everyone whose user agent looks even slightly off. And if you got there by changing your user agent or using something like Links browser and cant render it, then thats kind of your problem.
And i quote: As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point. Natural selection, the process by which the strongest, the smartest, the fastest, reproduced in greater numbers than the rest, a process which had once favored the noblest traits of man, now began to favor different traits. Most science fiction of the day predicted a future that was more civilized and more intelligent. But as time went on, things seemed to be heading in the opposite direction. A dumbing down. How did this happen? Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most, and left the intelligent to become an endangered species.
If you are a developer, market share shouldn't concern you too much, as it changes every month when something new comes to market. Installed base is what most people would go by. There are very few reliable means of collecting installed base stats, but a cross-platform SDK from an ISV who isnt affiliated with any of the platform providers, powering many popular games would probably be a good first stop
Slashdot Mirror
Links, lynx, w3m still work on cygwin.
That would be glow plug engine then ?
Small correction, and I speak from first hand experience. The employees are not buying them, Msft keeps shoveling these at employees as Christmas gifts and so on.
Ideas and innovation happen everywhere, except most people dont have what it takes to make a meaningful change in the world with their ideas. Execution matters. Musk and Jobs are not great men because they had great ideas or they invented something, they are great because they made existing inventions work in the real world.
Basic research is all fine, but most of it sits in obscure papers where it does nobody any good. IIRC John Carmack didnt invent fast inverse square root, he plucked it from somewhere and made a kick ass 3d engine on top of it.
Right.
Namecoin: 2015-07-29 Warning: severe vulnerability disclosed - be careful.
As an end user who relies on the software every n-th second in a random day, how would i know that ? And what the heck am i supposed to do with this information, who do i trust?
A lot of the virtual world relies on ( somewhat hidden from end users ) layers of trust. We trust that some obscure agency is running the DNS root servers properly, we trust random SSL root certificates on our box preinstalls, we trust that a library called OpenSSL is reviewed by many smart people, we trust Amazon reviews, we trust a random package in NodeJS ir Debian repo to do what it claims etc.
In real world, trust is not a fixed, frozen in time notion, is never a binary true/false value. Moxie Marlinspike wrote in his proposal about replacing SSL PKi about the notion of "trust agility", but the issues are more complicated and apply in many other domains than just securing web traffic.
What are your thoughts on this? Does free software inherently bring something to the table here, or is it an orthogonal thing? Who should own the " root keys" to the internet?
I think we should just go back in time and ban breeding altogether, I mean before we domesticated dogs or so.
Because that's what breeding is, genetic modification, just slow. To be fair, being slow it also gives you a longer heads up if some apples go pear shaped.
Resource constrained and unconstrained technology development will necessarily have different development paths.
Having less has a forcing function leading to more innovative solutions, but not always, and its a bit if a crap shoot. Having more leads to different optimums, see any car made in the 50ies. Beautiful, but not exactly fuel sippers. That said, with a few scarce resources with unique properties ( helium, PGMs, fissile elements ) its kinda obvious than having more is better.
medical equipment used he3 currently for scans. research into he3 powered potentially affordable fusion is blocked by the lack of the substance.
uItron doesn't have any exploits that come to mind. neither does HURD
I run a dev team in SV and I absolutely wrestle with diversity issues every day. We try to maintain diversity of talent, skills, ideas, approaches, tech stacks, work hours and God know what else.
What we don't really care about is diversity of genitalia, skin colors or funny accents, as this doesn't contribute fuck all to what we want to get done.
big deal. if I was Netgear or Linksys, I would be selling home routers that let you control how often your Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe etc software is actually allowed to check for updates in no time.
bloomberg.fat.stacks is what they need first
Huh ? Wall Street makes money from moving money. Every up and down move, the higher volume the more of it stays at WS.
The net result of this scam: some investors lost, some won, but traders made a commission. Twice, going up and going down.
Greeks are OK, apparently. This is what Wikipedia entry on Greece kinda leads with :
Greece is a democratic and developed country with an advanced high-income economy, a high quality of life and a very high standard of living. ...
Greece, which is one of the world's largest shipping powers, has the largest economy in the Balkans, where it is an important regional investor.
Typical demarchist response.
80ies are calling. They want their GOTOs and error handling paradigms back.
> Non-iphone users would try to use your website and be unable to. This will make your software look crappy.
BS. You can traverse any number of urls in your favorite browser that are not supposed to open for you, ever, because they are API endpoints, behind authentication wall, or any other reason. Nobody prevents me from deploying a customized http://thenewestiphonesonlytha... and just plain redirecting anyone and everyone whose user agent looks even slightly off. And if you got there by changing your user agent or using something like Links browser and cant render it, then thats kind of your problem.
So it's like the compiler writes a lot of your unit tests for you.
And i have a bridge to sell you.
Youtube, mostly
And i quote:
As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point. Natural selection, the process by which the strongest, the smartest, the fastest, reproduced in greater numbers than the rest, a process which had once favored the noblest traits of man, now began to favor different traits. Most science fiction of the day predicted a future that was more civilized and more intelligent. But as time went on, things seemed to be heading in the opposite direction. A dumbing down. How did this happen? Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most, and left the intelligent to become an endangered species.
Unity stats counts active working devices out there. They cannot count phones in trash bin or desk drawer.
If you are a developer, market share shouldn't concern you too much, as it changes every month when something new comes to market. Installed base is what most people would go by.
There are very few reliable means of collecting installed base stats, but a cross-platform SDK from an ISV who isnt affiliated with any of the platform providers, powering many popular games would probably be a good first stop
Unless your phone runs on peace love and pixie dust, yes actually using your phone makes you automatically a power user as well. Milliwatts matter
Microsoft sees the value in BlackBerry QNX in the IoT arena
Then they are stark raving mad. It has zero traction and negative appeal in IoT space.