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1. 2851.▲
   by contingencies 8y ago

   Same story here, ditched Apple. It's less the money, more the attitude. I have never liked their keyboards. Gentoo dying semi-frequently became tedious, so I'm currently on NixOS despite issues. My perfect OS would be the power of
2. 2852.▲
   by contingencies 8y ago

   Oh OK, stopped following DRM after that job! :) Fun tidbit: We did the first commercial deployment globally of PlayReady for Samsung's galaxy devices US launch. MS paid Samsung to use it.
3. 2853.▲
   by contingencies 8y ago

   Also, it's a 10 year old DRM system at this point. Anything encoded for on-demand distribution across networks 10 years ago was probably done at poor qualities in general. Source: Used to work in the industry.
4. 2854.▲
   by contingencies 8y ago

   Agreed. Also prior to writing there was also folklore, which was surprisingly accurate: there have been many major events from folklore verified by science (earthquakes, astrological events, extreme weather / floods, etc.) IIRC in some
5. 2855.▲
   by contingencies 8y ago

   Technological progress was much faster than political progress. - Joseph Henry Condon, Bell Labs A generation before, with the telephone: This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a practical form
6. 2856.▲
   by contingencies 8y ago

   Yeah, 500+ upvotes on HN apparently think otherwise, but I also dare to disagree... it's not clear, despite claims to the contrary. Comprehending this code relies on reading a long series of verbosely referenced assumptions around an i
7. 2857.▲
   by contingencies 8y ago

   Interesting looking article, thanks for sharing. I will definitely read it carefully when I get a chance.
8. 2858.▲
   by contingencies 8y ago

   You may enjoy this quote from http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup ... The current wave of reducing everything to a combination of 'data & algorithm' and tackling every problem with more data and better
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   by contingencies 8y ago

   Interesting that they seem to have completely lost the sector to the Belgians (Antwerp), greater China (COSCO, OOCL, Evergreen, Yang Ming, PIL, Wan Hai), the Danes (Maersk), French (CMA CGM), Germans (Hapag-Lloyd, Hamburg Süd), Japanese (Ni
10. 2860.▲
    by contingencies 8y ago

    Yes, these were carrier boards with numerous (8-16?) sub-boards each of which had an RK3399 CPU, each of which has 6 CPU cores (2xCortex-A72 cores, 4xCortex-A53 cores) plus a NEON coprocessor and Mali T860 MP4 GPU. The article discusses 24
11. 2861.▲
    by contingencies 8y ago

    They are not the only ones in Guangdong with hardware in this space. I saw an RK3399 ARM64 cluster board at Firefly a few months ago. http://en.t-firefly.com/
12. 2862.▲
    by contingencies 8y ago

    I think it's largely marketing bullshit used by VCs, specifically GGV.
13. 2863.▲
    by contingencies 8y ago

    China: Many embedded programmers. Lots of Windows platform derived language choices. Code is typically discussed and documented in Chinese, but very often with English variable names. There are many companies so there must be agile shops, t
14. 2864.▲
    by contingencies 8y ago

    Is this still true? Definitely not (maybe never) in China.
15. 2865.▲
    by contingencies 8y ago

    Would be a fantastic way to outfit a bar or lounge. Severed spines with an e-interface for content access. Maybe some kinda laser pointer based lookup.
16. 2866.▲
    by contingencies 8y ago

    Take the pen test angle, even if it doesn't pan out you will learn more than 'cloud architect', which is basically fluff. If you can't build, break and maintain systems, you will suck as an architect anyway.
17. 2867.▲
    by contingencies 8y ago

    Kay begins at 4:00.
18. 2868.▲
    by contingencies 8y ago

    While adaptability as a device for expanding applications and market makes sense, your example of picking stuff up in a generic fashion also requires expensive and dexterous actuators, a reliable power source, plus knowledge of material pro
19. 2869.▲
    by contingencies 8y ago

    Construction is all about operations management. You have to get it done ASAP because every day costs money in permits and equipment leasing, if materials or equipment aren't on site then the site goes idle, and storage space is often
20. 2870.▲
    by contingencies 8y ago

    I had a company try to hire me internationally. This was on the strength of a close friend's internal reference and persistence over months. I wasn't looking. After some phone calls with their senior management I finally agreed to
21. 2871.▲
    by contingencies 8y ago

    I have a robotics startup in the food space. Don't the majority of industrial robotics have a) ample space; and b) well defined motion envelopes? You mentioned suitability for "unstructured, dynamic environments"... so where
22. 2872.▲
    by contingencies 8y ago

    Don't pick the right tool for the job, pick the right framework which secures you extra work for being a tool. - @iamdevloper ... via http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
23. 2873.▲
    by contingencies 8y ago

    It's absolutely the case that they have been doing this for at least 3-4 years already. I am personally aware of at least one case in Australia where the relevant authorities approached a major telco who were in discussion with Huawe
24. 2874.▲
    by contingencies 8y ago

    Eloquently stated. Although the observation requires a grasping of Chinese history, so it will be dismissed by many, I believe this is on the mark, not withstanding standard disclaimers around any appeal to an historical utopia.
25. 2875.▲
    by contingencies 8y ago

    wicked problems are by definition either political or ideological Brilliant. https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup/commit/163a3618ba0d4e...
26. 2876.▲
    by contingencies 8y ago

    Nice translation. AFAIK Dufu lived in Sichuan. The river he referred to was probably the Yangtse, which flows through southern Sichuan across central China to Shanghai (which didn't exist in Dufu's day, Yangzhou, Suzhou and Nanjin
27. 2877.▲
    by contingencies 8y ago

    you can’t easily identify filters I'm not often SQL wrangling these days, so you are probably more aware than I am on intricacies, but often you can wrap subqueries like: SELECT stuff FROM tables WHERE conditions AND table.field
28. 2878.▲
    by contingencies 8y ago

    Sure, there are issues and there is definitely a speculatory angle to Chinese real estate. That's not debatable. However, I don't think there's an average Chinese household, and it's hard to interpret these genericized a
29. 2879.▲
    by contingencies 8y ago

    Another respondent suggested: 3. Bubble chamber effect. I'll leave it to you to determine whether your false dichotomy is therefore on the rocks.
30. 2880.▲
    by contingencies 8y ago

    There has been some coverage however it seems to me to be notably less frequent. Maybe because I read too much HN so catch a lot of China articles here from US sources. (Edit: Reply to below: Domestically there is a common acknowledgement o