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Re:Do we need to move away from Elm? on Saturday March 03, 2018 @05:06PM (#16511932)
I love Elm. We use it in production, though we're not primarily a "web" company and it's used for admin UIs and simple SPAs.

Nothing in Javascript / HTML is very stable--I've hitched my wagon to so many stars that burned out. Everything from XSLT to JQuery to Bootstrap. So the fact that probably, something will replace Elm doesn't bother me.

It works now, it's stable, and it hides most of the crap from me so I can just code. It helps that I've been a "Functional Programmer" since 1980 when I first learned LISP, and that our core products are done in Erlang and F#.

Re:Amazon's policies promote counterfeiting on Friday March 02, 2018 @01:36AM (#16499577)
Did you read the article? It says right at the top:

> There is something extremely simple Amazon could do about it. If you have a registered brand in the Brand Registry and don't sell the product wholesale - there could be one box to check for that.

Re:The Feds Can Now Probably Unlock Every iPhone Model on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @09:01AM (#16482983)
@dang why do you allow and encourage people to spread bald-faced off-topic lies?
Re:The Feds Can Now Probably Unlock Every iPhone Model on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @09:00AM (#16482979)
For some reason, the Powers that Be at YCombinator allow unabated criticism of Israel, even if it's based on completely made-up facts.
Re:The Feds Can Now Probably Unlock Every iPhone Model on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @10:22PM (#16480443)
Ok then. I guess Apple's a Chinese company or an Irish Company or a Singaporean company because they have subsidiaries--each with a local CEO--in each of those countries:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/05/21/business/apple...

Re:The Feds Can Now Probably Unlock Every iPhone Model on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @09:36PM (#16480232)
Cellebrite is a Japanese company, a subsidiary of Japan Sun Corporation.
Re:How Many Tesla Model 3 Cars Have Been Made? on Saturday February 24, 2018 @11:46PM (#16457185)
So that's why those LEAF people are always driving 55 in the HOV lane!
Re:How Many Tesla Model 3 Cars Have Been Made? on Saturday February 24, 2018 @11:45PM (#16457179)
Exactly.

We own two electric cars: A Tesla P90D and a Chevy Bolt. The Bolt is an American Car, if that matters to you (it does for me) and has an EPA range of 238. (Consumer Reports got 250 in their tests).

We also have a car with an ICE -- a Chevy Volt. It gets 55 miles on all-electric, and has a gas engine too. Handy for when I have to do the occasional long drive and don't want to worry about superchargers, etc.

The Bolt isn't as glamorous as the Tesla S, but it's certainly nicer than the LEAF golf-cart.

I haven't tried the glasses-off product yet, past their demonstration pages, but I did practice this technique for a while based on the recommendations of a friend who similarly discovered it.

The "trick" as I see it is to become comfortable enough with the appearance of blurry text, and be relaxed enough so your eyes aren't constantly trying to focus, and straining the muscles. Once your eyes relax, it's amazing how well a person who's already a proficient reader can get enough information out of blurry text to read at normal speeds. In fact after a while, my brain kicks in and I'd swear that the text is sharp, even though if I pay too much attention it will appear blurry again as I realize my mind is playing tricks on me.

Re:Open Source Color Management Is Broken on Saturday February 24, 2018 @12:01PM (#16454110)
Many of my (Hollywood) clients need to do color grading and other accurate color work.

What platforms do they all use? Not Macintosh, despite its reputation for being the platform for "graphics professionals" (it was missing 10 bit/channel color until very recently). And not Linux, despite its use in render farms.

They use Windows 10 and HP DreamColor monitors. That's the only platform that works and works well for people who need to care about color.

Re:The Boys Are Not All Right on Thursday February 22, 2018 @01:05AM (#16435472)
Girls aren't pulling the triggers? The "modern" school shooting was invented by a girl in San Diego when a Brenda Spencer shot up an elementary school:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Elementary_School_sh...

There was even a pop song written about the incident.

And more recently, Tafsheen Malik, shot up a San Bernadino workplace along with her husband.

And a woman along with her husband went on a shooting rampage in Vegas in 2014. http://abcnews.go.com/US/las-vegas-cop-killers-husband-wife-...

Women were persons of interest in the most recent Vegas shooting, and the wife of the Pulse gunman was arrested in connection with the murders (http://abcnews.go.com/US/wife-pulse-nightclub-gunman-omar-ma...).

Women can and do pick up guns and murder.

Re:Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014) on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @01:17PM (#16431576)
Exactly! Rust doesn't solve any parallelism problems. It's no better than established languages like C# or F#, and probably worse.
Re:Money Laundering via Author Impersonation on Amazon on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @09:36AM (#16429709)
Amazon is rapidly turning into eBay at its worst. It's very hard to buy things there. I used to send my 85 year old mom to Amazon to buy things, but she has trouble distinguishing name-brand items sold and fulfilled by Amazon from scammy clones. (And those pop-ups for extended warranties aren't good either.)

The fact that they let fake customer support numbers appear in Amazon hosted forums is reprehensible. And facilitating identity theft and money laundering seems downright criminal. I hope this victim can get the attention of a prosecutor.

Re:Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014) on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @09:22AM (#16429593)
In fact, there is! Erlang is extremely parallel. Processes are lightweight, share nothing, and run on as many CPUs you have.
I would hope that Coinbase would contact the FBI about this, and that the FBI would take it seriously.
Re:MacOS may lose data on APFS-formatted disk images on Saturday February 17, 2018 @05:11PM (#16403034)
You appear to have an agenda of protecting Apple.

The title is very clear, and the first paragraph which you quoted explains it in detail.

It's significant that an established respected company--the makers of Carbon Copy Cloner--will not support APFS formatted disk images for its backups.

While your agenda may be driven by the need to protect Apple, the rest of us need to know this important news about APFS so we can be fully informed.

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