ucsdrake

You must be fun at parties.

I assume it's: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE18841CABEA24090

No doubt some of the tax evasion needs to be caught (where possible while maintaining a free market, I'm aware that may be a false dichotomy). However, there is little hope of anything being done in regards to the real estate situation given the state of Canada's current economy[1]. There's no incentive for the current governments (federal or provincial) to curb the trend.

[1] - http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-29/canada-s-o...

There wouldn't be, if that were the case.[3]

As the article mentioned, many individuals are 'gifted' items from family members still residing in China. How do you tax somebody that has no official income? (aside from the tax one purchase itself, which isn't what I think you're referring to). Such tax avoidance schemes aren't unheard of[1].

What adds the contention and frustrations of residents is the foreign investments in real-estate, which, in Vancouver and Toronto specifically, are driving the costs above what they can realistically afford. Again, it's not unheard of for the foreign investors to be using the real estate as tax avoidance in their own country[2], at the cost of the local citizens quality of living.

[1] - http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/kpmg-offshore-sham-deceived-... [2] - http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/a-crisis-in-vancouver...

[3] - ninja edit - I'm not trying to categorically say none of those mentioned in the articles pay taxes! Of course that's not the case! What I'm trying to communicate is, those who aren't and are avoiding paying taxes, are the ones causing issues for local residents and what the focus of these articles I've mentioned.

> I'd pay good money for the ability to exit the plane early after the flight is over.

Apparently not good enough money, first class customers get that privilege. Beyond that, the crew is required to finish certain landing procedures before allowing customers to disembark off the plane.

Unfortunately I don't have any articles to back this up, just anecdotal discussions with drivers in Germany, but;

First: they're a domestic car manufacturer, lower cost to deliver to local drivers. Second: they're able to offer specific taxi options, such as manual front seat adjustment (vs automagic). Third: they offer a substantial discount to taxi drivers (they justify the discount through the marketing value of having large number of individuals ride in their cars).

Such discounts for marketing purposes is quite common in the industry. I've also heard dealerships sell cars to rental car companies at a loss, just to make sure customers have access to their cars (and will possibly consider buying that type of car for the next purchase).

> That used to be the case, but now corporations require you to pass their own exam before they hire you.

You mean an ... interview?!

Ok, that was purposely obtuse, but I don't see how an extension of a company's interview process (ensuring, through their own testing, that candidates meet the proper qualifications without school bias) is a bad thing. Or how it signals an 'inevitable disruption of modern higher ed'. Would you mind expanding on that a bit?

To me, that helps keep schools honest and continuously adapting their curriculum's, while ensure that the best candidate gets the position, regardless of the institution they attended.

While probably a biased blog, folks might find it interesting to read Julian Seward's (valgrind's maintainer) thoughts after experimenting with drmemory;

https://blog.mozilla.org/jseward/2015/10/05/dr-memory-a-memo...

Agreed, considering they've built Vector (mentioned by bgregg in the second sentence - https://github.com/Netflix/vector) on top of Performance Co-Pilot. While PCP doesn't yet have all the wrappers to mimic each sysstat output in a fully compat manner. The underlying mechanisms to remotely fetch that data (using the tools Vector is already built on), is already there.

Exactly. To build on your point, take Amazon's kindle app, available for both android and ios. With Apple devices you can't purchase any content within the app, but at least you can read what you've already purchased from Amazon through other means. They could do something similar with Amazon video.

"A computer science analogy to this would be if I gave you an uncompressed image and you had to develop a compression algorithm that made the image as small as possible, you could likely come up with a really good solution. But your algorithm most likely wouldn't do as well on any other image."

That analogy doesn't hold. It's more akin to developing two compression algorithms, one for the general case, and a specific algorithm which is used only when your image is detected for better than the general compression performance use case.

It is entirely fair to blame the manufacturers for this. Gaming emissions results required effort to accomplish, and is completely unethical from an engineering standpoint.

I'm curious why you say that. Where did you get that reference from?

Looking through chdir's comment history, the only reference to a book regarding meditation and stress is Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Gunaratana.

I'm interested in the book chdir's referring to as well.

PCP's pmwebd can already export its metrics to Graphite.

http://pcp.io/features.html#analyze http://www.pcp.io/man/man1/pmwebd.1.html https://web.elastic.org/~fche/blog3/archive/2014/06/16/pcp-a...

I'm genuinely curious, what relevance or bearing does this have to the linked article? Is it supposed to imply something about the PM? Not hating, just honestly unsure.

You might find it worth while to investigate mosh[0] as an alternative to OpenSSH.

[0] - https://mosh.mit.edu/

This is a fantastic example, from both perspectives.

To strictly play devil's advocate for a moment; why do developers think it is appropriate to benefit from the free/open source library, yet not provide that same benefit back to others (in the form of using it in the proprietary software)? To me, this was the exact type of situation in which the GPL was crafted to avoid, and part of why rms didn't just declare his software to be in the public domain. I'd also imagine rms' response to this complaint would be along the lines of, informing the developer in question to work on a free, non-proprietary version of the software, so they could in fact, use the library (totally disregarding the fact it is due to external pressures, such as the employer, that they're developing proprietary software in the first place).

This is, of course, assuming the original developer licensed the library under GPL on purpose and knowing the resulting implications, as you eluded to.

I think it's likely that they're writing a runtime for dalvik to run on chromeOS, which, is essentially 'merging' though now you're just arguing semantics.

I would be really really careful with Phoronix benchmarking. If I recall correctly, I've seen them 'benchmark' and compare a FreeBSD system with a recent (at the time) Linux release. Issue was, they weren't even running the tests on the same hardware. <sarcasm> Really?! you saw performance differences between and i5 and i7?! Each running a different OS?! Get outa here!! </sarcasm>

Most likely, does the tool you remember look similar to http://www.performancecopilot.org/ ?