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Seems to be the only solution in the USA. Throw people in jail. Both parties seem to agree on this, they just argue who specifically should get sent.

Q-DOS from which MS-DOS is derived is basically a clone of CP/M. I've written a CP/M bios for fun to bootstrap my IMSAI. It's not really that high level. You got even more from IBM's BIOS but of course that was too slow for what people wanted to do with those machines - so everyone talked to the hardware directly.

In those days it didn't matter what you were doing - the hardware was too slow. It's not like today where you can trade off performance for reliability or cleanliness. People praise Wozniak for his genius of trading hardware for software, but the tight coupling made it really hard to make future iterations. People didn't value upwards compatibility yet.

The bulk of the .com era was still on SUN and commercial Unicies. Linux was still in its early adopter phase. It was only in the 2000s that it started to get widespread adoption.

Sure at a big company. But this advice is targeted to engineers who want to start their own company. Its unlikely they can even afford any of the layers of cruft you are talking about.

If this was advice for starting some new initiative at BigCorp I might agree with you.

Go back and re-read the title, it's literally advice for Software Engineers.

I think that is a little simplistic, the main thing that got Linux going was sustained and continued effort. If this first message had been a flop Linus would likely have continued working and pushing it through. It was almost a decade before Linux could be considered a "real" operating system ready for production.

Its a malicious rhetorical tool to use attempts at clarification as evidence of retreat. That's what politicians do. People here are not professional communicators, you can't expect them to say things perfectly the first time.

You don't consider delivering a paper to my door to be a form of "push delivery"? At least with facebook I installed the app. These local newspapers/flyer delivery vehicles don't have any business relationship with me at all.

It has no fuel to reorient itself or push itself anywhere. What would you do with it?

Doesn't really happen with Openssh. Or MySQL or Postgres for that matter. With Open Source there are a lot more takers than givers.

AGPL says nothing about monetization. It only says Amazon would have to open any modifications they made.

Unless Amazon becomes the new primary developers it does not solve the problem of paying the people actually doing the work.

Before finger print scanners I couldn’t be bothered entering a passphrase every time. It was an important security feature.

MSNBC took the formula and brought it to a new level.

During that time period I held investments in JPM. This was material information that should have been available to investors.

That used to come with an extremely loose immigration policy. The default assumption being if you were physically in the country then you were American. You can't have strict immigration and not have tracking of who citizens actually are.

Its hard to get your first ID specifically because of the desire to limit immigration fraud.

You could use multi cycle paths so this doesn't limit your global timing. Then you would save the registers. This is much more useful for ASIC design, because on an FPGA the registers are there whether you use them or not.

However total latency will be lower than a pipe-lined version which is nice if that's what your optimizing for.

Could have been solved with temperature logging, then they would have a paper trail they could show to the regulators. Of course that paper trail may well show deficiencies but they could fix that. An employee would have to visit daily along with remote data logging.

I think their hub model is pretty sound provided you can satisfy the regulators.

Ads aren't the first thing people look at though. If the rest of the page loads and content is visible then i won't leave because that ad I just had to see didn't become visible.

Medicare is $702bln/yr or $12,300 per recipient. Canada spends $3,000USD per capita and provides healthcare to everyone.

Think of what we could do with the $526.5bln that would be saved if US healthcare costs were brought back inline with other advanced economies.

Canada solves this among its provinces with equalization payments. Unless you want economic deadzones its the only way to solve the problem.

Hamilton has a gritty feel Cap Hill used to have in Seattle before it was ruined. Great nightlife but always a slight worry you might get robbed. It has density without the cost so you can see uniqueness you won't get elsewhere.

> And yes, I know the last bit is perverse

They would rather have it dealt with quietly in a court room than have a breach of the peace. In this case its your neighbors being protected not the defendant.

Someone who figured out how to raise $118 mln is worth something. I wouldn't let them near the engineering team, but they definitely have something to offer.

> make the lesson more interesting than what's outside the window

Powering through boring material is an important life skill. You can be bored to tears by your boss or your job but you still have to do it.

A person will learn better from an engaging teacher, but someone with no experience learning from dry content will be woefully unprepared for that first experience.

Different country but I’ve recieved money from FTC settlements before.

X was built on false assumptions of what the future would look like (dumb terminals). The whole thing is a massive hack around its server/client architecture - which does not work well with modern graphics hardware.

It’s no small part of why Linux has failed on the desktop.

In short, lack of tests are the least of its problems.

That's actually the limiting factor, otherwise you could just compile Qt to WASM and draw to a canvas.

To render text nicely you need to know the geometry of the screen so you can anti-alias properly. A canvas goes through a series of transforms that work fine for images but garble text.

I used this. It’s really rough around the edges but if you use it correctly it works brilliantly.

As a developer the simple fact is that if I knew something could happen I would have written the code to support it. Testers are about looking at the code from a different angle. It’s not surprising quality has dropped dramatically since Microsoft embraced the idea that devs should also be testers.

Customers are the ultimate testers. But using them as guinea pigs has a cost to your reputation.

Canada's largest province Ontario tried to implement it, but it was so unpopular the next government reversed the decision. News stations used to call out the location of hidden photo radar vans in an act of mass civil disobedience.