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Debates have really gone off the deep end with their scoring rules. They should be about convincing the audience not scoring based on how many points of the other side were responded to. If the other side makes a ridiculous claim the audience can see through it.

It does mean that topics need to be apolitical in order to ensure a fair score - no debate will turn a Republican into a Democrat. But for other topics this scoring works extremely well.

A windows 10 license is arguably more valuable than a windows 3.0 disk. Software depreciates with age just the same although for different reasons.

> But if Ford found a major safty defect in the airbags of old models, people would expect a fix.

If Ford gave everyone a new car as compensation nobody would complain they didn't fix the old one.

FWIW I hate the new design and moved to FireFox, but I don't think chrome needs to support the old one.

The Microsoft culture was one of fighting for your own resources. If you failed to receive them you were to blame.

Bill Gates formed a highly competitive internal environment. You were expected to stand up and fight for your cause - even against BillG himself. If you were right against Bill it was extremely good for your career. This was a time where the success of a BillG review was determined by how many F-bombs came out, and it was never zero.

For more information: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...

Also understand MSFT culture has changed dramatically since that time. Its no longer representative of the company today.

SDM dialogs live even today in the bowls of office Apps. Although it has since been supplanted by at least two “hot new things” since then. Last I heard there wast talk of moving to React.

Never does a new technology fully replace the old.

This is in direct reference to the line:

> If you wanted a real audience, even in older times you would've needed a newspaper to print your thoughts, or a publisher to help with your books.

The point is that getting this "help" was much easier in the past. Even people who vehemently disagreed with you would share their platform.

Circling back to Patreon, today's norms are qualitatively different from when our rules of "private platforms" were developed. If a significant portion of publishing platforms retained open minds then it was OK to have others that chose not to. Regulation was not required.

Now that this norm of fairness has been lost if we want to retain open communication of ideas on the internet then we must bring back the notion of a common carrier. Referencing the fact that the rules are the same as the past ignores how the world has changed around us.

Referencing McCarthy’s “friendly” networks and TV shows misses the point. “Disgusting” viewpoints can today be had on Drudge Report and numerous other places friendly to that viewpoint.

Murrow had spent much of the previous year criticizing McCarthy’s attacks on freedom of speech and association.

The equivalent today would be Rachel Maddow giving an entire episode to Trump to do with as he wished.

Murrow did not have to do this - in fact he was under great pressure to just drop the thing entirely by his network. He did so because he thought it right to expose his audience to ideas other than his own. Many in the news business felt the same at the time.

If every grocery store became a sam’s club would you concede that perhaps the regulatory regime would need modification?

News organizations used to be much more interested in presenting the “other” side. Sometimes referring to outsider writings when they felt their own biases prevented them from doing justice to the ideas they disagreed with.

My favorite example is Edward R. Murrow giving an entire episode to McCarthy (unedited) to explain why he felt black listing communists was necessary.

Letters to the editor are vestigial examples of this lost chivalry.

The intent is to use the extra resolution for detail not to fit more on the screen. Unfortunately most software is still designed for back when we didn't have enough real-estate and so Linux is not very good at DPI scaling. Windows used to be just as bad but has gotten better slowly over time.

Mac has always handled this perfectly from the get-go.

Yea, I wrote windows code for 10 years and while it has its warts I will say the ETW subsystem is much more thought out. The ntdll way of abstracting syscalls is also a lot nicer and something Linux should consider.

The biggest problem with Linux is it doesn't have a coherent design philosophy. So some subsystems are nice and others are horrendous. Knowledge of one subsystem may lead to misleading assumptions about another part of the kernel.

An example is the kernel supposedly doesn't have threads, they are just processes that share address space. But of course other parts do in fact need to understand that there is one coherent bundle of threads that compose this abstract idea of a process. So some places differentiate between thread id and process ids and others mix them. Windows has its inconsistencies, but not with something so fundamental as a process.

His commit access was removed. If the recipient didn't understand he will when he tries to push his next change.

Currently writing code targeting the perf_event_open system call. It's the nastiest thing I've ever had the displeasure of working with. clone() is similarly "interesting".

Glibc really does a lot of good work to hide the mess underneath.

Back around 2012 or so I interviewed with a company doing just that to price mortgage backed securities. So it is being done.

You mean like when Mike Turner the CEO of Britain's largest defense company was arrested upon landing in America for arms sales to Saudi-Arabia?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/...

Rubber bullets would almost certainly work. They are apparently safe enough to fire into live crowds of protestors, so should be fine here.

Their entire design premise was rejected - so quite expensive.

At the last AWS users group I was at in Toronto everyone was hiring. Can’t speak for the rest of the country.

I love catching up on the news in bed after waking up. Best part of the morning.

I'm really surprised by how few people there are walking around on the street. You can see the people on the observation deck of World Financial Tower pretty clearly though.

The cop is going to make a split second decision on your story and that will forever colour future interactions with cops. They will all see the note on the file. If your story sounds like a hollywood movie its not too surprising the first cop will be suspicious.

First impressions matter a lot when it comes to bureaucracy.

In addition to negative rates, the US gave out money in every way they could, including "helicopter" money - just sending everyone a check. And they did it quickly with immediate impact.

Europe let the crises drag on for years, with questions about whether Greece, Portgual and Ireland would even stay in the euro. 0% now is much too little, far too late.

That was a feature of windows explorer not the filesystem. It worked by copying the file to a temporary location. That's why if you tried to launch an exe from a zip file it would fail to find any DLLs packed with it.

This should make features like that much better.

The laws around business (and noise) on Sunday’s seem very traditional. A lot of US conservatives would love to bring that back.

The US is doing great. The rest of the world not so much. It’s really been the story of this recovery since the end of the Great Recession.

The US went for Keneysian stimulus and Europe went for austerity. The results have been unambiguous.

If you can’t quantify the benefits then how do you know if it’s worth doing?

Everyone else has to justify their programs with a cost/benefit analysis. I don’t think software should be immune.

The results are based on AMD bulldozer which I don’t think is a great comparison to more modern uARCHs. The way it shares ALUs was extremely unusual even for the time.

I’m using the numbers I was given as I’m not in a place to judge if they are realistic. Certainly if you make false promises no amount of sales techniques will save you in the long run.

If you have multiple teams competing for features, it shouldn’t be too hard to sell it that way.

“If we could open up 780 days on the schedule - what new features would you like?” At this point you want the client dreaming of all the extras they never thought they’d get to have.

Then at the end you mention the 20 day delay. At this point they will feel the “loss” of the new features they just imagined. It’s an extremely powerful sales technique that works almost everywhere.

Given your earlier comments about the extra 20 days they seem particularly susceptible to this technique.

winRT (or whatever it’s called now) is not .NET. It’s based upon COM and has full support for native code. .NET is designed with native COM support so it’s use is seamless there.