> There is also support to control the colors of these components from software
This is the definitive characteristic. You have customizable color on "RGB" hardware. If you have three LED's to support changing color, you might as well go with RGB and use a software-defined color.
There is sometimes support for running all of the color changes from one piece of software but other times, you must reverse-engineer the commands yourself and write a central controller for it all. Could be a great pass-time. There's a tool for emitting the motherboard's bus commands along whatever standard, so if you figure out how to use the optional bits, you can make RAM glow in sync with the graphics card on an unsupported motherboard.
Is it just me or does this feel way over-produced to the point of inviting speculation that purposeful funding was directed at it? Where has this well-funded, professionally produced security site been all this time? It's Tuesday-ish. Why not make a website worth 32 person-hours in the ad-shop promoting not one, but several vendor-specific bugs? I have no evidence that this site is of that nature, but a strong argument can be made that it deserves scrutiny.
It is a matter of time before the over-dramatization of security flaws becomes weaponized by vendors against competitors. If a side-effect is that building actual secure software and hardware becomes a ship requirement, what the hell; let everyone burn each other.
This has to be the most microcosmic post I've started reading on HN in a while. I just read a blog from 2004 or something. What market does Virgin even serve?
I could classify gambling according to average win/loss. Gambling has an average win/loss of house-always-wins while stocks usually result in gains for their owners. The average rate is important because it tells us that a gambler is hoping to beat the odds, a foolish move that only pays off for some, while an investor is merely riding the odds, a wise move that demonstrates understanding and acceptance of the universe.
In ICO, we should believe that it is easier to create currency than to make it successful, and that there will be a power law distribution of the adoption rates, and that it is therefore gambling unless the average outcome is still so much larger for the set of coins one chooses that the incremental cost of their losses by adopting more coins is less than the gains of that one coin that out-performs others. It's like 500 startups, but it won't harass you.
It's a scam usually. When something breaks people's understanding of the world, a lot of imagination creeps in, followed by loads and loads of snake oil, even sincere snake oil, which is just mistakes.
No. Frameworks are awful. Study math and build things with primitives. At the very most, the API for anything takes like weeks to learn while it completely slows down progress at learning core concepts, making the task seem daunting if all of your learning is using such corrupted lenses.
After ensuring some kind of incremental profit per unit sold, increase size of business at fastest rate possible. Hire bean counter to adjust pricing to fit optimum using knowledge of market elasticity etc later. Competitors will come to bite at the pie once it exists because they are non-innovative dirt bags.
People, go apply. Think of who is left at the inflection in head count. The most scary outcome for the NSA is having no Snowdens or people loyal to the US instead of a political party. If you're a US citizen and look in the mirror thinking, "Well, I'm not a zealot and would find myself giving resistance pretty quickly if the NSA was being lobbied like a tool," then you're a perfect candidate. Snowden said the salary is high and the work is easy. Would you prefer someone sitting in the PRISM seat who believes we just need to shut up the bleeding hearts and get things done for a few years to #MAGA?
Drugs are illegal because the illuminati don't want humans to know of the lizard pope. That was in years past. The pope is human and the president is a turd. But look at that law and order suddenly raining down... DMT users right now can't even report their visions because of the power of the state and who want's to tell people about the turd-human they saw while tripping?
Wow, I've been a big fan of Darude even while hoping they were more prolific. Whoever those agents were keeping them on the run, we lost a lot of art thanks to you.
Getting off of HN? Bahaha. Basically the real world. And startups... There are two classes of problems, ones where intermediate steps to solutions are not viable or marketable, meaning government and big corporate or just socialized progress will eventually open the door. The 2nd class is where every solution with a component along the solution path results in something marketable and you can spend your career doing startup BS instead of corporate, academic, or government BS.
Also study some goddamned math, logic, and science. I say this because I don't want to choke any more superstitious co-founders. Closet is going to burst. They always think they can grease you into believing their stupid plan and that that somehow makes it real, right up to the point that you stab their stupid eye socket and they see the truth, but it's too late.
I have been motivated by each of these points to avoid working for the US. Quite frankly, on a calm, blue-sky day I consider myself one of the least fit people in terms of having compatible philosophy to work harmoniously within the IC. This opinion is wrought of long-standing dismissal after reading about CIA involvement in banana republics.
What is different is that I'm watching people who are also just as cognizant of their agency's shortcomings, be dismissed as incompetent and accused of all sorts of collusion and bias against an incoming US president. This is the one situation in which the US citizenry really needs them, when we really need each other.
The worst outcome of harassment of the IC from the office of the president would be weeding out enough principled employees to finally pervert it into some kind of ultimate evil. Forms of such concentrated power shouldn't exist, I agree. That option is certainly not on the table right now. That option is not actually on the table without international treaty, so let's get real.
I would encourage any applicant to read all of the articles above. Don't let down your guard. The US is not contained in its symbols, history, or identity, not that those things will protect you, but nor should they weigh you down.
> I see clouds in the sky, and green grass. It has been fifty years and I am sitting in the park with my dog, feeding ducks and watching the local children at play. I haven’t uttered the phrase “type-safety” in years. All the startups are gone. I am free.
MV arises naturally. You can run the entire application logic without UI components, and you can test it that way also.
Other abstractions are designed similarly to allow tests against pieces of the internal API in total isolation, though separated on different lines. Maybe you have transient state stored in view models while persisted state is stored in models. The isolation only helps as size grows, and it can keep size under control mostly by having a good data model for what each component / layer / aspect actually does.
It makes it easier to rewire everything when you start with a switchboard. UI changes are either "Oh my god we're going to have to re-write so much stuff if we do it that way!" and you wind up not making drastic UI changes or "Sure, we can make that thing tickle the controller instead of that other thing."
This is the definitive characteristic. You have customizable color on "RGB" hardware. If you have three LED's to support changing color, you might as well go with RGB and use a software-defined color.
There is sometimes support for running all of the color changes from one piece of software but other times, you must reverse-engineer the commands yourself and write a central controller for it all. Could be a great pass-time. There's a tool for emitting the motherboard's bus commands along whatever standard, so if you figure out how to use the optional bits, you can make RAM glow in sync with the graphics card on an unsupported motherboard.