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Would that be a legal defense?

I mean if you wrote a tool to DOS 911 and distributed the link that would install/trigger it I would think you guilty of attacking 911 even if your computer was not involved.

I would be surprised if the courts consider the fact it was written in javascript or the distribution was twitter a factor.

I hope he is not sent to prison! I don't think it would benefit anyone. Doesn't sounds like he is in need of rehabilitation.

Thank you!

> American children came top at thinking they were good at maths, but bottom at maths. For Korean children, the inverse was true: they considered themselves poorer at maths than the children of any other country, but were the best.

This really stood out to me because I often found my own examination results puzzling. I would ace exams that I thought I failed and just pass ones I was sure I had done well in.

This has lead me to believe that the more I know about a subject, the more I know how little I actually know about it and the greater respect I have for subject as a whole.

This might explain why children who are not great at maths might think they are. Not due to an inflated self esteem but because "knowing what you don't know" is a part of the learning process.

I use Plantronics Backbeat Fit and have been very happy with them.

https://www.amazon.com/Plantronics-BackBeat-Fit-Bluetooth-He...

I was introduced to linux cgroups and namespaces via my use of docker. It is a fantastic tool for using these concepts quickly and I don't currently see rocket etc overthrowing dockers dominance in the market place.

However I do sense (and feel my self at times) a growing upset with the usability/ stability of the docker engine.

The OCI (Open Container Initiative) should allow new solutions to come to market without fragmenting the space. i.e. it should be possible to run any image with any container engine/Linux.

Docker is valued at $1B. It appears that justifying that valuation has taken them into a number of adjacent markets. I wish they were more focused on the Docker Engine itself.

You are right, it must be possible to execute on a vision while keeping shareholders, who don't share your vision happy.

But I still feel that it must be harder than having carte blanche with the organisation. Maybe I over estimate the different levels of freedom provided to different CEOs.

Or maybe the ability to generate this freedom/trust/faith is one of the skills that ultimately helps define a successful CEO.

Satya Nadella was appointed as CEO on 4 February 2014.

The last 2 windows releases were:

Windows 10, released on the 29 July 2015

Windows 8.1, released on the 17 October 2013

So it is safe to assume that the author was referring to the Windows 10 release

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

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

Their is a feeling that CEOs of these large companies are completely responsible for the direction a company takes. I have never served as a CEO, but I can't help but imagine that large share holders are also very dominant figures.

One of the attributes that Steve Jobs and Bill Gates appeared to share (I have never met either) was a massive amount of trust/faith to run their respective companies (eventually).

I imagine that this must translate to the board room where they were provided the freedom to pursue avenues that a newly promoted CEO would just not be allowed to do.

The author praises Steve Ballmer and Tim Cook for their ability to drive short term growth, but had they failed to do so they may have been replaced by someone more willing to focus on these returns. Eventually as disruption occurs the share holders start to prioritize facing these new challenges.

The author called out, specifically, how Azure was in his opinion keeping Microsoft relevant

"Nadella got Microsoft organized around mobile and the cloud (Azure), freed the Office and Azure teams from Windows, killed the phone business and got a major release of Windows out without the usual trauma. And is moving the company into augmented reality and conversational AI. While they’ll likely never regain the market dominance they had in the 20th century, (their business model continues to be extremely profitable) Nadella likely saved Microsoft from irrelevance."

I find it surprising that this is newsworthy.

It appears that Facebook never argued that the image was in breach of its policies. Just that some software it runs had a bug that miss classified this image.

Then when challenged they apologized and approved the add.

So to me the summary appears to be "Software company has bug that effected one customer, apologies and fixes the issue" which must happen every hour of every day...

Am I missing something?....

You are correct a DDoS (Distributed Denial Of Service) is intended to take a target off line or simply slow down the target significantly (ideally making the service useless)

While it is very unlikely to cause hardware damage it can be extremely damaging to a company or service.

Service outages undermine customer trust and could drive users to your competitors. A company might also have a service level agreement with large financial costs associated with a service being down.

If you don't mind the service being down, then why have it? It going down will probably have some very negative effect.

It sounds like you are not happy. If that is the case, why not explore what opportunities you have for a better position (whatever better means to you)? If you find something that you are confident is better for you - then you should pursue it, after all you have decided it is better for you.

You might find in the exploration that you actually don't want to move on yet. Maybe you will miss the people, flexibility or sense of ownership. Maybe the kind of role you are seeking would require a move you don't want to make etc.

Alternatively maybe you find your perfect gig (great people/problems/pay/etc).

Spin-ins can be a great idea, and have proved to be very successful for Cisco. However it appears that the article explicitly states:

> the search giant does not have special rights in the terms, like first dibs on an acquisition

Which to me makes it a very different arrangement.

Looks like the number is 5500 - 7% http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/08/17/cisco-report-lay...

> How do you keep it up?

Personally I find routine to be key.

If I run 4 times a week on specific days at specific times, after a few (3) weeks I stop asking my self "Should I go for a run today?" and start telling myself "Monday is a run day"

Another very motivating mechanism is community. Have you thought about group sports?

I used to row in a crew of 8 people and the thought of letting down 7 friends and a cox/coach is very motivating. The only warning/drawback I would say about team activities is that, in my experience, your life starts to become more and more about the activity. I suspect football, crossfit, basketball, etc all have that sense of community.

Finally I don't like blaming external things. If I choose to prioritize doing extra at work/seeing friends over exercising that is my decision (and my right). Instead of "I don't know what I should do" choose a path forward "I am joining a class where can I learn about hurling safely"

I am reminded of a quote "Happiness is living without expectations"

The favorites in a competition will have much higher expectations than the rest.

I wanted to understand why the arts were dropped from the Olympics.

"In 1949, a report was presented at the IOC meeting in Rome which concluded that practically all contestants in the art competitions were professionals, and that the competitions should therefore be abolished and replaced with an exhibition without awards or medals"

"At a 1951 meeting, the IOC decided to reinstate the competitions for the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki"

"The issue continued to be debated within the Olympic Movement, and at the 49th IOC Session in Athens, 1954, the IOC members voted to replace the art contests with an exhibition for future Olympics"

"The IOC officially began allowing professional athletes to compete in the Olypmic Games in 1988, basically leaving it up to the individual sporting federations to decide if they would permit it"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_competitions_at_the_Summer... http://sports.stackexchange.com/questions/14378/why-are-prof...

Docker is a process launcher that makes it fast and simple to start processes with a unique network/filesystem/process/user space (via cgroups and namespaces).

Maybe people in unhappy marriages find the strain leaks into their professional lives?

I sometime use the term magic to highlight code that is out of the current context/scope.

That ICA, FFT or MLP module is magic...

The module maybe complex but it is not magic. However it is something that I probably don't _need_ to understand to solve the problem I am currently working on.

Now I think about it, normally only very reliable code is called magic - the stuff that always goes wrong has some other choice descriptors.

The blog announcing it can be found here: http://blogs.cisco.com/collaboration/open-source-h-264-remov...

Cisco sell a number of products that use H264 and so were already paying some fees (although not necessarily the max license level) for the use of this codec.

It is very sad that someone has lost their life.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-2492360 states that between 2008 and 2013 their were 1,889 people seriously injured or killed by a London bus.

I can't help but wonder if you might not be safer on a "hoverboard" than on foot or a bicycle.

It might comfort you to hear: That almost everyone hits a steep learning curve when moving to new technologies. That teams expect new members to take time getting to know how everything works (they have been there). and that in time you may actually find yourself craving that feeling of having so much to learn.

Ultimately the times you are learning/improving the most are when you are facing many new challenges.

If you are anything like me, you may find trying to find ways to enjoy this time more helpful than trying to bypass or speedup this phase.

I always find it strange when a proponent of gender equality does not treat genders equally.