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Yeah, I should make it clear that MATLAB is currently used more in the (non-software) engineering industry than Python esp. in larger firms, because it costs a lot of work-hours to move technologies from legacy apps, and retraining is costly!

You would have to be willing to accept that your marketing would be vulnerable to lose to a competitor that utilizes your open-source codebase and creates a spinoff for a fraction of the work-hours required. Open-source software can be a successful business, if run in certain ways. For instance, they can offer services that expedite the deployment of such software, GetStream (notification feed as a service), Prerender (webapp prerendering as a service), Docker (containers as a service). It's not like that with companies that offer *products* like games, or even 3D printers (Makerbot actually started out with a fully open-source 3D printer and started blackboxing parts later after they noticed spinoffs offering cheaper alternatives obviously based on their tech). If you open-source your successful game, you should expect [anyone, from startups, to huge publishers] to use components of it and market it better than you ever could. + if you're okay with that, that's fine. But why not modularize into components that make up a game then? As a side-project game, sure, I'm for it. In general? Not enthusiastic, but I'd be very happy to be wrong!

I've used mathematica a little for school, matlab a lot more (for academic research), and python even more than that (for web programming, data wrangling) Python is certainly the most well-known language of the three in general, and MATLAB is not uncommon to see in EE. An EE company using Mathematica extensively would be quite rare. You don't need any engineering knowledge to program in any of these languages. Look up some starting guides on them, they're not so scary once you get started! Just look 'em up. Matlab starter guide, for instance: https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/learn_matlab/desktop.html Octave is an open-source competitor regarding MATLAB. You may want to look at that if you want to get a feel for how MATLAB is like. In EE, MATLAB is often used to simulate and test things. MATLAB+Simulink is a great way to (relatively simply) simulate environments computationally before starting to make a complicated physcial testing setup. Some companies are moving away from MATLAB in favor of open-source (read: FREE) alternatives like Python, which is a language with far more reach and developer interest than MATLAB. Check out all these open-source Python libraries that replicate many features that are often used in scientific computing: https://scikits.appspot.com/scikits Mathematica is interesting and fun to use, but for EEs, I don't see any compelling reason to suggest it over MATLAB+Python.

I really do think people overreacted to this video with the whole "cringe" stuff. But it seems to be a popular subculture online to react negatively to anything remotely "cringe". I've been using a razer mamba Gen1 for the past 5+ years, excited to replace it with a G900 (it was half off, black friday!), shipping now. S t o k e d.

lol The drop sold out in ~4 hours after it was opened.

How do you know Trump will be able to achieve anything he claimed he would? He has the whole senate and house to deal with. Though it's Republican controlled, he's not the best of buds with existing Republicans. If anything, they'll be pushing bills on him. I want to be impressed by Trump but he's going off lip service like any other previous candidate. And a lot of the stuff he wants to do is simply not feasible (like how most candidates promise things and fail to follow through)

I had a post criticizing Trump's campaign strategy before and I'm 100% willing to acknowledge being wrong: his supporters (more white educated than expected by big media, polls) turned up hard across the country, specifically in states like WI MI PA OH VA, and there was a very high response in FL too despite the higher minority % in early voting which I thought would be enough. People wanted change they failed to see in Clinton. You can troll about politics on the Internet, but these are millions of people voting for change in their lives. Knowing people on both sides of the political spectrum helps. Now what? Probably not much, don't people remember how people voted for Obama in #HOPE for change, and after 8 years of Obama, the people in those states that swung red this year, by and large, haven't seen the change they were hoping for. You have to wonder what change Trump will bring, because he's really not like the typical Republican in Congress.

Well, now that it's basically a lock, the only thing we have left is optimism in a rep-controlled congress. I want to be impressed by Trump. Please prove the haters wrong and do well for the U.S. as a whole. Let's get this moving. To people who are disappointed: hate is not the answer. People earnestly voted for Trump.

Trump would be a favorite if he didn't embrace such a ridiculously racist image. He should have focused on targeting the non-white working class. He had the white working class on lock so early, sticking to that audience for so long is questionable. His last scramble for diversity votes was eyebrow-raising at best. I think he would've even gotten over the sexist image problem. Maybe vice versa too. Saying stupid things like "build the wall" put his campaign under the waterline to boot. The predictable response was huge minority turnout in NV and FL and the most early votes ever, which favors democrats. Hillary leading Hispanics on exits 65 to 25, business as usual there. If he loses NV+FL, he's cooked. Ignoring everything else, Trump's campaigning strategy set himself up to lose and I'm watching his campaign manager, live, essentially admit this. He needs a sweep, which is optimistic, to say the least. He's going to win Texas, but it might be by the smallest margin ever. I'm genuinely curious on how the alt right is supposed to be attractive to "others". Isn't it fundamentally about making white Americans feel like they belong again? The issue there is that it's frequently achieved at the expense of all the rest. Bringing back tribalism, conservative instinct, old culture. But white American culture is also rooted in systematic racism + sexism. Separating the two cleanly is basically a non-starter. I have friends that support Trump and are civil. But I've seen too many on social media (so as to say it's not the news coloring my views) that simply aren't interested in separating the problems. So the idea of bringing back old culture is reasonably scary for non-white-males. Plus, from the minority's perspective, rich white people control the US already. Though rich and poor white people are a very different group. I must admit most of my news sources aren't pro- alt right though. Anyone have some serious alt right news sources to teach myself, if I'm off base? Is it just Brietbart? Anything more serious? The whole movement makes me think it's punk in a technology-powered age. Clinton flip-flops. I consider that a plus, it makes her more conservative. Minorities who are humming along would rather have politics as usual (under handed corruption and all) than politics working to actively work against them. It appears to be the opposite for working class white Americans who feel disenfranchised, who perceive the system to be working against them, and need to revert back to the past when things were better. Also, why on EARTH did Trump not spend his own money on the campaign 6 months ago? He admits he's very rich. He could've had such better ground support. Donors should be frustrated that Trump didn't have his own skin in the game instead of "bragging" about not spending over 10 grand. Also it would prove that he's not a sellout. A refined redo in 2020 should be EXTREMELY interesting, based on the popularity of Sanders and Trump.

People should applaud companies for not being wasteful. These materials aren't going to be abundant forever, you know. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140314-the-worlds-scarcest-material I even expect a sizeable chunk of users here not to recycle all their tech.

Yes, I figured that was about everything in the stream - presentation, speakers, apple TV and all - and this was exclusively discussing the Macbook Pro. But seems like no one cares about anything but the MBP

Just do what your organization refers to in their style guide. You'll have to change based on where you work. It's not asking for much! Just configure your editor to make tab equal 2 spaces or 4 spaces or \t.

It's ultimately your call on a tradeoff: smoothness or resolution? For competitive CSGO, 144Hz all day every day. Personally I see no point running it in anything higher than 1080p, especially if you're seeking to become more competitive. No comment on the rest.

As a full stack (+iOS) dev coming from the Macbook Air lineup I'm a upset about: - No magsafe - Insignificant battery life improvement - RAM options and pricing - Butterfly switch keyboard - Doesn't come in rose gold - The price for the "Air replacement" is a bit higher than the Airs were. - 4 USB-C ports and not one USB-A port to be seen, time to buy a new flash drive... But I didn't really hook anything else into my laptop either. Oh - No SD card slot is an inconvenience - ... What do I do with my TB adapters now? I'm happy about: - 256GB SSD default - larger trackpad - 4 USB-C ports. Apple is in a unique position to force the industry to adopt to USB-C and it really, really needs it. Good thought, but makes life harder for some MBP users in the coming years. I'm rather neutral about: - Touch Bar. I'm getting the lowest-tier MBP for sure. The touch bar has little utility for me and the processor bump doesn't do much for me either. - The Apple logo not glowing anymore - Skylake. I wouldn't see the improvements in Kaby Lake in my workload anyhow. - Being thinner and lighter is nice, but the weight distribution still favors the old Air when you hold it. That's due to the wedge shape, granted you hold it close to the hinge, which you should. If I didn't care about iOS I would have a hard time justifying this... I already am having trouble, to an extent. And please don't recommend Hackintosh, been there

We likely won't see the results of this for a while, R&D isn't an instant "throw money->???->profit!" process despite what jokers have to say Good on 'em I say