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holy fucking shit is this actually happening. has it happened before? how long do these last?

By the way, I'm not in India, but still, surely this is not going to last? I mean, why have they not blocked youtube and stackoverflow, do they not have integrity? So like is everyone in india going to use gitlab and ptpb.pw now?

Edit:

May as fucking well block google right? Do they not understand the importance of github.com and all the wealth of software that it contains? I mean yeah, centralization of lots of important stuff is bad for this exact reason, but at this stage, blocking github has got to really backfire here...

India has software developers right, this has to royally fuck a lot of them and their development environments am I wrong?
This is not just finding bugs but coding and dev., work. I too found bugs in fakebook but they never paid me, but they did fix them.
Hi,
Just curious to know if that project respond to a need. I think that interpreted languages don't have the need to those kind of crossovers functionnalities.
Because the hyperscalable databases are much more difficult to set up, use and administer. It's not a "free" upgrade, it'll slow down everything else you do.
The point I was making is no [western] government can get any research to inform an urgent policy decision in 24 hours.

My government would be issuing a request for proposals 6 months later, and the actual study results would cost tens of millions of dollars and only be delivered 3 years later.
Out of the two people I know who got this jab, one is with a swollen thigh. I wonder how much damage control the media/ vaccine lobby is on right now. I can imagine spinning red lights and the sounds of a siren in the distance. Gotta work for that money.
Sadly, many companies now require a phone number to use their services. For example: Signal, Telegram, Whatsapp, social networks like Instagram and Vk. They don't like anonymous users. For some users, Google requires a phone number to sign up. Twitter requires a phone number if they see something "suspicious" in user's behaviour.
> This original article is about vitamin D

Yeah I misread GP as a supplement, not the supplement, but sadly can't edit the post anymore.

> IIRC, HCQ was promoted as an early treatment, not a replacement for the vaccine.

It was explicitly called a cure by Bolsonaro: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/13/world/americas/virus-braz...

edit: Trump saying it works in the early stages of Covid, and is extremely succesful when coupled with zinc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZYiS05FmiQ
If you can't pay for both sets of tracks then you need a road where both trucks and cars can mix.
I have no experience with Steam :( since I don't game. I'm sure it's a great platform, though!
Your argument is based on the fallacy of the excluded middle. Something can be bad without being slavery. If the high paying job with money/convenience addiction were really so terrible, why do you need to fallaciously compare it to plantation slavery to make that case?

Also, talking about inequality completely masks the issue. India has lower inequality than the US. If you want to talk about desperately needing a job, you need to either exclude 1/6 of humanity or else recognize that the lack of rich people doesn't make open defecation more fun.
OpenBSD is really great, and it qualitatively feels really solid and cohesive. Especially compared to Linux which by comparison feels like a bit of a clusterfuck at times.

But I just can't switch to OpenBSD as a daily driver yet. The big ones for me are battery life and responsiveness. Unfortunately compared to Debian I get almost 2 fewer hours on a single charge, and using OpenBSD's power management functions makes my i7 thinkpad sluggish and laggy. Noticeably longer delays when starting applications and whatnot.

I'm sure OpenBSD is a great desktop/server OS but IMHO it's just not there yet for laptops, which is surprising/disappointing to me because I'd always heard the OpenBSD guys dogfood their stuff heavily.
Nice to see some activity in this space. gives me a little encouragement for my lil up-start. Maybe we could trade notes? http://ikura.co
Have you taken the time to check if it's properly configured or tried contacting Apple Support?

For what it's worth, I've had a couple friends who had issues with Messages and it was primarily iCloud related.

Aside from a few initial issues when running the beta's, I haven't had an issue with Messages for the last four or five months.
I like that it comes with 12.04 instead of 14.04. The former is, in my experience, much more stable for daily use. The latter has a much improved Unity experience, but there are stability issues compared to 12.04.

It is a bit out of my range, but it's nice to know Dell is offering a quality non-Windows machine.
I must agree with the author on the issue of software quality coming out of Apple. Perhaps slowing down and concentrating on quality is something Apple should really consider. We do NOT need a new release of the OSX every single year. Further, I think they should really decouple the OS from the other included Applications, like Mail or Face Time. Basically I would love to see OSX ship with Finder and Preview, and the rest of the usually included apps be an optional download.

I don't understand why the Copy of OSX I am running should dictate which copy of Mail, Safari, FaceTime, or iTunes I use. Also, I would really love to see Apple package at least 2 release worth of API libraries in each release, so that apps that have yet to be updated to the latest OSX could still run without issues.
Even if you lived on Sandhill next to all the big VC's, it's not like you're going to be able to raise money from all of them any better.
It's edging towards a company; I'll be looking to make money from it.
Yes, if the host is good. I love .Net but I'm continually jealous of things like Heroku which really support a fast and nimble development approach favouring smart developers rather than heavyweight process. Azure isn't quite there.

Azure's addon options are pretty limited too.
>Because of our balance of payments crisis. We need to stop our country's net outflow of dollars.

I think you've been misinformed:

http://www.ideasinactiontv.com/tcs_daily/2006/02/stop-worryi...
I appear to have have missed that phrase last night.
"Strictly speaking, your statement is true, there are many other things you can do, all of which will bring you experiences. However, startup experiences are unique and not easily fungible for other experiences. The question then, simply, is whether you want startup experiences. If not, then you probably should not be working at startups at all, even if the pay was great. But if yes, then I think you'll walk away with experiences that will seem very valuable to you, and worth the opportunity cost."

The other way to get startup experience is to start one yourself. You get the experience running a startup and the risk/reward ratio is much better.
No need to be so hard on yourself.
It might seem like it, but it's not. We won't build one-off projects and nothing we do is a one-time fee. Almost everything we do (except for setup fees and training fees) is recurring revenue. These projects have to be generally applicable to our market and it must be sold to at least one of our existing customers beforehand with others who have expressed interest.

If we were doing fixed price development bids, I would agree that we'd be facing some serious pain down the road.
<i>Advertising has become quite spammy and irrelevant. We've gotten away from the core issue, which is not inherently spammy at all - merchants interacting with people to retain their existing customers and win new customers. There is noting evil about that, and the direction that advertising has taken for decades has been largely disrespectful, manipulative, misleading, and lacking in creativity. As a result, it has become quite boring.</i>

Advertising has always been misleading and disrespectful, at least going back to the Romans. I had never heard about Groupon until today, and find it mildly interesting, but the problem with it is that I have to pony up cash in advance for something sigh unseen (usually a service or a meal!) and I guess I am too cheap for that.

Rddle me this: how is Groupon different from one of those coupon books the local school kids sell?
Maude: Lord, you can imagine where it goes from here.

The Dude: He fixes the cable?

Maude: Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey.
USA are smarter , they co-opt leaders with scholarships so they can be sure they'll have american puppets everywhere.Blatantly true in most European countries and the EU itself. Most of our leaders joined the "young leader" program at some point.
Not yet it isn't. Most of the books I own are bigger than the pocket-paperback size the Kindle and competitors use. When there's a magazine-size screen with slightly faster switching, then I'll jump on it.

I also find navigating a book-length document on a laptop or something quite tedious. When I'm reading a complex book (where I often want to refer to the index, endnotes, or photographs) I will often have several fingers folded in at the relevant pages and can jump around quite quickly.
Does anyone know of a Linux compatible archive system for scanned paper?

It doesn't really have to OCR, but should allow for tagging and searching.

I would really like to get rid of my stacks of old (administrative) paper, and the ones that I still receive through snailmail.

DVDs/CDs/books don't bother me as much, as they look nice, but those binders with crappy old paper I can't wait to throw it out.
I think the difference there is that all of those are just storage devices - you can't just look at a DVD and see the movie, you already need a playback device in order to watch it. Given that, playing it back on the same device without having any external storage media is basically just cutting out the middleman.

Introducing a playback device (such as going from book -> Kindle + ebook) is quite different, I think.
in my opinion it should be tldr; Always assume someone will be reading your code Wether it's a potential employer or an open source contributor, those are always good practices.
And to think I'm going to miss out on something I'll never know because I've read something about missing so many things.
I also released an open source PHP project in 2001 (http://templation.websaviour.com/). It got zero uptake, but it's still used to power a few large sites to this day. The fact that it never got any use meant the codebase stayed lean and the ideas pure. I can think back on it with fondness and believe that even now, 10 years on as a professional web developer, I had great ideas from the start.

Of course it's not very impressive on a CV if no one uses it and no one's ever heard of it, so on balance I'd have to choose your predicament. Congratulations!
I don't know you, so my observation did not include, nor does it rely on, any ideas about where you grew up or in which cultures you can seamlessly operate.

If that wasn't clear from the generic wording of my first comment, it should have been clear from the second, where I clarified this is an observation over many nationalities (unrelated to you and your declared identity), and that one contributor to this "offense gradient" could be that it is a reasonable reaction to discrimination faced as a minority.

The point is that I find it interesting how much the tendency to take offense over racial/national stereotypes varies by culture/language, and that the American/anglophone culture seems most likely to take (or worry about giving) offense. This is an observation independent of any judgement about the right level of offense.

(And while it would be interesting to further understand these cultural differences, my quip about a study was a mock-serious response to the parent's sarcasm.)
If I were to compare myself to how I am now to years ago I would be ashamed of the code I wrote.

Occasionally I have to dig out legacy projects in php and wonder how my code was ever scalable. My main thing was bad class decisions, naming and what to put in them.

If the code I had written had been downloaded a million times though, I think my view would be different, I would be proud of it. It doesn't get downloaded for no reason.

The only thing that matter is, if you had the chance to rewrite the code, would you know what to do differently? I think that's the real angle you should be going into an interview with. You have an app with a million downloads and if you were to do it all again then you would do X differently.

I don't know if you are referring to OsCommerce but I can tell you that is some pretty bad code in there but for the best part of 3 years I would use it on sites all the time. It doesn't make the idea any less brilliant.

Good luck
Also, people tend to use 1% of the United States, not 1% of the world.

It's easy to be angry if you're only looking up the totem pole.
"step" and "backtrace" of course being the only possible logical names for those functions. Not having memorized the gdb info pages, I would never mistakenly type in "next" or "over" or "in" or "stack" or "stackframe" or "frame" or...
I did not mean to imply that rail had any "right" to the passengers, just being a bit informal in the description. Faster transit was definitely the initial draw, but the implied status and luxury that early air travel provided was also important. The speed difference at the time was significant, but not as large as it is today -- NYC to Chicago was an overnight trip and you arrived blocks from the loop and in much better shape than you do today after enduring a similar trip.
Also a way of sticking it to web publishers who collect roughly 70% of the money from google-placed ads and 100% of direct ads
Couldn't there just be developed a bookmarklet for Wikipedia edits that takes a text selection, posts it to the user's personal blog, and then turns the selection into a quote from the blog? What would be the difference?

Blogs wouldn't be the sources I would want to see more of in Wikipedia. Dead trees, because of their expense, still prompt more fact-checking and editing.

I'm an editor of an article that is before the Wikipedia Arbitration Committee just now. (I happened to wander by, as a newbie Wikipedian, just as the article went from failed mediation to arbitration.) There is enough making stuff up already on Wikipedia. The last thing it needs is more ease in using blog posts (generally very unreliable) as sources.
You've still got the user interface backwards — you shouldn't have to present a dialog with a phone number for the user to dial, your app should simply call the user when they click a button.

Amazon does this as a confirmation step when you sign up for AWS, and most of the interactions in Google Voice are based on this model.
One question I would ask myself is that "Does he/she share the same passion as me on what the startup is trying to accomplish?" If he share your passion as well, it is all good. Plus it is important not to have too many technical people on board, having a marketing guy would be useful to help you translate what the startup is trying to do to its potential users.
Sounds like Microsoft condemning Communist open source.
Well, I've had BTC transactions drop out of the mempool (so, they were not executed, but you don't know that immediately, you only know days later), and transactions that worked took between a few minutes and more than half a day. The fees ranged from virtually nothing to around 50 USD. I certainly would not call that predictable and stable. I mean, you don't even know when the next block will arrive.
> I find it somewhat implausible that half the population is dumb, racist and all those other labels. It seems much more likely that I don't fully understand their perspective.

Imagine: a leader calls for a certain racial, ethnic, or religious group to be barred entry to their country.

This is a textbook example of racist policies.

Half the population either

- voted him because of those policies (and so are racist),

- or were unbothered by those policies and voted for him (and so are not non-racist)

In earnest - is there any other conclusion than the above?
It's been a while since I read it, but don't quite a lot of people go along with it?

It takes a child to point it out, because everyone else is bought in to assuming the king couldn't be so foolish, so they must be mistaken.
Yes, I meant this more about my appreciation of the clock rather than my ignorance of semiconductors and rockets, which I can assure you is massive.
And when we're done we can get to the bottom of why all the car companies sell cars with round tires. No way it's coincidental.
If someone used my forum to organize terrorist attacks then I should be held accountable.

If google searches, facebook groups, twitter recommendations, and subreddjts drove people towards content that radicalized them and continued to reinforce that radicalization then those companies should be held accountable.

I used to work in biomed, and if an algorithm I wrote resulted in people dying I would expect to face consequences. I don't see why the largest companies on the same planet aren't held to a similar standard while pushing for "engagement".
Do you really think 80MM Americans have been "silenced"? What is wrong with you. As a member of a group that has been historically marginalized in the US, it's laughable to see tech bros act as if they've suffered some Red Summer of 1919 because they can't post on social media.
agreed, but still better than reading a book for what could have been a blog post.
The problem with this analogy is that it has something to do with the first amendment.
Basis points
I don't think anyone would argue that you should stop using your credit card if it's working well for you and you're very happy with it. But of course, credit card companies are only solvent because on average they're not paying their users to use it. Miss one or two bills, or make one big purchase that you wouldn't have without the credit line, and you'll likely wipe out all the rewards you've "earned."
I think you are uninformed in contemporary critical theory and other popular movements, most of which are absolutely influenced by Marxism, if they aren’t strictly Marxists or Marxians themselves.
..what was the plan?
Looks like the two main issues were:

1. Some crates in the ecosystem have "extension traits" that add the same method to `f32`. Adding this into std will cause conflicts with those methods so users will need to disambiguate or remove their use of those extension traits. (This is allowed breakage under the stability guidelines)

2. Should this use this two arguments or a range (`x.clamp(1.0, 5.0)` or `x.clamp(1.0..5.0)`)?

I think part of the reason this took so long was that by having widely used crates like `numtools` in the ecosystem that provided this functionality, it took a lot of the pressure off having this in std/core.
You can thank Grover Norquist[1] for that. The Taxpayer Protection Pledge [2] that he promulgates to US republican lawmakers is the primary mechanism though which those legislators justify blocking simplification and streamlining of tax filing. If it's easier for people to pay taxes the government will probably ask for more cash if we implement those systems, right? Therefore it must be blocked according to the pledge! The logic is airtight!

Ironically in reality this is actually pretty much the opposite of taxpayer protection and amounts to additional tax paid to private corporations on TOP of our existing taxes.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Norquist
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Tax_Reform#Taxpa...
The JVM offers real threads, and JS not. The JVM offers nanosecond-precision time measurement, and JS not. JS has a single type for representing numbers. And so on.

How can those possibly be abstracted away and unified? If doing so, what would have the solution have to do with type inference at all?

i.e., this is simply a difference in how one approaches platform interop (raw vs abstracted/unified). Clojure occasionally offers cross-platform abstractions (e.g. core.async) but it's not its main philosophy.
"Best of all, it looks nice." The Dyson USP.
Sounds interesting, do you have a link to an example where this is done/demonstrated?

(Also I'm not sure how that's better (and not just different), except maybe it allows more than one host user in the container, but I haven't had a use case for that).
"There is no reason, with the advent of internet and databases, that 90% of people’s taxes can’t be completely automated."

This is an area where there could be a lot of improvement. Many people work at least partially as a contractor and have to self-report and make payments. The self-reporting and making payments is where a lot of the problems start with automation. Employees? Mostly solved except for where people do stuff that isn't paid with employment wages.

"Part of the reason is because more tax rules means more loopholes to take advantage of."

Loopholes are often deliberate ways of encouraging behavior with money. For example, an exemption on mortgage interest lets people avoid paying tax on most of their spend on their mortgage. Why? To encourage people to buy homes. Guess what, people with big, expensive homes with large mortgage payments benefit the most. Another was the infamous Hummer credit in the 90s and 00s where if you bought a big SUV or truck, you could take 100% depreciation on it in the first year. So people bought lots of Ford Excursions, Hummer H2s and other gigantic gas guzzlers. It did help the US auto industry.
This exactly. I've come across linux systems doing control work in pentests before, and they can be just as miserably protected as windows systems -- possibly more so, because they're on some forsaken SoC that needs a custom kernel and userland to work, and it hasn't been updated in 15 years, there are privilege escalation attacks galore and the vendor has some backdoor user account enabled.

All this to say, Windows isn't the worst thing ever necessarily, and ideally you want a system that's purpose built and only does what is required with the least amount of code/systems possible.
Encoding the soundtrack in image frames would be trivial. It's just data, after all.
You are always running someone else's code. It starts the moment you boot up your machine.
I've left jobs because of my boss. I've also left jobs because of completely unrelated reasons. My boss at TripAdvisor was a fantastic guy who I still hold in the highest regard and I'd go work for again if it made sense. But I was offered an opportunity simply not available at that job because it didn't exist and didn't matter to the company.

I've also been privileged to work with HR people for whom the adage "never trust them" was completely false, because they were good people who happened to work in HR. So there's that, too. They were excellent sources of advice and problem-solving help when needed, and I consider at least one of them a friend even now that I no longer work for the company.

So it sounds to me like you're projecting, and kind of being rude about it?
Maybe the W3C didn't want a repeat of what happened with XHTML2.