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This looks really interesting.

I'm not your target audience, but it took me a while to get what you meant by "deal". A quick example might go a long way here, or slightly different phrasing through the page (promotions?), or examples of why you're better than who else is in the area (I assume groupon?)

Also, please, please remove smoothscroll. I find it very hard to navigate your site with scrolling as it all moves at a different speed to all my other browsing. I flick slightly to go down a bit on the page and end up in the footer.
How to Build a Company That Will Last for 100 Years
The scrolling on that site is weird. I guess a mix of easing and speed being too strong.
While I’m a Windows user buying a lot of MS’s developer tools, I fail to see the need for changing Word every couple of years. I still have Office 2007 which covers 95% of my needs.
If you're interviewing someone at a professional level who has more than 5? years worth of experience then commonly a problem in an interview is that the candidate thinks they should "win" by answering correctly. They've done enough interviews at this point that they know 80% of the useful questions you can ask. Sometimes it feels like 'winning' has become ingrained - since mostly people don't need the specific role ... it will be one role they are interviewing for amongst a few - instead they should be trying to understand whether the role/company will really be a good fit for them (and vice versa).

The 'what is your greatest weakness' question can be quite a good indicator of that mentality - the candidate will give you a carefully chosen weakness that they think you will think is a strength (if that makes sense). I do use it from time to time, but mostly towards the end of an interview where I've (hopefully) built up a picture of the person so have some ideas on areas I'm concerned about. If I get the obvious 'marketing' answer then I'll probably try and gently point out it will do neither of us any good to land-up in a situation where the person is in a role they can't do or won't be satisfied with. In a way the nature of the response is of interest - it should be an opportunity to discuss why it's an area of weakness and what sort of development they are considering, and for the interviewer to consider how important that area is within the role or culture.
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The "bullying" aspect of this is interesting to me. Would taking VC money from a big player help me in such a situation. Let's say for arguments sake I am backed by a16z. Is it usually part of the deal that they provide their legal muscle in these spots or am I on my own?

What would happen if a YC company (pre-funding) gets threatened in this manner?
Edit: Nevermind didn't realize it is a YC company (summer of 2015 batch).

Here's the relevant blog post:
http://blog.ycombinator.com/on-the-shred-video-lawsuit
It is only in the United States that "modern Scandinavian-style social democracy" is apparently indistinguishable from socialism.

Socialism means large-scale state ownership -- or some other kind of collective ownership by The People -- of "the means of production", in the hope of controlling production to match need. Scandinavian-style social democracy means high taxes, a generous welfare state, and quite a lot of government regulation, in the hope of keeping people safe, healthy, and adequately fed and housed. You might worry that there might be a slippery slope from the latter to the former, but they aren't at all the same.
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Ugh—sounds miserable. Sorry to hear that you're going through that. Of course it's easy for me to say from here, but I'd suggest getting out as quickly as you can.
On my 100/100 fiber in Denmark I have seen back blaze speeds up to 65 megabits a sec.

It is faster transferring big files rather than many small files.
I actually had fun both reading the piece and the way the article doubles-up on itself (going "Down the Rabbit Hole" by practicing annotation in an article on annotation). Refreshing. Not something that fits in any article and perhaps only for annotating pieces of special significance. Still, nice try NR.
The article doesn't even mention the word "tracking" a single time. To me ad blocking is primarily tracking blocking. And while advertising is a legitimate activity on a free website, tracking users across websites is certainly not. You only need a jpeg to serve an ad, not tons of javascript and supercookies.
If you'd like a flashback of the original Kid Pix: https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/
Please, serve ads that have something to do with the stuff I'm looking at.

I second that. I couldn't agree more with this comment. I use to make a lot of searches for pharmaceutical products for one of my projects and then Google decides to show me tons of drug related ads regardless of the context of the site I'm currently visiting. It's frustrating to say the least. Like I don't have any other interests.

But I'd like to hear from people hosting AdSense on their sites. Has profiling raised CTR rates significantly?
> Advertising (as everyone reading these words knows well) pays for the ability for nearly anyone around the world to type in any URL and have content of unimaginable variety appear on a screen. Advertising also subsidizes the cost of apps, which can take hundreds of thousands of dollars to produce, but are often free or low-priced.

I find this a bit of a weird premise. Advertising can pay only for so much (at most a few cents per view). What if content owners want to be paid a little more? Should they suddenly change their complete income model? The answer should be: of course not! But currently the answer is: yes. In my view we should get rid of this strange incontinuity and get rid of ads altogether. Yes, it may mean we will pay for content, but at least it will give us privacy, a healthy market, no annoying ads, customer rights, and most of all, it may improve the quality of content. Also, don't forget that free content will also happily coexist with this model.
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As for the why, have you ever tried installing vanilla Windows on a modern notebook? I know Linux has a reputation for bad driver support, but in my experience with Dell, Lenovo, and HP, a vanilla Windows installation will have no graphics driver, no network driver (neither wired nor wireless), sometimes the sound drivers are missing. It is a shitshow. Meanwhile, Linux on the same machine generally works out of the box.

But the answer to the question "Why do OEM versions of Windows even exist in the first place" is that without OEM customization, a Windows computer is a non-functional computer.
People all over the world can sing "Happy Birthday", but you’ll get just weird looks from most for "For he's a jolly good fellow"?
How is the 'online' side of Word 2007 ? It seems that this release is hitting the right amount of online friendliness, simple yet full featured.
They do listen though.
So how do most corporate IT teams build SOEs?
While the author makes some fair point about angular's weirdness. He fails to understand that many design choices where made because javascript and js libraries were not as advanced as today.

For example the module system is made so because at the time, amd, browserify and ES6 modules were not ready.

And the main point of angular 2 is not to remake angular because it was weird, it is to adapt it to new technologies.
I write e with one stroke. I am very confused by this article.

In fact, I use one stroke for all lowercase letters except f, i, j, k, t, x, and z.
I appreciate it's to demo the capacity to compile Rust to js, but that's some really nasty code.

https://github.com/tcr/rust-todomvc/blob/master/src/main.rs

Why put it all in the main? Why define functions as variables? Why .parent().unwrap().parent().unwrap()?
> Also, I fail to grasp this idea that potential candidates must prove their worth through numerous hoops to compensate for the interviewers lack of skill in judging character and competence

They say:

>> It’s very easy for someone to embellish (to put it generously) their resume, and coding trivia can be memorized

There are arguments about the efficacy of interviews, but judging technical knowledge is not one of them.

If I was hiring for a Java programming position, I might start out with an easier question, like what is the difference between an interface and an abstract class. Or ask what a class was, or an object, or a constructor or method. Or what a static class variable was. Plenty of people with resumes that look good will stumble through these questions, whereas others will give clear answers.

Perhaps you can't tell if someone knows all they need to know or can do a good job, but it is certainly possible to see who does not have the level of technical knowledge you want.
You can’t in some jurisdictions.

If something does not violate the constitution, and it has always been done in a specific way, then, unless a law directly targets it, it stays legal. (in Germany). Called Traditional law, or Traditionsrecht.

IANAL.
Just out of curiosity, how would turning on a web cam determine if a visitor saw an ad or not? I'm missing the logic.
We use reagent with success. We still have some legacy code in Angular. Each time we need to change something in that old code, it reminds us how Angular has done a lot of things wrong.

We often qualify Angular as the J2EE of the front.
All are capable of doing evil, given the power and opportunity.
I don't think they rely on Dynamo, they rely on an internal metadata service that Dynamo just happened to overwhelm with too many large requests.
Hedge Fund Manager Buys Drug, Hikes It from $15 to $750, in India Its Sold 4 Rs3
how?

That's the issue here. Don't just complain. Actually suggest, tangibly, how to achieve that goal.

Installing ad blocks isn't it. A free internet; also not the solution.

Redistributing wealth? Ok; that's an idea, but how?

The Gates Foundation has spent billions, and achieved a great deal, but it's not visible for most people.

If someone tells me they're sick of people like Elon Musk, who is out there, actually changing the world, they can categorically Get Lost.

Armchair social commentary doesn't cut it for me.
I understand this is journalism, but the pictures give an ominous tone that, regardless of how much I read, I can't overcome. No one is smiling or looks remotely happy.
s/serious/desperate/
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I knew Yogi had something to do with baseball but if all ever did was come up with great sayings, that alone would've justified a lengthy obit in the Times -- I've always found it funny the kind of people who pat themselves on the back for quickly seeing that a Yogi-ism is "dumb", as if they're excited to discover someone in the world dumber than they -- but I had no idea at all that he was so great a player to be considered the best catcher in the history of the sport.

Reminds me of Steve Wozniak, whose antics and pranks and baffling generosity are so amazing that you almost forget that he was also, incidentally, a freakishly outstanding engineer, and a co-founder of Apple.
Exactly, there was a strong amateur community with excellent content before ads were anything more than blogrolls and cross linking.

Without ads, maybe we lose some of the purely commercial sites, but I'm completely sure that strong communities will continue to exist without ads.
Want rural superfast broadband? Do it yourself [BBC]
A few years ago there was an IAMA on Reddit with an MS employee and he blatantly said that MS was funding anti-privacy propaganda so that their user base will be more complacent with their increasing privacy violations. I think this was when the cloud was still a new buzz word and Microsoft was coming out with Office 365 and in this case he justified it by saying that all these new bright technologies of the future depended on the users willingly giving away their privacy and so MS and Google were funding these marketing campaigns to prepare users for it.

So even if you look at it from a purely tech perspective, it is not in these tech giant's interest to safe guard your privacy nor do they want you to think that your privacy should be safe guarded.

And of course everybody is always drooling to data mine these user bases and who knows, sell the data to insurance companies maybe. I'm sure they will find some loophole to allow this.
"First party data" even almost has a better connotation.
> Our own IAB research found at least 34% of U.S. adults use ad blockers.

Wow. That's really much higher than I would have expected.
Apple, your anti-choice tendencies are showing in your app store
Where have you seen the cleaning services?
By reading all your secrets.
Because React solves only the directive part of Angular? I'm not saying it's great BTW, but comparing React to Angular is silly. That's like saying you chose lodash.js over Angular.
Many of us have laughed at Stallman at one point or another for his extreme paranoia. But this is something he saw coming miles ahead. Not so funny anymore.
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Years ago I made an x86 assembler using Common Lisp macros to expand instruction descriptions: https://github.com/rayiner/amd64-asm. Meta programming is incredibly powerful, more so when your macro language is just your host language.

The tests suite is neat (imho). At runtime it walks a data structure built at compile time to randomly exercise each of the possible encoding clauses of the instruction and compare the output to Nasm. Writing that was a very "lisp is for building organisms" moment for me.

As an aside, x86 makes a lot more sense than people give it credit for.
They warned about cookie alerts as well but now we got "this site uses cookies" everywhere
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It depends mostly on non-competing clause in your contract with them. Unless you steal their code (even if you wrote it, it's theirs!) I don't think they can sue you for using "their" ideas.
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Up until the Thinkpad X230, there was coreboot support which was great. However, with the new Intel chips now enforcing 'Boot Guard' this is no longer an option [1], is it?

I wouldn't be surprised if Lenovo decided at some point to also distribute malware modules for Ubuntu as well.

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-Bo...
At the enterprise level it is quite common, specially since they want to have control over every little piece of software that goes into the stack, including updates.

I even worked at a few places that created their own UNIX flavors (mostly GNU/Linux based).
I have a 13 inch and I just got a 15 inch MacBook Pro. The 13 inch is by far much easier to travel with, but I like larger 15 inch MacBook for the screen size. I can open a bunch of iTerm windows and resize them to fit nicely. I did want the 16 GB and I thought I would run virtualbox but I ended up just using homebrew to install PostgreSQL etc. I am trying to figure out a laptop case that is weather proof and easy to travel with as either a shoulder bag or soft briefcase. Given the changes in the MacBook Pro over the years, its not always clear which case will fit which model.
If we are going to do radical alphabet redesigns, I suggest coming up with new designs for each of the 26 letters so that it only takes one stroke to write each. That would probably result in an alphabet that would be more difficult to read, but it would be optimized for the number-of-strokes-for-average-english-writing heuristic.
They get the drivers from the OEMs.
Well it wasn't really anything more than a exploration into handwriting and there is a ton of stuff out on the Internet concerning this and there wasn't any mention. It was more of a shower thought written on paper.
That's pretty Amerocentric of you.
Apparently github disagrees about this being ok: https://github.com/simplyianm/githubfollowers is disabled
Well, according to the EFF's summary:

> granting companies blanket civil and criminal immunity from any existing privacy law in the process.

Immunity from civil and criminal liability is something companies might unsurprisingly be interested in.

One doesn't need to suppose dramas where they are worried about being blackballed from government contracts unless they support it, as other commenters do. Their self interest in the provisions of the law itself which lessen their vulnerability to civil lawsuits or criminal prosecution seems sufficient. It's more of a bribe than a threat.
As a user, that sounds pretty awesome. Of course in practice it will probably mean that they will throw this in the "privacy" policy, where they also enumerate all the ways in which they can track you and share your information.

"By the way, we're also sending this data to US government-accessible servers. By reading or not reading this you hereby consent to us doing that. Oh - and did we mention how much we care about your privacy and security? We just wanted to make sure you got that."

Hopefully the EU will also mandate some kind of real (but usable) consent mechanism to this sort of stuff, that's unlike the whole cookie story.
If I'm reading their post-outage actions correctly, they certainly align with availability > durability.

There are many things to like about DynamoDB, but one of the things I really dislike is the 'abscence of an error == success' pattern that they implement for many operations. With less frequent metadata requests, I imagine there is a greater chance of silent failures (ie availability looks fine, durability is gone).

Could be wrong though, I'm not going to pretend to know more about distributed systems than the DynamoDB developers.
This kind of argument (taking the definition of capitalism used by Chinese revolutionaries and the fact that they used it as ideological foundation for doing violent and horrible things and inferring that any capitalism critique is evil) is flawed. In fact some would go as far as calling it The Worst Argument In The World :) (this post is excellent: http://lesswrong.com/lw/e95/the_noncentral_fallacy_the_worst...)

I also have to disagree with you on the premise that capitalism is about balance and protecting small property owners. In fact unchecked capitalism leads to just the opposite (think of how many small bookstores can withstand the competition with Amazon). The system becomes workable only in the presence of some essentially anti-capitalistic countermeasures.
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> In some cases you can fit Israel into one of the farms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Creek_Station

In the US, at least, I believe that particular example would be considered a "ranch" rather than a "farm".
Going by the diagram, it looks as if substantial changes in direction are being counted as a new stroke (which is arguable). Look at `r' - I somehow doubt the pen is lifted between drawing one part and the next.
47-car train goes missing in Canada
*51bn company.
"The Germans signed an armistice because they were beaten. By mid 1918 they didn't have the capacity to keep fighting."

Hitler in his "Mein Kampf" disagrees with you. Like in WW2, in WW1 Germans were forced to fight on two fronts, but unlike the events of WW2 where Germany suffered the most of its defeats, in WW1 on the eastern front they were victorious and ready to transfer their forces to the western front. In Hitler's words - "the sword from the east should have been ready to strike in the west, which was hold only by a shield". Was he too detached from reality?
Oh, I'm sure it is a problem with my end. I'm still new to using Proxmox, so I'm sure there's something I am not doing correctly.
Can rational people disagree?
XKCD is celebrating the event:
http://xkcd.com/1581/
Yes, I thought that both this line, and the Peter Thiel reference about giving women the vote, were intellectually dishonest.

"Then he outlined his plan to detonate nuclear weapons on Mars."

This deliberately takes the quote out of context to make it seem silly.

Thiel wasn't "complaining" about the extension of the franchise. He was simply making the historical observation that women are a hard constituency for libertarians to convince.
Next year's Old-Timers' Day at Yankee Stadium will be rough.

I hope they find his World Series rings that were stolen last year. RIP Yogi.
Oracle has long argued the value of bypassing the file system and associated kernel drivers with its raw devices and ASM. It'd be interesting to see such a thing land in other platforms.
I stopped reading at the half of it, but this author is treating so many assumptions that I don't agree as universal truth that I find it intelectually dishonest and offending.

What bothered me most: that to threat advertising industry on the internet is to threat democratic capitalism; that advertising is the only possible imaginable way to support good content creating and that consumer paying themselves for content is necessarily a bad thing.

There are a lot of examples where the ad industry went too far and changes came for better(in form of new business models in general or government regulations). I think now of HBO, Netflix, Wikipedia, the bilboard proihibition in my city, São Paulo.

Ultimately, the democratic capitalism is working and the "apocalypse" will only happen if people do not consider it a apocalypse at all. If people consider that adblocking is too much (the author opinion) then nothing much relevant will happen.
The reason? Democratic capitalism helps us defend ourselves from guys with self-serving interests not shared by most people. He is writing this because he is being threatened by capitalism, not because something else is threating it.
He missed so much. How about non-standard invalid HTML? Breaking all searchability and accessibility? Encouraging voodoo coding?
maintaining the legacy code written in the late 90s is the hardest part. It would be great if we could just press a button and the old code is now magically C++14
This was probably a valid observation two years ago, when the React story on state management was "bring your own solution." But these days, although it's technically a separate project, Flux is the de-facto state management solution that a React-first webapp will use. There are lots of competing implementations (I use redux) but my point is that you'd be hard-pressed to find an app written in Angular that couldn't also be written using React+Flux. Of course the architecture is going to look different, but you can certainly get to the same place.
Microbe.js – A modular JavaScript library for DOM manipulation, and more
For the past year and a half, myself (https://www.github.com/mousemke) and Nico (https://www.github.com/nicolasbrugneaux) have been developing a javascript library internally at Sociomantic Labs. It’s finally open source, and so I’d like to introduce microbe.js!

microbe.js is a small modular library based on jquery syntax, but written from the ground up. It's faster than jquery in most tests (http://m.icro.be/tests/), handles css4 selectors, and it's output is built to be consistent.

current modules include :

+ Selector engine with CSS4 selector support and base functions (find, filter, siblings, children, … )

+ Core helpers (class, extend, text, attributes … )

+ DOM helpers (append, insertAfter, prepend … )

+ Type helpers(isUnidentified, isArray, isWindow, … )

+ HTTP helpers making use of Promises (get, post, … )

+ Object.observe watches objects for changes. It can also watch itself for changes in element get/set data

+ Events - binding and emitting custom events

I'd love for people to try it, use it, and contribute to build a community!

microbe website - http://m.icro.be

microbe github - https://github.com/sociomantic/microbe

microbe npm - https://www.npmjs.com/package/microbejs

Sociomantic Blog - https://www.sociomantic.com/blog/2015/09/open-source-microbe-js/#.VgEKwyCqpBc
I was looking for prices as well, or any other indicator for that matter that the tool will be available for a reasonable time at least.