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> Huh? Do you not remember/know what it was like to style webpages with FONT elements before CSS? CSS was a godsend. That was the separating content from presentation breakthrough.

Have you tried using FONT recently? (Or indeed, any time this decade?) When you're generating your pages programmatically it's really easy to separate content and presentation concerns in code but then combine them when finally rendering the page. You can use a normal programming language which is much clearer than CSS selectors. CSS was necessary in the days of hand-written HTML, but once you have a CMS you might as well use FONT and inline styles (possibly using CSS just with single classes, as a kind of "cache" to avoid repeating the same inline styling block everywhere).
In particular Fackler's works that are available on the net, but I'm under the impression that's general knowledge, plus the basic physics.

Now that I think about it I'm not sure what the official story is with expanding bullets, which are not under discussion here, but I can't see how adding drag to the lighter end of the bullet will change this. And of course it'll depend on profile, I'm talking about spitzer rifle bullets, a putative fully jacketed wadcutter, a simple cylinder, wouldn't have any reason to swap ends.
IMO, the idea anyone can resell dubious debt, use collections, or put something on a credit report is the real issue. If you first needed to say mail something to the address with the DMV then simply having random info becomes a lot less useful.
Here's a thought:

Dropbox should buy Evernote, especially since they're in trouble, and fix one of the biggest problems with that service by making it sync using Dropbox (and making its data easily accessible).
It's amazing where they are asked for, too, and how easily people give them out. Get Comcast cable? They ask for SSN, but it's not a showstopper. I just told them I didn't have one, and that was that.

But a prepaid T-Mobile, recharging via CC over the phone? Asked for SSN and insisted. When I said I was Canadian, they insisted on the Canadian equivalent. Had to hang up and get another rep.

Why do Americans just go along with it and give their SSN out? Just say you don't have one. Canada does it right. Upon getting a SIN, the government is very clear that you are not obligated to give it out and that companies cannot refuse service if you do not provide it.
> Are we really at the point where we blacklist companies because we don't like the views of some people on its board?

Some people do that, some people don't. There's no meaningful "we" here.

> That feels... wrong to me.

Why?
I guess for me it depends on whether the team lead is more of a peer or more of a supervisor. If the team is all senior people, then I'd agree, they should be more careful about interrupting and honoring the headphone convention.

But if the other person is more junior, or a direct report, or just joined the company, then I personally feel more responsibility to give a prompt answer and prioritize the other person's productivity over my own.
It's courageous to graffiti anti-establishment messages under despotic regimes....it's not courageous to hide a message in a western TV show that you were hired to do work for.
>Get rid of due process, and evil is everywhere, or nowhere at all.

Ok. Bambax why don't you serve Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour a summons to the S.D of NY. I'll send your parents flowers at your funeral.

Due process has no process in combat.
Self-censorship and censorship by others will continue to hamper online discourse until people feel safe from reprisal. A decentralized P2P discussion system would be a huge step toward this goal. I've been following Ethereum for a while now; have you considered using the platform to build this as a dapp?
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Oh, so that explains it. IMHO the first season was really great, one of the most subversive shows aired on TV in the last 15 years. I know the word "subversive" gets thrown a lot in many discussions lately, but the first season certainly deserved it (warning: spoilers for season 1 following), I mean, we've got an American war hero praying to Allah, getting elected as a congressman while conspiring to kill the Vice-President and only at the last second deciding not to do it, and not because he believed in America or western values, whatever that means, but because of his kids. Plus the entire higher echelons of the CIA getting bombed off to pieces at the end, you don't see that in many shows/movies.
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Mediagoblin is ok for presentation but has basically no download features.
Isn't that addressed in the article?
Not just may, they definitely will be making investments they'd rather not because of signaling. They obviously think that's a worthwhile trade for the upside on the next Dropbox.
> These attempts to blackball people in their professional lives for their political opinions (see Brendan Eich at Mozilla) and political decisions (this DropDropBox stuff) is really no better than the Hollywood Blacklisting during the McCarthy witch-hunts that we all look back on as a dark chapter of American history.

In this case her political opinions directly affect the business she joined.
Oh wow Livescript snuck past me. However I don't care for the bracket-less syntax. For some reason, it's always hard to read quickly. I think this is why I never could get behind Elm.

ElixirScript looks like it will be nice in time, although seems a bit awkward to use with JS libs. Can't wait to see how that matures!

I've been tinkering with an old language project RedScript to make it more functional (Elixir like). Just a toy though:

https://github.com/AdamBrodzinski/redscript
So that's one position to take in the discussion of how much responsibility falls on voters when the various types of consent manufacturing are in play.

In theory, with hypothetical fully informed voters, everyone would agree with your stated position. But when you have massive misinformation campaigns aimed at voters and various attempts at swaying public opinion with psychological tricks (which we know will change some X% of voters' behaviour) I don't feel like it is that clear.

Clearly some of the responsibility is lifted from the individual voters and put on those manipulating them isn't it? Individuals have no control over how susceptible they are to manipulation. If the majority of people want X to keep happening but are tricked into voting for Y because they think they are voting for X, I don't place the responsibility for this error entirely on the voters. I place a lot of on those "insiders" and "corporate juggernauts" doing the manipulation.
Exactly right. The key is to leverage the exposure that being a YouTube "star" gives you into various other ventures. A prime example is Michelle Phan. Forbes lists her youtube earnings at $3mil, but her company, Ipsy, reputedly earned $120mil in revenues last year (http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/244536). Not bad for makeup videos.
And yes, that set of responsibilities means that this would be more than a full-time job. You should know that going in. If you're more inclined to a strict 40 hour week, you'd probably better off declining this offer.

Exactly. In my experience, team lead of smaller teams (less than 6-8 developers, testers, etc.) just means 50% more work for the same pay and status. You are not a true manager in your superiors' eyes.

Also, it is rarely a way to move up the ladder. In our business, changing companies every few years is the only way to get promotions and raises.

Unless the job comes with the ability to purchase resources, make hiring and firing decisions, while also being paid more, team lead is not a position I volunteer for anymore. It's better to use the extra time for your own projects / networking.
I wouldn't be. That's the basic rationale of terrorists (both the foreign and domestic varieties). I don't think the Boston bombers were motivated by a specific hatred of athletics fans, or other demographic characteristics of their victims; they just knew it was a big static crowd with lots of media and weak security. The primary product of a terroristic enterprise is 'a scene of carnage' intended to communicate an experience of trauma to as wide an audience as possible.
> No you don't. There are well-documented, consistent ways to centre in CSS. Vertical entering used to be difficult (for obvious reasons), but now we've got flexbox which solves that problem entirely.

So, what's the way to put something in the center?
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The AUMF declared the entire globe an active war zone.
You're missing the point, BitcoinNG is not going to be an altcoin. You missed this paragraph from the article:

"It is worth noting that there is no conflict or contradiction between NG and Blockstream’s sidechains; in fact, Blockstream’s pegs allow for moving bitcoins among chains, and such chains can benefit from improved performance using Bitcoin-NG. In future work, we plan to expand on how to incrementally deploy Bitcoin-NG on top of the current Bitcoin network."
You will always get a lot of hate if you criticize someone's religion.
It's not her views on abortion or gun control or whatever else are the issue. It's her views on privacy and the company being trusted with very private data.
IMHO, its been getting progressively better as time goes on. It has great support for React and Angular now, in addition to its own Blaze templating engine (I prefer Blaze, actually).

The data sync is fast enough to be useful for real-time games.

When it comes time to scale up, ditch the built-in mongo (or sql) and set up your DB cluster, and for the web bits, use something like https://github.com/meteorhacks/cluster and you are off to the horizontal scaling races.

In response to the linked posts criticism:

No API-based authentication: having a REST api to interface with Accounts is not there by default, but Meteor does support adding REST endpoints, where one could easily roll a solution that does a server-side auth and respond with an auth token which could be stored in the user's record as appropriate. I'd be surprised if there wasn't already a package available which does exactly this.

App shutdown: Once you are running a 'real' site, you will probably have a separate mongo instance. This solves most of the problems, however yes, it is still possible for some 'in-flight' data to be lost. Adding a maintenance mode like https://github.com/yogiben/meteor-maintenance-mode solves this though.

Subscriptions scalability: It's all about writing publish functions that only send what you need for a particular screen / template / page. In practice, it is not difficult and can scale up quite nicely: http://meteor.redandivory.com/

Server-side rendering for SEO: As the link points out, there are community packages that can make this happen. The beauty of meteor is the huge amount of community packages available that are almost universally of high quality. Their use should be encouraged, and is not considered "hacky".

My 2c.
We have a business with 100mbit for $57.99, but last time I got a quote for higher speeds it was around $99.99 for 175 mbit and $153.99 for 270 mbit. They also charge us 14.99 for a static IP address.
I'm assuming that you run Kafka within AWS. Much of the hardware requirements/suggestions I've seen for Kafka are all for non-virtualized environments. If you can get into it, could you share some details...

- What is the size of your Kafka cluster

- What instances types do you use?

- Do you use EBS or use ephemeral storage?

- How much do you over-provision to deal with instance loss?

- Any other gotchas/considerations?

Thanks!
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You can't start a startup on Android because you've got to purchase 500 devices for validation.

Nonsense. https://aws.amazon.com/device-farm/device-list/ if you really need to test across a range of devices

You can't use peer-to-peer on Android because of device fragmentation unless you want "Google Nexus 2015 Devices Only" social networks

? There are plenty of popular apps that already do this.

Wrong way around. Users first, refine, iterate, grow.

I agree with this, but you need something functional to attract users. Re-wording your point, make sure your MVP is minimal.

Move to San Fransisco

Disagree unless you're actively seeking serious VC funding and think it'll help.
The amusing part to me is that Homeland actually draws the line down the middle pretty much. It shows the human side of "terrorists" and also demonizes the CIA.
As far as I know, the USA doesn't have identity cards. That's probably why the SSN is often used as an identifier there: it's the closest thing to a "unique identifier" they have. (Of course, treating it like a password is madness: as an identifier, it should be public.)
Rob Pike, one of the three creators of Golang, disagrees with you. In his blog post less is exponentially more[1] he shares a list of significant simplifications in Go over C and C++ which includes:

> no exceptions

1. http://commandcenter.blogspot.pt/2012/06/less-is-exponential...
Wow, this site is unreadable. The site design is so cluttered and confusing, and the right sidebar looks like spam content.
Also, gphoto2 is great for interacting with cameras using the command line. I will typically use it to import/backup all the images directly from a camera but it has so many more features. I believe darktable uses it behind the scenes, but it is extremely powerful on its own.

Another good command line program is dcraw, especially for batch developing RAW photos. These two programs probably make up more than half of my photography workflow.
I just read it as "Accepting higher variance investments". Start-ups are already high variance, but going outside of existing trends pushes it even higher.
I don't know about entirely stuck, but I've definitely spent a long time in the weeds on questions, writing code on the whiteboard that was clearly sub-suboptimal. I've still gotten offers. It's all about managing the interview, communicating, asking for a hint or two. Not guaranteed, but definitely possible.
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Doctors Without Borders has said that all sides in the conflict were repeatedly told the exact location of their hospital, yet it was attacked anyway. That makes it more difficult to dismiss as a mistake, and we will have to wait for the investigation(s) to know what happened.
Being from Chattanooga, it is ironic to me that I moved to San Francisco for tech only to have slower internet here in SF than the small city in Tennessee that I left.
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> I'm sure it's not uncommon to have interviews internally

In fact depending on location it may be legally required - I'm fairly sure this is the case in the UK (in addition to having to advertise the opening externally too, even if there's absolutely no intention of hiring anyone external) - please someone correct me if this is wrong.

Probably the sort of thing early-stage startups can get away with not doing because they're very under the radar, but it's certainly happened at mid-sized companies I've worked at.
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I've gotten into so many arguments about how the first five digits of an SSN for nearly everyone born before 2011 (!), when they switched to a more pseudo-random algorithm, is reverse engineer-able and thus you should never, ever show the last four digits as that really is the only "secret" part of an SSN. This argument is a "fun" circular argument that typically goes "Well, but if we only show the first five, many families can't tell which social is whose because they all look so similar..." "Yes, because it was an algorithm! We should use something other than SSN to identify different people." "But how will people know which SSN their account is connected to?" "Why is their SSN connected to the account at all?" "So they can identify their account!" /facepalm
I would argue that having a centralized system is important for a lot of collaborative applications. Without it, you're basically pushing/pulling code ad-hoc with team members, which may or may not even be technically feasible because of network topology, disparate locations, time zones, etc...

So yeah, you get Git, but you're missing a lot of what comprises a modern workflow
That's true, but look how poorly we behave when we go in with troops instead, qua Iraq. The upsides (such as they are) of drone war are that it's very limited in scope and stimulates a conversation about objectives and interests, such as we are having now. As soon as you send troops in somewhere, a large swathe of the public stops even pretending to think about those issues and goes straight into 'support our troops, crush the enemy' mode, completely detached from any kind of strategic, fiscal, or ethical considerations.
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My fiancée's son was about 6-7 years old at the time, he was playing hide and seek with some children at his grandmother's church and he hid in a small book case.

When the other kids couldn't find him, he didn't come out.
His grandmother and the other adults looked for him and he didn't come out.
They searched the interior of the church and he didn't come out.
They searched the grounds of the church and he didn't come out.

They called the police and while the police were searching the church again, he came out.

They had checked the book case on numerous occasions but he was in a compartment in the bottom of the book case and they had only checked the top.

He wasn't allowed to play hide and seek at the church after that.
I'm starting to wonder if we're going to see a revival and/or reimplementation of fuckedcompany. There seem to be a growing number of indications that some percentage of companies are going to fall apart, but as this article shows, no one wants to talk about it.
Adobe's new algorithm can erase tourists from your photos in real time
McDonalds has done it 12 times.
For Firefox, the real comparisons are Request Policy and ublock (origin) in advanced mode (for chrome, umatrix). These do full third-party host whitelisting per domain. So every time you visit a website on a new domain, by default all requests to third parties are blocked. Then you spend a few minutes working out which ones are required.

By comparison, noscript simply blocks javascript from third parties. It does include a number of anti-xss heuristics though.
I'm very happy for OpenGov, a note:

I interviewed with the team and learned about their projects. Speaking candidly, I was ecstatic and optimistic about a "civic" startup, that has potential to bring tech break throughs to neighborhoods and local governments; however their current projects didn't seem that exciting, they rubbed me off more as projects any appropriately marketed consulting shop could take.
Rice is not being attacked for her “political opinions”, and euphemistically describing torture, assassination, indefinite imprisonment without trial, war under false pretenses, mass surveillance, etc. as a “political decision” is disingenuous.

Direct participation in war crimes is not comparable to being vaguely associated with American leftists during the mid-20th century.

What Rice contributed to was a violation of American and international law, a betrayal of her oath of office and of the public, and a shameful episode in our history.

I too hope we can “wake up from this binge in a few years and realize just how far we've strayed from our best ideals”.
If we had any such ideals, the justice department would have aggressively prosecuted the criminals involved, up to the highest levels of government.
I just feel like I've been on a lot of unicorn hunt interviews recently (casually looking at interesting opportunities, currently pretty happily employed)
The BBC is awesome, but the TV License is incredibly regressive (it's basically a poll tax), and has failed at making them independent of parliament (instead of a parliamentary debate over how much money to give the BBC, we just get a parliamentary debate over how much the license fee should be). And their enforcers are... not nice, and an incredibly inefficient use of human labour. It would be better to fund the BBC from general taxation.
I am not an Elixir expert, but as I understand it, passing data between processes is pass-by-value but copy-on-write, if the processes are within the same BEAM instance.
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As mentioned by another commenter, the ad revenue is not nearly a majority of the revenue for these stars. I'm a data engineer for a major multi-channel network and I work with the payments data quite closely . . . you might be astounded. The merch, live appearance, direct product placement, and crossover media earnings have made some unexpected people a lot of money.

This trend will definitely continue. These YouTube stars are "organic" celebrities that emerge from the fan base upwards. This is opposed to traditional "top-down" celebrities who get their exposure from high level decisions in the entertainment power structure. Traditional celebrities have larger fan communities but the organic ones have much more tightly knit and loyal ones, and marketers know they have a much higher dollar value.

Our two highest earning channels were under 5k subscribers within the past 24 months, people come out of the woodwork all the time.
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Not quite - the license fee only applies if you watch live programming. If you're an iPlayer catch-up sort instead, or only watch iTunes/Blu-Ray/Netflix, no fee is payable - although it's hardly a bad idea to support a broadcaster as good as the BBC.
In technical terms, you are of course correct, and it's helpful to point that out where people are wrong. But being wrong is not "insane" - that's incorrect in and of itself :-)
I'm also happy to pay, and feel sorry for Americans who have to put up with inferior public TV services.

Not only is the BBC awesome, the licence fee is much lower than cable or satellite charges, and BBC programmes are not stuffed with mind-numbing adverts.
> Economist: But I have to object to the statement that growth must stop once
> energy amount/price saturates. There will always be innovations that people
> are willing to purchase that do not require additional energy.

...and so on
This strikes me as a pretty difficult problem, since it touches on personal privacy, information security, and identification all at once...

The simplest solution would be a disassociated ID card with a 2 or 3 factor identification (eye scan, fingerprint, etc.). Except this requires everyone to register and isn't going to gain widespread support in the U.S. for privacy reasons.

Info security just needs multiple factors, so require SSN and then an RSA-type second-factor to authenticate. This would make it about as secure as GMail, except for when you lose your PIN generator. I have backup codes for my GMail... How do we handle lost PINs when it's personal ID at stake?

Identification could be as simple as a personal e-mail address... Except we have all kinds of things tied to SSN as ID, including credit history, bank loans, etc. that require proof of individual identity, not just "unique identification".

Is this a solved problem?
A good majority of Americans have a state-issued driver's license (or equivalent for non-drivers) with a unique identifier on it. I am absolutely surprised we don't use these identifiers more often, especially given that unlike SSNs, driver's licenses in most states don't have "Please don't use for other identification purposes" written on them like SSN cards do.

Also yes, IDs are not passwords and should never be used for authentication purposes. This is never "two-factor", it is always a "wish it were two-factor" kludge.