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1. Many regional providers exist all over the country that provide similar services in fairly remote towns.

2. Symbiote addressed this quite well. They're really not that close to the big exchanges.

3. That's not a technical problem though, and could be changed if there was a will to. Which is exactly what this discussion is about—in Scandinavia (in fact, most of Europe), there is competition and the broadband situation is fairly good.

Heck, I pay less than $50/month for 200/10 MBit/s and cable TV in Germany. There's no technical reason this wouldn't work in metropolitan areas in the US.
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What are some use cases for this?
Do people really follow porn stars? I always found the whole bunch really unattractive and their "art" as boring as early afternoon public tv programs.
Not all typeclass instances can be determined at compile time!
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I am not an Apple user but I cannot help but notice some kind of "jailbreak" business going on there. Could it, perhaps, involve breaching iPhone security in some way that could lead to loading arbitrary code with system privileged and even modyfing the OS itself? It sure looks this way from a cursory googling. It appears Apple had been and still is susceptible to various attacks. As is every other company.
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> you can pry lightroom from my cold dead hands.

Now, this right here is the chicken and egg issue with professional quality production software in the open source world.

What the open source pro software suites need is more professionals using them. I get it, you have a job to do and no precious time to spend on learning new tools or deal with bugs. But even if you put in an hour every now and then, or check out how has Gimp/Darktable/Blender progressed in the year or two since you last touched it, you can help.

The guys who are working on these software most likely are not professional photographers or digital artists, they are programmers with a keen interest on the topic. They have limited time on their hands and they primarily target their own use cases. They don't have big budgets like Adobe and other companies do.

I applaud OP taking the time and the effort to get comfortable with open source tools. He has contributed a few excellent blog posts on moving from proprietary pro software (I particularly liked the one where he describes what he did in Gimp to get comfortable coming from a Photoshop background). He'll probably get in touch with the developers in one way or another, to give feedback or submit bug reports, perhaps even patches. This is valuable work!

Free software is a team effort, you need to chip in if you want to see things improve.
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before I bought my D750, I was shooting with my bridge cameras (panasonic fz series), purely JPG. for this kind of work, irfan view is LIGHTING fast, miles and miles and miles ahead of anything else I've encountered. Autopano giga for panoramas (again, faster than anything else I saw on the market, including photoshop, and tons of options).

after this, started with RAWs, and I started using Lightroom. There are things I like a lot (quick interface for stuff intended, ie lens corrections, playing around with sliders). the thing is - I am not buying into Adobe's workflow totally. I don't want to load and edit all the files I take, meaning easily 100-300 from a weekend. First step is selecting interestin gones, maybe 20%.

I select few interesting quickly (irfan is still MUCH faster than doing it through lightroom), separate panoramas (Lightroom/Photoshop has very primitive interface without much control, plus their alghoritms are archaic and don't work so well compared to what Autopano brings on), and then work in Lightroom on selected ones. I HATE the way Lightroom's process is done - no flexibility outside of a narrow path.

You don't want to use Catalog and manage things on your own? Don't worry, we'll keep annoying you every single time you start it.

You want to just export result into a normal format that doesn't lose so much quality (ie PNG)? well get an external plugin, because who supports exotic formats like PNG in 2015, right? Are you effin' kidding me? this is THE software to process photos, and I cannot export a photo into most of the formats?

You actually want to join panorama, ie the most basic functionality expected from expensive software? well till now some versions just pointed you to expensive photoshop, if you had it. if not, bad luck, pay more! panorama joining feature is still pathetic in 2015, cropping out parts of photos without good reasons. Autopano just works, all the time.

Picture management is a joke, rotation, crop etc don't feel like a primary tool. again, freeware tool brings much more productivity, not only because I am so used to it. It seems to me marketing guys were the ones designing this product.

Did I find something better for processing RAWs photo by photo (or in batch?). Nope. But for many other steps necessary for the process of shooting -> final ordered set of photos from the event, there are better, faster tools out there. And yes, LR is SLOW, on fast i5, 16 gigs or RAm and fast SSD. Irfan is so much faster when working with RAWs, it's shameful.
I don't think so. Moreover dismissing an entire group of people (hipsterism ? really ?) by stating that watching and enjoying movies one doesn't like is akin to stoking one's ego and that such movies are pretentious seems way more... well... dismissive and absolute to me. Because, believe it or not, some people truly enjoy the movies he doesn't enjoy and it has nothing to do with ego. This is objectively anti-intellectualism.
I'm actually a little shocked that they don't at all mention Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon in this, which surely must have been at least in part the inspiration for it. (The Oracle of Bacon - http://oracleofbacon.org/ - still cheerfully works after, oh, a decade and a half or so.)
I've downvoted you for the needless bile.

Maybe you should try to get the answers to your questions and understand where the author is coming from before discounting them as insane - even if you still end up disagreeing with their position.
Sweden is globally ranked 4th in that report, and Norway 7th. Just because GBit fiber is availabe to many doesn't mean that everybody wants to have (or pay for) it.
In other words, women are overrepresented in conferences compared to their presence on the field, and it's going to be the same with ethnicities. In my business experience, women are already overrepresented in management positions compared to developer positions. Who wants to remain a developer anyway?
the hiring process is completely opaque, so this can never be proven or disproven.

ideally, we'd have a system where we have a balance sheet that gets tallied up- but interviewing is an important part in gauging competence and culture fit (yes, this is a real thing, I know some developers who don't wash and I would not call them culturally fitting), so it's not something that can be solved easily.

We all, inherently have a bias- we can't divorce ourselves from that bias, so how do we hire? by tribunal?

I certainly believe quotas to be a shitty solution.
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Which phone do you for Android development? Should I choose the latest and greatest or most popular?
Can't find paper but I wonder if he'd taken into account near future technologies, like orbital construction (look at the IIS, that was 'built' in orbit) and fully reusable rockets.

Anyway I do believe we need to establish a resource operation on moon just because debugging a resource operation on mars as our first space colony would be all too risky.
> if you ask people about a movie after they’ve paid $15 for it and devoted a couple of hours of their life to it, maybe they’ll have a more favorable opinion of the work. Maybe the profoundly rightward shift in Fandango’s bell curve is just a moviegoer’s version of Stockholm syndrome.

This is called the Endowment Effect[1]. I suspect it happens when you spend a considerable amount of time picking the "right" movie.

Admitting to yourself that you made the wrong pick is harder than consoling yourself that it wasn't so bad after all.

Often times the bias will manifest itself in the subtlest of ways--for example a survey of "How would you rate the movie you picked?" versus "How would you rate the movie?" can skew ratings positively in the case of the former.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment_effect
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If only it worked. After rating 50 movies, the "recommended" section still is empty. Also, lots of GUI issues, dead links etc.
This is what I thought when I first saw the parent comment. It looks like an interesting alternative approach, but from the example I am not clear on why it is more flexible than the version using typeclasses.

I reckon I will need to re-implement my mocks using the technique you describe to really understand the motivation.
>Quotas get introduced because there are brilliant minority developers who get passed over because they're in the minority.

Any evidence (other than anecdotal) for this claim? The only reason I have ever seen for quotas is that the overall distribution is skewed, and therefore it must be discrimination.
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I worked for Kink for about a year and a half in the mid 2000s. The owner, and a handful of the people in the videos, are friends of mine.

Your characterization of the company is wildly inaccurate. The company started with one kind of shy British guy who liked to tie up girls & get tied up more than he liked writing banking software. There weren't any lawyers - not even through the end of my tenure in 2007 - and if you ever watch any of the early material, it's almost comically Ed Woodish in production value. Peter hacked together the original website software himself. It was innovative in the sense that that Kink had one of the earlier affiliate programs in adult, but the main focus was always on producing content that was genuine - for people into that kind of thing. Those interviews that you call "comical" aren't made up.

Furthermore, "...customers are leaving for content that even Kink wouldn't touch" offensively paints folks into BDSM as miscreants. It's also not true. Kink's audience is leaving, but for content that is free. Porn economics have changed; tastes probably not so much.
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It's not easy to steal someone's bitcoins.

In fact, it's much easier to steal someone's credit card details which get transferred around and stored all over the place and are embossed on a piece of plastic you carry with you in your wallet.

We just happen to have a grossly expensive and unfair insurance scheme on top of it that indemnifies consumers against their own stupidity and carelessness. In the future, such a scheme, if so desired, could certainly be added on top of Bitcoin or other blockchain technologies as well.
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Maybe of interest to some here is MovieLens[1], a research project from University of Minnesota that makes personalised movie recommendations based on your own ratings. You can dive behind the scenes and switch between different algorithms, compare its predicted score against the average review score, and there's a page with statistics on your own ratings. (Preferred genres, ratings curve, ratio of mainstream to obscure movies, etc.)

After rating 250+ movies on there myself, my own ratings demonstrate the same right-skew graph curve that IMDB and Fandango has in the article.

[1] https://movielens.org
Mostly meh on that. I haven't heard of major discrimination against Indians in hiring practices (modulo visa, of course, I'm talking about Indian origin people with citizenship or equivalent). There's always casual racism (insensitive jokes, etc), but those are small potatoes compared to systemic issues which almost every woman/PoC in tech is aware of and has had tussles with personally.

I've also seen tons of Indians giving talks at confs.

I think the word "model minority" applies here.

YMMV though. There might be lots of discrimination going on that my circle of acquaintances hasn't come across.

(Indian origin, born & spent most of my life in the States, currently living in India)
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What you need to do is hire extra 25 people, and then you can have 4 black women, which is exactly 3.2%.

But perhaps we should stop kidding ourselves and admit that being a technologist is a calling, not a career, and this shapes the talent pool somewhat.
Bitcoin is the breakthrough technology of the 21st century so far. It's like moving from snail mail to emails in its power and cost-effectiveness relative to existing payment and remittance schemes.

Besides that, it's a beautiful solution to a 30-year-old unsolved problem in computer science (the byzantine general's problem).
Evidently it's not what you know, but who you know.
Brilliant, thanks for that. Seems great, shame that the recommended tab is empty.
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What you say about intelligence vaguely resembles genetic algorithm... or I just saw a pattern similarity where none exists :)
Chapter 4 of "23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism" echoed this point titled, "The Washing Machine has Changed the World More than the Internet Has". In addition to talking about how revolutionary household appliances have been, he also mentioned how economists have consistently failed to measure much economic value in the Internet.
Why would people be shocked about that?

I really hope most people aren't expecting US web sites to follow Russian media laws (and vice versa), that would be horribly undemocratic.
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>“The first fiction ever published on a printing press was an erotic tale. And from there: super 8 film, Polaroid, home video, digital, video on demand—”

what do you think these figurines were 20000 years ago? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_figurines

"Most of them have small heads, wide hips, and legs that taper to a point. Various figurines exaggerate the abdomen, hips, breasts, thighs, or vulva. In contrast, arms and feet are often absent, and the head is usually small and faceless."
I sincerely regret that my message was rude, that was not my intent.
One big non-appliance thing here is the proliferation of mobile phones. Am pretty sure months of my productive life have been saved simply by excluding waiting around on people and not making unnecessary trips.
'You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.' - Tony Robbins

I'm center/right wing also but coming from a poor neighborhood I know that things are not so clear as you say. It takes an _huge_ effort to get out from that way of life specially when you are younger. I was lucky to have a family that value learning but I know that it was a minority there. Most school friends at the time didn't have ANY books at home and their parents didn't care about that.

Yes, some people are lazy. Yes, most people are proud ignorants. But the surrounding culture took them there. Among rich families there are lazy people also but their 'infrastructure' simplifies a lot their life. e.g. Rich people can afford to hire people to help them with chores so they have more time for themselves. Poor people can't so their chores start to accumulate and everything around them seems sloppy.. to complicate the situation they are used to it once most people around them do the same.
Regarding the hospital: I just noted that you jump conclusions on this issue even while investigation has not been finished yet. You just hope or want to believe that the US military didn't bomb the structure on purpose.

> I find it hard to believe that you can't understand why I'd think killing a bunch of Talibani is great for the world.

Look, we all reject the goals of the Taliban, I think we're here on the same page. But the problem I have with what you are saying is this:

Military campaigns usually have political or economic goals. The US declared their war on terror as the political goal when they started the military campaign in Afghanistan. Later they added building a democracy as a political goal in Afghanistan.

For this they had to undermine their opponents ability to fight their political goals and in the process they destroyed military infrastructure, weapon caches, communication and of course people were killed.

Killing is part of operations in war, but not the main strategy or goal. Whenever it is, you'll usually see genocide, ethnic cleansing and the likes.

Like the Jihadists raging in Syria right now. They are killing the "unbelievers" right now for a (in their distorted view) better world. And once you are killing for a better world, why not celebrate the act of killing by inventing new cruel ways of killing and even filming it? (like ISIS does)

I can't read the US presidents mind, but I'm absolutely sure that he would reject your line of thinking for the exact same reasons. He probably thinks about it as a way to undermine the terrorists capabilities of achieving their harmful goals. I for one reject the means he is using to achieve HIS goals, but I do not believe that he is a crazy person believing in killing for a better world!
That was my first thought. How do you get all the infrastructure to the moon, and probably regular personnel. For the first few trips this should not be the smart way.
Yes it is, but the future is not evenly distributed, to paraphrase William Gibson. For many enterprises, even Ansible's current model is already way out there in the distant future.

Also, I think Ansible's idempotent model actually works nicely with immutable infrastructure. Why? For development of your stack. While messing around with it, you probably don't want to rebuild the whole thing from scratch. Of course you can play funny games with caching of remote packages and so on, but that's getting into Ansible territory anyway.

So I think a good model for immutable infrastructure is to use a tool like Ansible to develop the stack, then in production you would use the same tool to spin up immutable instances.
Spot on. I'm constantly amazed at how many projects use _serialization formats_ as a "programming language". LiquiBase, NAnt, MSBuild, Ansible.
Hans Rosling presented a similar topic at TED (2010):

http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_...

On the other hand, we may overestimate the disruption of home appliances because of how history played out. Today, many poor villagers choose to spend what little money they have on a cellphone instead of a washing machine. They continue to wash clothes by hand and hang them to dry but they absolutely need the cellphone to tell them what price their crops will sell for at the market.
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The card itself generates the key, and AFAIK there's no way to get a copy of it (except maybe by physically decapping the chip and reading its memory).
Doesn't all of these things just fail because no one uses them?
You can already produce fuel on Mars itself using the Sabatier Reaction with technology available today, you have to bring along a little hydrogen but that's not too big of a deal.

Refueling on the moon requires an (almost pointless) web of infrastructure that balloons the cost of a mission, and more importantly, increases the time to carry out the mission.

Each US administration has a habit of cancelling the more ambitious NASA/JPL projects of the previous one, so if we really want to go to mars, it has to be a mission doable in as short a time span as possible, such as proposed by Zubrin's Mars Direct plan.
Zite it dead, so we rebuilt it for you into Pipes. Thoughts?
Well yeah, she's obviously speaking from her position about something she sees and feels. Like most people, you're most aware of obstacles you face and less of others. She's fighting her fight. And obviously anyone reading that can apply that to other races/groups.
Ah what we need is film reviews from Terry Pratchett's death.
Ineterstingly all of the people who used Apple, Microsoft, Google, etc. products actually gave those companies enough power to build up such a deal... We're collectively responsible :-(
My summary, after many years thinking about it, is: Build technical leadership in depth.

What ever you do, what ever the problem. It's a key-person problem unless your team can do it.

If you have to tell your team what to do. You are failing, and you need to do something about it.

The leader sets the vision, makes as start, demonstrates good and keeps people on track. The coach makes people the great person they want to be. A leader can use simple coach techniques to grow an resilient team who can work to build something great.

I've noted down some of my learnings: http://www.engineeringandcareering.co.uk/p/leading-and-guidi...
I would now. Thank you.
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I follow @stoya and @Kayden_Kross on Twitter. :D

They shatter the prejudices about porn stars with almost every tweet. It's a bit weird though. To follow these smart, funny girls and then be able to switch website and see them have hardcore sex.
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Cognition is pattern recognition, and we don't ever access the raw data, just the output labels - this is so Buddhist. In a sense we create our (inner) world because it is just patterns.
I guess I should really answer your question though :) I collected some interesting blog posts that I loved and stuck them here

http://www.engineeringandcareering.co.uk/2013/07/technical-l...

Talking with Tech Leads might interest you also: https://leanpub.com/talking-with-tech-leads