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I think he chose the wrong party to begin with. He should push the Pirate Party in US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Pirate_Party
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Good question. The data you send in Matrix when transmitting and receiving a message is just the event (message) type, the room ID, and the appropriate key value data for the contents of the event. For an m.room.message event this is msgtype and body - e.g m.text and "hello world". The raw data is therefore only a handful of bytes.

Now, Matrix allows arbitrary transports to actually put that over the wire - but mandates only the most comically simple (and inefficient) as a mandatory baseline. This is a plain HTTP PUT request of the above data encoded as JSON and a few URI parts. The reason for this is that HTTP is insanely ubiquitous and well understood; any random device or language these days can trivially send and receive messages.

However, there is nothing stopping you from using a more efficient transport for the data between your client and your server - we've been experimenting with everything from boring old JSON over WebSockets to COAP or MQTT and even capnproto. We haven't specced any of these yet, but we'll probably add them as optional profiles to the spec in future. Meanwhile plain old REST actually works pretty well in practice :)

The fun stuff in Matrix is all about the eventually consistent decentralised conversation history between servers rather than obsessing about the most efficient way to shove some key value pairs between a client and a server.
MIT Mystery Hunt - http://www.mit.edu/~puzzle/ happens every year in January. Afaik you don't need to be an MIT student to participate
BSD was supposed to be the chosen one, our last best hope for no systemd, ever.
Long time OVH customer here, they had a similar issue on May 2015 for the same DC in Canada where a car hit one of the poles along the BHS/MTL via the North route, damaging the optical fiber cable: 2 of the 3 pairs of cables where down.

http://status.ovh.co.uk/?do=details&id=9603

At the time, they told customers they were adding new fiber providers and cables.
"Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards." [0]
How do we ask people to care about this problem without being able to do any research about it?

[0] http://www.harpers.org/blog/2008/06/weber-on-the-political-v...
They said "faster, simpler and more secure". This means 100% Chrome OS, 0% Android.
If you're a Firefox user, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

If you're not a Firefox user, https://www.mozilla.org/firefox

uBlock Origin exists for Chrome as well, but Google gets your lucky charms when you use Chrome, no matter what you configure to try to prevent it.
Of course it's easy to "just be a critique". But critiques of Lessig aren't "just critiques".

Lessig's critics understand something Lessig himself seems not to: his campaign is quixotic, his goal of being a "single-issue President" is incoherent given the structure of the US government, and, in a close election year, his prospects of somehow acting as a spoiler for the party he purports to support are far greater than his prospects of actually being an agent for change.

You're welcome to disagree with any or all of that, but I don't think you can say that they don't constitute a colorable argument, and you can't dismiss them as insubstantial points. Which is, of course, the implication of the actual words quoted upthread!

It's not enough just to "put yourself out there". Anyone who does anything dramatic, good or bad, is "putting themselves out there". Boldness makes for good copy, but can't reasonably be taken as a shield from commentary.
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I definitely thought this was about C++ virtual inheritance.
See CellRox (http://www.cellrox.com/) they created a phone w/ separate numbers and virtualization enforced separation with easy switching between the two environments.
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>The idea that any natural language has a meaning outside of the speaker's intent and the listeners reading is... well... it's absurd.

I'm not sure it necessarily is. Currently leading theories may be construed to rule this (absolute absurdity) out.

Of course, that argument relies on appropriately defining all of the terms in your statement.

I'm more interested in where in my post you think I implied such a conclusion.
> In general I think the space of "real life + tech juice" sort of things is a pretty under-exploited market segment.

Spot on, IMO. If you haven't heard of it, Topgolf[0] is taking on this role in the driving range world.

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That's because no one seriously thinks for a minute that Android is not here to stay. When you hear about the dominant global mobile operating system (share, not profit) and a niche desktop operating system "merging" it's not difficult to work out which one is more at risk.

This announcement is aimed strictly for business consumption and has nothing to do with technology. Google will be inundated with hardware developers (OEM's) and large Chrome OS buyers (distributors, educational groups) saying "the Microsoft sales people are telling me you're abandoning Chrome OS. This is very disturbing to us as we've made a significant investment in your technology!" This is their effort to rebut some of that FUD which may or may not be FUD.
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You can support that goal by offering immunity to whistleblowers.
Yeah, that doesn't seem useful to me either. It does seem like that's what the word 'akimbo' usually means, but I'm envisioning that they are advocating something more along the lines of this: http://creativefan.com/important/cf/2012/04/elbow-tattoos/ir...
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Build times are supposed to be comparable to Java.
There's no need. His "response", as such, was quite telling.
It is a closed source proprietary software that requires to give up all your secrets to an unknown third party, and also pay per user for some of the features (and thus an unlimited amount if users are not employees).

Their ToS is also as abusive as it can possibly be, trying to take away your right to sue them in favor of arbitration (!), allowing them to terminate your service at any time, send your data to anyone unencrypted, disclaiming all liabilities and warranties, disallowing any content that is "objectionable", etc.
I've seen "all of AWS down" reports around here a few times over the past few years.

And then people list all the services that rely on it.
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Fair enough. Though in practise a HTML inject on a login page will have the same impact, usually eh?
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The fact he includes "Dr" in his HN username smells to me. Anyone that intent on throwing credentials around, well, makes me doubt that he actually may have those credentials.
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If you can show me the ego, I will concede to being off-topic.

I reject any notion that I have ever intentionally broken a guideline. I also reject any notion that I have a pattern of repeatedly breaking any actual guideline.

My claims are easy to falsify.
> I can't believe nobody has responded to this with [citation needed] yet! ;)

It's a fair question. Here's what I could find from 2005 ...

"The One for All model has delivered solid results in a remarkably short time"
http://www.wired.com/2005/03/wiki/

Wikipedia founder admits to serious quality problems
Yes it's garbage, but it's delivered so much faster!
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That's a pretty serious straw man you've set up. There isn't a single-axis spectrum of characters ranging from smooth-talking bullshitters to straight-talking foul-mouthed Linuses (sp?).

The fact of the matter is that one can just as easily be a brash and insulting bullshitter, or a friendly and polite straight-talker. I am strongly in favour of the latter: it is more inclusive and comes off as a lot less macho and/or insecure.
Would there be any point of re-implementing all those APIs rather than using systemd?
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Which is kind of a frustrating answer, because Slack's UX sucks. Its desktop app is just a wrapped web page; the fonts and colors match nobody's operating system; the fffffffffffffffffriendly scroll bar; all the cutesy messages and iconography; "Reconnecting…"; etc, etc.

Yes, I understand that it's still friendlier to use than IRC, but there's a middle ground between "easy to use" and "still looks and works like a proper, professional desktop application." In fact, HipChat is pretty close, even though it's just a wrapped web page too.

It's kind of frustrating to see that all of these Slack alternatives are pretty much taking the same crappy UI cues from Slack. It's kind of like how, until the last few years or so, many common Unix/Linux desktops looked like Win95 rip-offs… You don't need to strive for familiarity if what people are familiar with sucks.
As a teacher, nothing makes me sadder than to see people not complete. It feels like I failed to keep them engaged. I taught a free software development course online for three summers in a row. Completion was awful.

To be blunt, I won't waste my time preparing videos, material, assessments, etc anymore because it feels like nobody cares.
Firstly, this have nothing to do with shift/reduce. Secondly, you can safely handle left-recursive grammars in Packrat (which, in turn, can be implemented with combinators).
That's exactly the thing, they can't. If you block 3rd party requests as intrasight (and I) do, there's no way for a back-end system to know that users of one website are users of another, short of using things like panopticlick or font-signature correlation (which are much less reliable than a cookie -- and personally I take action to make them useless).
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The choice here is not to be 'brutal honest' vs 'professional liar'.

The choice here is between a 'honest civil discussion' and a 'crazy shout fest'.

Linus is a smart guy. He can also count to 10, walk around the block and then type a nice message. He does not have to behave like this for his voice to be heard.
> This is what you would expect for any complex system under multi genetic control

Not necessarily. This is something you might expect if intelligence is a net fitness advantage and it is in a mutation load situation where rare variants need to be purged to keep things constant. But if intelligence is only worthwhile up to a certain point and it is controlled by frequency-dependent selection, or there is heterozygote advantage, or if intelligence is not necessarily reproductively fit at all, or other situations, then there could certainly be rare variants of large positive effect. (I would not have bet on their existence for many reasons, but not because it's impossible.)

To give an example, your claim would predict that there is no such thing as a single mutation which increases muscle mass a lot because it's a complex system affected by a lot of genes; yet nevertheless, there is a single mutation affecting myostatin which makes humans and pigs and dogs much more muscular, and it's even been edited into pigs with CRISPR this year and last year into sheep and cows. Presumably the reason that not all animals are ultra-strong thanks to the mutation is that it causes birthing difficulties and increases metabolic demands considerably, and so despite the obvious advantages of being ultra-strong, it's not actually fit.
But wouldn't the problem be that you would be exposed to a DDOS attack? All the attackers would need to do is to try to login many times to your servers and they would be buried calculating hashes.
No deadlocks, you say?
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Has democratic nation ever been overruled by the people? Or even the poor part of the people?
So now Merriam-Webster has become the Twelfth Circuit? This is the lamest jurisdiction shopping I've seen in a while.
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Thanks for your reply. So presumably this would bring us back to the state of things from 1971 with the entrance of the Federal Election Campaign Act, including the limitation on spending money on media?

It sounds tricky. The most powerful thing about free speech is the right to say whatever you want about your government. But given the apparent level of corruption, maybe it's time to limit corporations' ability to make political speech. Is that what he's proposing?

I read this on publicintegrity.org,

> It wasn’t until 1971 that Congress got serious and passed the Federal Election Campaign Act, which required the full reporting of campaign contributions and expenditures. It limited spending on media advertisements. But that portion of the law was ruled unconstitutional — and that actually opened the door for the Citizens United decision.
Serious question: given that he didn't have a snowball's chance, why did you give him money, as opposed to giving money to some other change agent that does have a chance?
Recognizing "stolen" content autonomously can only pivot on knowing when something was first published or visible to Google, which is a pretty dubious measurement.
Because regulating speech could never end badly...
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The weekend is largely useful as a means of coordination in companies, as they often prefer all workers to take off at the same time. Given Linus's work arrangement, he has no particular reason to prefer taking off on the traditional weekend.
Every argument you made you counter-argued using my own points within your own post.

1. > The term "blend mode" is a term of art in the industry, yes.

2. > For example, we could have had "display-mode" rather than "display", but that would definitely have been redundant.

3. > The few exceptions are things like pre-multiplied RGBA, where the RGB components depend on the alpha. But these are rare.

Yes, because RGB isn't RGBA. If anything it should be RGBA with an optional alpha. Because you know, that's how the _structs are formed to begin with._

And separately,

> Given that the CSSWG's membership is largely browser implementors, I'm pretty sure we have a handle on what the fuck our graphics stack does.

Yes, as far as the people who actually write the portions of browser code that involve placing pixels on the screen. You however, clearly do not.

I'm not sure what you're doing in a spec committee; you don't sound like a person who has any experience writing low level code regarding these systems. Given this, it's worrying because I'd wager that you'd make uneducated decisions affecting others based on this lack of experience.
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