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It's the favourite argument against anything and everything the US isn't doing. It has the benefit that it pretty much only falls flat when China or India is doing something successfully.

Of course, the problem is that almost everything it gets applied to can be decomposed neatly into, independently operated geographic regions - whether states, or counties or groups of such - if the scale becomes a challenge.

Arguably scale rather creates great opportunities. Subdivision coupled with looser coordination and knowledge exchange means systemic failure at the top of each system can be contained by leaning on the others. E.g. the UK National Health Service is split into many "trusts" and failing trusts are often either put under the control - temporarily or long term - of successful ones, or given more focused support from surrounding trusts to get back on track. Any number of trusts can be badly mismanaged without creating existential threats to the health service as a whole.

The larger the overall system, the more such trusts can be run at whatever the ideal scale is for optimizing system cost rather than having to scale them down to spread the risk; and the more such trusts, the easier it becomes to absorb individual failures without too big effects on surrounding ones.
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No, it is not preferable; for two reasons. For one, vigilante justice usually devolves into something as despicable as the thing the people are wanting justice for. It is also a sign that the government is failing and the people are slipping into anarchy. But that is a different matter than the hypothetical I was answering.
"In an ideal world, I'd suggest doing so in a way that doesn't require a CLA, such as a carefully written license exception referencing an updatable list of licensees."

That's worth remembering if possible.

"If you actually meant "commercial use", such that the default version prohibited commercial use"

The idea is it's just like open-source software except you pay for it. People can fix it, modify it, contribute to it, whatever. Might force the mods to be shared with everyone if using free license or let them not be shared if people are paying for it. The money coming in creates active development. The license keeps them from closing things back up or pulling it off the market. Trying to figure out what terms maintain the major benefits of FOSS while preventing the worst parts of proprietary model and keeping money in for development/maintenance.

The philosophy is basically "you get what you pay for or contribute to," with source and benefits that brings. Sort of a middle ground between proprietary and FOSS. Gotta be one that could work but devil is in the details.

Note: Burroughs' 1960's OS, MCP, was delivered as source to paying customers. They could modify it as they saw fit and optionally submit modifications back. Burroughs would try to integrate good submissions into later releases. It was the first or one of the earliest proprietary and OSS combinations.
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ha! i actually commented on this guy a few months ago. javascript is designed in such a way that i think true, clojure-like immutable data structures are not possible. we'd either need to overload comparators (===, ==) so that they compare immutable data by value (rather than by reference, which is the case for their mutable counterparts), or implement java-style .equals methods for immutable objects (or as static methods on their constructors). neither seems to be a great fit for javascript.

see my comment here https://github.com/sebmarkbage/ecmascript-immutable-data-str...
The product is the service being offered, in the case of Google it's search, mail, maps, etc. How they make money is unrelated to what the "product" is. E.g. I switched from free ad-supported YouTube to the paid ad-less YouTube Red, does that mean what the "product" is suddenly changed? Also you really are the "customer" or "user" of the many services being offered by Google just like an advertiser is a "customer" of the advertising side of Google. That doesn't imply one type of customer (the advertiser) is more important than another type of customer (the user).
Tea Party was funded by Koch Brothers and big tobacco so I'm not sure which side of the argument this supports:http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/2663125
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To my knowledge none, but there do exist problematic constants that we can't measure consistently. Famously, measurements of the gravitational constant G vary in a pattern that repeats every 5.9 years. There are a few theories about this systematic error but no solid supporting evidence in experiment form.

tl;dr No constants have been proven not-constant but there are some that might be pending further research
Ok, let's take that out of the title.
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Clearly you've never worked in marketing.
Perhaps Github isn't on Rails 4.2, but they've already created a method for sanitizing SQL like statements in ActiveRecord::Sanitization[1], so they shouldn't need a custom function to remove SQL injection. Also, you could always just use ActiveRecord::Base.connection.quote which will safely quote the string you want to input.

[1] http://apidock.com/rails/ActiveRecord/Sanitization/ClassMeth...
It's less than a 6% discount for something new and untested. Saving money it is not.
I really like the way the Gnome Desktop has come together for this release, and I am very excited about the future if NVIDIA can provide better Optimus support in future releases.

I find it easy to use and suspend / resume etc hasn't been an issue as often comes up in these comment threads.
Perhaps, but the use of the "star" aligned with common usage on other sites to highlight something. And people often talked about "starring" tweets rather than "favoriting" tweets. If anything, it would have made more sense to change it from "favorite" to "star".
This is simply astounding.
It did change it, that's how I noticed in the first place. In my case I went back and re-edited the title and that seemed to make it stick to "million" instead of "M."
It can also get Galileo put to death, but I guess you win some you lose some.

Cynicism aside, the western world has benefited enormously from the separation of religion and law.
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Auditing who accesses credentials is just as important as auditing changes for us.
I'm really hoping for some intersection of Signal, Ricochet.im and Burner.

* Signal for the security piece.

* Ricochet.im for the Tor (optional?) and anonymous endpoint

* Burner for the idea that we can have lots of throwaway identities (if so desired).
It doesn't matter what the Tea Party has done, the point is that they won a bunch of elections against way more established politicians.

The candidate with the most votes wins, not the most powerful one or the one with the best ideas.
Only a Democrat could misunderstand the huge sea change in the Republican party so thoroughly. Republicans are still practicing democracy in all its ugliness, even if it costs them elections, and even if it makes them easy to make fun of by smug Democrats secure in their superiority. What's the point of a Democrat like Hillary winning if she's more militaristic and more friendly to Wall Street than half the Republican candidates? With friends like those...
Vacri, please email me (see my profile) as my polite replies to your posts are not coming through somehow.
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There really doesn't seem to be a "due process" cadidate, does there?

Obama didn't close Gitmo, we still summarily execute american citizens (overseas drone strikes by exectutive order), summarrily confiscate property at home (civil asset forfieture), settle %97 of criminal cases without a trial (plea bargaining), and spy on every citizen without individual warrants (stingray, xkeyscore, etc, etc).

Erosion of due process seems to be one thing both parties vigorously agree on. At least we got lots of revenge for 911 though (anyone will do). Sorry to be a hater, but I'm just as depressed about this as you are. :p

"...then they came for the Jews, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew... When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out." Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller (14 January 1892 – 6 March 1984)
For me, the big thing that will make signal usable as a chat system is multi-device access. I'm at a computer most of the time, and much rather use my keyboard. Hell I would even hack the iOS client and make it an OSX client once they have multidevice support baked in. The ability to seamlessly move between my phone, tablet & computer is vital, so I use iMessage.

Whisper is working on a chrome version, so I am excited for the eventual multi-device.

Then to make money, maybe Whisper can make Signal: The Slack Edition and sell it for $4/month/user. They will host your WhisperSlack servers, but with client side encryption, never know it's contents! Even with compliance exports.
I find here in the valley companies value engineers who want a say in product direction. So we have companies filled with engineers who don't want to just be shoved a task and relegated to coding monkey status. I think that's where most of the ambiguity exists.

As I see it, a PM should be your team's CEO and the lead engineer should be the CTO. Together the pair of you are delivering on a single vision, one person outwardly and the other inwardly. Yet for the magic to work, the entire team needs to be on the same page. No one person should be setting the goals for everyone else. Simple put, the PM isn't the engineers bitch and engineering is the PM's bitch.
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I only bookmark a page when I want to add extra tags to find it by that don't appear in its URL or title. Otherwise, Firefox's "awesomebar" does an excellent job of finding what I want out of my history.
Wouldn't your father-in-law's experience fall under relationships?
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It's at least more complicated than that. Per capita consumption was very high in the early 1800s.

Anti drink was a social movement in the US for quite some time before it was law:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperance_movement
But setting cache headers and letting nginx cache your site would also take care of load, right?
As wikipedia cites, Cantor outspent his opponent 40-1. Maybe the rest of the Tea Party is astroturfed, but in this particular case, money did not matter, votes did. Good point though.
While this can be true for some problems i'm not sure you have really thought about the details of the problems we solve other than a cursory glance.

Firstly, although python has loads of great open source libraries, you wont find any that can do all the things we can do.

Secondly, the volume of data that needs to be maintained and updated (on daily basis) is massive and way out of the scope of most projects (e.g. we maintain databases with more than 5 billion records which have to be updated daily).

Finally, although some of the APIs could run in a 100% local environment (we are looking into some ways to distribute this way) most either require a constant fresh data feed or need to connect to external systems e.g. to make and HLR query you must connect to the SS7 network which is not easily obtained and simply something most developers don't want to have to deal with.
Just curious, but what would the accurate geographic descriptor of a west coastal, but not on the western subcontinent be called? The Congo is generally called central Africa in my experience, but that wouldn't really be accurate for Gabon/Angola, would it?
The fact that we often care more about the symbols used by the Nazis than their politics is what's really alarming.
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The solution isn't decentralized economics, it's debt-free money. Get rid of the need for money to create a return for its creators and you eliminate many of the issues with money in our society, including future generations having to pay for the spending of currently active governments.
Probably not. I don't have a very absolutist perspective on these privacy issues, but I do think that I should probably be taking my advertising business elsewhere (if anywhere at all), and that I should probably find a way to limit the amount of my data they gobble up. I'm lazy and I would prefer something that works to something which keeps all my information safe, which is why I'm still using gmail even though I'm creeped out.
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I feel it is unfair to label one a cynic just because they don't want to be forced [1] to take part in a religious-based arbitration.

[1] I recognize that the participants, or their families, signed a contract specifying such arbitration, but I am not convinced they do so with full understanding of the ramifications.
It completely depends what type of options you have.

If they are incentive stock options then you will need to report the value of the bargain element (fair market value of the options less the amount you actually paid) as AMT (alternative minimum tax) income. The AMT tax rate is ~27%.

Say your stock is worth $110 and you pay $10. Your bargain element is $100 and your AMT is ~$27, federal. Your state could also have tax reporting requirements on the exercise of your options.

This assumes you exercise and hold. If you sell the shares after exercise a whole host of other issues come into play.

Fairmark.com is a good resource for the tax implications of equity compensation. http://fairmark.com/execcomp/index.htm

Good Luck!
Ethanol stoves are actually great for this problem... very low emissions, and fuel that is easy and safe to store and can be produced locally. In many parts of the world, there are abundant non-food sources of mash... kelp, mesquite seeds, cattails, etc... and community scale production is much more efficient than the bizarre government subsidized ethanol industry in the US that uses GE corn with that requires a lot of energy input and has a high energy cost for transportation to and from the centralized production facilities.

I'm not sure how it is "undeveloped" countries but around here is quite illegal to make your own fuel in this way however... it is, after all, the "A" in BATF. It seems that without addressing such issues, the "clean" stoves will not be popular because locals would need to keep paying some "authority" (government or otherwise) for access to the fuel, and money is much more scarce than dung in many places.
lastpass works great on Linux. Sadly lastpass was sold to logmein.
Shadow DOM enforces CSS isolation incidentally, but is also part of the larger "web components" plan, which would also incorporate CSS modules.

In these cases you would fully encapsulate CSS, HTML, and JS on a per-component basis.
Do we have official 64-bit stable version for Windows? https://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/relea... Because I use 64-bit Windows and when it has updated to 42 it was still 32-bit version.
Have you tried turning off retweets? It makes @pmarca's feed his actual thoughts instead of a mess of stuff.
The 1Password For Teams web app runs in Chrome, Firefox, and Opera.
1) Finally 2) Awesome!

Thank you for doing this. Super into analyzing this for security. 1Password is my preferred single-client solution, but not having a good Team solution has been a serious drawback.
The site guidelines ask for original sources. But we'll make an exception in this case.
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isn't there a 65k limit of number of open ports on the TCP stack??
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Evernote (or similar) serves this function well, even better than a "favorite" because I can save/clip things from other sources. i.e. when I have time to read all the things I thought looked interesting I only need to to go Evernote, not to multiple sites.

A long press on Twitter's native [Android] app and selecting "Share via..." will allow you to easily/quickly save it to Evernote (or whatever similar service you may use).
Exactly what I think every time I read a "we re-wrote it in X and it's much better thanks to X".

We do it about every 3-5 years, and it seems to coincide with new CTOs.
I also don't have a legal argument against it. But it deeply violates my sense of fairness that one cannot appeal to the actual courts, and must participate in religious-based courts, even if such courts will be obviously biased against you.
cpux86-ta.js is an emulator for an x86 CPU. If you learn x86 assembly language and read the x86 reference manual from Intel (which tells you what effect each instruction has on the CPU's state), you too could write one. A basic overview of computer architecture would also be helpful (the author provides some references at the top of the file). It could take a few years to get that knowledge (depending on how much you already know), but not a lifetime. It looks like a lot of code, but that's because the x86 architecture has a lot of machine instructions. But it requires no cutting-edge knowledge of computer science to write or understand, just a lot of patience.

"I sometimes feel overwhelmed by the amount of new things I need to learn. ... How do I stay on track ?"

You can't possibly learn everything there is to know. To "stay on track", you need to first define what you want to achieve. It's pretty likely that knowing the x86 instruction set inside out is unnecessary for what you want to achieve. (Which doesn't mean that you shouldn't learn about it, but you need to set your priorities based on what your goals are.)
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"All US persons have to put up with at least this amount of calculation every year "

This is most certainly not the case. My taxes aren't that complicated (despite having to file in two states each of the last few years, and three states this coming year), and I was doing the 1040-EZ up through about 2009-ish.
I won't recommend this to my company since I run 4 Linux boxes and there is no native Linux support (Means DEB, RPM and a TAR)
"engineering is the PM's bitch."

...No?
Starring a tweet always seemed a bit odd to me, except when using it to bookmark something for later. Hearts imply likes, based on other social platforms, which will almost certainly lead to more use. I found myself rarely, if ever, starring tweets, which actually made the function more useful (looking at my favorites is a short list of tweets I wanted to remember).
We also have a bigger tax base.

But yes, we have to be careful not to foster dependency.
I am interested to learn what exactly prevents the use of chimneys, since it does sound like it'd be helpful.

A tangentially-related but nonetheless interesting video of a guy making a hut with chimney from scratch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL3sho1CpkI
I've looked previously, and usually thought I would get some bare metal at a trusted colo and run my own server. However this has a variety of issues, including but not limited to getting the big email services (especially gmail, ironically) to trust your server as a non-spam gateway. Part of the problem here is that running a quality email service isn't cheap, and I'm not sure how much I'd have to trust a provider for it to be worth ditching google as my provider. In the past, the "easiest" answer to this in the abstract was for me to just do it myself, but I haven't had time and I'm concerned it would make it difficult for others to communicate with me.
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Oh, didn't know you were the frog author. Awesome!
Sure, when speaking about the formal English language. In terms of social platforms, however, favorite and like have very different connotations. Favorite implies something far less common than a like. Most people think of a favorite as something they'd like to come back to, while no one really pays attention to every thing they've liked on FB or Instagram
These are all great ideas. The only thing I don't like about these types of projects/guidelines is the almost religious, strict adherence to them that some people who pick them up like to rant about.

The examples are great and realistic but they will inevitably break down in any project with just a moderate amount of complexity. When this happens I see people decide that they've done something wrong and think they either need to restructure the UI to fit the guidelines or find a different set of guidelines to fit their project. Both are wrong.

After years of studying these guidelines and trying to perfect the perfect, most efficient, small, and understandable set of CSS styles I've come to the realization that we need to simply accept that there are going to be exceptions and that's okay. Yes, think in components, give classes sane names, don't use ID attributes, etc. but also know that at some point you're probably going to have to break a rule and it's not the end of the world. Think about the problem for a few minutes but don't waste your time trying to shoehorn your front end code to fit a set of guidelines so you can feel superior because of your strict adherence to RCSS or SUITCSS or whatever. There are more pressing issues than a few unused or single use classes. If you can follow the rules more than 80% of the time then I say you're as close to perfect as you'll ever be. Anything else is reaching for an impossible standard.

It's funny that the stricter you adhere to some of these guidelines the less productive you become as you spend more time thinking about how to create components so they fit the rules rather than getting the damn styles to look however you want.

My point being this: I love all the different philosophies and think they're all worth studying but let's be realistic when it comes time to implement stuff.
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there's “Not Nearly Enough” non-watchbait TV.

*fixed
Applied here for internship, got a coding challenge, completed it, but haven't heard back yet, what does this mean?
> It doesn't matter what the Tea Party has done, the point is that they won a bunch of elections against way more established politicians.

Actually, it does matter, because accomplishing policy goals is the point, not electing candidates that (claim to) support the name of an ad-hoc 'party'.

If the Tea Party is succeeding only in electing candidates who claim to belong to the Tea Party but don't actually advance the Tea Party agenda (either because they don't actually care to or because they're unable to), that's a failure.
Yeah... goals first... thanks for this @greenyoda!
I agree with your thesis, but I doubt Blackberry would be a top choice even if it was in San Francisco. They had the world by the thumbs for a while...