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> And, managing dependencies is like dealing with explosives anyways...

Only funny for anyone who hasn't been affected by one, or had friends or family who were. Still better to avoid names with negative connotations (and search for them first to check).

> Any suggestions are more than welcome!

A few ideas:

bpm - Better Package Manager

edge - the thing that connects nodes

jpm - Javascript Package Manager

ppm - Peer Package Manager

fpm - Functional Package Manager

ayp - All Your Packages

nnm - New Node Manager
The promo video published by Google mentions people translate 100 billion words everyday with Google Translate.

According to the video[1] the most translated words in the world are

"Thank you",
"How are you"
and "I love you"

[1] https://goo.gl/epGctM
American textbooks spend large amounts of text recounting the horrors of European colonialism in Africa, India, China, the Americas. Likewise, some recent textbooks do a half–decent job of discussing slavery and the genocide of indigenous Americans. There’s usually extended coverage of e.g. the Korean and Vietnam wars. By contrast, American colonial occupation of the Philippines is glossed over in a few pages, as a footnote to the Spanish–American war.

Do you think high school history textbooks should have detailed coverage of the Astor expedition, etc.? Or if not, what’s your point?
That's an unfalsifiable accusation of original sin.
You're not even clever enough to insult
I hope so and I think it's certainly possible, but 'publicly forced to resign for being a racist' being the first thing that shows up when a university official googles your name might make it a rough hire. These positions are high-publicity and the student body is the same everywhere.

But I'm encouraged by your optimism -- perhaps I should have said 'job-destroying' instead, because it is inarguably that.
I wonder what the reaction would be if we call the Christianity of any christian group phony. Especially if their views are extreme.

My feeling is, that spinning a no true scottsman piece on a lot of topics, will be high growth industry in the next couple of years.

We live in times in which there are many crazy people, willing to do crazy stuff in the name of the crazy voices in their heads. Deal with it. Some of them will claim identity close to someone else's. Also inevitable.

"How many fingers Winston?" - if Daesh is showing 4 fingers, but saying they are five, and there are people that are willing to see there five, they are indeed showing five.
But that said, I don't see why the people who did this "obviously" don't need a "fair chance to recoup their R&D investment". Does it say anywhere that the R&D investment must be huge?

Rather than haggling over what constitutes a "huge" investment, let's generalize the question a bit. True or false: we'd be better off if everything that could be patented under the present USPTO rules was patented.

If your answer is "true," we're done here.

If your answer is "false," then you agree with me that the current criteria for patent grants are inappropriate and counterproductive.

Because that's not the case with tons of patents -- some are just accidental inventions, like the fabled 3M's post-it notes.

Correct, and we need to ask what we got in return for allowing 3M to patent Post-It notes. If something is that trivial and that inexpensive to develop, then there's no need to incentivize it. We already have an institution called a "market" that's well-suited to sort out the winners and losers.
What makes you say the other ones are faster? Have you done benchmarks? If so, please share.
You can still recognise people behind the words. I can usually tell who wrote a particular line of code within the projects I work with.

It is disingenous to pretend that writing software is a pure robotic activity that can be separated from its humanity.
If I owned a tiny old trailer park and could sell it for $55 million, I would definitely do so.

If this is so important to the culture of the city, let the city buy it for that price and maintain it as a living museum like Colonial Williamsburg dedicated to educating the public of the history and culture of trailer park lifestyle.
It depends on the conference I guess. At some of them the talks are pretty good and something you want to attend.

If the programme really never mattered then the organisers wouldn't put as much trouble into it that they do.
Doctors prescribe surfing lessons in 'world first' in French seaside town
I don't know what MSM is.

But if they are a group doing media and content websites, HSTS and full SSL are still hard to accomplish due to the advertising industry dragging it's collective feet and knuckles.
Okay, but would phrasing it that way add ANYTHING to the point he's trying to make? Would it help explain his point? (And it's not factually wrong, you're just deliberately misreading it so you can flog the dead horse about the ancient lost civilizations of programming languages before C.)
It's a form of monitoring. Some update checks run whenever you start the program, so in the case of a program like f.lux, the developer gets to see exactly when you turn on and use your computer. Or, the update check might run periodically, in which case it's a constant survey of who in the world is running your code. That alone is a vast amount of information.

Also, many programs send a lot of details about your computer to the developer. They might send back hardware details, MAC addresses, lists of other running programs, and so on. All of which may seem innocuous but could still include personal information.
1. Strawman. I never said that socializing was unimportant. But socializing is not the only way to actually collaborate. You don’t have to be best buddies with your collegues to work with them. “Having lunch together” does not imply being friends with people, but it could certainly imply having a set time to talk more informally about more general problems without a set “owner”.

2. I was at Debconf for two weeks. I hardly consider that to be “precious little time”.
Men’s Lib
As someone going to one of the 5Cs, some of my CMC friends have said that Dean Spellman's resignation was something that some students had been actively pursuing at least since last year, so I'd argue it's hardly a result of the mere implication of racism.
I'm not. Chrome warns about downloading a malware file. IE downloads it but says it's not commonly downloaded. Firefox now says the site was reported as malware.
> it can be frustrating for people who agree with the underlying principles behind protests but think the execution is disheartening and misguided

I agree, but I also know that Martin Luther King got the same response; he was unpopular at the time; see his Letter From a Birmingham Jail [1] for his excellent description of his point of view. [EDIT: Covered in much more detail in my other post [2]] From the perspective of the challangers, our status quo beliefs and approach aren't delivering. From the perspective of many social theorists, nothing really changes until you up end the current order. As long as the status quo can sit comfortably at their desks and on their sofas, they won't be motivated to change. I haven't studied the question, but that seems plausible to me.

I don't know enough about these protests and their issues to form an opinion yet; I'm just not going to reject them because they are disruptive to my ideas. In fact, no matter what I end up thinking about them, it's a good opportunity for me to re-examine my own beliefs.

[1] http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.h...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10571341
Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.

Since this is the internet I'll note that I'm being sarcastic, and attempting to demonstrate the intellectual bankruptcy of such a statement, which we hear all the time when these sorts of things happen.
Things I wish they told you about Emacs
hit 'q' to dismiss intro page and go directly to scratch buffer

M-x customize gives a menu to change those lisp variables people are always mentioning.
> So, in a purely rational world, the best reaction would be to change nothing.

I think that ship has sailed:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-16/france-conduct-airstri...
These protestors just hurt themselves in the long run. That's the saddest part. ''The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.'' Yes, and we all have a moral obligation to stand up to injustices that we see. But embracing victimhood as an identity does nothing for you. It keeps you stuck where you are and unable to move forward. You start to mistake pity for respect. University administrators are doing them a huge disservice by making them think otherwise. In the lion and tiger filled jungle of the real world they are in for a rude awakening.

Marcus Aurelius, writing two thousand years ago:

"Our actions may be impeded, but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."

I wish I had more than one upvote to give this editorial.
Since that ship's journey ended at Southampton docks, a fourty five minute walk from my house, I feel obliged to point out not all cargo docks are in the middle of nowhere. I have no idea if we're just the exception though, and every other city keeps its docks far away!
How else would you reduce the amount of blue light emitted by a monitor using a CLUT except by changing it to reduce the amount of blue light emitted?
You need medallions for things like taxi stands and hailing people off the street so it's just not true what you say.

Anyway your ideological view is getting in the way of the point of this discussion.

It wasn't a german company that created uber, wasn't a german company that created airbnb it wasn't even an european on and that is the problem.
Oil will run out. It can't happen soon enough.
I have to agree with the numerous comments, results of this "test" are way too dependent on hardware, platform, and other local variables. Was kind of fun though.

Using the keyboard, my reaction time "age" was in low 20's, much younger than my real vintage. Using mouse clicks, well now I'm 44 or so. My, how quickly one ages.

There is a serious side to such testing. Used under tightly controlled conditions similar tests have shown interesting results. For example, a number of studies report small but significant reaction time differences between kids with ADHD vs. without the disorder, though what that means is uncertain.

I've often thought a properly calibrated RT test of auto drivers would be useful. Readily observed that when the stop light goes from red to green, many drivers are quite slow on the uptake. Logically I wonder if a similar finding re: emergency braking might apply.

Hard to say how much RT differences are genetic vs. learned trait. In any case effects on traffic flow, or performance in critical situations probably have real-world meaning.
Due to the possible confusion with current events, I think that for a better title is "Algerians massacred in Paris in 1961"
By chance, did you mean "anti-intellectual property"?
You can choose to use whatever you like, but implying that good user experience requires closed ecosystem is a false dichotomy and those two aren't connected. There is absolutely no reason why iOS couldn't provide current user experience for majority of users and still allow applications with advanced functionality to be sideloaded.

Also you may choose whatever you like, but painting non-Apple ecosystems as being homogenous is completely wrong. There are several manufacturers providing other OSes with different features and throwing all Androids (and others) with same stroke does annoy people. Just because you cannot be bothered to check a difference between a Samsung and a Nexus device it does not mean that such difference does not exist.
But you emphatically said that you do not go to conferences to socialise. That's the most important part of a conference. I daresay, it's really the ultimate goal. Otherwise, we could just all post screencasts online instead of having a conference. That would be a lot cheaper.

Emphatically not wanting to socialise sounds exactly like you think socialising is not important. A less emphatic "no" might still make it sound like you think it has some importance.

And two weeks a year is precious little time, if you compare it with having lunch with your coworkers every day.
Have you considered that your mind was not able to keep the content of your courses for the very reason that it won't link it to precise uses? For example, let's imagine you want to learn the Pythagorean theorem. You may learn that the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the two other sides by heart, and hope it will stay in your brain until the 8th grade (but it's probably too late now).

Otherwise, you can try by yourself to know a way to find a relation between the two shortest sides and to the hypothenuse, and eventually find out the Theorem. Then, you can be sure you will remember it longer.

Why? I have my theory, based on Spinoza's ontology. It's a bout the three kinds of knowledge:
1st kind: You learned something from someone who told you, an erroneous deduction, or even experience.
2nd kind: You learned by demonstration, you KNOW why...
3rd kind: Your knowledge of the full system lets you deduct theorems, intuitivey.

Of course, the third kind of knowledge is not what I am talking about. It is the second kind that will interest us, as the knowledge of the third type is a lifetime exercise.
Shameless self plug: Graphosaurus, a three-dimensional graph viewer.

https://github.com/frewsxcv/graphosaurus
Of course they've done technical work, they're a distribution. Of course they have a distribution standard, they're a large committee-driven project. None of these are pushing the boundaries as such.

I never said anything to the contrary, but rather that those are all secondary to the primary political goals. A distribution having a detailed technical policy does not refute any of this.

I don't support Red Hat, either. dpkg's original conception was a tarball-based package management Perl script with rudimentary substring match dependency processing. It evolved as time went on.

GNU is the same. Politics first, technology second. They've generally been much better at both, however.
Better signing an abolish software patent petition (or donate to EFF) than to support f.lux attempt to monetize a trivial 'invention'.
I'm talking about a ZFS stream that has been deliberately corrupted and then sent to you to be received as a filesystem -- when it will in fact cause ZFS to panic (or worse). So I mean "byzantine" in the "characterized by deviousness" sense: someone actively trying to do harm to you. Or perhaps I have misunderstood the functionality that you offer?
Well I think its not the best idea to confuse people's perceptions of very important ideas of our existence as humanity, just because it was a cool 2-syllable name found in interest of saving time on Google.

Kashmir resonates very strongly and has strong meaning for a significant % of the world's population. Think about coming up with a name like "Crimea" for a language if it has no connection whatsoever. If it does, that's great, may be the author can draw the connection to it on the website.
> Debian is your common topic.

What is necessary is a topic to narrow the scope down to be few enough people for me to actually have time to talk to most of them. I can’t (and I feel I shouldn’t be made to) talk to hundreds of people merely to find them. Also, I could be of more help to people who need help in a field I know something about.

> Conferences are about networking and networking is about socialization.

Why do you assert this, when my point was that it is not so?
Quite possibly, and in any case I did not have many illusions that we'd actually catch that ship.

But I am not sure whether this particular news item shows that anything has really changed in terms of policy. France has been bombing IS for quite some time already, as far as I understand.
I see it as voluntary servitude in the hopes of making a lot of money. AFAIK nothing stops the employee from simply walking away (i.e. going back to his home-country).
Lol had no idea there was such a song!
The start of a new era. I was just an infant when it came out. By the time I got into computers the 6502 and 8080 were out, by the time I was a teenager the 8086/8088 came out but all my family could afford was a Commodore 64.

I learned the 8088/8086 instruction set in college when I learned assembly language. I was too young for the 4004 chip. But it changed everything.
Yeah, but with publicly accessible feeds. Law enforcement needs a court order to classify data from the public, not the other way around. Also, a "malfunctioning" body-camera disqualifies an officer from duty, etc.

I imagine though it's probably far more important to have unhindered citizen surveilance of law enforcement, along with a court marshall style grand jury.
Disney and the other big theme parks basically own Orlando. Before they came here, it was a podunk. I don't think they would've gotten much interference from Orlando.
yanm
The answer is quite simple, many people don't want or need any other apps than those in the App Store. Most people are not developers or computer nerds.
And what they get in return is for example an (almost) malware free device.

I'll probably get downvoted for saying this...

Anyway here's an example, Google them, all reports show the same results:
> "Kaspersky Lab experts estimate that 98.05% of all existing mobile malware targets the users of Android devices."
http://media.kaspersky.com/pdf/Kaspersky-Lab-KSN-Report-mobi...
> Don't think for one second that the higher-ups in ISIS and the ones who planned this recent attack are religious people or drink their own ideology kool-aid.

Oh yes, they are, and yes, they do.
How does it compare to D3?
Only funny for anyone who hasn't been affected by one, or had friends or family who were.

Oh, lay off the holier-than-thou moral outrage. I bet you could mine for naming collisions in a space of three characters like this all day, or really all sorts of project names.
Hey. Great reply. Kudos for that passion on your framework.
As I said earlier, it wasn't my intention to name it after a weapon.

That being said, it's a three letter name. It's very unlikely NOT to run into naming conflicts here.

edge - taken by Microsoft

jpm - JPMorgan

ppm - taken by Perl package manager: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_package_manager

fpm - taken by Effing package management: https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm

bpm - beats per minute

ayp - terrible to type, although taken by "Adequate Yearly Progress": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adequate_Yearly_Progress

nnm - What happens when it's no longer new?

Just in Germany for example there are a ton of companies called ISIS (just google "ISIS GmbH").
Being offended by a three letter shell command seems a bit over the top to me to be honest.

Edit: I won't respond to further comments on the naming issue. It wasn't my intention to name it after a weapon. As I said earlier, I will change the name as soon as anyone proposes a better one.
“I don’t know what to tell you. I live down in San Jose. I mean, I can’t even afford Palo Alto.” - the trailer park owner
Auckland's docks are right in the middle of the CBD, much to the locals dismay.
In my read, redis is an engineering product, not an end-user software, like an app for android.

Whoever decides to use it should do their homework and _understand_ what they are installing.

This does not mean Redis can't harden the defaults and the documentation, but is also not a fault of Redis that people are too lazy to really understand what a software stack is doing.
I could kinda see your point of view in your other posts ITT (though I disagree), but what? The entire point of this discussion is that their patent application is discouraging other people from creating "competitors" (if you can call them that).
The very best response imo - not that this will ever happen, France just bombed Raqqa - is to do absolutely nothing. To deny them a platform and to very quietly concentrate on the ringleaders and the process of radicalization. This will take a lot more guts than what we collectively have because it would certainly lead to more attacks as the counterparty gets more and more desperate why their ploy isn't working but the Achilles heel of ISIS as far as I can see is their ability to recruit. If they are judged to be unable to move the needle in any meaningful way (either negative or positive) then they will lose. On another note, kick out each and every Imam that preaches hate to their flock rather than compassion and balance. Those guys are definitely part of the problem and they should not be aided and abetted because they are effectively part of the recruitment arm of ISIS. On a more positive note, this seems to be changing and these characters seem to be much less welcome than they were in the past. Yet another note: joining ISIS by westerners should be a one-way ticket, once radicalized and gone to fight there there is no way back. This would require quite a bit of legal hassle.
Two of the problems we struggle with here as technical people:

1) You receive hundreds of spam applications even if you mention explicitly code-related stuff - like GitHub/Bitbucket repo, years of programming experience, know-how in TDD, we sometimes experiment with continuous integration experience or others. The wave comes as long as you mention WordPress.

2) Other than the spam applications and standard "bots", many people simply don't know what's included in "developer" or what real "developers" do. Even if they do want to learn and get better, they don't know the limits and can't aim higher than they are.
Massive Windows 10 Update Has Three Nasty Surprises
You can't know ahead of time who will be useful for you in the future.
I have no problem with the idea that certain forms of speech should end your career. If someone starts yelling slurs at people, they shouldn't have a job that involves interacting with people anymore. That doesn't infringe upon their free speech rights; they can say anything they like, and others can respond accordingly, which includes firing them or choosing not to hire them.

The question then becomes where to draw the line: what speech deserves that level of response? And that seems like a topic people can vigorously disagree about.

In particular, any conflict of fundamental values generates heated debate. It's "easy" to evaluate a conflict between a fundamental value and something that isn't: the fundamental value tends to win. That's part of why people rarely change their minds about fundamental values; not necessarily a feature. But when a conflict arises between two fundamental values (say, "free speech" and "non-discrimination") that many people hold simultaneously, people have to actually think to resolve the issue. You'll get some people taking sides (such as declaring "free speech" absolute and telling people to grow a thicker skin), but you'll also get people learning to define their values more precisely (e.g. your right to speak doesn't require others to listen without reaction, or to give you a platform from which to speak).
Note while the package renderer (your last link) is impressively fast, it's only a renderer. It consumes a graph that has already been laid out; layout is computationally more expensive than just rendering it. (It can also work with a layout, but that won't scale in real time to those Internet-wide graphs.)
That seems so cool. One question is how compatible is with npm? Can I use it as a drop-in replacement ( talking about the CLI tool )?
> Download HangoverApp and register with your mobile phone number. (It’s secure and anonymous!).

(Emphasis mine)

lolwut?
Another one - http://js.cytoscape.org/ Cytoscape as a project has been there for a long time and has good following in bio, genetics fields.