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I've done this sort of thing once, and nearly done it several times more.

The time the product was released like that, it was a Makefile setting a rather important flag using ?=, in a sub-Makefile two includes deep, and because that happened to have always been the first time CFLAGS was set, it worked. Until I added a new flag. (Solution: don't set your Makefile variables like that.)

When I've nearly done it, it's always been on projects that have the fairly standard Debug/Release build config system (via whatever mechanism), and the Release build is the one that gets released. But then you have no config corresponding to Release-and-some-temporary-debug-stuff, which is something you basically always need. But if you manage this by hand, it's too easy to slip up and have some debug stuff end up in the final product. (Solution: have an extra build config, Final/Product/etc., that is what you use when preparing the final build. So if you get it wrong and leave your debug stuff in the Release build, the result never gets further than other team members.)
> Größter Wachstumstreiber ist das Geschäft mit Kleinanzeigen im Internet wie Immobilien-, Job- und Autoportalen. Hier verfolge Springer eine "sehr aggressive Wachstumsstrategie", sagte Döpfner. Das Ergebnis in diesen Rubrikenmärkten kletterte binnen Jahresfrist um 35,2 Prozent auf 221 Millionen Euro und steuerte damit rund 44 Prozent des gesamten Konzerngewinns bei. [1]

But most of their profits are generated by their online markets for cars, houses and jobs, not their digital journalism.

[1] http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article138064544/Digitalstrate...
Sounds similarly to local market (although PHP market seems to be dying down) except that top programmers around here don't stick around because highest tax bracket kicks in at slightly above 1k€ net - meaning employer has to pay 2.8k€ for 1.5k€ salary so you end up getting more money even in more expensive countries working for same gross income :D

But thanks for the reply !
I had such high hopes for 500px when I tried to switch over a year (I even paid upfront before fully testing it). The features just didn't compare to Flickr.

On the other hand, Flickr's admin UI starting to fill up with crap I don't about, like creating mugs and books and shit. Fair enough, they're trying to make money, but that stuff has no place on the main interface.

It's still the easiest place for me to store and share photos, however.
@ 'berntb, you've been shadowbanned for unclear reasons IMO, FYI.

Their dead comment:

You are mixing up dark matter and dark energy. The main effect of dark matter
is not universal expansion, it is from both influences of gravity on galaxies
and theory.
See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter#Observational_evidence
No, I take that into account. China is ten times larger in population, but that doesn't mean they can grow ten times larger economically. There are limits to both sheer consumption / production within N amount of years in terms of how fast the global economy can grow, and limits in terms of how many resources a nation can realistically consume. For China to be ten times larger, they'd have to figure out how to produce the world's GDP almost twice over. It's impossible, the global economy in real terms is growing at a few points per year, China's growth must inherently move toward that line as it gets larger, just as the US has.

It's not hard to find evidence for China's boom being completely over. The best estimates on their actual GDP growth, already have them closer to 2-4% growth, if any growth at all if you go by trade volume / trains / baltic index / copper / construction / concrete etc.

Ten years ago they began to shift to massively taking on debt to continue to fake growth. Countries only do that when their organic growth is completely exhausted. It's exactly what Japan did when their bubbles began to unravel, and their money expansion began to implode. When the great recession hit, that was the end of the temporary consumption binge that drove most of China's 2000-2008 growth. Now they're arguably the most indebted nation in world history on a GDP ratio basis, and it's still getting worse, while companies are being artificially floated so banks don't have to own the vast bad loans outstanding, perfectly repeating what Japan did with zombie corporations.
Fair point, but that would take away half the fun of debugging for me :(
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I love this kind of stuff. Because of the meaty stuff being buried in a bunch of meaningless chatter, it feels kind of like treasure hunting. Very interesting stuff!
Well from what I know, gravity was once a misunderstood component of spacetime bending, so it would be proper.
How is a reviewer to know that a debug option is not intended to be there though? It could be deliberately present to help remote support when people report issues. Admittedly the list of features exposed here includes things that you probably don't want the end user messing around with, but I wouldn't expect the reviews to know that - they aren't high level developers running a code review they are QA people tasked with making sure things don't simply fail badly or breach guidelines.
One more interesting explanation I read in Hawking's Universe in a Nutshell, was that dark matter is extra gravity coming from parallel universes/extra dimension. Basically, what if gravity warps not just this plane, but other realities as well. It would explain why gravity is so weak compared to other forces.
The two big problems with SVG are:

It's unsafe because it can contain javascript. You can't just let users upload SVG files, you need to strip them. As far as I know there is no image hoster that supports SVGs and I know of no website that contains user-uploaded pictures that allows SVGs.

Then there's the issue that SVG is an extremely complex format. It's not a format that's optimized for rendering like jpg, png, gif, but one optimized for working on it like psd, xcf, raw. No browser supports all of SVG. You can animate SVGs without javascript with the <animate> tag, but Firefox doesn't support it. There's some weird features basically nobody supports, like defining fonts inside of SVG. There are many features that are made for editing SVGs by hand, but if you ever opened a SVG generated by a GUI program like Inkscape you know that nobody would ever want to do that. The path format on the other hand is optimized for space and isn't really human readable.
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My vague understanding of this article is that what's being described is more like the bright "caustics" that you see when light shines through a glass of water (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caustic_%28optics%29).

The notion is that a massive object like the Earth would act something like a lens, gravitationally. That isn't usually apparent, because most types of matter and energy would simply be absorbed when they hit the Earth. But dark matter (according to our best guesses today) can pass straight through the Earth just like light through a transparent object. So if there really are "streams" of dark matter all moving the same direction passing through us, they would act analogously to light rays through an ordinary lens. (And since there could be multiple streams going different directions, it could wind up looking like several light sources shining through that glass of water, with these "hairs" or focal points extending out in several directions.)

The two questions that come to my mind after reading this brief article are, 1) does the same thing happen with, say, solar neutrinos? (Maybe they're just too fast for the effect to be meaningful?) And 2) if they're going to talk about how much more Jupiter does this focusing than the Earth does, is there a reason they didn't go all the way and talk about potentially even stronger "hairs" created by the Sun itself? (Maybe those wind up focusing inside the star?)
That is exactly which brought me to the BSM-SG model. When nothing seems to fit well and the physics appear stranger and stranger, you should ask yourself: did we do everything right ?
Did we do some mistakes in measurements ?
Do we have some some wrong assumptions ?

Turns out: yes. If you remove those wrong assumptions, you end up with a classic logical model that makes sense in very aspect. QM is just to raw for explaining the quantum world.

Things seen as fundamental particles that are huge, huge structures. Even to look only at energy and ignore form and geometry (by definition), becomes absurd with deeper understanding.
Or... you know. Don't use Ubuntu.

I don't understand why the hell anybody would want to fork Ubuntu to begin with. There are already enough linux distros that provide nothing but a thin veneer of look-and-feel over Debian.

If you want a high quality alternative to Ubuntu, use Mint. If you want something that's more open-source friendly, build on top of Debian.

Canonical is clearly trying to commercialize Ubuntu but does that really matter? It's not like they slapped Linus Torvalds with an gag order.
Thanks! (I usually link to the arXiv abstract page rather than to the PDF: http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.07009 .)
Fact of the matter is that these services are not addictive, they just make it easier for mundane individuals to do certain things.

For example, Facebook just makes it easier to spy on others' lives. Before that, a lot of time was spent of rumors and gossip.
Oh... And we must support IE 8 ¬¬
Perhaps having a debug feature is performing as expected? It certainly might be in some cases.

I wouldn't expect a reviewer to reliably know the difference between diagnostic features deliberately present to help with remote support when people have issues and diagnostic features that should only be exposed to the developers.
A great start on setting up Webpack which can take hours to understand just the basics. I don't know if using ES6 classes is really beginner-friendly though, because there's a lot of documentation out there using React.createClass(), the translation is not often straightforward (e.g. mixins) and some popular libraries like react-router explicitly discourage it.
> It's pointless to hang on technicalities though

I don't think you'd consider it a mere technicality, if someone called it "murder", or "extortion", or "battery", although all of those are crimes, which generally entail severe emotional trauma. You can stay general and just call it a "crime", if you don't think the specifics are relevant, but it's not a rape.

This sloppy thinking, "it's an hideous deception and it's related to sex, so it must be rape", is the same kind of sloppy thinking that makes citizens accept things they shouldn't, for the sake of "homeland security" or "the war against Terror". So it does matter.

As for "Concealing who you are", if you pick an open / vague interpretation of what "who you are" means, you're creating an awful lot of legal insecurity. How many estranged spouses have you heard describing their ex as "(s)he wasn't the person I though (s)he was"? I've heard that one more than a couple of times. That is no basis for rape accusations.
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Does this have a mirroring policy?
I don't mind being a pigeon. What I am objecting to is other pigeons making major life decisions for me.
In fact it doesn't mean that. Its the assets on Yahoo's balance sheet that are being discounted by investors. Yahoo's business receives a multiple rather than a discount - whether that's a multiple on sales or earnings.

Cash and assets held on a corporate balance sheet are basically never $1 to $1 accounted for in a market cap. You can easily see that in action on the balance sheets of: Berkshire Hathaway, Apple, Comcast, Time Warner Cable.

Are we to pretend that Berkshire Hathaway's business is worth ~$140 billion after we strip out all of its assets (cash, stock holdings etc)? So its earnings are getting a 7 or 8 multiple? Obviously that's not actually how valuations work. If you stripped out all of their assets, they'd very likely still get a fair market valuation on the operating business and its potential, perhaps 13-15 times earnings.

A similar bogus claim was made that Yahoo was worth less than zero, when its Alibaba stake was at its peak. That's not actually how things work in reality, that scenario solely exists in a calculation.

In reality, if you spin off all of Yahoo's assets (specifically Japan / Alibaba), the business would still be given a multiple, a meaningful valuation. Even lowly AOL was still worth $4.4 billion in the Verizon acquisition, and Yahoo's business is two to three times more valuable than that.

There isn't a single example in the public market, in which a corporation with a relatively clean balance sheet, and $4 billion in sales, is given a negative ~$X billion valuation - much less a company that has historically been given high valuations as a semi-tech company. Which proves how absurdly wrong the negative value premise is (or the $1 to $1 asset discounting method applied to the assets, which are clearly not worth $1 to $1 in the market cap given taxation issues alone).
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phones need to load a lot of stuff a boot time - this fast boot times are achieved by stripping a hell of a lot of stuff out
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What if he was a salesman seducing women on the job using the nice company car. Perhaps leveraging requirements of his job to maintain more than one relationship. Would the company employing him be responsible for the loss of (reproductive?) years then?
Ideally we want to support an unambiguous spec, and if a browser has opinions about it let the user suffer until they switch with something more conformant

I can dream, right?
I had some longer talk with a friend that is much more into logics about the MOND theory. The problem I have with this theory is, that I don't think that the MAX function used, is classical logic. Unfortunately, I have not found a real explanation, but we came to the standpoint, that you require some more complex logic to satisfy the MAX function and for physics, I stopped believing in anything beyond classical logic.
i think the first step here, since they accepted defeat at some level, is to start releasing names of everyone signing those letters or visiting them. giving names that newspapers can go after and get names higher up is always helpful.
Haha, oh my god--I remember having taken a screenshot of that guy and shared it with the guys who worked with me.
I don't think a solid line can be drawn between compulsion disorders and addiction. Both are reinforced by the reward mechanisms in the brain, and both can have (psycho)somatic effects that are hard to overcome with willpower alone.

I would even guess that the lesser somatic addictions (e.g. cigarettes) are easier to overcome with willpower alone than compulsion disorders, but I have no actual experience or numbers to back that up.
That's a great example, actually: there are regulations that prevent actively, unexpectedly harmful stuff. There are no regulations preventing stuff that tastes great, is easy to eat but not entirely healthy.

We should take the same approach to the internet: prohibit the actively harmful (malware, scams) but not "addictive" content.
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Is he definitely there legally? I believe there are (or were) student work programs for 3-6 months, which grant you a Social Security Number. Theoretically you could stay and continue working with that SSN.
Then this would rather be fraud, because consent was given but based on deceitful information
just someone who has a great idea to help the world having another one.
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No, you don't. You need to load kernel space, and then demand page in the rest as it's being accessed.
Given that the disk is several orders of magnitude slower that the RAM, lazily re-loading pages from the disk to the memory can induce very visible and annoying loading delays everywhere (e.g. change tab in browser takes 3 sec).

I'd rather wait 10 extra second than having a slow computer for the next 10 minutes.
especially since their render engine is opinionated about how full-screen should work and other weirdness in managing pseudo elements and transform parents in layouts (i.e. anchor for relative is parent of the element they're attached not the element they're attached to)
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The article is using layperson terminology and is infact talking about "certain services", not the IP protocol. I think this is apparent from the article.
There's a lot of head-in-the-sand, kneejerk appeals to individual responsibility here, which is understandable on a forum populated by the people who are perpetuating the most egregious examples of the behaviour the author is lamenting. This ignores the author's point, which I'm assuming is the point of these responses.

Instead of just making some abstract appeal to 'individual authority', how about actually engaging with what they're saying?

"A handful of corporations determine the basic shape of the web that most of us use every day. Many of those companies make money by capturing users’ attention, and turning it into pageviews and clicks. They’ve staked their futures on methods to cultivate habits in users, in order to win as much of that attention as possible."

This seems like a salient point that is worthy of proper discussion and analysis. I've recent been reading a great book [1] about it, that is forcing me to reconsider a lot of positions I took for granted, as one of those building the web, complicit in a whole bunch of this madness. I highly recommend looking into this more, as, in my opinion, we're becoming victims of our medium in the most McLuhan-esque sense.

[1] The World Beyond Your Head - http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-World-Beyond-Your-Head/dp/037429...
well said GFischer, I agree with you
This is a quite paradoxal phenomen that happens to some open source projects. The code is open and free, but some of the experts hold their knowledge very close to their chest. It's totally understandable since they of course need to make a living somehow, but it kind of defeats some of the benefits with open source.
because 2008 made out clear that no oversight works just fine.

those are laws to protect laws placed to protect banks et al long before. the original laws give some state insurance for a very cheap price, which can easily be abused if someone start a bank/union, give lots of loans to a partner and then crash said bank/union. ... which is exactly what the 2008 was about if you stop believing all banks were surprised by the crash...

edit: and yes, they fail mostly at bribes. nobody does business with any government without bribes. maybe he is not such an accomplished banker as he believed if he never got to that part. i know in construction you won't get far without it.
The Big Bang model of cosmological history is one of the most exquisitely tested ideas in science. Just for starters, any competing model would need to duplicate the highly sensitive predictions of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang_nucleosynthesis), the results of detailed simulations of structure formation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_formation), and the existence of the cosmic microwave background (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background) (and at this point it would probably need to match the detailed spectrum of the CMB at least as well as inflationary models do).

That's not an impossible task, but it's an awfully high bar: the widely accepted "Lambda-CDM" model (a specific Big Bang scenario involving both dark energy and cold dark matter) and its parameters have proven to be amazingly consistent under a whole bunch of very different observational tests. The odds that it has passed all of those tests so very consistently purely by dumb luck, while the universe actually follows some entirely incompatible set of rules and history, seem vanishingly small.
But 1s is sufficiently small so that you don't notice that the system is loading between the time you switch on the engine of a car and the time you start using it.
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problem is that not many people must be using these suites.
But an embedded system wouldn't change between two reboots.
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Two points:

Who are the self-selected few in substance or gun regulation?

"when implemented correctly" is a very strong condition, I suppose my start-up would be worth billions and my country would only ask for 10% taxes if they were implemented correctly.
Dear god, what a horrific Twitter scraping site. Here is the actual source: https://twitter.com/MattNavarra/status/669211053188849664
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The article seems to forget that encryption isn't a requirement to perform evil actions.

Code words/phrases and various ciphers have been used to pass information and make plans for hundreds of years. They don't require any encryption whatsoever.
You're too familiar with C-style languages. When I initially picked up Scala the : type syntax felt a bit strange, but I really came to like it and am happy when it's in other languages.

Putting the type after the name feels more natural, and the : also translated nicely into 'of type' (or if you prefer for functions 'returns type').
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If you simply must be profane or otherwise unsuitable in your test data, at least be subtle like instead of calling a user your are testing bad use cases with "that fucker" perhaps go with naming him "Sir Henry Isambard Tomlinson".

But seriously: do be very careful with test data. While it doesn't need to be perfect it should never be potentially offensive, childish, or otherwise unprofessional. You never know when an accident will happen and your test case data accidentally escapes into releases or other material that goes to a client or prospect (I once saw unprofessional looking test data in a screenshot in a printed brochure - good luck changing that after the fact!) or when someone in sales will find the official demo site not working so decides to show a prospect a dev/test/qa instance instead (sales having access to such app instances may be a problem in its own right, but it happens).

It isn't even just outsiders you need to worry about: someone here was officially disciplined last year when someone else in the team took offence to certain expletives being used in test data. He'd assumed no one else would see it as he was the only person on the task at the time, but as priorities changed so did who was looking at that piece of work.
Thank you! That scraping site is completely unusable with privacy addons enabled.
I highly doubt a salesman seducing women 'on the job' using the nice company car would be able to create an alternative identity good enough to pass immigration inspection on holidays and so on. The fact that this dude had the power of the government behind him is what allowed him to pull it off in the first place and why it lasted as long as it did. If she had not found the passport if would have continued even longer.

Depending on the jurisdiction such impersonation could be a crime all by itself.
> In reality, if you spin off all of Yahoo's assets (specifically Japan / Alibaba), the business would still be given a multiple, a meaningful valuation.

I'm sure it would but right now, the sum of the parts is greater than the market value of the whole. That says something about investors' expectations for the future prospects of the company.
That's almost comically standard stock image use, I haven't seen this outside of parodies in quite a while!