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> Wasn't Wordpress.com essentially a multi-user edition of Wordpress the open source project? I am curious if Calypso means fewer releases of the Wordpress project?

I wouldn't expect so. Calypso relies upon WordPress to power the API. Automattic still has a dedicated team devoted to the WordPress project, working alongside the rest of the WordPress community.

> I noticed that some of the docs require a login, for ex: https://wpcalypso.wordpress.com/devdocs/design Anyone know if this is a bug, or part of the new approach?

Good question. Issue filed here: https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso/issues/577. I'm not positive, but I think it might be because several of our components require a logged-in user in order to render correctly.
And in case they twiddle robots.txt to force the wayback machine to clear out: https://archive.is/IaIcl
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Relying on that app may not be the best idea; from the article:

>While the apps also can be used to track ovulation, signaling the days the user is more or less likely to become pregnant, most period tracker apps explicitly warn users not to rely on them to prevent pregnancy. The ovulation tracker and fertility prediction can be helpful for a woman trying to conceive, but it can give a false sense of security to a woman who relies on the app as a form of birth control.

>That’s because even the most vigilant ovulation tracking methods have shockingly high failure rates, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, with up to one in four women becoming pregnant over the course of a year with typical use.

>“Apps are a tool; they’re not actually a birth control method,” said Hannah Ransom of San Diego, a certified fertility awareness educator.
My kids are in high school, and my oldest is applying to college soon, and while I feel a lot of relief that I don't have any diaper changing in my immediate future (unlike a lot of my male friends around my age who do), the "getting my freedom back now that the kids are moving out" thing is bittersweet, and maybe even a little more bitter than sweet.

I kind of wish I had, like, years 6-12 again; I'd trade another 6 years of not being able to go out absolutely any time I want to for that. I'd have to think about it but I might even trade a few years of that for a couple more teenage years.

Maybe I'll feel differently once I "have my freedom back". :P

Worth remembering: the diaper changing thing is over in the blink of an eye (it doesn't feel like that at the time, but you will look back and be amazed at how quickly it shot by), and by the time your kids are teenagers they're pretty low-maintenance --- at least in terms of being able to go out drinking when you want to.
I really enjoy nginx, as it's more flexible to configure but I've never understood why Apache got this slow label...

FTA:
In February 2012, the Apache 2.4.x branch was released to the public. Although this latest release of Apache has added new multi-processing core modules and new proxy modules aimed at enhancing scalability and performance, it's too soon to tell if its performance, concurrency and resource utilization are now on par with, or better than, pure event-driven web servers. It would be very nice to see Apache application servers scale better with the new version, though, as it could potentially alleviate bottlenecks on the backend side which still often remain unsolved in typical nginx-plus-Apache web configurations.

I'm using Apache 2.4 with mpm_event + mod_proxy_fcgid and it's doing fine - 99% of the work and time spend is done in the FastCGI application anyway and for static content mpm_event is good enough. I wouldn't run a dedicated static CDN box on Apache but for everything that can run on a single server Apache can also do the job... even HTTP/2 with mod_h2 works fine as of 2.4.17

A problem with nginx is to figure out what matches in a complex config... it's not straightforward. .htaccess is nice and simple for a shared server with lot's of users.

I really like nginx but I guess most people just don't really need it. Migrating to 2.4 and mpm_event should be good enough.
Because the creator of the product has a financial interest in the success of MIPS
There is a limited form of it available as an Xcode plugin.

- https://github.com/johnno1962/injectionforxcode
>This is why I believe that the democratic mindset is harmful, though not democracy in of itself.

Why not? The average voter has so little information that the entire enterprise seems to be a bad joke.

A sham.
You're very efficiently generating pithy sound-bites, but I'm not sure that you're either listening or thinking...
Well, here's the thing that perhaps I didn't explain very well: it's not the ideas, it's the execution that bothers me.

First grade stuff is here [0]. Reading through these ideas, I don't really see anything wrong with them other than the standard is clearly written by a committee and is useless for actually doing anything. Very nebulous language that sounds nice and has some good intentions but isn't concrete, as you said. So, as long as we gear these principles appropriately for the abilities of the kids, we should be fine.

So you have to look at the execution. Which is most visible in the avalanche of "look at this bullshit worksheet my kid brought home today" posts that angry parents put up. I think those speak for themselves. As I said, they're often so arbitrary that they make little sense.

[0]: http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Content/1/introduction/
What prevents software module marketplaces from being popular?
In my opinion, a software module might be much more valuable than a digital design asset (like themes, icons, etc), yet looks very hard to sell in comparison.

For example, why is not that common to sell rights over a private node module that solves a specific problem to a company/entrepreneur?
>The Creator Ci40 IoT dev kit is available exclusively from Kickstarter

Yet "Kickstarter is not a store".

I also question why a company as big as Imagination needs Kickstarter.
If you were going to run an on-prem version of Slack why not go with one of the existing tools that does the same thing?
Let's also be careful not to overuse "innovate" until it has no meaning. Fashion changes a lot but that does not mean it's advancing.
There are many Linux-capable CPU architectures in use today, including MIPS, x86, Power, ARC and others.

The world is moving towards an ISA-neutral, heterogeneous computing environment. If you look at an SoC today, it is very likely that it uses a combination of CPUs, including ARM, MIPS, ARC etc.
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If you are Mozart, Newton, Turing, or Jesus, you have a deck of "get out of parenthood debates on message boards free" cards, and as your attorney in this matter, I advise you to start using them.
I have been to a social media session where they explained why (for that industry) QR codes are now kryptonite because they have been abused so much and users just associate them with bad Ux.
Dude, that guy's crazy.

Not all startups are like this.
What if you just did it more of the functional way. Have an object for state that is passed in for each function. Then Object.create isn't so bad. Just an idea as I found this pattern easier to maintain though I still use new.
It's non-copyable because it's added with CSS and not an element on the page. It's done this way because CSS is the only way for a subreddit's moderators to add a message like this. (Reddit allows moderators to customize CSS, but not otherwise alter pages.)
It's true that a neurologist wouldn't work on your knee, but to become a neurologist, you would have to study the knee in medical school. Even specialists need to have a proficient knowledge in other areas.
Men and women get some pressure to have kids, but women get more of it, for pretty obvious reasons.
those words like matrix reload
> Nothing happens, because it turns out that his local filesystem is not synced with docker, which is linked through to docker-machine, which is running inside a VM on a virtualbox host.

Not to mention GUI/UID issues when mounting an HFS volume.
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If you read the story, many identifies have been stolen. Some lost money in the bank, some got credit card charges. People were confused, paranoid, scared of not knowing what to do other than going to office and hoping something better would come out. I think the term "ruin lives" is not the sort of life and death kind, rather the social and psychological effects were and probably still are, dangerous to close to ruin one's life. Imagine someone comes into your house and destroy everything you cherish (photos, videos). Now instead imagining that this happens to your friend, then your other friend the following month, you will keep pondering and worrying whether you will be next. You are literally sitting duck.

Getting your credit back to good standard is a really really tough effort.
Until I learnt the correct way of pronouncing it, I always thought it was "en-ginks".

Sometimes there can be a long gap (even many years) between first reading about something and first using its name in conversation. A long time for mispronunciations to stew away in my brain (assuming the person I'm talking to even knows how to pronounce it themselves.)
Historical reasons...after nginx started blowing Apache's performance out of the water, Apache addressed some fundamental architectural issues and caught (mostly) up.

As an example, I would refer you to a discussion down this thread about Apache 1.x forking for concurrent connections.
I think that's the real problem...you have to go find an app to read them. If your phone's built in camera detected them and suggested that you visit the link, that might make it easier.
A funny story in a middle eastern country they put a huge QR code on a road billboard and expected users to scan it while they were driving the highway.
Just tested. It doesn't replace the activities, it replaces parts of the compiled code (classes' dex?) with new versions.

It works well most of the time. Sometimes it can cause some nasty crashes. I guess it's expected since you can't just replace some object instances and expect it to work.

The settings does have an option to also restart the current activity when it does the hot swapping. I guess it's to account for those cases when hot swapping doesn't work as expected.
Bingo, these are the same toolbags that were crowing about letting students see their magic sauce Verilog, which was license encumbered and definitely not as good as other fully open architectures out there.

Don't fall for this crap, everyone.
If it's causal, it's a problem with the system of economic development, because outside of Logan's Run, economically developed countries need to replace their populations in order to fund retirements --- not to mention drug discovery, ever-increasing Internet bandwidth, and new PS4 games.

Pretty much the whole of western civilization is organized around and dependent on families having kids.
What is worse is, employees -- who make up the common-pool -- don't get to see the terms of these late stage rounds. So, their share of valuation is sinking and they are not made aware of it.

Also, doesn't outstanding stock an useless/misleading metric without disclosing liquidation preferences of the investors?
You should learn more about those actions in question instead of finding justifications based on nothing but your imagination. I've included enough links to give you a basic education on the subject matter.

Don't write another word on this thread until you've read them all.
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Note also the 500 downvotes. ;)
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According to https://developer.wordpress.com/calypso/ the jetpack plugin is required for wordpress.org users (mentioned that above) and it sounds like you need to use their node.js hosting. (the point of .org is self-hosting)

So this all goes to my original point that there is very little clarity on where this leaves wordpress.org. It's clearly a big endorsement of node.js, which is great, but there needs to be some clear strategic intent here for where we're headed with wordpress.org - beyond what seems to be a band-aid.
Something like this I put into the category of technology art. Not something I want to invest my own time on, but like seeing. Doesn't mean it's for everyone though.

As for whether this makes you less of a hacker. I doubt it. We all hack in different ways. For me, my hacking today consisted of writing a scheduled payment simulator in JavaScript to help explain to the tech guys how it is expected to behave (fed up of writing documents).
Apache 2.4 isn't event driven. The Apache's Even MPM only handles keep-alive connections asynchronously, while the whole request processing is still synchronous. It solves only one problem of Apache, but it still doesn't make it as scalable as nginx.
The paradox is that if the specialist chooses correctly, they have a better shot at moving around outside their original company. No matter how my blog posts people write or discussions we have here, the vast majority of companies will still hire a one-trick pony over a generalist as long as that one trick is what they need at the moment. Hiring, like so much else in the corporate world, is far too short-sighted.
Three main reasons.

1) Going through resellers and distributors adds a signficant premium. By using Kickstarter, we can sell the kit at a reduced price.

2) Kickstarter enables us to communicate directly to indie developers, makers and other hackers and get their feedback on the product.

3) The funds will help us accelerate development for the open source software stack.

Other companies have used crowdfunding to launch products recently, including Canonical, Sony and - more recently - Pepsi.
> This is confusing - if the goal is to have high-tech companies there, and it should be, why wait?

Because you don't create high-tech companies simply by decreeing that it will be so, even if you have a lot of money behind your decree. You need a bunch of infrastructure (reliable power is a big one, but educated and trained workers are probably the most important). If you try to go to high-tech in one step, you're going to have to create a huge amount of infrastructure, all of which has no present reason to exist. (You expect that it will in the future that you are aiming for, but in the present it has none.)

It seems much more likely to work to build some industry and some infrastructure, then some more of each, then some more of each, as you try to move to higher tech.

An analogy: It's easier and safer to climb a ladder one rung at a time than it is to try to jump off a trampoline directly to the top rung.
Thats why you have multiple hubs and multiple client servers....redundancy!
In that particular case, it's likely less "fail to comprehend the consequences of their actions" and more "underestimate the chances of being caught"...
Steve Gibson's SQRL looks to be an interesting application of QR codes.
https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm
No, no! It is at least a six player game. You have Wallonian socialists and Flemish socialists, Wallonian Catholics and Flemish Catholics, etc.

And expert players can choose to play for a German-language version of one of those. Those parties can only achieve something by carefully maintaining the balance of power.
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I'm sure big companies love SAP. The killer feature is that it works. There is no other comparable software. You will never run out of guys who can maintain the system. The user interface is complicated by design; it's reusable and you can check/see every value multiple times before it is finally saved (wrong data leads to wasted time & wasted money); and finally it's easier for the consultants to implement. And in my opinion the most important fact is that the customers of SAP are top-level executives and so on and not the end-user.
(This is a direct copy of my post on another thread about this)

As a staunch advocate of adblockers: as is Yahoo!'s right and adblocker makers should not attempt to circumvent it.

Yahoo! doesn't have an implicit right to their code running fully on my machine but by the same token I don't have an implicit right to their services. If they've made it clear they think I am not making a bargain with them that they like then I respect that.

What I can't respect is whinging about adblockers in editorials but still serving me the content (cough, The Verge).
But the interesting thing, is that the iPad was created before the iPhone, and shelved to make way for the iPhone, so I'd say the modified graph reflects if not the release order, at least the order of innovation.
Maybe you could just get bored within the article and they want to show you more content before you leave the page. if you actually want to finish the article a simple button press isn't trememndous. just keep your interest and show you alternatives early.
[citation needed]

That is, if you actually want to convince anyone, you're going to have to do more than simply asserting that it's true.
It is not Docker vs Rails or Vagrant or some other technology, it is having that technology really work.

From my point of view having a build process where somebody can be productive within an hour of sitting down is part of doing business and it is not hard to attain if it is a goal. That Ruby shop which is so FUBAR in that article is ahead of the curve of the industry as a whole -- it is not unusual for it to take a month or so for somebody to learn to get the build system to work reliably in some places.
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Advertising SQL injection vulnerability? Priceless.

(The grammar, style, and the use of the term "Pass Word" also are, well, special.)
backgrounder here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10614310
Most if the machinery could be tried on the moon first. If we adopt a Mars Direct approach, a return vessel with in-situ refuelling capability would arrive and recommissioning itself before the crew even left Earth, and we might even trial the return vehicle in an automated there-and-back mission first. With all these factors, I think the chances of success could probably be improved to perhaps 90% arrival and 70% return. Pure guesses though, of course.
I agree that the execution of the curriculum has been lousy! But we shouldn't confuse the Common Core Standards with the curriculum. I've actually been pondering this for the last little while- I think most states are paying gobs of cash money to the textbook industry to develop their curriculum and tests. The textbook industry is likely purposefully screwing it all up- they then orchestrate a PR campaign to blame it all on the Common Core Standards, to avoid having any blame on themselves. Best part? When the states decide to ditch it all and start over- guess who gets the contracts to redo the tests/curriculum! Brilliant bit of evil doing on the part of the scum suckers!
Thanks for that comment. Running a complex nginx config with lot's of special treatment for subfolders on nginx - why and where a requests ends up in such a configuration is really difficult to tell.

However Apache just can't do some things that help you shooting in your foot. Maybe the C++ vs. Java comparison is not too far fetched.
Now how long will it take for Amazon to release a dedicated host marketplace where you can sell unused space on your dedicated hosts?
Two things:

1) In a decentralized network where you are also the client, you also usually rely on another party: the party that contains the resource you wish to access. Not that many decentralized networks give every node a complete copy of all of the data in the network.

2) In a federated network with open federation (Tor, XMPP, email, etc...), you can choose to become a server in that network and be a part of the thing that everyone else relies on.

I'm still having trouble seeing the essential distinction between the two. Is the assertion that "decentralized" networks force you to be a server in the network, whereas federated networks leave the choice up to you?
Have you seen nginScript (1)? It's a syntax for embedding snippets of JavaScript in your NGINX configuration. This allows for scripting application logic into standard NGINX config files via a very common and simple language. There's some more details and simple examples at this blog post.

(1) https://www.nginx.com/blog/launching-nginscript-and-looking-...

(disclaimer: I work at NGINX)
Probably not many people have read (for example) Torproject ...

Mission Impossible: Hardening Android for Security and Privacy

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/mission-impossible-hardenin...
Cinder (YC W15) is hiring a Senior EE/VPE to ship millions of units worldwide
If you setup a dedicated host, does that also include local SSD disks, or do you have to still use EBS?
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Almost, I believe that the line is "You're gonna have to answer to The Coca-Cola Company" [1]. Brilliant film, one of my all time favourites.

[1]: https://youtu.be/DUAK7t3Lf8s?t=1m49s
"Exactly as well" meaning going down fairly often?
Chess was invented long before computer. It's not unfairly biased; it happens to be a particular human endeavor that computers can (relatively) easily be made much better at.
On the fly C++
Why would you want an Apple GUI on headless hardware? Apple seems content to run Linux for their web servers[0]. Pixar, when still majority owned by Steve Jobs, used Linux for its render farms[1].

Before Steve Jobs returned, Apple was working on MkLinux[2], but that effort seemed to fizzle out, and it seemed like in later years, the idea of using Linux as a starting point was a non-starter[3]. Even Airport devices typically have run either VxWorks or - more recently - NetBSD.

0 - http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fap...
1 - http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/Pixar_Big_on_Linux_Cl...
2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MkLinux
3 - http://www.wired.com/2008/11/the-iphone-coul/
Doesn't that defeat the purpose of obtaining a dedicated host?
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All the advantages of a dedicated server without the hassle of saving tons of money.
Check if you're affected by the Dell root CA scandal
I invented one and wrote an article about why: https://caddyserver.com/blog/deliberate-caddyfile-syntax

(You're definitely not the only one to ask that question.)
Ah, yes, the standards and the curriculum are not the same (just as my engineering schematics are not my system).

I, too, have been thinking about this a lot. My perspective is as a brand new dad who is sitting here looking at his 11 day old son and wondering how best to educate him. The standards aren't the curriculum, but as far as my son is concerned, what's the difference? It's all a big ball of nastiness that I don't want to expose him to. My wife and I are looking into homeschooling or private education to avoid Common Core and the rest of the insanity that is prevalent in public schools.
Google is turning more and more into a lead gen company every day. They have been testing something similar with insurance, hotel bookings and solar. Soon enough search results will be dominated by Google's lead capture pages/forms and those leads will be sold to 3+ companies.

If Google is confident about being able to capture the leads, they can make a lot more money from this approach vs what they make from a click.

If they continue to go more into this direction, would that make them more of a marketplace vs a search engine?