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Trying to be constructive, I would say this needs to zoom out a few layers and make a case for what concepts it is trying to address.

The primary means to distribute open source software is via source code. Automagical technologies to assemble all the source code for a dependency tree, and/or automagical technologies to fetch precompiled dependency trees with curated options, versions, component granularities, etc are extremely non-trivial problems. To date the only examples of this done with a measure of effectiveness are actually entire operating system distributions backed by software like apt, yum, pkg-src, etc.

Primarily because of the total failure in this regard of windows and osx, individual languages themselves starting advancing ecosystem centric dependency management with files retrievable from servers hosted on line. At best, this style strategy solves some of the problems some of the time, and at worst breaks the ability to make things even work the old way - ie manual download, assembly, and compilation of source code dependency trees.

In the context of largely portable, interpreted code, this sort of thing is at plausible. In the context of native code with multi-dimensional matrices of OS/Compiler/libc/versions/flags/phases of the moon, the notion of a repository of precompiled binaries to even enough cover "common cases" to be thought of as a language level feature.

In the case of source dependency management, exposing the information about where and how things are installed and reachable for use in the build environment of the foreground project is hard enough, and trying to be able to hold cross platform build recipes of some sort is literally the creation of yet another operating system. Take homebrew for example.

Perhaps some sort of unification wrapper over apt and pkg-config is a thought, but honestly can't even guess what problems can be addressed with something like this.

In all seriousness the only cross platform solution maintaining build environments is to just host all builds on linux, use mingw64 and osxcross along with apt or yum + regular pkg-config, git, etc.

This looks like someone who thinks things like pip and gem make sense trying to overlay that paradigm to a broader scope. Or maybe I'm just too old to "get it". Please clue me in?
> "In spite of continuous attempts on the part of educationalists to proscribe singular they in favour of he, its use remained widespread, and the advice was largely ignored".

> So, it appears that "they" is the imposition, "he" is the widespread use.

I think you are confusing the word "proscribe" with the sounds-and-looks-very-similar-but-means-almost-exactly-the-opposite "prescribe".

proscribe: forbid, especially by law; denounce or condemn

prescribe: recommend (a substance or action) as something beneficial; state authoritatively or as a rule that (an action or procedure) should be carried out.
When I read this stuff (as in the letter) I just think one thing:

You guys are so full of yourselves.
Interesting how internet connectivity is mentioned without a reference to internet.org after that got a lot of net-neutrality heat. Regardless, great to see so much money being invested in so many great causes.
While I think it's great (but insufficient) that students and kids have greater privacy protection than adults, it begs the question why all of us shouldn't enjoy the same level of protection.

Just because one becomes an adult does not mean that an adult is less deserving of the same level of protection.
It was open for a bit. This experience has made me start to question all those times I had slow-ish response times and Thunderbird was open. Slowness or game choppiness should be unacceptable given that I have a 4.0 Ghz CPU and 32 GB RAM. I guess it is time to look for a new email client :/
I personally can't stand this sort of thing because it conflates something personal/intimate with a press release, and that's just kinda gross to me.
I have had some problems with the way his company operates sometimes but I can't find a single thing he said I don't emphatically agree with here. Hat tip, Mark Z.
The perspective from someone who learned English as a first language is that it's just as annoying a linguistic issue as it is to those who learned English later. Those of us raised on English likewise have a bad time with ambiguous gender situations ("he/she"). Used to be just "he" when ambiguous/irrelevant, but sociopolitical outrage over possible misapplication of the pronoun discourages such use, so our choice is either the obnoxious "he/she" (raising the issue of alternate applicability in a context where it really doesn't matter) or the now-common but still irritating singular "they" (ignoring the plural definition, and implying attempted reconciliation for the originating sociopolitical angst).
a bit off-topic but they should really port Sketch to Windows and Linux.
Which is exactly the type of stuff Zuck is talking about here, although in less power-hungry ways. So you're kind of proving @austenallred's point.
It's Google. Any plaintext data they are in possession of is mined by definition.

If all they wanted was sync, they could use some flavor of secure key exchange to protect it, as others do.
Which is probably why it still looks like shit on Retina screens. Oh, how I love HTML apps...
The context here is primarily about under-13 year olds, which is what COPPA is concerned with (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act).

And I'm still gonna go with nobody is issuing NSL requests for your high school drama.
And then Indians will spend that on cooling instead.
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Seems that Zuck succeeded. So now all he has to do, to gain the old users who didn't agree with Facebook policies, to post cute family notes.
If it was only being synced, it would be encrypted with a client side passphrase. It is not.
Oh for sure, there's a level of intimacy involved that, in a way, acts as a buffer against criticism.

To criticise the lovely sentiment would be like pointing out a child making a half-dozen spelling errors in their letter to Santa Claus.
Assuming Facebook maintains it's valuation.

Empires grow and empires crumble.
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Me neither. But if you come in via a Google search link it usually works, except that sometimes an annoying survey pops up. I doubt they'll keep the annoying survey for much longer than it takes them to figure out that all the answers are bogus.
> but Telegram is not even sending messages that are shared from WhatsApp

This is wrong. If you follow the logic (which is admittedly difficult) you'll see they are stripping out the "sent from WhatsApp" tagline WhatsApp adds when you share a photo, etc from WhatsApp to Telegram.

You'll still get the photo, it just won't have the tagline indicating where it came from. Still a bit shady but I also dislike the "Sent from ..." taglines.

EDIT: Parent is a WhatsApp employee... now this seems like sort of a lame attempt to justify their own unethical behavior. This makes me pretty bummed.
I'd love to read that post... what's your blog?
I sent this post to my boss at a previous job. Why? Because I became tired of his constant interruptions. One week I decided to keep track of his interruptions. The average number of interruptions -- just from him -- was 10, with a maximum of 17. His response was "You need to learn to get more work done between my interruptions, so I won't need to interrupt you so much to check on you."

Just one of many reasons why I don't work there anymore.
Bet this is done on purpose.
Also bet without checking anything that the telegram commit was prior to whatsapp block, and that it was just whatsapp retaliating.

Dirty games. I don't want to use either.
> right now, we don't always collectively direct our resources at the biggest opportunities and problems your generation will face.

One of the biggest problems facing kids in the west is digital addiction. Society as a whole is still collectively in denial here as adults gain from it, from parents who get some peace while the kids play with the iPad to game developers pushing out endless FarmVille clones attempting to get kids hooked enough to convince their parents to approve some in-app payments.

The problem is already there - just need to look at the amount of Ritalin being subscribed - http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/may/06/ritalin-adhd-...
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Supported by the bones of secular people no doubt.
Just wow. I asked my parents how my birth changed their lives. They said they had to invest in some good ear plugs (for themselves) as a sleep aid, and that they lost a sock drawer until I graduated to the futon. While I did not spark the solving of the world's problems, at least I did have some small impact.
Japan is not allowed to have a preemptive overseas strike capability because of what they did with it last time.

(Also, there are a number of microstates with ceremonial armed forces only, and Costa Rica has none at all)
No pressure or anything. Love, Mom and Dad.
I see you have some downvotes but I came here to say the same thing. Zuck is using the birth of his daughter to advertise a new venture.

You want to be generous? Great, do it!

Telling us in a letter to your daughter as a hook to attract eyeballs is kind of weird and exploitative.

Update: I also thought I should say that this is no big deal, he has some different ideas about what's ok and what's not and I see that every day, I'm not mr perfect either.

I guess the reason it's interesting in this case is because he is head of facebook and entrusted with a lot of people's personal information. If his judgment is different to mine then I don't feel comfortable entrusting him with my social life.
WhatsApp doesn't have a desktop client either.
I've never been a fan of Codepens UI :{
Perhaps you could discuss it with the techzing guys again? It would be nice to get into the details.
According to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's financial declarations [0], assets as of December 2014 read at a hair under $45 billion. This very much rivals the size, even if it will take some time to build momentum and make as much of a difference as the Gates Foundation has to date.

[0] http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Who-We-Are/General-Informatio...
I can't speak for most users... but for current *nix users, it would be a very attractive alternative. I'd just assume use linux or windows over osx, except I prefer bash, and in windows it's a little wonky.

The GUI experience in osx is the most off for me. I'm used to hitting the super/win key, typing in an appname, then enter to open... similar between linux and windows... OSX doesn't do that... though my most-used apps are docked.

Not to mention my muscle memory is really pc centric, and going back and forth sucks. Even when I switch keys around, ctrl/cmd are backwards in terminal.. then to top it off, my work issued mbp is locked down so I can't use most of the apps that could switch it around per-app.
http://www.ghostnoteapp.com/blog/2015/03/ although I am probably also going to put it on my personal blog http://www.000fff.org.
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It does have a USB OTG port. In principle it should support device mode, but currently the kernel has it forced off to avoid interop problems, and if you fix that the driver is known to be buggy. But if device mode can be made to work then you can use USB gadget drivers such as g_ether to communicate with a bigger computer using just a USB cable - make a cheap alternative to a USB Armory, perhaps.
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> They simply need to be liable (both civil and criminal) for any problems that arrive.

OK, but why bother saying that when they already are? Like, yes, Google is liable for data Google holds. Water is also wet.

> The idea that Google gets to collect all the data on people they want without any responsibility for how they handle that data is insane.

That idea appears to be something you made up, though?

> I'm not - those are examples, not an exhaustive list. That said, data stays around forever, while 2nd graders eventually grow up. If you want a more likely example, try insurance companies.

Since you're sticking by this please name a single thing a 2nd grader could do that literally anybody but their parents would give a shit about a week later, much less 10 years later?
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Global warming just means there's more energy in the atmosphere. Hotter summers, colder winters, more powerful storms, ...
dang. you're right. mea culpa.
Whether or not the letter is narcissistic, one has to admire their initiative. It is not, unfortunately, the obvious thing to do, and they deserve to be applauded for that.

Whatever personal faults the man has, I'd argue this kind of philanthropy more than makes up for it.
I agree with you about the last level. I definitely needed the "cheat sheets" as the options for properties are difficult to remember (names kind of blend together). Finally I opened another browser window on the site I could refer to. Then I was able to glean the right options and solve it without too much difficulty.
I've given my technical criticism. LuaJIT + it's ffi module by themselves do a better job than this poor excuse for software. They contain more features by themselves such as all of the "positives" Terra claims to provide (which are actually already provided by LuaJIT as well as preserving drop-in replacement potential, not screwing with syntax, and not having to initialize a secondary system alongside the Lua VM itself.)

What arguments can you make besides saying I'm a big doo doo head? Is it not technical criticism because I didn't write it to your liking? I do think the creator(s) of the language are idiots.

Hey guys! Let's not separate syntax by different file extensions or abstraction! Let's put static and dynamic type in the same file! Great idea. That's snark.
I tried them. Integrating their SDK is a breeze. 30 minutes and you're ready to go. I also signed up for their paid analytics package. It's OK - nothing revolutionary but enough to track events.

A few weeks later I wanted to cancel the subscription (app development would take a little longer). But there's no button to cancel. So I wrote them an email and all I got was a reply where they'd like to give me a Skype call to "talk over my decision".

That and their regular "customer engagement" emails (I just want to use your service, I don't want to video chat every weekend) made me choose Devmate instead.

(I still pay the $10/month for the analytics so I guess their plan worked).
This is really cool. I kind of missed notes in Facebook. How do you create one?
> Tell CMOS then.

The article specifically discusses the history of the CMOS with singular "they", which recommended singular they in the 14th Edition, and reversed for the following versions (15th and the current 16th.)
Developers have been sending feedback to Apple for many years, and they haven't listened. The only option left is to vote with their feet.

Look on the bright side - losing big-name apps might finally force Apple to fix the MAS, then those devs might come back.
Something's always bugged me about relying on philanthropy as a source of funding the public good, as opposed to the public funding the public good through taxation and the democratic process: In the former case, the public doesn't really have much of a say about where the help goes. We must rely on the judgment (and personal values) of a few rich people and hope they pick charities that maximize the benefit.

Would the outcome be better or worse if we had, say, a 99% tax bracket at >$N million, and let the public decide the best way to deploy that funding via the ballot box? Would that process better align with the values of a democratic society? Or would we just get more corporate welfare, bombers and aircraft carriers?

I'm not ragging on philanthropy--it's awesome that some of these billionaires understand the meaning of "enough" and choose to give away their fortunes to worthy causes. But is it best for society to leave it to a few lucky 'elite' to judge what is and isn't a worthy cause?
That argument doesn't work. It's like saying "well, prove the boogieman doesn't exist".

If you're going to claim malice, it's your responsibility to provide evidence.
Excellent! I am sure HitTail is in great hands with Stas behind the cockpit. Looking forward to seeing what comes and excellent job by FEI.
The value of something with no buyers is zero. Go try to sell an idea, by itself. You'll fail.

This article somewhat confuses "good" with "actionable". I had some good business ideas when I was young. I know they were good because companies later succeeded with that business plan. I just couldn't enact them.

If ideas had a non-zero value, then even as a 13 year old, I could have gone to the idea market and sold them. You'll find there are no buyers however.
It seems that they also removed the RSS feed, which is a shame.
Spend several years in a trench and you might change your mind.
I don't think Telegram is something people who need security should be using, but this kind of stylistic shaming toward open-source projects is useless at best and harmful in most cases.
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I find that I don't agree with the whole thing. It just seems like a PR stunt to me :(
Why the fuck are you posting a letter to your daughter across the globe? Why do you have a letter at all, can you just say it to her sometime when she is actually able to understand.
I guess for him completely different rules apply, but my wife and I don't even post any pictures of our daughter online nor are we sharing anything about her. She should be able to decide herself, what she wants to put there, when she is able to…
Sort of like people use Java to write JVM languages?
In this case it really does just sound like "the tax incentive is working as intended".
Reading this is impossible to not to think of Bill Gates. Someone who realized the impact his money can have. Many people in this industry have been influenced by the actions of Gates, especially in the tech community. As a 20 something the money I make certainty pales in comparison to that of Gates or Zuckerberg, but even at a low rate for the tech industry it is much above that of my friends, many of who have worked much harder to get to where they are. It is difficult to be in a position to give help and refuse. Perhaps the effect Gates can have on the minds of the wealthy will be even greater than the already vast contributions he has produced.
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The first thing you need to do is realize that grammatical gender has nothing to do with actual gender or lack thereof.

Unless you really think a turnip is feminine, and a little girl has no gender like in German.

All they're doing is describing a category of like nouns. The term for the grouping happens to be the word gender. The word is overloaded in this case to mean multiple things and is at best a false cognate.

The fact that the same thing can have multiple genders or lack thereof as you noted should be the biggest clue that grammatical gender has nothing to do with genitals.
These opinions really are going to have an influence on the entire industry.
So "Photoshop on Linux" means "Photoshop on Windows on Linux"... that's not really a solution. That's Windows.
Pretty different from what? Afghanistan in the 70s/80s was almost exactly this: a destabilized national government, insurgent forces taking and holding territory, global powers being dragged into it. The only differences are the rhetoric.

Edit: here, this may be a link that helps you understand more of the history of the region as well as the context for the rise of AQ/ISIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maktab_al-Khidamat
In what way does your neighbor having ownership of anything implicitely encroach on your civil liberties?

One could damage your person, family or property just as easily with a motor vehicle or household chemicals as they could with an assault rifle. Even then, most hunting rifles are more powerful than the "assault" rifles that are typically used as reference for banning.
Mark Zuckerberg Just Announced He Is Giving Almost All His Money Away
Language Log has posted for many years about singular they, often spotting examples of it in well-edited publications.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?cat=27

See also the wikipedia page on singular they, chock full of usage examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
> Would the outcome be better or worse if we had, say, a 99% tax bracket at >$N million, and let the public decide the best way to deploy that funding via the ballot box?

If we had that and still had charitable deductions, I suspect more public goods would be funded by charity rather than public decision-making then is now the case, since the marginal cost of charity giving would be much lower.
"Sent from" is basically using my mobile messaging activities as advertising, which is why it's highly annoying to me. This is a nice internal fix.
I might be wrong, but didn't he already pay the massive tax bill for all of the stock options? Meaning all of those stocks would be taxed at long term capital gains rates, not at the high rates you are saying here. I believe his Federal taxes on sales would be 15% of current price - IPO price so approximately 4.5B not 13-15B at this time. That is also assuming Facebook continues to be dominant and doesn't go the way of every other social networking site before it, but that is a different issue.

And either way, the charitable organizations deserve to be supported and will do good for society, and they get to pick how it is used. Which doesn't seem like a bad thing, when the Federal government can barely agree on any budget at all.
> Today your mother and I are committing to spend our lives doing our small part to help solve these challenges. I will continue to serve as Facebook's CEO for many, many years to come, but these issues are too important to wait until you or we are older to begin this work. By starting at a young age, we hope to see compounding benefits throughout our lives.

In other words, I'm getting in on this philanthropy thing at a much younger age than Bill Gates.
I am in your camp. I cannot even say that our culture is different, plenty of people fillin up FB with photos of their kids, but this just looks so wrong to me.
And in this case, some mix of PR and bragging.
For anyone interested, here is the source for that second one: https://github.com/mbostock/d3/blob/gh-pages/talk/20111116/b...

and the data: https://github.com/mbostock/d3/blob/gh-pages/talk/20111116/f...
Will this ~$45 billion go to efficient use? Based on his track record of $100 million to newark and how effective that was, I am skeptical.

Good intentions in philanthropy are a dime a dozen, actual results are less common.