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>the particular details and manner in which Dr. Piper did so in this case, however, taken as presented, shows a lack of both the general adult ability to maturely deal with uncomfortable situations and the specific Christian virtues it pretends to be concerned with.

Can you not judge the student under the same criteria? If the student had been pursuing Christian virtues, the student would have taken the time to see how the sermon could better him/her as a Christian, and not immediately taken offense to it.
>Some positions are simply not worth discussing thoughtfully.

Who decides which is which? I guess you?
If I can take a stab a summarizing the article: A follower of a religious organization disagrees with the message put forth, so an official from that organization condemns the follower's views?

Since there really isn't much more information than that, I can only guess that students at OKWU aren't expected to be critical of the curriculum, and that the administration isn't terribly willing to accept this criticism, possibly due to it's biblical emphasis, but I feel like many institutes, religious or not, have this problem. Take the case of Fullerton's Math department earlier this year.

Another thing that bothers me is that the story could be anecdotal -- the lack of detail makes me suspicious as to whether it's true, or just propaganda that the author is using to enforce that students should accept what they are taught without question.
Do apps really contact the App Store to approve each launch? That would be a lot of tracking data that could be collected. How could it work if the endpoint is not connected to a network?
Quoting me definitions that arose to begin with from bunk science does not negate my point that they're incorrect and based on bunk science. Just because words have entered the popular lexicon doesn't make them correct when applied in the very area the bad science was done. The term alpha is non-sense, end of story.

> I don't know what alpha theory you are talking about,

Clearly, so why don't you look into the origins of the word and its current usage; what you'll find is bad science. Packs don't have alphas and betas, dogs and wolves don't have alphas and betas; the leader of a pack is usually the father of the pack, not the strongest or most dominant in a pack, and everything implied about dominance by the term alpha is simply wrong. It's not how packs work, it's not how baboons work, it's not how social groups work. There are no betas and no alphas. It's just bad science that got popular enough to enter the popular lexicon.
Really? They seem to target different kinds of users. For illustration work Affinity Designer has the edge but was still pretty badly suited for the kinds of UI design work people usually do in Sketch. Or at least that was the case the last time I tried it.
You might be looking for http://terralang.org/api.html § Managing Terra Values from Lua. Quoting:

> We provide wrappers around LuaJIT’s FFI API that allow you to allocate and manipulate Terra objects directly from Lua.
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"It's insisting that a declaration be given in advance to remove someone from the possibility of having to cope with something uncomfortable."

Which is different...how?
Because the first amendment gives me the right to say or write anything. This is a fundamental right in a democracy.
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its an old idea and until my last search around two years ago I've found almost nothing.

In my infinite spare time (in retirement or something) I plan to build one of a scale large enough to launch something like a water balloon or maybe paintball payload a couple feet. I'm well aware there are simpler and more efficient ways to toss a water balloon ten or twenty feet, but its unlike there exist any cooler ways to do it. I would take it to the local maker faire and set it up next to the guy with the pumpkin trebuchet (every faire seems to have one of those guys).

It turns out that shock loads can be significant and dynamic stability is not exactly guaranteed, which makes it a cool engineering project. Also for small ones either the payload has to be extremely small (resulting in the paintball payload) or the loop has to be extremely heavy (probably not insurance approved, although it would be cool to spin up a length of hoist cable).

The one thing I have found is a cat or kid toy implementation radius about one foot. Its moderately cool. In order to eliminate or cut down on medical bills it has some elaborate and extremely fast motor current monitoring, which is usually the downfall of the toy.

If you're thinking the same thing I'm thinking, I wish you good luck. Its a cool project idea.

This topic comes up almost like clockwork on HN every couple years. Eventually I'll have something cool to demo.
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"No one does this or asks for it" despite it being pretty easy to do is a good signal that there is no demand for it.

Not a perfect signal, but a good one.
Would you prefer exclusive Mac OS games through Steam or Mac App Store?
access it via incognito. agree btw
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Unlike you know something I don't about Kunix specifically, I don't think he's talking about Mozilla development in particular, but rather development in general.
I was poking at the non-standard portion. Lowering barrier to development of plugins, patches, etc is fine, but being standard doesn't help or hinder that. Popularity and ease of introduction help that. Javascript (that is, the dialect of ECMAScript that is implemented by Firefox) itself is non-standard and Mozilla isn't throwing that one out for exclusively ES2015.
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> why can't we try to reform your aggressors in the first place?

This is a synonyme for restricting free speech and the first amendment.
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Sketch 3 and Affinity Designer are two completely different markets. Sketch is a vector editing program (competing with Adobe Illustrator and Inkscape), Affinity Designer is a photo editing program (competing with Photoshop and Pixelmator).
I'm not sure how this support will be added though. So far the last WebStorm ( which arrived a month ago ) supports 1.6, but definitely not as good as let's say visual code.

Example for that is lack of per module definition files .d.ts and package.json typing a property.

I'm fairly In a mood to switch to visual code or Atom, since I write exclusively typescript nowadays.
Just yesterday I had commented in a donation related thread here that it would be nice to donate to Thunderbird as one of the causes that's important. [1] As a long time Thunderbird user in an Exchange/Outlook environment, I'm disappointed each time I hear news about its priority being pushed further down.

The TechCrunch article says, "Apart from the fact that Mozilla had cut off most development support in 2012, Thunderbird has become a somewhat anachronistic product." For any enterprise or business environment where email still rules, calling Thunderbird "anachronistic" sounds misinformed and insulting. Thunderbird may not have the market share of Outlook or the glamor of smartphone based mail apps, but I'm sure those who use Thunderbird are really passionate about what it provides and the extensibility that comes with it.

One of the things I don't like about the Mozilla of the past few years is the high amount of effort and time spent on Firefox OS. I don't want to put that down, but Mozilla is trying very hard with very less traction on it and still pushing onward.

Mitchell's message sounds like more planning is in the works to separate Thunderbird and probably make it stand on its own. This will take some time to plan and execute, with Thunderbird just languishing in the meantime. There could also be a complete re-write of Thunderbird, which is not really a great idea. I can see both optimistic and pessimistic views on what the future holds.

When Mozilla Messaging was announced, I had high hopes for better integration with Exchange calendaring and also improved search. All that went to nothing in 2012.

If Thunderbird ends up as a separate entity that I can donate directly to, I'll be one of the first to do so!

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10650432
I'm eagerly awaiting the HN comments telling us why we shouldn't be coddling our kids with the illusion of Santa Claus.
The company you're referring to went under a few years ago...
http://sharktankblog.com/toygaroo-bankruptcy-update-from-for...
In short: this is not true.

We are in discussions with Mozilla how to safe Thunderbird and make it sustainable. There is a commitment from Mozilla to make that happen.

Thunderbird will continue being maintained.

Volker Birk
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You're only getting upvotes for what you're saying because HackerNews is a safe-space but only so long as you stay within it's rules and monoculture so fuck you.

(note: I don't actually mean fuck you. I'd like to think y'all can see what I did there.)
It's simple economics --- lock in customers to buy your chips. Just like razor blades and razors.
Good point, I've been phrasing that poorly. Maybe something like I don't think people should be required to walk around with a shell of emotional armor to participate in modern society.
I am, but only because there's no actual evidence that it was racially-motivated, beyond the feelings of the offended.

It smacks to me of, going back to my nerd example, blaming factors outside of my own social ineptitude for not being included for social event X.
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By weeding out I simply mean to ignore. Though weeding out also suggests identifying them as well.
People absolutely sincerely believed that not giving women the right to vote was for the best both for society and the women themselves. There wasn't some malicious conspiracy involving a majority of the voting population.

Women were thought to be naturally uninterested in politics, and to not have the head for it anyway. Dabbling in politics was seen as an unwomanly thing ladies should be spared from.

Not unlike how people today think that the scarcity of women in tech is due to them naturally having less interest in it. It's easy to ascribe the status quo to the natural order of things.

Of writing of that era I like "Are Women People?"[1] It's written from a suffragettes point of view, but it includes some cherry-picked quotes from anti-suffragists, such as:

"The grant of suffrage to women is repugnant to instincts that strike their roots deep in the order of nature. It runs counter to human reason, it flouts the teachings of experience and the admonitions of common sense."—N.Y. Times, Feb. 7, 1915."

That was the kind of thing you could write in a newspaper of the time and have people agree with you. That should tell us something about how blind we can be to contemporary societal problems, and how silly we will look in hindsight.

[1] http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11689/11689-h/11689-h.htm
> It's hard to explain politics regarding present-day Israel without this context, for example.

Not really. The Holocaust wasn't a factor in deciding to build a wall along the West Bank. The suicide bombers that would drive from Ramallah to Tel Aviv and blow themselves up in restaurants were.

Europeans and liberals have constructed this narrative that you are espousing. They want to believe that the Holocaust is the key to understanding Israeli policy. This allows them to dismiss Israeli policy decisions in the face of geopolitical events as simply an irrational and tragic response to their cultural trauma.

It's straight up paternalism and it's disgusting.
Most programmers etc. in California can claim overtime if they make less than $84K. Nationally, it's $23K.
Something like that. It's ridiculous. I could not use 1Password until the App Store came back up, which was pretty inconvenient. Tweetbot also had the same problem and the developer tweeted about the situation: https://twitter.com/tapbot_paul/status/664668084146339840 (and more tweets around that timeframe).
Interesting, I have noticed the same at my university and frankly I don't see the point of those jobs. All they do is raise tuition.
Please post a source for the pro Hitler comment, at least.
Good luck - the main advantage of XUL IMO is that it looks and feels native to the platform. This is completely lacking in any HTML based UI I've ever seen. It's been a major advantage for FF extensions and I can't help but feel like it's a major step backwards to lose it.
The intention of most of their decisions is more about their own money...

Case in point, it took forever for chrome or opera to come to iOS because they "competed" with the apple product already integrated into the OS, and "provided a less seamless user experience" ... basically, Apple didn't want to be outshined on their own platform...
Or at least not about how the institution is offensive to them.
An interesting way to look at historical stock prices. Not really useful but interesting none the less.

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I'm a non-english speaker so it was not so obvious for me.
The primary objective of the Church and the Christian faith is your confession

I was surprised to see this. Is that an evangelical Christian belief?
Why do they have a public discussion to justify their actions. If they choose to, fine but I do not see why they have too.

> the web is not the browser

Actually yes, the web is the browser, or more correctly the browser is your interface to the web. HTTP/HTTPS is the web, everything else is the Internet. Mozilla is focusing on providing a web experience, a SMTP client is not the web experience and they no longer wish to expend resources on it.
Steam seems to remember for a while... i've played Euro Truck Sim while traveling with no internet...
I think this is the 3rd time I've heard Thunderbird is/is going to be unmaintained and that I should avoid it, but I'm yet to see a good alternative. Claws was crashy and didn't DPI scale properly on Windows, OS X Mail had strange behavior with my IMAP server and I just wanted a consistent UI with my Windows and Linux system. My next option is webmail but there's no good IMAP webmail client that seems to be able to handle 8 accounts at once with thousands of messages in each. The best alternative I've seen is probably Alpine, a CLI based client, but that was difficult to use and seemed to randomly send deleted characters from emails to clients, which was almost a major issue on one occasion.

I'm just going to keep running Thunderbird until there are gaping security holes, people say Thunderbird is bad but everything else is worse.
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It used to be incredibly common for production APKs to contain Java debug info (line numbers and variable names). IIRC, Android Studio now sets up the Release builds to strip this out and do basic ProGuard optimizations, but if WhatsApp was migrated from an old build system or something, it could easily be missing this step.
Clearly multiplying "number of white victims" by "percentage of white victims with offenders who are black" is easy to manipulate and misinterpret, as well as counterintuitive.

And detecting an arithmetic error would require significant effort. I'd have to open up ipython, copy&pasting the numbers, remove the commas and other formatting, and then press enter.

Um, ok.
Interisting juxtaposition that you do:

accused and convicted of a crime you didn't commit

and

1 in 3 suffer sexual assault

Does this number include false accusations? If not, what scientifically credible methodology did you use to distinguish false from valid accusations?
No, they don't contact the app store to approve each launch. Apple has a root CA that expired, during this "event" apps wouldn't launch because they couldn't verify the code signing certificate. Apple updated their certificate, and all apps started working again.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10560634
I simply meant that "one point of idea quality" != one point of execution quality, but since its all made up abstract stuff anyway, I suppose all I meant is that a "good idea" has a different value than "good execution" (some people say more, some people say less).
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That's exactly what Apple's scheme does, except that Apple's root certificate expired...

There is no communication between you and Apple when you launch applications.
So you don't agree that the process by which someone reaches a moral position is open to question?

The simpler argument is that Dr Piper is really in no position to act like anyone's external conscience. He has no basis whatsoever to claim that he's either qualified or competent to act in that role.

Now, clearly he believes otherwise. That's very much his prerogative.

It's everyone else's prerogative to decide whether or not they agree.

I'd suggest that anyone who claims to be promoting genuine independent thought is going to be willing to engage in an open debate.

"You're acting like a child and you shouldn't feel the way you do about the things I say" is neither an open position nor an honest one. It's an attempt to shut down debate about an ethical position, not an attempt to encourage it.
We should, but only because it teaches children to doubt religion and religious authority.
Affinity is focused more on graphic design while Sketch is focused more on interface design. The price difference is a huge issue though...Sketch needs to drop their price back down to $50 if they want to remain competitive.
Do you realize that this discussion is going on right now, in the open, on the appropriate mailing list?

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mozilla.governance/kAy...

Take Andrew Sutherlands email for example, that directly, out in the open, discusses the very points you raise:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.governance/kAyVlhfEc...

"The problem with Thunderbird is not that it is a mail user agent or that user agency in messaging is unimportant. The problem is that Thunderbird has had a serious technical debt problem since the day its code-base transitioned from Netscape. Its low-level integration with Gecko has been a maintenance burden for Thunderbird developers and non-Thunderbird developers alike.

The Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation put serious financial resources into trying to address both of these problems with the creation of Mozilla Messaging. The idea, as I understand it, was to attempt to alleviate the burden on Firefox development by separating Thunderbird development while simultaneously providing Thunderbird with
people and resources to attempt to address this technical debt."

"An important question that falls out from all of this is and your original question is: which is more important? Mail user agency or Thunderbird the product, especially if there are serious opportunity costs related to Thunderbird?

Within the funded efforts of the Mozilla Corporation[2], mail user agency has not been abandoned and continues to be advanced as part of an open development process."
Thanks for posting the Mission Statement. Got me thinking a little bit more about their "values" so I was able to quickly dredge up a course catalog. Why? I wondered what their take on Biology would be - you know, that whole Evolution thing.

To wit:

Biology Major — Students will demonstrate the following outcomes, upon completion of the Biology degree offered by the School of Arts and Sciences:

1. A sound basic understanding of the chemistry of life.

2. A sound basic understanding of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell structure and function.

3. A fundamental knowledge of Classical, Molecular, and Population genetics.

4. A sound basic understanding of the proposed mechanisms of evolution and understanding of Creation.

5. A sound basic understanding of the structure and function in plants and animals.

6. A sound basic understanding of ecology.

7. Integration of the Biblical Principles into life sciences.

Needless to say, I'm not surprised by the "framing" of Evolution and, essentially, equivocating its merit with, um, Biblical Creationism.
Turnover is not the demon in high-tech it's made out to be. My colleague left our company after 3 years (reasonable), then left the next job after two months for a startup.

Two months is too short? In that time, he sped up their core calculating engine by 128X. Then he was bored and idle for almost two months. Then the last day he sped up their data inprocessing scripts by 3 days (from 3 days to minutes).

Did he disrupt that company by leaving? No, he disrupted it by revolutionizing their process. Leaving is what you do when 'My work is done here'. Not a bad thing at all.

I expect he'll stick at the startup for much longer. Since they have little or no code nor process, he'll have to invent that. And that takes time.

In tech its not about the time-in-the-chair. Its about the result. And that takes as long as it takes.