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Hi, I am quite sure I have a good idea of what you're going thru (see my comment history for my rants). I have vented enough over the past 2 years and all the stress has burned out, so I'm over it all (I think). But I can't help but offer support whenever someone raises this sort of topic...

Your problem seems, based on what you say, a lot more narcissistic than the guys I had to deal with - yes, that is actually a positive, believe me. The problem is obvious... I lost 5 years of my life to this stupid startup and got little out of it except some harsh life lessons.

Good luck, and if you don't have a lawyer, get one.
>based on compiler bugs circa 1999

What do you mean by this?
interesting, because Netflix puts their logo on the cover.

edit: as I understood it, Netflix is the exclusive distributor for Brazil, that's the reason of the logo.
Most people on GitHub do not suffer these issues, simply put. It's only really the popular open source projects, which represents a small minority but are loud and vocal.
Has anyone run the numbers on what it would cost to build data centers with equivalent hashing power using the latest ASIC's in various areas taking into account labour and energy costs. Between a wealthy libertarians, BitCoin startups and crowd funding (not necessarily donating, could be buying shares in a company that will mine, with a charter, governance etc) and regain control to do whats required to make it work.
The idea of Nash equilibrium isn't just for repeated games, in fact it was invented for one-shot games. (Now I understand why you keep mentioning "infinite games"...)
That's the risk you agree to when you accept credit cards as a merchant. You can take actions to reduce that risk but you can't completely remove it. In exchange you get access to millions of additional customers.

Almost no one uses Bitcoin over credit cards unless they have no other choice because consumers don't use Bitcoin. Why would I as s customer choose you that only accepts Bitcoin which gives me no protections when I can use your competitor which accepts credit cards?

I wouldn't and pretty much every merchant that's started accepting Bitcoin has discovered the same thing.
>minimal use of STL

I was recently reading the docs for a physics engine in c++ and they said that its initial implementation used std::vector in many places, but they instead implemented their own in later versions to accommodate maximum "portability and compatibility." I wonder what that means? Since the STL is included in C++ compilers and vector is always going to be there, why would they need to roll their own to make the engine either more portable or more compatible?

>use of templates is frowned upon

I wonder if this means the writing of templates, or using existing templates. If the latter, maybe like the STL their primary concern is compile times?
Firefox on Linux works with Netflix now? I though only Chrome worked on Linux due to the DRM Netflix uses.

I watch Netflix exclusively through their website — either on TV with my HTPC (Kodi with Chrome fullscreen) or on my computer. I don't own any devices that can run their Android or IOS apps.
I front end with Cloudflare to get HTTPS.

I have probably spent a thousand (paid) hours doing devops for customers. For my own projects I don't want to spend the time.
But this didn't ask them would you mind if your neighbours were black. This made them pick what they're most worried about. That question can only be asked in context of my country. If there's almost no change of a foreigner living next to me but there's a high chance of crime in my area even though I'm massively racists and would actually care about more about a foriegner living next to me (all things being equal) because of my circumstances I'm actually more worried about crime atm.
Great point.

This is the part I disagree with most strongly:

> And consistently incorrect behavior can be more difficult to track down.
Don't do an internship: you already have years of professional experience doing similar work.

In spite of what I call the so-called shortage for data scientists, getting a data science job is a pretty tough challenge. Read this post for a good description: http://treycausey.com/data_science_interviews.html

Keep interviewing and applying for jobs. You will learn a lot about what exactly you want to do and eventually land on something.

If you are in or near one of the tech hubs in the US, I might recommend a data science bootcamp like those offered by Metis, or even an evening course like that offered by General Assembly. Such programs typically have connections with local industry and can help network.
This happens for a reason.
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I feel whatever be the reason it was a wrong move to move Python to github which is new sourceforge just more shiny. I hope the Python community get together to support either kallithea or trac or gnu and move there.

In an open letter recently group of open source developers raised and highlighted pitfalls of using such closed source for profit infrastructure without community oversight. Also it shows the opaque nature of such services. It's not wise to rely on goodwill of investors of github looking for profits.
Also from ethical point of view it's really bad moving to a non community for profit infrastructure for a community driven project.

This is same mistake like moving from Python 2 to 3.
It's not possible to have a popular counter-culture. To be a counterculture requires a certain amount of separation, growth out of the public spotlight. Either the culture goes mainstream (with all the downsides of that) or it has the spotlight turned on it, bringing in people who don't share the original ideals and driving out those who do.

The US drug war landscape is changing. Cannabis is now legal in several states; others are looking at it. It's going to be like equal marriage. Once the first few states have done it and not imploded, it becomes hard to maintain the rationale elsewhere. I reckon it'll be legal in >25 states in a decade and federally in 2-3 decades.
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Suppose I buy something(1) and collude with an appraiser(2) to value it much higher than its actual worth and then get it insured (3). Now suppose the market discovers the true value of that it and massively devalues it. Consequently, I collect on the insurance.

Why isn't this insurance fraud?

(1) home loans
(2) rating agencies like Moodies
(3) AIG
As I understand it they intend to charge their users at some point? Doesn't look like a sound plan to me as Smartflix will probably have to constantly fight against whatever measures Netflix (or its licensing partners) comes up with.
I, as a potential user, certainly wouldn't rely on that service.
> Financial security means one less stressor in my life. A sunny day / early retirement fund means I can take more time off between jobs, on vacations, and be more aggressive about getting job terms I like. I can go out and have more experiences. I don't need to save up to buy the things I want, because I haven't wasted my money buying things that don't bring me happiness.

Early retirement isn't great for happiness AIUI. Rather than saving up any extra money you're better off spending it soonish, whether that "spending" is on holidays, things, or just taking a sabbatical.
This behaviour is very risky for fraudster. Some buyers will suck up the loss and free the money. Others will say "fuck this guy" and will not free money.

What are the chances what fraudster will make money out of this?

As for your second point - this indeed will prevent large percentage of population from participation as buyers (basically everyone without savings). As for sellers - irrelevant. We are talking about markets that can benefit from security and anonymity. Higher cost of doing business is implied, but in this case its only a time-cost of money (which is all time low today).

I think 2 party escrow is a viable alternative to 3d party escrow because it should be harder to game.
They're not supposed to do anything, but some of us strive to be informed and rational about things. This is not a problem in the supply chain, this is a product that used to be available, but isn't anymore. The task of a vendor is not to make sure any product ever sold will remain available indefinitely.

By all means, cancel your subscription if it's no longer good value, no-one will argue that you have some implied obligation to give Netflix money.

You can complain all you want, but why waste your breath complaining to someone when, knowing the background, you know it's outside their powers to do anything about it?
with the mining capacity mostly in the hands of china, i'm not surprised of DDOS attacks and censorship behavior against XT proposals. bigger blocks would put out of competition the majority of chinese miners unable to support the network with their crappy uplink and criminal attacks keep the situation unchanged, they are going to milk the cow as long as possible
Not entirely relevant but note that if a power switch does not have a mechanical difference between the off and on state then there must be an active component that at the very least must monitor the power button to detect presses. I don't really know, but it seems likely that in a smart phone the SOC is used to monitor the power button and it is therefore only ever in a very low power state (sans battery removal). That doesn't of course mean that any radio components are receiving power.
The 2000 IPO process was pretty much a pump and dump for both the VCs and IBs. There were legal consequences for bad investment advice and misuse of shareholder money.

According to wikipedia, Citi and Merrill were both fined for this. I don't know who was held legally accountable for misusing shareholder money but there was the worldcom fraud which ended in jail sentences.
You voluntarily code in C for the same reason that your OS kernel's 'yield' is written in assembly. How do you push the addressing mode register to the stack when switching to another task in your high level language of choice?
> The first rule of C is don't write C if you can avoid it.

My C skills are non-existent, but it occurs to me while reading the response that when two people who have so carefully considered the subject can arrive at such different places... then yes, you probably shouldn't write C if you can avoid it.
I don't see the point of the discussion, that piece of code (or relatively equivalent), is already being performed by a libC function (calloc, in this case), how is that less convenient than you writing it yourself?

It has nothing to do with how smart you are or how low level C is, you are effectively reinventing that part of calloc by wrapping malloc.
The key phrase here is "if you can avoid it".

When your target platform is an 8-bit microcontroller or an embedded system with hard real-time requirements, your options are very limited.

But there are plenty of situations where there are alternatives, and often these allow you to solve your problem in less time, with much lower risk of bugs than in C. As always in life, one has to evaluate one's options, consider their respective advantages and weaknesses and then make a choice.

If I had to write a document like that, I would use a different phrasing from "if you can avoid it". But the sentiment - to avoid using C where superior alternatives exist[1] - is something I agree with.

> A great many of the problems that people experience with C code can actually be nullified (zing!) by finding a competent C programmer who does the job properly.

That is kind of like saying the solution to traffic accidents is only letting people drive that don't cause accidents or demand of people that they drive sufficiently carefully. Sure, that is something worth wishing for - but it is not very realistic to expect this to actually happen.

Not that I disagree that C is a very demanding language. Even the best programmers make mistakes. But this is the reason the author of the original document the linked article refers to advised people to avoid C where possible. Most programmers will be better off for most of their projects with a language like Go, or Python or whatever.

[1] Of course, if by "alternatives" I mean languages like Perl, Python or Ruby, it is worth keeping in mind that their main implementations are written in C.
How do they spot proxies? Do they have lists of known proxy IPs? Or do they have a way to tell from the incoming connection? I wouldn't be very hard to fire up a VM in a cloud service to watch a movie, switch it off when done. The cost should be fairly marginal, and you would come from a new unique IP every time.
> I noticed how, for most of us, it “just so happened” that a guy was promoted over them. It “just so happened” that he was the tech/team lead, or the manager. It “just so happened” that we hadn’t been promoted before our projects were killed. After I talked to the few women I knew who seemed to be thriving, I thought about the situations where I had thrived, and I observed a common thread of having a sponsor. Having a sponsor meant having good stuff to work on.

Isn't that how all promotions and social dynamic in the corporate workplace work?
Goldman did not invent CDOs, and they did not create the CDOs RBS purchased. (Also, what actually doomed RBS was overpaying for ABN Amro, but that's neither here nor there.)

> But Goldman sure made money out of it.

How? Exactly?
^ This. We can solve this problem by continuing to ensure the "fixes" don't work. Because above all Netflix proved that the convenience is worth the price of admission...but that region locks in a world with global bandwidth, paying customers and very limited distribution costs are pants-on-head stupid.
It does but the developers think it would be hard and you'd have to audit the code for information leak points. You might as well just write a replacement from the ground up with that in mind.
It is not just the politicians - the amount of disgust among the general public for people who use drugs is unbelievable. I understand it is an insanely big problem, nobody wants drug addicts in the society. But it will happen, legalization or not, prison or not. People are going to use drugs anyway. So why not make life easier for everyone by legalizing it, setting up help centers to help those who want to be helped, reduce stress on cops/prison system and so on? By now it is very clear that any number of tough laws on this problem is not going to work - why not try the alternative?
Texhnically, they did. The go to compiler for years was GCC, with all the GNU extensions turned on. The problem is that those extensions were classically on by default, so it was very easy to just use them without thinking too much about it.
1) Countrywide was a bank, later a thrift, which providing financial services (mortgages, insurance) to retail customers. That's pretty much the definition of a retail bank.

2) AIG was not doing anything that Glass-Steagall would prevent. The fact that your 20/20 hindsight says it created a systematic risk doesn't change this.

3) Citi received $20B in TARP money, and paid it back quite rapidly. It's unknown how much in needed - many banks were forced to take unnecessary money in order to prevent identification of which banks were in trouble.

Also, why do you believe that preventing Citi from mixing retail and investment banking together would have prevented the (hypothetical multiple pieces of) city from requiring $20B?
> Google is still just another enterprisey megacorp employing 30000 blub programmers. Expect the usual 'enterprise' failures.

Ouch! That must have hurt 'em. Of course the original meaning of "Blub" is "anything which isn't Lisp", especially C++ (as well as say Java.) But what the heck, it has a good sound to it.

Anyway, I think their C++ style guide isn't bad. As to "modern C++ style", let's wait for a few years, shall we? When the STL came out, auto_ptr and for_each(v.begin(), v.end(), FunctorFromHell()) were marketed as the way to go for a long while; then the usual suspects became a bit more silent. Now again, despite their being a smart for loop, for_each with a lambda (with its crazy capture lists and all) is supposedly considered at least as good as a for loop, and typically better. And you're supposed to use unique_ptr and what-not. Maybe a few years down the road things will look different again.

C++11/14 has a ton of weird shit you ought to keep in your mind on top of the weird shit in C++98/03 and many "enterprisey megacorps" seem to apply a restricted subset of C++ rather successfully.
Does it work? I bought an RFID-blocking wallet for my passport a while ago, but when I put my work access badge in it, I could open doors just fine.
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Yes, but the value of the collected data is much reduced if you can't distinguish between legitimate IMSIs and spoofed IMSIs of devices that were never actually there.
Well, it wasn't wild life and it's not about feeding. There were 2 cats, who perfectly took care of themselves (saw them catching bugs multiple times), and sometimes they came to the people, stroking their bodies along their feet.
If an animal does that, it's normal to pet it and it's not harmful or unethical at all.

Nobody had to feed them, or take care of them, they just came for attention sometimes.
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Alrigh, sorry. I didn't know.
It does occur to me that this was probably a lot like Comedy Central's ridiculously easily circumvented geo-blocking. I suspect the sysadmins said "what's the laziest thing we can do?"
If your phone is lying to you about being switched off, then it's already compromised (and you're probably under some highly targeted surveillance already). If I had any evidence this had happened to me, I'd get rid of the phone instead of trusting it under any circumstances.

For the example of a protest march, if you're a participant or even a bystander walking home wanting to avoid being caught up in a surveillance dragnet, turning your phone off should be sufficient. You'd probably want to take stronger measures if you were involved in organising the protest, though.
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1) Do we know if it will be more widespread? Although the stronger stuff is also illegal in the Netherlands, it's very easy to find and I don't think the Netherlands have more drug addicts then another country (no source for this, just my opinion how I know the country).

2) Is it a problem if it's more widespread? Some stronger stuff can be used responsibly (for example MDMA). Just like only a small portion of alcohol users have alcohol problems. You also got stronger stuff like heroin which is very addictive, but then there's still common sense. Whether it's legal or illegal, I can get it very easily where I live. Yet, I don't take it because I know it's not good for me.
> No they pass it to the merchants not the end users by reversing the transactions.

That depends on the transaction. They obviously can't reverse a skimmed card withdrawing cash at an ATM and AFAIK they don't reverse card-present transactions with a signature or valid PIN.

Between the money saved from cutting out the other middlemen in the payment card scam (card networks, intermediary banks, payment processors) and the revenue gained from adding a small fee to Bitcoin withdrawals, there's no reason it can't be economically feasible for banks to offer it.

And if you're wondering why anyone would ever use Bitcoin when they already have a bank account, I have a whole list of use cases in another comment on this thread.
I feel like it depends what you're looking for.

Do you strictly want grid system ONLY, or do you want "everything" (like bootstrap)? What do you mean by included more than it? The examples look fine - pure is split up into a lot of files[0]

[0] http://purecss.io/customize/
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I wrote code against ADP in the early nineties, but that was as a customer. Do they not offer a partner program?
But not many. Almost everyone will take the loss because the cost of saying screw you is double the cost of the product itself. They could cut their losses get half back and buy the product elsewhere and they'd have the same amount of money but the full product.

I remember pointing this out about every month or so in 2014 when it seemed everyone and their dog were posting this method of escrow.
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Basically it was 2 of us at first then hired 2 people from my side. Right now he's the one paying for all of our salary. Does that even count? I'll try to talk again about this.
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Many great companies takes decade or more to build.

A lot of the most valuable companies have their founders/early employees as their CEO vs. someone who join later (usually a professional one):
http://www.bhorowitz.com/why_we_prefer_founding_ceos

Though you may argue it is a survivor bias, I believe sticking longer with something that works give an edge vs. leadership changes every few years.
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It's hard to deny that there are some really useful new features in modern c++, though. Standardized multithreading primitives is a big one. Smaller ones like scoped enums are useful too. I'm a big fan of lambdas and the ability to use them for things that used to be very awkward to do without them, like std::bind and functors. In all, I think the modern additions are a net positive for sure.
Isn't it illegal to have one and run one in the UK if not licensed?
How does this setup compare to using dynamodb streams with multi-region replication (and may be, elasticache replicated as a cache layer within every region).
> A VICE News investigation has found evidence that sophisticated surveillance equipment that spies on people's phones is being used across London

That the Met (and other police forces) regularly use IMSI catchers is not new information - here's a ~5 year old Guardian article on the subject:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/oct/30/metropolitan-polic...
It's not like you have to sit 10 hours a day without ever moving. The longest streak is about 1 hour, and only from day 5 there's two times a day a sitting with determination. Nobody's asked to force it, if it really hurts, then just move.
Every hour there's a 5-10 minute break to walk around and stretch the legs.

As I knew there would be sitting with determination later in the week, I trained my body and mind in the first days by sitting still as long as I could.
If I understand correctly farbenfeld is designed for processing images, not storing them. And if you bzip a farbenfeld image you might as well do it with a separate json file for metadata.
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It's a grid in my Chrome, but only after loading js for another 15 years. ;)
Is anyone getting paid? Did anyone put in money?

At this point, you should just be figuring out the founder split (not saving some). You will dilute evenly when you take investment and start an employee pool.
If I were so inclined, I would infer that sabotage is taking place. Taken from the sabotage expert's manual (page 6):

"Simple sabotage is more than malicious
mischlef,and it should always consist ,of acts whose
results will be detrimental to the materials and man-
power or the enemy"

https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/...