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Been there, done that: https://github.com/BjoernKW/Freshcard

Digital business cards are one of those ideas that just seem natural, especially to digital natives, and hence come up again and again and yet none of these countless implementations - including my humble attempt - has succeeded so far.

The reasons for this are numerous, e.g.:
- chicken and egg problem: How do you convince people to use your business card replacement when nobody else is using it?
- lack of perceived benefit / pain point for casual business card users: While they're a source of needless clutter to anyone accustomed to using technology for keeping data most people simply couldn't care less.
- lack of reliability: Paper at least works everywhere and under most conditions. How does your solution fare when there's no reliable network (which is surprisingly common even in industrialized countries, e.g. at most larger conferences ...)?

If you'd like any further information on this subject just drop me a note.
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"They"? The people who responded to you aren't part of some larger conspiracy to oppose you, or even advocating on behalf of the same people or ideas. The fact that I'm commenting here doesn't even mean that I agree with the article.

Could it be possible that there are several problems at play here, at once? You can't look at situations as if they are black or white, or "us vs. them".
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Twiddling bits for network management = okay.

If this was twiddling bits for network management, then they would be done at the point where they throttle all video (which they are doing). But they are going past that, and also giving it away 'for free' to end users, but only if a service signs up.

So in either case (whether a service is signed up for BingeOn or not), a streaming service is having their videos throttled. So what benefit does T-Mobile get by giving away it's 'twiddled bits'? One answer is 'to try to make network neutrality violations more palatible'. However no answer could be 'traffic management' because they are already doing it regardless of the BingeOn status of the provider.
Parse it is a good solution for a quick app backend setup but I never realized build big things over there. To me the most important to me is no vendor lock-in I see as very important to have full control over what I'm developing. I started to use a great platform http://www.back4apps.com and Im happy with the results. I recommend it as a migration option
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whoops, yes I did. Fixed in the gist. Thanks!
I'm torn on homework assignments. On one hand, Gayle's point is a good one: they're asking for a big time commitment from candidates. On the other hand, they seem to be the challenge that maps most directly onto actual work performance.

Our process here is:

1. Non-tech phone screen
2. Tech phone screen
3. Homework
4. Onsite

The onsite is, to many candidates, surprisingly light. This is because the homework makes up most of how we're evaluating your tech skills. The onsite is just to make sure that you wrote the code you submitted, and then to test your non-coding skills (architecture, communication, working with non-engineers, etc).

But we do lose some number of candidates who just don't get around to doing the homework (or possibly, as you do, refuse to do it). This worries me, since I suspect the people least willing to do homework will be the most senior and/or those with the most competing offers.

We've recently started experimenting with allowing candidates to chose between homework and a code sample. The idea is that a sufficiently complex and interesting coding sample should tell us about as much as coding homework. It involves more time on our part to evaluate it, but less for the candidate to prepare it. The early results have been mixed (a lot of unsuitable coding samples), but we're iterating on how we ask for coding samples to try to get better quality ones.
This is how I've understood the aircraft: "aircraft designed solely for close air support, including attacking tanks, armored vehicles, and other ground targets."

Essentially, a prime mission objective is to loiter over an area and provide air support. Something most fast-moving aircraft are not exactly made to do. If a request comes in to target a tank; the plane kills the tank. If a request comes in to target a truck; the plane shreds the truck, and whatever happens to be inside, to shreds. If a request comes in to strafe a defensive position; then the plane puts big holes in those defenses. As for personnel, the plane may not kill them but it sure as heck puts a good scare into them. Stories indicate friendly soldiers like seeing, and hearing, the plane in the area during a firefight. It has more uses than the bullets it fires.

Also, keep in mind that the A-10 can carry other weapons than just the cannon it's built around.

Now, is it expensive in today's world for that purpose? Probably so.

Apaches are nice too. I'm sure one day someone will consider them an expensive disaster as well.
If you grow your own tomatoes they taste amazing.

Also, to get the best sugar content, the thing to do is to leave them on the vine once ready and stop watering them, the stress causes the plant to dump its energy into the fruits.

They will taste better but if done commercially it extends the time to market and reduces shelf life.

When you grow your own vegetables you realise how low quality most of the ones in the supermarket are. And what a restricted set of choices there is.
This format is weird -- it represents (effectively) a 65-bit signed integer, which doesn't fit on any current platform sensibly, but also puts a strict upper limit on integer sizes.

EDIT: Found bigints. Still weird having a signed 65-bit integer.
There is no fundamental reason why native apps can not expose shareable links just like any other. And on the other hand with the prevalence of single page webapps etc its far from guaranteed that you can get usable links from webapps.
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I find it hard to believe that you can't see how people are obviously using the word "rescheduling" in relation to local wall-clock time. The wall-clock time as the reference point is how everyday people commonly use "reschedule". When we flip DST on and off, nobody says "schools and banks got opening times got rescheduled."

And yet, you keep emphasizing "rescheduling" in relation to UTC instead of local time. We already know that DST changes changes the underlying absolute time in UTC. And that's the very reason why you cannot store a future datetime as UTC!

Here's a trick question to put your advice about storing future appointments as UTC to the test:

You want to save a datetime for the New York Times Square midnight countdown to ring in the New Year on December 31, 2018 @ 11:59:45pm. As far as the user is concerned, his/her brain thinks in terms of local wall clock time and therefore, that would be 2018-12-31 23:59:45 ET. (Notice it is "ET" and not "EST" or "EDT")

Do you think you can save that user-specified datetime to the database as UTC?

Do you think it's 2019-01-01 04:59:45UTC ? (Wrong answer.)

Do you think it's 2019-01-01 03:59:45UTC ? (Wrong answer.)

If you don't see why both of those UTC choices are incorrect, please study the previous posts.

To recap the problems with UTC:

-- you don't know in 2016 what future UTC timestamp to write to the database. The user doesn't know either. Nobody knows. It depends on what the government does in the next 3 years.

-- UTC implies scientific precision and writing it to the database for future datetimes will incorrectly advertise that you have the clairvoyance about future rules. You don't.

-- UTC is correct abstraction level for past events (server logs, audit logs) and future non-human generated scientific datetimes such as moon phases and solar eclipses. UTC is the incorrect abstraction level for human generated appointments' datetimes.

Attempting to save a socially-constructed future "wall-clock" datetime as UTC is throwing away information the user gave you. Stop advising people to do that.
> Sometimes, I have the urge to simply get some random thoughts out of my brain. Sounds like a perfect thing for Twitter, except with Twitter, I have the expectation that my stuff somehow gets noticed.

That's funny. I chose Twitter for that purpose specifically because I had no followers.
I prefer counting on teeth, but hey, I guess you're a fingers guy.
Yes, we're still on the same page. The Banking system is rapacious and it should be done away with. Its capital allocative functions have been subverted by extraction. It's an emergent system so that isn't to imply that the people who work at banks are rapacious. That would be the fallacy of division: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_division

It is that bad.
There is a visa for top of field immigration, the O-1.

But even that visa is being gamed, see the Peter Roberts AMA here from a few weeks ago.

But the fact of the matter is a majority of H-1B visas go to positions that are bottom of the totem pole, back office development and IT. I mean 80% of them pay on the lower tiers of the pay scales. Seems an awful waste of talent and an overall raw deal for the worlds best and brightest.
That's totally true but, WebView allows to execute unsafe handlers like 'file://', 'ftp://'. As a result in the worst case scenario when appcast webserver was compromised then you don't need a private DSA key (which I suppose is well protected on developers computers) to sign new binary, you can just modify XML from appcast to get remote code execution on OSX computers actually checking for an update.
In short, from the website security flaw to RCE on thousands of computers, or even more, then you don't need an active MITM attack actually, think about it.

I would consider it as 2 different vulnerabilities.
Likewise. I've been very impressed. The one place it seems to have trouble consistently is with X applications that want to have floating dialog windows. So many moving parts there, I'm hesitant to lay the blame on Sway.
You should mention in the article it's mac only
If it's a really real problem about lots of money or laws being broken you may want to email carpet bomb or lawyer up.
I'll try to find the source, but from another story I've read they are being issued the plate scanners for free in exchange for a percentage of the collections they make from using the scanner.
Increased speed saves time only linearly but requires a with the square increase in power to overcome wind resistance, the major factor. With the power increase comes a similarly large increase in crash damage and mortality particularly for pedestrians. This is in addition to the increased crash risk simply due to the increase in speed while mental capabilities of drivers remain constant(ly poor).

See the data here:

http://humantransport.org/sidewalks/SpeedKills.htm

As this makes clear, even 30mph is too fast for a residential area in the sense that the tradeoff makes no sense; 20mph brings a massive reduction in deaths but only a comparatively much smaller increase in travel time (in a grid city with constant lights anyway).
Reddit is a great platform to disguise sponsored content as organic. If you are really good the users won't even notice. I wonder whether they have started monetizing that yet. There is clearly a lot of it on Reddit. It's just not clear whether it is with the help of Reddit or despite of them.
To be fair, any hack at Facebook could have written this article, and it seems that the "hotly traded content" which used to be what the media created is widely turning to pap; lowering the bar to create it and therefore making it cheaper to make means that anyone can "build" a news site.
Don't let the buzzfeed source put you off of the article, it's pretty good.

I really like the day fine idea, seems like it would lessen the incentive to ticket to generate lots of revenue. An obvious fix for the overworked courts is simply bring in a pay stub or tax return. If you don't you get the max fine. (Perhaps a week or two to bring in the documentation and revise the fine down)
What if the tickets are for parking or other infractions that have no real bearing on safety? If you think this is about safety then you are sadly mistaken.
Don't know why, but I am not surprised by this at all. In fact, it kind of amuses me to see this myth debunked.
But you see, I don't have any strong disagreement with what you just stated. But it seems the conversation took a turn somewhere?
Re: auction, it's impossible to tell how much the other side would have been willing to pay if the Bakers were bidding it up over $7m.
Generally when people say the cloud, they mean one of the big Public/Private cloud providers, not someone's basement.
Yeah, but... that's not really the "usual procedure" though. Nobody who knows what they are doing literally downloads openssl manually, compiles the new shared library, manually installs it, and manually restarts the affected services, on the grounds that if you do that you have just proved you don't know what you are doing. (Most charitably, you're doing a "Linux From Scratch" for educational purposes, but that's just about the only valid reason.) Once you have introduced package management and/or system management tools, it doesn't seem like a significantly different problem anymore, and likely to be utterly swamped by the other bigger problems that appear at scale.
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The calm, fun music was a big part of it too I think!
Good thing 71% of Earth's surface is underwater...
Doesn't matter, they've already gotten your password at that point. They can just say "login failed" and redirect you to the real login page
The plastic toys were really just a way to sell DLC in toy stores since children don't have credit-cards.
It also might deter people from doing business in that town. If I have the choice to get a coffee I this town or a neighboring town that's not known for hyper active ticketing, I'd rather avoid this place.
I imagine that sort of issues would (mostly) be solved by a monorepo approach. Of course that is also drastically different in many other ways too.
That's fine, but that still doesn't answer bane's question: how does this family earn the income which they use to live?
I'm from Australia and stayed there one trip. It was great - free cinema, soaking pool, etc. We chose it for the novelty.
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Ya know, I'm on reddit daily, and I NEVER see any of these flare-ups. I just kind of hang out on the nerdy subs I guess.
Yoghurt in the US has been completely destroyed by the "non-fat" movement. It's the fat that makes it yoghurt. Low-fat or non-fat yoghurt is a contradiction in terms!

The "yoghurt" you can buy in supermarkets here is sugared milk with artificial thickeners, it's madness.
You seem to know about this, so, related question for you.

Do you think it would have greatly changed history if Babbage had succeeded at creating these mechanical computers? Or were they a vestigial dead end, and simply spreading the knowledge and theory to make them was the real extent of their influence? I'm guessing the latter, but in no way am I sure.
> Unless you are talking about a caching proxy outside of the website control. In that case, they aren't needed, CDNs solved that problem in a much better way.

There are still parts of the world where caching proxies are used to conserve limited transit bandwidth; CDNs don't solve that.
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I like the idea but that seems like the kind of service that should have a clear section on data export and how data will be accessible after (hopefully not) ending up on http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

Any info on that? Couldn't find it in the FAQ.
Well yes, but they still have to pay for it. For most people that means working, and that's time out of a day, most days a week.

They included what it used to cost to heat and power the school for a year, but never mention what it is now. Details that are interesting to the story but probably take away from the 'feel good' type of article they were trying to make.
Reminds me a bit of a guy my physics teacher met in the oil fields of alaska. The guy, who had never finished high school (and much less seen Calculus), had figured out a way to calculate the volume of a large, tapering tank using his own shorthand. He had the concept of limits and was essentially doing calculus.
Oh man, I never got into Glider, but if you're listening softdorothy - one request upvote for Crystal Quest!
Why you need an app?
From

http://www.livescience.com/53518-babylonians-tracked-jupiter...

> "It's not an actual trapezoid that describes the shape of a field, or some configuration of the planets in space," Ossendrijver told Live Science. "It's a configuration in a mathematical space. It's a highly abstract application."

> "Actually, this particular tablet has ugly handwriting," Ossendrijver said. "It's slanted. It's like cursive if it were written very rapidly. It's very abbreviated. He left out everything that is not absolutely necessary to follow the computation."

You can read the details here:

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6272/482.full

The supplementary materials give a full transcript of the tablet you linked (one of several):

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/suppl/2016/01/27/3...

> 1 The day when it appears: 0;12, until 1,0 days, 0;9,30.

> 2 0;12 and 0;9,30 is 0;21,30, times 0;30

> 3 is 0;10,45, times 1,0 is 10;45.

> 4 After completing 1,0 days, until 1,0 days 0;1,30.

> 5 0;9,30 and 0;1,30 is 0;11, times 0;30 is 0;5,30.

> 6 0;5,30 times 1,0 days is 5;30. (erasure) 10;45 and 5;30 is

> 7 16;15, the total. From appearance until station the motion is 16;15.

The actual trapezoid is mentioned in another tablet, which is also translated.

To see how the numerals actually work, just look up Babylonian Mathematics. It's a pretty simple base-60 system.
> film "Children of Men"

From a P.D. James book, for those more print-oriented

( clicky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Men )
You don't even have to be particularly good. I made a remark that Carrie Fisher probably wasn't organically following @Starwars on Twitter on a Sunday afternoon and got lots of downvotes and several people ranting about how cynical it was to question the thing that got posted to reddit. They want to enjoy the manufactured whimsy, not question it.
The original developer already has it ported: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/glider-classic/id463484447?m...
>As discussed in other subthreads of this thread, this kind of negative feedback is actually quite easy to build into a UBI system.

So you might end up with a situation where people who've never held a job and have no marketable skills find, in their late twenties or thirties, that UBI is no longer enough to make ends meet.

That sounds like a recipe for revolution.
> When bombs went off during the Boston Marathon, in April of 2013, users sat glued to the feed, suddenly privy to something visceral and real, something happening. ... It was raw, but it was streamlined.

But what real value is in that raw stream beyond voyeurism ?

After nearly 50 years on this earth I've come to feel that the nowness of things is not that important. "Quick turn on the news" became "meh, I shall wait a few days and see how it pans out before spending time digesting it".

I know that's a personal thing.
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Speed limits have a long history that is largely unrelated to ticketing. The do seem slow today but they made sense only a few years ago, before the magic that is modern rubber tires. Road noise, fuel efficiency and the prevention of congestion have also been factors.

The recent rise in for-profit ticketing has less to do with low speed limits than the steady increase in penalties. The decriminalization of speeding has also increased the incentives for cops to ticket quickly and often.
I misspoke a little. The point is that that expression doesn't use backreferences, and therefore doesn't need to use backtracking at all. The fact that it does use backtracking anyway is the focus of the complaint.
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What a wonderful article! Yes what a nice trip you had to fix awesome editor (Yeah I am using ATOM and I love to code in it)!
And having speed limits set too low for the road leads to a mismatch between posted risk (the speed limit) and actual risk (the actual speed of cars) to pedestrians. There's evidence that speed limits have no impact on how fast people actually drive[0], so posting a lower speed limit is less likely to have an impact than designing roadways for a certain speed in the first place.

[0]: https://www.ibiblio.org/rdu/sl-irrel.html
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Americans love burdensome zoning laws. They appeal to our inner racist. Unfortunately for them, buildings like schools, fire stations, and police stations are usually in residential zones anyway. The major problem in the US is that there's just no way you would be able to set up a bed and breakfast as easily as the article implied.

Our property taxes vary wildly in the US. One place, you might pay 3% of the fair market value, and in another, only 0.25%. Or maybe the assessment value is restricted by some formula. Maybe it's reassessed annually, or maybe every 3 years. There's really very little consistency, because property taxes are usually assessed locally and the major service provided from them is the local public schools.

Building codes between Canada and the US are pretty much the same. In either place, there's a "model code", but each locality has to adopt it explicitly for it to be in effect. Some places adopt it without modification, and others amend it heavily. A Canadian town could adopt the American model code (called the international building code, of course) if it wanted to, or vice versa.

But for the most part, they have nearly identical intent, even if the implementations are far apart. As long as you hire local contractors for the work, you shouldn't need to know the particular variances in the building codes. Either way, you won't be allowed to do anything serious without a work permit, and someone will inspect the heck out of it.

(Of course, the permits and inspections are often ignored for DIY work.)

I doubt you would even be able to buy an old public school building in many places in the US. Perhaps in Detroit. Most local governments would rather board it up or use it for administrative offices than sell. You would have better luck finding an old church.
The article links to a study[1] in the Lancet that says that aggressive traffic policing results in fewer car accidents and fewer deaths.

1: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673...
getting paid only for a successful transaction aligns interests ... if the relationship is transactional and the role of the banker is to get the deal done.

Wouldn't have helped in the Dragon case which was presumably also done that way, the interest of the banker is in making sure a transaction gets completed even if it doesn't align with the client.

It's a terrible outcome, but the dot-com bubble was on fire and Dragon founders apparently wanted to cash out. You would really think they would understand their competitors better. I wonder if they were that naïve or they kind of outsmarted themselves, they knew the valuation was too good to be true and took the risk of being able to unload the stock on greater fools.