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I have to say that our team has been really impressed with Microsoft from a developer perspective.

They were very accommodating with bringing us in to see/try the Hololens and we have been really happy with Azure since switching from AWS.
I'm not arguing that some of Obama's policy implementations are lacking. But it seems like people are expecting too much out of him.

I think that solitary confinement is definitely unethical. But I also think the idea of mass pardons for prisoners if states don't reform solitary confinement would be political suicide. Republicans would be running ads saying that Obama wants violent criminals to be released because prison isn't comfortable enough. Democrats wouldn't support it. And I think it might sink the democratic party's chances in the presidential election. Sure there are more things that Obama could have done to solve specific problems. But I don't think some complaints would have been fixed under any president.
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Marvin Minsky improvising piano counterpoint at 87
IDM could also stand for "intelligent dance music"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_dance_music

lame term i think, but it exists!
But it's mostly experimental and not as easy to use as dtrace/lldb. What's more, you can't attach to the device, although there's a way to attach to the simulator — not for the faint of the heart.
True. Most people aren't very good at abstract thinking.
How does the browser's native login prompt work and how to use it programmatically
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Those things are all fungible, and thus can be exchanged for cash. This would only introduce friction, not prevent inflation.
Yes the drone strikes are often killing around 90% civilians, but please, lets not abuse the prisoners through solitary confinement, it's inhumane.
Pluralsight author here. Udemy have had lots of piracy issues in the past - for example, paid courses from authors on sites like Pluralsight have been illegally copied and sold.

Just a few weeks ago Pluralsight circulated an email on Udemy telling us, Pluralsight authors, that the two companies have met as Udemy has acknowledged the piracy problem and pledged to take down any flagged courses much faster in the future.

I don't know if there is a relation to that action and this takedown until an ID check, but there might be. Also, if you think about why they took it down immediately until you verify your ID: if someone flags this video and it is indeed a copyright infrigment, Udemy could be sued for not acting immediately.

I do empathise that takedowns without notice are painful when you're not the author - however as an outsider I am glad that Udemy on the other hand is starting to take piracy of courses more seriously.
>He can make this threat unilaterally as the ability to pardon anyone and everyone does not require congress.

Ignoring the implications of such a move for a moment, the President does not have the power to pardon state crimes, so that plan would not work.
"In a hundred years from now people are going to look back at things like the war on drugs as one of the most barbaric, absurd and useless pieces of legislation ever to have been implemented."

How do you explain the rampant crack cocaine drug wars in New York and Miami in the 1980s that killed far more Americans than they do today? You're probably too young to realize how bad New York and Miami were before the war on drugs. How do you explain how Asia has even more "draconian" drug laws than the USA and yet crime is a fraction of ours?
The President can only pardon those convicted of federal criminal crimes committed against the United States. This new policy will only affect those in federal prisons (in which the President has purview) and why this measure is more limited in scope.
The network is reliable (2013)
Sounds like he would like a Blackberry (running BBOS 10). My bb Passport has excellent battery-life, no bloat, extensive customization of the messages "hub" and minimal notifications, privacy and per-app per-feature controls, etc.

But instead he pretends that Android and iOS are the only two choices. And while boosting a two-player market, somehow acts entitled to options that are not well provided within that limited competitive space.
Java versus Python
I create a website that better than sex
Docker doesn't and hasn't used LXC for a long time. It uses libcontainer, which is their own implementation of a container runtime. Even when Docker did use LXC, the Docker daemon was required for management. The Docker daemon only runs on GNU/Linux and Windows, so there is no sane definition of "native" where the statement "Docker runs natively on OS X" is correct.
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Well, he just banned solitary confinement for juveniles, and shortened the maximum solitary confinement for a first offense:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-bans-solitary-...

So, at least in this case, it looks like he lived up to the hype.
Your analogy of some random stranger on the street is so fatuous I'm just going to ignore it to save you any further embarrassment.

As for "Western society", that you modestly imagine yourself as a representative of/spokesperson for, I'm British. I have never met a single person in my entire life who had a positive opinion of Churchill, with views ranging from contempt to indifference.

Outside of Conservative/Establishment circles, among people who know more about him than a handful of speeches he made, Churchill is rightly loathed. He was an objectively bad person.

He was supported during WWII because, unlike others in the cowardly Quisling British Conservative Establishment, he actually wanted to fight Hitler, albeit for his sense of 'supremacy' over Germany/Hitler than any particular morality.

Once Hitler was defeated, in spite Churchill's ego-maniacal interference in the war effort that caused countless unnecessary deaths and catastrophes, he was rejected by the people in every single general election.

Unfortunately for Britain, and for Obama's grandfather who Churchill tortured along with thousands of others, the "democratic" British electoral system allowed him to become PM again, despite receiving far fewer votes than his opponent.

Sounds like an election Stalin would be proud of.
Nice tip. Thanks!

Sorry can only up vote once.
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>>> "Unidentified flying object" means an aircraft, usually a military one (because civilian aircraft are easier to identify).

There are only so many military aircraft and drones. They are relatively distinct. Add to those a handful of properly-black projects and there are perhaps a hundred types in service. Compare that to the thousands of civilian models out there, many of them very odd looking. Things like Rutan's VariEze get rather close to the flying-triangles. And some very unique objects, including random light patterns, also fly in the civilian world. So given the far greater number of civilian aircraft, outside of restricted airspace I'd say that most sightings are probably of strange but non-military flying vehicles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutan_VariEze

http://www.hugeskyadvertising.com/Scrolling-LED-Flying-SIGN....
Chelsea Manning very publicly spent 10 months in solitary confinement and the President didn't say anything then...
I don't see how they are fungible. At the end of the day the people are investors. They invest in a real company that carries out real business. Is that business any of those listed above? If not, then yes you can invest, if not no you can not invest. Obviously the investors would at some point see a return on their income. And you simply don't give them the returns. You put the returns back in the same fund. You can get that money back when you are 65 to pass to your children. You can only get back a certain amount, depending on the number of children, enough to pay for their schooling and a home. That way everyone has an education and a home, and the banksters don't get rich off mortgages and loans. The residual the government can keep for social programs or something as such.
MINASWAN

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINASWAN
You're right, I should've quoted that in the article. My post is a reworked version of my arguments against a client's proposal to implement SemVer for everything.

I was able to convince them not to use it for what were defined as internal apps in my proposal.
Very cool! I had no idea that information was there! Time for a new project.
Uber is being sued a lot because they have a high valuation, and they are rightly seen as a good target for either a legal shakedown or a big win in court.
How do you explain the rampant cocaine drug wars in New York and Miami in the 1980s that killed far more Americans than they do today?

Easy, the War on Drugs began in the early 70s.

The murders and general lawlessness that you reference from the 80s are a direct result of the War on Drugs.
Could you please comment on sales, is it worth it? Would/do you live solely by your courses?
Ansible and Docker are orthogonal technologies. Docker buys you repeatable, application packaging to solve dev/prod parity. Ansible can then become your orchestration tool, doing the heavy lifting to manage not just containers, but hosts, dns, LBs, etc.
@delish: have you seen this? http://praxtime.com/2016/01/12/paul-graham-inequality-cowens...
If we followed your policy proposal, we'd still be figuring this out in 40 years or so when the Democrats finally win the White House again. I can't imagine a more damaging policy for future PR than pardoning definitely violent criminals who have suffered terribly due to solitary confinement, without any time or consideration given to rehabilitation.

If only one of those pardoned were to commit murder, wave goodbye to any hope at criminal justice reform.
The U.S. Constitution is structured in traditional contract form. It starts with stating its purpose (preamble) and continues with rules to support methods of execution of purpose.

It is not unreasonable that a U.S. President may consider these recent statements as fitting to "...promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity..."
released by way of presidential pardon.

The President doesn't have the authority to pardon someone for a State crime. I suppose he could threaten to pardon federal inmates who were residents of non-compliant states before their incarceration.

Article II, Section 2.
The President…shall have the power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.

Without the abbreviation:
The President shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when called into the actual service of the United States; he may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices, and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.
Reminds me of vim plugin managers like Vundle or NeoBundle. The way they work is you specify a package name and it uses a heuristic to figure out where to look. To steal from the Vundle README...

https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim

" The following are examples of different formats supported.
" Keep Plugin commands between vundle#begin/end.
" plugin on GitHub repo
Plugin 'tpope/vim-fugitive'
" plugin from http://vim-scripts.org/vim/scripts.html
Plugin 'L9'
" Git plugin not hosted on GitHub
Plugin 'git://git.wincent.com/command-t.git'
" git repos on your local machine (i.e. when working on your own plugin)
Plugin 'file:///home/gmarik/path/to/plugin'
" The sparkup vim script is in a subdirectory of this repo called vim.
" Pass the path to set the runtimepath properly.
Plugin 'rstacruz/sparkup', {'rtp': 'vim/'}
" Avoid a name conflict with L9
Plugin 'user/L9', {'name': 'newL9'}

It's one of those things that works so well you can just kind of forget about it once you get used to it, but you're not really locked in either.
It's all about legacy. Obama is coming to the end of his 2nd term and he wants to go out on a good note.
I feel like that's where we are right now with computers/software.
Depending on how exactly you decide to solve it and how good of a mental model you have about what your code is doing, level three. Again, a high bar Lewis' level of understanding is not.

I know it feels like this is an abrasively combatative statement from me, and it's quite uncharacteristic about any topic other than Bitcoin, but if you've coded a trading system and then read Flash Boys it's like several hundred pages of "I used a GUI to query optimize the traceroute with MongoDB and a red/black tree." Those words, individually they have meaning, but in that configuration it is resoundingly unclear that the speaker understands what is going on. It is resoundingly unclear that Lewis understands what an order book is, what order types are (other than (paraphrase) a mechanism by which sophisticated operators cheat mom-and-pop hedge funds out of their hard-earned 2 and 20), etc.

If you'd like this critique at literally book length, read Flash Boys: Not So Fast. It's brutal. It's a point-by-point and page-by-page refutation which brings in lots of crunchy detail (which Lewis scrupulously avoids), quotes extensively from experts (including ones who would be incentivized to say the opposite thing except for a respect for the truth), comports with the understanding of our informal advisors, and does not require me to suspend belief in core principles of math, physics, or computer science, which Flash Boys does multiple times.
If I understand correctly, pcre = Perl Compatible Regular Expressions. While that library attempts to be able to do most of what perl regex can do (or could do a while ago as it doesn't seem to keep up with modern Perl versions), it doesn't implement the entirety. Perl itself doesn't use that library, but is an optimized engine built into perl that provides the basis that pcre is based off of.

It's not surprising that the Perl is faster, as it is all in C, and has had lots of optimizations over a few decades. I've had similar results between perl and things like grep, Ruby, python etc. Perl comes out on top!
I also think the idea of mass pardons for prisoners if states don't reform solitary confinement would be political suicide.

He's a lame duck with less than 1 year remaining in his term. His political career is over. He has already peaked.
WinFS failed not because .NET was too slow, but because no one, not even the people in charge of WinFS, could explain why the fuck anyone would want something like this. I also don't get what's so great about Photosynth. Last I checked it completely failed to take off anywhere.
'Too late' is only the first question.

Arguments like too little and 8 years to make sweeping changes - those arguments are far too myopic and cynical to be considered sound arguments.

Instead of isolated criticism, jMyles, tell me your ideas...how would you have done better. Issue identification is worthless to me.
I agree with you.

My take on this sort of activism is this: How Dare You. How dare you take away my agency to make my own choices as a human being. So what if I am 'female'? I make my own decisions. Who my lovers are (if I have any). Where I work (my own choice). What schooling I pursue (my own choice).

I will NOT list my traumas or gender or race or disadvantages as some sort of sick measuring stick of worthiness of my right to speech. I will only list my species: Homo Sapiens.

If I come across people who are not like myself, my gender, my culture, etc, I approach them with genuine curiosity and openness, and allow myself to be approached. I ask questions. I answer questions. I DO NOT JUDGE. If someone won't talk to me, I will ask someone else, and answer someone else. "No" IS a complete sentence, for all people of all types. So is "YES". Don't infantilize me.

Do not try to protect me 'For My Own Good'. Let me make mistakes, let me learn, let me grow. Do not try to batter down holes in institutions to make space for me. Let me earn them. Let me find my own way. You shove me where I am 'needed' as a 'token' anything, and I will suffer the worst imposter syndrome ever. I can't even cheat at card games. Why are you forcing me to cheat at life?

If we apply 'For Your Own Good' Code of Conducts, we destroy open and honest discourse between people and replace it with a sick sort of Kafkaesque reality. This sort of 'Righteous Thinking' has given us Residential Schools and Dukhubour child camps in Canada, Magdalene Laundries in the UK, The Spanish Inquisition, The Salem Witch Trials, Zero Tolerance School Administrations, the School to Prison Pipelines, and Minimum Sentencing Policies in the USA, among so many other examples. The one thread in all these things? 'Guilty if you are Suspected in the First Place' thinking, and the invariable 'Punishment of the Innocent'. Collateral damage, anyone?

Michele, I admire you, your hard work, your contributions to the world, (and they are many, large and small!) I also admire your candour, and the fact that you have opinions that are not mine. I cannot live in an echo chamber. Show me new thoughts, new views and new perspectives. I only ask the same of all other people as well. ALL PEOPLE. If we're always safe, we're weak and untried for the true tribulations of the world.

With Eternal Kindness,
-Anna Vit
Microsoft could build a robot that did chores around the house for me, and I still would have no interest in it. Because it's microsoft, and there is a lot of baggage that goes along with that. This holds true for other large tech companies as well - there is always baggage. It might be poor updates, crappy support, no production quality, poor execution, poor security, or required integration with their larger platform.

Yahoo is faced with a similar problem; they can't shake who they are, no matter how cool or different they try to rebrand themselves. They're still Yahoo. And nobody is interested.

I say this because MS seems to think that if they get a slamdunk on technology, everything else will fall into place. And maybe there is some truth to that. But you can't escape who you are and what you've done, especially when it's become your M.O.

Facebook has an advantage in this space: they're still a new name in tech. They're "hipper" although still have their own baggage; but it remains to be seen how that permeates throughout what they do. So far it hasn't looked good though.

Really, I think there is too much talent locked up in this major companies. I think the world would be better off if more engineers and creatives were forging their own paths, chasing their own dreams and coming to market themselves. We need less whales and more/bigger fish.
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Yup, cops don't ever abuse their power unless it's against a minority. Cops aren't power hungry or brutal, they just have an unending unexplainable hatred for minorities.

And even if they do abuse or brutalize a white person who cares right? That white person probably had such a good life before then that they deserved it.

It's one thing to focus the conversation on race when we're talking about race, and fight off intentional malicious distractions like "all lives matter". It's entirely another to pretend no issues exist unless they only affect minorities.
Dukakis pretty much did everything wrong.

He was opposed to the death penalty when the country was overwhelmingly for it.

He talked about how civilians shouldn't be permitted to own guns.

He was arguably soft on crime.
Its upsetting that they listen to Justin Bieber in my office some days.
How quickly did Native American societies succumb to European disease?
The collaboration curse
But by using Docker, it does change the way you use Ansible, right? I'm not going to be executing Playbooks against a set of hosts anymore to configure them.

Instead, I guess I'll be using a Ansible to configure a container locally (in place of using Dockerfiles)? Then perhaps a different Playbook to deploy this container to my hosts?
Absolutely. In the article I discuss how important it is to version your endpoints.
The Real Face of Jesus
The New York and Miami drug wars were early consequences of the War on Drugs, not things that existed before or outside of it.
Planck 2015 results. XIII. Cosmological parameters
Do you still have it? I'd love to see a picture
REC Studio 4: Reverse Engineering Compiler
Before iPhones and all the really nice capacitive touch screens, I had a haptic touch LG phone I could text blindly on with surprisingly good accuracy. Now... No way
After multiple comments, I looked it up and yeah, its true. President can't pardon state level crimes. Although in my original reading of the constitution (the exact section you posted), I don't see why that is true.

>he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.

Is there some case law that has determined "offenses against the United States" == Federal crime only?
Interesting. I recently got a chromebook (and not one of the nicer ones) and haven't seen any of this kind of behavior. It's actually been one of the best "just works" items I've bought in a while. I set up crouton so that I could use it for more than a browser, and the only piece of software that's caused any issues is WINE (though I haven't been too adventurous with the kinds of things I install on there).
I don't know, I can't speak for their military leaders, but I've read Soviet physics papers and they had (funded and educated) some solid scientists.
I wonder everyday why they don't have more competition. I won't be back, and don't need a long lecture, but it just seems like a service begging for competition?

I think they are missing a large demographic. There are people like myself, who don't care about style, or the newness of a vechicle. I just want to get there, at a reasonable price. Yes, safety is important, but older cars are safe if maintained. Hell, drive me anywhere in a old collector's car--with tons of metal?

Rent a Wreck was a popular business in the stone ages. People just needed cheap transportation. I honestly don't care about what a car looks like. I'm not marrying it.
I have to disagree here. Much waste is created by founder developers precisely because they can code, but they are not necessarily creating value ( I'm just as guilty ). Good managers / the business, call it whatever you will figure out the priorities, the desires of the stakeholders, help prioritize and more. Any producer (not just a developer) left to their own devices builds what they want to build, and that's not necessarily valuable to the customers or the business. So I agree with your second part, but not the first.
I once wrote a paper at university about the psychology of version numbers.
* unless you're in the Bay Area
People didn't learn anything from Prohibition and we're getting a far more expensive lesson this time around.
Facebook is a new name?

The review of the the pixel book got me thinking...

What do FB and GOOG have to prop up their valuation beyond advertising? In both cases the user is the product, advertisers the customer.

Amazon, MSFT, and Apple have other avenues. It's always interesting how a past reputation glosses of a legacy name is used to gloss over the behaviors of "a new name".
China Stocks Plunge to 13-Month Low Amid Capital Outflow Concern
Yeah but how often do they say Bing? Probably mostly only in the porn threads.
I think it would also be political suicide for the democratic party, not just Obama.
It is so hard for me to imagine that socializing with hardened criminals (and being subject to violence at their hands) could be better for me psychologically than being alone. In some ways, that makes solitary even more scary to know that this is true.