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I'll say it: I want a correction. I don't believe that the VC-funded app economy is delivering. I dislike that SF and SV have a de facto monopoly on the US tech sector, and to participate here I have to spend my entire paycheck to rent the shittiest apartment I've ever lived in. I would like for housing prices to go down, or I'd like a nudge to walk away from this place.
Your comment doesn't make any sense?

Don't view ads. Wired doesn't care about you. You contribute nothing back anyway.

So by making it a little harder, at least some of those people with morals will be pushed in the right direction to pay or white list ads for free content.
My contention is that if you want to, you can make ads nearly indistinguishable from "content".

On the extreme side, I would say that I have won this bet already; if you pick up something like the Wall Street Journal and count the number of articles that someone involved wanted printed, you'd find that most of what you're reading is one kind of ad or another.

But there are technical solutions as well. Obfuscation beats machine parsers for at least the foreseeable future.
> so they make it up by showing you ads.

Correction: they make it up by giving third parties the ability to lift each and every bit of identifiable information available from your browser, to profile you, to sell your demographic information (lat/lon/approximate age/wealth/family situation/etc, etc) to middlemen who will then in turn sell the opportunity to advertise to you in a real time bidding process to the highest bidder, some ad agency that bought campaign inventory.

If it was just the ads I highly doubt there would be any issue at all.
You could require both pubkey + password:

https://sysconfig.org.uk/two-factor-authentication-with-ssh....
I had this argument with the Rust folk. They use the term "closure" for things that don't reference any variables in the outer scope. Sometimes, all you need is a function pointer. For example:

something.unwrap_or_else(|err| {
writeln!(io::stderr(), "{}", err);
process::exit(1);
}

This is really just a function call. There are no references to an outer scope. But Rust requires a closure there. You can't pass a pointer to a function.

You'd like for this to optimize down to a function call, without saving any state from the outer scope. Don't know if Rust does this yet.
Judge tosses proposed class action accusing Google of CAPTCHA fraud
I don't mind ads but I do mind tracking.

* If Wired would implement a solution that provides confidentiality to users, following the approach of The Intercept [1], I would have no problem with it.

* If Wired would show me ads I was interested in, I'd be happy to see them (assuming my confidentiality is preserved).

* If Wired would provide a way to pay them without having to go through another website registration and credit card payment process, I'd pay them. I don't have time to register for and pay every website I read using the current systems, and Wired isn't at the top of my list.

If users are so annoyed by part of your website that they are investing time and effort in disabling it, perhaps the problem is with your website.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2015/11/04/what-the-intercepts-new-...
While there may be some benefit to avoiding free riders, that definitely is not the goal. The goal is to hopefully prevent some new installs of ad blockers with a hope that some of those existing free riders disable their ad-blockers on Wired or pay a subscription.
I have yet to find a mainstream language which implements any of those features well. Show me one which didn't have and now has proper ADTs.
I wish there was more long-form writing like this in the gaming world (there's occasionally some good long-form stuff on Polygon that is great, but not quite like this). I haven't played Cave Story before, but after reading through this, Cave Story is going on my list to play. :)
I'm sure market research has been done. But 52 dollars a year is probably too high a price for an ad free version of wired. I would pay maybe three or four dollars a year, which has to be more money than they would possibly make off of the advertising revenue I would generate in a lifetime.
HN bubble bubble?
Right. So sick of that dumb shit. Anyone gullible enough to buy into propaganda like that is too stupid to hire, imo. I havent worked anywhere whereupon hearing mission statement oriented bullshit from the ceo or minions that I didnt say to myself, "ok...whatever...".
A monolithic PNG wouldn't have annoying animated ads or videos that push down content, they wouldn't pop over. They wouldn't be serving malware since it would come from wired. I would miss the ability to select text, but I wouldn't be bothered by the ads anymore.

Maybe now if they served a canvas element, and put all the content in that with animated ads, that would be more bothersome.
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Ah great pointer. Interesting digression in there about limits of applying these techniques to Javascript - in short, isn't done by current implementations of the language (not sure which engines the author has looked at) but nothing about the spec forbids it with regards to strict-mode code.

(Does anyone write non-strict JS these days? Why?)
> some of those people with morals

As opposed to those without morals who won't white list the trackers or pay up?

As opposed to those moral upstanding citizens that run the advertising industry?

I don't think that the 'morals' bit needs to be in there, in fact it would be stronger without.
I was excited to learn that GNU Social is in PHP, but quickly turned off because of the quality of the PHP code.
helpful hint: this is a listed, but disabled by default, ruleset in ublock's 3rd party filters: https://i.imgur.com/XiXspoi.png
> which has to be more money than they would possibly make off of the advertising revenue I would generate in a lifetime.

You are so terribly wrong about that.
> they are ploys to manipulate viewers into buying things that they did not need until they watched that ad.

I have to take issue with this, sorry. You may not be fully cognizant of your needs at the time you see an ad, and what if an ad tells you something about what you want rather than what you "need"? And who are you to make that call for anyone other than yourself?
What's with these new values?

Effective immediately, this company’s values are:

#1 Operate with integrity.

#2 Put the customer first.

#3 Make this a great place to work for employees.

Did these not exist prior to Conrad stepping down? If they did, and this still happened, they're clearly bad values to hold.

For one, they're unspecific and don't have a clear opposite. No one is going to take the opposite on these, meaning they can't really be values.

No one will proudly state that

#1 Don't operate with integrity.

#2 Put ourselves first.

#3 Make Zenefits at least a mediocre place to work.

Are good values, so the values the new CEO espoused aren't really actionable or value-able in any way.

Anyone have a different take that I might be missing?
I always thought of micropayments as being like 1cent or less, like a small enough amount to be forgettable for even the stingiest people. And to somehow make it effortlessly simple to pay, so it's closer to an impulse purchase. There's a lot of friction associated with finding a credit card and punching in numbers and an address.

I'm already using Google Contributor, and have apparently effectively paid amounts from less than a cent to $0.35 to various sites I've visited in the last month or so, and all for $5 a month. Seems like a better way to handle paying for content than signing up for subscriptions individually with dozens of sites.
Over the long run there are an infinite number of thing to "break", or "disrupt"...you'd better have a solid product when you attempt to fill the void you've created...

The analogy of conquering armies pushing forward and failing to nail down resupply lines comes to mind...

In football it's called out kicking your coverage...

Hypergrowth is not necessarily an evil, but the old maxim "cover your flanks" is generally apt...

Business is war...
Globally, the potato market is MUCH bigger than the Web design market.
I have a Surface Book and am sticking through the problems, I've experienced everything you've mentioned. Bought it on launch, things have gotten significantly better with firmware and driver updates, but it still has a little ways to go. Seemingly the majority of the problems have to do with Skylake. At the rate things have been going, I estimate a couple more months before they have the big bugs all ironed out.
> after the rent prices drop through the floor

Ha, I wish. The market might cool off, but it's like saying it will be great moving to Manhattan once rent there becomes dirt cheap. Barring catastrophic events (e.g., war, a confluence of epic natural disasters, an alien invasion), not in our lifetimes.
If that's how they think they should probably take a class explaining network effects and how the ability to share a link can help spread their product.
Exactly. The best part is it doesn't even need to be blocked in the client. I'm running Pi-Hole:https://pi-hole.net/ with DNS Crypt:https://dnscrypt.org/ on a couple of Raspberry Pi 2s on my network acting as internal caching name servers. Sure, I also run uBlock, but I don't even see ads on mobile apps because they're all blocked via DNS long before the client even has to parse it.
This is exactly the crux of the argument and wired totally blew it by not addressing this in a more direct manner.
Intelligent Vagrant and Ansible files
It's quite funny how much the debug vs release builds resemble the fastOpt and fullOpt stages of Scala.js. Except that fastOpt actually produces decent runtime performance thanks to incremental whole-program optimizations. But time spent too compile and undefined behavior handling are very much the same.
I gave a technical talk and so should you
That is quite the paradox, isn't it...

If they lose significant eyeballs, they can't charge a premium for the ad space. With less premium, they make less money. With less money, they can't write the articles.

At least with ad block and non-adblock eyeballs, they could say we get "XXX"k traffic per day/month/year. Less traffic overall will be bad in the long run.
And every time I've relented and turned off my ad blocker for a domain, they have made be regret it and I turn it back on (and often never visit the site again).

When will these clueless execs realize that if they didn't abuse our eyeballs they'd have our eyeballs?
It aint his fault, so he must have another opportunity.
Reply threshold. Saying a bubble bursting always involves a Lehman Brothers or Bear Stearns collapse (brother post) is pushing it. That was a leveraged bubble and it burst harder than most. In the dot com bubble most of the big names rode it out from AOL to Yahoo and Amazon. A bubble can pop without a Facebook or Google type company going down.
Then yelp should sue these yelp specialist for trademark infringement.
Well, then I have to take issue with this.

Who are you to say what the grandparent is cognizant of or not?

I for one do definitely not need advertising to tell me what I need, if I need advertising to tell me then I did not need it.

> And who are you to make that call for anyone other than yourself?

The call was made on behalf of at least on other person, but in fact that suggestion was never made in the first place.
What did you find well written about the culture? Genuinely curious, because I have the exact opposite view. The culture section is blatantly obvious and the new values don't seem to provide any guiding force. Pushing down decision making in the company (a point of his which I agree with) only works if the values you're pushing actually inform action. Which these don't.
A huge post. He just keeps piling on one thing on top of another and another and another. Many topics should be discussed separately. There is a lot of information. And yet, I feel that critical topics are misunderstood.
This isn't a moral argument. This is advertising. Less traffic overall will be bad in the long term. There are no two ways about that.
I agree that they're not particularly specific, but I don't think that a value has to be controversial - ie that its opposite could also be a reasonable value - in order to be useful. By selecting certain things as key values and excluding others, and possibly by ordering the values by priority, you still give some direction.
Yes, but that's the point of Will Bond joining. He will be a developer actively dedicated to new releases.
Any links to research on how much advertising dollars the average website makes per unique visitor would be interesting to read.
They realize it all right. But the money is just too good and the arms race dictates they join in or be left in the dust. It's a hard problem, and I don't think wired has found the answer just yet.
Heh, sorry, this made me chuckle. I'm sorry you're right, but ya know, it's a GNU project, so there's always room to contribute. :)
Human evolution is more a muddy delta than a branching tree
I've never run into so many bugs as since Steve Jobs died, Tim Cook and friends are just throwing things at the wall now and their own apps are just breaking like plates.
Exactly. If Wired would show me static image ads that do not slow down my browser with scripts and use my bandwidth to track me across the web, I would add them to my whitelist.
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Wired is one of those mags you can easily get a subscription for under $5. Free subs used to be pretty common too. My current subscription goes till something like 2024 due to stacking a bunch of free or cheap subscriptions together. $1/week makes no sense.
Let them be the case study and prove all of the "welp, won't go there again" crowd wrong. I have my doubts that that blocking blockers is a wise long term strategy.
Mobile chrome users are almost exclusively on the latest chrome. There are a lot of other chromium-based Android browsers using out of date chromium, but if you touch a chrome icon to get to the internet its probably real, up to date chrome.

And at least on my site, most android users do seem to be using chrome rather than an OEM browser.
Depends on your definition of a hassle. I am a happy user of Apple software, I love iTunes. I do experience occasional issues — AirDrop not finding peers, iOS asking for a password when it's not supposed to, iMessage failing to sync SMS read states between the Mac and the phone. If you're okay with occasional problems like that, go ahead and try it.
Works on forbes.com (not that I care, but I used it to test). Thanks!
Yeah, I think they needed to signal to pretty much all their constituents they they're cleaning up their act.
This video seems to only focus on the negative areas of OOP. There are of course some wide benefits.

I think the truth is in the middle somewhere. As always, pick the right tool for the job.
Although that's totally the common understanding, surprisingly there's rather a lot of evidence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis) at this point that it isn't actually true; it's just a little hard to say "a little radiation might be good for you" without people writing you off as some sort of crazy person at the outset, so it's not talked about very much.

What you're describing -- and what most people who don't have a specialized education in the nuclear field commonly believe -- is something called the "linear no threshold" hypothesis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_no-threshold_model) of radiation exposure, and although it's commonly used because it's definitely the safest and most conservative way of responding to radiation exposure, it's rather controversial and probably wrong.

If you're curious and want to find out more, there's a lot of fascinating material about the subject available publicly, including some analyses of life expectancies in areas that have much-higher-than-normal background radiation (off the top of my head, Kerala, India is one such locality).
As long as the value proposition is there, it will work out for them. I can tell you, for me it is definitely not. In fact, I just feel bad about the opportunity cost (time) of reading one of their articles let alone actually paying to see one.

If I worked at WIRED I'd be very concerned with increasing the quality of content.
Maybe not have a complete opposite that could also be valid, but at least state some sort of preference or be able to be used to make a real decision.

He goes on to say that he wants to push decision making ability down in the company, but if you're looking at those 3 values, it seems hard to make clear decisions based on them.
Meh. Kind of good as a trend piece in that it points out how the lines of offensive or not are being redrawn, and now maybe no one knows what can offend anymore. OTOH, as the last line of the article notes "outside of academics and the media, none of this really matters".
How would that be different from all-Flash websites of the past? It would be quite ironic to kill off Flash and return to the same with HTML5.
Sublime Text user here, who switched to Atom a year ago and never looked back. Never had any of the issues others described having with Atom such as slowness, etc. What I love about Atom is that it's under active, fast-paced development, that it's super-easy to customize (first thing was to increase the font-size of the left-hand folder pane), and the available plugins are fantastic. It probably also helps that extending Atom is much more approachable given that it's all Javascript, rather than Python with ST.
Furthermore, as others commented, the plugins have much more reach into the editor and can do a lot more.

For example, the new block decorations coming in 1.6 are going to be an awesome API for plugin authors!
http://blog.atom.io/2016/02/03/introducing-block-decorations...
Winning? The company is a giant mess, and the shit has not even hit the fan yet, this is just the start.

Parker didn't accomplish anything positive as CEO of Zenefits, ever. There's a ton of companies using Zenefits services who aren't happy. They haven't left because switching is a major pain in the ass. You think it's by accident that Parker chose to disrupt three of the industries with the highest customer retention rates. This board knows damn well that it's not because the (industry) solutions are awesome, it is because switching is painful and costly. Zenefits overall customer satisfaction sucks, as does feedback from employees and overall morale, check GlassDoor.

Parker found a way to piss off not just one highly regulated industry (health insurance) but three. He told a "journalist" from BI that the CEO of ADP "threatened him like Dirty Harry" in true SF/SV tabloid fashion. You think Warren Buffet ever did something like that?

From day one, on stage at TC Disrupt, he acted like a cocky spoiled brat, which is precisely what he is.

He managed to create enemies with many of the companies Zenefits originally did business with, and then relished in it when it made headlines, ala "project nutshot".

Zenefits is a company that is not only on track to lose hundreds of millions of its investors money, but it literally put its employees freedom at stake. People could be facing jail time because of how blatantly Zenefits ignored the law. More than 80% of sales in WA were by unlicensed reps. Tip of the iceberg.

Had Zenefits reached a $60M run rate without breaking the law, without requiring over $500M in VC, without requiring a near $100M burn rate, without Parker being abusive and unprofessional, well I'd have no choice but to congratulate Parker on his accomplishments.

All this guy did was burn through a ton of money, make a fool out of his investors and mismanage this company to the point where the massive fundraising at a $4.5B valuation, and all but inevitable write down, have sent every employees shares into a watery grave.

Learn from this. Don't try to romanticize the Zenefits story. If you look beyond the PR machine, you'll find a company that has done almost everything wrong under the helm of someone who was more interested in accomplishing something for himself, "proving people wrong", because of the self-described chip on his shoulder.

Just be glad you're not David Sacks, because unwinding this mess is going to be nearly impossible, and investors are going to be brutal. I wouldn't want to have to answer to Jordan Catalano.
What's the value proposition over Twitter?
Sowa's Law:

Whenever a major organization develops a new system as an official standard for "X", the primary result is the widespread adoption of some simpler system as a de facto standard for X...

Your point is worth considering...
What Is the Microsoft Compliance Program
In France we had something called the Minitel, it was basically internet but the wrong way and centralized, you had to pay more or less depending on which website you would visit (you'd dial 36 14 for free content , 36 15 for paid one ... ), it failed because it was obviously the wrong model but it was quite lucrative for "content providers". The phone company directly handled payement so there was no friction or paywall.

Here is how a terminal looked like :

https://www.element14.com/community/servlet/JiveServlet/show...

I'm not suggesting to go back to that of course, it was dreadful, but it feels like current content providers always try to reinvent the Minitel somehow.
Wasn't this the initial goal of app.net? I know it's morphed somewhat now, but, if I remember correctly, it came about as a direct response to some Twitter developer in-niceness.
For wired the point is the ad is for them to stay in business. For the company advertising the point of the ad is to sell something. Maybe it is something you want, maybe it is something you don't need,maybe it is showing you need. But this isn't a conspiracy for wired to sell you something you don't need.
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The Double Bind Theory: Still Crazy-Making After All These Years (2006) [pdf]
Generally you're operating in one of two modes:

1) you don't believe anyone is listening, and even if they are, you don't care

2) you don't believe anyone is listening, but if they are, the consequences are worth avoiding

If you find yourself in the #2 mode, don't buy an Amazon Echo.
Rust optimizes for correct memory management. Its borrow checker and safe/unsafe distinction makes the easiest option to make most often the one that is safe.

Jai optimizes for performant memory management. Several of its features, such as SOA pointers, make organizing your data to take advantage of the processor cache easier if not as easy as managing memory in any other way.

It looks like Zig optimizes for simple memory management. Without all the bells an whistles the other languages offer, the easiest way to manage your memory is the most obvious way. Which is good from a prinicple-of-least-surprise perspective.
All the enthusiasm for micropayments is from people who want to collect micropayments. There is little or no consumer demand for the ability to pay them.
While I generally hate being advertised to, there are certainly times when advertising has shown me things I didn't know existed but wanted to buy as soon as I did. Especially in the case of books.