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Why do women need votes when their husbands will naturally consider their political views, indeed?
I used to work for an antivirus vendor and I would not recommend this.

The antivirus engine is the same and the only differences are how it's packaged. They're still shoveling obtrusive, crap software onto your system, just being less obvious about it.

The only reason to have Symantec Corporate Edition Antivirus installed on your system is because your company signed a deal to use Cisco VPN & Endpoint Protection and you're literally forced to use it.

What mostly everyone fails to understand is that antivirus software is not effective as a _preventative_ measure. What they are good at is detecting that you're already infected, but they all have terrible rates of false-positives. Nothing out there is much effective at protecting you from 0-day, despite industry claims to the contrary.

User training/habit modification is the only effective measure at preventing infection (besides being behind a default-deny firewall, but that's not something consumers will do). 99.9999% of infections require user interaction (and the ones that don't require it become instant international news). Adblockers get you most of the way there and do a better job at prevention than antivirus software.

Flaws in AV software have been exploited by rootkits before. AV software is just another point of failure.
> After you sign something, it's not important if it's reasonable or not: you have to uphold it.

That's frankly a ridiculous idea that clearly leads to injustice. Contracts are often between people who are not equals, where one party has less ability to negotiate or walk away. If the weaker party does not have extra protections outside of the contracting process, the stronger party could use its power to abuse them.
And that libreboot has no hardware support.
Another Nick Farmer associate here from RU; not a fraternity brother, although he did try unsuccessfully to recruit me.

He's a very inquisitive guy, wide range of interests, very hard-working. He deserves this success, for sure. I've been watching the media fanfare unfold since he started promoting the show earlier in 2015 and it's been very exciting for me to see the show explode in popularity after its release.
All very well for us techy folk to think and do that, but you can't expect others to.
In a letter titled "On a Somewhat Disappointing Correspondence"[1][2], Dijkstra replied to this and other reponses, the larger one titled "'"GOTO Considered Harmful" Considered Harmful' Considered Harmful?" It is rather tongue in cheek.

[1]: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd10xx/EWD1009.PDF

[2]: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EW... (transcription)
eh, hedgehogs won't go extinct for want of human intervention
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Surely it can't be doing anything in the background if you use the task manage to kill the app? If so, uninstallation isn't the only option in order to save battery life.
And many firms just don't want to deal with the potential hassle/exposure of hiring someone who has a non-compete that could potentially come into play.

In a former role, one or two of the larger firms in the space were known for having non-competes they were known for trying to enforce that basically said that if someone left--even if they were laid off--they couldn't do the same type of job for a year. Someone I know who left one of those firms just took a year off before going out on their own. The firm I was at wouldn't even think of touching someone to whom those non-competes applied.
I think the loss-leader model for selling cell phones is the real death clock. I've owned about a dozen phones over the years, with replaceable batteries. By the time the battery goes, it's a choice between spending $50 to revive a cracked and scratched old phone with lint in every orifice, or spending $0 (plus a plan extension, which you were going to do anyway) to get a brand new, faster one.

> Maybe on MacBooks where battery replacement is hard?

Isn't battery replacement hard on all iOS devices?
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Thank you for the actionable advice.
It sounds to me like the solution is to introduce legislation where the seller receives the final closing price (minus fees and commissions), not the pre-close sale price. Assign as many times as you want prior to closing the deal, but if that $2M house gets reassigned a few times and ultimately closes at $2.6M, that's what the seller should receive. Essentially, the sale isn't complete until the property is actually transferred.

This would protect the interests of the seller and align the agents with their interests, something which is required to happen in theory but seems lacking in practice with rules easily skirted by an agent making laughable claims like "oh, I wasn't aware that I would be interested in having a financial stake in this property until an hour after the buyer accepted the offer".
The only thing I don't agree with is the car manufacturer in this post.

Look at all the examples cited for self driving cars in movies - what's the key similarity ? All the self driving cars looked the same.

If life mimics movies then it won't be Ford, BMW, Mercedes, etc... building self driving cars. It'll be Google, Apple, Tesla and maybe Microsoft building self driving cars and we get our choice of color and luxuries (think screen size and storage).

Google re-coupes costs via geolocation and selling advertisements for anything and everything you come in close proximity to; Apple re-coupes costs by selling at a premium / iCloud / iTunes integration. Tesla - premium and Microsoft... who knows hah :) XBox version 20 for the kids in the back buying game from the live store.

The traditional car manufacturers (what's left of them after this shift of the industry) share the last 5% of the pie for die hard petrol heads, families that live in rural parts of the country with poor road conditions / non-conducive to self driving cars and building engines for Nascar / Formula 1 / Formula E.
"apple is actually ahead of the curve here"

I'd argue that old-fashioned desktop PCs were (and are) ahead of the curve. No need to wastefully throw everything away, just upgrade the components you want. A reasonable level of standardisation has allowed this to happen.

Desktop PCs might not have the polished, all-in-one usability of an Apple device, but the ability to add or remove components from a PC make them very amenable to re-use. For example, I have an older hard drive (HD) that I removed from my desktop PC and put into an external HD case. It's now used as a backup and storage device.
On the other hand, you really want a professional association that can put a doctor out of business permanently if they persistently fuck up, and assure that new doctors have the requisite training. The AMA is an example of professional licencing that does in fact benefit consumers. A line industrial worker who is always drunk on the job is a much smaller problem than a doctor who is always drunk on the job.

That said, I'm all for unions, because they provide protection for workers from rent-seeking behavior by corporations. If it makes my prices a bit higher, so what.
Plagiarized almost word-for-word from this June 2015 Daily Mail story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3131511/Sex-Sahara-S...
If you ask the community like this, you'll probably get a lot of "yes" answers, because very few people like the tools they have. But it probably won't help you make a good decision.

Asking people how they feel generally isn't a great way to evaluate your product -- you have to build it and see how they act. You can ask potential customers what features they would like to help guide you, but I wouldn't necessarily add or cut features based on their answers.

The best way to tell if someone needs your products is to just get it out there and see if people actually use it.

Some anecdotes: I was in a focus group once about cell phones, many years ago. They asked us all if we would want a camera in our phone. All of us said no, it wouldn't be worth the extra expense, because we couldn't think of a single thing we'd use a camera on a phone for. It's a good thing Nokia didn't listen to us!

On reddit, check out the /r/ideasfortheadmins subreddit. It is filled with ideas users think they want, including features reddit used to have that no one used.

What I'm saying can be summarized by the (incorrectly attributed to Ford) quote, "If you had asked people what they wanted, they would have said 'a faster horse'".
"Better than Rally" is a really low bar.
After wrestling with creating a nice gulpfile for the past two days (essentially wasting two days), I think this is the right route. My biggest gripe with gulp is that creating reusable pipelines even with lazypipe is unnecessarily difficult and can make debugging build scripts (!) hard.

Can you post an example of one of your makefiles?
This is the general problem when you have two parties with an asymmetry of power enter into an agreement with each other.

The more powerful entity will spend time iterating over the process and identify every possible way they can be threatened. They will write contractual language that errs on the side of protecting the company.

The less powerful entity will not argue any of this language for fear of no longer being allowed to engage the more powerful one. They don't know what to look out for anyway because they are inexperienced at entering in to these kinds of contracts.

This is a problem for more than just employment contracts. We expect individuals to have to negotiate against highly-paid professional negotiators for even the most essential activities in our lives.
What's peering?
MS Security Essentials detection rates are pretty poor, historically. Considering excellent products like Avast are free for the home user, I don't see why we'd recommend the MS one.

To be fair, MS has recognized this and has been steadily improving detection rates. It has only recently been able to outdo Avast or AVG. Hopefully, this trend will continue. I imagine MS is under a lot of pressure to contain the Cryptolocker-type infections and the bad press of the past couple years is probably a motivator.

http://www.alphr.com/security/6745/best-free-antivirus-of-20...
Did you come up with particular tactics? Any insights on platform bottlenecks?
> If I was writing an embedded system, or a system
> with soft-to-hard realtime requirements, or one
> where flat straight line performance was the only
> requirement that counted, sure, I might ditch or
> constrain logging.

I've worked on embedded systems, and logging is still extremely important, if not more important because of the difficulty of seeing what's going on (it's hard to reproduce events that only happen in a truck while you're inside your office).

In one case, a team had been trying for months to debug a problem, but when proper logging was added, the issue was easily fixed.
Customers have had to buy electricity from power companies at retail rates rather than wholesale rates since forever. Why should they have to buy at a higher rate?
The factory nearby here (a paper mill) has a larger power plant than the ~35,000 people that live in the area.

They aren't going to switch to something less reliable than the natural gas line feeding the plant, nor are they going to switch to something more expensive.

It typically only shuts down for several weeks a year and isn't all that profitable (at least, the owners keep going bankrupt, 4 or 5 times in the recent 20 years), I doubt running less would help.
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The good thing is mangoes are available already cheap. So 200 rupees for 1GB .. and with competition it will go down further
The major thing for me is proper search and filtering tools. Jira and TFS seem to get this right with JQL and Queries respectively, for most non-technical people however, they seem to be quite daunting.

I think the other main thing that could be improved is integration with other tracking software.

I work in testing. The main thing I see is projects using more than one project or defect management tool. I feel is an area that could be seriously disrupted.

For example... One project I worked, we had the developers (external company) using JIRA, whilst we used Smartbear ALM.

So I ended up writing something that used both the JIRA and ALM API's to save me updating two systems. Imagine if this functionality was out of the box?
>Agreed but I think it's also OK to take a fundamental position that all secrecy is bad.

But the problem is it's not a position anyone can actually honestly take, I don't agree with RMS and I also think you over-estimate his impact on the software industry but at least he practices what he's preaching while WikiLeaks is a closed and secretive organization which about a step away from becoming a personality cult.

>Today's status quo in Western governments is a long long way from being the happy medium you're describing.

I don't believe this is necessarily true (for all cases, and all countries the US included), you need to understand that allot of the "secrets" that the government is keeping aren't actually intended to protect itself or even it's population but to protect other people and organizations in other countries.

This is why whilst I can understand the release of say the after action reports from Iraq I think that anyone who was involved with the diplomatic cable's leak should end up in prison for good, that was a spit in the face of diplomacy and every western value that people claim to hold and probably have actually caused more damage (as far as human lives go) than all other leaks including the Snowden one combined.
Not friends with Nick, but two degrees of separation from the author.
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such an interesting thread, thanks for bringing this up!

At Packet, we've been working to support CoreOS and their Distributed Trusted Computing (https://tectonic.com/trusted-computing/) for our on-demand bare metal product. This relies on UEFI vs traditional BIOS. Reading up on this I've certainly learned a ton! A good background article I read was https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/01/25/uefi-boot-how-does-...
> Its going to be untenable to tax someone for no longer using the electric utility (I'm revolted by that idea personally, and am pretty far left bleeding liberal).

Which is amusing, because you already pay the tax in the form of variable rate usage pricing that is higher than it needs to be. This is the problem with making hidden subsidies explicit -- people suddenly don't like the subsidy anymore.
I read a book called "Economics in One Lesson" [1] which is quite in few ways similar to your arguments. The gist of the book is Government should avoid doing anything in capitalistic market, goes on to argue against Minimum wage Laws, Labour unions, Price control etc. and how a free market will solve every economic problem.

The problem with your arguments / analogies and of that book, is that they tell a simplistic chain of reasoning without considering hundreds of factors involved in the equation. You say that a 'no-blocked sites package' and 'whitelisted site package' could co-exist but fail to see that, the former one could be priced so high (once the latter gains a very large market share) that it becomes necessary for an ordinary person to limit his choices. The barrier to entry for a telecom network or a broadband service is really high and I can't see a better alternative just coming in quickly.

[1]: http://www.hacer.org/pdf/Hazlitt00.pdf
> After you sign something, it's not important if it's reasonable or not: you have to uphold it.

This may be your personal moral preference, but it very much is not an accurate reflection of contract law (at least, not in any US jurisdiction.)
They're largely not enforceable in the US either - non-competes are thrown out in court all the time.

Enforceability is only one (small) dimension of the problem - arguably the chilling effect it has on future employers (who simply don't want the show up in court, even if they will win) is larger.

The threat of litigation is often stronger than the litigation itself, especially against smaller entities. Overly broad non-competes are more a bullying tactic than they are an actual contract.
I would argue that the world needs better issue tracking software, in much the same sense that the world needs better software per se: there are lots of things that are good, and a few that are great in their own way; the Enterprise spends the most and gets the least for it; and for any two software developers you will find three values of $GREAT when trying to come up with your requirements.

Like many (most?) programmers working collaboratively, I have often wished I had the "perfect" issue tracker, but my version of "perfect" maps very tightly to the way I think software "should" be developed, at least among teams of people working full-time for money.

In spite of my natural tendency to be sure, like every good programmer is sure, that my hypothetical solution is vastly superior to all the horrible, slow, confusing, buggy things that actually exists, I am forced to concede that the corporate software world is not following my implied instructions.

So, in all seriousness, I think there are three huge challenges facing the would-be creators of an issue tracker that would be $GREAT:

1. You have to either accommodate a bunch of different workflows and be good at most of them, or commit to One True Workflow and hope you can convince people you're right.

2. Even if you actually do make one that's more $GREAT than anything else, the Enterprise world will not care -- and that's where the only serious issue-tracking money is, so you'd better do this for love and/or have a very long runway. And if you get so far that they ever do care, you'd better have a bunch of data-migration "whitepapers" ready.

3. In order for anyone on a small team or open-source project to switch to your software, you will have to convince them not only that it's better than whatever they're using now, but also that it won't be offensive to people with longstanding allegiances to other software. And making it unoffensive is likely to contradict your definition of $GREAT.

All that said, go for it! You might be your only customer, but if that means you've got the greatest issue tracker in the world then it might be worth it.
So, basically Flash lives on because advertisers are still looking for a way to track us without our permission.

Gee thanks.
Never ever sign a non-compete, ever.
I think there's a big difference between eating out in really touristy spots, and pretty much anywhere outside them, where you're pretty likely to get a great meal at a good price in a nice atmosphere.
> To be fair, it's only a matter of time before Apple patches this

I don't think that's being "fair" to the consumer. Sure it may get fixed in the future, but it's an issue now. And even if/when this specific issue got fixed, you can bet Facebook and others will look for other ways to get around this "limitation".
1/ Telecom marketing is absolutely central to this discussion. It is THE way that free basics in sold on the street. Even the world bank has said free basics breaks net neutrality (http://www.scoopwhoop.com/The-World-Bank-Has-Said-Free-Basic...)

2/ Clearly you haven't the slightest idea of the number of people that travel by trains in India. In Mumbai alone, close to 8Mn people use the train to get to their place of work EVERYDAY. Many of them travel for over 2 hours at a time (over 4 hours in total). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai_Suburban_Railway)

3/ You have no idea how rich/poor the ones fighting for net neutrality are. You shouldn't be making such statements. It reflects badly on you. The fact is that a bunch of few activists with no financial backing were able to put an end to intense lobbying by multi-billion dollar telecom and media companies.

This is exactly what you expect from a good regulator. I am extremely happy with TRAI. They saved my bootstrapped education startup.
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Dude, have you read anything about what pigs eat????
What tools do you use to make it happen?
Has molecular dynamics had any big success stories? Have new drugs been approved which were initially found by in-silico screening using MD?
Well written article

worth the read.
Atlassian is cheap (like a dollar a user per year, per product) for startups (up to 10 engineers IIRC - so lets say if you have less than 20-25 employees) and basically does everything from high level PPM all the way down to code-reviews. I've played with all of the major (and maybe half of the minor) solutions and Atlassian wins hands down. (They bought Hipchat, so you have your Slack integration -- Confluence as your wiki -- Bitbucket is now feature parity with Github -- and its all on premise. Watch this[1] 3 minute promo to see the tooling. And if its extendable/integrates into basically everything (see this: https://youtu.be/YdHtj0ymMqY?t=22. Oh yeah it has all those Kanban Trello features too). It was a RAM hog back in the day (mid 2000s) but thats a non-issue now. And re: licensing fees, if you make it past their startup-pricing, the software has delivered enough value to you that spending a few thousand an engineer a year is literally the cost of one day of labor for a FTE.

There are other alternatives with pretty decent ecosystems if you don't want to pay the $10 dollars to get 10 seats for Atlassian (which again, I think youd be crazy not to at least demo it). RE: OSS - Even with a "crappy" 8 year old Redmine install, you're given a git master remote to push to, a document share, bug tracking, and a whole lot more out of the box. GitLab also has a really integrated free set of tools which is a huge huge RAM hog in itself, but it's free and has eye candy so you can probably get management to sign off.

https://youtu.be/8KPoZ5g8NqU
Yes, it's a good point - it just looks awful so I suppose it registers. High levels of road-kill also indicate that there is enough of a species to become road-kill on a frequent basis. The wet Spring a few years ago caused a significant decline in some bird species, Barn Owls being among them. Biologists knew this because they were finding fewer road-killed owls. So anyway, that's part of the reason I said he "underplays" the road-kill effect, rather than using it as a way to outright dismiss his arguments.
For a couple of reasons.

- They aren't transmitting it, which has a cost. They aren't providing value add like the power company.

- They could pay wholesale if they figured out a way to get the electricity from the power plant to their house, which is the value add that the power company provides.

- They have a choice in how much they buy, by turning things on and off. The power company, being a regulated utility, does not have that choice. They must buy as much as is demanded.
Uninstalling Facebook from my life increased productivity by 15% as well.
No problem. The iReport thing is perfect for polemicists and conspiracy theorists, as it means they can post something and say "look, it's on CNN" and many people will miss the disclaimer. If anything is about vaccines I always check sources very carefully, as there is so much misinformation out there.
I assume Microsoft couldn't push their own solution because of the anti-trust restrictions. Now that those have expired, perhaps they could unless they're afraid they'll get lawsuits against them again.
> distributed

You keep on using that word... but seriously, thanks for the non-answer, now I can be confident you don't know what you're talking about.