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Great work, but in my opinion using Flask for full-stack, end-to-end web development is wrong. A microframework should never be used as an end-all-be-all. By the time you're done you've added god knows how many external dependencies and bits of homegrown code to support "standard" features such as authentication, forms, etc. that are part of a proper full-stack (read: not micro) web framework. In this case, something like Django would be much more suitable because by the time you've finished this Flask tutorial you've basically implemented key parts of the Django standard library.
As I said, the problem with functors is the same as the problem with OO - it obscures the flow of the code. You can look at some function call, and not understand (just by looking at the text) which code executes next. I'd prefer not to hire people who will "functorize" (nor OO-ize) everything. When I said "ordinary programmers", I'm referring mainly to myself, but also to casual contributors.
In the UK wiretap (and any other surveillance) orders can come from local council officials (and hundreds of other public and some non-public bodies) and have been used for such major crimes as dog fouling and placing your child in the local school [1]. Councils have spent hundreds of thousands of pounds following innocent people for months using these powers. It did lead to some changes but did not actually remove these powers from minor petty officials. The new bill is reintroducing far reaching powers which were originally rejected from the first RIPA legislation and extending the powers already there by very significant levels (beyond where they were originally before being rolled back).

PI are highlighting that in the US, Apple were at least able to publicly disclose what they believe is an egregious over-reach by a law enforcement body. In the UK, Apple execs would currently be facing significant jail time for what they have done.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/12/police-ripa-pow...

[edit: grammar, sorry]
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I, on the other hand, hate feeling pressure to socialize.
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It's fine in Chrome, but in Safari it's very jittery and animates the wrong images.
You don't just "stop" having intrusive thoughts, that's why they're called intrusive.
Did you really not see the gigantic banner ad in the middle of the main UI? Opera tried to monetize the browser in that way for years.
The book this article is about " Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer" is amazing and a little depressing. The funding that is behind the PAC/Super-PAC is very scary, it's a tidal wave of cash. I've always assumed since day one of American politics that cash has been a player. I never assumed that it's as big as portrayed. I'm really starting to rethink my choice of IT and not becoming a political operative.
I think everyone has a different optimal balance. I prefer being in the office at least 4 days a week, while my head developer seems to excel at one day per week, with others somewhere in between. I tend to get more distracted at home then most (I have a pretty large property that always has some kind of chore or new project to be worked on), but not everyone has this problem. I think the flexibility to find a happy equilibrium is the key ingredient.

Hearing that some demand it be all-or-nothing is a bit puzzling to me. Though I have my suspicion that recent high profile moves to eliminate telecommuting (Yahoo and Reddit come to mind) were really just stealth layoffs. A way to reduce FTE through self-selection.
Yes, it's a tradeoff.
As a side note, the scrolling on that site is very buggy. It looks like they tried to add momentum scrolling.
I've seen stock grants much lower. Really though, how do you negotiate if you have no alternatives? Of course comp will be lower if you can't negotiate.
Indeed, i don't see anything about it that's particularly type-safe, and the claim is not discussed beyond the bullet point at the top.
I don;t think it is about the standard. It looks like they only want someone who has already worked with messaging servers. If you have not worked on that before, then you have nothing to worry. Sometimes it happens that what a company/group wants is not what you have to offer, even if you are a good programmer. With all the media hype regarding these unicorns, you feel let down. Shrug it off and move on to other companies.

Java is just to make their own life easier, because they readily know the Java solution.
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I'd say by broadening your interdisciplinary skills and life experiences. From first hand and what I've read others claim, these 2 things are key. Without a wide range of experience and knowledge it's still possible, but more of an innate skill. These characteristics allow you to pull different parts of knowledge and experience and combine, mix and match, and adult them to the real world.
> accessible via git reflog show stash

You can just do "git stash list".
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Huge fines

> According to the Highway Act, Uber has been fined NT$100,000 (approximately US$3,070) to NT$150,000 (approximately US$4,605). Uber drivers have been fined NT$50,000 (approximately US$1,535).
That's basically the same thing as what's proposed, except the extra cost goes to the developer in your proposal whereas in the original it is used to fund public projects.
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12 hours per day is only possible in short bursts, not sustainable in the long term. However, I wonder how would that 6 hour work day compare to working just 3x12 hours per week. So, 3 really long days of work and 4 days of leisure time in between. I know I would really like such schedule.
It's kind of like a Nexus 6 that instead of going on the run in search of a cure for its 2-year lifesppan, its happily sits at its desk filling out TPS reports and their ilk right up to its last day whereupon it conveniently punches out the clock just before it punches out it own clock.
I once had a filesystem watcher watching a git repository. It does not give you detailed information about what changed in the files, but shows in real time what files are changing while you do your regular work.
How sad. He didn't look that old, does anyone know what happened to him?
Now this is an example of a company that really doesn't understand the term "Streisand Effect"....
There are a few local factors that change the dynamics of app-based ride services in Taiwan. They include a solid public transportation infrastructure in Taipei, widespread scooter use (I estimate at least 20% of the population owns or has access to scooters), and relatively low-cost taxi rates.

On the last point, a 45-minute cab ride from eastern Taipei to the international airport cost NT$1200, or about $36, and if you call a private limo service by phone it's NT$1000 for a big van, probably less for a car. By comparison, rates from Boston' airport are about $60 for a 30 minute ride and $40 for an Uber.

FWIW, I found Uber cars to be somewhat rare in Taipei and nonexistent in Chiayi, a smaller city in the south that I visited earlier this month. That could be the crackdown mentioned in the article, but I suspect the demand isn't sufficient owing to the factors mentioned earlier.
I think you're sending the clear message to the wrong party. It's the politicians you should be lobbying to tax companies on their real global profits, ignoring offshore shenanigans. I'm sure some corporate lobbyists lobby the opposite so we the people need to counter that.
Taiwan's rule of law is mostly about connections, money and shady backroom deals (sure, most countries are like this, but it's a matter of degree). I'm sure this has come about because of taxi companies being unhappy rather than any proper legal reasoning.
Sure, I just sent you one to the email address on your profile.
Simon Prebble has narrated a lot of the books I have in my Audible library, notably The System of the World (all the Daniel Waterhouse bits) and Endurance.

I also liked William Dufris who narrated Cryptonomicon and parts of Anathem.

I find new narrators tend to be very grating the first time I start listening, then over time I get used to them.
That's true. But since the BT Tower was built, the Official Secrets Act has gotten stricter, not more lenient (e.g. in the 80's the previous public interest defence was removed). That they've given up on restricting knowledge about buildings that are in plain view reduces the comedy effect somewhat, but they still have occasionally made idiotic attempts to restrict information that's already public.

E.g. in 2004, a government source leaked a document purporting to show that Bush discussed plans with Blair to bomb Al Jazeera, and eventually it got into the hands of Daily Mirror who put it on their front page.

Government officials subsequently tried to threaten the other national papers with the Official Secrets Act if they republished the information (it didn't work; the papers ignored the threats).

I'm sure the overall level of idiocy in this respect has fallen as they've come to terms with a reality where trying to restrict information like this just makes things worse, but it's not because they wouldn't like to.
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Let me just disagree here: a manager is NOT a psychologist, and shouldn't try to be one. Good understanding of psychology has NOTHING to do with managing people. People skills yes, but that is something entirely different from psychology.

A great psychologist can suck at managing people.

They are entirely different skills, with very little overlap.
Just to clarify, they're banned from offering Uber service until they register as a Taxi service.

>There are also cases in which legal loopholes have allowed the company to continue its operations. For example, Uber plans to purchase commercial licenses for its drivers in Germany, where ride-sharing services are banned from operating without taxi licenses.

It's similar in the country I'm currently in - Uber works as a Taxi service and Uber drivers have Taxi licenses. Altho I would not call this a "loophole" as this is the route Uber should have taken from the get go in those places where they don't allow those without Taxi licenses to operate Taxi services.
I agree that it is extremely unlikely they let it happen. I think if all the documents are ever declassified it will be a case study in the breakdown of communications in a large organization. There was office politics (FBI vs. NSA vs. CIA), no overall coordination, and plain incompetence to name a few things that were wrong.

We see this all the time in large companies now, the difference is that rarely do people die as a consequence. Maybe the NASA Challenger accident is a comparable organizational breakdown.
Quite, but I think that most who I meet are not.

Likewise, most of those who spread various 9/11 conspiracy theories are not paid by anyone, they are quite sincere.
If all you care about is paying in so you can take out, and to help cover unlucky people until it's your rainy day, you don't need any taxes at all, just insurance.

In practice taxes are used for all sorts of things which you may or may not agree with (e.g. foreign wars), and other things that you may agree with but maybe don't believe tax and government is the most efficient way to provide it.

The blasé assumption that tax == moral is just another form of the left wing assumption that people working for the state have a slight moral superiority over people working in the private sector (and who are therefore tainted by the desire for profit).

For some things, there aren't really any better options than paying taxes. Military spending comes to mind. For others, it's sort of an open question (roads and healthcare are cases where countries frequently strike different balances). For yet others, tax is obviously the wrong solution. Nobody these days thinks governments should be in the steel or coal businesses, except China.

Unfortunately the nature of tax is that it's rather hard to express your views about it outside of general elections.
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Ah, I see that my comment could be read that way. What I meant was the construct of donations for deductions and later benefit is what those foundations do.
"Not everyone is naturally talented at managing others" -> moreso: nobody is naturally talented at managing others. Some people have the required talents (empathy, people skills, listening talents, caring talents), but in the end managing people is an entirely unnatural skillset that needs to be learned.

Which is why there is so much bad management.
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This article more seemed to suggest that extremely intelligent people are more likely to get into trouble than any apparent root cause to me. In Schwartz and Turing's case, while the law was misguided, it compounded their stressors and took their lives. In the one fellows case he apparently broke into someone's house wasted and was arrested. And there was the guy announcing his suicide on twitter (that might be the same guy, can't remember), a serious call for help.

I'm not so sure this article made me think it's endemic to the software industry. Large numbers of people commit suicide in the United States and abroad every year. Maybe it's the cultural stressors of bills, and grades, and social exclusion, and yada yada yada onward and onward for as long as you'd like that contributes to the high rates of suicide in high stress environments.

And then this weird tangential aside about Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump and how they'd be equally disastrous convinced me this was an emotional plea for something (the vague sentiment that we should treat eachother like humans regardless of seniority when humans don't particularly have a great track record on that front and while... positive is just as kooky if not much more so than anything Bernie Sanders has said) not particularly well grounded in reality and with no proposed solutions besides a call for empathy.

If you want people to stop commiting suicide you need to take away their major stressors which compound their depressive states. Correct the law so that gays are free to be themselves. Pay people living wages so their bank accounts have at least a small buffer. Make sure health care and education are affordable and accessible.

So in a way his potential future vote for Bernie based on Bernie's empathy was the wrong path to the right choice. It's not just in this individual instance that Bernie feels empathetic towards man, but in almost all instances of Bernie's recorded public profile. Whether it comes to the oppression of African Americans and gays, or to the inability to pay bills or access health care of education of the lower and middle class Americans he represents, Bernie has consistently been on the empathetic side of the equation.

But it's his policy proposals which make Bernie the right man for the job, not his empathy which shaped them.
Disappointing that people aren't thinking more critically about this article. Yes, no one likes the Saudis and they often act unethically. That doesn't mean they are on the brink of imminent collapse, and there is no real evidence given here to that thesis.
Exactly. A 9/11 style attack is also a single time event. Now that passengers know the outcome, they simply will not let it happen again. The only possible method would be to turn an existing pilot into a suicide killer.
The theory is that taxicabs are a public service (especially in a city like New York).

My understanding of the history is that, around the time of the great depression, there was significant oversupply of taxis with fare wars and various unsavory tactics, including violence, for hustling business. From there, regulation grew over time helped along by the incumbents who benefited from it of course.
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That is not a problem of low taxes but a problem with the desire to spend without end. The US keeps hitting record highs of tax receipts.
Road management is a Government matter - specifically, managing congestion, where vehicles are allowed to stop and when, etc. Add on top of that the not-uncommon story in many countries of a taxi driver charging an extortionate fare without notice. Add on top of that ensuring that taxi drivers actually do their jobs and get people where they're going, rather than refusing to take people to locations within the city that are "too far away". Add on top of that regulating taxis so that people with disabilities can actually get out and about, seeing as public transport is dire in the US.

All of these things are things that people had huge problems with convincing taxi companies to actually solve - after all, it's more profitable not to - and eventually local Governments agreed that taxis are as important to a city's transport infrastructure as anything else and should be held to a certain standard. You can only realistically argue against that if you believe that everyone who was using taxis had an alternative, which isn't the case.

Uber solves many of these issues, I must admit - but what about five years down the line, once they have the near-monopoly they're seeking? Can we be absolutely certain it will continue to do what's best for the cities it services, even when it affects Uber's bottom line?
Same here. Pretty disappointing. It does work with `mpv --ytdl`, though.
> I do not understand why there are rules against citing DOI-less content, as that would seem to place the needs of the publishing house far above the needs for good scholarship.

Absolutely. Welcome to the industry!

But the publisher's concerns are not without merit. Your cited reference is useless if nobody can find it in a couple years. I'd argue that any article which does not take steps to preserve the availability and connectivity of its sources is neglecting a critical component of "good scholarship", even though this often has nothing to do with the authors or research methodology. (There are, of course, countless justifiable exceptions to this.)

There are creative solutions though. A good journal would take that PDF in your comment, get permission from the author, and package it up with the article as "supplementary data" or some other auxiliary material. A good publisher will find ways to otherwise publish critical outside materials.

We are stuck at an awkward time in digital scholarship. In the old days, you could cite any published material because everything was on paper, and everything was distributed to a thousand libraries, and you could reasonably expect the availability of everything, and there was no expectation that everything would be available instantly. You can't put any of that confidence in naked web pages; URLs are fatally unreliable for this purpose. DOIs, and confidence in the tech brokers that use them, help. And with time, as more and different types of online content become more reliable, it will become easier to cite anything like the old days.
I agree with your first sentence. Alan Turing's death especially can't be attributed to abuse in the software industry.

The rest of your comment is not only condescending, it is baseless. Your premise that the author should think happy thoughts and he will be okay if not as helpful as you may think. The author may or may not suffer from a depression/mood disorder, or even many other more serious conditions. You don't know him. Instead consider telling people that they should talk to a therapist about their problems. You know, an expert.
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Every time I see something like this JSX and whatnot I wonder why these people don't just give up on JS and move on to some LISP - in the React world that would be clojure(script) but frankly whatever sexp language with macros for creating DSL would fix a lot of the pain points caused by annoying web standards designed decades ago.

You could say "legacy code" and what not - but frankly you're making a huge effort when you introduce something like this or React anyway - so you might as well go a little further and do it right.
He did that because the other side in the debate is claiming staying in is important for the same reasons.
I found the picture amazing and bit on watching the video that was posted.

There are lots of other video's about it, I wasn't a big fan of this one's song. Lyrics were good, the chorus could use some work. (It caused a slight flashback to "Badger Badger" days. )

I'm impressed that this thing is from 1978, I would have thought it was newer engineering. But NASA's Crawler-Transporter still remains the largest self-powered land vehicle in the world, and it was from 1965. I guess pocket protector based engineering still rules.
Some more stuff I guess.

All car owners have to deal with insurance, in case they get into an accident. Public transport needs a different kind of insurance. Regulation here ensures compliance.

Licensed cab drivers are also trained in terms of being able to provide First Aid and whatnot. Uber does away with this. (https://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/3de8xr/ama_someone...)

Cab fleets, by virtue of being composed of multiple cabs, are able to comply with regulations regarding having a certain % of cabs and drivers prepared to handle disabled passengers. Uber, seeing as they exist in a weird limbo where they both represent all the cabs and none at the same time, has fought such restrictions (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/21/uber-disabi...).
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How can it evaluate code, when the code is all abstract, and no input is even available?