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Having re-read the thread, I stand by my "in-a-nutshell" summary of it.

I don't think any of his technical arguments hold up. I'm also not sure that he would have convinced the Bootstrap team to have dropped this based on technical arguments if he hadn't seemed so annoyed, and made repeated references to how only people who speak the language should make certain decisions.

Some examples:

* the bug report is a command: "Stop developing RTL for Bootstrap!"

* the bug report ends with an exclamation point!

* the bug starts "I'm really annoyed..."

* "use cases that only natives can understand"

* A second command, bolded: "Remove it!"

I personally was inconvenienced by this because I was writing lots of bootstrap based .less, and if twitter and Bootstrap had worked together on an auto-flipping rtl system for Bootstrap then all the RTL users of my code would have got a far better service. Instead only those who use the Bootstrap CSS essentially as-it-comes get a manually RTL'd version from a 3rd party. A tool that can automate that work sounds like a far better deal for the RTL world, even if it would have annoyed this particular person.

I note that his argument against automated flipping included the fact that you really need one for farsi, one for arabic, etc. Yet he only manually produces one. Maybe with the right tooling he'd have got to where he wanted to be faster.

A link to such a tool: https://github.com/MohammadYounes/rtlcss (note how it documents various solutions to the 'problems' listed in the original bug report, like changing the font stack when in RTL mode)
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> Those bank deposits are used for lending.

Those bank deposits can be used for lending. That doesn't mean they are. And banks can currently borrow from The Fed at practically no interest, so the effect you're describing currently doesn't exist.

It's also entirely independent of the original money. The money would also be deposited in a bank and used for lending if it was paid to employees as wages.
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Put some numbers up. This whole debate is driven by so much vague thinking and so many unfounded assumptions.

What realistic, year 2016 HTML client is so slow that it can't run 100K or so of string interpolation in a millisecond or two? Quite aside from the supposed benefits of performing computation on a server, the idea that web applications are bottlenecked by HTML generation is already absurd.
Good point. It's similar to the fallacy of measuring coder productivity by "lines of code written."

Reminds me of the anecdote about Bill Atkinson: His manager required a "productivity" form that asked "how many lines of code did you write this week?" Having just refactored QuickDraw, with vast gains in speed and simplicity, answered "-2000."

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lin...
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That really only makes sense if you've got a 40 year old code base that supports every platform conceived, some of which have mouse origins that are -42.333f or can only be determined at run time.

Take a look at the source for tcsh, this is exactly how it is done there. Unless you're interested in supporting a long dead platform - it makes things unnecessarily complex. I love tcsh, but so many ifdefs in so many static functions...
Disclaimer: I don't have a legal background.

If I understand correctly, Oracle would have to prove that Google's use of the Java API did not fall under the fair use exception in copyright law.

That is, if I write something, you can't publish it as your own. That's copyright. But there are exceptions within the law. One exception is fair use (others are criticism, parody, and there may be more, but fair use is the one in play in this case). Note that fair use was in the original trial, and the jury deadlocked on whether that was a valid defense for Google.

Below here, my understanding is less solid. But I think that one category of fair use is interoperability. That is, if I have a copyright interface (like, say, an API), you can copy that API in order to interface to something. To what degree, and what the boundaries are, I'm not sure.
I spent 3 weeks on a spring rabbit hole as a new dev. Not exactly the easiest thing to get a hang of.
It's 12$ for iOS users, due to Apple cut of 30%.
for all the other platforms is 9.9$.

for once I welcome this disparity, is a good thing that the users knows the real cost of picking a platform/phone.
There were FidoNet systems as early as 1988: http://www.textfiles.com/fidonet-on-the-internet/n1988/nodel...

Look for "Region,49" and you'll see a small number of them, but they were in Port Elizabeth, Cape Town, and Johannesburg.

Whether they could actually dial out to the rest of the world is open to question, but they would have needed to at least be accessible from the outside world for them to even be on FidoNet in the first place.
We already have self destructing circuits[0], but it requires glass. Not something I'd think Apple would go with. Not to mention just dropping the device the wrong way won't just crack your screen anymore, but destroy your precious data. Not something I'd think the average user would want.

Or is there a different piece of tech that can self destruct when tampered with?

[0]: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/214185-new-xerox-parc-pro...
What if the order depended on the check condition?

`if (null == variable) or if (false == variable)` reads well that you are checking for null/false.

`if (variable != null) or if (variable != false)` reads well that you want non-null/false conditions.
> I'm a physicist

Useless nitpicking gives us a bad name. Please stop.
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> in defense of biological inception

the movie?
I was asked a similar question during a recent interview. "What certifications [more traditional PMP/CFA style] from XXX do you have?"

My reply was something along the lines of "I don't pursue certifications, but learning that I can benefit from, you can, and can benefit the organization. 90%+ of people with such certifications can't demonstrate 10% of what was in the syllabus, and you know this is true."

This question was general, but I directed it towards a Learning Managment System which I implemented in a past company. There are props for implementing an LMS in one's org too. This was quite special (video, interactive, nice UI), but anything at a basic level will get you noticed as a 'strategic thinker'. Do it if you're (the figurative reader) doesn't have one already.

"Does the system offer certification?"

"Of course it does, but it also implements a development plan for anyone on any course, for their management to rate their implementation of skills learned." Closing the loop in performance assessment; a bit harder.

---

Demonstrate learning, don't just brag about it. MOOCs are fantastic, and to take part as a contributor (to a larger, fee paid, internal, or open MOOC) is to release years of learning and understanding you may have, that others don't, and as a participator, to harvest that cerebral mass of others and yourself.

Use it, implement it, criticize it, grow it. People are sharing, share back by whatever means, and demonstrate you do so; that principal is priceless and makes certification at whatever cost worthless. Though by doing so, monetary return is not denied.
Yeah. Government spying is like that.

I miss PJ and Groklaw, too.
I agree there needs to be a platform specific input output layer, but assuming you are writing the same app on different devices there is always going to be a large core (essentially all the business logic, all models, all validation, all sync code) that is, or should be, the same on all platforms. It is that code I wanted to refer to.
This is starting to sound dangerously close to doxing (esp. if anything found is shared), even if it's out of pure curiosity.
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Based on your list of how you like to write English, I agree.
But I think your list is way off-base when it comes to human languages.

The beauty of human language is that it allows us to express our individuality as humans.
There are an infinite number of ways to write the same thing, and each author can have a unique style based on how they choose their words, structure their sentences, etc.
This is fantastic, and is truly one of the pillars of a free society.
Consider "Newspeak" in Orwell's 1984 - its entire purpose was to eliminate free thought by eliminating choices in writing and speech.

Now in computer programming, I think unique styles are to be strictly avoided.
A Newspeak-ish programming language that minimized the ability to write "creatively" would actually be pretty nice.
Not to be pedantic, but you wrote "cutting out the middleman." Doesn't patreon take a small cut? Aren't they a middleman? (Though undoubtedly one taking a much smaller share than previous ones.)
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<wild conjecture> Perhaps the social stigma is an evolved response. Maybe one method humans have evolved to incentivize reproduction is the ostracization of those unable/unwilling to have children. </wild conjecture>
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OJDK is GPL v2, so you're a-okay there unless you're shipping a binary (in which case, upon customer request, the source + derivative code has to be released). RH puts out a "100% free" version under the moniker 'Iced Tea', if you want to play it safe. Realistically, attorneys are expensive -- going after a startup worth maybe 10MM on paper for a license violation isn't an economically prudent move for anyone.
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They might be thinking about the rise of herbivore men, MGTOW, surrogacy, emasculated men/defeminated women etc. alongside technology enabling to bypass nature's intended way to reproduce.
> Your product has been totally commoditized by airfare-pricing websites.

That American made $24 billion last year without passing on anything to consumers shows that that is wrong. Pricing websites are under full control of the airlines at this point.
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Awesome.

I've been avidly following the CRISPR/Cas9 developments over the past five years or so, and the possibilities seem astonishing. I can't wait to see where this all leads!
Hey folks, I used to run growth at Dropbox. I ran dozens of optimization tests on top of the referral program and sharing flows.

Now my startup YesGraph (YC W15) launched a widget that has all the same powerful sharing features. Our contact importer is actually 30% faster than Dropbox too -- I tested :)

The link in this post is to an announcement post. Try it out for free without creating an account in YesGraph here:
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I don't think that's true. If the male artist had the vocabulary to express the intended sentiment, in the same way that the female artist in question was able to, I don't think there would have been the issue you raise. There may indeed have been a different issue, of appropriateness of voice, but I don't think it would have been the hate crime you claim.
>> "I can't remember any service in the music industry that started from day one World Wide."

I believe Apple music covered quite a lot of countries. I think at least some part of the service hit nearly all of them. I'm fine with launching in one country but at least give a timeline and for one of Europe's leading startups to launch a product US only is a bit of a kick in the teeth. I understand it but it just feels bad.
OMG. A TV channel used it (or a very similar technique) here in Spain to manipulate some video footage.

http://iniciativadebate.org/2016/01/22/por-que-solo-en-video...

In the first video (at around 0:33) you can see the voice as if it was applied the "scared" filter too much, and cutting only the section where she says "yes, we met with X" out of context to make it sound like a shameful confession instead of the firm statement of known information that it is (0:41 of second video).
You're confusing "not reproducing" with "reproducing using non-sexual means". The notion that we'll go extinct because of low fertility rates when the world is vastly overpopulated also seems incorrect to me.
Yes, though you must consider that if your representative isn't bound to vote to represent you (even in general) the word is pretty watered down already.
I really wish that movie would stop being brought up. If you haven't watched it since HS like most people, I'd encourage you to watch it again. There is nothing noble about hiding a heart condition in order to become a crucial member on an expedition that will almost certainly kill you.

On top of that the distopia just ended up feeling shallow. We're never given any reason as to why society drops any pretense at meritocracy just because of the availability of genetically optimized babies (to say nothing of the handwaving around genetic markers for fuzzy traits like intelligence nor the idea that environment plays a nontrivial part in development). The most major discrimination is that a space flight agency doesn't want an astronaut with a high probability of dieing mid mission. That's not only perfectly reasonable it's also what we do now. Vincent never would be allowed on a NASA space flight anymore than he should have been allowed on the GATTACA flight.

Gattaca is a film everyone should see if only to understand that the lay person has no business weighing in on issues of scientific ethics. A tale of human exceptionalism that does a great job of ignoring any of the science it claims to take inspiration from.
The cryocooler for the infrared imager has proven to be the toughest design issue with JWST, at least so far, and AFAIK it's still on the critical path for the mission. (http://spacenews.com/northrop-grumman-at-last-set-to-ship-tr...)

I was surprised the cryocooler was not mentioned in the article. The sunshade is there, but that's not nearly as big an engineering challenge.
Visa would also be a middleman. Or even the post office if you only accepted mailed cash.
You make something that's easy for an automatic translation. Then you use that. It's how both AS/400 and OpenVMS kept binary compatibility on completely different hardware over time. The good news is there's a lot of clones of Java in CompSci and compilers of other languages targeted to JRE. Retargeting them to something similar wouldn't be hard. Recompiling bytecodes wouldn't be hard.

It's the high-level language and interfaces that would be hard. The real factor, though, is social given lock-in is in full effect here. Java was a bad, long-term bet given the Oracle acquisition.
It's time to stop wearing t-shirts to work, then. And start acting like professionals and not 12 year olds in grown bodies. If you're 32 and still wearing video game t-shirts, you deserve to be held down and fucked in the ass by the Harvard MBA that is your boss/owner/investor. It's time to start dressing the part and you will be amazed at the difference it makes. It is design, just like product design, except YOU are the product. Are you a professional product or something cut-rate and in it only for their own comfort? Really ask yourself what you're willing to do to get the respect you think you deserve. If you have a desire to get that respect, and a plan to get it, you will get it. America is the freest country on the planet and it is limitless what is achievable. To give up or to blame other's upbringing or social connections for your lack of respectability means you have already failed. Believe it is possible, and you at least have a chance.
You seem to misunderstand money.

Hoarding causes general deflation; to capital, as well as wages. Its effect is the same as distributing the value of the hoarded money across the money supply.

Deflation causes people to feel as if they have more money, not less. Money that is more valuable (deflated), purchases more value.

And while deflation has knock-on effects that are problematic, I'll add that the government backing any fiat currency has ample tools to combat it (creating inflation by printing currency).
To save everyone a risky search, "Simply stated, Karezza is the practice of gentle, sexual intercourse, without the goal of orgasm. "

But I don't see how birth control would deprive you from pleasure from the sexual act. Both partners can get orgasms in safe sexual intercourses...
devil is, as usual, in details. while wine industry could be 300bn, wine bottle industry is significantly smaller, as in, my guess, 100 times smaller. And if you really worry about oxidation - vacuum pumps are significantly cheaper, around 20usd. and you can use those now, on any bottle. I think their small niche could be lonely restaurant goers, who would appreciate fancy bottle and taste without having to buy it for 200$
What's the argument that Google should pay Oracle? Is there something in the Java license?

Has Google's use of Java somehow damaged Oracle? Are they worse off now than they would be if Android were built on a different technology?
Could this mean apt-get on Windows in future?
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This is a great analysis.

I would separate it in two categories.

1) the bad UX when having a big library
2) the 3rd party developer experience.

Starting from 2) I'd say SoundCloud has been fairly open in their early stage, and a lot more conservative later on. I'm not sure what's the direction they are going to take in the future. If I was running SoundCloud, I'd keep the API as a playground, not for production use, and I'd try to fix the major issue in my product instead of leaving room for someone else to crack that business.

Regarding 1) you are absolutely right. It boils down to 3 major areas of the product: classification, recommendation and search.
Big players are working on that, but they are all implementing some sort of social driven collaborative filter (which is sad, if we think about how personal is the listening experience). Soundcloud should try to have a more hybrid approach introducing some more advance machine learning neural network technique to get rid of the 'cold start' effect and have a better targeting of the 'long tail' of their 125m tracks.
Once they have the 'data' layer done, they should complement with a product UX experience, including curated playlists, radios, personal automatic generated playlist, and an overall better UX experience for the user-listener segment of their audience.
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Unit tests tell you what that small thing you did ages ago was meant to do, and what it does in different circumstances. If you have the discipline to thoroughly test your code(and the knowhow to not write brittle tests), it can really pay off.
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Your assuming that no trait is purely negative. There is no reason to assume this is the case.
How budgets generally work:

University pays for journal subscriptions.

Lab (sometimes Department) pays to submit articles.

These are wholly different budgets. Some universities have open access funds to try to encourage researchers to publish open access articles. Some have open access policies that basically unilaterally declare all their research articles will be distributed by the university as open access.

This is a fight that has to occur monetarily at the university level, a lab that hasn't had a grant renewed and is having all its students TA'ing to pay their salaries doesn't have the funds to pay what is often several thousand dollars per publication[1][2] to always publish open access. A semi-productive lab could easily pay as much in publication fees for a year as they would for a graduate student.

[1] http://acsopenaccess.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/ACS_Sale...
[2] http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/s/publication-fees
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A couple thoughts:
It does get a fair amount of media coverage. John Oliver did a segment on it, it has multiple NYTimes articles, big articles in the Washington Post and the New Yorker, and all the usual places. It's not really "unknown" unless you don't read the news much.

I feel like it's not talked about much outside of the media, however. We talk about burglary a lot. We lock things up and hide valuables in cars. But civil forfeiture just doesn't come up too often in daily life for most people.

Why are people complacent about it? For the same reasons they're complacent about mandatory minimum sentencing. The victims are disproportionately black and hispanic. Whether or not they're actually engaging in illegal activity, they often have ties to drugs/prostitution -- perhaps through a relative, roommate, friend or colleague. The victims may also be poor (the population most likely to be unbanked and, ironically, have large amounts of cash around). They're often profiled to be people unlikely to go out and get a lawyer or navigate the system to get their property back.
Hi, thanks for checking out. Right now costs are not much. As the product usage will increase, we will work on exploring revenue options.

As I can think of, we may shift to a freemium model, templates market place or showing ads on anonymous pages , etc. Things will very much depend on what we feel users are willing to pay for.
Wouldn't the forced reinvestment of cash back into the economy drive up inflation?

Also, aren't the Corp's hoarding cash because interest rates are artificially low?

Is the 'cash' really paper money or something like hard currency (gold coins, etc...). In that case 'hoarding the hard currency is not really destroying it, and when the investment options include tying up the money for some time with only a small return on investment, maybe hoarding is the best answer.
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It is probably about half. Some programmers are new, or don't care, or a mix.

Not all programmers are "good" programmers.
Better yet, buy EnterpriseDB that's actively targeting Oracle's market. Put a bunch of money into expanding it with conversion tools from Oracle to not Oracle API's it will use.
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The real reason is the deals they have with the record labels. There's only 4 record labels, plus a block of indies that make a 5th, and they don't have any interest in picking a winner between the services, so everyone basically pays the same price.

The actual deals are quite complex, but under the pricing model that is most advantageous to the streaming service it basically comes down to the labels get about $6.50 a month per subscriber, and then a cut above that. So that's a hard floor, and with the cut and other costs it's hard to make a business on anything less than $10/month. And obviously you can't go above $10.

This is also why everyone charges more for Apple customers, if they gave 30% to Apple, there would be no revenue at all.
Sounds like I could do all this with 2 or 3 nice big monitors. Then I can turn my real head and see new things, and not have to wear a giant headset.
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