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> civil disobedience is more effective at changing the status quo than e-mail campaigns

Email campaigns and signing petitions is much easier to do as people don't need to get up off their assess but still get to feel like they've helped.
The fact is that they borked Java compatibility story, regardless how their supporters sell the story.

I cannot take whatever piece of Java code I feel like it and run it on Android.
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Main stream media seemingly prints anything said by any government official as fact, even when it is dubious at best.
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Google never claimed that Android runs Java (after all, it does not, dex is not Java Bytecode and Dalvik/libART are not JVM). It never passed TCK and never claimed to.

They claimed that you can write Android apps in Java language, or reuse your existing libraries written in Java - like Google themselves did with Apache Commons.

On the contrary, J++ claimed to be Java implementation.

If APIs are going to be copyrightable, it will allow Oracle to hold all the third-parties using Java (or another JVM-based, like Kotlin or Scala) language hostage wrt where they can run their own software.
Germany has such a system in place, but not without limits. How important your Grade is depends on the subject you are studying, how popular it is and how well grades correlate with success. For example, you can not be sure of a spot in a medicine school unless you have neat-perfect grades, whereas engineering or practical sciences are nearly a free-for-all, with 90% leaving after the first semester.

I don't believe a purely merit-based system could work on a large scale with popular subjects such as medicine.
Not that I disagree with you, but it's a country's industry. I'm sure as a whole, airlines as an international industry bring much more than Alphabet/Google.
No Google "fanboy" (I actually hate the term, it's for immature 20 somethings to use), but Google didn't break the Java ecosystem IMHO.

The created a whole new language that happens to be mostly based on Java, for a very specific target OS where Java wasn't even available before.

The familiarity with Java is merely a bonus and boost for the adoption of Android programming from Java devs. It's wasn't meant (and it isn't) a jab at taking the Java development market (which is was Microsoft did -- going after the same people using Sun's Java, and for the same environments they used it in).
A lot of talking with no real solutions yet. IPFS/gx are a no-go to replace npm.
This reminds me of that contest where people had to get the phrase "I smoke crack rocks" into a published academic paper, and the winner was something like "we burnt iodine (I) solution to observe its corrosive effect on stone and witnessed I smoke crack rocks".
And if you don't have the appetite to risk the merged company, the reduction in competition will spill over into other firms. So if you see a marketplace consolidating and you think the reason is to decrease competition, then buy one of the remaining independent firms.
Interesting. Can I ask how and when you start writing down a piece of knowledge? Have you hit times when you've missed inputting some knowledge, purely because you've been engrossed in whatever task it is.

I've attempted this sort of thing multiple times, with varying results. More often that not, I'll end up getting frustrated with missing a piece, after being either too busy or on a tight deadline.
Sounds like how medical school in France works, or at least did while I was there. Anyone with an "academic" HS diploma (40% of people or so) could sign up, but the overwhelming majority failed the first year. Their options were repeat the first year or go into a less prestigious track like nursing
If soundcloud has mended their ways with regard to allowing takedowns etc by third parties, this hasn't really been communicated all that well.

I used to be a paying customer, but I ditched the service after they allowed Universal to harass their users. That's a while ago though, and I haven't been paying much attention to Soundcloud since.

Have they shaped up or should I still avoid them?
1. Training

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4. Anti-virus. We use Sophos, but anything that updates itself and stays out of the way is fine to start out.
That clears it up, thank you. So what they did automatically counts as insider trading because they misappropriated the information from their employer.
I was really hoping that they wouldn't have to pivot into competing with Spotify (somewhat indirectly, although that is TBD depending on what deals they've signed).

Here's hoping that the mention of an indie library hints towards a more interesting slant on what exactly subscribers get access to. For example, it would be cool if there was a way to monetise un-signed or newly-signed artists rather than mainstream Spotify territory.
No one ever mentions formatting.

I really like aligning multiline blocks, adding whitespace and useless braces here an there. e.g: Having just a single space between function name and arguments makes it look less like a call. Yet almost all lint presets/defaults forbid this. Typography is all about the whitespace between letters forming easily recognizable shapes.
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As far as you know. Now consider that the FBI statements about what evidence they gathered from San Bernardino (evidence which is largely not part of a criminal prosecution so not subject to defense discovery) as part of a vector of information which the FBI might choose to manipulate to better enable their ability to exploit the intelligence they have. So what do you really know about work phones and burner phones?
Speaking of the frenemy aspect, in Clarke's introduction to Clarke-branded "Venus Prime" (which Clarke didn't write), he writes:

> It is also an interesting challenge combining the two
genres of crime and science fiction, especially as some
experts have claimed that it’s impossible. (My sole contribution
here is ‘‘Trouble with Time’’; and though I hate to
say so, Isaac What’s-His-Name managed it superbly in his
Caves of Steel series.)

Which made me chuckle.
Only where "forking" or not forking is concerned.

But there are tons of differences in other aspects of the issue -- which make all the difference as to the MS case.
That can fall amongst their side-effects, but it doesn't have to be. If you are experiencing them you should absolutely discuss that with your doctor, and whether the side-effects are tolerable at the level they are at. They also don't distort reality, they raise the level of serotonin in your brain. Now on the opposite side we do not have a fundamental understanding of how any of that works. For instance, the serotonin levels in the brain of a healthy person might be lower than those of someone suffering from depression. We simply don't have the knowledge know why things are happening specifically.

Speaking from personal experience, which is all I can really do given that I am not a medical professional, they brought be back to a basic level of functionality. In direct regards to what you had mentioned they didn't take away creativity, emotional range, or introspective ability, quite the opposite in fact. Before I began treatment I was rapidly falling towards not ever leaving my room and hiding from people all the time. I am not saying they are for everyone. I just want to point out that we all need to be careful assigning our experiences to others on this.
Depression is sometimes described a numbing experience. Everything loses color, loses that spark. Sometimes, everything hurts, nothing feels good. Making the same daily decisions is painful and slow, like walking through an ocean of glass.

Depression gives you the power to make really big decisions. Everything hurts about the same. Going to work is about as painful as staying home, meaning it's easier to quit a horrible job. It's easier to divorce an abusive partner. It's easier to pack up life and start over.

Having been through extreme depression multiple times, I can say with confidence that it makes those really big, really scary decisions a lot easier. You get thoughts like "it would all be over if I never saw that person again". "I would enjoy life if I got a divorce and moved back to my home town". "My job is abusive and it's slowly killing me, having no income is better than hating 70 hours of every waking week".

If you are depressed and having those types of thoughts, you might actually be right. Following through on those major, traumatic changes might actually be what you need to do. And depression makes it easy to do so. Normal life becomes so bad that change is welcome, because change feels like a way out.
If corporations are confident they would pay out unused cash as dividends. That they are hoarding is a sign that they have no confidence in their own future..
Disqus comments are not good way to gather a representative view of the NPM community as a whole.

And, IMHO,comment threads aren't a productive place to have meaningful debate about this topic. If you care about this issue, they're all very receptive on twitter, email, etc. They're not shutting you out
I find Go to be a concise and productive language for computing infrastructure applications, but struggle to apply it to problems with complex domains in business and industry.

For those, other languages like Java and C# that better support encapsulation and data/information hiding for the modeling of real-world concepts remain suited.

I think the problem with a lot of language discussions is really about the need for many to find the "one true ring" that can be learned and applied everywhere.

Instead, a polyglot approach surely is the best one?
Because productive developers write more code or because productive developers write worse code?
Java devs talking to me about Groovy always made me chuckle
It really depends on the route. Personally, I live in Chicago, which means I have lots of options going to midsized and large airports, and prices can be very competitive.⁰ Small airports are often served only by one of the three airlines with a large presence here (United, American, Southwest), and it's these routes that have higher prices. In the past, I've taken 13 hour (overnight) Megabus trips instead of <2 hour plane trips just because United's prices on some small monopoly route or another were so outrageous. For those who live in a town or city with few options like that, airline travel is a lot more expensive than it is for us lucky ones in hub cities, takes a lot longer because of transfers, and is a lot less flexible with flight times and such. This is a factor behind a lot of corporate HQ relocations to big cities, as well.

⁰ I actually recently bought a roundtrip to Denver for $32 fully inclusive of taxes and fees. Granted, it's on Spirit, which is only marginally better than the bus, but can't beat the price.
Go and Java stdlib have very different opinions about the basic types, used by every app (like strings or maps, heck, even about concepts what is a class and class hierarchies, or how the stack is supposed to look like).

So unless you want to wage a perpetual war at the border between your app and Android base libraries, forget Go, or about any language that does not run on JVM.
Where I work, all the devs are lazy and incompetent... So I have to rush and overwork to get something that works.
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There is research [1] that points out that cash hoarding is in a sense an opportunity: with cash you can get better M&A deals, be better prepared to jump in on new technology, etc. Other investments compete with this opportunity.

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[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/magazine/why-are-corporati...
They do. It depends on the state how long they have to be in force. I think the idea is that a payout soon after starting the policy would encourage suicide (and payouts), but if you've had the policy for "long enough" you shouldn't be penalized for dying from a legitimate illness, which depression is.
I always thought it was weird that it wasn't always publicly available. I'm ok with allocating taxdollars to funding new research, but I think that if my taxdollars go to something, I should have access to it.

I can see where there should be exceptions like in cases of national security or maybe if minors are involved, but otherwise I think public stuff should actually be public.
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Yes, very important. I love editors that does most of this from a button press. Makes others code easier to understand. Netbeans have lots of settings so you get the braces and spaces where you want them.
I don't see Android team itself is going to switch to Go or Javascript for android.
Otherwise, I would say Kotlin[0] would be a better alternative to Java.

[0]: https://kotlinlang.org
It's both. Some of my worst code was to look at someone else's code after a manager shouted "FIX THIS NOW!!!" with some kind of quick and dirty hack, and then never going back to get it done right. I'm pretty sure this happens independent of whether or not I am any good. :-)
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It is interesting that the founder has decided to leave SF. It is getting to the point in the Bay Area that PG's concept of "ramen" profitability is becoming just a dream as costs continue to skyrocket. I think we are going to see the industry start to fan out geographically in the next couple years.
Document something akin to the following:

164.308(a)(5)(ii)(B): We have policies for guarding against,
detecting, and reporting malicious software. Specifically, we require our workforce to use Macs or Linux machines, and we exclusively host our applications on Linux machines, as industry consensus is that these machines are less vulnerable to infection by viruses than Windows machines. We will revisit this policy annually and revise if we determine that the risk of infection of a Mac or Linux machine is greater than Very Low. Our present assessment is Very Low. See also $POINTER, where we discuss securing the applications we host. Accordingly, our risk analysis recommends against spending engineering resources on this threat. Note that this subsection is Addressable, not Required, so we believe that this is sufficient for this subsection.

Welcome to HIPAA! You can do almost anything as long as you document the heck out of it.
They were JIT-ed for a while. That's what the "optimizing apps" modal dialog after updates is about.
Typography is much more than that, of course, but with fixed width plain text, you don't have many options...so ascii art it is. I'm pondering a language that includes formatting abstractions so that you can prepare code for reading along with its functionality (sort of like literate programming, but still starting from code). I would love to see comments in a side bar, long monotonous calls organized into tables, proper spacing and even lines to delimit sections, and so on...

But our current programming systems, we are still very much in the dark ages of code typography.
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Kotlin in Android looks promising.
Reality tends to have more nuance than you are willing to admit in this instance. Sun v. Microsoft was over very specific issues.

Even thought the specifics don't seem to matter to you, I'll add a bit more detail. "The sticking point is that Microsoft decided the Core Java class libraries were insufficient for its needs. Now there's nothing wrong with extending things by subclassing and placing the new objects in a package outside of the java.* class hierarchy. But deciding to add about 50 methods and 50 fields into the classes within the java.awt, java.lang, and java.io packages, as Microsoft did, is extremely problematic. "Microsoft deceptively altered key classes and inserted them into their SDK," said Baratz, which results in developers thinking they are writing Java, when actually they are writing something that runs only on Internet Explorer.[1]

> They tried to screw Sun and take advantage of their economic misfortune.

I have some sympathy for Sun, but had Google asked for permission for Java on Mobile, Sun would have insisted on the abomination that was J2ME because that was their mobile strategy. I'll take Java 6.5 over J2ME any day

1. http://www.javaworld.com/article/2077055/soa/what-does-sun-s...
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To anyone who wants less government and more free markets, unfortunately greed works in such ways that price fixing and market segmentation is very prevalent. Everywhere, even Western Europe. You'd probably not expect it, but take backpacks as an example. German backpack manufacturers hold retailers to fixed prices, disallowing anything lower than the set price. Same for mattresses (the kind you sleep on). The result is an illusion of free markets but where those who try to sell cheaper either get their supply cut off or get bullied in other ways. Same racketeering goes on with ISPs, and these are strong arguments why regulation bodies need to exist and impose hefty fines. Why am I mentioning this? Well, unfortunately without regulation there's no real competition because companies will split up a market and also agree on unofficial pricing structures to keep it expensive.
There are so many similarities between writing code and writing English.

- Thinking of paragraphs as functions with one purpose

- keeping sentences short to reduce load on working memory and increase comprehension

- create visual breaks to help the reader by grouping common stuff together as mini-functions

- reduce intimidation factor of reading by removing convoluted stuff

- remove cognitive noise (dead code, unnecessary comments, variables declared out of context or too soon etc.)

- keeping terminology consistent across the code (domain language)

- not using double negatives e.g a = !notLocked

- using automated systems to simplify expressions (e.g weird boolean conditions http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=a+%26%26+b+||+c )

etc.

Unlike English, it is less difficult to have a program reorganize your code to make it more readable based on a set of cognitive principles.

But, beyond the readability and understanding of a function, we should also learn from other engineering fields. For example, system thinking helps tremendously in organizing code if the cost of refactoring code wasn't so risky in dynamic languages.
>I cannot take whatever piece of Java code I feel like it and run it on Android.

And you weren't meant to.

It's a whole different environment, and they made their own language for it, which they happened to base on Java.

The didn't call it "Java", nor they targeted regular Java deployments (like MS did).

They just wanted to have something that looks familiar to lots of devs, but for THEIR platform.

If MS had done the same (and in fact they sort of did, as early C# was heavily based on Java -- just not as much as Google's) they'd have no issue with SUN. But instead they did those changes while still calling it Java and offering it for Java development on Windows.

(Besides, "I cannot take whatever piece of Java code I feel like it and run it on Android" was also true for SUN's own Java Mobile Edition too, when it comes to the mobile edition's compatibility with the Java SDK's on the desktop/server).
Reminds me of the good burghers of SCO and that little shitty they tried to pull off in the beginning of the century.

It didn't end well.
I suppose if double-dutch and similar schemes wouldn't exist and they had to pay taxes like everyone else, there would be automatic reinvestment via government spending.
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>There founding fathers did not believe in direct democracy.

Do you know why they didn't? Because it wasn't feasible to do so when information was traveling at the speed of the horse drawn carriage.

>In a large society, inhabiting an extensive country, it is impossible that the whole should assemble to make laws. The first necessary step, then, is to depute power from the many to a few of the most wise and good. But by what rules shall you choose your representatives? Agree upon the number and qualifications of persons who shall have the benefit of choosing, or annex this privilege to the inhabitants of a certain extent of ground.

-John Adams, Thoughts on Government

The limitation or assumption that "it is impossible that the whole should assemble" is no longer true.
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By variables do you just mean the CSS pre-processors? My reason for asking is that it's not unique to Bootstrap at all (and, if they just use the default build, many designers will never even see them).
There was an attempt to do so. They were using an RTL-flipping tool and it all looked pretty cool (I built something with it) but then one of the people who manually flipped Bootstrap basically accused them of being culturally insensitive by trying to automate this task and they abandoned it.
#1 Dogs can get depressed so it doesn't need human intelligence. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness)

#2 Depression has a major effect, I doubt it's overshadowed

#3 You get depressed teenagers

So I'd think 1,2 and 3 are met.
Javascript? I hope never.
I also had problems with "K"; I think the issue is that it does not recognise strokes where the second direction is right (rather than up) as a "K".
Those are profits, if you are able to operate your company to the degree that one is able to accumulate the cash, then there is no reason to increase liabilities to accomplish a task.

If you want to spread the wealth around, then you need the government to perform this task.
Google should have acquired Sun instead of buying dropcam/boston-dynamics/motorola and such.
I was talking about the developer supplying their own VM on top of whatever the new runtime is going to be.

However I suppose they could just add an extra one on the side. I wouldn't really consider that switching though.
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Hey John, I just wanted to say thanks for providing an awesome service. We're happy customers.

I know how hard it can be to have a business go through tough times, but it sounds like you've got a lot of options and I wish you and Runscope the best.
Yeah, where do you add queues, events, observers, helpers, traits, interfaces, etc.?
They did a proof-of-concept Dart runtime (Sky/Flutter).

The bad news was, that everything was reimplemented in Dart, including the widgets, so they had that not-quite-native feel.
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Maybe the GPS is just used to extract location info about routes taken? Then you just look up the speed limit, and make up a plausible number, no need to actually track their speed. Think like a con man, not a programmer.
The GDP per capita in Nepal is $700. So $4,600 is 6.5 years of wages. That's like someone in the west who makes $100,000 a year having a $650,000 life insurance. Which is a whole hell of a lot more than the one my employer offers.
No, wasn't my favourite programming language but at least it worked :-)
>Technology firm Apple was holding $181.1 billion offshore, more than any other U.S. company, and would owe an estimated $59.2 billion in U.S. taxes if it tried to bring the money back to the United States from its three overseas tax havens, the study said.

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tax-offshore-idUSKCN0S...
Or that they can't think of anything with high enough potential returns that makes it worthwhile investing that cash into their own businesses.
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