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To me, the awkward "is this funny or not" approach to writing this article fits in perfectly with the sentiment of the author (and my own) about the subject.

In my 18 years as a web dev I've tumbled down every rabbit hole and been caught by every trap ever.

We wanted animation? Great, learn some ActionScript. Now you want databases? Add some MySQL and PHP. But then those weren't cool anymore and everything had to be RoR and jQuery. Then we ended up writing monsters of jQuery code trying to make sites feature packed and along came Backbone. After that there was Angular, but then people realized SEO and accessibility still need to be considered so now I spend my days writing what should have been as simple as:

<h1>Hello World</h1>

Like this:

React.createElement(

'h1',

{},

'Hello World'

);

So the solution to HTML is now to simply give up on HTML and write everything in JavaScript…

I like React, Redux, Node, etc a lot. The fact we can have Universal and Native React and that there finally is a robust solution to most ( all? ) web dev problems is fantastic. But the overhead in development time is significant. When possible I use these tools, but in a lot of cases, I just give up on it all and end up writing straight up HTML divs without any flexboxes or animations or shivs or shims or 5's or 3's. Just the good old stuff I was writing back in 1998.

When comparing web development to something like developing for iOS, this full circle we've made does feel painful ironic. So much so it's hard to tell if it's funny or not.

Small note to the author : love the beautiful big font on your site but you have some colliding elements on iPad portrait.
We're Automating user data leak detection: https://fallible.co/blog//2016/03/13/Automating-data-leak-de...

Some of the tests can be generic across all the apps and may not be written by each and every tech company. We intend to automate those.
Recently I bought the book "Geometric Folding Algorithms: Linkages, Origami, Polyhedra" he co-authored. That was the most expensive book I ever bought.
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> The swastika tattoo is also a troll, it's not angled like a Nazi swastika and he filled it full of norse mythology symbols thus not an endorsement of National Socialism.

Riiiight
Looks like I got the wrong end of the stick on this one :-)
Rdio tried this.

>That $3.99 will buy you only so much. Rdio says the service, called Rdio Select, will include two components: 1) Pandora-like streaming radio stations, without ads, and with the ability to skip ahead as often as you want, and 2) daily access to 25 songs of your choosing. Subscribers will be able to download the 25 songs and replace some or all (or none) of them each day, so long as the number doesn’t exceed 25.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/williamalden/rdio-to-launch-cheaper-...
Awesome, thanks for the recommendation!
Great, I'll check it out!
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tl;dr: the article describes the origin of one of the 'masterminds' of the truecrypt collective (the group that programmed truecrypt). It describes how his upbringing led to his viewpoints on privacy, hints at a conspiracy to eliminate public cryptography and talks about something called a 'cryptoparty', which I'm still scratching my head about. The article also hints he may have been involved in the illegal drug and arms business.

Entertaining but not meaty with the evidence.
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Lol I'm depressed because I can't find a job. I can't find a job because I don't have a job. Which is sort of depressing. Which doesn't make looking for jobs fun. Depression makes you not want to do things that aren't fun. So I keep looking for jobs with the hope it can bring me out of my depression. But when I ask for people for job help they are a jerk to me. When I mention I am a little sad they say I need to act happy to get a job. They get upset that I'm not happy. But.... that's what I was upset about!
I don't see how Elm error messages are significantly better than those of rustc in this case. Elm says "expected Foo, found Bar" (with more flowery prose). Rust says "expected Foo, found Bar".

The examples on that page are all extremely simple type errors in the first place, whereas this error message relates to a much more advanced feature (typeclasses/traits). I'd like to see what the ideal trait mismatch error would look like.

I do think that this error could be improved by suggesting #[derive(Debug)], don't get me wrong. But I don't know of any compiler for any language that goes out of its way to explain how to implement an interface on every interface-not-implemented error.
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> The thing is, when you hoard wealth as numbers on a balance sheet rather than spending it, you are actually destroying that wealth. Money which is not in motion is not money.

This money is not simply sitting under a mattress. It's being reinvested, often in low risk treasury bonds, lowering the cost of borrowing for the government. A small fraction of it might be allocated to equity, and a smaller fraction of that might be allocated to startups, etc.

Setting aside the UBI goal, even if they weren't returning the money to the investment cycle, your funding scheme is difficult to implement. The importance of cash reserves varies from company to company:

1. Some have pretty much no reserves, and when the overnight market collapsed in 2008, their ability to make payroll was suddenly in question. Otherwise productive companies had operations jeopardized by their financial arrangement. A tax on cash reserves would create additional incentive to produce more risky companies.

2. Banks have huge liabilites and cash reserves in the form of deposits. They're even required to keep certain amounts of money in liquid cash reserves. Do you propose offsetting cash on hand with liabilities owed?

3. Apple actually took out a huge loan against overseas money to fund a dividend. Overseas money is currently not taxable, do you wish to change that? Do you even need to tax reserves if you do?

4. Using the same company for another example: Apple is reputed to finance their supplier's manufacturing facilities. Do you want non-Apple companies to make investments in their company, their supply chain, etc. they currently aren't making? One has to assume boards don't approve capital investments aren't profitable. If the choices are pay a taxable dividend, hold as highly taxable cash, or invest it at a slightly negative, we may see more unproductive investments.

Note that I'm not against UBI, but we have to think about how changes to tax law results in changes in behavior.
Another couple books for inspiration. I read them one after another (huge contrast in a way to run a company):

- Brad Stone's "The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon" [1]

- Richard Branson's "Everything I Know About Leadership The Virgin Way" [2]

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Store-Jeff-Bezos-Amazon/dp/...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Everything-About-Leadership-Virgin-Har...
If you can afford to do X on a server. Then spending 10x the resources to load in 1/10 or better yet 1/100th the time scales just fine.

Consider, there is no way for a single users machine to do a Google search in any reasonable time frame. Google search works because they can scale out to enough machines to keep everything important in RAM which drastically reduces the workload per request. They can also cache results.
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Thanks for whatever research you did/do. Science moves forward one discovery at a time.
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I think that the "social inertia" is just a rationalization of the biological instincts to make half-clones.
The evidence is to the contrary. Many first-world countries are in population decline, and accelerating. We'll all have to rethink what we believe to be 'human nature'.
Alas, ambulances, construction machinery, and general traffic all too often. Silence for preference.
Ancedotal evidence: My company recently switched https://m.curiosity.com to Bootstrap from custom CSS, and spec'd the design almost entirely by PSDs. I don't think the site looks particularly Bootstrappy nor did it seem especially challenging to customize.
Yeah, you're incorrect on this one. You as a human aren't somehow totally disconnected from your environment. The environment you live in, is a part of yourself, the two can't be separated.

You have more foreign bacteria living in your body than human cells. "life flows on within you and without you".
You could probably just search it on google scholar and post the free version link.
Why wouldn't it?
It's easier to use tools or IDE.

$ jshint test.js
test.js: line 3, col 10, Expected a conditional expression and instead saw an assignment.

1 error
You are wrong. Many mental illnesses, over the past decade, have been proven to be diseases. They can be tested for. Currently there are a whole hosts of tests and treatments going through the phases.

Gregg and his ideas run parallel to a line of thought associated with The Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a group hell bent on denouncing mental illness as a disease. CCHR are/were a nonprofit organization established in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and psychiatrist Thomas Szasz.

I can't believe people are still pushing these ideas, but this thread is rife with them. Please review your position, and make an effort to update yourself to the state of the art.
>I'd say, unless we advance our timeline, we're in danger of becoming extinct.

Sure but this does not contradict what I wrote. I don't think designer babies is the way out of the unwillingness to reproduce we witness in industrialized countries. Maybe baby-care robots, maybe minimal basic income.
A larger discussion on the same topic is in this thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11381146
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From side project to 250M daily requests
One of my co-workers likes to say that 10X engineers produce tech debt 10X faster than the average engineer :) Definitely been true in my experience.
There's very little substance in the summary, hopefully the book is less clickbaity.

A few reasons why this should join the "pills will replace food" drama:

- a long-term trend in wealthier societies has been to get more control on how they have and raise children. Birth control, education, etc. Less, "more valuable" children. Getting (and losing) a child has more individual and social significance today than in 17th century Europe where 30-50% kids would die before adulthood

- another trend is for people to look and welcome ways to bypass biological constraint. Low fertility, age, more recently known genetical defects.

- a very recent trend among very select groups has now embraced the idea of "perfect children".

Now will this last trend ever go mainstream? Are people willing to _pay_ to "improve" or even only pick some traits of their children?

Or will most people have to resort to artificial reproduction because of low fertility and longer life expectancy?

And then does any of this mean "the end of sex"?

To become a market, artificial reproduction would need to be reliable ("I want my kids to get blue eyes") and confortable. I'm not a specialist, but I get from my 23andme data that so little is determined by our genes. And we're very far from understanding how genes affect each others.

Among my friends who resorted to artificial insemination for various reasons, they had sex - a lot. Hormones are here to stay.

Humans are complex organisms and this (along with the "uploaded brain" fad) forget about the chemistry that shapes intelligence, behaviors, life.

People would couldn't will soon be able to get kids. Some will possibly choose to pick a few traits. Most of the planet is _for many generations_ going to have sex.
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What a fantastic piece of journalism, I'm totally hooked. Love these long-form pieces when they have something really and truly meaty to work with. Very grateful for the chance to read it, thank you for posting it over here.
I don't know. Weirder things have happened. And we're talking about a decision with billion-dollar ramifications.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/05/microsoft-and-google-collab...
I can't speak to 2, but they often praise America. They say America has an unparalleled ability to assimilate immigrants. They also praise other odd things, like the entrepreneurial spirit of American religion, or the power of technology transfer between government researchers and industry, or the high productivity of American freight railroads. One reason I read the Economist is because they see beyond the daily noise to pick out the news that requires digging and thought.
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Because it is much better to let misspellings get caught during run time than compile time. /s

Same with a lot of the DI frameworks that were so popular for a while. New guy doesn't wire something up correctly, checks it in and everyone spends the next 3 hours debugging a rabbit hole. (OK, slight exaggeration.)
OK. Sure.

Downvote away. And this will keep happening. Grats on that.

Keep fighting with reality, let's see how that goes.
I didn't intend to suggest someone wouldn't vote because they are "paralyzed by indecisiveness." My concern is that people will vote sub-optimally due to poor information about other voters preferences and poor understanding of the strategy involved.
> When was the last time the US of A was not engaged in combat somewhere in the world?

I want to guess December 6th 1941.
I was replying to the statement that "Turning $5MM into $10MM is inevitable." As the behavior of typical big lottery winners demonstrates, it's not inevitable. Possible, yes, probably even easy, just not inevitable. That's all.
Thank you. It's amazing how some authors use thousands of words to deliver such little information.
Could someone with a legal background please explain what Oracle would have to prove to win this?
Wow, where are you?

I haven't found any with shipping (to Denver CO) more than ~$100. $2k sure is a bit steep....
I actually spent the last two years writing a music app that integrated with the Soundcloud API to provide the bulk of the music content. To call their iOS SDK "neglected" is an understatement, but what I found worse was the opaque failure modes and restricted access provided by the official REST API.

For example, Soundcloud provides artists with a switch to allow/forbid third-party clients using their API to access the audio streams of the songs they post. This restriction, naturally, doesn't affect the official Soundcloud apps. While it makes my app a second-class citizen for accessing Soundcloud content, I understand the motivation and reasoning for the feature.

However, how does the Soundcloud API surface these restrictions? Through one of the dozens of flags it attaches to the json response it returns when you query for a track's metadata? Ha, no, all the various "track downloadable" and "streamable" flags are all set to true. Instead, it just returns a 404 when you try to fetch the data from the track URL...except when it started returning 401 instead (an admittedly more appropriate return code)...until it started returning 404 again.

So as a developer, my only avenue for not surfacing non-playable tracks within my client was to attempt to download each track, catch any 4xx responses, ASSUME the reason is due to permissions rather than any other potential causes for 4xx errors, and hide the content within the app.

I can understand Soundcloud's lack of enthusiasm for providing decent 3rd-party integrations, but if your external API is this much of a mess, I'd hate to see what you vend internally. The fact their permissions token provides zero granularity is not surprising to me at all.
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There was a small community in South Africa that used to connect to the Internet around that time by dialing into X.25-connected modems. These seemed to be owned by banks or insurance companies, and would allow break-outs to US modems that allowed local calling to ISPs. The information about the numbers and credentials were shared on local BBSs.

Source: was personally involved
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Many mental illnesses, over the past decade, have been proven to be diseases. They can be tested for. Currently there are a whole hosts of new tests and treatments going through the phases.

Gregg and his ideas run parallel to a line of thought associated with The Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a group hell bent on denouncing mental illness as a disease. CCHR are/were a nonprofit organization established in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and psychiatrist Thomas Szasz.

I can't believe people are still pushing these ideas, but this thread is rife with them. Please would ya'll make an effort to update yourselves to the state of the art.
There is never a good way to write cross-platform apps. Cross-platform programs are always inferior to solutions specifically designed for a particular use case (e.g. touch input + mobile device, pen input + tablet device).
If a firm has market power (which airlines certainly do, in no small part because of the massive regulatory and financial barriers to entry) there's no economic reason for them to pay people more money just because they have extra cash.
Surely it still causes the same amount of deflation whether currency is printed or not? It's just in your case there is also inflation which offsets the deflation: meaning there is slightly less inflation than there would have been without any hoarding?
>The final "big" bombshell is that his biological mother is the wife of a US senator, but there's nothing to really collaborate that other than the word of the anonymous soruce.

His biological GRANDmother is supposedly married to a senator.
Which I used to think qualified as nuts.
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> I'm not sure about how it would go in SA.

In Krugersdorp in the late 1980s? And the police were on the case - both in terms of being tech-savy enough, and not having more pressing concerns? (1)

Let's say that it's an extra-ordinary claim and we'd like a little more weight behind it.

1) http://www.saha.org.za/ecc25/ecc_under_a_state_of_emergency....
"...potentially serve as a novel and effective platform toward curing AIDS."

Researchers are usually quite conservative and the media are usually the ones to sensationalize titles. Given the above quote, this is likely a major step forward.
Having someone shot is pretty cheap.
haha, I'll take the blame, I probably should format it better.
> It's amazing how some authors use thousands of words to deliver such little information.

Well how else are you going to make it look like you really worked hard on something if you just give people exactly what they want right up front? /s

Seriously this article is bloated as HELL.

Edit: did anyone who downvoted me to hell even read the article? It's about 5% information, 95% useless bloat to fill the page. I mean damn...
I'm not really sure Apple gave up on tracing GC just because they couldn't make it stable. It also happened because they were concerned about pauses (especially when compared to Android at the time, which had a poor GC). That may or may not have been a valid concern; certainly the success of hybrid RC systems in the literature has shown that there is some merit to the idea that RC is useful to reduce pauses, though the situation is complex. The thing is, when viewed in the proper light Apple never introduced and abandoned GC. Rather, Objective-C always had GC, and the aborted "GC" attempt was actually an attempt to switch the GC algorithm.
Lot's of Asians where I live have the same tattoo, if you see an elderly Chinese man on a beach take off his shirt and reveal a 90deg swastika it's not a Nazi endorsement either. If you see a solid black 45deg swastika it's a Nazi tattoo.

Obviously Weev got it to trigger whoever sees it of course.
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Is it bad that I don't code outside of work?
And Google briefly considered adopting C# instead of Java back in the day. As a .NET dev turned Android dev (and not liking Java 6 one bit) I regret they didn't go down that path...

http://www.wired.com/2012/04/android-google-oracle/

In another 2005 e-mail admitted as evidence by Oracle, Rubin tells Google co-founder Larry Page: “If Sun doesn’t want to work with us, we have two options: 1) Abandon our work and adopt MSFT CLR VM and C# language, or 2) Do Java anyway and defend our decision, perhaps making enemies along the way.”
Hm, I didn't think you could claim both.
Maybe these individuals with genetic "risks" evolved to live in an environment different from our modern society. Everyone has a different optimal operating environment. These studies don't really conflict with anything the author said.
Maybe? Most of this story is just an account of 1-2 people. Who knows if any of it is really true. I'm intrigued but unmoved without more data.
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