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People appear to be forgetting how it used to be. Before SO, that was how it was, and it sucked. You constantly found answers to beginner questions that were wrong or useless because of lack of context, or just unanswered questions when you searched.

SO is regulated because it means the content that is there is quality. Getting rid of stuff that doesn't work on SO makes it a better resource. Trying to shove that stuff back in would be terrible.

By all means, go set up that 'SO for newb questions', and when it's full of ananswered questions (because all the answerers get fed up trying to decode incomprehensible questions and feeding the help vampires), and content no one wants, maybe you'll get it.

Beyond all that, it's better for those asking too. Getting a short answer out of context isn't what those people need. They need proper, in-depth tutorials.
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It's easy to reconcile your beliefs: "Privacy is good when it's for me, and bad when it's for other people".

Privacy and anonymity in all forms can both benefit and be abused, which is why there's usually some sort of balance. Bitcoin doesn't attempt to find any balance, which is too bad.
Bob Baer's books are rather good - particularly See No Evil:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/See_No_Evil_%28Baer_book%29

Quite interesting to compare Baer's experiences at the CIA with high profile members of MI6, particularly Paddy Ashdown - the latter being very careful not to say what he actually did on the espionage side while at MI6 although he does mention his "day job".
Does it support templates like handlerbar or jade?
Is it though? What's the point of a 1.0 release this far into a projects life? If it's utterly meaningless what's the point of versioning it at all?
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Not to disagree with the premise of your comment but I can, at least partially, answer your question regarding Germany.

Germany uses the weaker Eurozone countries to artificially deflate the cost of purchasing their exports. If the Euro was only based on the strength of the German economy their exports would be a lot more expensive. Whether or not this would reduce sales significantly or not is debatable but chances are it definitely wouldn't help.
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http://fossil-scm.org/
I've found Davmail [http://davmail.sourceforge.net/] a pretty decent solution to this. You run a local service that exposes Exchange as IMap.
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Not quite what you want, but in the same spirit of Mutt is Newsbeuter.

http://newsbeuter.org/
Full-fat version for non-mobile devices:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/05/world/europe/kim-philby-bb...
I don't think this problem is as big as people make out. There definitely are the asshole types (unfortunately, a lot fo them are the helpful people after they got burnt out trying to feed the help vampires).

There is a middle ground. There is a need to get rid of low quality content or content that doesn't fit on SO - if you remember the time before SO, you remember the experience of wading through the piles of rubbish and nothing that was forums and resources for programmers of the past. The reason SO is different to those and better is because they know what type of content works on the site, and they intentionally limit the site.

The right answer is to try and help those people who post the wrong stuff in a nice way (point them at the right places, explain the issue), move on quickly, and answer good questions.
Which results in the predictable model where the underlaying causes are ignored, the problem remains, and thus: There is common biases, but we should not keep talking about it if we aren't willing to fix our biases.

If you don't want 10 person teams with the same gender, ask yourself this: why has those men being pushed to work there and excluded elsewhere? Why are women being excluded to work there and pushed elsewhere?

The Swedish institution of education made a report that noted that as gender roles are being made more equal, work titles has gotten more gendered in the process. The correlation seem to imply that men and women project gender roles onto work as an reaction to having their gender roles being made less distinct in home and society at large.

The same report also noted than in 15 years of efforts to get women to take up more male typical classes like engineering, only very minor progress has been made. No efforts (their exact wording) has been made to make men go to areas dominated by women, and the report predict that no major change in gender equality in education is going to occur until both genders starts to compete to get into classes dominated by the other gender. You need to pressure both side at the same time in order for gender lines to break.

But again, people aren't really interested to talk about this since it doesn't match current biases. It easier to just assume that men are evil, women victims, and try to fix problems under those assumptions. Next time you say that "There are plenty of things worth discussing", here was a explanation why there won't be a worthwhile discussion.
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Haven't had a disk failure kill a server for years (spoiler: RAID); and we do follow backup SOP, thankyouverymuch. Moreover, this is far easier to manage than "Github is down, we don't know anything - what happened, why and how, what is affected, when (or whether) it would come back again."
In fact, checking the brake pads should be part of everyone's pre-drive walkaround (does anyone do this regularly? I do, at least.) Replacing them yourself isn't so hard either.

On the other hand, I'm not so sure about how hard it is to check and maintain an autopilot system...
w3m renders HTML tables better. Or at least it used to, when I was setting up my mailcap a long time ago.

For interactive terminal web browsing I prefer links/elinks (again, compared to lynx/w3m a long time ago).
I mean, I self taught a ton and see the value in it, but seriously?

You pay to attend a university for the sole purpose of having people teach you, that is what they are selling. The idea you should go to a university and only self-teach is insane, at that point, why attend at all?

It's not entitled to want the thing you paid for. Those people are literally there to provide that service.
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Even more so, please prevent expensive TLS setup roundtrips to two different hosts. That's probably 2x as expensive as a single preflight request for non-resuming sessions.

As parent states: a simple reverse proxy is probably the way to go here. Takes about 3 lines in nginx.

> After reading a great blog post and MDN’s CORS docs I realized there are circumstances where the browser does not make a preflight request, if conditions are met

I must say I was a bit surprised that some POST requests can be executed without verifying CORS. There must be a bunch of POST endpoints out there that do have side-effects based on the cookie value, even without body. The distinction in behaviour between json or form encoding is pretty bizarre imo.
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>> The proof-of-concept prototype cost him $15,000 to make, he said.

>> Grepper had no idea how much each cooler would cost to manufacture.

Maybe this should be part of the lesson learned for the CrowdSourcing community. The kickstarter project should be more transparent on how much it cost to make the prototype, and also show how much experience the kickstarter had (or access to the experienced) for creating such a product.

Mass manufacturing of a physical product is a totally different ball game to writing a code for a XaaS product.
What do you do with undocumented legacy code?
I have A LOT of this to deal with right now. There are whole libraries used across multiple webapps and services that are completely undocumented. No javadocs, no comments in the source code, no flow diagrams, no written explanations, nothing.
Some of these libraries don't even have source code attached to them, and of course there are no information about them whatsoever on the internet, so they must have been developed internally, or even worse, borrowed from mysterious sources.
Needless to say that the original devs are long disappeared, even before I joined the team.
Now what would you do about it? Should we invest time in analyzing it and produce some documentation? Should we rewrite the whole thing?
It is worth noting that the libraries appear to work correctly, so you know, don't fix what ain't broken, but it still is a maintenance hell... Inputs will be appreciated
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This must be solved with `gulp-plumber` which is actually about a 10 line hack around fixing some underlying bugs with merging streams if memory serves.
MinGW with native bash would be really cool. That way, I would have the same, and native, build environment on Linux, OSX, and Windows.
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> I strongly believe that the continued and constant emphasis in taking pride in failure is EXACTLY what women need to be exposed to in order to let down their walls and break through the well-known façade that ‘you need to be a genius to be a computer scientist’.

Maybe that's my poor understanding of English but I feel that "taking pride in failure" is a strange choice of words. I would say you can be proud of making the effort but why be proud of failing?

OTOH you shouldn't be ashamed of failing to understand something straight away, and more importantly you should not be afraid of asking loudly for a better explanation.
From what I've gathered so far, IDEs are suppose to be like crack. If you get them addicted to your stuff, you'll be able to convert them to paying customers for other things down the road. Considering the resources that GitHub and Microsoft are throwing at atom and vscode, I do buy into this premise a bit.

I'm as baffled as you are, but I'm definitely not their target audience, as I'm content with vim and a terminal. If somebody can point me to some research papers on this, I would love to learn more about this phenomenon.
We've managed to get 2500+ suggestions on the site (Mostly Sydney based) so it's getting some traction in Aus. The site's not finished or polished so keen to get some thoughts and feedback.
> Mainly, how do I share the issues and other problems that Github has did their own GUI for?

I think this should not be done in the same system as where people store their source repos. Mixing the two is convenient, but can stifle innovation. Better to have flexible and well documented abstractions and good separation of concerns.
I've worked mostly for charities and non-profit organisations in the past - I spent about three-four years working at a charity that provided hosting and audio streaming services to other organisations to generate income.

It's a pretty standard Linux sysadmin skillset - we were a LAMP CentOS shop primarily, we virtualised with OpenVZ and subsequently VMWare, nothing too out-of-the-ordinary, just general solid administration skills.
We don't know why, but it's well established that the longer a criminal type has someone under their perceived complete control, the more likely it is that they will kill them.
Use historical data (yours and/or the company's.) Find an IRC room or something where you can ask other developers how long something could take. Try writing down every small feature, or class required, or other chunk of project and multiply the length of that list by some number like 10 hours.
On OSX it works well enough for me to work directly on the server if I have LAN connection or good internet with low latency. If the connection is shaky I'm working locally, sync with Rsync and use ExpanDrive to check on result files. But yes, it's a question of managing your expectations.
Markets itself with support for AMD and script tags? What are you talking about, it's all about bundling things automatically without script tags, you don't even need to write the damned html file if you use loader for it.

Also it may have support for AMD, but it's key usage is to bundle libraries from npm using commonjs.

I'm not saying webpack is all roses (even in version 2), but these two things are not the issue.
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for less it's a pretty easy fix:
.pipe(less())
.on("error", function (err) {
console.log(err);
this.emit("end");
})

I presume, something similar will work for sass too.
Sure, but that assumes that the extra time being taken here came at the expense of someone else's time. The original article showed two people gaining from this at the same time, at least.

If they require more time than can be allocated and it cuts into time other students need, then alternative arrangements need to start being made, sure. Just assuming that taking more time than others to get something makes you unworthy of getting that help isn't right.
And Le Carre's interesting The Looking Glass War - apparently intended as an antidote to his The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, which he felt in retrospect had impressed people a bit too much about the British intelligence service's competence.
With gulp;

var gulp = require('gulp'),
concat = require('gulp-concat'),
uglify = require('gulp-uglify');

gulp.task('js', function(){
return gulp.src(['src/**/*.js'])
.pipe(concat('build.js'))
.pipe(uglify())
.pipe(gulp.dest('.'));
});

gulp.task('default', ['js']);

With grunt;

module.exports = function (grunt) {
grunt.initConfig({

concat: {
js: {
files: {'build.js': 'src/**/*.js' }
}
},

uglify: {
bundle: {
files: {'build.min.js': 'bundle.js'}
}
}
});

The bash script is easier for such a trivial job. Gulp and Grunt aren't better if that's all you're doing. They come in to their own when you have a large number of tasks to run. But even then, if you (and your team) prefer make then it's better to use make.
It does seem overly complicated, for what ends up usually being not much more than a makefile or even a simple batch script.

We haven't quite come out of the cycle where everything that we already had has to be half-implemented a dozen times in JavaScript/Node...
Nothing wrong with that. It's doubly in his interest to publish this piece.
I think Monero fits in nicely in such a scenario with its view key. They call it private, but optionally transparent. The regulators can ask to "view" a transaction.
I'm so glad that the file has a descriptive name.
I can't be the only one who thought HID was Human Interface Device, the category of USB device, at first.
Is that a lot or...? Without a frame of reference I don't know if it's more than a litre of coffee or a litre of asparagus water from Whole Foods.
It's not ideal at all, but if I were in that position I'd pay the $350 and spend a month downloading and saving everything (good thing DRM is still breakable)... how much did the Tesla cost? An extra $350 doesn't seem all that much more to get a set of comprehensive docs.
It's a fight against windmills, unfortunately. Anytime someone brings this up with some language's package manager, they are dismissed and the issue is WONTFIX'ed. Most even go so far to misuse git repos for the package index.
To be honest, I can cope with Github's downtime, it is probably less than if I was hosting a Git solution myself and the service is much more reliable than all the other solutions I've tried (which are either lacking features or have bugs or have massive downtimes).

Github is trying their best as far as I can see, they manage to fix the majority of issues within three hours and even during those three hours its not the end of the world because you can still code.
Well, it's a lot compared to a litre of water ;)
But indeed, a comparison to other beverages would be useful, or even a breakdown ("20% of that is from packaging"). Perhaps it's given by the high sugar content?
No way, it's the other way around. Mailgun is free or pay per email, no restrictions. Sendgrid has convoluted plans and features.
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Sure, but if you fail at the beginning, how are you meant to build that skill?

If the author continued to require in-depth explanations of the core concepts again and again over the entire length of their education, sure, that could be an issue. The reality is that over time, most people are going to learn how to approach the issue, how to best self-teach, etc... and get past it.
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You keep using this word "used", I do not think it means what you think it means...

Fresh water is one of those strange things, where consumption is not necessarily destruction. You 'used' a glass of water that you drank this morning, then excreted it over the rest of the day as urine and water vapor where it became an input for another part of the cycle. The water did not go away when you consumed it, and in this case most of the water 'used' in the production of a litre of sugar-enhanced carbonated water was never lost.
I don't see anything specially related to females. The author is just offering couching and suggestions like ask in class.
> Bloodbathing raccoons, highly intelligent animals, just because one is too lazy to implement simple solutions to coexist!

I don't think I want to coexist with something which carries deadly diseases and is violent. Alternatively, coexistence with violent, disease-ridden animals consists of me living in location A and them living in location B, where locations A & B are well-separated.
How much is used to produce one litre of bottled water?
Without commenting on the contents: damn, that is a nicely formatted article.
Sorry but I don't believe it, it's 90% corn syrup
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Perhaps it would be more illuminating to see how much energy was used to create the soft drink.
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No. Unless you do something dumb like "don't test that the failover system is fully functional before taking the primary offline;" this applies to any maintenance, which also includes upgrades. Usual HA tactics apply - don't rely on one power source, one network link, or just about any SPOF. (Which means that requirements start breeding like rabbits, which gets expensive rather quickly - whereas Github is free-as-in-beer, which is good enough for most people)

Perhaps the only case breaking both at once would be deliberate action (DDoS etc.).
one thing I noticed about just about any industry, and this is not gender-related, is a tendency to live in a bubble and to expect that other people live in this same bubble and speak the same particular bubblese language.

I recall my high-school math teacher was very methodical, but even he "cruised over a few points" or wasn't completely explicit about all the mechanics of a given transformation/equation/formula, or perhaps wasn't clear about what the desired product was of the particular set of manipulations we were studying.
It's all fine and good if YOU understand what you are explaining, or of a couple top students can follow you and nod, but perhaps the bulk of the class isn't getting it, and it would be extremely helpful for someone to stand up and say exactly what this author said "I don't understand" as this would provoke the necessary review and examination of the subject in question.

I think that closed cultures can be more welcoming of outsiders by being willing to re-examine the basics often. too often we scorn basic questions that would also be helpful in determining areas for future optimizations, or would provoke the needed work to overcome pain points.

For example: inventions and optimizations often come from naive outsider questions applied to "solved known done finished" problems
Another way to look at this is that water is a proxy for energy. We can replace any fresh water that is 'used' via some application of energy to the abundant salt water on this planet. Soda may be a poor application of energy, but talking about it in terms of water 'used' is mostly FUD.
I studied a huge amount of Hydrology at University but haven't touched it in the ~4 years since. This has made me want to go back to doing things that aren't just sat in front of a computer...
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I'm fairly anecdotally sure there would be a market for much less sweet fizzy drinks. I know I'm a weird outlier, because I dilute fruit juice with water to make it more palatable, but I think I'd really like sugary soft drinks if they had the same flavour but heroically less sweetness. My favourite soft drink is two parts orange juice from concentrate, to one part carbonated water; perhaps that's not sweet enough for mass-market, but I'm not the only one who stays away from fizzy drinks because they find them too sweet.
Because he's a celebrity, not a politician. His followers love Donald Trump, while people backing Rubio or Cruz are doing so for far less emotional reasons.

He's working from a different script, playing a different game, appealing to a different audience. It's staged drama like professional wrestling. The uselessness of the American media helps him along, too.
I think you are reading a more hostile tone into that - I read it more as a slow paced, clear 'I. Don't. Understand.' - not shouting in the guy's face - to try and get the point across that they didn't get the core concept, and the explanations being given were not helpful. I could see how that would cause you to shift your attempt to another tack, see more success and therefore the explained scenario.
A can of Coke is almost entirely aluminium and water; a bottle of Coke is almost entirely plastic and water.
Here's what I'm curious about: how much water is used for every liter of drinking water? It seems clear that a "liter of water", which could be all kinds of polluted, is NOT the same as a liter of bottled or tap water. A liter of drinkable water has to undergo some filtration process, etc. and I'd be extremely interested in seeing how much water is used in that process. That would help put the headline's figure in context.
I'm old but at my uni I went to the head of the computer dept and said "I know this stuff can I skip these classes?". He said "Yes, no problem. If you want credit for them you're free to take the tests". I guess I assumed that was the norm.
Did you use a computer to post your comment?
I spent a minute scanning that website and I still don't know what it does. Is it that hard to have a link along the top leading to an ELI5 blurb