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A few days late on the response here, but I'm going for it anyway.

I was using "bit" colloquially, and my tone wasn't angry. We "choose not to participate in the GPL community" because we sell software, and if that software could be requested for free, we couldn't exactly stay in business trying to sell it. I have nothing against the GPL, and I'm pretty certain the management and rest of engineering don't either.

In fact, I/we aren't trying to abuse and profit form other people's good will. That's why we check the licenses of software/libraries we use: to respect the way in which it was licensed. We have to keep our software closed source, so we obey the licenses that could require us to make it open source.
>>A minimum wage is simply not moral. It prevents me and you from entering into an employment agreement with which we may both benefit. Instead, the government is telling me how I have to interact with you.

This argument doesn't make any sense. It is often the case that preventing people from entering a contract thy both benefit from is beneficial for society. It's a standard social dilemma example of which is tragedy of commons.

You may argue against minimum wage but "simply not moral" is just a wrong argument. This kind of thinking is what frustrates me about common libertarian arguments. You can't just ignore social dilemma implications when arguing for voluntarily contract being the end of it.
Also kinda sounds like Bulgaria. Maybe we should not be thinking in nation-defined terms but rather look for a global, state-independent solution. Bureaucracies tend to be sluggish anyways...
The Model X has a tablet sticking out like this for the pre-production but the production model has it molded into the dash.
It can, but IBM doesn't care about those markets. OpenPOWER members could make their own stuff and aim it at consumers, it just takes a long time given OpenPOWER itself is only a couple years old.
So in other words it was a "work making" handout to the financial industry. Bravo.
That is true, to a certain extent. However, if you're willing/able to use Amazon SES, you can save a huge amount of money, while having comparable deliverability. Of course, with deliverability, there are no guarantees. Some email services do worse than self-hosted email, some do better.

For most people with smaller lists (say 20k), the cost savings is not that significant. But, if you have a large list, providers such as Mailchimp are prohibitively expensive.
They may be "headquartered" in NYC, but they're domiciled in Delaware, Nevada, etc. and their production facilities are located in China or Indonesia.
On the other hand, this seems to provide a really good opportunity to hobbyists, if they can get the ball rolling quickly enough.

If the problem with smart-home devices is their over-reliance on the cloud, the best solution would be to create a self-hosted system. Expensive, powerful, otherwise-bricked devices provide a great incentive to create such a system.

As inspiration I am thinking of the Pogoplug devices that seem to be littered around thrift stores and "sold-as-is" bins. Without a connection to the previous owner they are bricks - the default web interface doesn't even come up if there is a registered user, and they can't be de-authed without the original user signing in. But they have multicore ARM CPUs, a decent amount of RAM, multiple USB ports, and even SATA ports. Canny users have found ways of popping a shell, rooting them, and turning them into home servers to do myriad tasks (there are versions of both Arch and Debian targeted at many versions of the Pogoplug).

I don't own any smart home devices, and I'm sure it would require a non-trivial amount of work to get a self-hosted system running, but it would be great as a platform for hobbyist experimentation. Particularly these Revolv devices which contain radios to communicate on multiple protocols.
Of course there is racism, there is racism everywhere. The difference with Québec is that the racists are racist against wealthy white people who are not use to be on that side of the medal.

> So they keep a stash of French keyboards in the closet.

Here, even if we are french speaking, we simply stick french stickers on things. No need to buy extra products this way ;)
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Hey! So forgive the snooping, but I looked at your comment history.

- This post.
- "Need a raise how to ask"
- "100% burnt out"

You're telling yourself something.

Quit.

Give your legally required notice then use the time to start looking for something else.

This is obviously contingent on having enough savings to stay off the streets until you find something new.

Maybe get temp work through an agency. Depending on the market you're in, that should be enough to tide you over.

Don't stay. Give notice, move on.
>>The reality is that every connected device has an ongoing cost to the company that sells it.

Not true, that is only the case for devices where the company wants to have exclusive control over the connection and resulting data, There are all kinds of open devices sold where I can connect to servers run by community, myself, or the company (many provide the cloud service and the device separately, so I buy the device then i have to buy a monthly service as well)

>Should Connected Hardware companies/startups disclose this upfront when making the sale? i.e. say "Your $199 purchase includes a free license to our software for x years."

That should be the minimum disclosure requirement.
ok how about not a real car, but a VR room that simulated a car ride. That's 100% safe and can't indanger the kid but gives the parent an hour break while the kid thinks he's being driven around.
Also my Dada Mail Project is something I've been working on since 1999. http://dadamailproject.com

Self-hosted, works with Amazon SES. I have many clients that send many thousands of messages using the cheapest of Bluehost shared hosting accounts, when you also use Amazon SES as the mail service. (Things like Board of Realtors groups that post realty available to a discussion list)
> Basic Income is flatly applied

Thats the difference.

Of course it depends on the model used, but generally NIC is applied based on how much you work. Generally a non-working person makes $0 , and a fully employed person makes the BI amount. To get the BI you need to work for it. That's the difference.

To take this argument any further we would need to compare specific models. But NIC and BI are not the same and have similar but different purposes.
Nest is disabling Revolv home automation service on May 15
Gameloft? Not a startup, but they make games for mobile.

https://www.gamesjobsdirect.com/jobs/3963024/user-interface-...
Those are great suggestions, thank you!

(1) and (10) are tricky because of confidentiality, the rest we can mostly do.
That's a most of why I'd like to fund GBI in part with a land-value tax.
If you need to do some low latency and high throughput stuff, sometimes you just can't afford a garbage collector. Like in many videogames.
Yes. I might suggest you give one of the tutorials a try. He as several, depending on which tools you're more comfortable with.

Creating a small project seemed to be quite a bit of work, and I think Peter realised this and put effort into the examples.

You might also like his PDF on recursive Make, http://aegis.sourceforge.net/auug97.pdf.
There is Lob as well: https://lob.com/
I'm not sure what you're getting at here. You appear to be reiterating what I said in the comment you replied to.
I go to school with that fella
> Plus there are a lot of very good reasons for tax breaks

I agree, I think that the negative income tax could be a base system with a systematic way to give / tax more various groups of people or other modifications.
No taxation tends to get quickly replaced with "taxed by a local warlord". For instance, traditional government is largely absent from large parts of Afghanistan and eastern Pakistan. But these places are not libertarian utopias.
I don't know exactly how you're picturing the US, but it's not as dystopian as you seem to think. We do in fact have soup kitchens and volunteer opportunities and people with Down's Syndrome who contribute meaningfully to their communities. (What we don't have a lot of anymore are factories. Go figure.)
A minimum wage is moral. It ensure that you and I do not enter into an employment agreement where one side excessively benefits. The government as third party is ensuring we have minimum amount of fairness in our interaction.

The right-wing philosophy of wage bargaining is ironically hurting the workers of their countries. The reality is that first-world nations have predatory labor practices because citizens are systemically and by their own lack of resources unable to realize what fair wage is or how to effectively bargain for it. Instead of giving workers, who are almost certainly less educated and capable the ability live off their wage so they may better their lives constructively, we indenture them into subsistence living, where the minorest of life disruption can decimate savings.

It's just bad for the people living in the lower rungs of society. Being able to work at a living wage is fantastic for mitigating these shortcomings. You can actually do things like plan for the future and interact with people without worrying about the next big life problem. You can learn more labor laws to further advocate for yourself and others, and even the customs of other cultures, rather than fear someone cutting even your meager floor from under you. Without fair wage, workers can often find themselves being the "working poor", people whose jobs won't ever let them save enough money to do anything meaningful. And fair employment inevitably leads to high quality of life.

Institute a living wage. Give people the opportunities they want.
You're right, they usually post a GPS location that is even more specific.
Is anyone else tired of these silly novelty Uber tiers?
People would be less willing to work for those goods than for rent and heat, so employers would have to pay higher wages.
There were: http://www.kaltech.co.il/pdf/LEONSPARRAIDProcessor.pdf
To give you an idea as to why an estate belonging to a king may appear so sparely furnished, let me ask a question of you. What personal belongings do you usually leave in your hotel room when you're travelling?

I'm going to guess none unless you forget your toothbrush or some other small item. The estate of a king is essentially a hotel room that he also happens to own along with dozens or hundreds of other such locations scattered around the country he rules. Little inventory would be kept there since the majority of day to day furnishing, and I do mean furnishings as including pieces of furniture, would travel with the court as they moved from estate to estate. Nothing valuable would be left behind for the same reasons that you wouldn't leave your laptop at the hotel after you check out, chances are when you come back (if you come back) it's not going to be there and if it is there's a good chance someone else will have had their grubby paws all over it the entire time you were away.

After looking up the inventory in question, it also happens to contain enough livestock and grain to feed well over a 100 people (there were about 100 full time residents) as well as a list of buildings including the mansio itself, two smaller manors, 17 wooden houses, 3 barns, a stable, a kitchen, a mill, two gardens, and a granary. There were also more than 60 horses boarded there.

As for kings not living as long as modern paupers, Charlemagne was a septuagenarian when he died.
> Many companies that exist today seemingly couldn't begin in 2016.

Is that bad or surprising?

Companies are very much dependent on timing, opportunity, seeing things as they are vs where they should go, and moving things in that direction.

Example: Android — hardware companies didn't want Microsoft to dominate desktop AND mobile OS — huge opportunity for someone to act on this market reluctance to accept MS.

Once the timing is gone, so is much of the opportunity.
It was the cost/performance ratio, not of the CPU itself, but of the entire thing, including software. Sun sold highly performing, but extremely overpriced hardware that rode in on the hype it built around the architecture but failed to deliver on flexibility and bang for the buck.

I was involved in launching an ISP where the whole shebang ran on Sun boxes, and which was over-dimensioned to the point where I once stepped into the data center and found a waist-high box full of E250/E450... Feet. The purple plastic ones you had to remove to rack mount the things.

Two years later we'd shrunk down most of the whole thing (except the storage bits, where SPARC still had good performance) to a few racks of Compaq and Dell boxes that were vastly cheaper to maintain (both because they were cheaper, period, and because we didn't need to wrestle with Solaris and the compilers of the time to get stuff working on them).

This was back in 1999 or so, and I never saw a SPARC system in production after 2005 (until a few months back when I visited a telco customer who still swears by them for a very specific purpose).

I still have one of those plastic feet on my desk at home, as a reminder of the folly of buying single-vendor solutions. It sucks as a paperweight. :)
$5 per hour to double their income though? You'll have takers there.
After Google purchased Dropcam, they censored a thread about it's inability to save video feeds locally.
> There is a systematic approach where the government and the locals will make your life more expensive, more complicated and less likely to succeed unless you do fully understand French.

Sucks to say it so directly, but that's the point and people vote for exactly for that (people also vote against this, so don't put everyone in the same boat). There was abuse up to that point, so the laws are harsh now.

In our history, there was a lot of oppression agaisnt french speaking people so people are still pretty afraid. The only contact that anyone over 80 years old had with english speaking people are from oppressive boss that abused them at work. I do agree on that point that the older population can be racist, but anyone under 30 should be more understanding. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec#Quiet_Revolution
Microsoft wants Azure consumption, SQL Server Enterprise licenses, Office 365 Enterprise seats, Dynamics licenses, and ISV and Cloud Services partners.

They already have the desktop market and it is pennies compared to the income they make from enterprise clients.
For me, using css classes in a css file has worked fine for reusable components. For isolation, the root element of the component has a class name like class="supermenu". What are the disadvantages of this as opposed to the intricate toolchains being popularized along with React?
Everyone who said they wouldn't do business with companies operating in Apartheid South Africa --- or who (further) argued that governments should divest from anything entangled with Apartheid --- was in exactly the same situation. It wasn't enough for them to simply stop patronizing Tesco. They organized and exerted pressure where they could. Overall, the movement was in some significant part credited with ending Apartheid.

So I guess I don't share the principle that you seem to have, that if I don't like a conference I should simply shut up and not attend. I feel, as many others do, that I have a right to use my voice and whatever influence the market has ill-advisedly allocated to me to assert my point of view.

Lambdaconf appears to believe strongly in their point of view. That's fine. If anyone's advocating criminalizing bad decisions about conference speaker slots, well, I'm not on board for that.

You are of course welcome to use your own speech to argue that I should shut up, or that Aphyr should or that Steve Klabnik should shut up, or whatever. You can also use your speech rights to find ridiculous people on Twitter and Tumblr to compare me with. You're allowed to ask for things you're not going to get.

Unlike people like Klabnik and Aphyr, who are to some extent engaged in "functional programming" as its own thing, I'm not so much motivated by the future of Lambdaconf. My motivation for being involved in this discussion is different and nerdier. I'm like the anti-tzs in this debate: there's a sort of conventional wisdom about Yarvin that is dear to nerds and I find it both false and aggravating. That's all!
There's yet to be a CSS-in-JS library that is

* loads the styles before the content or markup

* as fast or faster than CSS

* able to have the power of modularized CSS preprocessors for reducing complex styles

* worth the effort.

I'm not against the idea but practically every single instance it comes up it feels like programmers who don't get CSS trying to write something in what they DO understand that handles CSS so they don't have to.

That's fine, and useful, but lets not pretend it's better.
I'm sorry you had to go through some bad experiences. However I think you're unfairly judging the city:

Corrupt government: The fact that we talk about corruption does not mean its worse than elsewhere.

Quality of higher education: Well, you've left out the whole of French speaking universities. And what does "good" mean? Just looking at budgets, you're not comparing on equal footing: Stanford ~5.5 bn USD, Concordia <400 mil CAD.

Culture: Well, any way you look at it, you're comparing two very different environments. Historically extremely different, just take language as a factor, and you're also comparing arguably the most fertile region in the world in regards to computer science, with another region that has historically been deemed worth only of manual labor (pre 1960's).

And the big one, language racism:

I know literally no one who would qualify as a "language racist" in the same sense of "race racist", and I've lived here a quarter century. If you're coming to live in North America's biggest French speaking city, why are you surprised if people want to speak in French? Of course it's hard to learn, but I'd say Montreal is the best place to learn French for an English speaker, as you will not have trouble being understood anywhere.

I mean, would you find it reasonable for me to learn English if I wanted to work and live in Berkeley? Some friends of mine are moving to Italy and they have to learn functional Italian to be allowed to move (per them).

The language issue is the most annoying issue with foreigners or international students. Being in University so long I've had my share of discussions with such people, and a lot of the time the sentiment could be distilled to "I have many other things to do then learn French, maybe I'll do it when I have more free time, it's hard." To be fair, I've also met greatly motivated students who spared no expense to practice their new language. Just showing some interest/effort goes a long way...!

Come back anytime :)
I kind of suspected I am :)
> Frontend developers don’t usually worry too much about CSS. They mostly care about the application’s functionality and the layout of the app.

Whether or not frontend developers do a lot of CSS depends on the skills of the team. Companies prefer to hire candidates with design knowledge and coding knowledge, but a lot of the time those end up being separate roles. I'm a frontend developer and I write a lot of CSS.

What the author calls a "UI Designer", I would call a "UI Developer".
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Not sure I understand you... Negative income is a version of basic income - if you don't have a job, you automatically get money. With a specific tax system and parameter setting, negative income is equivalent to UBI.
> It's also important not to overstate the duration of GC pauses. Applications don't need to stop for the entire duration of a garbage collection cycle: they can continue to run and mutate objects (and even allocate objects), so long as they coordinate with the GC.

I'm not much of a Java user, nor do I use GC for any performance-critical code, but I write code that interacts over the network with quite a few Java systems. These systems have all kinds of performance problems, a lot of which involve GC pauses.

Some of those systems come from vendors who have very competent teams and invest heavily in their systems, and some have tried fancy, expensive JVMs with supposedly better real-time performance and have failed to get them to work.

So I'd offer a statement in the other direction: it's important not to overstate the ease of avoiding GC performance gotchas. Maybe it can be done, but that doesn't mean that you're going to be able to do it, especially if you don't design all parts of your application from the beginning to operate within the constraints of real-time GC implementations.
I'm generally a fan of the EFF's work but I completely agree when you call this "shrill squawking". The lack of any coherent argument or details in this statement reminds me of some the "rally the mob" emails that I receive from Fight For The Future. It's a shame that they take their audience for granted and feel that it's enough to rile people up to send angry emails using nothing more than an appeal to their own authority. That may work for a while but at the expense of their credibility.
> In terms of security, all API calls should be using https and there is little difference in putting the token in headers or as part of the query string.

Mostly true. But as a heads up, you might want to shy away from this as plenty of browser extensions are actually spyware and report full URLs back to the mothership. We ran into this recently where calls to our service including API keys in the query parameters ended up being reported back -- our customers were testing our API by calling it in the browser. Some kind of extension(s) was reporting it to a service that finds popular URLs on a given domain.

Headers aren't much more secure if someone is trying to steal data, but analytics providers/url aggregators don't care about some arbitrary header.

Our solution has been to push users to use headers and offer mutual auth (client certificates). At least with mutual auth, there isn't a trivially-leakable shared secret, but it does require more sophisticated automation (or a gateway/proxy) for clients to manage.
SEC should just introduce a new class of IPO's for accredited investors that allows private companies to get liquidity without being public.
I'm really quite surprised that Montreal lacks the same sort of rent crisis that other cities like the Bay Area (or Vancouver and to some extent Toronto) has. Apparently they've got a surplus of condos for some reason?
Maybe this is obvious, but why not just configure a reverse proxy to point different paths to different backends?

I always assumed CORS was more for connecting directly to 3rd party APIs.
We really do work in an impermanent field. The day we stop pulling weeds it all slowly fades away.
In this case, being disconnected is a deliberate choice by Google. If that leads to problems, they're still responsible. You can't just take your hands off something and disclaim all responsibility for what happens afterwards.
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Rockford? You mean Rockridge? Ditto - I moved here in late 2014 and it's by far the most popular for new construction and old buildings being sold.
Remember when everyone agreed that there was no point to competing with AOL and CompuServe?
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In case of Mailtrain, Sendy, MailWizz et al. you do not send messages directly but through a paid relay, so the blacklisting is not an issue. The price is usually quite low, for example using Amazon SES costs about $100 for million messages. If the volume is low as well, then several providers have generous free tiers available (SparkPost offers 100k free messages/month), so it might not cost anything at all. SaaS providers offer convenience – you do not have to install, maintain or upgrade anything, "it just works" but in the end most of these use also a relay provider like Amazon SES to do the actual delivery