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While I am really familiar with that film and the players in it, I think your point is rather limited to considering "pop" music, which creates the biggest returns. None of the 'hired studio musicians / songwriters / etc' dynamic applies to a band like Muse, Coldplay or Radiohead, yet still applies to Adele and Taylor Swift. The Wrecking Crew film is a very good summary of the way 'the business' worked long ago - still does to a certain extent, say in Nashville - but the access to instruments and music now has really changed the dynamic.
It's meant to obscure the crimes that were happening.

I no more know what the author's intent was than you do, but I'm going to go with a more charitable interpretation: it's meant to clarify the means by which the robbery took place. In other words, the exact opposite of "obscure". But if you have a narrative, by all means stick to it.
How close does a tiny cell-phone camera objective lens have to get to an interstellar object before it can resolve detail better than the High-Def Space Telescope will?
Indeed. It's unbelievable that FB has the audacity to shamelessly put this out there as if we've not been down this road and don't know how the story ends.

Maybe they're counting on a new generation of starry-eyed would-be "FB entrepreneurs" to drink the Kool-aid. But, anyone who was there the first time around ought to know better.
For the last 5000 years there has been a different legal system for the peasants and the nobility. This is just ongoing proof that that hasn't changed.
The app store/play store are different altogether. FB & Twitter launched as a seemingly open platform but later decided to cut down many things.
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If you went back to the previous job, would you push toward more frequent deployments, or is there something that makes the two situations different?
You have to sign a CLA, no thanks.
Related article at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11481351 (but comments moved here).
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Oh wow, I had no idea public suffix was a thing. I'll definitely check it out, thank you.
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I wrote something like that for Kubernetes, called Matsuri: https://github.com/shopappsio/matsuri

I had tried Compose in a previous incarnation of Matsuri, but Compose has flaws in it that Kubernetes solves.
Yeah google either is not doing a good job here, or they should state whether they have a relaxed stance on that.
It's a common practice. I don't see how it is personally offensive to you. My description was for the CIO and execs in general, yet you insisted they were for you. So maybe you should stop making tongue-in-cheek comments. In fact, I am moving my domains off of Namecheap because I don't think Namecheap is very good at handling customer relations, particularly on social media.
I love the app design.

I can see how the price might seem high for individuals. But for companies who really on AWS for ops, the price can vertainly be justified.

It's a classic case of "price your product/service based on VALUE it provides".
Technically, we are the universe trying to understand itself.
Ok, I must be missing something. How is FB Messenger here anything other than a means of connecting to customers? If the concern is that FB will ape your app, then your app isn't sufficiently differentiated from their offerings.

I want to write a game server, say for Go (the game, not the language). I want to make one (or the sole) method of connecting to it FB Messenger (hypothetical, not actually doing this, and the real game server is just for my edification on learning Erlang). Yeah, this won't go very far. Once FB decides to pull a Yahoo! Games clone out they'll crush me unless I offer something sufficiently different to Go players, but outside a network of players, there's not much to offer that FB can't copy (and FB can, in fact, offer that network of players so I'm lost there too).

However, if I'm Papa Johns or Marcos Pizza or ..., FB can't shut me out. They're not going to get into the food production and delivery business. And if they did, those companies are hardly tied uniquely to FB's platform. They already have their websites, phone apps, phone numbers and other means of placing orders.
Kubernetes solves some things that Compose fails on. It's not that Kubernetes is overkill, but that Compose is an inadequate solution.
Mortgages (or any loan really) implies risk. This is part of why the loan is profitable: repayment isn't guaranteed. It is the bank's job to protect itself from risk. That is why it takes collateral and assesses that collateral. It's why the bank requires a down payment, especially if the borrower is on the edge of what they can afford. If the buyer defaults, the bank takes the collateral back and it's their job to make sure they are in an ok place afterwards.

So yeah, when the entire industry comes to the government and says "unless you bail us out right now our entire industry will collapse, but you're definitely going to save us because we're too big to fail," then yes, it means it's their fault. The public may have been complicit, but it's not the public's job to keep the financial industry healthy when the profits from that industry are kept privately.
should rename to PR as a service. Same product, bigger market :P
I like that you linked a journal article, thanks! And SMBC is just great, I'm constantly surprised that the creator started out with a literature degree, and ended up writing such relatable jokes for the academic community.

Entropy maximization sounds about just as appealing as an answer as 42.
Agree.

Banks, credit agencies, and the whole sell side, selling bad debt in bad faith to organizations like pension funds, carry the brunt of the responsibility.

At the same time, the millions of poor and lower middle class people who took out loans way beyond their means -- and then defaulted on them -- aren't blameless victims, either.

Say I'm a shift manager at a grocery story, but I want to buy an $700,000 McMansion. So the bank offers me a Negative Amortization Loan. (Those were fairly common in the few years before 2008.)

The page clearly says that the loan will never be repayed if I make the minimum payment--the principal will grow every month. It clearly states the minimum monthly payment, a bit over half my paycheck.

It's amoral and greedy for the bank to make that offer. At the same time, it's irresponsible and greedy for me to take it.
The Japanese knew about it. They just chose to ignore it. The area around Fukishima has stone markers from equally large Tsunamis hundreds of years ago which basically say "the water reached here".
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Completely agree. Run Linux on the desktop which mostly "just works" with a few minor tweaks required now and then. Laptops though? Forget about it. Abysmal battery life, constant issues with waking from sleep, driver issues, trackpad support and the list goes on. It truly is death by 1000 papercuts.

Every now and again I forget about the mess and try again and usually give up after a few days when I start remembering it all. I'm sure some people thrive in that kind of environment but I just need to get work done and when the OS gets in the way of that, it doesn't matter that "you just need to configure ..."
4-8 hours worth of operating revenue. Hardly even a speeding ticket.
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Thank you! By standing up, I simply mean getting to a place where your team is taking full advantage of web automation scripting. "Implementing" is probably the better word there.

And right now, "implementing" web UI automation usually means downloading and installing Selenium drivers and their language bindings... and writing Selenium scripts in a major programming language (C#/Java/Ruby/JS etc). Then coordinating teammates' machines... then sharing tests with each other, so we'll create a git repo... ARGH I'm a QA analyst, not a developer!

But that is the crux of the issue: QA people usually do not have the necessary programming/technical experience to get that to a place where the rest of the team can use it AND not have it result in a heaping mess of abandoned scripts a year later.

However, show any QA person an automation of a tedious workflow of theirs and their eyes light up as they think of the time that can be saved.

Flytrap aims to make the automation barrier-to-entry insignificant by providing simple commands that map directly to things people can do on a website. Click this, set this value. But it's also extremely powerful and can perform very elaborate workflows by utilizing a few simple programming constructs (loops, variables, etc).

Right now, Flytrap only works in DOM environments, so "just" the browser. But that's not to say that it couldn't be extended for mobile apps (and it actually works like a charm for a mobile web app!). As long as the "things" in a UI can be referenced via text, then theoretically, Flytrap would work in any environment!

I'm focusing on web for now though because that seems to be where most shops struggle with automation and it seems to be where a JS library and have the biggest impact.

I really appreciate the comment and would love to expand on any other questions.
yeah, also, isn't composed file part of docker layer and thus can be traced back even if you change them?
Since there will be many probes sent, they will probably be able to relay the signal all along the way. It would still be difficult, but maybe manageable.
It's trivial to do a lot of niche catering and die by a thousand cuts. It's also trivial to install pip.
Everyone read this [0] and now think it's The Next Big Thing™. That and Slack, I guess?

I don't get it either. The nice thing about not typing out requests ("it's not a command-line interface," they all say) to perform virtual actions is that you don't have to type out requests to perform virtual actions. And having different apps and websites for different purposes gives you choice, privacy, and control over who you interact with online. You don't have to get locked in to a platform and hope they never do anything nefarious or user-unfriendly for fear there's nowhere else to turn.

But I guess we're the minority.

[0] https://medium.com/chris-messina/2016-will-be-the-year-of-co...
Bitlbee + irccloud/znc maybe?
> It's always easy to point out obvious mistakes after the fact.

Fukushima's obvious issue was known before it before it became a mistake. We aren't discussing unknowns.

> Nothing is black or white, but Fukushima happened in an advanced country and to me this shows it can happen anywhere.

Right; fortunately we have reactor designs now that are intrinsically failsafe (ie the failsafes rely on physical laws, and thus can't fail). Why don't we use them? Funding/politics. As you said, nothing is black and white.

> Doesn't mean we should panic and shut down all plants today, but I think in the long term we should try to transition to other more controllable forms of energy.

What other forms of energy? Chemical energy is limited and is just as hard to make safe (coal/oil is really bad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_the_co...), which are arguably just as bad if not worse than nuclear power). Wind/solar is limited without storage; even with storage it's still limited.
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I still wonder if Jann Wenner is telling the truth that he didn't cancel Hunter S. Thompson's health insurance while en route to Vietnam for reporting purposes. Hunter was quite adamant that Wenner did it. We may never know.
It just requires thinking from the perspective of the person reading it, instead of trying to CYA.
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He didn't treat people very well in general. You could say he was an unpleasant individual. Of course, drug and alcohol abuse didn't help.
Syncovery looks pretty awesome for what it does, I just installed it to take a look, - Directory Synchronizaton - but it's achilles heel for file backups (as opposed to directory/disk cloning) - is appears to be it's lack of any type of versioning. I.E. If I make changes to a file each day, and do backups each day - no way to go back to a version of the file a couple weeks ago?
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What OS? Windows, OSX, Linux, or...?

On Windows, my favorite by far is ShadowProtect. It's actually a sector-by-sector backup that pretends to be a file-by-file backup when you restore a file.

What's great about this is when you modify a huge file, it only backs up the actual sectors you changed. (Most Windows backup programs detect changes on a file-by-file basis.) I have it set to run a full incremental backup every 15 minutes; the backup typically takes 15-30 seconds and is unnoticeable when it happens.

Even though it's a sector backup, you can still restore specific files or do a complete system recovery, either to the same/compatible device or with a Hardware Independent Restore to different hardware. I've done each of these many times.

On OSX, I'm using Time Machine, but I wish there were something as good as ShadowProtect. It is a bummer when I touch a few sectors in a huge file like a VM disk image, and the best Time Machine can do is back up the entire file again.
Don't you love how they say "agrees to pay", like it just some friends where one is trying to convince another one to pick up a bar tab.

Them (example Hillary Clinton):

FBI will invite Ms. Clinton for an interview sometime next month.

You:

FBI raided Mr. Johns house and will jail him without bail until next week's scheduled interrogation begins.

Them (Goldman Sachs):

They agreed to pay a fee.

You:

Mr. Johns was sentenced to pay a penalty for his crime.

Is this really happening in the United States of America??
Bah, like you'd use their open source client anyway!
Depends what automated tests you run. You could catch things that are technically wrong, but what about things like the button being in the wrong place.

That's nots going to spew errors.
Is there? I see two buttons, one that opens a page describing Google Ads, and one that lets me hide it. After hiding an ad, it asks me what was wrong, and gives me the option of Repetitive, Irrelevant, or Inappropriate. None of those seem to fit with reporting abuse.
Or perhaps, "don't wear it!"
You clearly have no clue about music or the music business.
Thanks a lot for this comment, my thoughts regarding LSD's effect on the brain were plodding towards what you just articulated. I've said this before, not in the context of LSD but in the context of mathematics, that's why your post really resonated with me. That whole sensation of some difficult, abstract concept "clicking" is useful but incredibly deceptive. That's why I love the rigor of mathematics. It draws you from whatever snake pits your intuition might have led you to. Even though your understanding of a concept might be wishy washy you know that by following the steps piecemeal they will lead you to the correct conclusion.

Which leads me to one of my favorite math quotes ever:

"In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them." - Von Neumann
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There's also a word for people who don't try to understand what someone else is trying to say and just tries to impose his own idea to everyone else by calling them names: "assholes".
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>> In an effort to sink the project, the right-wing Northern League party used a computer algorithm to unleash 82 million amendments to the bill when it went before the Senate last year.

That's a crazy thing. Would something like that be possible in the US gov't or any state governments?
I don't think their proposed approach makes them an asshole. No need for promoting absolutism.
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Is there anybody that sees positives to this ?
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Also, method calls (that return) are really two calls, in a way: the call which passes the arguments along with a continuation, and then the call to the continuation which returns the value. :)
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Hi James,

I have tried to contact you many times through your wrapbootstrap site, but all attempts have sadly been ignored. So, I'm going to try this route. I recently purchased a theme on your site, but I never received the download link, even though I paid for it. What are you going to do about it?

Thanks,
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I think this is a really good book

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Principles-Practice-Using-...

It is by Bjarne Stroustrup the inventor of C++.
Technically, we may be the universe trying not to kill itself.
Linking to books and telling people to read it is not an argument.

Cue the knee-jerk rebuttal in 3... 2... 1...

"But the internet changed everything!"

Uh huh, ok, sure, whatever you say... yawn

From my perspective, there's nothing to argue with or talk about.
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> - this may disrupt paypal, as soon as you can send 'money' over a messaging app.

American banking is so backwards and this will only make it worse.

In Australia and New Zealand, no bank offers you checks. Do I own you $50? Well give me your BSB and account number. I type it into my phone app or web browser, type $50 and click send. It shows up tomorrow morning. Works on weekends, holidays, ANZAC day, New Years Day and no fees. $0. Person-to-person transfers are free, move in 24 hours and your account number doesn't need to be private.

I came back to America back to the world of three business days for an electronic ACH payment to clear (if you're lucky)!! WTF?! Our banking system is in the 1990s because PayPal, Square and now Facebook will lobby to keep their business models.

Fuck. That. Shit. Money should move through the banking system using standards, not via Facebook with their proprietary PayPal like garbage.
That is one of my favorite books of all time. If the book is too big there was film made that was highly influenced by Becker's ideas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_from_Death
The post refers to a system called "Landcastle". Is that an internal project or an internal name for an existing open source project?
IIRC and IANAL, there is also a strange problem that if criminal charges are brought against companies, there is a lot of fallout, and potential for the company to barred from operation.

https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/criminal-fraud/l...

Section IX B. seems to be the relevant one there, suggesting that regulators and prosecutors attempt to weigh the fallout that such a charge might have on innocent 3rd parties.
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That is some scary Orwellian shit right there.
Well, people worry about coal plants primarily because of the CO2, and secondarily because of soot, dust and other pollutants.

I've never heard of anyone opposing nuclear plants while promoting coal plants, though. Most people who oppose one, also oppose the other.
I think what’s needed is an open chat protocol that also works well in mobile settings, since that’s where a huge chunk of the potential user base is these days.
Yes. I agree with the part that this would alienate my audience. But let me ask you something about case studies. Case studies provide all the required information in the case itself. Do you believe this to be right? Don`t you think that in the real world, you are faced with many situations where available data is highly ambiguous and unreliable. As a matter of fact, I find case competitions to be more engaging since case competitions only give you a small portion of data needed to analyze the scenario. The rest of the data has to be mined by the student. This is where his or her managerial and strategic ability comes into focus. Great managers, investors and entrepreneurs are those who make reliable assumptions of missing data. Unfortunately, the case study method never lets you do anything of that sort.Would really like to continue the conversation. Thank You
Ok, we've changed to that URL from http://arcadeheroes.com/2016/04/11/unknown-neo-geo-mvs-fight....
Also, it's easier to make mirrors to reflect monochromatic laser light than broad-spectrum sunlight. You don't want to vaporise your probe.
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Nuclear plants are being shut down often because of safety concerns. Planning a new nuke plant is a 30+ year prospect. Therefore while nuclear power has potential, one wonders if a 30-year lead time itself makes nuclear a risky bet.

http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-11-22/nuclear-reactor-closin...
I mean, just yesterday some of the top-rated comments on the settlement story were claiming that in-house counsel and firewalls meant that nothing actually illegal happened [1]. This despite multiple whistleblowers [2,3] and billion-dollar settlements from JP Morgan, Citigroup, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley. The robo-signing scandal that occurred in the aftermath was by itself industrialized fraud on an epic scale [4].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rayiner

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alayne_Fleischmann

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_M._Bowen_III

[4] https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/false-affidavits-for...
>when the entire industry comes to the government and says "unless you bail us out right now our entire industry will collapse

That's an interesting interpretation of the events. In fact, there were institutions that were coerced by the government to participate in the bailout. Much of the derivatives betting was zero-sum, and done amongst the banks. The winners of those bets would have been more than happy to watch their competitors fail (fire sale!).
Instagram is owned by Facebook, so it won't die unless they kill it.
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and to make this story even worse, jobs wasted his transparent with his voodoo medicine.
But they haven't actually been found guilty of fraud. They agreed to a settlement. To send them to jail, the SEC would have to prove they're guilty in a court of law. Maybe the SEC could do that, maybe it couldn't.

The question is if you want to take a $5B sure thing for some shady behavior or spin the roulette wheel of justice and hope it was actually illegal.
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Yep. And both of those correlations have plausible causations in both directions.

* Higher income -> less likelihood of lead poisoning -> higher intelligence

* Higher intelligence -> more success in job market -> higher income

* Better health as a child -> better brain development -> higher intelligence

* Higher intelligence -> more likely to exercise, eat healthy -> better health
Filled out the form. Sending out free physical books seems like a lot though - what's the motivation behind that?