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How am I not engaging with your point? In response to a comment pointing out how we need to re-think web application development, you said:

"The web is the first truly cross-platform development environment."

...and then talked a bit about how it's open (yeah, ok, sure), and then you said it's not really a good application development environment (obviously).

I'm saying, your entire premise is wrong: it isn't an application development environment, any more than a box of legos is a "housing development environment". People have built houses out of legos, but that doesn't make "lego" a building material. It's a big, messy, nasty hack.

The fact that it's "open" is a non-sequitur response to "it's the wrong tool for the job", which is what the OP (and I, and elviejo) are arguing. It's also not a legitimate response to argue that any re-thinking of the model has to come from a company, or otherwise not be "open".

The reason that web apps happened is because web apps started as a hack. That doesn't mean we can't change the paradigm, but to do that, we have to stop defending the current model.

(Realistically, the reason I'm getting downvoted probably has more to do with my willingness to call out React as a pile of garbage than with the substance of the greater argument. C'est la vie...it's actually pretty amusing to watch the comment fluctuate between -3 and +3...)
The article brought up Euthanasia in big letters and promoted it, and many comments here talk about it favorably; it's on-topic. I disagree, and gave reasons. Disagreement is not off-topic, and it's not disrespectful. If I was dying, or knew someone who was (or in this case, heard about someone who was) I wouldn't want people softening up just to please me.

It isn't extremist to say that it's always wrong to kill an innocent person even if that person asks to be killed. When I was a kid watching silly movies, I knew that you could shoot a dying dog, but that it wasn't right to shoot a dying man. This was because humans had a certain dignity that put them above animals, even if they had to suffer for it.
"Its kind of like trying to get people to use PGP for normal communications: You understand why, and they might too, but they don't care enough. So it doesn't get done."

Good example. I've seen harder to use tools with little benefit adopted by enterprises because management forced it. The simplest version of encrypted email and storage often was ignored for just apathy.
It was also very easy to dismiss us as conspiracy theorists. And indeed we were. The Snowden revelations are useful as a way of saying "we predicted the state was engaging in mass surveillance and they denied it while they continued the program". That is immensely useful for the future.
Great, another kooky unit of measure.

"This new re-design gets us down to 0.4 Doom installs without sacrificing any of the visual elements."
Not their video content, I don't think. My main exposure to BuzzFeed is their various YouTube channels. Their video "personalities" have pretty big followings.
Cool stuff. I think their Xen and Ivory work will probably have highest odds of benefiting people. All kinds of people doing stuff like Arduino and Raspberry Pi that it could be applied to. Either immediately or with a port.
On the contrary, I've been most depressed when my life was at a complete stable standstill.

I had money. I had sustainability and stability. But I was not happy.

In fact its pretty silly to think either of those things create happiness or are even the precursors to it.
The beekeeper reminds me of a Schlock Mercenary quote: "A Sergeant in motion outranks a Lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on. An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody."
Go for it!

For this product Flex:

1) Automation. We automatically generate shifts that match demand. Early users have seen costs decrease up to 10% by preventing overscheduling. Most contractor environments have highly-variable needs throughout the day. (Stay tuned - we'll be releasing some integrations with popular workforce data sources to do this even more automatically).

2) Communication. You get race conditions as large workforces try to claim shifts. We handle all of that, and we notify workers about new / changed / available shifts. This doesn't work on a spreadsheet. Plus, workers find out which shifts they are working immediately - there's no waiting on emails or texts.

3) Attendance - we detect truancy for users of our Timeclock. For contractor workforces at scale, seeing who missed a shift is hard.

4) Timezones. We have distributed workforces using Staffjoy, and our app localizes shifts to times. So, agents in the Philippines doing work for US-based bot companies can more easily understand when they are working.

For employees, on our Boss plan, the big added advantage is:

4) Compliance. We do rule-based scheduling to enforce many factors of compliance, such as the number of hours per week somebody may be scheduled.
This server doesn't seem to speak SMTP at all, it just logs incoming text lines to a file until it sees ".\r\n" - emitting responses for each line as if the client follows a pre-defined script of (ignored) SMTP verbs?
I agree that software bugs are a bigger concern than encrypting everything. I think the problem is that not many people are starting companies around "high assurance." How do you get people to turn their PL research into startups?
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The issue is that Trade agreements don't allow such a move. You either partake in global trade or not. Can't have it both way. For example India will export beef, clothes etc. but block Uber and Amazon. Doesn't work that way.
it's worth noting that this is just the first one publicly announced and not under NDA.. It's from a russian radar/microwave/millimeter wave manufacturer. All of the other much larger players such as Bridgewave also have 10 Gbps radios coming.
On amazon.co.uk, you can frequently find a different seller that ships to your country though. I often get the message "this item can't be shipped to Switzerland". Then I click on "new and used from..." and there is the same item only one pence more expensive, but I can get it shipped to CH. No idea why Amazon can't be bothered to display the one I actually can order to CH first.
Yev from Backblaze here -> http://www.backuppods.com/ check those guys out they'll build one for you, or you can DIY if you're handy. And then you can choose which drives you want to toss in it.
My startup's experience was similar. Our core is an Angular app to a Django backend API.

Django and Rails are roughly the same level of maturity.

The approach that's worked best for us is to keep all of the business logic and CRUD-y stuff in this Django base, then spin out dedicated microservices in the special cases e.g. CPU-bound tasks. I think most startups end up with a similar architecture.
yeah it's very sloppy, but at least u can email info@officecrashe.rs now and the email doesn't bounce and I get all the info by just reading that file it writes to. So far I've gotten every test email I've sent. I rented a box at digital ocean and nothing was running on port 25. So I just slapped that together. I don't know how to configure postfix.
Depends on whose vote
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What it means (in combination with the analysis that a huge %age of Twitter followers are not real) is, there are even less humans that like her, than we think.

She is like a rich person that bribes people to hang around her.
No, you are just reading too much into the headline. It doesn't say "company ready to produce batteries that last a lifetime" it says "scientists can make a battery last a lifetime". If you read more into it than that, that's your fault.

I am highly skeptical that you can find any articles from reputable publications claiming cancer or HIV have been cured, let alone 100.
Whoah! There's been a lot of improvements since the initial revision.
I can't imagine ibooks and imovies was making in money in China given how easy it is to get content without paying. Apple's probably OK with just the hardware profits from iphones. Developing countries aren't great markets for IP/copyrighted products.
Prime in the UK is next day, and whenever they miss that they give you a free month of prime, which was essentially getting me prime for free. I gave up in the end because the waiting in was getting too expensive
Together with Apple.
Who was the one forcing the issue?
What if someone with a lot of money wants to get Hillary elected, so they spend their own money on sock puppets to promote her? Should Hillary be liable for those actions even if she had no knowledge of them?

This is the "arms length" argument of super PACs. At first glance it sounds really corrupt, but when you actually think about it, how can you tell someone what to spend their money on? If I want to spend $100 million of my own money to promote my candidate of choice, shouldn't I be able to do that?
Would you mind sharing more about your microservices, what languages/frameworks you're using there? And if you deviated from Go for specific reasons or more just personal preference of the engineer creating the service?
I don't understand - why do you care so much about seeing reflections? Why is that an issue? Why should I demand reflection free devices? I like the shiny surface - it's easy to clean and looks smart.
Because this article is about content distribution, not content creation?
On a fiber you don't need downtime at all. If you manage to carefully clean the fiber from isolation and buffer and then bend it just enough to leak some light into yours.

So, assume that everything might be tapped and encrypt your data.
They're transparent Ethernet bridges. They have Ethernet interfaces, you push an Ethernet frame in one side and the same Ethernet frame comes out the interface on the other side.
More to come...soon ;-)
In my view, a potential solution is to ditch the national sponsorship if possible. Who really needs a state championship for the school champions, and a national championship for the state champions? In my experience with my kids, those things are a tremendous time and money sink, and are many steps removed from the original creative effort.
Felt the same exact way with Dev Bootcamp.
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Yes that's how I read it, and it is a false dichotomy, because not thinking something should be the case is not the same as thinking it shouldn't be the case. They're both value judgements of which I make neither.
You will have to argue it's less efficient than the current system. You can't just state that it is so.

As for favoring the old, all you have to do is require people to regularly re-apply. There's no reason you need to hop the line after the end of your term.

And you seem to be assuming that the waitlist will be prohibitively long, but the longer the waitlist the more labor you have for growing the grant pool, so it naturally self-regulates.
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>We severely undervalue social value for material value, and we're suffering horribly for it.

I don't think there's wide agreement on just what constitutes social value once you get down to the detail level.
None. Always doing stuff.

“no such thing as spare time,
no such thing as free time,
no such thing as down time,
all you got is life time… go!”

—Henry Rollins,
Isn't it already?

State code can be published as a single tome.

Committees write and review updates.

In a bicameral legislature, there are usually review processes between the houses (QA?)

The legislative body votes (commits) the changes.

Then the governor acts as a final QA step before pushing to production.
The article makes it sound like the SF decided to set a goal of "100 percent renewable energy by 2020" without a clue of how to achieve that goal - but gee does it sound nice. Realizing that the city is not going to be able to fund such an endeavor, they mandate the cost of deploying solar panels be passed on to new development, completely disregarding the practicality of solar panels on city buildings. Forget spending the money on better insulation, windows, living roofs, wind power, heat pumps, grey water reclamation, etc. or just making more badly-needed housing - the city needs solar because the word gives people tingles and they have this arbitrary goal-without-a-plan.
Thanks for the question:
Price would be the first significant differentiator. Most of the Clearpath bots are 5 figures which removes them from hobbyists and university teams. Making kits would allow us to lower the price but making the kit easy to build is key. Having the users be able to setup and get the robot moving around very quickly and easily is the goal. Then the fun stuff can begin.
I haven't read the datasheet on this particular radio, but a lot of them do optionally support AES encryption (sometimes as an extra, paid feature).
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"police and the government then have the authority to search through your entire life in your pocket just because you are pulled over for a broken taillight:
"

Is false.
Yes, or if your fast, cheap new metro ethernet 10GbE circuit between two buildings has been provisioned by your ISP as some form of transport (handoff into a WDM system, EoMPLS tunnel), etc, it's not difficult for them to 'mirror' your port. It could be pre-tapped before it was ever turned up for customer service.

Or the splitter could be installed in your riser cable at one end, before you ever started moving packets across it.

Or a myriad of other things.
Friend of mine killed himself last week. Late twenties. Married. Programmer.

It was totally out of the blue. Never had any idea anything was wrong.

Such a waste. So. So sad.

If you're struggling, talk to someone. Please.
In my opinion government regulation into prescription medicine is a primary cause of this and other mental health issues. Many times buying a sleeping pill could have helped many of these people but you cant buy them off the shelf.
The problem is that in a world without aging and natural death, your racist great-great-grandparents have (effectively) all of the resources and power, and therefore no reason to listen to you at all.

Yes, this is a pessimistic viewpoint, but I think it's also a realistic one.
I'll second "Smilla's Sense of Snow" as both a good read and a portal to some insight on issues in the NPR article.
I don't understand why that makes it "all wrong". I understand the coastline is fractal, but I think the article uses a reasonable method for sampling the continuous coastline and showing possible destinations.
I don't really have a problem with that since a person would only go to Reddit or Facebook to be brainwashed anyway.
Got rid of my car in '05. I've been biking, walking, of public transporting to work since.

Decided not to have kids and got snipped. There's nothing with a larger carbon footprint than bringing in a child into the western style of life.

I try to buy more locally and in-season when I can. Some things I will need shipped from afar like complex goods or bulk goods like flour.
I think this is one thing that we hardly ever discuss as a society

Yes. Or if we do discuss it, it's to laugh at the loser geek virgins. Admitting that you're single and wish you weren't is extremely low-status, possibly even more so than admitting you have a mental illness.
"Mickey Mouse to me is the symbol of independence. He was a means to an end. He popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad twenty years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when the business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
...
"Born of necessity, the little fellow literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding our organization to its present dimensions and for extending the medium of cartoon animation toward new entertainment levels. He spelled production liberation for us." - Walt

I took a picture of that quote when I went to the museum. It totally changed my view of Walt Disney.

Huge +1 for the Disney Family Museum in SF.
Of course, professionals know better than to blame the equipment. But the presence of unmanaged switches in a network for high-volume transactions between banks is a red flag the size of China. I don't think "blame it all on the switches" is the point the article is trying to make. The switches are mentioned to signal the complete lack of network security at the bank.

We use this kind of signaling a lot: I work in IT, and we regularly perform entry-audits for new SMB customers. We use phrases like in the article to illustrate the competence level of the client: "the desktops are still on XP", "their network is a single /16", "they have Sweex switches", "the main equipment room is shared with the janitor". That doesn't necessarily mean that there's nothing else wrong at the client, and there may even be a good reason for that particular situation -- but between engineers, it still provides a good indication of what the client environment is like.

More on topic, I have to ask: doesn't SWIFT (which is a global organization specifically for interbank communication) have security baselines for connected banks to meet? Don't they perform physical audits before connecting a new bank to their network, and recurring audits thereafter? How on earth can there be "a handful of central banks in developing countries that [are] equally insecure", yet still connected to SWIFT?

They're banks FCOL, operational security should be their core business. It's not like they can't afford it, just one less Bentley for the CEO.
As an Asian I disagree. I have never seen a rich Asian kid in technology. most of them arrived in the country and got richer. Asians are kicking ass taking benefit of free market economy in this country. Many of us could not even speak proper English before we came here. If an Indian whose family's net worth < $10K can come here and succeed I think those who cant have nothing but themselves to blame.
Any analysis blaming the US suicide rate on individualism has to somehow cope with the fact that in (relatively) collectivist countries with similar incomes (UK, France, Japan) the suicide rate is much higher.
The planet is going to be just fine. It's the humans that are going to be suffering.
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Also the room with the letter that he should be ashamed of himself and his work, and the idea of going from mortimer mouse to mickey, also the part where he confesses to thinking he felt like he got into the animated movie game too late, but kept going.
They will find someone/group and make an example; like what they did to the CEO of Qwest.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/09/30...
In startups it's easier to hire devs for JavaScript/Ruby/Python over Java/C#/etc.

Particularly look at the orange bars in the graph "Programming Languages" on [1] which is based on data from AngelList.

1: http://codingvc.com/which-technologies-do-startups-use-an-ex...
> Imagine if she had somehow fostered a deadly pathogen on her toothbrush and through a mistake outside of her level of expertise managed to contaminate something/herself.

The idea was to try to kill bacteria in the toothbrush after she used it. By definition, she was already "infected". Does she need a waiver every time she is going to brush her teeth? Because I guarantee the toothbrush is not routinely subjected to that level of sterilization.

The only argument I can think of is that she could be creating bacteria more resistant to whatever was that she was trying to use to disinfect. But if that's a problem, then we should all focus on banning antibacterial soap first.

Excess paperwork never solves any problems.
I recall reading about Soviet spies buying a cabin close to the AT&T long lines microwave path to intercept calls & fax transmissions in the 60s or 70s.
That easy, huh?
I also have this same photo. It means a lot, especially when I find myself living out of a van, trying to keep building things people might one day love.
>the air I breath

That's pretty interesting, do you purchase it or do you generate and store it yourself.
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Congratulations, you've just made part of the case for Citizens United, which coincidentally pertained to an ... unflattering movie about Hillary.

(The stronger case is of course "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press....", most especially core political speech.)
Rhonda Patrick talks about vitamin D quite bit (she is awesome). I'm coming up empty on seasonal relationships but it would surprise me if she hasn't mentioned something about it.

It does make sense though. If you're not taking supplements and the sun isn't direct enough to make any on your own until late April then late spring would be the longest point in the year you've gone without proper sunlight.
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I don't have any first hand experience, but I know you can do long range (couple kilometers), reliable (for consumer level) decent speed links for dirt cheap (<150USD for each side with weather proofing etc) based on the WUGs in my home country (ZA).

Detour paragraph - background - Internet has historically been pretty sht in South Africa so a enthusiast spider network of point to point links sprung up much like the ham radio movement. Government decided to OK it as long as its not commercial & doesn't deliver internet services.

Anyway...the WUG websites (JAWUG, PTAWUG, CPTWUG - being Johannesburg/Pretoria/CapeTown) have lots of beginner style info on it (will trees and leaves in block it etc)...plus info on cheap kits...plus there are loads of people there that know this stuff in wild detail (as I said - 100% community driven so even the central high-sites are community run).
This is not actually that true. Germany is 7x as dense as the US, but Germany is only 5.9x as dense as the contiguous US.

About a third of the contiguous US has almost no people relative to the rest except for a few population centers (Intermountain West and Great Plains). There are several states with population densities higher than Germany, and quite a few within a factor of three, and naturally those will tend to have more people than the others.

So I'm not sure the median surrounding population density for an individual in the US would be that much different from Germany -- I'd think cultural factors, including public transportation availability, would have at least as much an effect on average distances driven.
> The author even addresses the fact that they didn't set the background on the site.

So? JS template engines allow server-side rendering, to address the fact their pages are slow, and unusable without JS. JS libraries have polyfills, to address browsers implementing older JS versions. Drupal allows Varnish, to address how slow its rendering is. SVG graphics libraries have canvas fallbacks to address IE. Video players have MP4 and Webm versions to address fragmented codec support. And so on.

Does these things make the MFW argument wrong or moot? No, because a) they involve extra work to solve problems that wouldn't exist if people just made a motherfucking website, and b) because many devs don't even bother to implement these fixes even when they exist: case in point, BMFW's authors wrote about setting the background but didn't bother actually doing it, so their site is broken.

> Also the whole site is satire which you seemed to have missed

I get that it's "haha only serious", but it's self-defeating. If the premise were "I built a Web-scale Uber-for-toilets with isomorphic React" and the text were unreadable, that would add to the charm. If the premise were "Stop breaking your sites with junk" (which is the message of MFW) and the text were unreadable, that would be unfortunate and a bit ironic. Yet BMFW's premise is "MFW is right, but there's no excuse to leave out these things", and those things break sites. The site itself is a demonstration of why the only point it makes is wrong. It's funny, but in a "laughing at" rather than a "laughing with" kind of way.