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If there was one thing that I wish I had had drilled into me in college it would be regular expressions. If I could have had two things drilled into me I'd choose regexes and importance of likability.

I've watched a lot of very talented people languish just because they weren't "likable" enough. Not because they were bad people, but because they weren't interested in blogging, networking at meet ups, getting thousands of Twitter followers, or in making an email any less terse than it absolutely needed to be.

I've also seen people with terrible ideas or lackluster execution get massive amounts support because they approached likability as a skill and mastered it.

I couldn't imagine doing this at the YCF stage.

Effectively pitching over SnapChat requires a type of media training that most early stage founders won't have. It's hard to pitch in person, even harder to pitch when you're using a medium you've only used to send dumb stuff to your friends. I know I'm much better in person than I am on video so I don't even bother trying to raise money from firms that require a video upfront.

Likability and presentation are massively important, but I'd rather spend my early days building a product that works well than anxiously grasping at likability on SnapChat. There are so many great writers and media people out there, build something great, then bring them in to help you sell it.
I'm looking to be able to have all those features on a platform that doesn't charge us $500+ a month.

We have users uploading images to our system. We use cloudinary to automatically resize/compress those images down, and then they are served up through their CDN.

Our issue is we have too much traffic, so we use a lot of bandwidth.
I would like to hear what makes Go utter shit
I have to agree... in the end, if you can't access Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Video, etc, the majority of people won't use your browser. In order to succeed, imho, you need a great base UI, good support for emerging standards and to support the sites that people use most... Facebook, Google, YouTube and Netflix.

At least EME lets all browsers stand a chance of being able to use all the sites they want to use. And as much as I don't like DRM, it's commercially unavoidable, regardless of how weak the implementation is.
Recording it. It's a stream, you're paying $company for the rights to access content over the wire. Recording that isn't a right, legal or moral.
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In theory a new browser could load the existing Flash NPAPI plugin without help from Adobe, but it's much more work for new browsers to support EME. And plugins (read: Flash) are being phased out, so if EME could be killed then DRM would also be phased out from the Web.
Makes me wish I sold my $KBLB sooner.
SMAC was the same people, though you're correct about CtP.
They said UI, not GUI. Command line is still a user interface.
Ideally we should just work together with those people, share the profits...
Mozilla fought harder against EME than any other browser vendor by far. As a user concerned about the open web, using Mozilla products is a way to bolster it.
I imagine that's both for licensing purposes as well as for standardization purposes? I mean if every company starts making its own version of the Thread protocol that's slightly incompatible with everything else, that kind of defeats the whole point.
> Swift where things get added at a frightening rate.

Things are always added at a frightening rate when a language is young. Happened for C#, happened for Scala, happens for all languages.

Not really something to worry about.
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N providers will always be a problem for the consumer, if N is fixed. To get providers to compete, you need not only have many of them, but you need to open the market to new players. The lower the barrier to entry ("disruption"), the higher the incentive for incumbents to stay on top of their game.
You said it's designed to work without human supervision. Unless you're proposing some third entity besides the car and the human which would be responsible for collision avoidance, then what you said is that the car is fully responsible for it.
Actually 20Mbit/s is a lot even in germany...
More likely to see 6 Mbit-16Mbit while some cities have 25/50/100 but if you are living outside of bigger cities (which most people do) you will end up between 6 Mbit-16Mbit and some area's are worse.
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I didn't downvote you. In fact, I consider your post interesting, because (for example) I didn't know about the opt-in nullable references. Here's a +1 to counter the downvote.
I'd argue it's responsible. Security through obscurity is no security at all.
The DRM makers still have to write, ship, and get people to install the decryption piece - EME just gives it hooks into the browser (and allows said plugin to be appropriately sandboxed, restricted, and treated like the hostile black box piece of crap that it is).

So in other words, probably not any more than the current system.
The tone is inflammatory and that graph is a joke. Changes are a function of two factors whereas advisory focuses on only one dimension. With unique insight authors claim to have, I'd expect something more comprehensive.

That being said I'm pretty sure that some will be unhappy with the change. As andraz mentioned in another comment - moat gives leverage. But even though I'm pretty sure GitHub is fairly elastic in terms of pricing with large enough companies (with large enough probably still being not that large), I find it hard to believe that their bottom line suffers. This means that customers are picking up the tab and as silly as this article is, prices did go up and some people should migrate.
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Your credentials aren't stored in clear text. They are encrypted with a key only your device has.
> Calls are supposed to be monitored (usually done manually) to prevent criminal business from being done on prison phones - and there are never enough people to listen to all calls.

At $1/minute sorts of rates, it should be possible to pay several people to listen to a call.
And how is it going? Do people use it?
You are correct. Summon can be improved by using the camera as well as other sensors. I expect we'll see that in the future.
The other problem is a UI issue, from my perspective. Summon will automatically move forward after two presses of the stalk (one press is park). With being so easy to confuse with a park command, I think it would be imperative to have the user select "forward" or "backward" for summon to start, instead of assuming "forward". Otherwise perhaps better indication that the summon feature has been initiated?
Ugh. I wish they'd delay this for a year or two -- I'm afraid I'm going to lose a couple weeks of my life to this game when it comes out, unless I ration it very strictly. Civ II through V were amazing, especially with the expansions, so a version of this made by the people who make the expansions is going to be novel and addictive.

"Just one more turn..." is the ultimate design pattern for a game.
Be fair now, you don't need to write them, you just copy/paste them.
> You said it's designed to work without human supervision.

When?
There's a game company called Artillery that is developing an RTS called or code-named Atlas.

https://www.artillery.com/atlas
I shared an office with a guy who did a couple years for white collar crime. He got out and started a business that placed local voip numbers near prisons then patched the calls through to long distance numbers. He charged way less than the prisons were charging for long distance calls.

He was making a ton of money last I talked to him.
I make these kind of comments every once in a while. They're usually downvoted, I assume, for being off-topic or unnecessarily harsh ('We might have cured cancer!' vs 'I can't read the article because of the video behind the text.').

But I hope some people see them and work on the issue.

Sometimes, if enough other people agree, these kind of comments get voted up. I guess this issue didn't annoy most people enough to get the up votes.
Facebook will probably get the antitrust treatment, just like other pre-internet infrastructure like oil and telephone did
Oligopolies (of which duopoly is the minimal example) produce largely the same problems as monopolies, for largely the same reason, once (formal or indirect through signalling) collusion is factored in; competition works when there are enough market participants that a colluding group that can sweep up the whole set of suppliers is impractical to maintain.
some examples, por favor?
I'm getting kind of tired of seeing 'outrage' stories here. They're kind of like politics: a bunch of kids being abused is way more important than the javascript framework du jour, or the latest startup. However, there are so many horrible, outrageous things in the world that it'd be easy to keep the front page of this site full of them.
This argument doesn't make sense. What matters is how much the total Github cost (or cost increase, if we're evaluating the impact of this change) affects your bottom line, or the costs of your department, or even your company profit. For instance, my company would get a $6k hit from this price change, and we spend ~30k on SaaS software in total or ~60k in IT costs (including wages). It's a very significant change, that will absolutely trigger a strong evaluation of alternatives.
> This system, "Encrypted Media Extensions" (EME) uses standards-defined code to funnel video into a proprietary container called a "Content Decryption Module." For a new browser to support this new video streaming standard -- which major studios and cable operators are pushing for -- it would have to convince those entertainment companies or one of their partners to let them have a CDM, or this part of the "open" Web would not display in their new browser.

This is the crux of the issue. The W3C is creating a standard which gives control to the publishers over which browsers can display their content.

Whether that's "right" or "wrong" is worth debating, but sometimes the real issue at stake gets obscured in these discussions.
"It was not designed to work under human supervision...."

I don't know how else to understand that other than that it was designed to work without human supervision. If that's not what you meant, perhaps you could elaborate.
Marie Antoinette would disagree, if she could only find her head...

Certainly many so-called "revolutions" are really just one group of elites fighting another, but "always" is just wrong. Do you think ISIS was formed by elites?
There is no such list and won't be.

YC allows companies to choose when they announce their acceptance. It holds some press value, so may as well be used strategically. Transparency here is interesting to the community, but left up to the company founders as to when they want to go public.
This has nothing to do with opensource. Many opensource startups have just died and not taken things forward.

If anything, look into the mission of the company and how they make money. i.e. look into their business. If it's all doled out for free, it's a good idea to give them a miss.
I am a little confused by this comment. What status quo?

Silverlight is deprecated. Flash is (at least seems to me) taking its final breaths.

HTML5 pushed many web native standards for open media: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Usin.... In fact, the HTML5 video/audio was so open that YouTube had to kill a Chrome extension that allowed users to use YouTube as a music source without advertisements or video: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/07/21/how-youtube-killed-.... (Side note: the history of what went on with Streamus is woefully simplified in this article...but let's just say the Streamus dev was open from Day 1 with Google but only after his extensions started getting traction they shut it down.)

Anyway, moral of the story is this would be a standardization that steps _back_ (in many ways) to the days of Flash/Silverlight dominance...not standardization of the status quo (at least IMO).
Ha! I wonder if whomever was using that VNC session had an "oh shit" moment there.
Your last sentence is exactly right.

Sure DRM is bad, but you can't tell people not to build things a priori like that, and DRM will be built because the content studios demand it, and the studios hold the content which everyone wants. The EFF greatly overestimates the amount of influence browser makers have. No amount of technical pressure will make an ounce of difference, because browser makers have literally no leverage on rights holders. If the streaming technology isn't available, then the studios will simply choose not to stream it, and whoever builds it first will have a huge market advantage.

Fighting EME not only is ineffectual, it harms open web standards by giving legs to completely proprietary solutions like Flash and Silverlight. The bottom line is that EME is a cleaner solution which compromises in a way that will make open standards more relevant going forward rather than taking an ideological position that will undermine the utility of open standards in the marketplace.

Instead of attempting to fight a self-harming losing battle, I wish the EFF would focus on the real problem which is the DMCA's overreach. Studios should feel free to build whatever DRM schemes they want, just like the people should be free to circumvent those measures for content they have legally purchased. Copyright law is sufficient to balance individual and studios' rights across a diversity of scenarios with getting a technical quagmire that benefits no one.
You're making some flawed assumptions. The prison wants the cash -- these are revenue contracts that generate a lot of money.

The video stuff nets money for the prison operator as and has other benefits. They pull the fiber to the prison in nowhere vile using erate funds for the "schools" in the prison.
I am delighted to see that the five universal emotions match up with the ones in Inside Out (down to the colors): https://i.imgur.com/2WsZGqp.jpg
I discovered https://github.com/stonesam92/ChitChat

A couple weeks ago. One thing it does better than the official app is that on Mac the red window button hides the window rather than terminating the process.
What we need is a GUI app for controlling git. Something that lets users drag and drop branches, and click undo, fix merge conflicts, etc, without having to use the command line. It would draw two commit trees, one local, one remote, and the common parts would be in one colour and the differences in another, etc. Basically make it /extremely/ intuitive and remove the need to know the command line.

(Also it can say what it's doing in command-line form, for those who want to learn it and move on from the GUI).

I didn't do an exhaustive search, if such a project exists please point me to it. GitHub's desktop app is a start but it does not fit the bill, same for git gui and gitk.
Civ IV had a very nice mod called Rhye's and Fall of Civilization that "simulated history" up to a point until the starting time period of your chosen civilization, and it had "historical forces" (random and scripted events) that destabilized old civs and sometimes caused new ones to appear. It also had "historical victories", in addition to the usual victory conditions, that were thematic in relation to the chosen player civ (imagine things like (made up, because I no longer remember) "control all of the Mediterranean by X" or "never lose a city to the Mongols while building 6 academies).
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I really can't recommend Canary enough, has everything I need. Just need them to make an iOS version.
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I tried to appreciate your response, but I cannot fairly judge the code. For example, those could be performance uncritical parts of code or remnants of 20 year old code where the cache was less effective than now. Are 2000 search results a lot in a source of this size?

Cache, as opposed to 20+ years ago, or whenever the pattern was developed, is indeed a thing that everyone is using just now.
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This article suffers from major bias and is pure conjecture from the authors perspective.

I could counter argue with many reasons why git/hg/perforce/cvs is superior but it misses the core point about any VCS. It's about team collaboration and different tools suit different teams.
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The facts presented don't imply the title.

"Teams traditionally consisting only of coders now include a few communication specialists" is rather less catchy. The next hot job in Silicon Valley is for programmers.
$5 that says you can't find anyone in IxD that would see that as reasonable.
Not limited to New England. There's a massive scandal in one of Manhattan's priciest and most exclusive schools.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/magazine/the-horace-man...

The advisor at my temple's youth group went to jail for pedophilia. (He was also a teacher) The predators hang out near the victims.
Does svn still force me to update before I commit (and possibly fuck up and destroy my changes) when there are conflicting changes with upstream?

Being able to commit first and then care about conflicts second is my biggest selling point for DVCS (git/hg).
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This is where people are moving to/from in America
My company has developed several tools to answer these kinds of questions. One of which is publicly available and done for a non-profit: http://guroo.com, which lacks provider specific detail, but has averages for many different types of services by geographic area. It is a neat tool, that is a step in the right direction, but is unfortunately not very actionable. The data is based on 40 million insured individuals.

Another tool has provider specific detail, but is only available to the members of select insurance companies. It uses data specific to that company's historic provider data and negotiated rates.

More employers are moving to high deductible health plans with health savings accounts and are looking for insurance companies to provide more tools to help guide members choices. Giving members increased incentives to make good healthcare decisions doesn't do any good unless the members have the tools needed to make informed decisions.
Oh sure. Lots of teachers stick with it, live with roommates until they're in their mid-thirties, eat lots of beans and ramen, drive 20 year old cars, the works. My heart goes out to them; I wasn't able to make those kind of sacrifices. But I hate the idea that the people to whom we entrust our children on a daily basis have to make those sacrifices to do the job.
Did you try eMClient? One of the rare clients that does *DAV on Windows.
Browsers want to get rid of Flash and other plugins. Netflix was the largest site using Flash. Netflix distributes content, and the content owners aren't willing to have their content distributed.

I don't disagree with what you say, but it's possible to see EME as a pragmatic inevitability, assuming that browsers want to get rid of plugins (which seems like a good change) and assuming that content owners demand DRM (which makes less sense to tech-minded people).
I meant what I said. Collision detection was not designed to work under human supervision, which means when it runs into something, it has failed its design.

Tesla cars are not designed to run into things.
What do you mean by gtk under Qt? What about Tk apps, or Athena apps, or Motif, or GNUStep, etc.? There really is no such thing as a native Linux look and feel, you just happen to use a consistent selection of apps on your own system.
Thanks for that explanation. I was wondering why Tesla's response was so lackadaisy, but given that he:

Accepted a beta feature, disabled the safety override, ignored a warning, and failed to observe the car as he was told to;

It simply is operator fault. He can be lucky it wasn't one of these power drills with a "perma-on" button, which would've ended much worse for him.
flag them and move on.
This is getting ridiculous. We need like n founder manifesto canary before we start using the products of all these startups. The canary should contain:

1. Their business plan

2. Long term vision for the company

3. How they plan to sustain themselves in the short run (1-2 years with no/little revenue).

4. What they would do if they get acquisition offers.

etc.

The startup can remove the canary once they decide to change their direction.
We have a fairly small team of developers, and a fairly large number of private repositories. So, for us, it's a pretty significant savings.
Keeping food cheap, or rather, as cheap as possible makes good food a luxury item. Redistribution of wealth would be much more effective.
If firefox really cared about its users maybe it should stop force-feeding "value-adds" like Hello and Pocket down everyone's throat by default.
You can test your convictions by disabling DRM content in Firefox. Uncheck "Play DRM content".

Unfortunately, convictions won't have consequences on future decisions because the standard is here and the more you wait the more it becomes embedded. W3C allowed it to come to light when various plugins wouldn't make DRM viable or at least more difficult to implement and reach general agreement. Now, even if you can opt out with Firefox, Netflix really don't care about that because you decided to disable it so you are a bad client anyway. I understand why the article is talking about pop-ups because the moment Firefox decided to implement it, we lost the fight. I use Firefox but lately, I am saddened by their lack of strong convictions and how they tend to follow google a little too much. (At least, FF sandboxed the CDM, while not perfect, the other browsers didn't do it, isn't it?)
As a long-time FF user I should be flattered, but it seems like a tough claim to back up. I don't see any design emphasis in Firefox on 'intelligent' users; 'free' is a little easier to believe, in the sense that the other major browsers are very tightly bound to certain OSes and/or their creators (IE/Edge on Win, Safari on OSX, Chrome on, well, lots of things). Chrome seems just as likely to appeal to the intelligent user (if their smarts run toward fast browsing), though given all its telemetry (e100.net etc.) it isn't perhaps the most free...
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> SMAC was the same people,

SMAC was made by the same people (at least, some of the key people) that made Civ I-II, at a different company (Firaxis) from the one then producing and controlling the IP for the main Civ series (MicroProse) who had, IIRC, laid them off.

Several acquisitions and spinoffs of everyone involved, and all the rights are now with Take-Two, of which Firaxis is now a studio under the 2K games umbrella.
Can you elaborate on this OOP for big code bases argument as I've seen it wheeled out in defence of Java and PHP5 many times but I just don't buy it. Often classes in OOP languages are used not for instantiating objects, which I would argue is their raison d'etre, but simply to encapsulate some data and a bunch of methods. What advantage does this have over simply using your language's namespacing properly? In Clojure and Python, for example, it's easy to place a bunch of functions in a single file, add a namespace and you can manage a codebase of any size. When PHP introduced namespaces in 5.3 I couldn't understand why its Java-esque OOP was still so idiomatic as they solved the main problem it was invented for.
Which is very OK :) BTW we published a blog on SaaS git pricing a minute ago https://about.gitlab.com/2016/05/11/git-repository-pricing/