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I thought Facebook was way overvalued at $15B when they had zero in revenue. Now they've got about $20B in annual revenue and are worth $340B.
Which design flaws are you referring to? As a recent Salt convert (and Puppet expert), I was perplexed as to why such a nice tool would have a man page 40x longer than bash.

Turns out it includes extensive documentation for all states supported by Salt, generated from the online documentation. Compare this to the Puppet manual:

$ man puppet
PUPPET(8) Puppet manual PUPPET(8)

NAME
puppet

See ´puppet help´ for help on available puppet subcommands

Obviously no-one will be using everything that Salt supports, so it would be nice if it was broken into sub-sections. But I much prefer having all documentation available in a manual to looping through every module and run "rdoc" as in the Puppet case.

Any sufficiently popular configuration management tool will have equally long documentation.

There are a couple of simpler options available:

http://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/cdist/

https://github.com/brandonhilkert/fucking_shell_scripts
Of course. They all want to get paid, and that's really what this is about from Oracle's perspective.
Asleep at the wheel, on Tesla autopilot
When was this article written? I'm a huge fan of Steve Blank, but the attached doesn't seem current.

For entrepreneurs, Blank warns, the future is clear: "Startups are going to find it much, much harder to raise money, and the liquidity pipeline will bounce back to the good old days -- when you actually had to make money to have some liquidity event [go public]."

I don't see many companies going public nowadays, so it isn't like there's a mad dash of premature IPOs. If anything it's harder than ever to go IPO. Due to Sarbanes-Oxley companies are getting much larger before the exit. Due to activist investors, companies want to have the future 5 or 6 quarters in the bag (in addition to the past 5 or 6) before going public.
Cool tutorial, but first check if React is what you really need for your next thing. Facebook creates React to solve the problem of dealing with large applications with data that changes overtime. React became very popular to the point where the word gets spread saying this is the newest and coolest thing to learn. At this point the core idea and key aspects of why React is cool get misunderstood and we start assuming that React is the best choice for everything! and Virtual DOM is so cool and done!.
So now apps that could be done in 1/3 of the time if you just used a simpler library or even vanilla Javascript are being written with all these complex flows, dispatching actions and thunking async operations when all you really needed was display a list of things with ajax...... I'm not saying React is not cool. I'm just saying, understand why React is relevant today and decide if its the right thing for you project. Of course these tutorials are gonna be using simple examples that are unrealistic. They're meant to help you understand how things connect with each other, but are you building a project that is worthy of all this setup?.
Perhaps it's because I spent an inordinate amount of time on a motorcycle on the highways, but I think it's more that lots of drivers are simply distracted/texting/not paying attention (and I spent a few months incapacitated by one of them) than that they are inherently "bad" drivers.
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That's.. not scrum. Your first point isn't anywhere within scrum at all. That's how people choose to treat it.
What if, there was a in standard "macro" library of the language

* easy and standard way of doing the most often used things (like replacing type identifier with another)

* automatic handling of what-stuff-came-from-which-line of code, to facilitate better error reporting by that macro library

* honest to god stack trace from the macro library if it falls flat on it's face

I mean, if you've ever seen errors that C++ compilers gurgle out from heavily templated code, I don't imagine macro library being any worse off a priori. Basically, when the compiler puts out a 3 screen error message, it's almost always much faster to just eye which lines it's referring to and read the code, than trying to decipher what the error message is actually trying to say...

Trying to avoid Turing completeness ends up introducing new concept/syntax to the language every time there is a need to do something that could not be done before. It ends up bloating the base language making it hard to reason about, and remember how every nook and cranny work/interact. That's why the "simple core language + macros" -kind of approach holds appeal to me. I'd rather see a comprehensive standard library as a cure for lack of standardization (not being able to read other peoples code) than base language that just keeps getting more and more complex with time.

Then again, maybe I'm just naive, I've only worked in small teams or alone.
I installed the trial version and it looks awesome.
Unfortunately the lack of Firefox support is a deal breaker for me as I spend a lot of time in Firefox.
This would be my top feature request.
Snapchat isn't useless, but you're right that there's more important problems to solve.
1. Build apple/imgur/facebook/instagram/farmville. 2.Make ton of cash. 3.Fund real science shit. 4.Repeat.
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Timecamp have been at this for a while now. With syncing to project management apps.
The only thing they would need to rule on is whether a particular fact was weighted properly by the jury.

Good luck with that here.
Was that percentage equally high in 1990? Fresh grads are not qualified for management.
No, I'm not being dogmatic. Like it or not, subjective experience is part of reality. By dismissing someone's subjective experience as a consideration you are ignoring part of reality for no good reason.

Yes, Chelsea Manning has a Y chromosome. Yes, most (but not all) people with Y chromosomes self-identify as male. So what? Why should the fact that Chelsea has a Y chromosome prevent you from referring to her as "her" if that's how she self-identifies?
This is neat, and useful as a general purpose jump-to feature. It's probably worth mentioning that some languages have packages with better functionality for that language, such as tern-mode for JavaScript.
I think is worth to take a look into Facebook's dataloader. Instead of having a caching mechanism (likve Varnish) in your HTTP layer, you could have it in your GraphQL backend.

https://github.com/facebook/dataloader
You're assuming DRM is actually possible and so even justifiable, but DRM is fundamentally broken.

It is -- when used by centralized authorities, it certainly is. The hacking expertise that can be mustered by the internet at large will always beat whatever a single corporation or even government can manage. However, this is precisely why it would be very usable by the public against centralized organizations.

Yes, please restrict individuals as well.

Ensuring the freedom of individuals should be the whole point of society and government. This is also why privacy is important.
Users who already have a presence on half a dozen other networks.
It's almost a good comeback. Yet, Facebook had obvious ways to monetize it's data plus lots of data types to monetize. It was inherent in its design. Also, semi-proven by MySpace. What is comparable for SnapChat? Seems more contrained.
Sorry, the "most" statement was in terms of the federal budget since they are federal programs. I see that 24% and 25% going to social security and health care (although that includes CHIP and ACA), so about 2/3rds goes to Medicare and Medicaid. So, yes, you're right. Not most, but a significant portion. And also I would point out that since the elderly are relatively wealthy compared to the young that generally fund these programs, this tax is also regressive.

The tax structure is complicated in the US and is hard to tease out who pays for what programs, even leaving aside "fairness". But I think that's another point of criticism that makes Americans skeptical of the prudence of their tax dollars.

> Social Security: Last year, 24 percent of the budget, or $888 billion, paid for Social Security, which provided monthly retirement benefits averaging $1,342 to 40 million retired workers in December 2015. Social Security also provided benefits to 2.3 million spouses and children of retired workers, 6.1 million surviving children and spouses of deceased workers, and 10.8 million disabled workers and their eligible dependents in December 2015.

> Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, and marketplace subsidies: Four health insurance programs — Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace subsidies — together accounted for 25 percent of the budget in 2015, or $938 billion. Nearly two-thirds of this amount, or $546 billion, went to Medicare, which provides health coverage to around 55 million people who are over age 65 or have disabilities. The rest of this category funds Medicaid, CHIP, and ACA subsidy and exchange costs. In a typical month, Medicaid and CHIP provide health care or long-term care to about 72 million low-income children, parents, elderly people, and people with disabilities. (Both Medicaid and CHIP require matching payments from the states.) In 2015, 8 million of the 11 million people enrolled in health insurance exchanges received ACA subsidies, at an estimated cost of about $28 billion.

http://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/policy-basics-wh...
I don't a dog in this fight, but my opinion is that it is OK to privately pay legal expenses for someone else.

Was it legal? Apparently yes. So, what is the problem?

Edit: to be fair, I am a little biased because Thiel's book 'Zero to One' was very useful, and I have never got value from Gawker.
I'm aware of how both work (I had a VCP410 cert and happily run ZFS with many snapshots on rotation at home), but IMO the uses are similar enough for the purposes explored in the article despite the significant differences in practice and felt that a traditional alternative should be mentioned. Additionally, VMware-based snapshots can be performed SAN-side and integrated with VAAI that can expect similar performance overhead as a ZFS snapshot and still support a lot of options with trade-offs and features. The compulsory indirections that happen in the traditional VMware snapshot implementation with the on-disk block map appears designed for storage compatibility (much like the design of VMFS in itself, including with that whole file-based mutex system) primarily rather than performance not to mention the support for memory persistence / quiescing with the guest OS, which ZFS snapshots do not support. In contrast, ZFS has all the metadata to quickly examine block time or other rich metadata to accelerate read and write indirection of blocks optimally. It's not clear if a SAN can accelerate ZFS using OSes in the way that they can accelerate VMware storage but I'm curious of the potential.

On the other hand, recursive snapshots in ZFS are really slick and can achieve 90%+ of what people typically want from VMware-based snapshots when it comes to any non-Windows OS if there's a little room for not needing to care about indirect changes required in rollbacks.
Well she also publishes stories on motherboard so what are you trying to say exactly...?
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Congrats on the launch! It's great seeing how fast GraphQL community is growing/evolving.
What language are you using on the backend?
Um, bars close at 2am? I am hard pressed to think of anywhere, even a restaurant that closes at 9pm.

Certainly "extensive and amazing" is open to debate (can't hold a candle to NYC for example)... but objectively there are vastly more options than a small midwestern city.
Ha ha =)
Despite the win, I think it would have been far better for the computer industry if Google had bought Sun. Unlike other companies with crap (IMHO ... Nokia, Motorola), Sun actually had stuff of value. This is a lesson that geeks get but I'm not sure MBAs do or will ever get.
mtr - the oft forgotten best tool out there, awesome!
Processing has some basic stuff: https://processing.org/reference/ .

You might also want to look into POVRay (http://www.povray.org/). It can be automated pretty easily.

I'm guessing you are autogenerating something to train a camera on?
Perhaps when looking through your ideological lens, you fail to distinguish between taxes and theft. But that's a problem of your inability to distinguish, not anything inherent in taxes that obscures them from being clearly identified as a different thing from theft.
It totally is! I read the original Lazebnik paper when I was young and it had quite an impact.
When companies defer their exits, it becomes reasonable for seed investors to ask for their money back. This happens quite a bit in Private Equity, where investors resell companies every 5-7 years.
It's about being able to maintain the software for next 3 years. Sure people have opinions but sometimes it's better to agree to disagree and have the discipline
Perhaps, but I've never seen a straightforward guide to doing that. Particuarly that was generic enough that would automatically work with new projects, but I'd be thrilled to be proven wrong.
Look, this is scary and a big problem, but can we please stop talking about the "end of the road" for antibiotics?

The worry here isn't that antibiotics will suddenly become useless and whenever anyone gets a bacterial infection they'll have no hope. The worry is that there will be a number of prevalent bacterial illnesses which can't be treated with antibiotics.

Currently antibiotics work for an overwhelming majority of bacterial illnesses, that's not going to change overnight. What will change is the idea that bacterial illnesses are trifles because they can be cured every time by antibiotics. A few diseases will emerge, more and more over time, that have much worse consequences than we are used to thinking about right now, but the rest will be the same.

I don't mean to underplay the threat, but if we keep pushing this rhetoric, people will discredit the threat when it turns out that 50 years later we're still using antibiotics for most illnesses that people actually get (because antibiotic-resistant strains are effectively quarantined). People will compare it with the "we're going to run out of oil" scare.
As much as I love phage therapy, there are some very real problems with it.

And characterizing it as "free" is...flawed, at best.
I have never heard a good argument explaining how affirmative action is good for a company or society outside of college.
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Sorry to hear it didn't work for you. Would you consider opening an issue on github outlining what you were trying to do?
> You will (probably) never see such thing in Latin American because no one cares why color your skin is or what gender you identify with in order to get a specific job.

That is not true.

Racism (and other forms of discrimination) exist in South/Latin America. It's just very well hidden. It does not exist in discourse, but profiling is blatant and in many ways even accepted. I'd argue that it's so culturally entrenched that even discussing it is crazy talk. People just like to assume it's not there, and even minorities seem to assume it's a given that they're mistreated. But it exists in very acute ways.
I can’t really see any links between sexual objectification and the kind of generic “objectification” that you’re talking about. In other words, you’d need to explain how we can sensibly regard the former as a subcase of a latter. As I mentioned earlier, it simply makes no sense to link the sexual objectification of women to generic considerations of information processing.

I certainly do take a moral stance on sexual objectification — why not? It is of course true that merely condemning people will not necessarily cause behaviors to change, but you could use the same argument to show that we shouldn’t take a moral stance against anything. That doesn’t show that we shouldn’t condemn bad things, only that we need to do more than just condemn them.

And yes, you certainly seemed to be suggesting that the sexual objectification of women was inevitable, since you linked it to “objectification” in your generic sense, and argued that objectification in this sense is an inevitable result of human limitations on information processing.
Questions were not asked. Glenn Beck style "condemning statement that happens to have a ? at the end of it" were made.
Agreed, but most people won't understand stories until/unless they have a bunch of friends on Snapchat, so it's not the best aspect to start with.
Your point still stands but I think 100k is a vast underestimate. I suspect there's much more than 100k in Silicon Valley/SF alone (though I don't live there so not sure). There's certainly tens of thousands in central London, let along across the world. Paul Graham alone (and he's hardly the only centre of attention in the startup world) has 340k followers on Twitter. I'd assume about 10m, give or take.
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Agreed. Plus, even if it is decided to modernize any of these systems, we would likely have to run an old system with the new one in parallel for quite some time to ensure a properly smooth transition. Air traffic control is an example of where such practices occur.
Oracle will likely appeal, but they'll lose again. Overturning a unanimous jury verdict is very difficult.
Genuine question: Did the author not know about pushd / popd or was there a use case where pushd/popd were just not good enough?
Sorry to hear it didn't work for you. Would you consider opening an issue on github outlining what you were trying to do? Then you can be more than just hopeful that it will improve.
If I learned one thing from the SCO mess, it's that a high-powered law firm can take absolutely no case and make it last at least a decade.
Yes, in general the bargain is that in exchange for accepting some additional constraints on behavior and a required level of transparency, you can sell securities to non-qualified investors (aka the Greater Fool in your comment).

That said, I'm not sure I would be willing to invest at the IPO but if Twillo can show they are getting traction on their business plan and reach profitability, then I would consider investing in them at that stage.
Uber and lyft threaten to abandon chicago too
Wow, your comment doesn't even fit in its entirety into my browser window without scrolling. :) For posterity you may want to edit "No one has a stake is seeing that Oracle be awarded $9", I'm not sure how to parse that. I didn't find any other typos or grammar mistakes which is pretty amazing for a chunk of prose of that length (at least it is for me.)

Don't know why you're being downvoted for giving such a comprehensive and thoughtful comment. Ridiculous really. I say even if you disagree with grellas don't donwvote, please reply and put the same amount of effort into the reply as was put into the comment above.
A smartphone is a pocket computer with a suite of communications and networking tools. Imagine being able to use something like Rebol - which makes it easy to send emails with simple commands - but updated for GSM/SMS/etc.

There are immense possibilities for useful software, all starting with a terminal, but which can be built into full graphical applications. A hacker's delight!

(BTW, this post is being written on a Jolla phone)
> If snapchat shutdown tomorrow would anyone actually care, or would they immediately shift to the next best platform?

You can say this about a lot of great companies. Toyota shuts down tomorrow, I buy a Honda instead. Sure, I wanted the Toyota, but I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. UPS shuts down tomorrow, I use FedEx. Apple shuts down, I use Android. Starbucks shuts down, I go to Peet's.
> even my European co-workers make fun of Americans for these things

Are they not ashamed to ridicule those with some cultural advances? (Laugh about our backwardnesses, not innovations.) Do they also chuckle at those more advanced scientifically, economically and technologically?

Rojava in many ways seems more advanced than cultures I've lived in. Not only do they do they mandate co-leaders at every level of their bottom-up democracy (1 woman & 1 man), but they do this while beating ISIS. If I laughed, the joke would be on me. And these "Europeans" you mention seem doubly backwards as even I am, so they must work twice as hard to catch up to civilization.

> Why do they care if there are no "Black/African-American" in their company?

Maybe it's hard to make social media innovations while socially backwards?
The thing about the housing bubble is that while housing prices didn't decline to a normal level, the way that decline was prevented was through the massive injection of money into the system as whole (qualitative easing) and government loans to the largest banks.

This permanently broke the house-buying process as a whole to various degrees in that most people can no longer afford to buy a home to live in.

But also, it's plausible that the flood of money coming into VC is a part of this general flood of money - a flood that supports the US economy but not a "healthy" condition but with jobs around growing these inflated capital assets taking up a large number of well paid jobs, etc.
My wife (a neuroscientist) does...
Lots. One I was personally familiar with was SSNI (Silver Spring Networks)
It's possible to have sensible screening with sensible wait times at security lines: see the experience at airports in Australia and Europe.
It becomes a non-issue until the next time someone reminds you that it was because you are a woman, are Black, are gay, are whatever. Seems like it'll be a constant struggle for you until it isn't for everyone else, if you know what I mean.
Vim can do ctags out of the box. If I remember right, the command is C-] (ctrl+ close bracket) to jump to a ctags definition.

For rails projects I wrote a script that kicks off ctags with the following options. "ctags --tag-relative -Rf.git/tags.$$ --exclude=.git --exclude=log --exclude=tmp --exclude=public --languages=ruby --languages=javascript `bundle show --paths` $MY_RUBY_HOME ."

I'd wager there is a better way. That's just the way I roll.
The last sentence is depressing: "...the government is considering attracting investors to turn the ethnic culture and picturesque scenery in the mountains into a tourist attraction."
And maybe someone who just got a liver transplant that you enabled announces it to their friends and family on Snapchat :)
This is primarily a JS thing. Many nontechnical people that look over your resume don't know that Node Backbone React Angular and the random data visualization libraries are all "Javascript"
Starting from only the people who apply gives a free pass to biased recruitment.
Your statement seemed hyperbolic until I followed the link and skimmed a handful of posts. He does indeed come across as someone consumed by hatred to the level of insanity. Why wouldn't anyone link to him? Its like linking to the Westboro baptist people in a discussion about Christian theology.
Right. This needs to change.
Open the link in incognito mode, should bypass their monthly article limit.
> The Bono law may have slipped through Congress with nary a dissent in its day but this will not happen again, whatever the lobbying power of Disney and others.

What makes you think so? This is one of my greatest fears of another Clinton presidency.
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Wow, thanks for writing that blog post! You highlight pretty much all the reasons why I made dumb-jump. Please don't hesitate to make issues on github if/when you run into issues/ideas.
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