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Lots. I mean.. LOTS. Here's a sample:

* Better regulations. Yes, this can be handled locally, but at a large cost.
* Lower prices of goods – the EU ‘Single Market’ for all member countries is a massive saving. Impossible outside of the EU.

* Free movement. Citizens are free to move from one member country to another. This is actually a massive boon to both leisure and commerce. Impossible without the EU.

* Creation of jobs - over 3.5 million jobs in the UK have been generated over the years. Not massive but the economic hit would be painful outside of the EU.

* The Structural and Investment Funds. Places all over the UK (and the EU) have been redeveloped, had economic investments, and companies funded. This is just not scalable economically outside of the EU.

* Louder voice – Britain isn't an Empire any more. It might be the 2nd largest economy in the EU (9th in the world) but without all the others it is a much smaller voice when it comes to agreements - plus it would have to negotiate agreements itself again. This is a surprisingly subtle one in terms of impact long term.

* Workers protections – the European Working Time Directive for a start but lots of other protections for EU citizens exist.

There are more, but this is a good example. Turns out btw that while EU membership costs the UK a bunch per person it actually more than makes up for it once you factor in a lot of the costs it has saved us as well.
It's not a bad interview question, if you think it is, you perhaps haven't had enough experience with candidates applying to programming jobs who talk a good talk but can't program to save their lives.
Which is what this article does too - they very specifically distinguish between what they call really "on-prem" and "single-tenant", and one of their suggested strategies is to make them go for the latter if at all possible.
It has been several years since I dug into it, so I can really only offer keywords: AMT[0], which is a component within ME[1].

Also see https://media.ccc.de/v/30C3_-_5380_-_en_-_saal_2_-_201312291...

EDIT: I forgot to mention Computrace, the BIOS anti-theft service. IIRC that interacts with ME.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Techno...

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/misc-devices/mei/me...
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I don't subscribe to common western black and white views on US vs Chinese freedom, and in fact I am fairly paranoid about the US government overreach of power, however I don't see that Chinese-style internet censorship has any applicability to the US or European governments.

I'm far more concerned about the power exterted by increasingly large corporations who want extract as much rent from the network as possible. I'm also more concerned about covert government surveillance. But in terms of outright censorship, that will just piss off too many people for little gain. There's no competitive advantage to be gained the way there is for China.
I asked an Edmonton co-op driver about the commonness of refusing to use card readers and he told me that one reason it happens, particularly at the end of a month, is because the dispatchers don't pay out credit card payments for something like 6 weeks. I imagine using Square helps get around that as well.

Agree on the suspicious transaction (though the opportunity for a cab driver to put a skimmer in their machine is pretty substantial to begin with), but I have a hard time seeing this as stealing from the dispatcher. If the cab takes cash, this is really just the driver acting as middleman and paying cash to the dispatcher. Unless they're also doing it unmetered, I guess, but that's a whole other ballgame.

In particular, I expect the dispatcher claims the additional cut is for transaction fees associated with a credit card. The driver is in this case taking the fees on themselves.
Fantastic, looking forward to their discussion about the down fall of the Conservatives.
> Rails didn't beat PHP and Java for webdev because hipsters think it's cool.

I despise Ruby, PHP, and Java, but there is no objective argument that Ruby has "beaten" PHP or Java. It hasn't even beaten Python. It's tiny compared to the largest back-end languages.

Edit: evidence below:

- Ruby is used by 0 of the top 15 most-visited sites[1] (Twitter doesn't use it anymore). Java is used by 7 of them. PHP is used by 3.

- Job listings on Indeed asking for Ruby skills are far behind Java and PHP[2].

- W3Techs shows that 82.2% of all websites reporting their backend language are using PHP. Ruby is 0.6%.[3]

- Ruby is not even in the ballpark of Java on Github. It has a similar number of repos as PHP.[4]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_languages_used_in_...

2. http://www.codingdojo.com/blog/9-most-in-demand-programming-...

3. https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_langua...

4. http://githut.info/
...and when GFW has trouble stopping `shadowsocks`, it threatens the author of the software. GFW is not only the technology, which is easy to bypass, but also the system that average citizen cannot escape.
Probably has a few grandparents around...
Last year, obfsproxy was absolutely still effective in China. There are several comments here that "Tor doesn't work". Yes, vanilla Tor hasn't worked for years now. While it's true China has managed to block obfsproxy for short periods, the Tor developers are constantly release updates that circumvent the blocks.

Source: I've lived in China for 3 of the past 5 years, using Tor and VPNs everyday I was there.
The Great Firewall actually makes a lot of sense. Everyone thinks of themselves as being rational and unbiased - But in fact, we are all irrational, biased and at times hypocritical. Those people who think that they are rational and objective are usually the least rational and most hypocritical of all because they lack self-awareness.

As westerners, as much as we like to pretend that we know the whole truth, in reality, what we know is only a biased approximation of it. The west likes to impose their version of the truth on the whole world but China is determined to stick to their version - I don't see anything wrong with that; especially if it works in their favour.

Regardless of how you look at it; the west is aggressive when it comes to spreading its ideals and values. If China wasn't so protecive, they would have become economically dependent on the west (as opposed to being the powerhouse they are today).
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Median might be about right - here in Austria we witnessed yesterday that almost 50% of the ppl fell for a rightwing wanna-be dictator running for presidency. And there wasn't even brainwashing involved, apart from ads and word of mouth.
> Korean animators can draw 240 pages for a single 20-second scene, and around 7,000 drawings per half-hour episode.

I'm embarrassed to say that I thought animation was somehow more automated now. I had no clue each micro-movement was still hand-drawn, and that frankly blows my mind, and gives me even more respect for animators.
But considering our evolution from similar ancestors, that may have been a quirk our evolution ended up expanding on.
Around the late 90s we started to notice the steady growth of subarus at the REI in berkeley. At some point we called them lesbarus because it was obvious but I never realized that the campaign was running all the way back then.
This is awesome, was looking at something like this some time ago for graphics API hooking. All other options I found were commercial, non OSS or just a random article on CodeProject.
Same here. Safari + iTerm nightly. Cmd+C/Cmd+V on other text works but for the demo the author provides, I get no content. The previous clipboard content isn't overwritten on copying "no evil".
Ironically I was just lamenting the fact that my daughter won't get access to a computer in her Japanese elementary school until 5th grade.

And she goes to public magnet school.

While it's great that they are pushing forward to say that programming is important, I have little confidence that they'll be able to make it a reality.
I don't subscribe to common western black and white views on US vs Chinese freedom

It's maybe, black and dark gray. US media and US spin interests can corruptly manipulate a lot. But I don't see how that sort of power makes the blunt repression of China any better.
I find it exquisitely humorous that the article title is "What Good Is Grandma?", it speaks only about grandmothers and female biology, yet it is posted here as "Grandparents raising children is in line with human biology"

That's one level of PC beyond the site's addition of the subtitle: 'The growing role of grandparents in raising children is right in line with human biology" for an article that, again, is solely about female biology.

When will the reality of sex-based differences be presented unapologetically?
That's ironic because the Washington Post is censoring this article from me with their paywall.
Is rhetorical not in the dictionary?
Who is "China" who picks "their" version? The Chinese Communist Party, or the Chinese people?

How would China become dependent on the West if Chinese people had access to non-CommunityParty ideas?
While you were there, did you get a feel for whether people there would pay for a semi-reliable bridge through the firewall?
You should file a bug report. This should in fact, work, and did, in fact, work, when i stopped working on it.

If you split the type definitions across different translation units, it will stop working (because it can't know they are compatible), but this is one of the weird edge cases.

"And there you have one of the problems with type-based aliasing optimizations: the people who write compilers have not read the standard and just make it up as they are going along. They have been acting like the six-year-old who pretends to be reading rules from the back of the box in a game of Monopoly.
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This is, well, bullshit. The situations get incredibly complex very quickly, and it's completely unclear in a lot of cases what the standard meant to happen.

You should not assume bad faith without a good reason.
The vast majority of people implementing this stuff either are committee members, or work closely with them, so saying "they haven't read the standard" just makes you look petty, because, in a lot of cases, they helped write the standard.

At the same time, while implementing it, i think we filed something like 15 DR's against the standard, some of which are still unresolved because the committee didn't know what to do and punted on it due to lack of consensus. So if you want to say who makes it up as they go along, i think you may be pointing fingers in the wrong direction:

Take, for example, DR 236 which was filed in 2000, and was not resolved until 2006, and they basically punted (note how the answer does not answer the questions):
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/dr_236.htm

(note also that most DR's from the same time period were resolved in 1 year or less)

GCC had at least 3 committee members who were consulted on most of this stuff, and agreed with the current set of interpretations.

In short, if you think it's so easy to do, feel free to fix it.
I think you will find yourself quickly in a world of trying to figure out what anyone meant to happen.

Contrary to what you seem to think, there are rarely objectively right answers, just interpretations that you can get consensus or no consensus for.

(Not sure what one would expect from a programming language standard built by something akin to the UN)
When I'm in Russia, I find the state-controlled media surprisingly critical of government policy and very outward looking. They are clearly ignoring the elephant in the room: the country being an ungovernable pool of corruption that can only be kept together by instilling nationalism and foreign threats and an authoritarian leader, but then again, it's not like US media are really asking critical questions. With or without free press, no one wants to hear that they're in a mess. It's much nicer to think that everything is good, but the evil-doers are trying to ruin it.
Going on-prem also means building a different system, it has to be more streamlined, self contained and serviceable.

The quality of this is tested once the customer wants to upgrade his system from version X to version Y.
If you're locked in a kitchen, even though there is more than one choice of food are you free to decide what to eat? What if you was born there and don't really know all variety options you could have?

Centralized propaganda makes "freedom of choice" very controversial topic. Especially when its source has all the power to censor and prosecute.
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The reason I'm skeptical is because this article assumes our social constructs have meaning.

It also assumes that these constructs are the more favorable outcome in increasing mankind's "fitness", than a mutation that gives women more than 400 eggs.

It explains this away by saying evolution perfectly timed menstruation to allow for raising the last child to adulthood coinciding with your average-est old age of 70. It must be further hypothesized and explained how natural selection could have codified this time traveling foresight into the genome, before even beginning to leap to that conclusion, while simultaneously acknowledging other mammals don't have this "feature", while simultaneously acknowledging that kidneys don't just give out at age 45 in a kidney menopause process, or lungs, or other organs. The article inadvertently makes the greatest case that the reproductive system breaking itself is a flaw, and tries to extrapolate why that would it is a feature, and why it is the best possible feature, when a best possible feature according to their time traveling genome theory, would be an adaptive amount of eggs in each woman based on their genetic fitness, instead of 400.
In what universe is Swarm gaining traction?! I am honestly curious; I'm deep in the ecosystem and I don't know of a single shop that uses Swarm for anything other than a POC, maybe.
A |> B |> C second_param

Is the same as:

C(B(A()), second_param)

It's much more powerful than that because you can create chains of functions that pipe their output i.e.

Some_data
|> fetch_reports
|> email_users
|> setup_notifications
|> IO.inspect
|> affirm_elixir_pipes

It's 100% not the same as dot or arrow! IO.inspect allows you to print details of any data being passed but also returns the first argument passed.

Hope this is a clear explanation of what is happening.
>I guarantee you the smarter students will be correcting their teachers and making a mockery of them

Like what happens already with exceptional students for any subject. The fact that a number of teachers are barely ahead of their own material is nothing particularly new.
All good points and we certainly need to clarify a couple things. The reason why our license is restrictive is because we target non-designers who are generally not making a living out of design. This way we can offer our own pricing and not compete with all the already good icon and graphic providers out there targeting designers. It happens non-designers are also happier with our limited editing features than Adobe illustrator's for instance. Hope it makes sense.
Because they will be outsourcing a big chunk of that work they do inefficiently (backups, monitoring, provisioning, etc.) to Amazon, which is much better at it. Hence the proliferation of things like hosted AWS Outlook system [1]. Anyone in our Bay Area bubble of efficient IT would say keeping that running for a 2,000-user business is probably... what, a half of a full-time-equivalent of workload, averaged over long periods of time? Less? But Amazon can charge $4/user/month (in this hypothetical company that's round about $100K/year) and it is totally a steal, because a lot of companies will not be able to keep it running it anywhere near that budget.

And that is the market they're going for - note that the free trial is 25 users. This is not a product for the small company that just doesn't have the capital to invest in their homegrown solution - that's Google Apps for Work.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/workmail/
Remember Edward Snowden?
Of course you will be providing a source to this claim, right? right...? oh.
nuh, up to a certain point you won't learn much that's not at least interesting, save for french. And even that could help me with latin now, had I learned it better. Sure there's details only needed in a career, but that's late and kept to a minimum for obvious reasons, was for me.

The investment is the pupils choice and the rdturn on investment is debateable. You argue diminishing returns, I say scientific responsibility can be a burdon indeed, so what I really dislike is that it's forced.
Programmers make mistakes all the time, so I suppose it's fair that English teachers can screw up English :)
Email, but I would not be surprised if self-hosting in general become in practice impossible - self-host and your site only shows up on page 100 in Google.
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>The rest of them are just...gone.

This is with all recruiting, maybe with the exception of in house recruiting. The % of turnover in the recruiting industry is estimated around 70% within 2 years. It's a high pressure job that depends a lot on luck (contacting the right people, they're interested in the role, they want to change roles, they pass the interviews, etc). Output (number of reach outs) is one of the few things they can control, so a lot of people go with the spray and pray method.
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Web development is a bit like runaway sexual selection, but instead of developing extravagant plumage, webdevs develop extravagant frameworks and strive to rewrite everything in JavaScript.

Blog posts are a way of status signaling but also of fitness signaling. People that have the capability of always learning new things and writing about them should be really good programmers while lower quality individuals can't afford to keep up and drop out of the game. Only the former are able to reliably secure mates and reproduce, thereby perpetuating the cycle.
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Another solution, besides the natural one of bringing grandparents back into the equation, for solving overworked parents, could be larger mixed age family units, e.g. polyamory (to preempt, you use the same incest rule as for existing parents, no marrying your children).
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Please list all the reading list. Not sure if the history of computing will reach curriculum in college. But I am interested in reading.
Using a framwork that generates html out of something else (XML but let's not get into the whys and whatfors) and I literally cannot use <em>, <i> or any other tag. I need to use a class and set the style in the CSS file.

Edge case? Maybe. Just don't dismiss something that doesn't immediately fit your own use-case.
Part of the reason it matters more to web developers is that often our clients and employers do care what we use and if we love a particular tool it needs widespread adoption to be able to use it on real work. I have potential clients asking constantly if I can build their project with WordPress or Rails or Drupal or Symphony or whatever else they think is the best. It would be much better if they just came and asked if I could build it and let me help them determine what is the best platform for their project and pre-existing skill set.

Now, sometimes, they have a legitimate need to have it integrate with a larger system and using that tool has external advantages. But most of the time it is just a vague notion that if it is in WordPress it will be easy to use, cause you know, anyone can edit a WordPress site. But when you bolt a hundred plugins and custom business logic into WordPress, it makes no difference that it has any easy blog editor. That should have been a separate project to begin with. Half the time they have built 10% of what they need with a dozen plugins, think they are 90% done and that I can just make the rest of it work. This because someone told them there were plugins that could do everything they needed in WordPress and with WordPress they'd get good SEO.

The point is that if we want to use a particular tool, we better evangelize for it, because clients never want something built in a framework they haven't heard of. It's not even irrational for the clients, since 50% of the time their developers disappear before the project is done and they have to find someone else who can pick it up and finish.
I find the many "the West is a problematic too" responses here a bit troubling.

Not that I don't find the West problematic but the many problems of the West don't actually make China's problems any better and I'm not sure there are many who seem to think they do.
> China's firewall is largely constructed to create technology transfer towards China.

That's been a huge effect of the GFW, but is there material indicating it was the original purpose? My understanding was that much of the explosion in Chinese censorship tech happened as a way to prevent social media from gaining control over the news cycle. (i.e., when a train wreck occurs, the Party prefers stick-to-the-facts news coverage over whose-to-blame social media mobs)
Was this 'high school' math or math?
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That's all true, and I do "backend" stuff so I'm in the same boat as you, but I think you might still not get the point of the more-projects-faster thing:

To be competitive, web devs need to be working with the most popular framework, which has the most modules which are maintained (for stuff like "log in with facebook" or "publish photo to twitter" or "get weather for visitor's geo-ip location").

All this pre-packaged functionality does require some time to get familiar with, it's an ecosystem on top of a language with many DSLs.

So they need to make their team win, or join the winning team early. Or else they don't feel like they can compete.

It's a really big marketplace for web sites/apps out there, many small businesses get new-from-scratch websites every 2 years or less ... new shiny design drives consumer interest, it's not like they could afford for the old one to be maintainable anyway.
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How long doesn't parenting last? 15~20 years?
When is the emotional maturity required? When the child is a teenager, not as a baby.
My wonderful English teacher gave extra credit on correcting her own worksheets.
Chinese people would be consuming western media through Facebook, Twitter etc... Through this media, they would be shown advertisements for US companies selling US products.

Soon enough, Chinese people would no longer be content with Chinese-made goods and services from small Chinese suppliers (e.g. through decentralized marketplaces like Alibaba) - Instead they would start buying US goods through centralized marketplaces like Amazon and Apple store - Basically the money would leave China and they would all be worse off on average.

By keeping western media out, they keep Chinese money in. Don't ignore the fact that media is paid for almost entirely by advertising and that advertising is paid for entirely by companies who need to sell products.
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