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Django wants to provide solutions that will stick around for longer than the attention span of the js community ;-)

Getting opinionated about js stacks at the moment could backfire hugely and alienate a chunk of their userbase. The policy is basically "Stuff should be left as 3rd party apps until a de facto winner emerges."

Not sure if that's likely to happen any time soon in anything related to front end code so keeping the core framework neutral seems like the best option. Mini-ecosystems can arise where neccesary.
This seems very exciting, in a way that I'm hard-pressed to define. Maybe because it seems to offer a greenfield opportunity to build...something. Or to be something. Unique.
150ms for which operation?
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I'm having a hard time being sympathetic ...

He joined a team that was goofing off, which made it an extremely fun place to work. Wouldn't life be easy without deadlines? So when they actually had to produce something, they were far behind where they should have been. The fault for this situation probably lies with the management but ... as a developer (who's ostensibly getting paid), you should expect to do work at work.

He also states that he was sad to see the "Big Blue Box" culture and company disappear. That company would have instead gone out of business if someone (the parent company?) hadn't stepped in and changed things.
> Uber needing 3.5B is a huge negative sign IMO. Clearly something is broken with their business model.

If someone is willing to give you $3.5 billion dollars I'd argue you've got a solid business model. Either that you're just really good at raising capital.
There are few† things you do that Google observes, that they don't observe directly, with your device/browser sending Google a request. You can get a pretty good sense of what Google's dossier on you would look like, just by setting up a proxy with an access log for every request to Google's servers.

† I'm not sure what they learn about people that doesn't come from those people making requests to Google. Like, even Google Analytics makes requests to Google—and they don't have any equivalent functionality that will take server logs in place of client beacons. This almost seems like a secret/implicit principle of Google, that's somehow persisted since the "Don't Be Evil" days: only attempt to find out things about people by asking those people directly, rather than by learning it from someone else.
EV Nova was such a great game. I'm not ashamed to admit I've played it several times over, once even just a couple months ago.

It's unfortunate that smaller indie games like that aren't as big a deal anymore.
You aren't alone - I don't take well to unsolicited advice, unless it's about avoiding traffic :)
Maybe things have fallen back drastically then or we're using different definitions of HPC (it's the likes of weather or bombs for me).

Supercomputer system MTBF numbers aren't high at all. Supercomputer storage is fault tolerant only by fortuitous accident and often requires week-long outages with destroyed data for software upgrades. These systems are built with the likes of dubious metafilesystems (I'm talking to you, Lustre) sitting on top of shaky file systems on top of junk-bin HW RAID systems almost guaranteed to corrupt your data over time.

I think your overall statement is valuable with the global search/replace of "enterprise" for "HPC" - airline reservations or credit card processing. That's all I'm saying - HPC people (at least currently) are massively overrated as developers and as admins. Maybe it's all just a plan to extract energy from Seymour Cray's pulsar-like rotating remains?
I guess this just comes down to a difference of mindset - I work my job because of the concrete benefit I get from it. (Mostly money, but also work schedule, environment, etc.) I'm not interested in being driven to grind my life to dust for a shot at little bit of hero-glory. To be totally honest I hadn't heard of this game or this person before.
Good luck with that. Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal invested in Lyft [1]

[1]http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/12/24/saudi-prince-alwaleed...
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The concept of Messenger becoming a second homescreen for the smartphone is an interesting one. Suddenly their decision to separate Messenger from Facebook on mobile makes a lot more sense. If you think of Messenger as a different type of interface, I think the value-add are the limitations it places on providers: services have to be primarily text-based and updates will all arrive as nested within one push notification (at least on android). Plus, as the analysis mentioned, the threading, logs and identity functionality is built-in. It's almost like having a terminal window for a bunch of rigid functions that works in plain English and anyone can get to grips with.

Now I'm thinking about a parallel universe where text-based interfaces never went away...
No, I don't your example is OK. I don't know what law it violates, but I doubt it would be allowed. And there are many real world examples where management acquired a company cheaply because they hid the true value of the company, or didn't pursue competing offers. Acquisition by management is super conflicted and should receive a lot of scrutiny.

However, according to the article the judge thought the process was fair, that there was no way to sell the company for a higher price, and shareholders voted for the deal while possessing all relevant information. I think that given those facts the deal price should be considered fair.
> I'm sure it's possible to serve adverts on a HTTPS page

Yes, you can, but you lose a tremendous amount of ad revenue and a number of ad providers still don't support HTTPS.
Yeah, I agree (and I worked a lot on the frontend). The site is hosted with the default frontend for Urbit — so it's built to do a lot more than what it's doing in this specific case.

The links not opening on ctrl+click is ridiculous (issue here: https://github.com/urbit/tree/issues/10) as are the cross-origin resources. Loading in the title is a good idea (issue here: https://github.com/urbit/tree/issues/11).

Being lazy is good. I'm with you there!
See also: Solaris zones.
I've already been slowly migrating from KeePass to https://www.passwordstore.org/ and this is just one more reason why.
Django models are nice and easy to work with for the most part, and the template inheritance is great for building out front-ends. But there's a lot of "Django magic" that goes on behind the scenes so I tend to think of Django as an opinionated front-end. Django forms and how they are handled give me nightmares.
I love that they even introduced convenient ways of pronouncing the ASCII symbols Hoon uses. Last time I saw it, I created this gist: https://gist.github.com/killercup/be14570af13cbddb5dbc

(Haven't checked if anything changed since then.)
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I think a Universal Basic Income would help with this. Given the ability to survive without working a shitty, low-paying job, you now have the ability to say no to said jobs. Meaning demand for said jobs goes down, forcing the employer to automate or raise wages so that someone takes the job.
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I believe the questions in this study (I did not write it, only know the authors) were deliberately open-ended, allowing for comments on the specifics. A previous, much longer version used to contain code examples to comment, but it proved too detailed for people to complete.

Moreover, the study was explicitly not about ISO C: "We were not asking what the ISO C standard permits, which is often more restrictive, or about obsolete or obscure hardware or compilers. We focussed on the behaviour of memory and pointers. This is a step towards an unambiguous and mathematically precise definition of the de facto standards: the C dialects that are actually used by systems programmers and implemented by mainstream compilers."

Here is an actual example of a comment to this question:

I would expect this code to work:

struct foo
{
char a;
double b;
};

foo p;
foo q;
memset( &p, 0, sizeof( p ) );
memset( &q, 0, sizeof( q ) );
p.a = 1;
q.a = 1;
assert( memcmp( &p, &q, sizeof( foo ) ) == 0 );
Care to point out where? I can explain if something seems too ambiguous.

It is impossible to reliably store something in your local storage. It is possible to achieve some probability of data retention and availability in a distributed system.
And KeepassX also supports version 2 and is MUCH lighter. :)
Uber has apparently raised $12.5 billion[1] and is valued at over $60 bilion. So seed investors are in fat city as long as the valuation holds. If the valuation goes down, it all depends on the preference multiples (which are likely greater than 1), and how low the value goes.

Uber has very significant revenue and growth (see the new Mary Meeker presentation), so they are a very valuable company. It may not be wise the way they are burning cash in China but hey we're all just spectators.

[1] Crunchbase says $9B and hasn't been updated to add in this money), https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/uber#/entity
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All the reprehensible stuff uber has done in the past, has made Lyft my goto app. Talking to Lyft drivers recently I've seen fewer and fewer that are driving for both because of negative experiences with uber. If Lyft can keep it up they might actually end up being on top

Edit: Why the downvotes?
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Before the buyout, how much does it really matter what the share price was? Did it affect the physical operation of the company?

In other words, sure the price might have been "wrong" but why was it necessary to rush and correct it? Won't the market do that in the long run?
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what is culture other than behaviors, beliefs, values? In those respects, Malaysia is much more similar than any European or western country.
Why has google been so (seemingly) open to wanting people to know how much they (google) knows about them (the searcher)? They recently revamped the UIs, made them easy to navigate, explained everything in detail, added extra reminders to check it out, and now this. What does google gain?
Thanks! Well, I rarely use either. :) Anyway, Buycott [0] needs to add a Saudi filter!

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I'm crying, I pay the same of 1/100th the data in Canada
New recycling app
I have a new app I have developed for IOS
it uses the UPC code to help figure out how to recycle product packaging .It also lets a user keep track of what he or she recycles. The thought being that if people have information about how to recycle and can see what how much they recycle it will make the get into good habits of recycling.

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It also manages clean transitions when introducing new actors. The passive voice allows you to put the known at the beginning of a sentence and the new information nearer the end. Without the passive, each individual sentence may be objectively more felicitous, but there is a cognitive disconnection between them.

It might even be worth pointing out that the "authoritative basis" for all of this passive prohibition is an unfortunate misreading of Strunk & White. The Elements of Style merely points out some cringeworthy ways to misuse the passive, and suggests that it shouldn't be your go-to voice.
In my simplistic mind, their business model is to spend a lot of money today in order to create a monopoly tomorrow.
There is no such thing as a trustless app, unless you are doing basic mathematical algorithms contained within the same system. Ethereum adds no value to Bitcoin because any useful apps you want to make NEED a centralize source to provide data to it. For example, if I want to make an app that sends coins to someone when bitcoin is at a certain price, I would inherently be relying on the trusted source, that provides the bitcoin price data. Similarly for sport payouts or property contracts, they all rely on the external centralized source for information. The only thing Ethereum can do, is basic operations contingent on values within the same system, otherwise you break the "trustless apps" veil.
> We can't keep consuming power the way we are now.

Sure we can. We _maybe_ need to get better sources for it.
Something like this probably doesn't happen without some things being lost in translation between departments however I think it is entirely plausible that this was done on purpose to create a higher dependency on the service. All it takes is a higher up to say "If we have the song on our service assume every mp3 on the users machine is a cache and you are free to delete it."
It's only Fat city if there's an exit at that valuation. We're talking Theranos style valuations here that can disappear at any time. They better find an exit scenario before the music stops or it's a world of hurt, especially for the later stage investors.
Seems like a pain point that is ripe for improvement.
Google has an office in Portland, and they hire interns, in case you're interested.
Get out of your moral valley, get a better vantage on the moral topology around you. The USA executes people, true, but generally not political opponents. Saudi is an order of magnitude worse than the US government.
Sure there is dilution, but the overall valuation has increased faster. I.e. the share of the pie is smaller but the pie has gotten a lot bigger, so you end up with a bigger piece.
yeah cuz i want to spend half an hour explaining how to send an invite to the CEO who cant connect to his email 5 minutes before a critical meeting....

in other words, teamviewer requires 0 user interaction
Recommendations, algorithmic timelines and so on are indeed a bit of a nuisance.
Similarly, Google Now is annoying me a lot at the moment but I can't use my watch fully without turning it on.
I had the same wonder and through some digging found videojs-contrib-dash[1] which uses dash.js, referenced on the bitmovin site[2]. I'm going to give this a go and see what does and doesn't work.

[1] https://github.com/videojs/videojs-contrib-dash

[2] https://bitmovin.com/mpeg-dash-open-source-player-tools/
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I know one of my clients - that does a lot of web scraping uses a proxy service - I think maybe 30 or so different proxies and breaks up the jobs manually. So if those ever get blocked they would need to go through the code and update to a bunch of new proxy IP addresses.

I would think a slick service that had hundreds or thousands of proxies and a good way to rotate scrappers through the proxies automatically would be of use to them. I have no idea what they pay for their current service.
Then you should totally stop blaming Russians. Who were under undemocratic regime while a part of another entity (USSR).
Let's revise "solid business model" to "solid ability to sell the company's value". A solid business model doesn't require this sort of continuous cash infusion.
It's possible to sell those shares on a secondary market, i.e. seed investors might have already cashed out by now.
I think Jay Maynard said it best: Urbit is "INTERCAL as OS". Alternatively, it's a New Kind of Computing (by analogy with Wolfram's New Kind of Science).

This paper didn't really tell me anything about Urbit that I didn't already know. But it's good to see them have a nice clean readable rationale.
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> is anyone else sort of fatigued with social media trying it's hardest to do it all for you

Yes, because they're not doing it for us, but for themselves, investors and customers (advertisers) fueled by our data.
True, but those are the obvious risks you take as an investor. And late stage investors often negotiate downside protection in the form of liquidation multiples or ratchets.
Job creation does not need to be enclosed in quotes as though it is a magical concept -- it does happen, and we know how to make it happen. The problem in this case was the assumption that throwing money at a problem, without knowing how to accurately deploy it, would magically produce long-lasting jobs.

Just because another government handout/kickback scheme has failed doesn't mean basic income is the right solution.
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The PocketNC is an amazing machine for the price. I still have trouble seeing how they are turning a profit, kudos if they are!!!

But the article worries me. Are we now supposed to be surprised that startups work like actual businesses and understand their costs and work within them? That should be a baseline expectation. If anything, this is what success should look like; not a "we did all the dumb things but won the lottery" story.
What "complaint" are you talking about? The blog is an objective explanation of a CVE along with explicit suggestions to the author and an discussion on how to protect yourself if you're a user.
two wrongs something something.

Moral relativism isn't universally accepted, whether you like it or not.
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Despite the title, the bulk of the talk is 10 (actually 12) tips for managing a career in software development, applicable to software developers of any age.
Great Job, Alessio: well done!
Except in Uber's case where they are famous for keeping tight control on secondary sales.

http://fortune.com/2014/06/20/uber-plays-hardball-with-early...
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People should be starting passive solar companies of some sort left and right. Passive solar design could help people live more comfortably while reining in this trend.

Also: Walk more. As a way to get from point A to point B, not just as exercise separate from the rest of your day.
I logged so many hours in Starcraft and the Halo 1 tech demo back in the 'old' days, not to mention Age of Empires II and Warcraft.

It's a bit disappointing that gaming on the Mac never really took off like on Windows.
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RemoteFX works really good, but it only works on specific hardware iirc
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Firstly it's presumptuous to assume craigvn is from the USA. Secondly, the USA does not execute people for witchcraft or apostasy, the same cannot be said of the Saudis [1].

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