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I don't understand Oracle hate. Yep, they're all about making money, but at the end of the day, that's what most businesses are doing, and the ones who say otherwise are bullshitting you with crap their marketing department made up. Only in start-up bizarro world can a company give away free products and have negative or zero profit margin and be considered "succeeding".

It makes no sense to me to hear people working at for-profit companies complaining that other companies only exist to make money. It's inconsistent, at the very least.

Open source is great, volunteering is great, sharing and giving stuff away is great, etc., but businesses and corporations only exist to make money for the people who own them and work for them.
> Now try to share that program with your Windows- or Linux-using friends.

There is always the Qt5 option, although I'd be curious to see how much overhead (latency, battery consumption, etc) Qt brings over a program built directly in Cocoa.
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A federal agency constructively coordinating with multiple state agencies...I believe that's considered an emerging paradigm shift.

EDIT: To be sure, Honda isn't the only major vehicle manufacturer involved [1]. Observing that this isn't an explicit state issue and someone's got to foot the bill, this would almost certainly require some federal agency (e.g. NHTSA) compelling applicable states to act, a bureaucratic process that never goes smoothly in practice.

[1] http://www.airbagrecall.com/home/
I started this course to learn the maths, technical terms, approaches and 'philosophy' of machine learning. I'd highly recommend it even with the stats knowledge you have, you'll still get a lot out of it. I wanted to be able to understand articles about deep learning and this course allowed me to do that.

I recommend watching the videos at a higher speed at least, and you can skip ahead if you are not doing the course to get a validated grade, although I suggest working through the whole choose.
45.8M people live in modern forms of slavery around the world
I think camouflage and decoys are useful analogies.

I run ssh on non-standard ports. Not because I think it makes me any more secure, but because it allows me to either ignore all the automated scans/connections to port 22 altogether, or to proactively blackhole any ip address who attempts to connect to a decoy port 22...

It doesn't mean I don't continue to need to do all the things I need to keep ssh secure as well - keep my sshd updated, disable password auth, shut down root connections, etc...
Flow Batteries[1]!

They work (as in: are being used in Africa & South America to power mobile networks). Also my (office) building is powered by one.

They don't cost much more than lead-acid

They last much, much longer than lead-acid or lithium*

There is no limit to the number of power cycles(!!) and they can be deep-discharged.

They do have disadvantages - they aren't suitable for cars, and are currently fairly noisy when cycling, and have lower power density than lithium* batteries. They also need to be periodically complete discharged (although most have software to make sure each individual cell does this as part of the normal use)

Disclaimer: An investor in Redflow owns my building (hence the power source)[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_battery

[2] http://redflow.com/
I work in a code base that's 5 million lines of code. It happens.

That aside, it's very useful for launching features. I have used this practice at Expedia and works well.
Separate thought, if you were to replace your lungs with a machine that oxygenated your blood, could you calmly sit without breathing? Is the anxiety/impulse to breathe do to a lack of oxygen?
Even if it is, I assume everything that comes with knowing you don't have a heart is too much of a factor for this to be measured/evaluated.
Seriously? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_America,_Inc._v._Google....

Shall I go on?
I really like this because by default it gives all of the http headers and makes everything look really nice. Curl still has its place, and I wouldn't dream of replacing it, but I would definitely use this as a sort of command line shortcut. Cool project.
How is this showing python better than go?
How did 0 become yes and X become no on buttons?
Keypads on point of sale devices recently switched over to new markings - 0 means yes, and X means no. How did this happen? Who standardized that?

One language-learning site suggests that this is a Japanese convention.[1]

[1] http://lang-8.com/269938/journals/170968434868620680211233240229157144229
There's no need to reconcile those sentiments. I respect and admire US achievements in technology (and music, cinema, etc), even though the US government has done and does a lot of disgusting things to non-US citizens. There's no contradiction.

Also, consider what policies your fellow citizens might support if your country was surrounded by hostile neighbours. I mean, 40% of the American public supports the "Mexico Wall", even though Mexico is an important trade partner and poses no military threat to the US. Imagine if Mexico and Canada were to declare their intent to destroy the US...

(not assuming you are American, above is just an example)
One way to get started, try a lunch-and-learn virtually. One person talks/teaches, the others eat. Later, that person may eat and someone else talks. Round robin. Simple, frictionless.

The closest analogue to coworking online that I can think of is building your own community. At the most extreme end, Problogger, Zen Habits, or the Art of Noncomformity. At the lower end, smaller niche communities (e.g. knitting, parents who travel with their school-age kids to foreign countries).

As a purely anecdotal counterpoint, if you have a distributed team focused on solving one of the hardest problems in technology, state-of-the-art video conferencing technology can erase distance and barriers.

> EACH MORNING, WHEN Andrew Fikes sat down at his desk inside Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, he turned on the “VC” link to New York.

VC is Google shorthand for video conference. Looking up at the screen on his desk, Fikes could see Wilson Hsieh sitting inside a Google office in Manhattan, and Hsieh could see him. They also ran VC links to a Google office in Kirkland, Washington, near Seattle. Their engineering team spanned three offices in three different parts of the country, but everyone could still chat and brainstorm and troubleshoot without a moment’s delay, and this is how Google built Spanner.

“You walk into our cubes, and we’ve got VC on — all the time,” says Fikes, who joined Google in 2001 and now ranks among the company’s distinguished software engineers. “We’ve been doing this for years. It lowers all the barriers to communication that you typically have.”

http://www.wired.com/2012/11/google-spanner-time/
It only got a lot more equal because WW1, the Depression, and WW2 combined destroyed most of the stuff the rich people had.

Don't forget 92% marginal tax rates on income over $1 million/year.

That was slashed to 72% under JFK. But regional inequality only took took off after it was slashed to 50% then to 28% by Reagan.

Today the rich have lower tax rates than average Americans.
NodeJS + MongoDB is this generation's Laurel and Hardy stack ("look at this mess you got me into"). Last generation's was PHP + MySQL.
The fact that these cancers go undetected until it's too late at present is evidence enough that GPs are not adequate for this purpose.
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Sadly, not so much in tech. In medicine, yes, very much so. But in 15 or so years of tech career in Tel Aviv I only got to work with or interview (or even receive job applications from) a handful of Arab engineers.
A startup which I have helped architect back end uses mongodb for everything. before starting the project I have requested the CTO not to use mongo as it was not a right fit.Basically they needed more of a relational stuff.The CTO chose mongo because he was thinking every startup uses it and why not us. Now they are suffering as they need ACID and relational features. They want to rewrite to postgres but they are heavily invested and not easy to go back.
I dislike Oracle because their products (at least the ones I've used) are horrible to use, and insanely expensive.

Edit: I'm talking about the Oracle database products, not Java, the stuff they acquired with Sun, etc.
It's from buildup of co2. You would need to scrub that.
It is easy to feel oppressed in software development. I don't mean to say that people in software development are oppressed, just that it's easy to feel that way. One of the goals of software development is to create a product that people don't notice or think about (something intuitive). I have found that it is common for developers to feel that their work goes unnoticed at times.

That being said, I would recommend three things:

1) Try to focus a little less on whether or not you've been treated as fairly as possible and look for ways you can improve things for everyone in the company. If you leave, someone else is going to have to deal with the same crap. Is there a way you can make it better?

2) Talk to higher management. Try to be objective and avoid blaming. Just identify things in the process that are causing you to feel unappreciated and ineffective. Could they involve you in more planning meetings? Could you start holding trainings to share knowledge among other developers?

3) Remember that you don't owe the company anything. You should absolutely be professional in all your dealings, but a job is a means to an end. If you aren't getting the pay, recognition, or satisfaction you're looking for, just look for another job. Companies live and die. Employees come and go. Don't get too emotionally tied to it.
I used to live in Menlo Park, about a mile from downtown Palo Alto. In the 1980s, I heard automatic weapons fire most weekends from the Whiskey Gulch area of East Palo Alto, the tiny bit of East Palo Alto on the west side of 101. People were complaining at city council meetings of finding bullets on their roof.

This was eventually solved by evicting all the black people, leveling the entire area, and putting in a Four Seasons hotel and several office buildings full of lawyers and doctors.

The modest house I lived in is now valued at $2.9 million.
That's completely fair, but the parent poster commented about Oracle trying to make money and linked to a 5 minute rant about it.
It's due to the buildup of carbon dioxide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respiratory_center
Curiously, what are your views on things like the Alexia integration [1]?

[1] http://www.americanbanker.com/news/bank-technology/why-banks...
It's not means testing that's the problem. The problem is that a linear combination of benefit programs with a below-unity benefit-to-income slope has an above-unity slope, which means that making an additional dollar disqualifies you from more money than the dollar gives you. The benefit programs as a whole aren't designed holistically to avoid this (and other) traps, so any welfare overhaul that consolidates multiple independent programs into a systematic whole should solve these problems.
B2B Companies That Are Getting the On-Demand Model Right
This tool pops up every few months, not sure why anyone would use it over curl
It's been 25 years, forgive the poor soul.
Not really, it captures not video image, but data sent to Quartz. When you play it back, it plays perfectly.
> cases in which the state can initiate a cancellation of citizenship of an Israeli citizen

That is not the same thing as "you immediately lose your citizenship". Does this actually happen frequently?
I use this Firefox addon. It destroys cookies set by a tab when you close it, by default. You can turn it off selectively per-website, so it's easy to stay logged in when you want to be.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destruct...

BetterPrivacy completely destroys Flash localstorage on close, which is important because SDC doesn't get them.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/betterprivacy...
Coral graveyard: aftermath of bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef – in pictures
We should get the word out that jaundice is a serious medical condition? I'm pretty sure that work has been done. "If your eyes turn yellow, you need to see a doctor" is an easy sell for anyone.
That's not a "fivefold improvement". A fivefold improvement is 400% more.
I'm not sure how that changes anything I said.

FWIW, Google does it too: https://www.scribd.com/doc/40513712/Google-v-US-Complaint

And I understand, the cases are not the same at all, but it highlights that Oracle is hardly the only tech company who will take to the courts to help themselves make money.
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The problem here isn't asserting that businesses and corporations exist to make money.

It's asserting that they only exist to make money. Or that that is in any way natural.

For a company to focus entirely on making money when they don't have enough money to operate is, let's say, understandable. But since companies are run by humans, and humans are quite adept at balancing different goals at the same time, it's not at all beyond reason to expect a company that is making money hand over fist to also focus on more than just that. It's not at all bad to judge them if they choose not to do that, nor to consider them worse than other companies that both make money hand over fist and choose to focus on more than just making more money.

It is in no way inconsistent to work at a for-profit company and complain that another company only exists to make money. Even if you are the chief executive of a for-profit company that both makes money and has additional goals beyond that, you aren't being inconsistent. But if you aren't the chief executive? If you are an employee whose day-to-day job actually isn't directly to make money, even if it is, somewhere above you, being guided by that goal? That doesn't even come close to inconsistent, IMO.

Most businesses are making money. That's not the same as being all about making money. Confusing the two is a really good way to discount the companies who manage perfectly well to make money without losing their souls to that goal[1].

[1] - I'm not really saying Oracle is one of these companies; I've never worked for them or interacted with them (though I've heard plenty of tales). I'm taking issue with the broader statement, because I think it's a fundamentally problematic lens to view the world through.
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Was that 92% ever an effective rate of consequence? What kind of receipts did the treasury capture? Not that I'd be against that for the 2016 equiv in USD.
Fremont isn't the only town/city in SV and not all school districts in SV are crooked. Also, you didn't really address one of the big concerns the parent commented pointed out, that is new dwellings would be a DoS on current infrastructure for most places. It's not like you can get that infrastructure in time for it.
Threat MODEL. Real life is different from models. He just shared a real life experience that defied your model.

Also your advice to put spiped in front of SSH is awful. Now you need to manage two keys, instead of just one. Sometimes you sound like a cperciva shill.
That is the point
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> When faced with a hard change, first make it easy (warning, this may be hard), then make the easy change.

This is my favorite bit. Katrina Owen mentions this in her talk on refactoring. "Make the change easy; then make the easy change."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59YClXmkCVM
Am I the only one in the world that liked CORBA? I used ACE and TAO back in the day, and built multicast discovery mechanism to decentralize the ORB.

Then the SOAP shitshow came to town, and now REST which is the rockstar, but people want better defined endpoints (RAML), um IDL was there in CORBA.

REST is definitely easier to use than CORBA was, but it's much more limited, and it always feels like we're just reinventing the wheel. And yes, REST is better for web APIs, but it's always felt lacking after using CORBA.
Are people using React starter kits? The major issue I'd see with React at hackathons is the large amount of configuration you typically need to do before you get started. I dislike starter kits due to the additional complexity overhead, but I can imagine for a throwaway project they'd be fine.
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This is my biggest gripe with Go as well.

Though initially the diligent programmer will check each and every call with if err != nil {}, there comes a time when laziness kicks in. When that time comes, you'll get hit with unexpected behavior (aka: tracking down nil references).

You might argue the same would happen with exceptions. Yes, they will blow up in your face as well if you fail to catch them. But when they do, you'll hopefully have a well specified restriction that enables to you pinpoint the issue almost immediately.

Basically, with exceptions you know the guy who shot you in the gut because you were being lazy, whereas with Go's error system he's hiding behind the bushes with a dozen or so of his conspirators.
The FB group is an MVP.

If a bunch of people pissed off at the loss of Uber/Lyft can cobble together a half-assed replacement, what is stopping Facebook from making a baked product?
I don't quite follow. The system is: write down what's happening that day (todos, events, meeting notes), and then if it's something you want to reference later, add it to the index? That's it?
It literally returns wrong answers for queries. I can't believe anyone this thread is defending it.
The real problem with Mongo is that it's so enjoyable to start a project with that it's easy to look for ways to continue using it even when Mongo's problems start surfacing. I'll never forget how many problems my team ended up facing with Mongo. Missing inserts, slow queries with only a few hundred records, document size limits. All while Mongo was paraded as web scale in talks.
Judging by some recent statements by Jamie Dimon and others, the banks would much rather provide this information via secure APIs than allow screen scraping to continue.
In particular, in an environment that has insufficient oxygen in the air but that doesn't have carbon dioxide, you don't feel a desperate need to breathe; you just pass out and die.
Even if you diagnose the problem it doesn't help with the symptoms. Infrastructure (i.e. transit, public institutions, etc) will not be able to support it in the short-term.
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And how does this add anything to the discussion that hasn't been said 9000 times?
I didn't RTFA, did it happen to quote total recorded deployments of these bags vs noteworthy injury vs death?
I know someone who was hit head on. The airbag deployed, but she also had a bruise on her shoulder from the seatbelt. I think they work well together. I advocate both.

I think part of the confusion might be in the US at least airbags are part of the "passive protection" which is designed to protect you if you do nothing (before airbags where afordable there were all manner of pretty bad automatic shoulder belts for cars provided the mandated protection.)

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=automatic+seatbelts
> They try most fringe/new technology, ...

I would have thought that in area like IT where everything gets reinvented every decade (or less) a master programmer wouldn't have to look at the details to assess a "new" technology.
I've also found though that these languages attract primadonnas who care more about "attractive" code and getting to play with cutting edge technology that might not be ready for prime time yet than they care about providing business value.

Edit: fixing typo. Pay -> play
I think you are overanalyzing the post that used the word "normal". I think he/she was talking colloquially and didn't mean to imply that political talk is abnormal.
I agreed with you at first but reading through Urbit's docs and the vox article linked in thread clarified the relationship between the system design and the author's political ideology.
Many of the design choices did not make sense to me until I understood that the author basically leads a thought current around a return to aristocracy.

With that, there does seem to be some reason to avoid the software simply because it may be designed to produce a particular political outcome.

https://urbit.org/posts/address-space/
http://www.vox.com/2016/4/18/11434098/alt-right-explained
Certainly not CBA, but allegedly Westpac and NAB both allow "view only" access for third parties. (I cannot confirm this, but have seen it mentioned on the CBA's uservoice request for this feature[1])

[1] https://community.commbank.com.au/t5/NetBank/How-to-set-up-a...
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If this had been made an interface to libcurl, or added to a separate tool in the curl distribution, most of the novel functionality could have been adopted 3 years ago without the need to support a separate project and HTTP library.
The author (Ubersmekel of the eponymous Uberpython Pythonblog) dislikes that errors are passed as return values from functions, rather than percolated and caught/handled as exceptions. He or she feels that it is verbose and encourages the missing of maybe-important errors. The author also feels that panic and recover are ill-applied, at least in the standard library. These perceived shortcomings are sufficient not to leave their current language (likely Python, given the blog title).
> 2) ROI isn't the most important thing about a home.

This is what someone replied earlier. For some ROI is the most important thing. For someone who lives in the suburbs I can say that for me it isn't the most important thing.
this is awesome. do you think you or anyone you worked with might be affected by that terrible anti-BDS law Cuomo passed (if you were in its jurisdiction?)
The other thing to consider is that obscurity makes threat detection easier. If your sshd_config is set up for some random port and you get 18K attempts, then it's pretty clear that someone is interested in your server. If you're running it on port 22, then a slew of login attempts could be difficult to disambiguate from regular portscanning weather.
Astronauts have entered an inflatable habitat on the ISS for the first time
How many organs can you do this for? Heart, lungs, kidneys at least.
'Brain-in-a-jar' seems like the most achievable form of immortality at the moment.
Google Patents link: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160140436A1/en
Upvote for use of the word "cromulent."
There is wisdom behind these bullet points. This wisdom could be better communicated through a series of fleshed-out articles with real life examples.

Otherwise, these points are difficult to contextualize, retain, and apply.
The main problem is the way Apple is organized. It's what people have called a “unitary organizational form”.[1]

Which means there isn't a group whose full time job it is to concern themselves with the Mac Pro, or concern themselves with the Macbook Pro, etc.

When it's not someone's job to worry about a product, then it becomes everybody's job, which in reality means it's nobody's job. Unless and until top management deigns to allow people to work on that specific product.

This seems totally fucked up to me, but Apple has achieved $227 billion in yearly revenue, so it's "working" for them. To the aggravation of many outside observers.

[1] https://stratechery.com/2016/apples-organizational-crossroad...