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It gets worse

https://httpoxy.org/#history

March 2001 - The issue is discovered in libwww-perl and fixed. Reported by Randal L. Schwartz.
I dont see this as "disruption", they wisely competed in a space with a huge mark-up on product cost. Something like this wouldnt work on an already lean industry.
That video has to be the most profitable marketing campaign in terms of investment vs. reward. It single-handedly built DSC's initial customer base and its brand. And all while making people laugh.
> Previous examples for example being software that requires Microsoft SQL server to be installed on client machines as the software needs certain dll files that comes with Microsoft SQL server.

I don't think this is true, Microsoft ship all the client-side components of SQL Server as a bunch of MSIs you can pick-and-choose between. Since at least SQL Server 2005 [1].

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=247...
They mean cryptographers who publish openly. As opposed to cryptographers whose work is classified or otherwise concealed from the public.

Not all cryptographers who work in the public sector do so in secret. Not everyone who works in the private sector shares research openly.
It looks like they just put a bunch of the irritating-to-find settings that you always need to change from vanilla to do any real work in one place, rather than scattered across folder settings, registry hacks, group policy and and all the other control panel sections that they were hidden in.
Open the volume mixer and set "System Sounds" to 0?
Not unlike a Hello Kitty rosary (do these exist?), it is a votive item used in a personal household. It will raise a few eyebrows, but won't be decried as sacrilegious.
Or is it a sign of an overheated stock market where traders are looking for positive signs of anything positive and are willing to pile in money to established players who are "adapting" to these new, incredible models of razor distribution.
But it's the same product, albeit a budget version of it.

If the products differ only in quality and price, that's not disruption, that's simple competition.
> adds back such items as Windows 10 deferrals to revenue

What does this mean? Are Microsoft counting people who haven't upgraded as if they have upgraded?
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We already voted on PR and it was terrible, somehow they managed to get the worst possibly version of PR on the ballot and it was voted against; if the Tories retain power I can't see them moving for electoral reform from the top as FPTP is keeping them in a majority.

How do you see the grassroots transitioning the UK voting system for general elections, what power do we have if the MPs don't want it?
They just view the transactions in question as side effects from a bug.

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Ethical dilemma eliminated.</sarcasm>
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Yes, the DAO made a colossal error in shipping unverified code and are now having a bailout because .. they're "too big to fail". This is hilarious, but it's also a true statement about the importance of confidence in financial systems.

(If the DAO had waited the couple of years necessary to produce a provably secure system, they would have been beaten to market by someone less secure who would have been hacked instead. Because people are incredibly keen to throw money at being early adopters of cryptocurrency systems. They're the new dotcom shares.)

I'm also going to predict that a few months after the dust settles on this that another exploit is found in the DAO. What happens then?
The only way it can actually work is as an insulation.
The venturi effect - which requires wind - cools the air in the constriction due to the pressure drop, but it stops being cool once it leaves the constriction.

A simple sun-powered cooler could work in principle, but at a minimum the exhaust air wouldn't go into the house...
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The profound effect of this disruption can already be seen happening on a smaller scale if you observe the marketing space in the recent years. Small brands can now compete without fat advertising dollars. Content marketing is becoming more relevant than ever. I recently got in touch with a small marketing agency which is publishing interviews with athletes for one of their clients, a sports sock manufacturer.

You don't need billboards, flyers or TV ads to drive awareness, you can leverage free and paid marketing channels to build your business without burning loads of cash. Marketing today is less about budgets but more about how you can effectively execute on various parts of digital marketing - social media, content, paid ads and SEO. I can guess it will be a big win for consumers in the upcoming years; not so sure about incumbents.
The list of skills is there to catch automated keyword searches. A simple bullet list is fine.

Right above the list of skills I have a 'Summary of Qualifications' which explains my overall caliber.

> I guess the main point I want to bring across is that I'm an all-round developer who cares about getting things done and uses whatever means are best for the job.

This is what you put in the summary, written for a resume of course, e.g. "Veteran developer with X years of experience using a pragmatic and goal oriented approach to development. Focused on solving problems and shipping software" etc.
One of the linked sites goes deep on some old tests. I couldn't find any recordings of the subwoofer tones they used though. http://staff.washington.edu/dushaw/heard/index.shtml
Mmm...ultimately, Milo Yiannopoulos, Leslie Jones, and everyone else has a choice to use Twitter - the fact that it's one of the largest social outlets doesn't really change that. The ban is an internal matter for Twitter as far as I'm concerned - and legal action stemming from the same issue is independent of that. There are plenty of reasons why there should be individual self-governance for non-public entities; like, for example, would you argue that cheaters in online games should have to be tested against the CFAA as opposed to a small private tribunal? There are things that happen online which are disruptive to the online communities, but not really illegal - I think that the communities should be allowed to self-govern. If you don't like the community rules, you can leave it.

And I do disagree that the transparency that is given in US courts is even useful. The jury process, for example, has nothing to do with justice and all about how easily influenced an individual juror is. It's a horrible component of the US legal system that should have been abolished a long time ago, or at least reformed. Likewise, Judges frequently will cowtow to personal prejudices or outside influences; even if appeals can eventually resolve the issue, this gets back to being able to afford to play, which is not a good system. Even if the legal costs are awarded at the end of the case, there's still the entire time while the case is being processed, lawyers who may not be willing to participate until that time, etc. It's an unacceptable solution in most cases.
SpaceX does the same thing as the Dollar Shave Club: it's making space launches an order of magnitude cheaper.
I have an AI which spends a large portion of time cloning game state. I'd consider proxies to implement ergonomic copy-on-write if they were portable
I often imagine a dystopian future where the only children interred in software engineering are the children of software engineers, because they are the only people who'll have full access to their machines, or use anything other than glorified read only devices like tablets.
Perl 6 has done many good things to Perl 5, yes.

However the name being what it is has hurt Perl 5, and that was the topic being discussed here.
With "Amazon's fulfilment solutions", you're probably thinking along the lines of this: http://www.thechocolatelabapps.com/amazon-fba-va-virtual-ass...

I thought the same when I read AWS in the article.
I can also open the sound control panel and set windows to no sound.

We are discussing about automating changing the default settings of windows. Not of how to change them manually through the UI.
I can think of another application of your/Hanson's idea. It always seemed to me, was that for all the handwringing over bad comment field culture or low quality content, site owners would rather have that than give up a finger of control.

Rather that try to define quality and think about the processes which could bring it about, they have a "I know it when I see it" attitude to quality. They value their personal discretion to promote, bury, editorialize and censor far higher than actually being a high-quality truly open forum.
Linode and other hosts have had online billing since their inception. You could always launch a VPS on linode in seconds. Even shittier hosts like HostGator or Dreamhost never required human contact to launch new servers.

EC2 was game changing for certain reasons but what you mention sbout 'enterprise' was never an issue.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linode
I've been very involved with the carrion crows near my house. I feed them with peanuts. At first they wouldn't even come near the food. Now they salute, ask for food, do fly bys and they get extremely close to me. I have observed them long hours.

What most amazes me is how they communicate. They group and start talking complex things using low volume sounds. Maybe they discuss how to stash my peanuts, or what side they will use to approach me, or who will stay back and watch for dangers.

They also do long distance talking. At the mornings mainly, the group will remain silent while a designated one will song loud. You can hear distant groups responding. Sometimes this long distance chat start group movements to where I can't follow them.

Crow are intelligent, amazing animals. I encourage everyone to look at them more often, they do look at us all the time.
Ravens played a role in norse mythology, serving as "shamanic helping spirits" who scout for the god Odin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huginn_and_Muninn
It's hard to be sure of anything there.
> In a study at the University of Michigan in 2012, visual information expert Sookyung Cho asked subjects “to design a cute rectangle by adjusting the size, proportion, roundness, rotation, and color of the figure”. What she found supported the idea that “smallness, roundness, tiltedness, and lightness of color can serve as determinants of perceived cuteness in artifact design”. It mattered, she found, whether the person designing the rectangle was in the USA or South Korea. Cuteness is nothing if not culturally specific, and that itself has become a rich focus of inquiry.

> [...]

> Teddy bears exist because the night is dark and long and at some point your parents have to go to bed and leave you. There is real comfort in cuteness.

> “Filling in an emotional need is exactly where kawaii plays a significant role,” writes Christine R Yano, a professor of anthropology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the author of Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty’s trek across the Pacific. “Even in America, journalist Nicholas Kristof has written of an ‘empathy gap’ in today’s society,” states Yano. “He points to the place of objects that may be considered promoters of ‘happiness’, ‘solace’, ‘comfort’. When a society needs to heal, it seeks comfort in the familiar. And often the familiar may reside in ‘cute’. Witness the use of teddy bears as sources of comfort for firefighters in the wake of NYC’s 9-11. So I see kawaii things as holding the potential as empathy generators.”

I wonder how these two points tie in to the modern obsession with cats. They seem to fill a real need people have, but speaking as someone who is unaffected by cat-cuteness (which is weird because I generally am very susceptable to cute things) and who is treated as a freak of nature by many, I think there's also a certain aspect of trying to conform to societal expectations.

PS: The Guardian aritcle is a reprint (republish? reshare?) of an article at Mosaic[0], which features a lot more pictures.

[0] http://mosaicscience.com/story/cuteness-japan-kawaii
That was very interesting.

How did you find it by the way?
Well, if you weren't careful and didn't use UAP, proxies can save your bacon. They are also useful for object.observe like functionality. And that's pretty cool.
People dont want to hear about the problem. They just want to see the solution. An elegant presentation would intertwine them because like you said, time is limited. But I think the main problem with the original template you posted is that it us very drill like. Isnt a big part of pitching to feint the fact that youve done it a lot? If the audience or investors suspect you have experience marketing, doesnt that say you are essentially a drawn out desperate marketer? Honestly I dont know much about this I was just originally joking. I think its important to do that template without sounding drilled. But its a good template nonetheless.
This sounds very troubling. I hope it was just a coincidence.
What is SpaceX disrupting, in your view? To me SpaceX is the natural result of NASA's recent plans.
On the contrary, I can think of tons of uses for proxies, from Ruby-style MethodMissing, to object.observe functionality.
Excellent advice. A bit tough to keep everything in one page with this format though.

As an aside, I wish there was a recruiter like Pete, but for Python developers (he focuses on Perl). You should check out his site: https://opensource.careers/
I normally wouldn't add this useless comment, but this made my wife just about wet herself laughing.
Xiaomi aspires to be an Apple knockoff but really will end up being a Muji knockoff. Exporting fast fashion and lifestyle goods will be more profitable than low cost tech.
What is it with "paying to read" is a bad thing? They have to run a business. Perhaps sites should offer the article add free for a small price? We could use a better model for the internet.
I wouldn't say any of those businesses have upended the markets they're in, nor driven 'efficiency' (what's 'efficiency' in terms of dating, anyway?).

From your comment, it seems you'd agree ('incremental improvements').
Out of all the sites you could have mentioned why did you think that (the deb repo for Dropbox's packages) was pertinent to this story?
If someone makes a claim, the onus is on them to provide compelling evidence to justify that claim.

Besides, I have taken a preliminary look; Milo seems to be an outspoken asshole (and thus poisoning the discourse), but not an outright hateful bigot... feel free to provide evidence to the contrary.
I was just illustrating the fact that there are already communities with standards. It is fine for me that some use CoffeeScript or TypeScript. There are much smaller communities in other programming languages, which also work great, so I don't see a benefit in combining them. In the contrary I would say most of the time the bigger the community gets the lower the standard falls.
The issue is that leaving food for the animals alters their behavior and can cause issues. You're probably not the worst offender wherever you are, as there are many people who just give food to animals, but the argument would be that it contributes to the problem.
Cats are furry, murderous assholes

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/cats_actually_kill

http://www.kittycams.uga.edu/index.html
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In general this is my prob with society today. Why do we have to be nice to people? Why do we have to show empathy? Why can we not say hateful things? No violence/assault no harm.
The most entertaining part of cryptocurrency for me has been watching libertarian ideologues gradually re-discovering the reasons for financial regulation.
DSC is a lifestyle marketing company. They're like the businesses that buy on Alibaba to sell on Amazon.

You're thinking of Harrys, they raised money to buy up a German razor factory to do a full stack business.

You're also really thinking about house brands that your local Walmart offers that plenty of people already buy.

Walmart on a subscription model already happens, they get sales upticks every payday or welfare disbursement days.

Amazon's CPG division is also building up heat. Their house brand is swallowing up category after categories from the Alibaba to Amazon guys.
Not ridiculous at all. Ants lay pheromone trails for others to follow; I'd surmise that encountering a dead ant provokes a live one to lay a "danger" trail as it retreats.
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> directly attack other people

?

You think Twitter Legal looked this over and thought "We like the ban against attacking other people based on race but let's throw in an adjective...like, directly, to spice up that sentence"

People have been free to spout on Twitter, including what they thought about breakfast or about what they think about the world including racial politics and theories. There's a difference between saying what's on your mind -- e.g. "Fuck Asia" -- and attacking someone because of their race, e.g. "Someone ought to kick your ass for being Asian"
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Sure I can write functional es6, but now what is going to stop my coworkers from writing Java in JavaScript with es6?

Pretty much the only thing JavaScript had going for it was it's simplicity. Maybe simple is the wrong word, perhaps smallness is better. Sure js packed a ton of wtf into a small language, but once you grokked the weirdness of scoping etc. you were set to understand almost all its code. This is even better if you restricted yourself to the "good parts" ala Douglas Crockford as pretty much all js devs do now. It is a crummy version scheme that you actually get to use in your day job.

Sure arrow functions and "real" classes are objectively better, but I'm afraid of how enterprisey devs are going to react to them. I can foresee Java style coding guidelines being imposed upon es6 that would be very much opposed to functional styles of coding. It is a bit immature, but a lot of the hesitancy for es6 seems to be of this sort of fear that the Java dev culture will feel more at home with es6 and then stop ignoring js possible changing js dev culture in the process.
1) He's not banned for being a conservative, nor writer.
2) They (likely) did not order a cake with writing on it targetting someone. They just wanted a cake for themselves.
IANAL, but I'm assuming the bakery got ruled against on grounds of bias crimes against sexual orientation.

He's not targetted for either being gay or conservative or any other personal trait other than on their service portraying a seemingly vile human being through targetted harassment of other user(s), which they deemed a breach of their ToS.
That's not the same as "posting racist things". None of the example tweets directly attacked an individual on the basis of race.
People police themselves better if they know what is expected behavior and there aren't any gray areas.

Otherwise you have owner arguing with contributor drama trying to explain implied etiquette. Of course unless the transgression was severe the owner is forced to be lenient for fear of appearing overly authoritarian (which would drive away some contributors), but they can't be entirely forgiving because the transgression might drive away some other (or same) people. CoC removes this bargaining.
Can you please not write as if you were unaffiliated with them? Its obvious that nobody would share such a fugly website on its own, especially not with that wall of text.
Isn't this another symptom of infantilization of culture? Similarly to how the most successful movies are about wizards and magical rings.
Not much, but that may be because of an intense dislike of the word; in common usage though I would define disruptive when used in the context of an event taking place in the marketplace as applicable only to situations that cause not just stiff competition to the extent of dislodging an incumbent party, but also a clash with existing laws, regulations, and societal conventions on a significant scale.
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A VERY timely article for me. About a month ago here in Silicon Valley, I noticed that a crow had been violently torn apart and the pieces scattered all over my backyard lawn. I assume the killer was a raccoon--another improbably intelligent animal. How those fat, little ninjas do what they do is beyond me, but one had apparently caught a crow. A few hours after I noticed the carnage, I grabbed a paper grocery bag and some rubber gloves and went outside to collect the crow parts.

As soon as I touched the first piece (a large, black, detached wing), a dozen crows appeared out of nowhere flying in tight circles over my head (about the height of the roof of my 2-story house) and shrieking. They must have been standing watch for hours waiting to see what would happen. Within a minute or so, their numbers had doubled, swarming like bees and screeching. They went so berserk that I thought for sure they would swoop down and peck at me like Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds", but they didn't. They stayed up there and screeched the whole time I was cleaning up (maybe ten minutes).

I took the bag over to the recycling bin on the side of the house. Property is expensive, so the houses are close together leaving only a narrow slit of sky above me. The crows followed me and flew back and forth right above the gap, still screeching at me. I hadn't killed the bird, but they were acting like an angry mob blaming the wrong guy.

I was already aware of the studies showing that crows recognize individual people and can bear grudges for years. I was afraid that's what I was going to end up with, but after that event, they never bothered me again, and I see crows around my house frequently. Maybe they DID know that I wasn't the killer, but they had some other agenda. From my perspective, they (and raccoons) are essentially alien intelligences living among us that I always underestimate and still don't understand.
Most people would just use X or VNC today, but I agree having more graphic integration reliably available in the shell is interesting.

Apart from various experimental support for new mechanisms in various terminal apps, there are two old formats that is supported reasonably widely: ReGIS [1] and Sixel [2]

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel
I suppose the idea is that it leads to a full system compromise, which would include either direct access to items like wifi passwords or access to the system as you are inputting the passwords.