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The article isn't about objective criticism, it's about subjective opinion. Usually by a person with less experience, e.g. when a manager suggests a color change to a designer.
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>Maybe people put out a 1.0 units of effort when you're just a reasonable person, but put out e.g. 1.1 units when you baby them, and so babying them is a "win" in some sense?

I'd contend that any worker that you have to "baby" in a business environment to get their best effort is a worker you are better off without.
Does this apply to google bots and other spiders/crawlers?
I work in finance.

Our systems are as shitty as any other industry, security problems are there, and social engineering is a problem. However, there is one simple rule which allows us to worry less about possible hacks, and when this rule is broken for some reason, shit usually hits the fan (like in the case of Bangladesh heist).

The rule is: it always should be possible to manually reverse the transaction.

Ethereum got it right. Welcome to the real finance.
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I've tried using RetroPie with the PS3 controller over bluetooth and it works.....50% of the time. The problem is that when it doesn't, there's literally nothing you can do, you have to log in through ssh and restart the Pi, and it's incredibly frustrating.
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There's probably some overlap with the different search strategies that can be applied to logic languages and Prolog-like systems. Further heuristics can limit the search space. Now we have programs that write programs!
Or, to put what you just said another way: when evaluating advice, you should assume it's going to be interpreted by incompetents. Competent people filter advice they hear through their learned intuition, which turns most advice, good or bad, into good advice. Incompetent people, meanwhile, will at best apply your advice exactly as written. The only real point in advice, then, is helping incompetent people.
Based on the description, it sounds like you need to press the button to turn on the microphone. As opposed to the Echo which, as I understand it, is always listening.
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The physical space analogies in the comments seem reasonable:

"If I am given a formal trespass warning by Wal-Mart which covers the property of Wal-Mart, going back is a criminal offense. Going into the store is an offense. Driving in the parking lot, if it is owned by them is an offense. The different norms of public spaces vs private spaces vs semi-public space goes out the window when you have been formally trespassed from a place. I don't see why the exact same rules shouldn't be applied in the context of computer trespass."

It doesn't quite feel right and my intuition says that the same rules should NOT be applied in the context of a computer trespass, but I haven't yet thought of a satisfying counterargument.
Reminds me of the designers pricelist.

http://www.creativebloq.com/career/graphic-designers-price-l...
And yet they went to him to do it, and he got it done.

Ya know, I'm gonna go with the guy who is successfully doing this stuff vs the guy who says he's doing it wrong.
It's a good example. Sometimes bosses will go even further than that and suggest changes that the employee feels are wrong. Then they argue about it. Then the boss says "I feel I'm right, and I hope I can convince you that this is the right decision, but you need to make the change now". That's the point where the employee feels like his input is worth nothing because he can't do anything against the boss's opinion and arguing was useless.

This is why a trivial example like this crystallizes the exact point: it's not worth micromanaging employees over some changes that are not that important.
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Clicked around looking for such a feature, it was not apparent to me. Now that you pointed it out, I'll do it next time. I'd recommend making the "vouch" appear directly on the comment.
I don't know if you need arbitration, there, so much as a willingness to allow each party to "pull in" others to help make their point. Like expert witnesses in a trial, but just for the sake of convincing.
Yeah I remember these types of offline browsers that were popular back in the day - data usage is still a big concern for some people (pre web 2.0 websites were easier to download. A shotgun approach using something like ScraPy or via wget/curl as mentioned isn't all that useful)

Since modern websites are very heavy on javascript, high res images, media, ads, comment sections, nav menus, etc - I think you just crawl portions of websites, cache the relevant data and keep a link to the original source. Instead of trying to crawl every obscure blog, I would focus on crawling the big/information dense sites really well. Many of them, like wikimedia sites, have complete data dumps available.

If you systematically ignore all the garbage on the web and distill a version that is mostly valuable knowledge, there's some interesting possibilities. I have read a few times that most people browse the same,predictable subsets of websites anyway. Most of the important sites we log into provide APIs to access them. In general I'd prefer not to connect via web browser or cell phone app constantly.
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It's 49% allowed foreign ownership for virtually all companies (apart from ones sponsored by the Bord Of Investment of Thailand). Land ownership for foreigners is not allowed.

The land ownership is creating big problems for expats trying to build a future there as they either try to circumvent the law by holding the land in a companies name (which they are not really allowed to control) or in their wifes/girlfriends name which tends to end badly in many cases.

Thailands court system is also not exactly stellar and tends to side with Thais.

Combine that with visa troubles (even if you should be so lucky to get permanent residency, you'll still need a work permit to do any work even voluntary for free, what the?) and you can see that it's tough for foreigners to invest in Thailand and to put roots down and build a future.

If they didn't have the BOI, Thailand would likely have no economy to speak of as none of the bigger companies would have set up their factories there.

Similar (and arguably even bigger) issues are to be found in virtually all countries in south east asia apart from Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan.
Once you are there, it is usually an open playground. These systems, however, are usually not on open networks and only pre-whitelisted connections are allowed.
Al-Jazeera English also has good coverage of Africa and other places in Asia, that popular international outlets give less attention to.
The court seems to have it right, while the article author doesn't see the court's reasoning. The issue is whether accessing a web site after being sent a cease and desist letter telling you to stop is an act for which the accessor can be assessed damages. (Despite the title, this was a civil case, not a criminal case.)

A previous case established that accessing a web site in violation of its terms of use is not a offense under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. That's just a contractual issue.

Here, though, the site operator (Facebook) explicitly sent a cease and desist letter to the accessing service, telling them to stop doing what they were doing (which apparently involved some kind of message sending on behalf of Facebook users). That put the accessing service on notice that they were accessing the site without authorization. After that, access was considered unauthorized. Seems reasonable enough.
"The chief aim of their constitution and government is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time and energy from the service of the body, and devote themselves to the freedom and culture of the mind. For that, they think, is the real happiness of life."
That's not true. You could probably get better output out of most employees if you baby them just right. Who doesn't like a boss that lets them do whatever as long as it's beneficial to the company?
Not necessarily. At least on Android, it is rather simple to just use Xposed Framework to basically "mock syscalls".
It's trivial to emulate old versions of z/OS, have a look at Hercules -

http://www.hercules-390.org/

Not sure about OS/400 (IBM i) emulation, but you can get accounts to play with it seems -

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3487895/as400-emulator-or...
Check my response above, feedback appreciated. downloading entire websites via wget isn't what I was getting at although that type of tech is certainly something that would be integrated into the hypothetical system.

What I am thinking of would really go beyond what you could achieve with wget. No doubt offline browsing and personal crawlers have been around for a while. Think of a 10TB+ tivo-like device that comes pre loaded with everything from wikipedia to musicBrainz. People would't need to figure out what to download, it would already be there, and they could augment it with anything.

Just a thought - I am going to keep looking into it and will create a public repo for it if it makes sense.
"why not be willing to just bomb, or nuke? It's not like cities won't burn either way, and nukes (as you and others have stated) would do more damage"

So, if you want to conquer, not destroy, this seems the perfect weapon? Even better than a neutron bomb?
Do you know if there have been any mendelian randomization studies looking at alcohol and suicidality?
1) Physical trespass notifications are not readily generated automatically, with criminal weight of enforcement. While this particular case is intentionally served, the precedent is awful for the automated case.

2) It's next to impossible not to "visit" a site like Facebook, considering links and buttons pervasively inserted to other sites, causing your machine to "visit" Facebook. In real life, "visiting" a place is usually a quite obviously intentional act.
To intentionally access a computer system after being told not to by its owner is, by definition, unauthorized access of a computer system - the core of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. That should be pretty clear.

However, the law in question is old and probably doesn't make much sense any more. Claiming that the courts made the wrong decision is nonsense - the law needs to be rewritten.
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It would if you sent Google a cease and desist notice. But Google seems to obey "robots.txt", so you usually don't have to.
As somebody who is working himself up the food chain and has a tendency to give his two cents, this is some real food for though. Thanks for sharing!
The point was though that if your 2 cents' worth isn't constructive, if it's not the difference that could "make the project as good as it can be", you shouldn't give it.
The economic and societal forces that require having a job will not, on their own, magically change over upon the arrival of better robots. Without those changes, all you've done is taken away somebody's source of income.
He is aware but according to the alpha document it says 100Pa, which does seem insanely low. All his points seem like very valid concerns, and certainly points that should have had answers before vast sums of money where pumped into the project.
It sounds like the same reasoning could not be applied if it was client side javascript (or an app) that interacted with Facebook and then sent information back to Power Ventures. I could ask my friends to go inside a Wal-Mart and send me pictures of it even if I were given a formal trespass warning.
So if I understand the author, const function arguments can just have const-ness cast away inside the function, so it's really much closer to a type hint than anything else. However, if a variable is declared const, casting away const-ness is undefined. Is this about right? Yikes that's complex. I suppose the moral is casting away const-ness is a terrible idea.
One of the subtler distinctions between C and D is D does allow this optimization. This occasionally engenders debate about which is better.
Adjusted for inflation that's about $8.25 billion
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First prize is $25,000 USD. Doesn't seem worth it given that it appears one must upload their code, eg: https://github.com/amazon-picking-challenge

In comparison, Netflix gave away $1,000,000 for a better recommendation algorithm.
In terms of design, everything is an opinion. You can't prove one design is better than the other... unless you ask for multiple people's opinion. It boils down to opinion in the end.
I use fceux on my raspi model b, and it works flawlessly.
The funny thing is that penal code, judicial and government structure still haven't diverged that much between the two countries.
Founder of REX here, and surprised to see this posted here. Happy to answer any questions, and you can check my comment history for some of my prior posts on REX.

We've had some really great progress that we hope to share in the near future, so stay tuned.

EDIT: Since this article is over a year old, we have made a lot of progress, and have recently taped out our first chip. We haven't officially posted a job opening, but we are very shortly going to be looking for software engineers that would love to work on our architecture. Feel free to shoot me an email if you're interested!
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Wow, what a bad example. That is called constructive criticism and is a very valuable tool in a company's toolbox of culture.

What I observed to be actually harmful is criticism of how an employee works: Tools, practices and habits. If your boss tells you that the build tool of your choice sucks without naming a better alternative or any constructive advice, that feels really bad and destroys motivation for the job.
I'm not convinced that the article is entirely on point with the reading of the case. From the summary, Power Ventures, Inc (Powers) wasn't just visiting Facebook, they were interacting and removing userdata via a method that was not through the Facebook Connect program at the time:

>"Facebook has tried to limit and control access to its website. A non-Facebook user generally may not use the website to send messages, post photographs, or otherwise contact Facebook users through their profiles. Instead, Facebook requires third-party developers or websites that wish to contact its users through its site to enroll in a program called Facebook Connect."

[...]

>"In many instances, Power caused a message to be transmitted to the user’s friends within the Facebook system. In other instances, depending on a Facebook user’s settings, Facebook generated an e-mail message. If, for example, a Power user shared the promotion through an event, Facebook generated an e-mail message to an external e-mail account
from the user to friends. The e-mail message gave the name and time of the event, listed Power as the host, and stated that the Power user was inviting the recipient to this event. The external e-mails were form e-mails, generated each time that
a Facebook user invited others to an event. The “from” line in the e-mail stated that the message came from Facebook; the body was signed, “The Facebook Team.”

>"On December 1, 2008, Facebook first became aware of Power’s promotional campaign and, on that same date, Facebook sent a “cease and desist” letter to Power instructing Power to terminate its activities. Facebook tried to get Power to sign its Developer Terms of Use Agreement and enroll in Facebook Connect; Power resisted. " [1]

It's not made clear from the summary exactly what technical means Powers was using, but it seems like they were using functionality intended to be only available to developers via the Connect program and through access of the API through some other means.

That is, the access that is being described by the judge isn't just visiting a page, it's doing things like sending messages or photos or creating events as the user.

I don't really use Facebook and most definitely have not read the ToS for either developers or users, but it seems to me like the contention is that Powers was performing actions that should have been done through the Facebook Connect platform, not via the links they made on their page to have users post, and the users likely are not permitted within the TOS to grant someone developer access like this.

I'm not able to comment intelligently on how that should be handled, but I think that this is very different from the author's position of "it is a crime to visit a website you're not told to". Powers was very clearly not just visiting, they were interacting with data and exfiltraing data. Facebook said "as a dev, you need to access this data this way", Facebook blocked their method, and Powers circumvented these blocks. That is the contention, not that Powers "visited".

The rest I will leave for more intelligent people to argue.

[1] - https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2016/07/12/1...
I use wordpress for my blog. Its mostly technical note taking

I looked at moving to jekyll recently since it was getting a lot of press. But felt it was too much work(I would rather work on other things), and wordpress was easier to use and has plugins. I expect people use medium for the same reason
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Satellite imagery is also an illusion then.
I have been test driving cloudron.io for self-hosting. I haven't moved all my stuff there yet but it was very easy and convenient to start out.
Reminds me of an area historically known for its sword makers where I met people stockpiling swords in preparation for the coming doomsday. Apparently, there is a belief among religious locals that before the actual end of the world, God is going to stop all the modern machinery (including guns) effectively throwing everyone back indo the middle ages. Silly thing, but it keeps local blacksmiths at work allowing to continue old traditions for what it's worth.
You're implying that no employer-employee or supervisor-supervised relationship can be such that suggestions from the former to the latter can be just that: suggestions.

This empirically isn't true, as I am one counterexample (as the employee).
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Let me help.

Why is this practice reasonable on the physical space? Because being physically in a place is usually the first step to commit any damage, to harass people, to steal things. Barring blacklisted people from a place is the easiest way to prevent some problems. (Disclaimer: I am not saying that this practice is acceptable, merely that it is why it is accepted).

If someone threw a tantrum in your place or if someone was caught trying to steal stuff, preventing them from being physically present is much easier than having someone check their every action once they are in.

And this tells us why the comparison with the online world does not hold directly. Accessing a website is not like accessing a place physically. And misbehavior is easier to spot online where any unauthorized access can easily trigger a warning.

However, the current case breaks the metaphor of websites being like physical space: Facebook argues it instead provides a service that Power have abused (by breaking Facebook's EULA) and it then required that Power stopped this abuse. What is attacked there is basically a EULA violation after a cease and desist letter. It is far less about trespassing and accessing website than the author makes it sound like.
> The different norms of public spaces vs private spaces vs semi-public space goes out the window when you have been formally trespassed from a place.

Being formally trespassed hinges on it being a private space. If it's a public space, then they can't make you leave.

The analogy might be a walmart stall in a downtown square. Private server, public space.

I don't know if that's the best way to handle things, but it's workable.
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> Additionally, just because a title isn't easily available for purchase, or available through your desired channels, that doesn't magically invalidate copyright.

I think most people understand that legal/illegal is only loosely correlated with right/wrong.
> I think your subtle focus on the semantics of the reply highlight a common block to agile feedback loops, small batches and generally getting things done. The primary point IMO is "don't squash ownership" because the cost of doing so is often not fully realised.

^^^ Here's your comment without the pointless condescending remarks. Notice the difference?