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Even if, you leave the original in a pristine state, the fact that multiple copies are available and can be used (for good or nefarious purpose), dilutes or erodes the value of the original.

And this is true for both digital content or something as intangible as an identity.

So I am not really convinced by the simple argument that since the original still exists untouched, everything is fine. Yes, this is surely convenient and better for the original author/owner/creator, but not enough to say nothing harmful happened.
Also, what's the difference to dokku or deis?
15 years ago I may have said something similar.

I'm going to try to shed a little light on how chronic pain and disability is a bit different than acute.

I've lived with chronic pain for over 10 years. As a registered person with disabilities, college resources helped me get by - but these did not exist in the real world for someone like me.

It prevented me from working in my field of study and preference and severely limited my freedom and willingness to take risks. I encouraged friends and peers to chase my dreams; they have succeeded where I could not.

On the spectrum of pain and disability I'm relatively lucky. My condition cannot kill me. At worst, it can only prevent me from doing what I want and deny my dreams. I have managed, and am somewhere in the top 20%. My old friends are in the top 5%. I burn my life doing irrelevant work because my employer has a good benefits package that has my back if I take a turn for the worse.

Now, with age, my body and mind is starting to deteriorate, and with it the dream of figuring a way to truly overcome my challenges rather than just get by.

I have it pretty good.

Anyway, I'm off to an experimental treatment where they'll stab me 20-30 times with a needle. Unfortunately my condition causes hypersensitivity. Acute pain doesn't really matter though. They claim to have improvement in 70% of patients but the published, controlled, literature is less encouraging. This is the best outlook and most hope I've had in years.

Maybe if I keep calm, remain positive, and make myself more susceptible to placebo I can get my life back. Or maybe I'll just be one of the lucky ones.
We're fans of Invision + elements of material design. Some inspiration there for sure.
I believe it, this reminds me of this rapper called Benefit that got popular using Napster:

'Benefit is up there with MF Doom when it comes to being mysterious. He popped onto the scene in the early 2000's when Napster first blew up, when (by a longshot) he won a rap contest out of over 1000 MC's put on by Napster. This made him the first MC to truly use the internet to blow up (seems like forever ago, huh?). He never really put an album together, just happened to make enough tracks out of his $18 setup to release 2002's Benefit, which is filled with too many dope tracks. ' [0]

I can see how even without the help of a contest, indie artists could use sharring platforms to get traction.

[0] http://djbooth.net/news/entry/underground-rappers-vol-3
Is it theft to sit and listen right outside an open-air concert?
You make me think about that commercial you couldn't skip on DVD. "YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A CAR" Bitch if I could copy a car on street for free I would do it.

Not to mention the only people seeing that fucking clip were the ones that bought the DVD. Way to ensure returning customers, well done.
Let's say I made a video. If I wanted to sell you a performance of that video and not your brother, and your brother manages to watch it anyway, fine, an offense has been committed.

But what if I sold the publishing rights to that video to a corporation who is bound by law to maximize revenue for my benefit? I've declared by releasing my video for public consumption that my interest is purely commercial.

That corporation does not generally have the legal ability to restrict who buys the rights to watch my video. Let's say the corporation decides to price viewings at $100 a pop. Your brother pirating my video and sharing it with his friends would arguably be doing more good for me than the alternative of fewer people watching it and me making a somewhat smaller amount of money.

Now the ethics are way more muddled. I'm not saying copyright is a bad thing or that infringement is a good thing. What I'm saying is that technological, cultural, and legal hurdles have made the content distribution market non-efficient and therefore non-optimal for content producers. It's virtually impossible for pricing mechanisms to maximize revenue, so there's always going to be situations where piracy makes sense because the content creators won't be able to make money on every viewing, but still derives a benefit from broader consumption anyway.
There is so much that Apple could do to truly "reimagine" the car. They have the capital and the capability to build the product. But when I think of what a "reimagined" car looks like, I envision a product that would need extensive study by regulatory bodies before it would be allowed on the road due to it's highly automated nature. And I wonder if that is something that Apple is interested in challenging, not only in states and federally, but with governments all around the world.
Load stalling for me.

Google cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3A...

P.S. It's a piece by Bruce Schneier.
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Looks beautiful!
Shitty click wrap that nobody should care about. Why are you bootlicking so hard?
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Good suggestion, I've added some near the bottom. Thanks.
What data format for object (like JSON) supports in place update?
Hi,
I want to ask if anybody knows the data format for object serialization that supports in place update (updating a field of object does not cause the rest of object to be copied to another memory location to fit new size of this object)
> generalizing across all programmers

I think the relevant question is whether functional programmers, not all programmers, regularly leverage the lightweight equational reasoning, refactoring, and context-independent behavior that is available with purely functional programming. I believe most do.

> avoids aliasing with value semantics, and even then you can add it back and get the same problems (...) you have to bury the state in something else, which is then exposed via a signature

In a programming model without side-effects, it is necessarily the case that all 'effects' are modeled in the call-return behavior. The type signature, too, for a strongly typed language. And I agree that, upon modeling state or aliasing, we get to deal with not just the feature but all of its associated problems.

OTOH, the problems of state and aliasing don't implicitly leak into every subprogram. The precise control over effects can be very convenient.

You couch that control in pessimistic terms like "pollute all function signatures it buried through". But in practice I've never had difficulty anticipating where I'll need to model effectful behavior, nor with extending the set of effects as needed. Oleg's recent development of freer monads with more extensible effects [1] is compelling in its potential to remove remaining drudge-work.

[1] http://okmij.org/ftp/Haskell/extensible/more.pdf

> We could debate a lot on what pure FP is, what pure OO is (...) paradigms developed around the same time

Pure FP (programming with mathematical functions, no side-effects) and impure FP (i.e. first-class procedural programming) are essentially different paradigms. They require different patterns of thinking, reasoning about, and constructing programs. Despite the ongoing battle over the "functional programming" branding, it isn't wise to conflate the two paradigms. It was impure FP that developed around the same time as OOP. Pure FP is about twenty years younger, more or less.

(The mention of 'pure OO' seems an irrelevant distraction. Do you believe pure OO vs. impure OO, however you distinguish them, require significantly different design and development patterns and are thus distinct paradigms?)
It's madness. I take a month off every year. I only get paid for two weeks vacation, but I take a month because, come on. Two free weeks a year? Who the hell ever thought that was reasonable?
Book piracy as a way to get free stuff instead of paying for it.

These rationalizations for ripping people off are pathetic; just admit you do it because it's quick, easy and there's little chance of getting caught.

You aren't a freedom fighter, and if you actually paused the trackers long enough to think about what you're doing, you'd have to admit to yourself that what you're doing is simply wrong. At least be honest enough with yourself to admit that.
And presumably, if I pirate something, I never entered into that contract to begin with.
Sure, and when I don't hire you, that means that you won't have money to buy food, so you will starve. So, I am not murdering you in the sense that I am shooting you, but I am murdering you in the sense that I am not hiring you.

Words have commonly accepted definitions, and copyright or contract violation simply does not fall under theft. "I think it's bad, theft is bad, therefore, it's theft" just is an incoherent argument. Just as not hiring you is not murder, even if it in the end were to somehow contribute to you dying.
All of the above do have various sub-specialties. The problem is that even the CS specialties (A.I./Machine Learning/Data Mining) still don't really conform with the other fields that I mentioned. Generalized Linear Modeling is Generalized Linear Modeling; it really doesn't matter whether you are classifying risks for an insurance company or classifying text documents at some tech start up. The math works the same.

In addition to that all of the other fields that I mentioned have sub-specialties as well. An actuary can be a life, health or P&C actuary. They can work in reinsurance or predictive modeling. An economist can work in Financial Economics or Labor markets or Econometrics/Quatitative Methods.

Yet the SOA/CAS are able to come up with and evaluate a set of minimum competencies that insurance companies in most English speaking countries are able to agree on. The American Economics Association is able to bring together major international banks (Various branches of the Fed, The World Bank, Various National Banks, Consulting Companies, Law firms that specialize in Financial/Economics issues) and grad students and it gives them a common format to get to know each other and evaluate job offers regardless of a candidate's/company's specialty.
Yeah, his taste reminds me quite a bit of KDE 4.
I think a knockoff TV would be a better analogy.
Agreed. These should ideally be equal.
IMHO the problem with the current OS X design is not the lack of skeuomorphism but the lack of discoverability. Many controls are hidden unless you hover over them, and there's no indication of where the active hover areas are. You just have to know, or get lucky. Buttons are often indistinguishable from plain text. Editable text is often (perhaps even usually) indistinguishable from non-editable text. Useful information is often obscured behind fancy graphics. Visual effects are included simply because the technology exists, not because it actually adds any value. What is the point of being able to see a blurry image of what is underneath a drop-down menu?
> Maybe icons are obsolete altogether?

And yet, people do grow up knowing that the green banana button means "phone" and the notched rectangle means "save", and often never even question "is there a real world analog for this icon?". It isn't that icons are obsolete: it is that we are graduating from a language of pictograms to a language of ideograms, yet for some reason we have large numbers of people telling us that that is somehow a horrible thing to do.
EVERYTHING beautiful is skeuomorphic. The page turn in iOS 6 iBooks, page curl in maps, cover flow, the shred animation in older versions of Passbook, the date picker in iOS 6, rotating settings gear (when updating iOS 6), the Time Machine interface in older versions of OS X, photo borders and shadows in iWorks documents, etc.

This is not surprising, because our sense of beauty comes from the physical world.

So what is the problem with skeuomorphism?

Tech enthusiasts would like their phones to look like something from the future, not something from the past. But ordinary everyday people prefer for it to look like things they are already familiar with, or can relate to.

Tech enthusiasts worry that the skeuomorphism was getting totally out of hand, particularly where the UI metaphor started limiting functionality (e.g. an address database that's limited to what a Rolodex can do, rather than exploiting what is possible with a computer). But this is not really true. For example, iBooks has instant search, something only possible with a computer.

Some people point out that many skeuomorphic elements reference things that a large part of Apple's audience hasn't used in a long time, if ever. True, but here's the thing: It doesn't matter whether the user has ever seen a reel-to-reel tape. What matters is whether the visuals depict a physical object that the user can model in his mind. If it is too abstract (that's the opposite of physical) then non-tech-enthusiast users will find it hard to intuit.

Some people say skeuomorphism looks tacky. This is partly true. Skeuomorphism is hard to do. When done poorly it does look tacky. But when done well it looks very beautiful.

By removing all skeuomorphism Apple is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Maybe they should accept that the market has low demand for their work, and move on.
Using proper DKIM/SPF goes a long way in getting your emails accepted by the big providers these days. That + TLS and you're probably going to make it through even from a DO VPS. From what its worth, it seems to me like a lot of the email servers that don't pay attention to DKIM/SPF are also the ones that don't bother worrying about IP blacklists, so even if they don't bother checking you've got a decent chance of making it through, but YMMV.
I love the idea behind their search engine, though I wonder how Google doesn't block them. It looks like they make money by charging for StartMail, which supports 'one-click PGP encryption', which I also love the idea of, but I can't imagine how that's secure. I haven't investigated, but I expect it involves pushing your private key to their servers.

In any case, thanks for the link; I'll give StartPage a go for a week and see if it sticks.
> Skeuomorphism doesn't make sense anymore when the real world items it's based on are vanishing.

Does that really matter? A perfect case in point was the old Pages icon in OS X: a quill pen in front of a cup of ink. Do you know any person who has ever used a pen like that in real life? Have you ever even seen a pen like that? I'm willing to guess not. But everyone still recognized the contents of that icon, and correctly inferred that the app was for writing things.

Furthermore, the use of ye olde imagery in that icon was playful, like the app was inviting you to an older time when writing was simpler and you could just focus on your words. The app was aiming for that kind of simplicity too. The use of way outdated imagery in the icon did not prevent Apple from conveying deep meaning to a modern audience. If anything, it enhanced the point they were trying to make with that icon.
As someone who has 2 engineering degrees and just finished a code school, how can I sell myself as though I had one of those?
Also, Microsoft Authenticator is already on every platform and getting even better on every platform soon. I know it would freak a lot of people out to have an app with the M-word in the name, but it's a good, solid TOTP app.
We're very active about providing as much free support as possible to users over email, github, and IRC. We've collected some great quotes from users about how impressed they are with our responsiveness.

Unfortunately we're a small team and frequently travel to events, etc. So it's expensive for us to guarantee that someone will be around. Obviously we'd like to provide support to as many people as possible at the lowest possible rate, so as we have more people paying for support and economies of scale kick in we hope to be able to drop those prices. In the meantime we need to cover our costs or development will stall

edit: our current prices are also based on the level of support that our most active beta users needed. Now that we're past 1.0 hopefully users will need less help which will also help lower prices. We have a very high bar for support quality and don't want to overextend ourselves to the point where we can't deliver
That is the common rebuttal, but if someone illegally downloads a film he or she never intended to purchase or rent anyway, then that argument does not hold. Even if the choice is between buying something legally and downloading it for free illegally, that word does not apply.

Loss of income does not equal theft.

Whether you have then been wronged or not is another discussion with valid arguments on both sides.
Evolution goes deeper than your rationalizations. Our brains descended from a long line of successful matings that obviously waited long enough to fuck before checking out. Possibly the fucking potential keeps us keepin' on in the lower level of our subconscious. It may also be hard wired preservation (the fear of pain), basic pleasure, caring of others, the illusion of god(s) or some imagined purpose of life, but I would guess mostly the fucking potential drives it all, at least for the younger. There's just a lot of good things to distract us from wanting death. But again, it goes deeper than our rationalizations so its going to be hard to say exactly without in depth scientific studies on the matter.
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Why do you need to pay people to run it? It would effectively become like an ETF or a royalty trust. Looking at some royalty trusts, it seems they spend about 1-2M/year on overhead which shouldn't impact the share price much price much.

Why you would invest in it is a good question though.
Underlying problem is that productivity increases are not tied to work hours per week. As the world gets more productive, we should be ratcheting work hours down. Kudos to those doing their parts to ensure employee quality of life.
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And there is the whole 'bio-fuel' movement where basically people grow 'bio-fuel' in places where there was food growing earlier cause they get subsidies for doing so. How to account for such 'lost' food sources?
That sounds like a pretty miserable user experience though. People are forgetful and lose things. Doing something online for the ease of it only to have to wait for something physical seems like a big step backwards as far as UX is concerned.

Until you make good security dead simple it'll never be used by the majority.
Easiest solution for an office worker is to just run up and own the stairwell a few times a day. I don't know how so many people just sit still all day, with a big lunch too, then wonder why they feel tired in the afternoons. Their only solution seems to be more garbage Keurig coffee!
I am struggling a little with Flux, everyone has their own implementation of it. I mean that is grand, but what does it actually mean for me? Contextless.

Thanks for sharing :)
IMHO, it's because you can put it where you want, such as on a side table at arm height, rather than where the cable lets you.
> The cap is $118,500, you think most programmers make more than $118,500 per year?

On review of the data, no; I was actually thinking more narrowly of software developers rather than broadly to all programmers, and even then its a little high (though the median salary for application developers (Software Developers, Applications) in the Information sector is close to the cap. [0]

Still, a substantial minority of programmers (broadly speaking) will be making above the cap, so reducing programmer salary in exchange for reduced hours will reduce payroll taxes by a substantially lower percentage than the percentage reduction in salary.
I can't think of any reason why a wireless mouse would have an ergonomic benefit over a wired one. They are the same size, shape, and orientation, and any decrease in drag from the lack of a cord is more than offset by the increased weight of the batteries.
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I don't believe so. My opinion is that well optimized hybrid apps can often compete with the quality of native apps. It is not easy crafting a good hybrid app, and few good ones exist. Many of the low quality hybrid apps have given hybrid apps a bad reputation. Ember + cordova can be a good toolset for creating good hybrid apps.
BOSH operates at a lower level, working with VMs. Flynn is higher level and allows deployment and management of applications and databases in containers.

Instead of relying on a lower layer like BOSH, Flynn is self-bootstrapping and self-hosting. It runs everything except the container runner in containers managed by the platform. The same APIs and tools are used to manage user applications and Flynn components.

For more information, check out our Architecture page: https://flynn.io/docs/architecture

You can bring your own lower level infrastructure, like IaaS or bare metal. There is a cloud installer that can spin up a cluster to try out on EC2, Azure, or Digital Ocean, but most production users are using whatever management tools they are comfortable with to deploy and scale Flynn hosts out.
My side project is a web app to publish product updates (http://productmap.co). Right now, working on letting users leave feedback and suggest things they want to see in your product.
It's not a hack. If you want to use a software analogy it is akin to stop adding features until we get the current system cleaned up. That is often the right thing to do in software. The hack is not a moratorium, the hack is to keep adding houses until infrastructure finally fails and the system falls over. Brilliant plan.
There is such alternate universe, even if not in large scale.

It is composed by the likes of PTC, IBM J9 Embedded or other alternative languages like .NET MF and Oberon.

But I do conceded it is not an option most of the time.

Good luck with the project.
Can you add regular javascript versions of the patterns rather than only es6?
I think we humans for some reason have ridiculously wide pain gauge. I can only theorize that we've got super pain sensitivity along with super brain.

Humans are very often disabled by pain alone, with neligible body damage. That's clearly evolutionary disadvantageous. Makes torture possible, etc.

Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/883/
Honestly, people are just settling on redux. It builds on flux and really is pretty easy to use. Is it the best solution? No idea, but it works and it's quickly becoming the de facto implementation.
You probably would have noticed the difference in the 80s and 90s when banks and others still wrote in tortuous, horrifically formal, English. Why take two sentences when a page and a half would do?

Usually the only places you still regularly saw "inst", notwithstanding and heretofore. If you wanted to understand at first reading being a contract lawyer helped.

The Plain English Campaign took out most of the low hanging fruit years back.
Today must be a golden age for writers. Many local libraries are struggling. With the historical source of free books in peril, writers can once again prosper!

Most fiction writers don't face a piracy problem, they face a marketing problem (nobody knows their book exists) and an economic problem (there is an abundance of supply of novels).

Every new novel has to compete not just with novels released that year, but with all novels still in print. In that way it is unlike most other markets. If you make soap, you only have to compete with the soap manufacturers of today.