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Downvoting because we disagree, are we?

Instead of being caustic why don't you actually rebut my point?

We could/should do more to encourage kids to lead a healthy lifestyle and to balance hours sitting at the computer with sports or working out instead of eating unhealthy junk food.

Do you really think a company would run this campaign if they didn't think it would result in more kids buying pockys?
It was probably nonqual or ISO employee grant. Those get tied all the time to performance.
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And if the Civil Aviation Board didn't exist there'd be no way to fly safely between cities within the ... wait.
sounds like a PITA.
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It's a staple of online technology discussion, and has been for a very, very, very long time.

> No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...
(I posted this in a previous article.)

You really should include a link to this as well- Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver MLS Home Price Index http://www.rebgv.org/home-price-index?region=all&type=all&da...

This shows the the price trend of Detached, Townhouse, and Apartment up to the last 11 years, broken by individual cities in Greater Vancouver.

But it is misleading. If you look at Metro Vancouver's trend, all 3 types of housing have gone up in prices. But if you look at the surrounding cities, only the Detached and Townhouse prices have gone up. Apartment pricing have remain relatively flat until 15 months ago. Since then Apartment price have gone up as well.

This is probably because 15 months ago, the Detached/Apartment pricing have increased to the point where buyers started to consider Apartment as a viable resident.

PS. If you look at the graph, you will notice that the prices have gone up so much it broke the graphing software.
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I'm a paid Hushmail customer since 2010 I think.

Their web interface is sub-par and sometimes it's pretty slow to connect.

I was thinking to change for Fastmail but they're a bit more expensive and the mails are stored in the US I think (I'm French).

I'll probably investigate this in December when my hush subscription is due.
Can anyone verify this? I don't get the warm fuzzies from the original posted link.
> Well, it was a reporter inside CNN, just a person like us, who through repeatedly hearing factoid assumed that it meant what it sounds like.

"Factoid" does mean what it sounds like (that is, it is a simple application of the common suffix "-oid" to the root "fact", both in their usual senses.)

The use CNN latched on to is not what it sounds like.
but it presents problems months down the line when a new feature needs to be added or an existing one changed in a non-trivial way.

I think I have yet to see any software to which this doesn't apply sooner or later. While the whole point of "technical debt" is that it is something you're supposed to knowingly acquire because of time constraints. You're basically saying "we knew it was wrong, but they forced us to do it that way". While to me, most of the times, the truth is that you really didn't know. Yes, you coded in a hurry, but there is always a time constraint of some kind so that's no excuse. Somebody else in the same time would have done a better job.

As for my points: if I realize I didn't know what I was doing, I always refactor the code. Committing code that you know to be conceptually wrong is just sloppy. And if I am under pressure by the management is because I spent time developing without understanding what I was doing; a better developer would have gotten it right at the first try, and there would be no technical debt.

If the managers/ product owners didn't produce clear requirements, it's not a technical debt, it's a sloppy job on their part.

If the planning was wrong, that's a sloppy job on the part of who had to do it. Responsibilities should be found and action should be taken. Saying "ah yes you know, we were under pressure so we (kind of naturally) accumulated this technical debt" is just a way to save everybody's face.
Depends on how broadly you define similar. Of course some patterns are repeatable across industries, but a lot of the work I do is specific to only this industry.
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I managed a small team of engineers and synchronous daily standups just broke down with remote teams and timezones.

It also just felt unproductive - it became something we did to feel like we had "best practices" when in reality it was a waste of everyone's time.

I got the sense that everyone would essentially forget what they said/heard at the end of the meeting (or was simply tuned out).

I ended up launching a tool to solve this problem: (https://jell.com).

We're a lot happier showing a "todo list" with each other and still have a place to write out the challenges/progress we're making - all while respecting each others time.
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SuperSU will do nothing. This is no different from how someone would get root on say a web server.
The Japanese are raising a generation of kids who will dominate the international code eating competitions.
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> the way capitalism works, people wont invest in cures even for popular diseases killing tens of millions, if they can't make a nice buck

1) You're wrong. Bill Gates, etc, are counter-examples.

but,

2) The problem is the word "invest". You're saying in the same sentence that the investment is a loser. That you won't be able to eat if you take it. So change the word to donate, where it's clear the money is gone, and you'll see that people do indeed donate to things that don't help them. All the time.

3) It's not "how capitalism works", it's how any self-sustaining system of value allocation works.

How would they afford to stay open, to give the drug away, if it cost them more to develop and produce it than they made? Literally, how do they pay their suppliers and employees so they can eat and keep producing the drug, if they don't make as much or more than they expend?

The short-term example of this is the guideline that you should put your own oxygen mask on before helping others.
I guess I never thought of the order as important. Like I said there are two that are the most important to me, and the others that I need less reminding of.

Though, since being married and having kids, I do find being impeccable with my word a little more difficult when you're out with a friend for a drink (very rare these days) and your wife asks you when you will be home... it's very easy to say "I'm on my way" when in fact you just got your last drink and you know it's going to be 20-30 minutes before you leave, but saying that will might get you in some hot water. I definitely need to do better on that one.
I hear they moved their back end to Node on Black Friday last year. If true that's damn impressive right? Unless it was a facade.
I'm the opposite, I only care about atmosphere as long as there's a mostly clean and comfortable place to sit. One of my favorite Indian "restaurants" in college was a just a guy that converted a camper into a kitchen and parked it in an empty parking lot.

It took forever to get your food, since it was just one guy, and there was no place to sit. But I was happy enough to walk down the street to a park and enjoy my delicious food on a picnic table under an oak tree.
How do you handle changing your email address?
It's impossible to relicense Linux. Linus has talked about this in the past: he'd have to track down literally thousands of contributors to get their permission. Many of them are probably impossible to track down, some are surely dead. There's no feasible way to relicense a project like Linux.

ZFS, OTOH, is owned by a single entity, so relicensing it would be simple. It should be completely possible to make a new license that grants a patent license but is also GPL compatible.
I don't know. But I can offer up some speculation. To do that we have to put in a guess about what "common" shares of stock would be worth, and how many of those shares our employees could access.

We know that Jet has been a bit unconventional in their pay practices [1] with their transparent salary metric. But we don't know how their options differ. Sometimes options have a "change of control" clause. In those cases the vesting schedule for common shares is accelerated when the company is acquired.

TechCrunch says "$3B cash plus $300M in shares to the Founders and employees". That sounds like part of the acquisition offer is stock offers to employees to come to Walmart. The new stock options would have cliffs and restrictions as well but they are for a publicly traded stock (so you know that you will be able to trade them, vs a private company where you may never be able to trade them). If the Crunchbase article is correct and there are 1K - 5K employees, we'll assume the distribution follows the power law but even with that, smallest grants would be at least $100K if distributed over 5K points with a $300M total.

Second there is the "value" of common stock. If the company had raised a total of $800M, and already had a 2x liquidation preference with participation, that would have $1.4B to distribute across the final common pool. In common scenarios that would mean that people who had been employed for a year or more would be able to exercise n/48ths of their stock option (where n was months of service as long as n was 12 or higher). The Tech Crunch article also said that they had been shooting for a $3B valuation in the last funding round. Given that jump you might expect common shares from the resulting acquisition to have a value that was at least 2.1 times their strike price. That might not represent a lot of money though, a million shares with a strike price of 10 cents a share, now worth 21 cents a share is a $110K gain. That said it would depend on how many shares were outstanding. If they had held back 20% of the share pool for employee options, and distributed half of it, that would be 10% of the company in options, or potentially $300M in value. That arbitrarily lines up with stock number quoted in the press release. If that relationship was accurate, it would suggest that Walmart was converting the options straight to Walmart share options (another common practice) where the acquiring company keeps the previous vesting schedule.

Lots and lots of variables. On the plus side, if an employee did have a stock option and it was at least partially vested, that option was probably worth non-zero dollars so in the world of startups that counts as a win. How big a win will vary from person to person.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikamorphy/2015/07/21/jet-com-i...

[2] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/jet#/entity

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law
Agreed. There's also the fact that foreign investment, or foreign real estate purchases, use proxies, which don't fall under this new tax. Too little, too late.
Google Play does vet apps before they go up. They have several mechanisms to analyze apps before they are published in the app store. Look up Google Bouncer.

This said, it is not clear that their analysis would catch apps that try to exploit these vulnerabilities.
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"I Ate Curly Fries And Shaker Fries" wouldn't be out of place in well-regarded literary magazines. That slice-of-life with references-only-the-author-gets but maybe-sometimes-they-resonate-in-an-oblique-way-with-the-reader poetry is pretty common. Get an author with a decent bio[1] to submit it and I bet you could get a similar-quality machine-generated work published in Ploughshares or similar.

[1] MFA, edits a local poetry magazine with a circulation of 100, accepted submissions to some mid-level publications, one or two "chapbooks" out.
I could have sworn that all apps are run inside a test environment before allowed onto the store. But the process is automated and likely will not catch novel attacks.
> In certain computers the storage system is mainly acoustic.

I believe that's a reference to mercury delay lines, which preceded ferromagnetic core.
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No way man. This means you're free to buy up real estate in all of those desirable Chinese cities. Go on. Invest.
Well, you need to fuel your brain somehow. Salad ain't gonna cut it. ;).

> Hours spent coding should be (...) broken up by physical activity

Please don't. It's hard enough to find two or three hours of uninterrupted time as an adult. Kids and teenagers can pull off impressive feats of quick learning and skill acquisition in big part because they have long stretches of uninterrupted time. Don't take away the opportunity they have.
SELinux enabled devices also affected by this?
Could you expand on this a bit? Does that mean that they don't have a common set of internal libraries?
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Is protecting user privacy really the primary focus of this initiative? It seems to be another step in the multi-front battle between Netflix and ISPs:

1) Expose ISPs who limit your bandwidth to the service.
2) Protect against manipulation/degradation of the video stream quality.
>Do desktop clients support decrypting email?

This is the traditional workflow for PGP-encrypted email, and has been for decades. Protonmail chose to be incompatible with this established standard.
You have to walk to single step the program counter, and run to execute your code at full speed. Then you can catch your breath at breakpoints.

That would be a lot healthier than a high fructose visual programming language like Pocky.
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>whereas you cannot even give other old laptops away

I sell old laptops. Apple and non Apple laptops sell very well. It's true that Macs get more money but it's not true there isn't a market for non Apple laptops
Vancouver is tight and they aren't building/aren't allowing more building in the immediate area. Housing is for people to live in, but far too many have been speculating.
Interesting to see he thinks two weeks is the default sprint length.

I thought 1 week was the default and it certainly works for my team. The various scrum meetings are short and snappy and have high value.
It is unfortunate that large amounts of money are not made available to reform the prison system. It seems that society is on autopilot, with people being led into a meat-grinder. Moral activation seems necessary.
Not to take away from either point, and I largely agree, but written word is our 'mode 2' - a lot can be missed without talking face to face.

Yes the issue with standups/scrum cereomonies is if people ignore all the 'other' info they are receiving and for what ever reason choose to ignore it.

The real key for Scrum for me has to be not only teams that want to write good code, but teams that WANT to get better at working together. That takes the whole team. If the team aren't bought in to this, then I'm not sure which project management tool will work for them, but it sure isn't scrum!
It looks like this translates Pocky in different positions to lines of code and then executes that code. This is too many levels of abstraction even for me to make sense of as a professional programmer... I like where their heart is but I think this would be a terrible introduction to coding.
Everyone's a critic, huh. Kids will spend time eating snacks and playing video games, as the past couple few decades have proven. Making those video games intellectual is an improvement. Sometimes the answer doesn't have to be the ideal, it just has to be better than the status quo.
Entropy and diminishing returns from readily accessible energy sources will kick in at some point. My guess is it'll happen before the robots are more adaptable to changing road conditions than humans.
> > and it's also the philosophy that the economy/market is a tool to be used to achieve goals.

> Only in a very narrow, utilitarian sense.

I think this is the core of our disagreement. Economy/market as tool is a principal tenet of neoliberalism, IMO.
Hushmail should be considered compromised. They have turned over plaintext emails to US law enforcement in the past.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hushmail#Compromises_to_email_...
Even if every Tesla was 100% powered by coal power plants, it would still be an improvement since it's much easier to control efficiency and emissions at a single 4GW plant than in a fleet of 40000 100kW cars.
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Not in some parts of Europe at least. It was just carried over to the digital signal. I honestly don't know how, but there must be room for it in the DVB-T/C/S signals.
Does this really solve the ISP identifying the traffic?

I suspect netflix still has limited source IPs. If you see netflix like steady bandwidth from a known netflix IP, pretty sure it would be trivial to throttle.
They don't need to know the specific details of what is collected or how it is cataloged to fundamentally be aware that their actions are being recorded. I shouldn't have said "violated" because they're so disempowered they aren't aware that there is a choice.
IMO, JMX extensions are one of the most
under-appreciated things that java and
jvm devs have but keep forgetting about
but its so powerful.

This is an excellent point which I cannot agree with more. When doing distributed systems using JVM's, I almost always reach for the excellent Metrics[0] library. It provides substantial functionality "out of the box" (gauges, timers, histograms, etc.) as well as exposing each metric to JMX. It also integrates with external measuring servers, such as Graphite[1], though that's not germane to this post.

0 - http://metrics.dropwizard.io/3.1.0/

1 - http://graphiteapp.org/
I've never gotten past the first agreement in this book because I was never able to succeed at it. I set myself a goal once to abide by the agreement for just a weekend, at which point I would move on to the rest of the book. Consciously choosing not to say negative things about others put in stark contrast how frequently and casually I, and others, were negative about those around us. It was surprising not only how hard it was to not say negative things, but also how hard it made it to communicate with other people. I made it until the end of the day Sunday, and failed, in a story too petty to bother recounting.
> if we go down this path they'll simply slaughter us

Not before they "slaughter" themselves with pollution.
Either / or, please come to Canada...
> Christians, for example, were for centuries not loaning with interest, not because they weren't humans, but because they valued a moral code more than profit.

That confuses who's making the choices with who they're making them for.

There were always christians willing to lend for interest, what stopped them was the other xians who thought it was bad.

Also, look as islamic banking as a modern example. It charges almost exactly as much as a system with interest would but the payments are structured as fees, etc.

There's still usury, it's just in the form of ruinous collateral-backed fees, instead of compound interest. A late-payment fee, on the capital plus a previous late-payment fee, is economically identical.
> Are they immune to prosecution if they do illegal things?

"Immune", no, but prosecutors are unlikely to prosecute prosecutors for overzealous prosecutions, and are also unlikely to prosecute police and others working for prosecutors for their actions in support of such prosecutions.
> Growth takes resources(fossil fuels, ore, etc).

This is simply wrong. We produce vastly more GDP per unit of energy than we did a century ago, and will do the same a century from now.

The size of an economy is a measure of what people will pay for a good. It's not a measure of how big a pile of steel you can make. The most expensive goods nowadays, services and computing, do not take vast piles of resources. In fact, the most expensive computers use the LEAST energy per unit of computation.
But then they'll eat the snacks and be unable to play. What if you use similarly shaped objects like pens and erasers?
"We confuse shaming for justice"

That, to me, was a brilliantly concise statement of the root of many problems.
Somebody should develop an free open source high fiber visual programming language based on celery stalks, cucumber slices, carrot sticks, cherry tomatoes, avocado slices, and radishes. That will keep your expressions regular!
What you just described is basically unionization.
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I believe that no one is beyond rehabilitation, with the right conditions. Further, I believe this belief to be fundamental to any functionally human rights-oriented, pan-state democracy.
And many employers will read this as "Should you ever hire anyone over forty?"
I disagree. It varies from situation to situation but I would argue in my domain at least (healthcare) this is how you get bad data models
Designing of component also involved a meticulous way of finding how much memory would be used. Most of the memory used was in stack and bss - to maintain model-and-state-machines. Predominantly these were 'static' variables. Then any allocation on heap was done using local-heap manager functions. Local-heap-manager allocated buffer of 3 or 4 sizes usually in terms of large kilo bytes - this was usually to process audio/video/image(AVI) frames. These allocation were mainly called by components involved in AVI libs. And any call to local-heap-manager had to get some sort of approval at architecture level - most of the time if it was not for AVI - it would be turned down with plenty of debate. This local-heap-manager abstracted to sort of a pipeline at system level. Only one pipeline can be active at any given state. Switch of pipeline meant - release-allocation of these large chunks of memory. Each pipeline involving say x components would use highest possible memory of say y. The error that was usually frowned upon was 'low memory' of system - this usually occured when a hardware unit was slow to process say a block of AVI. Also the total cpu load of each pipeline was also monitored.
First, please don't use fixed-width font to quote -- it makes users have to scroll horizontally to see it all.

Second, I'm not a lawyer either, but it seems as a Canadian property investor, you could make your case with several items in the above list:

(f) an interest in an enterprise that entitles the owner to share in the income or profits of the enterprise;

(g) an interest in an enterprise that entitles the owner to share in the assets of that enterprise on dissolution;

Both of those items might be satisfied by having a shell corporation buy the property for the human buyer, who's invested the necessary funds in the corporation.

Furthermore, I don't see how your objection about "property" unqualified referring to chattel could withstand this, which is probably very easy to argue for as long as the buyer rents out the property:

(j) any other tangible or intangible, moveable or immovable, property and related property rights acquired or used for business purposes;
I think it's a mistake to think of this as a long-standing policy for a spam blacklist. They are constantly evolving, just as the spam is, and there will be hiccups and problems as new detection techniques come online. At one point, identifying all domains listed in the content of definitively identified spam might have been very useful. Then spammers could have realized this and started peppering their content with random domains to poison this technique. In the short time between this technique being poisoned and discontinued (in this hypothetical scenario), quite a few people were probably affected, and while it was a short period, it would probably also account for 99% of the problems related to this.
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