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I've had a somewhat similar experience, but with a slight tweak. I now actually carry around a container of floss with me in my standard pocket loadout. But I don't floss everyday. I floss when I eat something that tends to get stuck in my teeth, beef jerkey being the worst offender, or when I notice I've got a bit of local inflammation in my gums, which has always turned out to be some piece of food stuck in there.

Given how bad inflammation has proved to be lately (be it because the inflammation itself is bad or because what is causing it is bad doesn't matter much to me if it's bad either way), it's at least plausible that flossing may have an effect on gum disease, but also plausible that it's an entirely situational thing. A habit may be better than never doing it, but you may just need to do it when the situation calls for it.

Ultimately I carry the floss around because regardless of whether it has long term benefits provable by science, it definitely can have short-term benefits of having less inflamed and at times slightly-painful gums because it's trying to use the immune system to remove a chunk of food better physically removed.
> Sooner or later, the application, whether it's one I wrote or not, WILL break.

And of course there is the corollary...that it almost surely will be rewritten if its something that is truly useful to the business and its bottom line.
Sorry, didn't mean to imply that React Native is a replacement for the web.

I meant that React Native can become a replacement for the parts of the web (or just html, the web is bigger) that try to be an application inside what is essentially a document viewer.

I think the web (or rather html) is wonderful for what it was intended for - document viewing and editing (sometimes collaboratively).

Blogs, newspapers, Q&A sites and anything built around content really, should definitely still be in built using html/web , but the various SaaS products should be built using a tool built for apps.
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I have the impression that that compass is a bit too sensative.
In theory that should be a good thing, but in reality is just results in being less useable because you never know if the direction it's pointing to is the one you want to go.
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Oh I understood that completely, but you probably dont want to make one giant database for all your customers unless you really love engineering the crap out of things.
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Not terribly representative, though, that browser A would do worse than browser B on browser B's vendor's web property...
Totally agree! I find the ribbon gui a total mess. I'm glad I can use LibreOffice, and since version 5 the layout is quite allright. I don't know what should be better. It is exactly like I expect it, buttons are where I want them, menus like we're used to. Why change that?
You can brush your teeth like a moron 24/7, but you still won't reach between them and remove the long-term unhealthy plaque with it - it doesn't have to do anything with a profession, but it's a physical fact. Not to mention that brushing teeth ain't proper brushing as itself, since you can easily irreversibly damage and remove the gum if using wrong technique, pressure and hard brush.
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I get what you're saying, but using the flossing flavor of the month argument to prove that point is pretty weak.
Is there any reason that property taxes couldn't be increased solely on homes without residents? It would at least encourage putting foreign owned homes on the rental market.
> The UI is actually 80% of the workload of a software project

This entirely depends on the project. In my experience, the UI is extremely important to the success of a project, but tends to be 10-20% of total work.
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Seriously, I've clicked through that on purpose many times with a lot of open-source projects, in development stuff, hell, I've gotten unsigned programs from companies!
I presume it is because color will be used dynamically to denote when something goes wrong. A mater of "contrast" if you will.

"The nodes also can change color based on assumed health of the underlying service to give another quick focal point for where problems might exist in the system."

See this screen:

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lFqeDOUmRhA/V5-dtXr1HQI/AAAAAAAAA...
Assuming people should pay what things are worth to them is complete and utter bullshit and isn't how economics work.

Do you realize how much water is worth to you? You cannot live without it, but you aren't going to send your water company $100/gallon for it because there is a massive supply of it.

The same applies to paying people to do things. Nobody is going to pay more than what the price is for the skills they are looking for. To expect otherwise or lament the fact that's it's not happening shows a very basic misunderstanding of economics.
What's that got to do with anything? It's none of their business what you look like, but you still go out in public, right?
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Honest question: is LibreOffice still relevant? In the days of Google Drive and MS Office being available on pretty much any OS and device, do we still need an old school desktop office suite?
And some of the problems of SF (e.g. the homelessness, the mentally ill, the dirtiness & shabbiness of the city) are a direct result of its liberal & progressive government.
I am always fascinated when people complain about OS software and asking that "they" should do better. Who are "they" and why "they" should do something for you? Most often it is individual contributors doing changes and they do it the way they like it (and surprise - there are a lot of open source devs out there who just prefer conservative look.)

So... as old as it is, but still - if you want some change to happen - you have to participate. Or just pay for some other product that already fits your requirements.

ps: i like LibreOffice UI.
v8 is just a javascript engine, node.js is a platform built on v8.

Node.js adds various standard native modules - mostly various IO (file, tcp etc...), a way to load other modules, access to the underlying OS (environment variables etc...).

running v8 alone is akin to running the browser without html or the dom api, you basically can compile and run javascript functions, but can't do much with it.
Came here to ask the same thing.
> Why don't companies feel comfortably "code dumping"? Just throw everything online as a tarball, and say "we aren't supporting this and we don't want to have anything to do wit h this, but here's the source."

- It may contain configuration information.
- It may contain private keys or passwords.
- It may contain customer specific code (if you maintain customer specific features either via feature toggles or branches), which may leak information of your paying customers.
- It may have unintended copyright violations.
- It may contain software that is licensed in a way that makes it a copyright violation to distribute your software outside or your company (publishing it is distributing it). This may also apply if you distribute your sources without any (source or binary) parts of the proprietary dependency.
- It may fall under the export restrictions for cryptographic software (these have been mainly dropped, but not completely).
- It may directly or indirectly make your patent violations public (oh, you have them already, but nobody knows about them).
- It's of embarrassing quality.
- It may make it public that your company has defrauded its customers / and or users.
- It may make it public that your company has supported its customers to commit fraud and/or other crimes (the RICO act makes this more easier to follow up on for law enforcement).

I have never worked on any non-trivial project where not almost all issues were present.
First explain what is wrong with the LO 5 design? I find the ribbon gui horrible. The fact that the buttons and menu haven't changed that much since ten years, so what? It does the job.

The only office gui better was the Lotus Suite one, where the layout options were much better with palets like in Photoshop, onces that you could move around.
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I'll never understand why LastPass requires you to be a premium user to use some forms of their 2FA (for example, I can't use my Yubikey if I don't pay for a premium, and I don't need a premium account for literally anything else).
So, who is working on a ZipKin backend to reuse its data to have these nice graphs?
Ah, that sucks!

This is the first time I've heard of this – had I known a few weeks or months ago, I'd have jumped at the opportunity to learn how to use R.
Diplomat black plates are rare though, and they don't seem to drive aggressively, even if they have diplomatic immunity. Saw Hilary's SUV once around the American embassy, weird that they didn't bother blocking traffic or anything.
Pretty much true. As these attackers stated on their own twitter "You ran it as admin, just be glad we didn't steal everything". All it takes is user access to dump all your stored passwords and run, which is what most attackers would do (there are even public tools they can deploy like iStealer that basically do this for them), from there they sell your accounts. From what I gather on their twitter these guys are pretty much doing it for the lulz.
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This reminds me of this quote:

> The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague.

(E.W. Dijkstra, in 1972)
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The UI is actually 80% of the workload of a software project

This may be true for some software projects, but I can’t see how that could be generalized to any project (even any desktop or user facing project).

Specifically for LibreOffice, the amount of work that went into that project is staggering. It’s been worked on for decades, through three different organisations (StarOffice, Sun/Oracle OpenOffice, now LibreOffice), and according to https://www.openhub.net/p/libreoffice/estimated_cost it took thousands of man-years of effort (models are lies, but I’ll believe it as an order-of-magnitude estimate). Surely not 80% of that went to the UI work.
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So this appears to be a compromise of the download site, and probably could've been avoided with a hash verification, blah blah blah. Finger wag at developer.

Moving on, I've been thinking about the problem of file integrity and how verifying the MD5/SHA sum creates extra gruntwork for the end-user, particularly for your average Windows user.

How difficult would it be for the installer to compute its own hash and present it to the end-user when the installer starts, so that they can verify it against the hash posted on the front of the software's webpage?

EDIT: Although I suppose if the binary itself is compromised, the hackers could always modify the hash function so that it shows the same hash as an existing "good" version even with the malicious code added. Hmm.
Depends on how passionate people are about keeping their information out of the hands of Google & Microsoft. I would say that, for anyone using linux as their daily driver, LibreOffice is still very relevant.
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Sorry, I guess I meant "style of a lot of software I've used in Linux". I used to be in SUSE with KDE, had a habit of seeing gradients and the like.
Not everything needs research. Flossing removes decompsosing food from between your teeth. Dentists understand that tooth decay and gum disease result from prolonged exposure to decomposing food. If doctors told me that putting out shirt fires reduces the risk of burning to death, I would trust them without verified research.
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This is cool - looking at the design, I was thinking they should put solar panels on the top and then it could also provide a free source of charging for people to charge their phones. But then, I had a darker thought and those chargers could be USB allowing china to hack into everyone's phones... I love the future.
I would consider this a bug - if you can open an issue on the https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform repository, we will look into it prior to 0.7.1.
He's just bullshitting.
The very unofficial convention is to write README.something.
Indeed, it should have been README.Ubuntu.md
Someone had written a C# interpreter for Windows Mobile 5. I used that occasionally to noodle on algorithm ideas or brute-force math problems.
The difference is that in the rest of Canada, your child (and their children) does not lose their right to go to English school if they go to a French school first.
> My father in law is a dentist in Germany and he never recommended flossing. In fact flossing is not common in Germany and we don't hear that Germans have very bad teeth compared to Americans.

It's all the sauerkraut. It acts as a natural floss.
Your argument is a slippery slope for the acceptance of every kind of pseudoscience.

How do we know something is 'obviously' good for you without research? NOTHING Is so cut and dry that you can make that statement. For example: organic food. Obviously, must be amazing for you. Got two great buzzwords in it: organic and food. Therefore, amazing for you. Does the research bear this out?

Similarly, homeopathy, reiki, psychic surgery, acupuncture.

Vaccines: foreign substance entering our body. Therefore, terrible for you. Stands to reason right?

How could you make such a sweeping statement claiming the higher ground that we must exist in such an enlightened age that we don't have to continually fight the battle for evidence based activities in all activities?
I have tight straight teeth on one side and I wicked with little gaps on the other side. There is a big difference when I floss. On one side is usually clean, on the other is not. It requires a lot more maintenance.
OpenOffice is a better and more accessible name, although it does have some trademark issues, I think.
It's a cool idea, but I think it's very unrealistic to label this vehicle as a bus. It is more along the lines of a streetcar, especially since it will only be traveling along fixed paths and isn't able to turn down a side street to detour or make an ad hoc route change.
Yeah, but many apps for Windows still aren't signed so many users are trained to just click through.
> most became a jenga-esque pile of hacks and shortcuts that few developers would want to show off in public

Not just that they don't want to "show off", but even more that they don't think it will be useful.

It takes a non zero amount of work to document a project such that it can be used and extended by someone who didn't write it.
If you want the right to always have a job, go to Beijing. If you crave the possibility of creating something disruptive from scratch, go to SF.
But then it needs to break away (and actually brake) at the next system, replicate at outrageous speeds, and fire a bunch more at a heap more stars
A => B does not mean !B => !A.
In US (culturally): "Good dental hygiene" => "You floss".
So dentists looking in your mouth can guess if you floss. However in Europe flossing is not as common and the link breaks. All dentists can say is if you take good care of your mouth, not if you floss or not.
This is pretty cool. It seems comparable to New Relics offering when you hook up a bunch of services that talk to each other, but with more of a focus on traffic and general health than tracing.
My take on it was:

Silicon Valley is viewed from the outside -- especially outside the US -- as a mecca for technology, talent, opportunity (and it is, IMO). People tend to assume that also extends to the society in which it exists. That such huge wealth would mean clean streets, social services, public transport and a sense of community around it. That a rising tide floats all boats. Think oil money in Norway. If it's something you've looked to as your goal it's easy to ignore some negative things that you may find about SF online. And whether a quick Google search would have informed you or not that doesn't change the reality on the ground.

Re: Ayn Rand. I took that to mean companies are being built today not because they want to work towards a better world, a better future for everyone, but rather for money alone. There's a lot of people in the bay area (elsewhere too) build businesses to make money and not because there's something they truly want to see in the world. In SF (and SV) on the one hand the messaging to the world has always been "LETS CHANGE THE WORLD" -- though many times it's followed up with "BY BUILDING A SOCIAL NETWORK FOR CATS WHO NEED PIZZA IMMEDIATELY." That can be very disillusioning for someone who moves in.

Re: China: My take was that he was trying to illustrate a different mentality. SF is dead set of maintaining the present. On the one hand it complains about the lack of affordable housing and on the other, it won't allow new (tall) buildings. Compare to the 60s. Could you imagine Sutro Tower being approved under today's midset? (You want to build a 1000' TV tower visible from all over town?! LOL). It's barely possible to get cell towers approved. How many years do you think a proposal to build that crazy awesome Chinese elevated bus would take? I mean -- BART doesn't even go to San Jose. High speed rail?

I think his point was that Beijing has its gaze set on the future where SF has it set on the present, and that sounds like a lot of your complaints too (not paying as much attention as you'd like the past and present in the process -- I can't judge the validity as I've not been yet). The article felt like his positive take on Beijing was that there, they want to build the future, and in SF, they want to keep the present as long as they can possibly hold onto it regardless of cost.

Hope that helps!

IMO: Your response feels like you're just trying to win an argument for the sake of winning an argument, without trying to understand what's being said.
Most of the entries were less than amazing. QR codes in particular still feel like a gimmick that's slower than a working system, or even Googling a few key terms. In a country with near-universal credit/debit card penetration, I don't actually want to pay with my phone most of the time - small merchants using Square totally solves the problem for me.

But not switching apps would be freaking amazing. Anything resembling a decent inter-app API, or a scheduling process that doesn't suspend apps for small focus switches (which still regularly crashes even high-end apps like Amazon) would be magical. Many of my apps would be much more valuable with even minimal non-switching, and I'd write sync/communication software myself if the focus issues didn't make it so painful.
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Those aren't whole entries, they're occasional "color" in still-descriptive entries. Lighten up. More companies should have a unified "voice", even in technical documentation.
I am confident that my code will fail spectacularly someday. This is why I think a lot about possible failure modes, but I am also quite confident there will be some I didn't think about, and they lurk somewhere awaiting the opportunity to manifest themselves.

Which is why I invest heavily in alerting and monitoring services, but I am confident that someday, they will fail me too, or two bugs simultaneously somehow will create an illusion that everything is fine (and report it to monitoring), but it won't be fine.

I accept the inevitable. Compared to the fact that someday I (and everyone else I know — I don't believe in mind transfer and biological immortality) will inevitably die, this is a small thing to accept.

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Her sovereignty had absolutely no legal standing. Declaring oneself above the law does not automatically make it true. Neither shooting at police officers.

We read a lot about police violence but, in this case, I'm inclined to believe they acted very reasonably.
Thanks for pointing this misusage of the word that totally changed the meaning.

In common Russian usage the word for "blink" also means indicate-a-turn-with-signal and that is what I meant.
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That's a cost-of-labor problem. Obviously there's no particular technological trick to it; the West had milk deliveries decades ago which is fairly similar. But cost-of-labor makes that impossible to do economically here today; you can't afford to pay someone to deliver something as cheap as fruit or milk in the US, because nobody will pay the requisite markup.

Whether that's advantage China or advantage US depends on your perspective.
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How long does one last? Do you use one for a week, month or just whenever you change your toothbrush?
if it's innovative, putting it up is still useful as a case study on how to perform said innovation. It's not bringing you any revenue anyway, so it's not like you'd lose anything. Just take out all of the keys and passwords etc from the repo!
Square has a mobile phone payment option, but most of their actual use is as a small-merchant credit card processor. They have no integration into larger stores (which have their own card readers), and as a result there's no real point for users in setting up their mobile pay system. My credit card works with Square and everything else, an app would only work with Square.
Can you define your use of liberal and progressive? From my point of view a liberal and progressive government would have the opposite impact on homelessness and mentally ill people: by providing social support and welfare to those in need.

So I got a bit confused by the usage of liberal and progressive on this sense as they're fuzzy definitions by themselves.
MS just made all drivers required to be signed and I suspect the next step is to disallow downloads of executables that aren't signed. No, I don't mean smartscreen warnings, I mean a refusal to download entirely with exceptions being put in manually via a control panel item Grandma will be hesitant to mess with and via GPO for enterprise.

Then build out a reputation system for signers. I was recently given a link via steam to watch a video. It had an embedded fake Flash updater. The installer was very clever as it was signed by something like "Browser Company" and looked like the official Flash installer. My local AV and virustotal.com didn't detect it at the time either.

I think the age of it being convenient to run arbitrary executables in Windows is ending. There's just too much liability now, especially in the age of ransomware and kiddie hackers doing it for the lulz.
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