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My comment and the article are specific to tech; your response is not.
Remember "chocolate is good for you"? Turns out that: "While research shows that cocoa can have a beneficial effect with regards to maintaining healthy vascular tone and insulin sensitivity, the reverse is true for sugar. Eating sweetened chocolate is still not good for you." [1]

Yet plenty of people seem to have fallen over each other to share that article (and this article). It seems anything that says you can have your cake and eat it too will have plenty of social media shares. In this case, it looks like flossing may be lightly studied, but is still good for us. Perhaps we can change that famous old adage to, "if it sounds too good to be true, it's probably clickbait".

Here's another piece of research on flossing, "In regression analyses, brushing thoroughness, flossing ability and frequency, and dental visit frequency were predictors of lower plaque, gingivitis, and calculus scores. In turn, these scores were predictors of shallower pocket depths and less attachment loss." [2]

That's on a study of 319 people, flossing regularity is based on surveys and dental health based on examinations.

[1] https://www.bulletproofexec.com/is-chocolate-good-for-you-he...
[2] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1752-7325.1995....
Protectionist trade policies are common in Japan too.
Ford quit the Japanese market after less than 5000 units sold in 2015.

http://www.iol.co.za/motoring/industry-news/why-arent-foreig...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ian-fletcher/japan-the-forgott...
Classic Windows. I miss the 90s.
Plenty of US companies are successful in China: McDonald's, KFC, and Apple come to mind.

I think Uber failed to adapt to local conditions. I was in China about a year ago and suggested Uber a couple of times, but we always ended up using Didi. A major part of that was payments: Didi integrated with the mobile provider's payment system making everything nice and transparent, while Uber wanted a credit card.
(I live in Vancouver.)

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.
> I'm not sure I'd agree that WP is undeserving of some sneering. It is one of the worst made things I have ever seen.

It's not so poorly made that it's unusable. Even from a development perspective.

I've seen quite a few beautifully-engineered projects that failed in some critical, unresolvable way or (more often than not) were just plain unusable.

The entire world is built on shitty infrastructure that gets the job done.
I would love to see a similarly detailed write-up on your guys' transition from Riak to Cassandra. Especially considering you would have been really, really deep into the details and guts of operating Riak at the red-line from your time at Voxer.
If Burger King introduced a new burger called the "Large Mac", how prominent the "golden arches" logo is for McDonald's doesn't factor at all into whether or not this is trademark infringement. Same goes for this: is there the possibility of confusion between "Macbook Air" and "Netbook Air"? Let's say Joe Consumer heard a radio/podcast advertisement for the new "Netbook Air" (obviously there is zero chance of seeing a logo for such audio media) -- is there the possibility Joe would associate that product with Apple? That's the kind of thing a jury would need to decide.
>Its like the skinny kid hit the gym, made a ton of money and is now back in the neighbourhood throwing its weight around.

Translation: Everyone loves it when autocratic toughmen are in charge and get results. Well, until they turn against your interests and now you bemoan not supporting a more open and democratic system. First they came for the Socialists...

Its incredible how we're throwing away thousands of years of government theory here because one country can mass produce disposable tech garbage for the world and suddenly autocracy and totalitarianism is popular with geeks and MBA's because of it.

The whole "rise of the BRICS" choir that dominated this site and reddit for the past few years is starting to fall silent as Russia and Brazil's economies continue to do poorly and as China enters its first major growth downturn. Turns out "BRICS autocracy and corruption is just as good as Western democracy and open government and markets" didn't work out in practice. The autocratic approach is just central-planing with a different face and as such isn't agile enough to move as trends and markets change.
Yeah, what a bizarre statement. CEO learns language of major non-English-speaking market. What a shocker! It's almost like companies are putting effort behind their desire to capture a potential 1.3 billion customers.
I can see a line of reasoning that suggests that if abusive patent trolls had enough success against the giant tech companies, that the tech companies might consequently lobby for patent reform (for the purpose of protecting themselves from trolls), with the additional consequence that the reform would also limit their own ability to abuse patents.

Sadly, that is not likely to happen.

IIRC, Apple lobbied for patent 'reform' that targeted NPEs, while leaving producers completely off the hook for patent abuse.
Best investment (outside of investing in myself) was buying into Ethereum when they first announced it. In the 2-3 years since, that's been up nearly 50x.
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It's definitely a good time to join or start one: Verticalized Consumer Packaged Goods startups with solid software infrastructure (hence the ability to power logistics/distribution/etc. with software) can undercut incumbents while maintaining a healthy margin.

I think the key phrase here is _verticalized_. Go-to-market as well as scaling operations is much easier when you can focus on a single product category.
While I agree that it probably does enable a certain portion of spammers, cold outreach is a necessary component to growing a company. There is nothing more effective than a well directed email stating that 1) you can solve one of their problems and 2) are you willing to purchase it today?

Skip your blog posts. Skip your viral marketing videos. Skip your media blitz. Find your customers. Find their emails (yes, using services like LeadGenius) and just simply ask them.

What would be the alternative?
So the problem is that people feel entitled to live in places they can't afford to live, because they can't deal with the "boredom" of suburbs or smaller cities/towns?

Cry me a river.
That may be the case, but why bothering interviewing if you have no intent to hire?
"What are you in for?" "Robbed a liquor store. You?" "Violated the Outer Space Treaty." "...huh..."

I agree, if I had to go to prison for something, I'd pick that.
Well I guess that's the effect of interconnectedness and globalization no? We're converging towards a more homogenized society in which everything looks the same. People who used to live and be exposed to their own local environments and ideas are now exposed to a much broader and non-local view of the world.

Ultimately this an example of how good we are at exporting culture. Yeah it kind of sucks that quaint little towns will change to become more like everything else so perhaps we will lose some sense of identity as we try and reinvent ourselves according to the new culture. But well, that's the way things are after all. People change.
They're also the ones bringing PHP into the modern world and making it much harder to sneer at.

There are some plain-crazy things about this language, but there are also some plain-crazy things about other popular languages too. It's like we forget that JavaScript was absolutely reviled for over a decade. PHP is undergoing a JavaScript-like transformation, though it will never get that kind of popularity because of the lack of client-side browser usability.
I always wonder who are the idiotic supporters of trump and what were they thing? Now I found one. So trump raises 10% import tax, how will that affect prices and the economy. You are such a genius. The world is a dangerous place because of people like you with half brains.
I wonder. I've done a bunch of interviews and will tailor basic questions based on the resume. If they claim to understand networking, I'll ask them a basic "what is ping?" then progress to something like "what does arp do?" Then maybe a tricky, "whats the difference between a timeout and route unavailable error when pinging a host" And hit other topics. I wonder if this is too quizzy?

If it's about Bash, then basic questions about variables, exit statuses and such are asked. Surprisingly, so many people's resume accomplishments don't line up with what I'd imagine would be the type of knowledge they should/would carry based on the accomplishment.

If the candidate is out of college, then I am a bit more forgiving since I wouldn't expect them to know the intricacies of certain software stacks, but for someone working with something for 2-3 years can't really explain what they put on their resume, it's a big red flag and plays a very large part in disqualifying the person based on their technical merit alone even without getting to the "does this person play well with others" aspect of interviewing.
I am more curious to know how did this question is in the front page of the website with less than 10 points, in less than 5 minutes of posting, and zero comments (at least by the time I wrote this comment).

And just to answer the question, I am not a fan of investments, after three failures during the past years where I lost more than 50% of my money after making the bad decision to buy stock from three banks around seven years ago, then with all my patience I waited and waited to realize that the stock was going down by the hour, after five years I decided that I didn't want to lose more money and sold, and lost exactly 54% of my initial investment.

Way to start my adulthood eh? :D
I think this article confuses self-confidence with humility. They seem to be arguing against arrogance, rather than against self-confidence. You need both self-confidence and humility to be a good programmer.
That is, I think, how the US used to be prior to the 60s.

Take a look at the reminescences of this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Gergel
It is very easy to write a virus that is not detected by any anti-virus. I don't see how dropping an SSH key on some machine is worse than dropping a remote shell on it.

It's not like SSH keys are stealthy or something - any sysadmin worth his salt will occasionally look at his authorized_keys list.
I'm sure in your patent you've covered the five or ten possibilities you came up with - moving the goalposts from "sudden[ly] the idea is not so obvious" to "and suddenly coming up with an n+1th solution on the spot wasn't so easy." Well sure, after you've specifically ruled out all the obvious, direct, ways to do it, that came to you in minutes after the basic idea...

The proof of it is that you say " I filed a patent for the automatic calculation of legal fees based on information contained in a charging document". That's not a method, it's a result. You abused the system to own a result, as opposed to specific way to achieve that result.
Well, I wouldn't use a closureless/continuationless language for a UI except as a platform for a higher language. This is 2016 and the lack of such primitives are absurd.

For the time, Swing was pretty good. Things have moved on and now data flow and state management are primary selling points—see things like CoreData (I'm not really aware of anything like it in other languages) or two-way binding that's prevalent in javascript libraries. This by no means solves state management but I think the primitives are easier to reason with.
Currently sitting in my apartment on the couch and get 27/12Mbps with a ping of 33ms on Telekom LTE, that should be enough for anything you can do on a mobile device. Not sure what other major cities are getting and i don't doubt the average could be higher, but it's not that bad. Congstar is also a lower cost ISP, so even if its D1, it's not the same quality of service. For example it's limited to 20Mbps in most cases vs Telekom which goes up to 300Mbps in the center of Berlin.
"To avoid gaining a bad IP reputation, we make requests from a large number of servers, any of which will be turned off it our system detects its IP is temporarily graylisted by some larger email server.

In the unlikely event that all our servers are graylisted at the same time, the API might be down. Within a few minutes, our automated system will create new servers elsewhere."

I just threw up a bit in my mouth. I guess the weekend project is to spin up an automated abuse reporting service for requests made from Anymail's virtual machine farm. I'm sure AWS would be pleased to hear they're running command and control for a botnet.

Do not abuse the commons for profit.
Since I'm developing a new game, I will be porting it to VR at some point. Right now I don't have the equipment.
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I'm a regular at leaving "TODO" in the code. It's a reminder that the implementation wasn't great and requires another look at some point. If something breaks it's the first thing I fix in that related code. It's okay to simply not have time to write every piece of code to perfection - it's important to capture that fact though.

Another regular thing I use is "NOTE" for code that really is not obvious at all. If my code doesn't read easily, other programmers (or my future self) know to check it for in depth information.

If at the time of writing code you recognise it's difficult to understand or not completely correct then I think it's the perfect time to capture that information into the code.
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Farming on any sort of serious scale requires tons of capital.
And if you got the choice of hiring someone with 5 year experience or 20, which would you choose?
I guess they differ in that one interactively prompts you for each change and one just shows you all the changes at once. But it's similar in that both are a way to confirm that you're committing only what you want to commit.
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If you're correct, then Snopes starts dealing in non-facts. Suddenly they have to say "this meme infers Hillary is an asshat." That's not verifiable in any way. It's a feeling you have based on your (widely-shared!) views. I think fact-checkers should deal in facts.

Snopes does not rate the claim true, and that's really all I'm taking issue with. I'd like them to rate it for truthiness and then give some evidence and context. No need for them to guess at what the author was inferring.
Something of a difference between finding the flexible nasa waiver rule and actually obtaining a nasa waiver.
There are two things we are recommending against.

1. Sinking too far into a rut, getting to the point where you have a narrow specialty (fine) but identify with it and are uncomfortable with even thinking about anything outside it.

2. Trying to do everything. With all due respect to Heinlein, specialisation exists for good reason. There will be zillions of worthwhile things you never learn much about because you can't spare the time, and that's okay.

In other words, being I-shaped is a problem when circumstances change, and being rectangular is a fool's errand; that's the context in which we recommend being T-shaped.
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ref. Yale (wash your hands aftah ya piss...lol).

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I'll have to sell all my bitcoins to buy this.
There is a massive amount of US wealth landlocked in China, there's no way a US president is going to risk having China appropriate all that wealth a la Castro. If you really believe Trump will go through with his childish bravado then I feel sorry for you and for all his voters but I get why it has made him popular. When it comes to China it's too late to do anything too drastic to reverse this situation and given the risks involved there probably isn't much will to rock the boat either.
MySQL does need improvements. This [0] is an example.

[0] https://github.com/facebook/mysql-5.6
There's nothing preventing you from transporting an SSH public key over some other secured channel. Then it's "I know that you are someone that has access to the SSH key transported over that secure channel".
TSMC have two 16nm fabs and are building a 10nm fab.
In the aftermath of the financial crisis, we frequently heard the term moral hazard.

The reason why bailout money couldn't be used to restructure underlying mortgage debt directly, we were told, is that individual consumers would see it as license to take on risky housing debt, believing that the government would bail them out again in the future.

Unfortunately, that's exactly what happened, with one small difference. Because it was the banks that were recapitalized, the largest banks are actually incentivized to make risky bets, seeking higher returns.

The bailout now constitutes an implicit government guarantee.
We have a Django installer in Virtualmin (maybe only in the commercial version, but I think we tend to put "developer" tools into the OSS version, as well...so it might be in all versions; there's 100, or so, installers in the commercial version and only a handful in the GPL version). I was unaware of Django CMS, and no one has requested it, as far as I know...we pretty much build what our customers ask for.

We welcome community contributions of installers, and those always go into the OSS version of Virtualmin, as long as the person is willing to help maintain it long-term, and it is generally usable on a wide variety of our supported operating systems without too much effort (e.g. it works without needing a super new version of the language). Adding such an installer does put the app in front of about 100,000 users (which is roughly our current installation count of Virtualmin GPL), so that's cool and probably is a useful use of time/effort for someone wanting to make a web application more visible and more widely used.

We're working on better support for multiple versions of Python, as that's also a problem for more widespread adoption of Python apps (and Ruby, and Node, and Perl, etc.). Most rely on very, ridiculously, new versions of the language, whereas PHP apps almost always have a low barrier to entry that matches what an old version of CentOS shipped with. So, users don't just need to install the application or framework, they also need to install a personal version of the language it is written in. That's a bridge too far, for the vast majority of beginners. We already support multiple PHP versions, as that was a priority for many of our users, but we're just getting started looking into stuff like rbenv, plenv, pyenv, etc. for private versions of languages.

The problem of needing very new versions of the language currently leads to a lot of our supported non-PHP apps being unsupported on the most popular systems, without some extra hoops to jump through; CentOS 6, which still has more active installs than anything else, can't run many modern Ruby, Python, or Perl applications, without installing a newer version of the language. SCL provides newer versions of some of those, so it's not insurmountable, but it's still a leap for many non-technical users.

Anyway, it's worth being aware that using the latest and greatest language features is fun, but it's also limiting reach. (Even once we automate all of this for other languages than PHP, Virtualmin is still running on a tiny number of the servers in the wild, relatively speaking.)
I've only invested in two things outside of my 401k: Yahoo and Ethereum. Yahoo at $50, and Ethereum at $16. I am horrible at investing. I spent $200 on Yahoo and $40 on Ethereum, since I was just messing around, but damn do I feel discouraged.
It absolutely does.

"Possibly huge" breach -> There's a breach, but we don't know if it's huge or not.

"Possible" huge breach -> We don't know if there's a breach, but if there is, it's a huge one.

"Possible huge data breach" is more accurate in this situation.
It would run as your user. The files there aren't owned by root.
Not specific to learning but the book "Essentialism" is good.
I deal with writing software for some shipping and logistics as part of my job.

This is already how a lot of this stuff works.

A manufacturer ships stuff to a DC, which ships stuff to a 3rd party pool provider, which ships stuff to a store, which then ships stuff to the customer (via "regular" mail).

Each step can be thought of as trading throughput for latency. Some manufacturers only ship things to the DC like once every few months (sometimes thousands of containers at a time), the DC to pools once a week (generally in tractor trailers), the pools to stores once a day (in either trailers, or delivery trucks), and the stores to customers multiple times a day (regular mail)

Adding another step on the end of that seems like the most likely "end goal" to me.

Get around the problem of the inefficient "last mile" of delivery by making the delivery truck a drone platform.
actually I watched the video and the errors happend here are more cultural errors.
I guess the switch is more like a "we failed, so we start new".
and new means with something different.

also their replication strategy looked like a joke and not enough automation. hopefully they never use galera, else their bad engeering practices could actually suffer in huge data losses.

I've once run galera-cluster and it pretty easy came to data losses especially after short network splits which occured randomly at the network.
Assuming you're supporting iOS and Android (which, by now, I'd hope to God you are, if you want any sales...) - you can use a Google Cardboard headset along with the Unity SDK for a total of $4 if you've already got an iPhone/Android handset.
curl https://.../hook.sh > .git/hooks/pre-commit

This seems like a bad idea, since you may already have a commit hook that this would clobber.

Does anyone use any kind of plugin manager for git hooks? I know I can just build a shellscript (and have done so extensively) but is there something like pathogen / npm / bundler for a pluggable git hook architecture?

https://github.com/brigade/overcommit seems to be an option, anyone have experience with that?
I didn't say that fairness does not exist, or that there are not standards for fairness for some things. I said there is no standard for determining the fairness of what someone is paid. There are plenty of areas of life where fairness can be determined.
I completely agree. Ironically our laptop screens are smaller than ever.
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I don't live in Silicon Valley so this is a genuine question: Are things starting to fall apart over there or is Kent Beck just offering up some sage advice? (Either way: Thanks, Kent!)