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It looks, corporate world and serious projects already bet on more opinionated, more standardized option, so they bet on Ember.js. Luckily Ember.js is improving nicely, super fast, easy to use, easy to learn and a super smart community around it. CLI, data management, addon ecosystem are just a few feature, what makes it unique. Vue.js, React, Angular should learn from Ember, however they are 1-2 years behind Ember, so it takes a while to catch up.
I actually meant democratizing the network effect that Medium has. The "free marketing" bit.

I mean, right now one can pretty freely go write up a blog using self-hosted wordpress, octopress, pelican, hugo or whatever. But choosing that over Medium can sometimes mean a lot more work to put in. But if we can democratize the ease-of-use and the good bits of Medium/Facebook/Twitter... Maciej's end statement about "using open standards, write text in text, images in images" would have been achieved.

The problem is that corporations now create a significantly more compelling version (in most criteria - UX, UI, etc) of the Free and Open versions out there.
No need to apologize! I just wanted to give you my earnest reaction, as I suspect others may have reacted like me.

And 2 hours of work is still a product! It's an efficiently-built product, which is a good thing!
I would use an analysed algorithm such as Argon2 and be done with it. If you're so worried about bcrypt, why do you use PBKDF2 which is no better?
One easy alternative to AWS is just shovelling your cash directly onto a bonfire.

However, if you care about the actual server bit, Rackspace have their 'hybrid' cloud offers. There's a small but well-thought-of company in the UK called Bytemark who have a cloud offering but I doubt it qualifies as having a global footprint.
The issue might be due to not all intel chips have AVX support. That said, many have hardware AES support so.... alternate code path?
and "upload"?

"what intrigues him is their potential effect on the world. To determine that, he’ll upload all he needs to know about, say, urban planning or nuclear fusion."
>By providing quality software that lets me and thousands of others get useful work done, and not forcing us to accept onerous licensing terms in the process?

That software (desktop Linux/UNIX) comes for free, and yet, only 1% or less (from browser stats of major traffic points) seem to opt to use it as their desktop.

Is this the kind of difference the parent was describing? Letting a small minority of people avoid "onerous licensing terms" that billions of others are OK and can get "get useful work done" with?

In the server, of course, it's a whole different story.
>She is a registered nurse, so she can easily get a month off at a time

Tangential, but...a friend of mine is an RN in an ICU who works nights (how he copes with the long hours is beyond me). He's struggled to get a single week off, much less an entire month without quarrel. Turnover is high, they're shortstaffed, etc. What is different about your wife's hospital (maybe there's less pressure and more nurses available in other sections of a hospital)?
And in microservices you can just pick whatever stack you feel is the best for just that task
"Economic growth" can exist on a computer screen completely decoupled from the "real world" and independent of a strong middle class.

IMHO An economically strong middle class is needed to maintain social order. This mitigates the public from hunting and and killing the rich and keeps the public from displacing their social frustrations on to each other and creating riots. Generally its a better existence for everyone.
Yep -- this one puzzled me so much that I assumed I was in the wrong, because surely there's no way that a writer for the New Yorker would make a mistake that egregious. I must have read that sentence twenty times.
Well you should; it's wasteful not to. But if you find yourself regularly not eating portions you are makin for yourself, try makin smaller portions!
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Then you eat crow and post a retraction, which also can't be deleted.

The other alternative is to not have a verified account, then you can post whatever you want and then, ahem, delete it.
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>Yes they (we) are.

I didn't say researchers and/or individual people are not making such judgements about billions of others (e.g. "the Chinese suck/are great").

I said they are not "hooked up in huge services" to make them automatically for billions of individuals -- like an ML algorithm used by Google or Amazon or some government agency etc would do.
According to Wikipedia, most Celerons and Pentiums lack AVX but have the AES instructions.
Would an offline code review application work? something which synced the comments on internet access resuming? I am planning something similar with https://about.preen.ly
I had a similar experience. I was brought on as a junior fresh out of university and quickly made a name for myself in the company, I wasn't the top developer by any means, but after a few years and a couple of pay rises, the £32k/year they were paying me (in central London) was definitely much lower than what I should have been getting.

One of my colleagues had the year before, and had recently got funding for his startup. He offered myself and another developer a job, so we went to tell our boss together who obviously wasn't too pleased. He then spoke to us separately about negotiations, and he offered me £55k/year. The look on his face when I said "Sorry, but they are offering me much more than that" was priceless.

A few years later (after all the team I'd worked with had left) I went back to what was left of the company as a contractor for a few months. I was earning more per week, than I was per month, when I first started.
Yea, but they can't (easily) edit or patch after a merge.
Compression is not really that useful except on large values or large numbers of values. Other than column stores, I don't think most storage engines actually compress the data (as opposed to indices) across rows (because it would slow down reads and writes dramatically) so there's really no point in compressing tiny strings. Page-level compression might be useful, I guess, depending on your use case.
Shh. Don't tell them about Bellingham. Haha
Right, I got that.
I guess I meant to say- start young. Provide a compelling alternative to ad-driven consumerism... Otherwise, it seems that you're just talking about creating another new corporation with an more compelling (even if nonsensical) reason to adopt.
Radiation hormesis is one of those junk science topics that persists in the literature despite many thorough efforts to debunk it.
Agreed. On top of that Netflix is by far the best platform for Marvel superheroes. Daredevil, Jessica Jones and now Luke Cage are quality shows that would not work as well on TV and IMO have been far more enjoyable than most Marvel movies. The extra 10 hours for these tv series afford writers an opportunity to build better villains, examine more themes and more surprises.
I love soo much Material Design. Now Material Design with Bootstrap is soo cool solution. I waiting for Material Design with foundation.
Anyone tried Alibaba's cloud: https://intl.aliyun.com/ ?
Makes sense. I personally read some of the comments before jumping into an article, mainly because comments most of the time loop me in on something that I am completely clueless or have little aware of. Also to see if the article is worth reading into because obviously if you read 20 people saying "The author of the article doesn't know what he is talking about" then its more possible that indeed the author has written about something he doesn't know or understand.

Also a lot of the times the solutions given or explanations are amazingly good and entertaining. Thanks to YC I've become a better person I'd say.
Sure, but trust is widely used in security, in exchange for dramatically higher usability/productivity.

If I were to personally inspect every software (and hardware where possible) I use I would barely be up to date on 1995 versions of computing.

I outsource this trust to an aggregation of online communities I believe in. This post dramatically lessens my trust in NoScript.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_relational_datab... has better information :)
I do admire all the ambition. But does it really have to be mixed in with views such as "Democracy only works in a growing economy. Without a return to economic growth, the democratic experiment will fail. And I have to think that YC is hugely important to that growth." I'm sure Sam (and other SV types) is well aware of the complexity of reality and that YC, as one company, cannot be hugely important to that growth. In other words, if YC simply stopped functioning tomorrow, I can't imagine the GDP growth of the United States would be at all affected. Guys, what you're doing is very, very impressive, but, c'mon, let's get off the idea that you're instrumental in saving democracy for all of us (and all the other delusions of grandeur).
I let JavaScript run, but not by default, so it's like "before getting in someone else's car for the first time, I check the brakes work before going 70mph".

Of course, as long as we don't try to force our preferences on each other, we can both browse the web however we like.
> At Graham’s table, he [Altman] and others discussed how to stop Donald Trump

> If the pandemic does come, Altman’s backup plan is to fly with his friend Peter Thiel

Is this true? How does it work?

Thiel is a very vocal supporter of Trump and yet he's Altman's friend, a friend so close they would want to spend the rest of their life alone together, in the event of a catastrophe.

Altman can certainly have all the friends he wants; but he shouldn't get to pretend he opposes Trump at the same time.
Yeah, tup does something similar with FUSE (afaik) but that's not what I'm thinking about.
Not currently at least.
10 hours, 89 points and 0 comments? That's a first.
vacations, one of the worst parts of freelancing - it's not the price of it (usually flight tickets + some cash on the spot, all manageable), but the income lost while having fun that hurts bad. combine it with some mortgage, and self-pressure to just work leaves you missing some nice experiences in life (while having some extra cash too)
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I agree that this is completely nuts.

FWIW i found a much cheaper pro license (around €40, iirc) by using some product comparison sites. Basically, even though it's 2016 you can actually buy software from webshops the way you'd order hardware or shoes, and many of these shops also sell Windows 10 Pro licenses. Somehow, they're often much cheaper than what MS sells in their own store. Completely nuts if you ask me, but ok. All you get after you pay is a text file with a license code, but that's also all you need.

I still think it's insane that MS, who so badly want developers to come back to their platform, force you to be on Pro for a lot of useful stuff (including running the WinPhone emulator (!)). This disqualifies nearly all nice laptops you can buy at a good price point, unless you subsequently go through the trouble of manually finding, buying, and entering a Pro license like I did.

If anyone from MSFT is reading this: fix this! I can't walk into a store, buy some nice cheap Asus convertible, and just start coding Windows Mobile apps, and that's stupid. Your OS is getting better again, WSL is promising, we all love how badass you've been with cross platform .NET and VS Code and getting Node.JS to work great on Windows, but you're really scaring people away here.
We just announced our bare metal cloud service at Oracle.

It's still new but pretty cool team and underlying tech.
High five!
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Do you think it's wrong?
Sure, but at least should not lie about who is the committer.
Friends can disagree. Pretty sure it's as simple as that.
Open addresses: will the address wars ever end?
Career suicide for a software engineer? Unless you murdered someone and you're in prison for life, I don't see how that's possible in today's market.

Back when I worked at a bank, counter offers were the standard way of getting a raise. If you had a competing offer, the Bank would almost always match that. Meanwhile, raises were maybe 1% a year. (I remember that Illinois raised state income tax at about the same time I got a raise. I had less take-home pay after both of those took effect than before. Raises didn't even keep up with the tax burden, much less the cost of living. Not that they necessarily should, but they also didn't keep up with my career growth, which is a better benchmark.)
Primarily because people who were in the area before the developer made the apartment came to consider the on-street parking "theirs" and didn't want to share it with newcomers. It's a very inefficient allocation of space, not to mention a burden on the taxpayer to make everyone else purchase private automobile storage because you wish to have exclusive use of public automobile storage.
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I've been effectively banned from Canada. I was arrested (never charged) many years ago when I was 19. It was on suspicion of "intending to injure a vehicle" Don't ask, it was in Utah.

Anyway, the court has no records of my being arrested, but somehow the Canadian border police do.

The last time I went up to Montreal on the train I was pulled aside and asked if I'd ever been arrested. I first said no, but then laughed and said, "Yeah actually. 20 years ago."

Then I was told that they were going to let me through that time but don't come through again unless I can show proof that I wasn't charged with a crime.

I haven't been back. Though I have travelled wide and far since and not caught any slack. Seriously Canada. I like you, but you're not that awesome. Ridiculous.
There's also https://www.cloudorado.com/
nowhere near as intuitive as SHOW DATABASES.
To call people monkeys because they didn't accomplish as much as Mark Zuckerberg? Yes it's very wrong! And ironic given that MySpace had a much better exit and impact than FriendFeed (the company created by the partner quoted)
I'd worry about those licenses being real. Are the places you found them reputable? I'd be willing to be they are not.
Back then, and even now "people" are the weakest link is security. If we have to target the weakest link for our purposes, it would be people.
Thankfully those who shutdown biological weapons development in the DoD didn't follow the same logic. Purely from a strategic perspective: defense costs much more than offense, it doesn't make sense for a superpower to spend more on offense than defense when their potential adversaries can't afford to defend themselves against low cost attacks.
I think he's referring broadly to the fact that startups are net job creators whereas established companies are net job destroyers. In other words, without a continual stream of new startups and entrepreneurs, there would be no job growth in the economy at all, in which case there'd likely be significant political instability.
The x86 architecture has a large number of optional instruction sets. One of these, AES-NI, provides accelerated AES instructions. Another one, AVX, is a collection of general-purpose vector instructions. These were announced at the same time, but it seems like a large number of Intel's low-end CPUs (Celerons & Pentiums) only implement AES-NI.

Firefox's current implementation of the AES-GCM encryption mode uses AVX instructions. The bug report is a submission of a modified implementation that avoids them.
"Seriously, adults drive their cars around the neighborhood like idiots"

ftfy. If you're the one operating a two ton machine that moves at high speeds in residential neighborhoods, the onus of responsibility for not killing someone is on you.

http://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history
Yeah, that's why I've provided the link :) Alternatives!
Bash is what I miss in iOS, I used to jailbreak just for getting a shell.

Now, I use pythonista as a python-shell. Being able to chain a couple of commands and fix a good-enough solution saves a lot of time in many cases such as web scraping on-the-go.

I know this may be an extreme use case, but if iPad is going to be a laptop replacement we need to be able to get a way to speak with it without immidiate access to a laptop.
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I love Sam and just wish they would have used a different metaphor than "Manifest Destiny". Isn't manifest destiny what led to the genocide of native american populations?
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Hello, as above title saying, I will go to NewYork and I am front-end developer, What is the most productive activity I can do in NewYork ?

example) Visit Facebook NewYork branch.
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Interesting to see those IKEA cutlery drying containers being used (about 3 minutes into the video). I've often seen them used for all sorts of different purposes. A very useful product.

http://www.ikea.com/sg/en/catalog/products/70179546/
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>In some aspects they're playing catch up

And it some aspects, they are way ahead. Analytics is one of those examples.
alphabetical should be fine
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Systemd makes it easy to add additional limitations to every service you're running. More easily restrict all your services (NTP client, DNS caching server, etc).

It adds an easy to use method to restrict all of the daemons and services that someone might be running. Further, because the unit files are often shipped with the daemon/service, it'll do this by default on every install. Not just to the ones which have been looked at by a sysadmin. So a standard RHEL server by default has more restrictions than before.

The examples are pretty unconvincing IMO. The article talks about an email server. Systemd will provide an easy method to not have one service read the other one. In the examples it talks about email server and a web server. But completely ignores that someone will not just target that specific service, you could just as well compromise the NTP client and then move from there to another service.

Obviously systemd is just one small layer and security is not a yes/no thing. But why then talk specifically about systemd? The article seems to suggest that it's better to not use these abilities. This goes against the usual defence in depth security IMO.
Google cloud - I have recently been working on setting up our company's entire infrastructure on google cloud and we were up and running in no time (very happy currently).

- Great pricing

- Great API (command line, REST)

- Nearly perfect documentation

- Awesome support (I had requested to allow more static ip addresses to be reserved and they resolved my ticket in less than 4 hours)

- Very intuitive interface

They give you $300 free credits before setting up billing account for you to try the entire cloud for free. You can play around with google cloud with up to 8 VMs

They also have App engine and Container engine to manage your applications / containers at scale.

Other simple cloud features include - storage buckets, snapshots, VPNs etc.
Ideal situation is to have contingencies in place for every member of the company. Realistically it is relatively easy to have backups for producing employees where there are multiple in a team anyway - devs, ops, designers - than for managerial employees. (Managers groom their own backups iff they want to get promoted.)

So if you are a flight risk, you are unlikely to become a manager or given any additional "unique" responsibilities in terms of tech-lead or customer-facing work, unless your skills are really extraordinary and indispensable (and usually they aren't).
Source: http://xkcd.com/221/
You are thinking of Google App Engine. You want Google Computer Engine: https://cloud.google.com/compute/

"Google Compute Engine delivers virtual machines running in Google's innovative data centers and worldwide fiber network."

Azure is the other major option.
Thats always been the case with Google, they never follow through properly on any of their products.

The Pixel C is beyond irritating, the hardware is solid enough, but the tablet experience on Android is so anaemic (Even Google's own first party software is barely tablet optimised, in some cases there has been a serious regression since previous versions of their apps)
Reagan said it best - "My 80% friend is not my 20% enemy."
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AWS is just meeting the needs of the startup community, like the monthly box subscription website who believes they have the same engineering problems as Netflix.
Exoscale sits in the middle between AWS and Digital Ocean. It has a much narrower catalog than that of AWS but essential services needed to drive cloud application.
It's either an unfortunate or unflattering choice of words indeed.
Or he can use something like Heroku.
Interesting points. I guess I need some clarification as to what your perceived problem is - it sounds like email is equivalent to the phone system - are you saying you prefer facebook etc as a global directory, as opposed to specialized directories run by organizations?
Absolutely nothing. Which means that the distilled water tank would most likely be heated. If you have Bi-Xenon headlamps with washers, they most likely use heated jets already, so it's not an unusual technology in cars.
One of them is obviously Musk. I could guess on the other, but it would only be based on the "wildness" of the other billionaire's imagination.
Accepting the counter offer may not be a great strategy, but listening to it is. When changing jobs the last time, my old employer offered a salary bump to keep me. When I told this to my new employer, they immediately offered to match the salary. I ended up making more money than I would have otherwise.
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Locations with high costs of living too.
I work as a SysAdmin / DevOps and I tried many of the ones which were mentioned so far. Here is my summary. I'll skip AWS as everyone is familiar with it at this point.

Digitalocean - very friendly UI with lots of options to spin quickly virtual machines, in many different regions. Some options for backups, etc, but not much on top. They have an API that could allow you to setup orchestration though, which is pretty cool. For a small to medium shop, it should be fine.

OVH - similar story as DO, except they have a bigger network and also offer a wide range of dedicated servers. They seem to be more EU centric but also have a Canadian DC. Their 'child' services kimsurfi and soyoustart offer very affordable dedicated server options, targeted at people doing minor projects and gaming rigs. They also run runabove.com, which is their 'lab' project - here they used to offer power8 VMs, etc.

Hetzner - cheap dedicated servers in Europe. Recently added DDOS protection. They have a 'marketplace' where u can bid on dedicated servers and thus avoid initial setup costs.

Leaseweb - also pretty good, they have a range of products similar to OVH (dedicated servers, VPS, cloud, etc).

Haven't used GCE yet unfortunately, but I heard good things about it. Seems to be the only real direct contender to AWS at this point.
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Nerds are obsessive about and skilled at one thing. Geeks are good at academics in general.
For us tech-savvy people that might be an option. But for the average user it's not. Too many things don't work. I use Privacy Badger and install it on every system that I maintain. It's simple and clean, and set up by an organisation that doesn't need shady ads on its website.