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I have never had a project manager who did not have software development skills and experience. It really doesn't make a difference: they still need to trust the team they're leading.

Developers need an appropriate level of authority.

Building something safety-critical? Every dev needs to be able to "pull the rope and stop the train" if something isn't right.

Building a toy? Kick the "this is fragile, should we do it?" questions up to the PM.

I don't want my devs deciding to arbitrarily gold-plate every trivial feature, but at the same time, if there's a latent quality problem, I need to know about it.
I agree that object destructuring makes the code far less readable. Array destructuring however is easy for anyone to grok.
Yet the article you just commented on lists some concrete ways it affected everyone; like increased TLS usage, FDE and e2e encryption being standard with consumer products and general increase in public awareness around online privacy.
I think the impact here has been less with individual users getting better about security and more that companies and developers have been spurred to try and do something about it. For example let's encrypt might not exist and that's led to a huge amount of traffic moving to https. Or the rise of more easy to use encrypted messaging apps like ete encryption in WhatsApp.
You're correct. There are more inspirations. But the fact that he didn't cash out in the way that you wanted doesn't make him a failure.
Remote code execution for one: https://oreoshake.github.io/xss/rce/bugbounty/2015/09/08/xss...
The issue was the trial went wrong, not that the death penalty is wrong.
The goals he's currently aiming for seem different from the ones he used to have. I support their original goals, and they've done some good stuff, but these days Wikileaks seems to be entirely about Assange, his cult of personality, and his vendetta with everybody he imagines is after him.
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I've seen polls with Trump coming 4th for people in the younger age groups, so again, on the face of it, that doesn't seem unexpected to me.
http://www.27bslash6.com/ - lots of crazy stories from David Thorne

Some particular good ones are:

http://www.27bslash6.com/f26a.html

http://www.27bslash6.com/arguments.html

http://www.27bslash6.com/covers.html
I was going to say something along these lines (tho more of a "cautionary tale" than absolute "no company can") Having worked for Nokia when they absolutely dominated the supply chain for their phones, this indeed gets you to the position of "top 10 brand in the world" but it isn't enough to keep you there.

That said, I think Apple it much better positioned than Nokia and much more focused on continual disrupting their own position (ipad to phone to tablet to watch is an interesting morph away from single product). So long as they can keep innovating and dominate the supply chain, I believe they will have some long legs.
There is a fair bit in common between the different versions of SSL/TLS, and functions and constants in OpenSSL tend to get get named with the version of the protocol they were introduced in.

So "SSL3_AL_WARNING" isn't necessarily exclusively used in SSLv3, if the format wasn't changed in TLS.
That doesn't really help them compete in the AI space.
> Azure seems to be doing well and some people expect it to overtake AWS sooner rather than later in market share.

Source?

Edit: Sorry, that was lazy of me. Googled: https://mspoweruser.com/cio-surey-finds-microsoft-azure-will...

A bit of a biased source, "mspoweruser".

Read a bit more.. We'll have to see how the offerings change or evolve in the next 5 years.

Edit 2: https://rcpmag.com/articles/2016/08/02/microsoft-behind-aws-...
AWS is still > 30% of the overall market, Azure hitting around ~9%.
And I hate it when a site is loading JavaScript from a large domain, e.g. cloudflare.com; generally I just close my browser window and view something else.

No way am I going to allow JavaScript from every single site using CloudFlare to run all at once.
To the other responses I'll add that very often the right model is to compose containers within a system, not processes within a container. Most of the OP's concerns in this area stem from the basic misconception that containers are sort of like VMs, and so it's sort of wasteful to only run a single process in one. Containers are very lightweight jails to run a process in, and all the containers running on a system can communicate with each other over the docker bridge with one hop.
I check it occasionally when doing a same-day hotel booking and I have never found a good deal. (I've only tried it for US hotels.) Very often the best price I have already found for a hotel will be matched on Hotel Tonight, but then they add their fee on top of it, making it a worse deal. And I don't like that they don't tell you about this fee till late in the purchase flow. Plus (and my info could be out of date on this point), HT doesn't tell you the bed situation in the room. Whereas on other booking sites, I know it's going to be two queens or whatever.
It's almost like Apple has uncovered a new kind of product microeconomics -- luxury commodity, a commodity product where luxury pricing increases demand. It's a cheap way for consumers to signal upscale fashion.

(This is me appreciating the enemy's skill from afar. I do not personally like Apple products. Just as I prefer wearing paint-stained sweatpants and 10-year-old extra-large t-shirts, as well as running linux on 8-year-old workstation. My favorite "smart"phone is a blackberry classic.)
I don't know if Alexa is the "best" voice assistant, but up until Google Home ships (has it yet?) it's the "only" voice assistant in the place that voice assistants actually matter.

It'll be interesting to see if Google overtakes the Echo. I'm not a fan of Google's "no apps" approach.
This is late, but checkout hellobonsai.com ... I'm a freelancer and use it for all my clients. Customized pre-made contracts + built in invoicing and payments through Stripe, Bonsai takes a very minimal fee too..

Made my life so much easier..
"Respect yourself and write software as you wish to, not the cloud computing corporations are happy to."

> boycott docker

Right...
Promises definitely do not just "wrap around" callbacks https://blog.domenic.me/youre-missing-the-point-of-promises/
That's very definitely the result of both council and cultural factors. Brighton is special.

Mind you, so are a lot of other places. I see from http://www.rudi.net/node/22184 that Cambridge is very clone-ridden, which feels about right. It's an odd collision between architecturally interesting colleges and medieval street layout on the one hand, but an almost total lack of properly local shops due to high costs. Since the takeover of Heffers and Eaden Lilley the only one I can think of is Mackay's.
This is a fair point. My original comment should have been more specific: cities with above average zoning restrictions consistently see higher housing costs. A corollary of which is that excessive zoning also leads to higher costs, unless your position is there is no city with excessive zoning.
Meh, it's probably less diverse than any one state in the US. It's probably less diverse than most cities, and equally made up of disparate parts.
Yeah, that happens. I believe the rule is that the master tenant may not charge the subtenant more than the master tenant is paying.

http://sfrb.org/topic-no-154-limits-rent-charged-master-tena...

One trick is to charge equal rent while occupying a much nicer space in the house. The link above tries to address this. For instance, a larger bedroom with attached bathroom could be considered more valuable. Most common, the master tenant lives in it but collects equal rent from the subtenant who lives in a smaller bedroom with poor light and a long walk down the hall to the bathroom - in this case, the subtenant could probably challenge this arrangement and get a reduction in rent. Another approach, I suppose, would be to "overvalue" the larger bedroom and collect an unusually large payment from the new subtenant, say an 80/20 split justified by the notion that the new tenant gets a nicer bedroom.

One thing to keep in mind is that SF is a pretty pro-tenant city. A master tenant who does this can get into major trouble. Of course, if a subtenant hauls the master tenant in front of the board, it'll be war in that house. Buy hey, this is SF real estate, it's war anyway, right?
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I also did a lightning talk demo on Nashorn vs Node performance a few months ago (local JS user group).

For the little string mashing benchmark I put together (originally to compare sequential / fork / thread performance in various languages), Nashorn's (Java 8) JIT eventually catches up and passes Node. Alas, it's one of those "O(n) for large n" problems where n has to be around a million before this happens.

... And Perl still mops the floor up with all of them. (Perl is good at string handling, even if not so much at many other things)
If I wasn't aware enough about the US political landspace, reading that I'd be convinced that the NCPPR representative could only be a bad plot by Apple for PR. I mean, "commit to doing only those things that were profitable"? It's like asking if he plans to add "Darth" to his name.
We've funded companies all over the place, and it just so happens many of them are in SF. If anything, the ongoing housing crisis that's systemically being ignored by local politicians is making it that much more likely our next startups don't start out in SF.

We've always been pretty sector agnostic, but we're software folks so that's what we know best. A lot of the things we're spending the most time with are "file cabinet" industries — any market where if you walk into the dominant player's office, you see lots of file cabinets or fax machines. A software-enabled startup will probably do a lot in those spaces. What's funny is you can pretty directly extend that to any business that still mainly runs on Microsoft Excel and email too.

Founders matter, but so do markets. We've seen so many of our talented friends end up working on new capabilities that don't solve a specific problem, or don't have a real market. It definitely takes both.
No. The price is jacked up because insurance companies negotiate down, so providers have to price anchor high in order to receive payment at a sustainable level. They can't offer you a cash rate without hell from insurance companies, so you encounter the uninsured negotiation dance.
What a rant about Docker! Would love to hear the motivations for setting up this site.

It seems that the owner of the domain [1] likes boycotting [2] a lot. Not that a disagree with him.

[1]

Registrant ID: XGX4VME-RU

Registrant Name: Sergey Matveev

Registrant Email: stargrave@stargrave.org

[2] http://www.stargrave.org/Boycotting.html#Boycotting
Can anyone recommend books or online courses that teach ES6 for someone just starting out with JS?
So... what would an example informal proof look like?
Given that it was broadcasting weather information, I wonder whether it was truly unknown to the Allies.
China has a birth rate distinctively under the one necessary for a constant population. But as people keep living longer, the total population is going to grow slightly for some years to come. The bigger environmental impact is, that the energy consumed per citizen is still growing as prosperity develops.
I was hoping for some reasoned arguments from experience, but this just seems like a rant from someone who has read about Docker.
Why the title doesn't say it's about JS? It could be about Python or C#, etc.
I agree, I don't know if it's the best. I just know that it recognizes the words I say to it better than any other I have used, oftentimes without needing to speak in the artificially clear voice that most tend to associate with voice control.
Have they really, though? I mean, sure, they've got the ole' hype train's pistons pumping and the fanboys woohooing, but they still have produced a version of Windows that is clunky and controversial. They open sourced some stuff, but that's only because they are pushing for the clouds, not some actual change in philosophy. Microsoft's changes are all skin deep.
isn't the point that anything that fork()s can't run?
Hi Garry, congrats and good luck!

My question: will you follow other investors pattern for whom only warm introductions matter?

I read in the press other SV investors stating that exactly zero investments were made as a consequence of a pitch through the contact email. Will this be true to you as well?

thanks!
About a month ago I started visiting again after years of it being long-forgotten. I was pleasantly surprised to see it's still (kinda) going strong. Reminds me a bit of Medium today, but a lot less preachy.
The vendor lock in thing has embarrassingly been a concern of mine as well. It seems presently you are either locked in with your cloud provider or your locked with docker (e.g. using Google container engine vs Google deployment manager).

As a JVM shop I just can't see the value of using Docker when we can provision faster images using the cloud providers API (ala libcloud, jclouds, or directly using gcloud) and just build exectuable uber jars. That is in JVM land you only need to install Java (and for Go and Rust I suppose you have even less dependences).

I understand the value in the OSS world of providing docker images but I'm not sure I can justify the complexity of switching over yet. Are there any major companies (especially JVM) that have fully dockerized (ie converted and not started off using docker)? I know Netflix started too but I'm not sure they every did fully.
From self-funding to a $30M acquisition. Well done.
Another reason is the use of dynamically typed languages. In Java/C++ many categories of bugs would not compile, but for today's JS/python you need an order of magnitude more unit tests. Now you got a pike of crap that's even harder to refactor.
For the kids out there: “original Surface” isn’t what you think. It was a “smart table” and its most compelling use case was to present a menu right underneath your place setting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxk_WywMTzc
True, worded that poorly. The resolutions are always executed asynchronously, versus a callback approach where the code receiving the callback can inappropriately and unexpectedly choose to execute the callback synchronously.
Yep, exactly. I think most of the time management isn't totally blind to the risks of crap software, it's just a matter of weighing the time & cost vs risk and deciding what the acceptable ratio is. Obviously I want to put out the absolute cleanest, best possible application, but one that gets the job done without crashing is all the business can justify time & cost-wise.
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So is Hacker News. And Slashdot. And reddit... The internet is dead.
True Qwghlmanian tuning is far superior.
The baby who was born twice
Literally nothing here to see.
So many tech firms these days seem to satisfy some tiny facet of a group's demands to have/do stuff. The bigger the group's economic footprint the more the opportunity for business. But it seems to rely on "hierarchies" of social, economic status. But, basically if you have money you can avail a vast majority of today's tech firm's "products".

Sad part is that as far as I could read economies promoting this kind of behavior are the only ones doing well, yet even here(in the US) it seems things have worked out at best "average" for a vast majority of people. The ones that actually tried to do better for everyone failed spectacularly(read collectivism and socialism).

I always wondered why truly bettering ones self in every way(health, furthering ones own knowledge, exploration, helping others) are goals available only to the select few and not made available to more people more easily? Why are economic efforts geared towards these dwarf in front of more consumerist ones? Why do economics and behavior align in a way that makes it impossible to do better than a narrow predefined narrative someone set for me(or go through immense pain to achieve the one I want)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilY4hRgfC2Q
For example, I was looking at the simple task of affording a house with wife and kids and the only narrative available to have all this are "Zipcode", "School Districts" and "Zoning laws" which puts me in debt for life to get a decent thing choice for those options.

Why do smaller economies seem to do better than larger ones(like in europe). It always seems to me that the bigger the group of people that try to align towards a common goal(be it insurance premiums or world peace)
the harder it becomes. Why is this so?

And yet, in the end, by and far large my experience of living in 3 vastly varied countries in the last 20 or so years still makes US a better place to be. But things could be a bit easier/simple https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJRcDHKrSqw
I'm pretty sure Scott Adams is mentally unraveling with all the mental gymnastics he's going through projecting an image that he's not a Trump supporter.
So does that apply to say server providers like OVH or proxies like CloudFlare? What about DNS providers? What about domain registrars? TLD owners? ICANN?

Are they not allowed to host certain speech either without being deemed "socially irresponsible"? Or is there some level of removal beyond which it's okay? If you've decided they're not allowed to use the internet now, is it okay to rent them spaces? sell them land? There's no good, definite ending point to this. Which is why companies like Black Lotus, CloudFlare and OVH just get it done. I don't fault them for it at all, in fact I trust them more to keep me online if some controversy is ever stirred in my direction.
No, the alternative is for you to invest $100M of your own money into a company to do things in this other alternative instead of the reflexive negativity that's going on here. I know it's easier to complain about how someone else spends their own money though.
I am not sure it has. Surface isn't exactly an ipad killer. And the more I use Windows 10, the more I miss Windows 7.
It's a real shame. I used Elance for around four years (as a client, not a freelancer). This was before Elance merged with Odesk and became upwork.

I'm sure elance had issues. But I noticed a marked uptick in problems when the upwork migration became. The Elance interface was old school, but very functional.

Upwork was confusing. The migration was a mess and made me a freelancer by default, as I had also had a minor freelance profile on elance that I had never used. Took weeks to resolve.

The desktop app....actually, I don't remember the issue, but it led to me leaving the platform entirely. I think messages took ages to load.

I will eventually look for new freelancers, and I'll need to figure out a replacement when I do. It sounds like Upwork is not a great place to be for a freelancer now – and that means the quality ones will be elsewhere.

As a client, I want freelancers to be able to make money, and to denounce bad clients. By catering excessively to clients, Upwork is going to select for toxic clients.
Some people are ashamed of some things their countries have done. But none of them were ever the champion of freedom the way the US used to be, and few slid down as hard as the US did while still claiming moral superiority.

Though I can imagine Belgians having been pretty ashamed in 1908.
Scientist claims that universe might not be expanding at an accelerating pace
TVTropes is the big one, the vortex from which all other rabbit holes stem.

The SCP foundation is also excellent, and The Digital Antiquarian is my new favorite.

Fallen London is a browser MMOCYOA on steroids, and it's glorious.

The Jargon File (before ESR ruined it with the latest round of updates) was amazing, and still is great fun.

Bash.org is another classic rabbit hole, although far from the best for that purpose.

And Youtube contains many rabbit holes, but my favorite by far is Tom Scott's youtube channel. Also of note is Tom & Matt's Park Bench, where he vlogs with Matt Grey on a semi-regular basis, Yahtzee Crowshaw's channel, where he used to play games with Gabriel Morton in his "Let's Drown Out" series, and Channel Awesome. Just, all of Channel Awesome.
Agile and architecture, finally friends after 15 years
>It's clever because you aren't a memory design or test engineer. This type of problem has been known and tested for since shortly after DRAM was invented

...yeah...sometimes it happens that you are ignorant of the details of a topic...and learning more about it can feel magical...
Heh, thanks for reminding me of that.
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We're trying to figure out ways to get around this for later stage seed investments. We don't have a solution yet, but we're working on it.

In a thread below I talk about file cabinet industries — industries that basically have no software, and are horribly inefficient. Investing is absolutely one of those, but only using email and calendaring. The main bottleneck for investors is number of hours in the day, because there are very few people making all the decisions. Warm intros are the only way a non-software system can work.

So, spoiler alert, software. :-)
By that metric, was it ever alive beyond its infancy?
Agree.

We would have dramatically less surveillance programs, automated enforcement and bombs if there wasn't as many people ready to blindly write the software for them.

We should be thinking hard about what we are building and how it will be [ab]used, especially in government.
http://clientsfromhell.net

http://trenchescomic.com/tales/post/9810 (dead, but a lot of content there)
"All versions (SSL3.0, TLS1.0, TLS1.1, TLS1.2) are affected." according to http://security.360.cn/cve/CVE-2016-8610/

It would be helpful if the researchers clarified how potent this DoS attack vector is. Is sending "a large number of these large records" more efficient at denying availability than a naive flood using e.g. SYNs or UDP?
It's not mine but I recently started to use it as a place to share and organize what I learned from open source projects.
"got a major release of Windows out without the usual trauma"? Did he already release Windows8? If Steve Blank talks about Windows 10 he must have missed something, or the usual trauma he experiences is way worse than what I would even think possible as an extreme case.
I read up on it.

And I also read RationalWiki claiming that they hate SRS, which is enough information for this post.
China is also building many dams. I wonder what the downstream ecological impact is (apart from the normal riparian impact).
Some of these features are really nice, but JS is on a path to become as complex as C++.
Has anyone seen an explanation of how the telnet port on these devices is getting exposed to the internet to be exploited? I would think that most home users are behind a NAT device. Even with UPnP, why would the manufacturer have that port set to be forwarded?
State of the JavaScript Ecosystem in 2016
Extremely smart purchase by the Grey Lady, if you ask me. And a good deal for the price. Feeds naturally into their slick online presence, adds content in very popular topic areas—areas that people with disposable income like to read about.
It takes courage to make products that can't be used (fully) while they charge. Magic mouse, Macbook, now iPhone.
Yes, they have. I know there is a lot of institutional hatred for Microsoft from the tech sector that will take a while to overcome. But you'll be able to call changes "skin deep" forever if you choose to explain anything positive away as marketing only.
In my opinion it's fine to start from top rated entries.

http://www.scp-wiki.net/top-rated-pages
2 flawed products does not negate everything else that has improved. I say this as someone who still has not bought a Microsoft product in over 5 years.