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Security fixes and improvements should be made at the OS level. And it is: Microsoft, Apple and Linux receive fixes very quickly. No software editor will be able to do better than the OS to fix and stop threats.

I stopped using AV softwares a long time ago for the following reasons:

- It slows down your device (memory, cpu, disk access, etc.).

- It annoys you a lot more than it stops or solves any security concern. I've yet to hear from someone telling me their AV software saved them from an actual real virus... If this ever happens it's probably a damn advanced attack that even the AV software doesn't know about.

- It's extremely hard to remove, especially when pre-installed as a bloatware on a PC. Sometimes it's also installed as an extension of other software (browser, etc.).

- It usually takes wrong decisions (false positive) that lead to broken web pages, legitimate software that stops working, etc. And unfortunately the "standard" user has no way to figure out it's due to the AV. I can't count the number of times I had to work with my customers on figuring out what was making my website or software not run (or even not to install) on their machine.
One time I had to write to an AV editor in order for my browser extension to be whitelisted. Never got any answer...

AV softwares can be easily replaced with common sense and a set of very simple rules.

- Have a hardware/software firewall that blocks everything expect what's required (allowing only web when initiated from the machine is enough in 99% of the cases). Every major OS now comes pre-configured with a software firewall which removes 90% of the threats.

- Use a strong email service or software (gmail, etc.). This way you reduce the likelihood that a virus, spam, or fishing email passes through.

- Don't open email attachments coming from unknown or non trusted senders. Even when the sender seems legitimate, double check that the email makes sense (not an unusual behavior), pay close attention to URLs, written language and words. Don't click links without knowing where it goes (domain name, https, etc.). Email remains the most simple way to install a virus or a trojan on someone's computer so be very very attentive when acting upon an email. If you use an email provider (like gmail), report the spam or phishing attack very quickly so that 1/it can be stopped quickly for others and 2/it teaches the Machine learning to do better next time.

15 years I've been applying these rules and I never got any virus without using any AV software. My devices run like a charm (PC or Mac).

While I'm a big defender of freedom and open source, I can easily understand and forgive proprietary OS providers choices with regard to the AV editors.
The liberals are a kind of politically oppressed demographic and cultural majority. Conservatives enjoy the sensation of lording their control of the political sphere over liberals. It's validation of their position that nothing else is currently providing them.
I was literally thinking exactly the same. Apple alienating us, and then when you look back at Microsoft, they're still really haven't changed.

So I'm going to give Linux a real shot, and improve my knowledge of it, as added benefit along the way. I'm investigating now which distro to start with.

For all web dev coding work, there should be no problem.
That's irrelevant to the main point, though: that Microsoft isn't giving users a fair choice between its product and the others. Instead it's causing users to switch to its own product in a misleading and anti-competitive way (is the point of the article).
I've checked some of the diets but it is not explained why I should avoid garlic? Can you elaborate? Another problem is that by avoiding all the stuff in the "stuff to avoid" list makes dietary fibre intake problematic. How do you add more fibre to your diet if you can't eat legumes nor fruits like pear.
That's correct, for things like CSS & images it'll reload the asset without a hard reload. For HTML & JS changes it'll do a hard reload.
>> psychopathic, sexist, racist, bigoted, xenophobic, poisonous demagogue

I didn't vote for Trump, but it's a high time we stop with NYT/CNN/etc. popularized name calling.
It's an old school 1TB HDD, because I really need the storage. The drive is full of VMs of every version of Windows for cross platform testing - I actually use my Mac to mostly write Windows software!

Good point though, maybe I'll be happier if I just fork out for a 2TB SSD. But at the time Apple wanted $800 for a 1TB SSD and I wasn't prepared to pay Apple's inflated prices.
I recommend this article by Scott Adams: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/152998516891/the-de-hitlerizati...
> If I write a book, is it not enough to pay taxes on the income I get by selling my book?

If I rent out a house, is it not enough to pay taxes on the income I get from rent ?

> Should I really have to pay taxes on it to keep it out of the public domain?

Yes. If you build a house with your own two hands, should you not pay property tax on it ?
Switzerland has much more of a sense of unity than the US, which is perpetually at war with itself.

It's also surprisingly egalitarian, or at least against conspicuous inequality; you can accumulate a fortune in a Swiss bank, but you can't build a mansion that annoys your neighbors.
Gates's Microsoft. This is a Bill Gates move all the way.
Well if I remember correctly, they make it really annoying. Like you can only have one developer extension at a time, and you need to set it up again every time you restart chrome. I doubt most people will bother.
I've taken a long hard look at myself and I share
oldmanjay's sentiments.

You have other beliefs and other priorities, that's fine with me.
I actually quite enjoyed running Windows 10, but have linux installed on all my machines.

Having said that, battery life on my laptops are terrible with linux out of the box.
The very high cost of fission has a lot to do with how nasty, awkward, long-lasting and expensive the fuel and waste are. We really won't know until we try building a power plant.
a rather awful essay not worth reading. This sounds like a rather large sum of money you're paying for few minutes of internet attention on your half baked ideas about the current american political system.

You may disagree with Peter Thiel's philosophy (as I do), but you cannot deny he is a thoughtful and intelligent man who has some interesting conjectures about the future which are (in my assessment) likely to be wrong. Furthermore Thiel himself hasn't personally made any investments (apart from the trump donation) which I find personally objectionable. If you had specific quarrels with his ethics, apart form his association with trump, it'd be a different story. Your essay betrays none of that.
> 3. I have yet to see a single piece of evidence that conclusively links a warming climate with human released CO2.

Now, I don't know much about climate change either, so I googled it. The IPCC 2007 report outlined how the last 20,000 years of glacial record show a warm period very similar to the four warm periods in the 600,000 years prior. However, the CO₂, CH₄, and N₂O levels in the last 250 years have continued to rise beyond the normal peak, currently exceeding previous records by over a full range. So it's evident that something has been releasing unprecedented levels of greenhouse gases in the remarkably short time since the industrial revolution.

As for CO₂ in particular, it's merely the most direct byproduct of burning wood, coal, and oil. It's not the strongest greenhouse gas, it is the simplest causal link between the massive sustained burning of carbon and vast quantities of CO₂ spontaneously appearing. If you want to know more about how CO₂ is a greenhouse gas, I'll be happy to google that, too.
This is absolutely sensible at the current level of investment. The question is whether it would remain true with a big infusion of money or not.
The 300k net migration figure is bogus, as I already explained. The effect of natural population growth and immigration on the size of the population is roughly equal (http://www.migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings...), and natural population growth could be cut much more than immigration. You're illustrating perfectly that people don't really care about "overcrowding" at all. If they did, they wouldn't find the idea of limiting natural population growth outrageous. My reference to a one child policy was hyperbolic, but more funding for family planning would probably do the job.
Last I checked, Borland's widget library (their "Visual Component Library", or VCL) was, like React, View-only. The idea was that the view is the hard part and you, the coder, can choose how to structure the rest of your application yourself.

So sure you can put all data management right inside your Delphi form, and plenty of coders did this. You can do that with React too. But larger applications often chose to go with MVC, where the appropriate fields inside the VCL components were updated triggered by changes in the model.

It's nearly entirely the same model. The view classes (Delphi components, forms, etc) can render (by setting attributes on widgets) and have event handlers (eg onButtonClick) which in turn invoke the Controller, which makes appropriate data changes in the model.

Nothing in Delphi enforces this, but it matches really well. Thne only big thing they missed was something akin to a Virtual DOM and shouldComponentUpdate, making figuring out which fields to update when cumbersome. But there's been plenty older solutions to this problem (such as damage/repair).
Earlier submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12927657

That one is [flagged] and [dead], and doesn't even show up in search anymore, but does have some existing comments that probably should be moved to this submission.

The two submission URLs differ in the #fragment at the end. HN should probably ignore those when checking for duplicates, as in probably 99% of the cases two submissions that differ only in the fragment will be intended to be the same and the fragment difference will be due to how the submitter happened to read the article before copying the URL for submission.
I get it if that's sarcasm. Doesn't stuff like that happen everywhere?
Some of these examples made me smile. But this cannot be taken as a representative of all developers in India. I am an Indian developer, and have met several very smart people. Most of them are presently working for big US companies like Google or Adobe.

Often when I meet a programmer, I can tell if they are genuinely interested in programming, or just happen to be a programmer because of circumstances or because it's what they decided to do to make money. The latter when writing code for you would just want to somehow meet the specifications and head off for the next lunch. They would be the first ones to complain about their job on social networks. As sad as it is for them, you really don't want to hire them if your aim is to build high quality products.

There are still a lot of good, capable developers in India, available for hire and at affordable rates. You just need a good process to find them and filter out those without a genuine passion for writing code or for building products. Hiring random people without a thorough selection process is always a bad idea, no matter which country you hire from.
Why not have a go here, I'd be interested to hear your rationale.

On a less important note, re the argument being at a level of "how could you vote for someone who said that". That may not be people refusing to engage with what you see as the important points, but them focusing on what they see as the most important points. That doesn't make it right but if it is the case you may do well to understand their point of view holds that someone with his behaviour and character can't be trusted with power, they may see everything else as somewhat irrelevant. If that is the case at least understanding it may help you frame the discussion with such people, and hopefully not dismiss their arguments as petty since they think they are the most important points.

Anyway, aside complete. Let's hear the rationale for being a Trump supporter, I would be genuinely interested to hear it even if I may ultimately disagree.
And guess what. Trump is doing exactly the same:

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/donald-trump-transitio...

You didn't think the US Government could be run entirely by outsiders did you ?
That is the whole point. Either you agree that IP is real property and as such it should be taxed, or you don't and and you pay no taxes.

If your property has value, then you should pay property tax. If it has no value, you cannot claim damages if someone 'steals' said property since it wasn't worth anything. You can't have your cake and eat it. If you start taxing imaginary property, this will force IP owners to consider wether their IP has actual value or not and act accordingly.
> the user should decide if they want this bloat not Microsoft

The average windows user hasn't a clue whether a piece of software is bloat, or really important

One of the most common issues I come across when fixing PCs of friends or relatives is "my antivirus thingy says I need to buy it or I'll get viruses" and my solution is always the same: uninstall whatever version of Kaspersky, or Norton or AVG shipped with the machine and replace it with Defender/Essentials, which just works, and more importantly, is practically invisible while doing it. Frankly, the tactics used by AV companies to try and scare users into buying their software are downright immoral.

Microsoft is losing out to Apple, who have no qualms about deciding what you can and can't have on their platform (Flash anyone?). From a marketing point of view I can definitely understand why they would do this.
Agreed. I was going to say, on passwords, I have Lastpass for that. I'll stick with my non-bloated MSE thank you very much.
Indeed - a lot of research into this topic has been focused on breaking down and identifying many different types of competence and intelligence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_psychology#...

However, as I pointed out in my other comment, specific measures do show considerable, consistent differences in performance between males and females. For example, males and females have had significantly different average SAT math scores since the 70s: http://www.aei.org/publication/2015-sat-test-results-confirm...

This is only one measurement, however, and there are many others, with one sex or the other performing better in different areas.

> Imagine if the results were that men were inherently smarter than women. Could you conceive of a way that this would go over well? Nobody (men or women) want to deal with that.

People are individuals. As long as we treat people as individuals and evaluate them based on their merit, and their own behavior and performance, and make opportunities equally available to everyone, it doesn't need to be a problem.
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You should probably expand on this. In particular, tribe men prevented tribe women from getting education in what universities? Some stories of women trying and being prevented from joining military forces of the tribe? Please name some of those tribes what were using writing and warring with neighbors while dreaming about world domination. Maybe examples of those policies? Places, dating, document texts?
Did you mean "poached"? You can't pirate people...
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Notice that both systems (and other systems too) are more mechanisms to archive undefined goals than goal setting.

In a libertarian society, free individuals could still build walls around the borders of their properties and hire armed guard to shoot at anybody not of their colors trying to cross it.

In a fascist society, the bosses could still force the people to accept submerging immigration from another continent, and brainwash the indigenous people to abort and use contraceptives, so that it is eventually exterminated.

ie. Libertarianism, Fascism, Communism, Capitalism, Republic, Monarchy, etc, don't matter much, to the persons who have the power to decide the policy and goals. The question is who decides, and what policy and goals they decide.
Just googled Peter's feelings on clean energy.

Well I'm hopeful. He has made investments into clean tech. He is both smart & a business guy. So Trump will listen to him & that's good.

He is also a connection back to Tesla & energy storage.

Hmm. Maybe this Trump thing isn't so bad after all (for the planet).

Trump may want more oil -- but the reality of that is that oil is controlled by the market.
It's the dirty speaking of the "poorly washed". Kaspersky is said to faked malware to harm rivals (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-kaspersky-rivals-idUSKCN0Q...). TrendMicro allowed remote command execution on the user machine (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=69...). Probably Microsoft is right, your PC may be better protected without a AV, using an AD block instead for example. Probably not (I'm not a specialist in the low level stuff anyways). But the point is that MS is fighting with tools it has (in an ugly way). But it's widespread. Apple enforces Safari on iPhones for example. Amazon explores bias in its marketplace (http://dealnews.com/features/Are-You-Really-Seeing-the-Best-...). Kind complicated, but that's how the world is. Doing all for a higher profit. Because of that I'm sure that Kaspersky would do the same if they were in their position. Perhaps a little different, but taking advantage of its size to increase their profit for sure.
I'd say good programmers are relatively underpaid in Western Europe compared to the rest of the globe.
This more or less already exists in the form of anti-squat rental. They rent out empty houses/buildings for very low rent. The only downsides is zero renter protection, you can be kicked out at any time.

This can be a very good option if you need temporary housing. My brother did this for half a year to save on rent while his new house was being built.
Thanks, I forgot about the splits. What if you bought Apple for $10K?

Update: As far as I can see they have had two 2 for 1 splits and one 7 for 1 split. Meanwhile the price of the stock has gone from $3.696 to $107.79. Meaning that you would have over $400K today + dividends.
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(the original headline was the same as the article title "A Glance Into Web Tech.-Based Text Editors' Text Management")
He also doesn't seem to have a real plan to disentangle himself from his business interests as a president. He said he will let his kids run the Trump foundation, but that's still a huge conflict of interest.

The traditional way to avoid conflicts of interests is to put your assets into a blind trust (i.e. liquidate your assets and let an independent person administer them without you knowing about how your money is allocated). I don't see Trump ever doing that.
Anecdote time.

A couple of weeks ago, my neighbors asked me for some help with their printers. Their wifi printer had suddently stopped working, then they bought a new one (which of course costed less than a ink cartridge) which also didn't work.

After the initial shock of dealing with windows 10 (I hadn't used windows, especially a home version, for years), I found out, by plugging a cable, that the printer actually worked just fine. Checking the wifi router admin page showed that the printer was correctly connecting to the network.

At that point I suspected firewall issues. The Windows firewall control panel was disabled claiming to be managed by the antivirus. I looked at MSE, and it was also disabled. I asked my neighbors and they said that they had been using MSE but McAfee had somehow appeared recently on their computer (possibly sneakingly installed by some unrelated application).

And of course McAfee was there, already demanding protection money. I uninstalled it after clicking through dozen of scary popups warning that the computer would be overwhelmed by viruses, my bank account emptied and my identity stolen.

Immediately after that a popup appeared from Windows system tray telling me that my computer was unprotected and I should install Avast immediately. I quickly got rid of that only for yet another popup to appear (for some AV that I had never heard of).

Eventually I managed to get rid of all AVs, re-enabled MSE, and suddenly the printer started working again.

I think MSE should really just treat every other AV as malware, although I'm sure MS would get a lot of backlash.
After decades of providing us insecure software, are we supposed to blame Microsoft for doing the right thing & getting things _almost_ right?

I have not yet found an Antivirus software which can truly educates the user - there are wonderful opportunities in there for the right kind of company/product. Proactive solutions beat reactive solutions hands down. Like they say "Stitch in time saves nine"
Well, we still use Models and Views, but not with React or Rails, no no no.
With classic ASP.
Also I'm not sure as to where the line is being drawn between frontend and backend...
Hold your horses, it hasn't run for 32 minutes yet. If it succeeds in that, I expect we'll all be hearing about it.

This is a big improvement compared to the microseconds once was. So maybe we're getting there.

Edit: removed some stuff that turned out to be fluff once I'd actually read the article. Whoops...
I'm seriously considering it now. I'm a consumer desktop software developer (making Photoshop plugins) so I'll have to use Windows & Mac at least in VMs, but maybe I can run Linux on the metal.

I haven't given Ubuntu a proper try, except the one time I tried to make my plugins work with GIMP & Wine. Elementary looks interesting as well - their website mentions some of the Apple attention to design detail that I appreciate.
If you want the opinion of a fairly educated european white male, we see the rural US as a bunch of Cletus Spucklers. No offense. Trump's victory seems to be only the confirmation to this. I hope I am wrong.
The biggest problem with setting a solar farm in space is efficient energy transfer [1]. Bezos proposes to build also industrial zones in space, but then the problem is raw material transfer [2]. The easiest thing to do is to reap what you can here on surface of the Earth.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based_solar_power

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_manufacturing