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They're Getty images stock photos. BBCs human interest articles are full of them.
Might be a bad example, as Mozilla is promoting uBlock Origin right on the first page in the Add-ons section. It takes just three clicks to go from a newly installed Firefox to having uBlock Origin installed.

Then again, though, they only just recently switched that over from previously promoting AdBlock Plus, so I don't know how much of an increase that has caused in that time.
There's a difference between "isn't perfect" and stuff like this: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/us/alt-right-salutes-donal... The New York Times spend 30 paragraphs trying to tie Trump, Bannon and Breitbart to Nazi-quoting white supremacists through innuendo and insinuation, and then:

"When asked about Mr. Bannon, the conference’s speakers said that they might have shaken his hand on occasion, but that they did not know him well.

Mr. Brimelow said that he had met “Mr. Bannon once, earlier this summer, before he ascended to Olympus.” He said he had told Mr. Bannon that he was doing great work at Breitbart. “He agreed,” Mr. Brimelow recalled to the audience.

As for Mr. Trump, Mr. Brimelow said he had met him about 30 years ago at a “conservative affinity meeting” in Manhattan. But that was it.

“Trump and Steve Bannon are not alt-right people,” Mr. Brimelow said, adding that they had opportunistically seized on two issues that the alt-right cares most about — stopping immigration and fighting political correctness — and used them to mobilize white voters."

Their entire narrative is basically bullshit, they went ahead with it anyway. and it worked. I've been seeing quotes from the article popping up all over Twitter as proof the next president is linked to Nazis. Once people have read paragraph after paragraph confirming their beliefs, they don't worry about minor details that call the whole thing into question. (This is a favourite trick of right-wing UK tabloid the Daily Mail.)

Not only that, the group that the New York Times is writing about appears to be completely politically irrelevant... except for the coverage that papers like the NYT are giving them. They're pushing white supremacy into the mainstream because it suits their narrative.
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Not crazy about them either. For me, the issue is that they're basically gods (level 8 civilisation) and everything just feels like one big deus ex machina.

Excession stood out as better than the rest.
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Working with mixed French / German teams seems to be a more interesting problem than having everybody working remote ;)
4sqm is just the kitchen, not the dining/living area. We want to be able to stow those away, and have folding tables.

Edit: Living area is about 6sqm (3mx2m)
to be fair, i think there's a pretty big difference between 'bullshit' (ie inconsequential) and fabricated news. i remember when i still used facebook, being intensely annoyed every time i saw news that seemed to have vaguely plausible but clearly fake content -- the sites in question were 'satire', a la the onion, though much less clever. in retrospect, now, it seems predestined that at some point they would drop the pretense altogether, though.
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Other companies give access to the company-internal information to the cleaning company. Many exchange business critical information by using a phone company.

When self-hosting you have to care about your service-level agreements and trouble solving. If you rely on it you quickly need a growing IT/operations team. sometimes it's cheaper to pay somebody how is specialized on this. Of course one has to evaluate the company, with the ones which make money from selling information (to advertisers) I'd be more critical, but that's a matter of evaluation of options.
The text is overflowing the margins on pages 13 - 15 in the sample [1] linked to from the madoko site.

[1] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/daan/madoko/sa...
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I would've made this comment, maybe with a different tone.

IPM and Retro last strictly one hour. Team standup might be 10 minutes. 1-on-1s might be every 3-4 weeks, length varying 30 minutes to an hour.

Ad hoc meetings are rare. Usually introduced reluctantly and dropped as soon as possible.

Missing from your list are the additional meetings an anchor takes on -- pre-IPM (if that's thought to be necessary), CL/LL checkin (length and frequency vary), Labs Project Status meeting (30 mins on Friday).

Cloud R&D Pivots also attend a weekly joint standup. Sometimes global, sometimes local, length varies 10-20 minutes.

And, of course, if you're a manager, you will be having 1-on-1s with some Pivots every week.

But for the most part, it is possible for engineering pairs to be heads-down and working for hours on end.

Edit: should mention I work for Pivotal. I'm actually off to get ready for work. Anyone who wants to ask me questions is free to hit me up, email is in my profile.
So ???
> good "outside the box" thinking.

Really?

I wonder how you'd see it if it was one of your offspring somehow getting caught up with such a bunch of loan sharks. Or it's their dodgy partner using their photos etc to get an easy few $$$.

It's easy to say they wouldn't be so naive? Of my own offspring, they've all had their moments of teen stupidity. Fortunately nothing that's played out online or risked long term consequence. Yet. :)

If they have confidence they might brush off everyone on campus knowing and seeing simply as a badge of honour. A more introvert, shy, personality or having the "blessing" of good religious and so often judgemental relatives might have their entire uni experience ruined, or worse. In a culture where sense honour and shame are far stronger.

For the "wrong" personality or circumstance it's easily far more damaging than a traditional good kicking from the loan shark's heavies. Perhaps takes far longer to heal too.
I've never quite understood the problem the tiny house movement is supposed to be solving other than "look at all the amenities we can cram into such a tiny space!"

Most of the time when they're shown off, they're sitting isolated on some huge lot somewhere in the woods, so housing density isn't it. I mean, clearly, just look at how they're positioned on the market -- 9/10 are in the woods or next to a lake or some such. A housing situation that's less sustainable than suburbs.

If I look for ones that are actually for sale, they just seem to be rebranded college apartments or RVs - except now the sellers are charging twice as much because they attached a solar shower to the back or something.

They often come with advice for how to get them into RV parks or mobile home parks, but those can be very expensive to dock a house in and can sometimes come with uncomfortable and very real externalities as you intersect with the transient and the poor (plus, if you're going to live in a mobile home park, you may as well just buy a used mobile home, they're much more comfortable to live in).

Just like RVs and mobile homes, most of the shed-like tiny houses are terrible housing investments because the market views them as what they are, RVs and sheds, and depreciates them over time on average, while actual real estate tends to appreciate over time.

And for the non-RV tiny houses, they don't solve the mobility question. They're just about as fixed as a normal home structure.

And notions about living less materially seem okay, but there are many long-term stories of tiny home dwellers who run away screaming because of how cramped their living conditions are, and all the unexpected external costs (like self storage for their actual stuff) that never seems to get into tiny house movement propaganda.

I feel like what they're actually trying to solve is the desire of apartment dwellers to "own" a home without having to go through the normal home ownership system, which they've been conditioned to view as a trap of some sort for reasons, and "hack" that system by coming at it from some non-traditional angle.

It's also interesting how pretty much all of the professionally designed and purpose built tiny homes seem to lead their sales pitch with all the tiny house movement awards they've won and really not much about the structure or the maintenance of the 20 acres the tiny house sits on.
Standing Rock Needs Your Drones: 3 shot down by the police
-See Link Below Text:

Many of you on this forum have ample disposable income and talent, in fact, many of you probably have an extra drone lying around you hardly use. It's time to unite with first nations peoples in solidarity as they protect their communities and the water we all depend on. Don't stand on the sidelines of history stand on the frontlines of the future!

http://sacredstonecamp.org/blog/2016/11/21/water-cannons-fired-at-water-protectors-in-freezing-temperatures-injure-hundreds
For me it just redirects to

http://money.get.away.get.a.good.job.with.jack.ilovevitaly.com

The actual domain is http://xn--oogle-wmc.com/

Which is an Internationalized domain name[1] in punycode transcription

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name

The G in question here is

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C9%A2

OR

http://charcod.es/#%C9%A2/610
That is very cool! Just spent a bit of time playing with it, and while I wouldn't say I was a 303/808 connoisseur (unlike a friend who is pretty famous for his use of them), sounds pretty good to me; it's not perfect (it sounds like the filters aren't quite there in terms of extreme settings of resonance and envelope), but it's good. I've not used RB338 for years, so it could be mis-remembering, but it's almost like the sounds need controls that 'go to 11' to get to where you'd want them to be?

I like the simplicity of it and the ease of producing a WAV from a session, and the UI seems to be simple and straightforward to use. I'll test it out on some students this week, see what they come up with.

I have a couple of minor criticisms - I don't think the ballistics of the rotary controls is right, but I can't quite put my finger on -why-, just seems a bit too sensitive or there's something about the linearity of it? Would it be possible to add the Cubase-style "shift reduces the sensitivity while dragging" to them?

The other thing was editing the grid - I'd prefer left click to toggle an event on and off rather than right-click to clear; while this is personal preference, it's one that I've got used to using Cubase for 20 years or so in the drum editor, so it's a little counter-intuitive to have to do it another way, and I think many other editors are similar?

Finally, any chance of an undo in the editor?

But overall, love it. An amazing demonstration of what's possible in a browser, and of your skills!
In the context of witness testimony, this kind of thing is terrifying!
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Treasury rates are set by a market auction, the Fed can't drive them down just by printing money. If investors anticipate inflation, they will factor it into their bids.

I guess whether you think the negative effect of the bailout on savings and such were worth it depends on whether you think the entire insurance market almost collapsed.
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Most of the workers are coming from places outside Yiwu, and their population has exceed the local ones. And most of local population are business owners and factory owners.

I haven't heard of any child labor involved, For Yiwu is rich and has very high level of education and not lacking of workers here.

I think what made Yiwu as a global wholesale place is most of its history. The first group of Father-Candy-Man came in 1600s.[1]

It has many many foreigners and a good culture around them, you'll love it when you come and visit it.

[1] http://www.yiwu-market-guide.com/yiwu-market-history.html
Where is the bit where NYT admitted it? Your link seems to be the opposite, making accusations NYT denied.
Also worked at Pivotal, and this is definitely true. The number of meetings is must lower than in other firms (in my experience), but meetings are still a part of life.

Breakfast, though, is such an amazing operational hack that I'm surprised the article didn't go into more detail.

Humans are very rhythmic creatures, and our circadian rhythms are moderated a number of environmental factors -- the big two being sunlight, and food.

By having both breakfast and lunch happen at the same time each day, your body adjusts to getting at least two meals on a regular schedule, which helps with maintaining a constant energy level throughout the day.

On top of that, it makes it physiologically more difficult to be late to work. Your body knows that a meal is coming up and you will tend to wake up on time.

And while, yeah, you don't leave at 6:01, it's pretty rare to see people at the office after about 6:30. So, it's pretty easy to get to sleep at a consistent time as well.

This is important enough that it's part of one of my conference talks: that a regular cadence throughout the day, including set meal times, is a great way to boost happiness, improve health, and more importantly, get more "quality hours" out of the day.
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A frank exchange of views is my favourite. Whenever I hear key terms in the media I think they'd make good ship names. One example is how the BBC says "so called Islamic state" - if I ever own a boat (or a sentient AI) I might call it that.

For those who miss Iain Banks, Ken McLeod is a good read. The Cassini Division is a great post-singularity novel with interesting tech ideas and ideological musings. Iain and Ken also wrote a book of poetry together which is worth a read.
Ah yes, the famous rush quarter-hour.

I'm going to be visiting Darwin in February. Who has the best chicken laksa these days? I haven't found any good ones here.
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I'd argue it's not worse. I've ran across many people with higher ed degrees sharing fake news, sincerely thinking they have shared a reasonably-researched article.

I'm talking news from a website which says it publishes stories that are not true - but are not humor - on its about page.

When that fake news reinforces their perspective, they simply clicked share because they liked how it sounds. Every time when I've pointed out something was blatantly false, they also sincerely said thank you, including one person admitting they couldn't tell the difference between a reasonably-researched news site and one that is not.
it is definitely great to meet in person, to shake hands, grab a coffee together, etc. but what is the value, professionally speaking?

Years of socialization training stemming from childhood to gauge whether it's really worth interrupting people. I do enjoy the opportunity to do remote work, but even in the office, I'm finding an unstated expectation that I should always have a second pair of eyes on my slack notifications. It's not really consistent to praise the elusive "in the zone" state where developers get their most productive work done, and simultaneously expect that they should break what they're doing to bucket the importance of every little IM. The need to walk over to another person when you have something important to say, and use your human senses to determine whether this person should really be distracted for what you think is important at the moment puts the onus and effort of distraction on the asker where I think it best belongs.
https://doubleyourfreelancing.com/ has good resources; email course has some suggestions about this.
Every time we click Share, Post, or Like, we are being a journalist.

There's no journalism classes or ethics training before clicking those buttons. Should there be?
Personally, I recently forced myself to use org mode for various project management tasks. There is a html5 presenter integrated afair, but I quite like the google io type slide generator [1]

It looks nice, it works well, and you can use all sorts of exporters with org anyway.

[1] https://github.com/coldnew/org-ioslide
> less overall votes

Those also came about due to stricter limits on how to id oneself for voting, and ... well, either retarded or hostile (your choice) voting office setups that forced people to wait far longer than reasonable to be able to vote.

Both of these very effectively keep particularly economically weaker voters out of the game.

Completely my personal opinion: Until the US moves voting onto a weekend and makes it a multi-day affair, and makes affordable unified country-wide id available and usable, the US democracy doesn't deserve the label.
How far away are you from the nearest large settlement (1000+ people)? This sort of stuff fascinates me, Europe is so densely populated this sort of thing isn't as viable.

Possibility to hunt and fish in the region too?
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I have a small pile of SaaS products [1] that combine to bring in the equivalent of a nice Senior Dev salary (though far less than I would actually bring in were I to take a full time gig in the Bay Area).

I did a "passivity test" recently where I essentially took October off, just to make sure I still could. I'd do a morning email spin, then shut down and go bouldering or just play with the kids all day, averaging just shy of two hour weeks. Monthly Recurring Revenue grew on its normal path.

This month, I'm back working 6 hour days, 4 days a week, building the thing that will take up the slack [2] once those other products plateau. Fortunately, it's been raining a lot, or I might still be out climbing every day.

I'll reitorate once again that as a software developer, you absolutely should build one o' these SaaS things. It'll change your life.

[1] https://www.s3stat.com & http://www.twiddla.com
[2] https://unwaffle.com
Im pretty sure numbered bullets are a normal formatting option on Slides. Should be next to the regular bulleted lists button on the toolbar.
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Just wait until they lock your account because the location of the IP and the GPS disagree...
> My desired location is in an anomalous realestate market.

> the arguments for buying never made sense to me

Well, there you go. I live in a market that's anomalous in the other direction: there's exactly one four-bedroom house advertised for rent in the city at the moment, and its price is about 20% higher than the mortgage would be.

(Mortgage >> rent implies a really strange market where the landlords must be experiencing negative ROI?)
Is there any reason to think it is true, besides the claim? Like I said, it has been claimed that all Trump voters are ETs, but I wouldn't expect you to give that any credence.
It's not dynamic and doesn't even allow wildcards. So, you have to use hashes given that opening /details?id=123 won't be served from the cache even if you have everything on the client side to construct that page. Most people just cache /details and navigate to /details#id=123. I think if appcache was made a little more developer friendly, the need for service workers would seriously be reduced.
I still regret buying Samsung. So much customized, non-removable garbage.
It's mentioned in the "myths about remote work" article that's linked but I think for startup-y kind of things social/power norms kind of force you to not work remotely for at least a decent stretch of the time.

o/~ Move to SV, move to SV, move to SV sure there's some poo on the streets but...move to SV. o/~
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>You don't get to say a propaganda campaign that ruined a country and killed hundreds of thousands wasn't fake news.

You're getting hung up on the term 'fake news'. In this context this term has a specific meaning, different than what you're referring to. 'Fake News' are sites with content that is purposely false (though it could plausibly be true) that is also usually outrage-inducing. At the same time they attempt to pass themselves off as credible news organizations. Their business model involves getting their fake content to go viral, increasing views and their advertising revenue.
If you're tired of having your data taken hostage and want to host your own stuff, you can set it up easily with sovereign (https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign/)
> these outlets are far more dangerous than obvious non-truths peddled by "fake news" outlets

While apparently obvious to us, fake news articles are being shared by more people than factual news. [0][1]

> If we live in a world where "fake news" has been successfully censored

There's a difference between fake news and partisan news: one is flat out lies the other is factually true.

Fake news is more akin to false advertising than censorship is. No one says that banning false advertising is censorship; banning false advertising is keeping people from buying products based on lies.

[0]: https://imgur.com/xJ7eDbs

[1]: https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/viral-fake-election-...
While we are on the topic of generating output from markdown, anyone know of a great tool for generating good looking (GitHub-Flavored) PDF/Word documents from markdown? Hyperlinks should be clickable too.

I know of markdown2pdf [1] but the output can sometimes come out looking bland.

[1] http://markdown2pdf.com/
Tab completion maybe?
>it's almost like the sounds need controls that 'go to 11' to get to where you'd want them to be?

People modded the real hardware to do just that (eg. Real World Interfaces' Devil Fish mod: http://www.firstpr.com.au/rwi/dfish/ ). I'm not enough of a 303 connoisseur either to say if this softsynth is realistic or not, but maybe you're remembering the sound of modded hardware.
Having flashbacks to using Rebirth-338
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That is an incredibly biased editorial from a competing newspaper. Not the NYT admitting any of the things you claimed

See, this is kind of what people mean by "fake news". It isn't "Our sources were wrong" as with the Iraqi WMDs and instead "We made up some sources and completely distorted things to push our agenda"
The point is that the media did not: they assumed that the administration, CIA, etc. weren't completely making it up and a common assumption at the time was that details and corroborating evidence were being withheld to protect intelligence sources and techniques.

They arguably should have been more skeptical but it's very different from the situation where some place like Breitbart runs a propaganda piece which is easily debunked using public information, like the fake electoral map they printed which flipped entire states to maintain the “coastal elites” narrative they're selling.

The mainstream media has some serious blemishes from that era (Valerie Plame comes to mind) but they have editors, publish corrections, etc. and it's a monstrous exaggeration to try to equate the two.
I agree that society benefits from freer software.

But transformed the landscape? It's unquestionable that the iPhone truly transformed the mobile landscape. Closed-source Android has eaten up a huge amount of market share across the spectrum (particularly in low-cost high-volume sales). Open-source AOSP is a relative footnote. It has barely transformed anything.
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Here's one:

Never show your user/client any visible disappointment when they change requirements. In fact, give them the license to change their minds aggressively.

Go at the hanging boxing bag later at home.