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Technology can't fix political problems. However technology can enable additional solutions to political problems.

It's still politics (and policy and actual leadership effort) that must happen to apply the fix, but technology offers tools and tools can be the basis for enabling options that were previously impractical, infeasible, or impossible.
Well, you’d typically want to do visual updates when document.hidden wasn’t true, which would work fine.
I just deleted all my cookies, all my web content, restarted Firefox, and it stopped on the 9th second, even though the file is half way downloaded
Hint: it can't be a valid game since one of the kings has been removed. :-)
Nerds never seem to catch on that dismissing criticism as an ad-hominem is itself an ad-hominem.
Safari is a great browser and I'm sometimes surprised at how huge Chrome's mindshare among developers is. Every time I try Chrome out on my Mac I end up running screaming back to Safari. Safari doesn't choke on tons of tabs, it doesn't eat battery and memory for breakfast, it's never started autoplaying videos when I open a tab in the background, it's got support for picture in picture video which is my most used new feature of OS X in ages, and is fast fast fast.
Do it on your wife name..
Hell, look how many leaks were coming out of the FBI in the weeks leading up to the election. Keeping a blanket gag on any bureaucracy is a futile endeavor.
Even with Play On Linux [1] I've found it a lot of hassle to try and run games through WINE.

For example I had a whole set of Tom Clancy games (Ghost Recon, Rainbow Five, etc.) running through WINE. Of course I noted how I got them running on the WINE Appdb. Then a couple of years later needed to reinstall - had upgraded OS, changed video card, etc. - and spent ages trying but ultimately failed. WINE's db had been cleaned and removed my reports, handy; and PoL just wouldn't work (possibly the APU??) despite reports to the contrary.

Sad, when ones knows these things can work. Even sadder with more modern games when the distributor/producers won't mess with WINE so the player doesn't have to.

tl;dr when PoL works it's great.

[1] https://www.playonlinux.com/en/
When you can write a proof for every mathematical statement that is true.
Ember.js attempts to do what the front-end what Rails has done for server-side application development. Worth a look, if you're trying to choose between React / Angular / something else.
Still illegal I presume.
How a cat's purr can help reduce swelling, soothe infections and even heal bones
A better way of saying it is that the whole of investors are better at accurately predicting the value of a company than individual investors. Which sounds almost like a truism when you put it in those terms.
Why use SVM?
The Constitution commits the executive branch to the control of an elected official: the President. Direct communications with the public undermines the notion that agencies are simply bodies that exist to assist the President, and reinforces the notion that they are an unelected fourth branch of government with their own continuity and agendas.

To use an analogy: Samsung should be forthright to the public about exploding Note 7's. But that doesn't mean that Samsung's engineering department should be issuing its own press releases.
a dystopian nightmare is having a dominant vendor in the personal computer ecosystem?
I will give that a try, thanks!
In the case I'm thinking of the company wanted maximum profit - which meant shutdown production when things failed, but continue until then. However there was a cowboy attitude: the operators knew that "Bubba" was almost able to to continue operation in a similar situation in the 1950s, and they think they are better. The reality is that "Bubba failed, but the catastrophic explosion was after 1 hour 20 minutes or some such thing, beating that record gives you bragging rights in the lunch room.
Agile is not a software thing. It’s a problem-solving thing
Elon Musk actually believes Tillerson could be an “excellent” Secretary of State
Dynamics is beating Salesforce in SMB. Salesforce has nailed up enterprise.

It's a classic Innovators Dilemma for Salesforce. Could "good enough" Dynamics CRM move upmarket by integrating LinkedIn identities?
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Does bit rot actually happen on regular computers? I thought it took years and it was mostly a danger for huge external hard drives.

I'd rather have better SSD performance. I just personally never lost any data because I let it sit for too long.
In the same release they removed Belarusian. Anyone know why?
Bummer. I use the USDA nutrition database. I wonder if updates to that also would not be released publicly.
Yes, my phone is not covered by that program, and it's also out of warranty now. I insisted that they replace the battery and I'm willing to pay however much it costs, but the person helping me absolutely refused and said it'd be a waste of money, especially since the diagnostics tests showed the battery is still healthy. They did a "deep reset" of the phone, which seems to have slightly improved the battery performance, or maybe I'm not using the phone that much today. Not sure.
I enjoy Safari and use it for general browsing. However, as a developer, I perceive their developer program to be unfriendly with a high barrier to entry. That may be acceptable in a closed ecosystem like iOS but unacceptable in an ecosystem like the general web.
> Your phone's applications on iOS and Android can run background tasks without your approval.

Apps on iOS can only do this for a short time interval before they will receive a SIGSTOP and are no longer allowed to execute at all; and while you can react to push notifications, you are given a very limited time interval in which you can do that locally. You can manage downloads in the background, but those are passed off to a dedicated download process to make sure you aren't doing anything complex (as a download should not be a major CPU drain: it is really just something that has to respond to I/O events). You can play audio or track location actively in the background, but the system makes this incredibly obvious by placing an omnipresent and highly intrusive banner at the top of the screen, telling you which application is doing that. You can manage bluetooth devices in the background, but if you are paired with a bluetooth device then the user probably understands what is happening.
Thanks for trying to take it away from me because you don't like it.
newsat13 wasn't complaining about using conventions. newsat13 was complaining about how Rails uses black magic with conventions.

I can't speak to Rails, but I've worked in other codebases that used reflection to dynamically attach different pieces of code together. It was hard to trace code because I couldn't do a search for the value being generated nor could I use the static analysis to find the value. I had to manually trace through the whole stack to find the bit of reflection that was generating a value.
It was, indeed, in jest.

Irony and humor being one of the few defenses we have against the rapidly onsetting age of darkness.
Metered is part of your connection settings, iirc, like when you establish a connection to a new wifi network. Other applications may be effected by metered networks, and iirc updates don't run at all when on a metered network.
Office 97 is the last version I ever bought or used. I used it for a decade, or so, to open those few files that didn't work quite right in OpenOffice (or AbiWord or KWord or whatever other program I was using back then on Linux). I'm glad I haven't had to open MS Office in about a decade. These days, I keep LibreOffice installed, but use it maybe a couple of times a year; Google Docs does everything I need.
Director, Product at 500 person profitable non-startup company.

I got my BS in Cognitive Science and HCI. I initially worked at Cisco setting up a beta testing program for Linksys consumer products. I transitioned from there into UX design and moved to DIRECTV to do it full time. I quickly realized there that design was an idea factory to see what sticked with upper management, not necessarily users. Product management would be the happy medium where I could design a nice experience while also satisfying business & technical needs. I pursued my MBA and created my own PM internship at a Series A startup during the summer between my 2 years. I got more into entrepreneurship and declined some seed funding to go with a Head of Product position following B School. It was a flop within a couple months due to relationship issues with a hot headed boss. I then took an Associate Product Manager position and pushed back into doing my own startup. That failed so I got back into PM, promoted to Director within a year and hear I am.

A PM needs many skills but certain ones will get you in the door:
1. Analytics: Since you haven't developed a gut yet for the industry, you need to understand data & numbers. Metrics, visualizations, statistics, etc. This is especially important if you want to own P&L, get in front of management, etc.

2. Design intuition: What can be honed prior to getting into PM is knowing good design from bad design. Learn how to make critiques but also know what would work better than the current iteration.

3. Productivity & Organization: Project management is just a small piece of what's necessary. You need to have everything figured out, organized, and be able to answer questions of what's a priority, what's done, etc.

4. Hold your own: You need conviction and backbone to push new ideas and initiatives into an organization. You'll need to be armed with justification but also have confidence that it is in the user's best interest.

Best of luck!
Like that super readable Chrome tab bar when you have lots of tabs open? http://imgur.com/a/MZ2dI
Well, i think the clouds are procedural and you get soft edges in the water. But yeah, i like the scene but the performance is abysmal (45 FPS on "Ultra" on my GTX980 for a scene that generally looks emptier and more repeat-y than what you see when you exit Half-Life 2's metro station).

I'm not sure if it is because of WebGL 2, Firefox, the PlayCanvas engine or just this demo though. But unless WebGL 2 imposes big performance penalties, i doubt this is representative of what could be done.
> the controller is still needed to map data structures to API endpoints.

I mean, kind of. You don't really need much controller logic most of the time anymore. Last Rails backend I wrote probably involved personally writing a few lines of code here and there. Generally, I'm just pushing a JSON object back and forth. Auth and emails can just be 3rd party. The vast majority of controller type behavior ends up client side at this point. Partly, because its way simpler to scale with you push as much processing to the client as you can. Also, look at something like Firebase or Hoodie as examples of simple stores that require no backend logic.

Its not that Rails and Symfony are useless, I use them all the time, its just that they are kind of dated concepts. Heck even Wordpress solves a specific problem on the backend enough to be useful sometimes. That said Drupal at this point is such a dated concept(superseded by things like Rails and Symfony many years ago) that is should no longer be used.
1) HTML is derived directly from SGML which was used to handle similar markup issues in printed texts. One of the reasons why HTML was successful was because there were already similar tools in place from SGML that could be quickly applied to handle processing and correctness. Adding math would require building a number of additional tools.

2) TeX by itself doesn't resolve very well into the DOM tree which is what parsers use to organize the markup data internally. You need a markup language that is similar to HTML if you want to make it easy for browsers, parsers, and libraries to adopt the new standard.
are you happy with the safari extensions?
> Actually apply maths, including algebra and geometry, to real-life scenarios.

I very much agree with this. Back when I was in high school we had some overlapping topics in Math and Physics. But in the Physics class we'd actually see things applied to the real world (e.g. a quadratic equation representing the trajectory of a cannon ball), and that made the stuff learned in Math a lot more interesting to me.

> Unfortunately, learning how to take care of your own body,

This should be fixed in PE. I only got interested in being active after I was already an adult (and a very sedentary one). For years I hated the thought of doing physical activity because I associated it with PE class and all the bullshit I had to endure (bullying and having no option but to play sports I didn't really like).

Would be nice if we were taught at school about body composition, nutrition, different results you can get from exercise (strength, hypertrophy, endurance, that kind of thing). PE is often instead a bunch of random stuff with no explanation of what results can be expected.
Agreed, even if peers seed 1:1, then they are only sending out as much as they received and the servers can reach twice as many people.
Similar thing for Ruby: it wasn't popular until Ruby on Rails. It may be just
that most programmers need to write dynamic websites, as opposed to network
services (most likely with custom protocols).
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I don't work for crowdcheck, but the platforms should integrate a service like that and let the the investors split the cost among themselves, pari passu with the investment size.
Or maybe people should just learn to not suck?
My first React Native game
Maybe something we can't even imagine at this point? Think about trying to explain animation to people in the late 19th century.
Robots are taking over oil rigs, deep learning is building software and more
Schrödinger, Democritus, and the paradox of materialism (2009)
It's a bit of a slog:

(1) You have to get Wine working, which can be kind of a hassle - there are a million different guides and ways to configure Wine especially wnen you factor in 32-bit versus 64-bit, winetricks, staging versus devel, etc.

It's hard to sort through all the potential ways and figure out the simplest thing to do, which is basically:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds

$ sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel

$ wine ~/Downloads/1Password-4.6.1.617.exe

<Now launch 1Password via the .desktop launcher that should have been created for you>

(2) The password helper won't automatically start, so you have to choose "Restart 1Password Helper" from the Help menu after you start the main application.

Then assuming you want to use the browser extensions,

(3) You have to disable browser signature verification under Help->Advanced (while you're at it you might as well "tune for performance").

(4) The browser extension shortcut keys won't work, so you have to click the extension button instead of simply hitting Ctrl-\.
Philly Mayor Blames ‘Price Gouging’ for Outrage Generated by City’s New Soda Tax
Would you be arguing that if Hillary Clinton had won and ordered the FBI to stop communicating with the public?

Somehow I doubt it.
True. So where do all of these new businesses get their employees? They'll have to compete for them by raising wages (which would be good). Except people have somewhat less incentive to work now that they're getting some free money, so the wages have to be raised even more to get them to work. That translates directly into higher prices.

Each individual piece of UBI sounds good. But when the whole system gets put together, it doesn't balance out. It can't.
With all these gag orders going around (USDA, EPA) we are gonna need some deep throats...
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Haha, I thought the same thing!
Be careful with your sampling biases. Those of us who are sceptical but don't have a strong opinion are much more likely to say quiet.
> "Can you talk about a project you experienced that went very badly?"

How do you align this with the "don't talk shit about previous employers" rule?
I agree. On macOS all of my web browsing is done on Safari, except for using Chrome for Google products, Facebook, and Twitter.

I keep the privacy settings much tighter on Safari, even though I frequently delete all 'web data' (cache, cookies, etc.) on both browsers.
Seriously, rt.com?

Lew Rockwell published Ron Pauls racist, anti Semitic, and homophobic news letters.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul_newsletters
Oh that's funny, I can reproduce too. It stops at 9 seconds exactly.

But I'm running 51.0b5 on Linux, so maybe it's already been fixed.
What about finding creative approaches to unproven statements ?
Google Analytics vs. SQL – When and why to build your own data tools?
What does Ruby have to do with immutability
1) Evolution is not directed.

2) What distinguishes humans most of all is our lack of competitiveness, especially amongst ourselves[1]. The genetic underpinnings of that are still largely a mystery--nothing we understand about Darwinian genetic evolution, game theory, etc, explains how it arose nor how its sustained. But it clearly has something to do with our intrinsic ability to empathize. And some biologists would argue that our heightened empathy preceded our rationality.

Given the apparent overlap of empathic ability with other mammals, especially mammals like elephants, we would likely do well to focus on preservation. Because of the scientific value. And because showing compassion and empathy is perhaps the most important human quality of all. Fortunately, we have the brains to figure out how to do that without neglecting our own existential dilemmas. And it may turn out that maintaining and increasing intelligence in the zero-sum Darwinian evolutionary meat grinder is predicated on empathy.

[1] All the wars in all our history don't conflict with this fact. Humans can still be exceptionally violent, but in comparison to the degree in which non-familial members cooperate it's minimal. Our habitual willingness to cooperate in the first instance with random individuals is even more interesting given our capacity for violence. There's a reason that even after bootcamp most soldiers will still hesitate--if not downright refuse--to shoot an enemy without direct provocation. Or why a soldier would even go to war when his family isn't in immediate danger, or he could move his family to some other, non-belligerent country. And most violent people in our society suffer from recognized mental disorders which, among other things, cripple their ability to empathize.
They're not mutually exclusive. Scientists have been putting together open data repositories as a "Trump shelter" ever since election day. Data that is publicly available today can be downloaded and stored anywhere, and the government can't do anything about it other than cast FUD.

Honestly, assuming all our data is preserved in some form, I think its almost a blessing in disguise. finding and downloading public datasets involves wading through a cornucopia of terrible websites that feel like they're deliberately trying to keep people out. Government science shops don't typically hire UX people, so allowing those people to get their hands on some open data services can't be bad.
A pang of regret for choosing to get into software instead of a skilled trade. I'd love 3 weeks in, 1 week out.
Thanks for the support! Really appreciate it. It's an amazing time to be in this space right now with all the opportunities and directions to take the product.
I'm not nearly knowledgable enough on economics to determine the overall effects of such a tax, so please take this with a very large grain of salt, but couldn't it be argued that you purchasing a yacht would be better for the economy than passing on a fortune to heirs?

Yachts seem to require a ton of skilled labor to build and maintain. I assume they provide for many solidly middle class jobs.
Yes! I love playing Spelunky SD with my friend. I run it through Wine on Arch Linux and he's on Windows. It works flawlessly!
I wasn't saying the article said printing presses would be used. But taking money that wasn't being spent (all that money corporations and the rich have stowed away) and giving it to people that will spend it is equivalent - lots of money that's not in circulation entering circulation. You end up with more money in circulation either way, with the ramifications that come with it (inflation).
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If the server isn't in Europe, you'd solve the cookie thing on most websites.

Subscribe modals are often triggered by mouse movement, so they might be avoided, too?
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Welcome to the real world my friend. Good engineering takes a backseat to clicks and pageviews in the online publishing industry.
I use Wine on... Windows, to play some games.

Windows 8 and onwards seemly have some bugs in DirectX9 or less, and although seemly there is Microsoft employees trying to fix those bugs, those bugs are years old and still exist.

Some games when using Wine, work correctly... For example on my Win 8.1 laptop Wine dlls were the only way to play "Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magicka Obscura" (without the dlls, the game would render half of the screen black, and the other half flickering like crazy).
Am I the only one that finds pinning extremely buggy? I try it every year or two and always have the same result: pinned tabs work great at first, but eventually enter a state where tabs cannot be completely unpinned.

Unpinning and restarting my browser brings them right back in pinned state, and it seems like nothing I do short of reinstalling my browser profile corrects this.

I've seen this happen on multiple machines, so I feel like it can't just be me.
DHH also answers a few other questions about Ruby and Rails in the same Q&A

https://www.quora.com/session/David-Heinemeier-Hansson/1?sri...
Same in Chicago. If the metered taxi takes an inefficient route, Uber legally can not do a fare ajustment. It's nearly impossible to complain to the City of Chicago if it happens, so you end up having to pay whatever the meter displays.
> printing a 3D model, submitting an order for the parts, and sending the documentation to the field.

Hahaha. No, let me talk you through it (assuming we are talking new technology, as opposed to a small refinement of existing stuff):

Engineer sits at his desk/wherever and has an idea for some equipment. We're at TRL 0 (following API 17N).

Engineer spends some time demonstrating and documenting how it's likely that this solution will work, possibly involving CFD and/or FEM work. We're at TRL 1.

Engineer gets a simple scale model built, and the scale model is laboratory tested to prove that the concept is likely to work. We're at TRL 2.

Engineer gets a (downscaled and/or simplified) prototype built and tested over a limited range of operating conditions. We're at TRL 3.

Engineer (but really, now we're talking the company) gets a first full scale version built, and this is tested at realistic operating conditions. TRL 4.

The full scale version is integrated with the actual system which it will be running in. TRL 5. This is basically "first deployment", and you've probably spent a few hundred thousand dollars at this point, if not much more.

Your first deployment case has run for an extended period of time under a range of real conditions. TRL 6. The solution is now proven, and can be promoted to other facilities that don't want to be the first adopter.

Your technology has run for a significant amount of time at several installations under a wide range of conditions. The technology is now proven. TRL 7.
At least once a week I read comments or a submission about how X should be written in Rust. That's a pretty common occurrence here; if you stay long enough it'll be another language.