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Because Microsoft supports critical applications that businesses use for well over ten years in a lot of cases. Zero other operating systems have to provide the platform stability that Microsoft does.

So, of course, if they have to focus on supporting only one, archaic platform, they never move forward or create anything new or improved. Which doesn't make sense. So you continue to create newer, better platforms, but continue to support the old ones for years to come. Eventually, older ones fall out of use and can eventually be retired.
No. Those are test cases that you put in your unit tests. You don't put data examples as comments in your code.
I would like to see more reporting on the poltical forces on Wikipedia.
Use some other poor rube's bandwidth; sell it as your own. Brilliant!
My dentist didn't give me Vicodin[0] unless I had more than one or two teeth out.
Even then I never understood how people could like it. I got a little pain relief and a little bit of a relaxing feeling. It was probably a really low dose as well.

Might have just been mine wasn't into giving out prescriptions or they didn't think I would need them.

I have a friend who has so many pain prescriptions after his back surgery that I've lost count of and they either don't work or lose effectiveness or he can't deal with the side effects. The scary part to me is there will never be an end for him unless there is some miracle in medicine that his doctor doesn't know about yet.

[0]I know that's not the same as Codeine
> The difference is governments don't have competition.

There are many governments in the world. If one government plays hardball with a drug company, drug company can go find a different government, or negotiate with private insurers in that same country. Yes, private insurers exist even in countries that provide basic healthcare to all their citizens. [0]

> And insurance companies can't throw drug company officers in jail.

Show me where this has happened. This scaremongering and black-ops has nothing to do with the practice of negotiating price. There are many people that wish Martin Shkreli went to jail for gouging AIDS patients, but that's not happening.

0. http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2012/01/16/the-awkward-wor...
Some people are so damn desperate to create controversy.
I think the good news here is that PC and Mac are back on par again. Even for demanding users of mainstream use cases (office, development, ...) both platforms offer great products.

Personally, I have an MacBook Air 13" at home and a Lenovo X1 Carbon at work. Both have their unique strengths and weaknesses but they are both great laptops. Windows has done a great leap forward as has PC hardware. If I were in the market today I would really struggle to make up my mind which one it should be.
I loved his Lisp and Forth posts.
I think that's an optimistically low estimate.
You know what also makes you sick? A lack of professional accomplishment, missing respect from your peers, and a general sense of purposelessness. It's easy to look at the costs of ambition and ignore its benefits.
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There is a whole industry of buying and selling social media "followers".

So I guess this is a product of this.
Fantastic service. Been using it since it was first released.
Twitter is extremely forgiving with its account creation. An internet marketing buddy showed me how he could make 20+ accounts on the same IP address without Twitter throwing the ban hammer.
I looked at that thread, and the non-negative-score comments seem to range from credulous to reasonably skeptical, with none that are fairly characterized as "No, impossible!"

In fact, given how sketchy the poster of that thread was being (e.g. linking to his non-medical blog when asked for medical details and saying he's too embarrassed to talk about it when asked again), I'd say people were pretty generous.
I think s/he means evolutionary speaking.
Twitter says 5% of their MAUs are bots but this surely an underestimate. Facebook estimates nearly 9% fake users which is also likely too conservative. Bot traffic in ad fraud is even higher (30+%? every study is different, seems difficult to measure).

So we have 5-9% as a lower bound and perhaps we can look at e-mail for an upper bound with nearly 60% spam by volume.
In the US isn't there a law expressly prohibiting these calls to cell phones?
Fantastic services. I have been using it since it launched
Sorry, I should have been more clear. I mean why is it necessary to move off the esp.
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I used to work at Joost. Culturally, it came fro the Skype world, and I worked on the p2p engine used for both on-demand and live streaming of video:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joost

The cost of delivering content is not zero. The main variables are the codecs & quality of a stream, which on average is going up, and the cost to deliver (bandwidth/storage). The cost deliver keeps going down.

So, there are periods of time, when a p2p approach "looks" nice. 4k? Maybe all this live-streaming stuff? Sure. But what happens is the cost of delivery with HTTP keeps going down.

Joost had a bunch of other issues that made it fail, un-related to the use of p2p.

p2p might be cheaper to operate for a business, but it has almost no advantages for users over a well built CDN. For users it only has negative attributes (baring a few situations on LANs / getting streams into places you can't put a CDN).
The trick is do it on your mobile phone, or emulate an Android or iOS user agent string.
A package management system is a convenience, not a requirement for desktop users. Chromebooks have one of the most robust and well built foundations I've ever seen, and the platform lacks any semblance of low level package management.
The cricket equivalent would definitely be the "Infamous Underarm" incident[1]

[1]https://youtu.be/d2qpj-yBkwY?t=4m21s
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Carrier is a fine example of promised government grants for not moving jobs. The grants were just in the form of tax breaks [0] (spending the tax revenue before it ever gets to congress).

[0]: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-trumps-carrier-deal...
That's a really unsophisticated sockpuppet.

For something more detailed I guess "Can we talk about nowheremom yet" is a good start: https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/can-we-talk-about-nowhe...

http://web.archive.org/web/20010624115154/http%3A//forums.an...

Or the "DaveonWheels" hoax: http://observer.com/2012/10/meet-hunter-dunn-the-young-man-w... http://dave-on-wheels-exposed.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/dave-on...
It's a matter of incentives. Business folks don't care about comments unless they have a dev background. Your options are then to focus on the incentives present in the situation, or materially harm your own life and well-being by working extra hours to make up for your management's inability to manage.
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> The danger of stale comments is, I feel, overblown.

Yes, because they should be, and are, largely ignored. Of course, deleting them is better than ignoring and not having them in the first place is better than deleting.
They only have to provide this because they lock down their products. They do it to themselves.
But both are still filled by people appointed by democratic governments of member states.

And still that only applies to handling "a financial crisis" by giving aid to member state(s) and needs qualified majority (85% in this case so 24 out of 28 votes in both the Council and Commission). Basically how the Council has been setup is that you usually need a unanimous or 20 out of 28 votes to get anything done.
> Fantastic display panel, though.

That's why people buy them. It's not for the fastest CPU, it's definitely not for the GPU.

It's because it has a fast enough CPU, a good enough GPU and goes all-in on the display.
DHCP also works by recording your MAC (so that you can renew your IP, and another computer can't). Most DHCP servers write their lease files to disk. Most also log to disk. I wouldn't consider the absence of a captive portal to be a strong signal.
Yes, why wouldn't we count it? It's an entry level laptop for a reason; it's going to have entry-level specs.
I felt bad cause I couldn't find where to give senior employees raises.
RSI stuff aside, I've found that a trackpad is uniquely terrible when trying to use ANY 3D modeling software. That isn't necessarily the trackpad's fault though. The programs are written with a three-button scrollwheel mouse in mind and the fact that you are able to kludge it with a trackpad in a pinch is a side benefit, if anything.
I find Michael Eisen far too prone to unreasonable outbursts to consider him a reliable senator.
> it seems that for the OP anyone that is not a right wing person it is not a person.

this is very true for a lot of right wing radicals independent of the country. it makes it easy for them to dismiss or in the extreme even kill other people because they're dehumanized and so any moral obligations that would normally be held against others just aren't. i'm quite sure muslim terrorist think exactly the same way.
What does the CDC have to do with climate science?
No, we're not expecting the consumer to pay for the upload bandwidth. We're working with ISPs to not charge consumer for Peer5's upload traffic.
Reading this comment made me itchy. You've implemented remote scratching over HTTP.
A pre-menopausal woman carries thousands of eggs. Are they all also not human beings? Does the average woman commit at least one murder a month? What about the nutrients that might be assembled into a human being?

Giving the 'undifferentiated mass of cells is clearly a human being' argument even a slight push very quickly devolves into absurdity.
I'm sure they can manage to insert a back door in the legislation, giving themselves a way out.
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The worst claim I've ever heard is that Simulink models are self documenting because they are flow diagrams.
An earned, bad reputation.
Does success in the Silicon Valley come from silence?
Yeah, that's it. Same as the MBP.

I personally just use a proper mechanical keyboard if I'm typing for any kind of time. Same thing with mouse/touchpad.
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I'll definitely read the blog post, do give me a shout and you got my upvote.
How Apple can leave the Mac Pro and Mini in their old configuration this long is beyond reason. 1000 days since its debut. Apple should be ashamed of this. Yet this company is operating like the days before Steve returned except this time there is no Steve to right it

I expect the iMac to get a new chipset but I would like to see the Mac mini updated. Either update the Mac Pro or pull it.
Maybe not exactly what you are looking for, but there's this classic series of videos from a math professor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOykY2SMbZ0

He claims, and probably rightly so, that people don't think in exponentials and therefore makes awfully wrong statements and predictions.
We had an API limit issues. Please let me know if works properly for you right now?
RS-232 is invaluable. Give me a new piece of hardware and as long as there are 2 wires for the serial port I can port Linux kernel to it.

I have ported Linux to a custom ARM board many years ago. Started with a boot loader written in assembly and writing a single char into serial port for a debug console. It takes a single line of assembly or C. Infinitely easier than USB. From there on, I was able to unwind the whole system, develop USB drivers, TCP tunnels, etc.
Dell's laptop picker is bad enough. Try their enterprise server configuration tool and you'll want to burn down their headquarters and steal their red stapler.
Does MAC address randomization apply to desktops/laptops? Google implies its iOS-only.
If you have a corporate computer, you shouldn't rely on any expectation of privacy. There's nothing stopping them from installing other monitoring software—screen grabbers, keyloggers, etc.—whenever they please.
And a follow-up to that: have you ever, or would you ever consider, paying for feedback/editing services on a post you write? Would the ROI be worth it for you (in particular, for a marketing blog)? Or at that point would it be easier to pay a PR firm to write for you?
I really don't get this attitude. Code cannot tell you what is not there, no matter how clearly you write it.
Just wait for Linux on the Desktop to push out Apple!
I find UWP pretty terrible. :( It feels like developing for a weakest link (the traditional cross-platform problem) which is often Windows Phone or something. Which doesn't exist!! Windows Phone doesn't bloody exist! If MS had amazing mobile market penetration UWP would be amazing but what is this?! How is UWP exactly better than WPF for Windows desktop apps? It isn't. But it's where MS now wants you to be, because they have crazy deeams.
From cdc.gov

Climate and Health

Widespread scientific consensus exists that the world’s climate is changing. Some of these changes will likely include more variable weather, heat waves, heavy precipitation events, flooding, droughts, more intense storms, sea level rise, and air pollution. Each of these impacts could negatively affect public health. While climate change is a global issue, the effects of climate change will vary across geographic regions and populations. CDC’s Climate and Health Program is helping state and city health departments prepare for the specific health impacts of climate change that their communities will face.

https://www.cdc.gov/climateandhealth/
I have about 10 years of experience. Full stack, dev ops, whatever has been needed really. Have always gotten excellent performance reviews.

I quit my job a couple of months ago. Thought it would be easy to get another one. I've been rejected at least 20 times so far, and it's very...tough emotionally.

I guess this is unrelated to your question. I guess my advice is that you can't do everything at once. Decide on the top two things you want to work on, and do those. Forget about everything else until you've finished one.
> If someone were 100% satisfied with everything around them, there would be no reason for them to move or change anything.

It's not that simple. Not moving or doing anything is a decision in itself with consequences.
"If you want to write fast software, use a slow computer" - Dominic Tarr

The 12" Macbook is the best computer I've ever owned. Switched to it from a 2014 Macbook Pro, and found it very easy to adjust. The only time it struggles a little bit is when I run Windows in VMware, on occasion.

The biggest benefit of the Macbook 12" is that if software runs well on your computer, you know it's guaranteed to run extra buttery-smooth on other computers, which all have beefier CPUs and GPUs.
I hate this excuse. It seems like every lazy habit of programmers gets pushed onto the "business folks".

Just because business folks don't know how to value certain developer practices doesn't let you off the hook. Just do what you have to do and if it takes longer because you had to learn how to do it, then it takes longer.

Let the business folks tell you when it's taking too long to deliver features.
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> how do you know if the problem is your proposition or the total concept?

No pitch or message is going to get to the logic center of the other person’s brain without passing through the survival filters of the crocodile brain system first. And because of the way we evolved, those filters make pitching anything extremely difficult.

ON this subject, Oren Klaff is brilliant > https://audioboom.com/posts/2273663-oren-klaff-pitch-anythin...
Would you mind sharing why you did it? I've been curious about this for a while.
They claim there's updates in the works. Here's hoping they push them out soon.
One tends to hesitate.
Probably not. There are always the crazy few percent of us that want to work. The rest are just forced to work to survive.

Overall, the humanity may be happier.
So, government argues it needs broad spying powers for the "security" of the people, but many individuals in the government personally use tools they believe to be beyond the government's reach.

Since I don't anticipate the USA ever outlawing unbreakable crypto for use by private citizens or companies, does that mean eventually government can only spy on those citizens not savvy enough to use secured tech to communicate?

I guess the flipside here is: how many of those officials using Signal have an Amazon Echo in their homes that's recording all their conversations?
Bad click bait title, but the actual event is pretty important.
It's pretty simple, you just pay the WSJ for a subscription.
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My Lenovo has an amazing trackpad.

It is better than my wife's Macbook Air (though my machine is much much newer than hers).
Couldn't one take that many documents and throw them on a flash drive (or even a hard drive if it's on the order of terabytes) and mail that? I'm certainly no security expert but wouldn't the risk in terms of using the drive/files to identify you be about the same for mailed physical media compared to it being sent electronically, but with decreased risk of interception along the way?
challenge "just the files" description says "Print all files in the current directory". You mean "print the names of all files ..."

Lots of the challenges have awkward/ambiguous wording like this.

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I've never encountered this feature myself.

While social media at least has "block" and "report". And the collaborative API-driven blocklists used against organised troll attacks.

Even USENET has a better killfile than my landline.
Those stickers will work on your wall too.. not just your windows.
If this works, would it not be more profitable for you to exploit it rather than sell it as a saas and make the bookies aware of their mispricings?
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Could NYT quantify - through experimentation - the value of a bot army as the "story"?

For instance a Tweet with 100 retweets is substantially more likely to generate additional retweets / be shown more by Twitter's algorithm / etc vs. a tweet with 10 retweets. And scale that up!

Easy to build an experiment and quantify even on a small level for NYT.
Personally I'd like a way to filter for moonlighting openings. I've got a 9-5 but I'm looking for a way to earn extra and burn extra brain cycles productively. Not sure how scrapeable that information is though.
> My cell phone's the same way now.

Mine as well. I even get fake vocal messages on my voicemail, starting with a first name I might or might not know asking me to call back like it's an emergency and obviously the number is a premium-rate one. I was like wow, that's a whole new level of spamming. I can't imagine the future of spamming : data mining personnal infos on social media + customized fake messages just to make you call back a number.
> social networks are headed for the same fate

On the contrary, Facebook is the last halo of peace for me. I only talk to my friends, never get unwarranted messages, spam, mail subscriptions, renewals, ads, scary calls/emails, ... you name it. Now if I could email via Facebook, that would be awesome.
Anyone on twitter could've told you that. When you're followed by "@hotttladie3" & "hotttladie453892", it's only reasonable to assume there is also an @hotttladie4 through @hotttladie452891.

The problem with having a user reporting based plan for acting against fake accounts in an environment where the psychological motivations of using the service, if not to disseminate news, or maintain a closet standup comedian habit, is affirmation. In almost every motivation for using the service, the user has an incentive to keep their numbers up, whether they are real or not. A huge part of the game is the number of followers.

Personally I'm just surprised that they've moved from advertising cam sites (which could conceivably act as a secondary, almost passive income) to quoting star wars novels while inflating numbers for people who pay for followers. That's the aspect that confuses me, and makes me feel vulnerable.
The president could still veto, even if the pseudo-legislative powers were removed.

If the executive were less powerful, perhaps the attitudes in Congress would be different. It's hard to know how they would behave, because we haven't had that situation in living memory.

I read a good article conjecturing that the decline in civility in Congress is due to the increased pressure to essentially run a permanent election campaign. The congress people used to spend more time in Washington becoming friends, but now spend most of their time at home, campaigning. Now I can't find my source...
Yes. But scammers don't care.

It does actually work to ask to be put on the do not call list maintained by the caller (not the national registry), even for scammers. Nobody wants to waste resources.
Pretty interesting, because I think sound has been one of the fundamental ties between species. Birds and their particular calls. Lions and chuffing. Apes and so on and so forth. Sound carries I think in ways that visual and scent might not, so for it to be prominent in a lot of evolutionary platforms would, heh, sound reasonable.
Yeah, but do they get free food and candy?

:)
Twitter has become unbearable to use for news. Every single submission from news stations to President Trump is filled with combo-replies from people. 1 dude will bombard the tweet, then a chick, then a different guy.

Example: http://i.imgur.com/zbyM7YG.png

You need to scroll down at least 5 load-more's to see regular people tweets. It's a really terrible user experience that Twitter needs to solve.
I can't believe I've only just realised where the Control key gets its name from. Thank you!
they now spam cell phones as well with little to no fear of being stopped. worse is that many phone companies have no real desire to crack down on just offering up lines to these companies. if both provider and user were punished it could be handled
You're arguing the incongruous juxtaposition theory of humor, one of the three primary theories of humor.

Intelligence wouldn't reduce the pleasure of simple jokes because it wouldn't help you anticipate the unexpected—the whole point being that the punchline doesn't logically follow.

Certainly there are some jokes that require more niche knowledge:

If the Silver Surfer and Iron Man team up, they’d be alloys.

You have to know what an alloy is to laugh at that one.
Are you arguing for a Constitutional change?
VRTK is your best friend. It's a third-party Unity asset that you can use to get yourself going really quickly.

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/64131

Get the asset and watch those YouTube videos.
The thing is, if somebody forgets to update a unit test, it immediately becomes obvious. If somebody forgets to update a comment, it's very easy for no-one to notice until it's much too late. There's no way to automate that check.

In terms of developer resources, the act of doing updating the comments is cheap, but the act of making sure it gets done (in a systematic way) is comparatively expensive.
Story of Google. See Play Music.
'the people' and 'Congress' are two distinct entities as far as the Constitution is concerned. It is not appropriate to equate one with the other.
I've seen a lot of cases of people's accounts being cloned and then being used to re-friend their friends. I've always wondered a bit about what they are going to be used for and I suspect this is one of the potential options.
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