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> There is no fairer way to decide who wants something the most than to ask who is willing to give up the most to acquire it.

What is 'the most' for one may be pocket change for another.
I used to do a lot of lifting. Did the Starting Strength which was awesome and definitely the most enjoyable regime.

However I just got a bit bored of it all and kind of felt like I always had my ear on the ground for something more interesting, or technical (I do miss squats).

To get to my point I started climbing a few months back and it has totally hit the spot for me. It is incredibly technical, you have both indoor and outdoor options, and you also build incredibly functional strength. Including improving your grip strength more so than in any other sport.

This is totally anecdotal, and of course climbing gyms are not as common as normal gyms. But just in case someone is reading this and wants to give something else a try I highly recommend it.

Also you get to buy some cool gear which is always nice.
The case is simply that the authors probably have a different view of licensing, and wish that their code remains free software even when integrated in other products. It probably wouldn't help that much in the case of something like Github because Github uses their own version of git.

Depending on the outlook, AGPL is simply there to fix a loophole in the GPL, and rightly so.
Validating email is a CHECK constraint using a regexp on the email filed, resetting password is probably two short stored procedures. I get that you don't usually find code to copy/paste for something like this but it's not hard to implement either (i would say the whole signup/login/reset flow can be done in 100-150 LOC). Out of curiosity, how much time did it take to implement the API you needed?
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It's an interesting question. I've taken to posting random links that I'm not actually interested in to social media on a similar theory.
> I have never yet seen a system that cannot be beat by scalpers, including paperless ticketing, and I find that most venues and artists want to maximize profits anyway.

How would a scalper get around ticketing that requires presenting ID that matches the name of the person on the ticket?

I've been to a few shows that were like that for pickup up tickets at the will call booth. I suppose you could get them there and hand them off to the true purchaser but that would require boots on the ground at each show.

Also, not sure how do deal with ID presented at the door to get into the venue if it has to match the ticket purchaser.

(All of this assumes no resales to rename the ticket owner)
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Or just MySQL. Popular choice, unpopular opinion. I trust it more because it gives me a tried and tested path when I need replication (which tends to happen rather early). My understanding is that Postgres replication is not nearly as battle-tested.
https://products.office.com/en-us/business/compare-more-offi...

Skype for Business is available in all Office 365 Business plans except the software-only one (ProPlus). That includes the $5/6 plan (https://products.office.com/en-us/business/office-365-busine...) as well as the $8.25/10 plan that includes all of Office.

It's not a very good competitor on that front...
Say I rent a crane from you. In the course of renting the crane to put new air conditioning units on the top of my building, there is an accident and the crane causes damage to a nearby building.

If the owner of the damaged building sues you, the renter, to recover money to repair the building, the indemnification clause(s) in the crane rental agreement would state something along the lines that I, the renter of the crane, would cover any costs from the lawsuit and "hold you harmless".
> is bound to get you so many tracking cookies

I just installed the extension on Chrome and it seems to block the cookies on those requests. There's also a setting in their settings panel that mentions blocking cookies (checked by default).
It's not about deserving in any sort of moral sense. If I offer you $1000 for something you're selling, and someone else offers $2000, who are you going to sell it to?

He obviously is willing to give you more, so give it to him. That's fair. That's life.

EDIT: And if you sell it to me for $1000, don't be surprised if I turn around and sell it to the $2000 guy. He wants it more than I do, and he's going to get it one way or another.
They moved pretty fast.

Here is an article explaining a bit more how their technology works:
https://medium.com/@drive.ai/a-first-look-at-drive-ais-self-...
The birthday paradox.

After a few hundred to low thousands of manual captcha's, someone goes Hey... I've seen this one before!.

After 2-3 duplicates, they're pretty sure that the corpus is small. At that point, it's worth writing a script to grab as many captchas as possible. They can then manually analyze them.

A back of the envelope calculation shows that with 30 people, they should be able to solve all of the captchas in a working day, even accounting for breaks.
The wind farms in SW Minnesota/the eastern Dakotas/ NW Iowa (http://www.nrel.gov/gis/images/30m_US_Wind.jpg) are relatively close to the larger urban areas in the region and I suspect some of it might even feed into Chicago.
This is one of those things you frame and put on the wall :)
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There is overlap and there sort of has to be because of the memory model and reflection if I recall correctly. Certainly the documentation could be more pithy though.
Since when does anybody ever check the license of compiled binary applications?
Honest question, although on a bit different topic I guess.

Does AGPL prevents some company creating Github like services for Pijul?
They were. That's not the problem.

The problem is tools -- plural. Users think "I have Linux, where do I get the Linux version?" You have to provide arcane instructions for how to add a package repository on Every. Single. Linux. Distribution.

Or you can script it and users can run a command. Still painful, but less so for the user.

As far as the distributions themselves go: they are harder to get software into than the Apple App Store. The rules are arcane and the docs either barely exist or are on wikis that have not been updated in over a decade. The whole process is unnecessarily arcane beyond belief.
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Fair enough, I'm a Brit and not too familiar with the status of these organizations.
Indeed, but if can accurately deduce what the behavior will be from a few relatively simple rules, then that is an excellent basis for forming an intuition.
I've noticed this too with the control strip. Eventually the whole thing goes black except for maybe one "button" worth of area, like it missed a redraw or something. Tapping on a black area where you know a button is will redraw that button but you have to close and reopen the lid to get the whole thing normal again.

It also had a kernel panic displayed on the control strip (which is a separate OS) the moment I turned it on for the first time. It was kinda hilarious, the panic text was written sideways on the control strip, and since it's so thin there was a line break every 4-5 characters.
That's because y is never used, so why should the pointer be dereferenced? If you call bar(y) instead of just bar(), "x86-64 clang 3.9.1" with -O3 does the load as well (but after the check)

foo(int*): # @foo(int*)
test rdi, rdi
je .LBB0_1
mov edi, dword ptr [rdi]
jmp bar(int) # TAILCALL
.LBB0_1:
ret

Only GCC does the kind of aggressive optimization the article mentions (and might need to be tamed by -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks).
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The catch appears to be finding a motherboard to do it.
The difficulty is not in getting them to pay but showing your credibility. There is tons of free information on the internet why should a startup pay you?

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I'm on the opposite side, in that I'm a KDE user / infrequent contributor that has some jealousy for the good use of space Gnome manages to pull off with its decorations.

Your only real use for the title bar is a drag zone. Effectively a button to hold down. It doesn't need to occupy the entire horizontal width of your screen to do that. Gnome applications still show the same text information, they just have added buttons there as well to waste less space. You still have ample drag room.

If a program doesn't have enough room for buttons or makes their CSD menu buttons obscure that is a design failure distinct from the bar itself. It is just a space saving measure. While screens are bigger, the vertical area is the premium, and wasting a 15px+ of it on an average of 20 characters of text and two buttons should be somewhere to look for improvement in.
I don't see any danger with AI, I'm optimist that it will introduce great changes.

I'm just bothered by the whole market tendencies, it often sounds like it's appealing to salesmen, meanwhile doing real stuff with machine learning is tough and it is often the realm of research and universities.
"Tangential aside - is this a thing? A hobby? Research? Paid employment?"

All of the above and more. I'm invested in it enough that I'm going to become Vice President for California's oldest mineralogical society next year, most likely.

"I've not heard about digging up minerals for fun."

You've never gone rockhounding or had some sort of rock collection when you were a child?
The thing about moves like this is they are looked in far too short-term of a mindset. The technologies needed to do $things are an investment over time, one that I have seen repeatedly backfire in choosing proprietary software the longer that time goes on. It's not just about the budget for the next year or five, it's about freeing yourself from the technical limitations, the legal limitations, and by what I call death by a thousand cuts licensing fees.

Sure, the initial pain of a relatively rough transition such as this is going to be higher than expected when this isn't taken into consideration, because you are going to have to find or pay to dev all those tiny little proprietary programs that have attached themselves like a virus to your budget and replacement them. If anything, I would say the pains of Munich make an even stronger case for breaking through the spell of proprietary programs.

I do have to say though, I think Ubuntu was a bad choice for the distro. That being said, as I said in the other related thread, and as seems to be verified by the poster who worked there, I highly suspect half of the problem is a lack of budget and an overworked/understaffed IT team.

You know, I just thought of something, if "The user controls the program, or the program controls the user."
Could you say then, that "The government controls the software, or the software controls the government."?
> I think a nice feature would be if the description pages linked to the relevant MDN page

They do, top right next to (the useless, ridiculous) 'share' link.
The people running the show could just sell the tickets using an auction mechanism. It doesn't make sense to let a middle man take a huge cut.

Well it probably does make sense for PR reasons. Nobody wants to be the band/team/event gouging their fans.
Now I'll be testing this out in firefox. Thanks, lol
1km in 15minutes, five times in a row. My freestyle cruising pace is 45s/lap. In reality, my routine is slower than that due to drills, kicking, and other strokes. But on occassion i do 5 or 10 km of freestyle just to time myself.
When the mean attendees, they are talking about people who have full listen and talk privileges? Not just people who are listen only?
Even the government stopped denying their truth, especially after the drip feed of info caught them in baldface lies on several occasions. Also, if the info wasn't genuine, why would they be so upset and calling Snowden a "traitor" etc?

Additionally, this wasn't even the first time any of us had heard about this sort of thing. Ever heard of Room 641A? The Snowden leaks aren't exactly implausible or unprecedented.

I don't know if you are genuinely unsure of their veracity or just making a rhetorical point, but it's not a point of contention in any serious debate forum I know of, even among intelligence community sympathizers.
> And most of all: I don't want Linux to copy Mac! If I want a Mac I can get my boss to get me one!

Maybe you and I just aren't the target demographic (and the source demographic I guess) any more? Back in the day from what I remember, the Linux Desktop was trying to copy Windows because that's what people knew. Certainly worldwide there were a lot more OSS devs that started using computers with a copy of Windows, than there were devs that started computing on one of the research systems in MIT. Windows was what people knew, Windows was what they grew up with, Windows was what they wanted to recreate. Now Macs are the choice du jour among the young crowd. While you can objectively say that there has been a drop in features and an uptick in useless(?) bling, I'm not sure it's the result of an actual shift in the base paradigm.
The trading cards are part of the Steam economy. It's a money-making ploy. I don't know if it works or not, but it probably does.

If they dropped everything that isn't about selling games to players (Steam Matchmaking, social features, the Steam economy especially wrt CS:GO and Dota) I don't think Valve would be able to sell and host games as cheaply as it does, and I think more people would pirate games rather than getting them on Steam.
Microsoft have Windows Holographic coming soon that will launch on 3rd party sets for Dell Lenovo etc. These are VR headsets with inside out tracking but without the AR tech. I guess they will be a good rival to the Vive but details are thin
Why should the fan who is willing to pay more be prioritized over the fan who was prescient enough to buy tickets on time?
Is there any interest level in a Frida script or similar that would fully bypass Google's extension signing so you could load this without the nag into official Chrome?

Seems like it might be an interesting little reverse engineering project.
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It's considered unsanitary nowadays, so it's been replaced by some kind of rubberized surface so that the kids can fall without any danger...

I don't envy kids nowadays, between overly sanitized and boring playgrounds and parents who don't let them walk by themselves...
Git (and mercurial, and a few others) are snapshot-based. That means that they think of the world as states, with changes between them.

Darcs, and pijul, are patch-based. That means that they think of the world as an ordering of patches. Patches aren't the same as commits: commit orderings, for example, are fixed, whereas patch orderings are computed. They can change when you e..g merge a "branch". Branching is similarly "simpler": a branch is just a collection of patches, not just a single commit with an implicit DAG attached to it.
You've lost me at "security through obscurity".
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You reasoning is a pretty good example of why the median person should be very wary of anyone saying that free markets and their "efficiency" are a good thing, or will result in good outcomes for them. They will result in good outcomes for the richest, sure. We can agree to that.

You are conflating die-hard fans with die-hard wealthy fans which is a little silly. Not all fans have the same marginal value of pocket change. One median-income fan may be easily be more die-hard than another more blasé millionaire fan, yet he is also a die-hard fan of feeding his children. Just because he is unwilling to sacrifice his children to go to the concert does not mean he is less of a fan. The millionaire is not really a die-hard fan, but can easily pay, so he does.

So no, the fan who wants to see the gig the most does not get to see it. That's only true if everyone has the same amount of disposable income. They don't.

For the median person, "the free market" just means "the person with the most money gets to make all of the decisions." So much so that a person who cares much less can affect an outcome he hardly cares about, because he also does not care about the money involved, because he has so much of it relative to the median person.

"I mean, it's one banana, Michael. What could it cost? $10?"
Similarly, a letter supposedly addressed:

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Which was delivered to John Underhill, Andover, Mass. Unlikely to be true, but a great story.
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That's a bit involved, but I believe that the intent is that Pijul is to Darcs as Git is to Monotone.
> There is a middle ground of letting legitimate buyers purchase tickets and then selling them on the secondary market if they are unable to attend.

And nothing stops those people from buying a ticket from someone who is no longer able to attend on StubHub. Bands aren't putting on a show so that their wealthiest fans can attend.
> Why should the fan who is willing to pay more money have to miss out, in favour of a fan who is paying less money?

They shouldn't necessarily have to. They should have to do the same amount of waiting in line, or struggling with whatever online box office system is in place.

Having more money doesn't imply being more deserving of going to an event. Without scalpers it would be more about the effort and desire to attend.

If you don't have time because you're working too much, consider that a sacrifice you're making to be more wealthy.
I believe focusing on potential technical problems is the wrong approach.

What you have to look at is lock-in or no lock-in. Any responsible IT Manager should avoid lock-ins / silos as far as possible. This then allows to standardise and use multiple suppliers and much lower TCO.

Without having looked into details (but with some knowledge of the Munich IT environment), I'm sure that most of these technical issues stem from the previous lock-in situation with MS.

There are other solutions without migrating the desktops back to MS / upgrading to MS Win 10 - you could for example virtualise the apps with issues (Standard approach & working very well in large environments). But then Munich could not be locked back into the MS Stacks so easily.

And MS and Oracle are very good with locking their customers in and collecting vast amounts for that.

BTW - I've seen large government environments in the UK with completely virtualised application delivery / desktops to enable staff to work from home, BYOD, hot-desking etc while at the same time securing the organisation's data e.a
At that point which desktop OS you are using has only limited importance.
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Nobody bothers visiting Slashdot any more, just like nobody bothers with Soylent News. Note that any venerable name on either of those sites essentially doesn't post there any longer. Any accounts you see are either die-hard try-hards or bots/spammers.
As I read the author's comparison, OCaml came to my mind as well. Reading Minsky's posts and the Real World OCaml book got me really interested in its capabilities for modern software development. I've heard mixed reviews about the object-oriented features, but the functional ones are solid, expressive, and easy to understand.

At home, I started using it as my primary language just a few weeks ago.
One idea may be to bundle or "set up their systems" for free - accounting, CRM, credit cards, website, SEM, etc. This would save them probably a few hundred hours of research and configuration. Charge them a nominal monthly fee to manage it all.

Then, when you get known for doing this and have lots of clients, charge the SaaS companies an affiliate marketing fee to be included in your bundle.
And yet companies hire out security audits on a regular basis, frequently as a part of their contracts.

Even Windows has source available, if you pay for the pleasure.
They are a multi-billion dollar a year company, they can hire a third party to play test game before they release them on steam.

They are destroying their own brand by not doing it.
You'd be advised to read their book, by Nissenbaum and Brunton that describes the theory behind privacy through obfuscation. It argues that by clicking all the ads, all useful information is lost in the noise. Simply put, the signal-to-noise ratio is so heavily biased to noise that the signal is lost. https://www.amazon.com/Obfuscation-Users-Guide-Privacy-Prote...
> The structures are ditched enclosures that occupy roughly 13,000 km2

So, they have a radius of 65km ?! How did they make the picture then? Can't be right

EDIT: why should a reader care what is the total space occupied by 450 ditched enclosures?
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I don't care much about the comparison of these two languages (there's some interesting points though), but the "general observations" intro explains very precisely things that I always struggle to communicate.

Read it, it's a few lines, you've already heard it but it never hurts to be reminded it.
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HackerNews does something like this. My original account was banned (unfairly) and I've tested various combinations of browsers and IP addresses and every new account I make is instabanned. It's pretty incredible actually.

Proof: you won't see this unless you show dead.
If I'm supposed to let them sell my privacy and attention, I wouldn't really call it free. Money isn't the only thing of value I can give to a website.
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Could be wrong, but I kind of feel that you might want to give Kubuntu a shot. Everything is really predictable, but it still looks nice.
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From my experience with both PostgreSQL and RethinkDB (and other NoSQL stores):

For SQL, complex queries, and data warehousing: yes. It's an excellent database and I'm not sure why you'd pick another SQL DB unless it were a lot better on point two.

For high availability and scaling: no, absolutely not.

The problem with the latter is an arcane deployment process and arcane error messages that provide constant worry that you're doing something wrong. It's a many week engineering project to deploy HA Postgres, while HA RethinkDB takes hours -- followed by some testing for prudence... our testing revealed that it does "just work" at least at our scale. We were overjoyed.

The docs for Postgres HA and clustering are also horrible. There are like five different ways to do it and they're all in an unknown state of completion or readiness.

Of course if/when we do want complex queries and more compact storage, we will probably offload data from the RethinkDB cluster to... drum roll... a PostgreSQL database. Of course that will probably be for analytics done "offline" in the sense that if the DB goes down for a bit we are fine. HA is not needed there.

TL;DR: everything has its limitations.