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I'll offer a little counterpoint to that. I had known 'free software' as shareware until ~2001 when I had my first introduction to Linux. I was very curious, and took to open source software AND the ideals very easily.

Because of my experience as a teenager poking around operating systems, fixing xorg.conf files after compiling nVidia drivers, and running and using thousands of different software applications - tools for many many different jobs I had never been exposed to before. I consider open-source being an education I received that has helped me to use computers and software today.

Because I have benefitted so much from open-source, now that I'm in a position where I can write and release software I am very motivated to give back to the same community that first gave to me. I hope that by producing work and releasing it to open-source I can help build up those who follow in my footsteps - and that's a richer treasure than dollars in my pocket.

Having said all of this, I can't choose GPL for giving away my own software because the viral nature of it feels like a chain letter. It leaves a really bad taste in your mouth and I wouldn't want anybody to feel compelled to pick between using something I'm TRYING to give away for free and having to GPL their project, or not be able to use something I'm trying to give away for free just because of the license. So I keep choosing MIT, which basically says: 'you have to acknowledge that I wrote it, and you can't sue me because of damages you got from using it' but leaves pretty much any other use (even commercial reselling) open.

I can't imagine anybody looking at a piece of code under MIT and having objections, or a reason why the license prevents them from using it - and THAT is the point of free software to me. GPL software is arguably LESS free than the more liberal licenses :D
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Milligram sounds great for my blog, which i want to keep minimal.

Are there any examples of sites(gallery) of sites built with milligram? I'd like to see some real-world examples.
True, but this is typically a good thing in my opinion, the code remains fully open all the same and the developers/userbase will determine which project is the better.
I don't think iOS did it retroactively. It's just that, since so many more people actually update (because they're not at the mercy of their carrier), devs update their apps more often.
The initial cost of production is far from zero, as anyone who has spent more than few months (years) building a non-trivial application will tell you.

As you say, updates/fixes also cost. So do marketing, web infrastructure and so on.

It's usual in business to charge for utility and perceived value ("As much as the market can bear"), not for the cost of mechanical assembly/reproduction.

OP is correct that Apple has created a new(ish) distribution model. It was a gold-rush for a year or three, but has become extremely unfavourable to new product development.

But this has become a curation and discovery problem, not a distribution problem. Apple's 30% would be a lot more palatable if discovery and search worked better, if buyers could opt-in to a mailing list to support newsletters, cross-sales, and future sales, if sellers could set up trials - and so on.

None of this is likely because the App Store is an example of the first law of aggregation - be the feudal landowner, not the peasant smallholder.

The App Store is immensely profitable for Apple. The law of aggregation means that Apple has no serious incentive to make it better.

The App Store won't change now. Eventually the entire platform will collapse and be replaced by a new technology in a new market space. But I wouldn't bet on that happening within five years, and possibly not within ten. (My best guess would be somewhere between those two.)

Meanwhile it's still possible to do well selling app development as a service instead of apps as a product.
> You should never directly work with the WordPress global variables, and it's bad practice to do so.

It's bad practice to use global variables, but you somehow blame the person who highlights this use, as opposed to the project that is littered with their use.
I guess it's part of a plan to pay lower taxes on their oversea cash when they will bring it into the US. Create jobs, get tax breaks. Apple has stashed about $250 billion overseas and paying a billion to reduce the tax burden is most likely the cheaper option.
I came to say the same thing. I really like the dock connector. Contrary to what the article states, I find that it always works with no issues. And being able to plug it in all at once for power, monitors, ethernet, mouse and keyboard is nice. I am sure something like that exists from a third party somewhere, but the magnet part is still super nice.
For me, the reason is different. I don't mind people walking or even talking nearby, but I really hate the process of pack/unpack. Before work, I need to setup the laptop, the cables, the IP to access my local server from Android, get notebooks, pens, ohh my earphones, and a lot more, only then I can jump to work for maybe 2-3 hours (I feel a little uneasy to stay longer in the cafe). If you are working alone, the bathroom is more complicated. Oh and the outlet. And internet... It doesn't work for me. Office is my only option, because I want everything ready to start immediately.
As bpicolo said, lots of Python.

The API itself is a Python service running on Pyramid/uWSGI. Our focus on services internally means that the API delegates our REST requests to other internal services when resolving the data.

As far as the GraphQL implementation, we used Graphene (graphene-python.org) for that.
A lot of CS degrees are easier than you think. Tons of cheating + disinterested professors = grads who can't code.
My question is, would you have necessarily eaten better in the absence of Soylent? Or would you have just binged on snacks and junk food instead? Plenty of people seem to do so. I agree that Soylent is overhyped as a quick-fix to diet and nutrition problems that have complex causes, e.g. depression, social isolation, obesity, etc. But, since we aren't going to resolve those causes any time soon, it's probably better, on balance, to have Soylent available as a reasonably healthy option for people.
Sorry, I guess I haven't been following the news that closely.

Apart from NK, what's the China problem?
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> Yes, indeed. The submitter needs to sign over copyright. Otherwise you don't have the right to relicense their work under some other for-compensation license.

Wouldn't it be possible to require patches to be supplied under CC-0, which would allow the maintainer to take the patch and incorporate it in the GPLed source?
Huh? Citation needed.

"The myth suggests that these German brands produce unreliable vehicles, but actual long-term dependability results do not lie. Lately, German makes have been producing reliable vehicles, and the belief that they are unreliable should remain as nothing more than a myth."

http://www.jdpower.com/cars/articles/automotion-blog/5-car-q...
Sorry for the tangent, but could you link the burial plot startup? I have 6 plots in Chicago, and when I looked at marketplaces for them ~5 years ago it was a bunch of crappy sites from the 90's.
Or out of your profit, assuming you're making money. :)
That isn't the common distinction made between weak and strong AI. Until we know what causes the internal point of view, it's conceivable that an AI could exhibit superhuman intelligence, as viewed from the outside, without itself having any view from the inside.
The other "genius" thing Apple did is force people on the iOS treadmill. Your iphone keeps getting slower and slower, apps you paid for stop working, and you keep buying new iphones and new apps all over again. I don't believe it was a Machiavellian smoke-filled-room type of thing, but it just ended up that way, and hey look, apple just so happens to have made some cash off of that.
Really though, having seen the vulnerabilities that have been found in many companies' websites, and their responses to them, I'm not so sure how trustworthy we can assume them to be.

I prefer to use Amazon or Paypal as payment options on those sites whenever possible
Designers today laud UX but make the most inaccessible, superflous, gimmicky, unreadable, and yet some how still bland, designs. Minimalism without any of the benefits. Overly garnished designs without any real creativity. Design problems of the flat screen are mostly solved; at this point, they are just creating work for themselves. I can't blame them for that.
> and of course there won't be any CDNs or HTTP caches "upstairs" so to speak.

I wonder what will be the marketing buzzword for the first datacenter in space…
As lmm notes, the Surface Dock is a really nice peripheral that works with the Surface charging port:

https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/microsoft-surface/7098/hands...
I'm not sure what the parent is referring to. If you're an American citizen, you don't need a passport, just book a flight. Large numbers of the population speak English, and much of the US is already there. The roads are the same, the dollars are the same, hell, even the fast-food is the same.
I had the same thought. It's outlandish that a $1B investment in anything could be viewed as insignificant.
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Yeah...

We eventually hit "Do we have no conveyance of knowledge when you cannot simulate with successive attempts?" Which is not what I generally class as children's-story language.

But the statistical argument is even harder - accepting that a low enough probability (more accurately, p value) implies a non-random source of a phenomenon is not obvious. I suspect that the initial usage would be ok, where Ali Baba says he didn't guess wrong 40 times. But the coin flip idea with Mick isn't intuitive and isn't really explained.

The lead-in is interesting, and it's a clever story, but it lost the plot on target audience pretty badly.
The founder of Soylent has repeatedly pushed his product as a solution for world hunger, unhealthy diets in the first world, and poor time management. I think critiquing the product on those terms is fair.
I must have some bad luck then, because we're still seeing lots of corporate customers whose users are still stuck on IE10.
Yeah. I disable auto updating for this reason on my phone. I've had a number of apps change up their functionality on me or add obtrusive ads and I can't go back to what once worked just fine for my needs.
Yes. Yes, you can go hiking on slimfast or Weight Watchers. I go hiking all the time in Arizona with a Builder Bar or an apple and some water. 6 to 8 mile trail runs with some water (nothing else) is very common for me and my friends. I am not going to mix up Soylent for trail running or hiking, ever. I can almost say that 99% of my friends will not either.

I also participate (professionally) in uSAR via a technical rescue team for a decently large municipality. We don't take food on call outs and have no idea how long an extrication will take for example. When I am at work, I often don't eat for two, three, or four hours past "lunch time" or "dinner time" due to calls. Soylent is not an option anymore than drinking a protein shake on a call. Not happening.
Jesus shit on a stick.

That's two Apache directives, nothing to do with PHP directly.
You likely already have the ServerName entry, as 99.9% of apache installs would be using Vhosts these days.

The `UseCanonicalName = On` should be added to your vhost config file, or your global apache config file (e.g. /etc/apache2/apache2.conf on Debian)
Spot on. I don't know why we would apply reductionism something as pleasurable and healthful as food.
This is all I could quickly find: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10203933. This change was just to bring the software in line with the FAQ, which has mentioned this since 2014.
I watch pirated TV using Kodi on my Amazon Fire TV in the USA.

There are some free Kodi add-ons for on-demand TV (i.e., free Netflix clones), but I use Kodi as a replacement for live sports. For $13/month, I get hundreds of live channels.

AMA.
This looks nice. I like the name. But poking through the code it seems to be more of a slimmed-down Bootstrap rather than a fresh/new approach to minimalist CSS. Which has it's uses no doubt.

I personally love http://basscss.com/ for a minimal and side-effect free (the real goal) CSS framework, as it has one of the best class naming schemes I've seen.

Each component is focused on doing one thing and one thing well. You basically build up the styles with each class you add to an element. Composed via a combinations of smaller pieces, unix style, rather than complex multi-layered components with deep nesting. Which is an interesting approach when you try to apply the same idea to your own CSS. See the Design Principles for more: http://basscss.com/v7/docs/reference/principles/

The code is also very readable and integrates perfectly with PostCSS. They also have a React version.
Yes, I know. And it's sad. I'm also not a "gui" person, and couldn't make a useful graphical interface if my life depended on this.

But I'm especially confused as why this hasn't been built into Windows for years, especially considering how many people were e.g. hurt by "Autoplay" in the old days:

You've plugged in a device that claims to be...
[ ] a mouse (driver available)
[ ] a storage device (driver available)
[X] a soundcard (driver will be downloaded and installed)
Tick any of the functions you want to activate, or press CANCEL
if you don't want to activate any functions of this device, e.g.
because it's a phone you just want to charge from your laptop.

(of course the wording is utter crap, but you might get the idea...)
this depends on recipient's (WP admin) server properly validating SPF and DMARC
It doesn't seem so astonishing when you recognize the inordinate leverage the oligarchy has in controlling the government and framing the "public debate".
Live a restrictive life, careful, watching, planning and get life expectancy of 85yrs ? A bad turn of luck could be the end is right around the corner

Live a wild debauched, taste everything, free for all, no care whatsoever and get a life expectancy of: 80yrs? A somewhat lucky draw could see you beyond 90

Hard choices :)
Sure, the underlying problem is depression. We can still have a reasonable discussion about things that enable that depression, or extend it. That's not at all a silly concern.
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Well, I contributed to the dual licensed project, only to see the company increasing the price of their (somewhat related) monetized project 7 fold or so, screwing people over on the related product. Of course the contributors get nothing for their copyright assignment. It's like thank you for your contribution to our documentation system, now pay 7 times more for our main product you're also using.

I'm wary of these schemes as a potential contributor. It limits the reciprocity.

I'm much happier with projects that don't require free copyright assignment from their contributors.
There has been several different leaked keys for different systems. Remember, Blue Ray had the same issue five different times in 06, 08, 09, 11, and 12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controvers...

Also, maintaining back doors would be a significantly harder problem than just keeping keys on a server used to sign things. Apple can for example keep the keys on an offline private server, but that's not really viable if 10 or 100's of thousands of people across multiple agency's of state, local, and federal law enforcement need access to break into things.

Worse you could quickly find nobody outside the US would be willing to use our software or services.
The state of legal TV and film content in the UK is abysmal.

I think it's really important that we consider that just because there's no legal way for me to watch say "The Americans" season 5 legally in the UK[0], I'm not entitled to pirate it. That is the content distributors mistake.

Saying that me downloading it doesn't hurt them doesn't track either because I'll be seeding a file to others who might have legal alternatives.

I've had to adjust how important watching stuff can be to me. Is it really that important that I get to watch some TV? Worth breaking the law for?

[0]https://www.justwatch.com/uk/tv-series/the-americans
Hehehe...I think the argument made here is perishability/storage since they spoil easy. But that brings up another point: dried fruits, nuts etc. are excellent sources of nutrition, and I would certainly prefer that over Soylent.
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We, developers, are creative individuals. My 20+ years experince says that one can not be a developer without being at least a little creative. But being creative is all about passion. And passion is the center of sith philosophy. So, we all are sith by nature? Even if we do not strive for power, we employ the dark side all the way.
I traded space in the crisper for an app that's octopus recipes?
> I tried cafes and libraries but, oddly, they no longer worked for me—the noise and the people walking by suddenly became a huge distraction.

I see that issue with cafés, but I never had such an issue with libraries. At least the libraries I know are very quiet and their staff takes great care to keep it quiet.

My problem with the library was that on some days, I needed to phone quite often, or was called quite often. Each time I had to leave the library temporarily, and this in-and-out was very annoying for me.

> rent a tiny artist studio for $350/mo

Wow, that's still quite a lot. Did you try co-working spaces? Roughly speaking, there you pay for a desk in a room, not for a whole appartment.
Straight from the source:

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Your original comment is very confusing. It's difficult to tell whether you are blaming Soylent for the onset of depression due to nutritional deficiencies, or whether you Soylent was simply an enabler but not the direct cause.
The guy that posted this makes an amazing python package with an additional package for django called graphene and it pretty much handles everything automatically inferring from you django models, it's amazing. I wrote a boilerplate that got me hired and now we are in the process of building out a graphql + Relay Modern app!
Soylent has a very high glycemic index, and isn't far off of eating a bowl of sugar. From that angle alone I would categorize it as an extremely poor choice (and indeed this whole discussion is a little surreal -- Soylent would be categorized as garbage, ultra-processed junk food if it didn't have the VC/valley aura around it). I've never bought into the super-food fantasy, because there is utterly nothing qualifying it.

Having said that, most people -- even very busy people with busy lifestyles and a "poor" food diet -- are not nutritionally deprived (and really, a centrum can alleviate concerns with ease).

There are a lot of valid reasons for products like Soylent. Stocking a bunker, for instance. Or for coping when under low energy (depression, as mentioned elsewhere), or in a critical crunch. But that seems to be such a niche that the presentation on here constantly as if this is the future of food seems like fantasy, and would never get a pass if it weren't that it somehow got bound up in the valley/VC bubble. If Oprah came out and started pushing Soylent, it wouldn't get a mention on here beyond derision.
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This is a story worth reading. Despite the title, it is a commentary on Ray and his movies and is almost a Cliff Notes for those who are unfamiliar with this movie maker.
Why do you see it as people having to "justify" Soylent? It's just a sales pitch, like any other sales pitch. And it happens to be the way a lot of people feel. I used to make meals on very little money with very little time, and I liked Soylent better. Yeah I could do it, but I can use even less time and fewer ingredients and end up with something that I'm just really in the mood for sometimes. No one's making you buy it. THAT would need justification. This is something somebody sells.
Hmm. OK. You probably haven't spoken to an attorney since Obamacare. I have.

Even so. We are dicing and slicing words here and the whole thing is irrelevant.

> Should society step in and help people who can't afford to pay? Of course.

> Should society work hard so that middle class and wealthy people that need long term care can pass more of their assets to their children? Probably not.

OK, it sounds like we might be coming to an understanding here. Please answer the questions I asked, because everything else is irrelevant.

Here they are again, slightly restated:

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1- Is estate recovery real?

Can we agree on that point?

Forget age thresholds. Is it real?

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2- Is this OK?

Should a nation like the US have a healthcare system with programs that place citizens past a certain age --the age where medical needs increase significantly-- in a debtor relationship with the government?

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I am willing to bet your answers will be:

1: Yes, it's real.

2: No, we should not have a healthcare program that turns medical care recipients into debtors

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If these are your answers we, then, are 100% in agreement and this back and forth has largely been irrelevant because these two questions are the meat of the objections I have raised.

We need a healthcare system that takes care of everyone, rich and poor. There should be no distinction when you walk into the doctor's office or hospital. And it should certainly not turn you into a debtor to the government. That's immoral and wrong.

As for the philosophical question of the wealthy passing assets to their children, that's an entirely different discussion. As an advanced and "civilized" nation we should not use the healthcare system as a battering ram to deal with such issues. Healthcare should be about just that, healthcare. Everyone should have access to it and it should not bankrupt anyone or turn them into debtors to the government. We need to achieve that. The issue of inheritance, etc. is a matter for a different kind of legislation and it should be kept separate from medical care. I hope you'll agree to that as well.

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I'm pretty sick of what politicians have been doing with our healthcare system over the past 20 to 50 years. It is an absolute mess. And I fear it will get worst before it gets better.

What we need is leadership that is able to have an adult conversation with the nation to explain how we need to work together for the greater good. Instead we have politicians in various political camps playing fucking games with our healthcare for political gain, not our benefit.

The right kind of leader would be able to unite the citizenry in understanding that the ONLY way we are going to end-up with a better system is if we accept that we all have the obligation to contribute --obviously based on financial ability-- in order to create a system where anyone, rich or poor, can walk into a hospital and not worry one iota about costs. What we have today is a horrible mess. And Trump, despite what many might think, is very far from the leader we need on this matter. I think we can agree on this as well.