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I'd be happy enough with floating sheets. To resolve those common things where you've got two different sections, like an analysis with a summary section below it. It's annoying because e.g. changing the column width on the top part also changes the column width on the independent thing below it. A tool that lets me put multiple independent sheets on the same page would be great. If the tool can be programmed to run image processing algorithms on the same page, that's fine too.

I'd view "IO" as almost equivalent to "Macro" in that instance. Though not quite. I'd like to be able to have e.g. $A$1 be a filename and $A$2 be the image in file $A$1, and that to be understood as a "pure" transform, even though under the hood it's got to open the file. So "application-scope purity" rather than process-scope purity.
> You actually don't belive these women who are out here, in public, risking their reputations, to deliver the truth. This kind of mentality, of not believing women when they report sexual harassment and assault, is what's so fucked up about Tech.

I don't generally believe accusations of wrongdoing without evidence, just because they fit the cultural narrative about what's perceived as fucked up about tech.

Just as I wouldn't believe rape or murder accusations without proof, I am not willing to believe sexual harassment claims without proof.

Your statement is indicative of everything that's wrong with the current media circus. You assert that Travis is a shitty human, and you make the assumption that tech is already fucked up and that it's an old boys club. Baseless accusations backed up by neither reason nor logic? How are leveling these accusations without evidence being "emotionally present and responsible"? You taking such glee in the misfortunes of others tends to support my point, as this seems like a personal vendetta masquerading as virtual signaling.
Ermmm we used the copper nanotube paint once on an office and, well, it sucked. Bad. Cell phones only worked in this small corner of the office, and wifi was chaotic. Something about signals can't get in, but they also can't get out, so they collide ...
The natural choice for anyone is going to be "how do I get the most money with little effort". Corruption needs to be made difficult, but sadly the people who write the laws benefit the most from this corruption and are unwilling to surrender political control. If things are going to change don't count on the 1% to do anything about it. They are comfortable in their nested bubble of kickbacks, slush funds and stock. If the average person wants change, they need to confront the wealthy interests that control almost everything and fight for their place at the table.

I think the biggest mistake of the last 30 years was putting any kind of trust in the ruling class to do anything but enrich their own.
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Man I am super sorry my basic privacy are getting in the way of your marketing effort.

Edit: removed "rights"
Regulatory capture, advertently or inadvertently, is one of the elephants in the healthcare room. I'm tired of all the discussion (on both sides) totally ignoring this issue.
Yes, certainly they did, but it all ended up with 3 different standards, none of which was adopted by any browser. It was at around time browsermakers were holding non-stop talkshops over long promised native fragment/template loading that was never implemented (XMLDocument.Load() and others)
The fall of communism was the perfect time to start building trust.

The Russians foolishly trusted the west. Look up the astonishing policies initiated by 'harvard economists' in association with the usual suspects IMF and World Bank that directly led to the loot of hundreds of billions of dollars of Russian state assets and the rise of the oligarchy to understand how obsessive self interest and sabotage operate. Putin exists for a reason. 'Trust' is a naive to dangerous idea in this context.

No one is a doe eyed innocent upholding some moral high ground in international politics, people who affect that should be treated with extreme suspicion.
Actually, I think ~10mbit is fast enough. You can easily use Hangouts/Skype with good quality video on that kind of link. The problems are elsewhere: it's not stable enough, and it's not responsive enough.

Anything faster is just a cherry on top. Sure, files download faster, you can stream 4k, etc. But I'd say that's luxury which you could choose. Lower speeds are "enough" for a lot of people.
I would love to see a standardised `element.transformChildrenTo(newChildren)` or some such. Also, a built in elem` string handler function ` that can allow interpolation of other elements, arrays of elements, or objects for attributes.

That would allow you to do nearly all of what react does without any external libraries and a very small amount of code.
Didn't they also get caught a couple of times scanning the email despite saying they weren't? I know there was a lawsuit alleging that they scanned the email of many university students after saying they wouldn't [0], which I think was settled for high 3 or low 4 figures per person, although I'm not sure (and wasn't a participant).

[0] http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/3/23/alumni-lawsuit-a...
This is the sad reality behind much of content creation nowadays.

Don't be fooled. It's always been this way.

In fact, there was a time when content creators didn't get rich at all. If they were lucky they made a living, often due to patronage. Not to mention those who simply inherited or married into wealth.

The millionaire artist is a very modern invention.
Well, Germany just now massively expanded their surveillance laws. The ones that did do that were the "socialist party" and "democratic union"

http://www.zdnet.com/article/police-get-broad-phone-and-comp...
I would disagree that C++ is only useful "near the hardware" I have spent the bulk of my career not near the hardware and have found C++ to be the most useful of languages I have learned. My current job is as close to the hardware as I have gotten, I am even on the "Firmware Team" and I feel pretty removed.

If you need interop between two languages you almost always have to drop to C, if you want to do that while keeping high level concepts like object, then use C++.

If you need more performance and you have already maxed out perf in some "higher" language. Then a naive C++ rewrite is often just faster. Then when you start breaking out C++ profiling tools and carefully managing memory you get insane speeds that didn't seem possible before.

With some of new stuff in C++11/14/17 it is actually fun to work in C++, not as fun as Ruby... up until 3d things start appearing on the screen.
I would argue all corporation are rent seekers. Markets which enable assets to be traded buy all and expose assets true value to all participants. corporations hide assets behind private contracts.
That's a really great framing of this issue. Thanks!
That's the problem with some of the specs of the article. They are talking about 1% of churn is due to death...
> China also became "China" after invading neighboring kingdoms.

More like what has always been considered "China" got taken over by the Kidan, then the Monguls, then the Manchus, each time forcefully, but then slowly emerging as a "More Unified China", rinse and repeat.
> Sure but why do i as a American consumer subsidize drug invention for England or India?

You don't. You subsidize the massive advertising budgets of the companies in the US.
The analogy to banks is helpful but products should:

A) explain what problem they are solving (what pain point they address)

B) have an obvious target user.

In this case: Why do I need a bank when using Ethereum? Is it a bank in the context of retail bank consumers as a storage/transfer mechanism or a bank for businesses? If I'm a business building a decentralized service building on top of Ethereum can I use Bancor to address a set of particular problems that are common among decentralized services?

There's more to this than choosing a generic analogy.
» In other words, your "rate-limiting" analogy makes zero sense. You want more immigration, not less.

How's that working out for Germany?
It's like my accountant reading my receipts to create my tax return versus a sleazy salesman sneaking a peek at them to find new ways to sell me stuff.
Thanks for this! I've got an idea for a financial data B2B business that I am going to go full-time on later this year.

The idea of a long drawn out sales cycle worries me as I'm only looking at an initial product with a $10k p.a. price point. With that I can't necessarily afford to have sales people out in the field so they would have to be in-house. I imagine clients would want demos etc. so mostly Webex
“Why are we so far from the speed of light?“

Because we don't know how to build an optical router with the same capabilities as the ones we use today and the alternative is to give up on net neutrality. I'm ignoring endpoint performance and protocol bloat.

There is work being done in quantum computing that might eventually lead to some CPU like device operating on photons alone and hollow core fiber optics also seem to be an active field. The work on upgrading the various protocols together with limiting network requests seem to be the way to go until our technology catches up.
That's how DPA works as far as I understand.
With regards to opinions on whether or not specific entities like Russia should be permitted to examine source code: we can also consider the Apple v. FBI case.

For those who don't recall, one of the concerns was the government trying to compel Apple to make changes to iOS to permit brute forcing the San Bernardino attacker's PIN. This is a violation of First Amendment rights (compelled speech), so this drew a lot of opposition, including from people that are part of free software and open source communities. The alternative was to have the FBI make changes to the software instead of compelling Apple to do so.

For those who agree with the free software philosophy, it's important to remove consideration of _who_ is trying to exercise the four freedoms. In the case of the FBI, from a free software perspective, of course they should be able to modify the software---we believe that all software should be free. (But that doesn't mean they should be able to install it on _someone else's_ device.)

In this case, Russia doesn't have to ask to examine free software. And if they did, it shouldn't be a concern. Restricting who can use and examine software is a slippery slope:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freed...

But not all software is free/libre. But by extending that philosophy---there would be no _ethical_ concerns with a foreign power wanting to inspect proprietary source code. But proprietary software might have something of concern to hide: it might be something malicious like a backdoor, or it might be something like a lack of security or poor development practices.
I think that makes the hack technically valid for the category, but much less interesting.
me too, but i doubt their technology can be stopped with tinfoil
Yep, I agree. Email is not really a good channel for analysis anyway since it has a very high signal-to-noise ratio. A lot of kids who've grown up in the texting era think that email is for old fogies and rely solely on shorter-form messages via Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, and/or SMS, so their emails are almost pure noise and no conversational content.

Google's new problem is "How do we get access to the contents of these new communication channels so we can continue to read peoples' conversations?". Those new channels are walled gardens and you can't just create a new email client and say "Switch to GInsta for your Instagrams! We give you 2GB of storage!" Unlike the switch to Gmail, the switch to GInsta would represent a hard barrier to the "true" Instagram network.

Google is becoming the new MS; losing relevance with the younger crowd who are all about "social" platforms, and becoming more and more an enterprise sales model. What happens when Facebook goes after web search?
They own tracking cookie ad systems and can tie your tracking cookies to your gmail account pretty trivially.

Basically, they have your browser history, and can tie that to your real world ID.

Your email is pretty trivial compared to your browser history.
But they do. The question isn't whether every indie game makes money, but rather if the long tail of indie games is similar to the long tail of AAA titles.

It might be. Even if it isn't, indie games have a lot going for them. The teams are generally far smaller, the games are more unencumbered creatively, and the community is generally very grateful.

You could probably make a similar article called "MMO games don't make money" and make the same comparison against World of Warcraft vs the standard MMO.
You're not limited to stock. You can purchase options or futures, or play around with foreign exchanges. IPOs show up more rarely because it's SUPPOSED to be hard to start a new business. You can approach companies to try and buy into their model by investing your cash - nothing is stopping you.

As for VC companies controlling the cash, that's not the whole picture. Being dependent on "free cash" from VC's is a pretty poor way of conducting business. It isn't all about the money - it's the product. VCs don't want to invest in junk just because one person is ecstatic about their idea. They really do want more sure things. A TON of VCs were hurt back in the early 2000's because companies were producing NADA and IPO-ing all the time. A lot of trust was lost.
stopped scanning Gmail altogether.

Note that this is not what the article says. It says that they stopped scanning Gmail for ads, but does not say they stopped scanning email for non-ad purposes.
You're thinking about this the wrong way. It's not primarily a technical ban, it's a "we'll track you down and throw you in jail if you do this" ban. Those are way more effective.
I tried web alerts, but the emails were not instant, plus no phonecalls. Most the services I found didn't look reliable enough as I had no window for mistakes for my immigration. So I rolled my own.
This is an interesting point, and I've been giving this a great deal of thought. The United States is surprisingly religious for a developed Western Nation, and my theory is that if people can be brainwashed into accepting things "on faith", then that can be extended to other things as well, such as facts. Maybe that can explain the huge numbers of climate change deniers, anti-abortionists and other anti-intellectuals in the US?
Individual states would need need to pool together to make single payer work (except for maybe California). As Congress regulates interstate commerce already you may as well go single payer.

But this is likely what will happen and we will get there eventually. If you are poor in a lower income red state you will be screwed for 20 years unless you move.
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Employee credentials should not be visible when the employee isn't inside a secured area. If you work at a site with a Security Officer, try inviting them out to lunch and not hiding your credentials. See if they care.
Game development is likely much more meritocratic than painting. Quality is objective, and varies greatly from game to game.
I didn't think there were any ads in their business email.
Only $5 billion a year.

https://www.statnews.com/2016/03/09/drug-industry-advertisin...

> Ad spending soared more than 60 percent in the last four years, hitting $5.2 billion last year.

> And there’s no sign it’s slowing. On the contrary: Nine prescription drugs are on pace to break $100 million worth of TV ad time this year.
I imagine an indie game is way more work than building a B2B web app?
My aversion has to do with the fact that the first element doesn't have one. The irregularity is annoying not just aesthetically, but also if you want to swap lines around, etc.
They aren't stopping Gmail ads, they are just stopping using Gmail content as an input signal for ad personalization.
I think it is one of those local situations where you have to know the people involved and go to the same cafe &c. In jokes basically.
Buenos Aires great cultural life, a huge spectrum of very lively and very quiet/slow neighborhoods, good public transportation(except on peak hours), good internet, very good food and nice people. For a Latin American metropolis, it's quite safe, but there are areas you should avoid at night; it is not Europe. Again by Latin American standards, Buenos Aires is quite LGBT friendly, but it is not San Francisco. In recent years I can think of a couple of high profile events where people were kicked out of restaurants for homosexual behavior, but this has always been met with strong responses from the community.

I have not been to Chile, but I can tell you that Montevideo feels like a more relaxed version of Buenos Aires.
The spam filter is for my benefit, but scanning for ad keywords is designed to benefit someone else, not me.
From the article:

" But instead of scanning a user’s email, the ads will now be targeted with other personal information Google already pulls from sources such as search and YouTube. "
How exactly do you run a $1 million/month health bill? In EU that would mean one open heart surgery/heart/lung transplant done by world class specialists flown from all over the place every single month.

This sounds like a scam.
But cost disease can, at most, account for growth in prices that follows the growth in salary paid to the most productive professions, no? Because if so the price increase of health care and college (which is the two big expenditures) _cannot_ be explained by cost-disease alone, as they have both grown much higher than salaries.
Go has also an amazing static-analysis tool, vet, that is not mentioned in the article: https://golang.org/cmd/vet/

It can find printf-format errors, invalid shifts, unreachable code, etc.

Even though go vet is very helpful, it is sometimes scary that the compiler allows to build such incorrect code. For instance: https://play.golang.org/p/2AVHUt5Wcf
Governments are not moral. It's not really even a concept that applies. And to single the US out for this kind of stuff is kind of silly. Every country with the means to do so spies on other countries.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-intellige...
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Any spam filtering implies scanning right? (Unless the filtering is purely on basis of headers and other non-message-body info)
You're saying we should get rid of the financial industry? What, because we're all so good at managing our own money?

Guaranteeing the big banks can't fail is how we keep the economy going. If a bank fails, everyone that is owed money by that bank fails too. Is that acceptable? Would you be fine with your employer going belly up because the bank they rely on can't pay out money?
It's relationship technology. It's one of the recent developments that has made me an optimist (recovering cynic).

An ex-gf and I did the gottman.com stuff. Read the books together, did a weekend workshop. It's brilliant. Our relationship was already all-but-over, but we both wanted to learn from the experience, hopefully do better with our future relationships. A post-mortem of sorts.

We compared notes a year later. My ex-gf said something remarkable, insightful. She consciously applied the gottman.com lessons, strategies to all her relationships, including her job. She said all those relationships got much better.

I've since (consciously) followed her example and have concluded that I agree. I'm now totally onboard with emotional intelligence themed stuff.
>Wouldn't those frameworks hugely benefit from having atomic DOM operations?

They will, and it seems that this does not bode with authors whose employment/sponsorship/grants depends on solving that problem and providing their variant of peg leg solution for it
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> do HR actually have any input into hiring these days ... my experience has been that the "recruiter" is now the gatekeeper.

What department are recruiters part of if not human resources?
Still, 400MB is just huge.
To put it into perspective, the entire storage of the Nexus One is 512MB. The current Facebook iOS app is larger than an entire smartphone OS with the 2011 Facebook app installed.

People don't seem to realize how big a megabyte actually is. Just look at the size of oldschool games (ex : 8MB for Super Mario 64), or what size coders manage to archive now (see demoscene 64k/4k intros).

And you might say that it was the past, things are much more complex now, blah blah blah... Well, it's partially true but modern platforms allow savings that we couldn't have back then. Realtime vector graphics, better compression algorithms. And considering the trend towards minimalist graphics as opposed to real-life images, assets shouldn't exceed a few kilobytes.

Libraries? The OS has plenty of libraries and assets you can use for free, this should be another size saving compared to the old times. And if you insist on packing your own libraries, I suspect sizes would be much smaller if development tools were smart enough to get rid of everything not needed.

Essentially, the real reason apps are so huge nowadays is because we have enough storage space to be lazy.
This is unfortunately too close to the truth. One thing I would like to add though is that despite the fruits of labor accruing disproportionately to the elite, the system has managed to lift up everyone else as well, right? So the system does work, and I wonder what would happen if it was changed to be more egalitarian....
There is no significant whitespace in what I am offering; just semicolon inference at newlines (like in modern Javascript).
What has always pissed me off is the global bandwidth overhead that ads have while not reducing the actual cost of connectivity to the average internet customer.

What percentage of my cellular data-consumption is specifically ads?

I need an app that tracks all data connections and tells me what percent went to which advertisers and a mechanism to block them or bill them to subsidize the cellular bill I pay for data, but that payment has a sizeable chuck allocated to my device displaying their ads.

Does anyone not recall the impetus behind the original paid cable tv model was that "you pay for the content of cable TV, thus we won't show you commercials"

The. They found out they could say "fuck you" to consumers, play commercials, hike up rates and also take in billions of government subsidies for infra upgrades that were never performed.

And companies wonder why some people want vigilante justice on such companies.
It's also prob not the best source of features (in a ML sense) for choosing ads.

When you read an email, your intent is either to understand what the sender is asking you (new email), or get the info you asked for (response to your email).

In the majority of cases a contextual ad is 1. pretty weird, 2. pretty against your primary intent.

Might as well showing you ads related to your recent browsing history, imo.
Does this help alleviate scenarios where Paypal has the power to shutdown a seller's account and hold their funds?
Sorry, I guess it basically requires you already know the ways in which Conda doesn't work. The basic problem is that Unix has a lot of hardcoded paths and no way to override them all at runtime. So you need to do lots of patching and hacks.
I think the word you're looking for is "reflect."
Yeah that's fair. I've also underestimated the number of Cobol developers out there; C++ devs only slightly outnumber them.
How would you search your inbox? Or filter spam?
Uhh, this defense would work better for a company that does not make like 90% of its multi-billion-dollar revenue selling ads.