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The issue is that they try to use convince people that monopolies are bad except when they are doing it.

It's generally considered bad taste and hypocritical to preach something and not abide to what you preach yourself. In my country a lot of media people are for example writing about embracing immigration and slander anyone who disagrees but studies have shown that the people who work in these media outlets does not live in areas affected negatively by increased immigration to a large extent.

There is a reason why people hate that kind of shit and that's because it stinks and is used by people in power to shit on people without power.
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For the purpose of 1st amendment protection, you can criticize your employer with impunity. You can criticize the government with impunity, too.

What most people mean when they talk about their freedom of speech is the privilege of speaking without losing their job. I find it to be a tragic if not fatal misunderstanding pervasive to discussions about speech.
"How to block ads on iPhone and iPad"

http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/iosapps/how-block-ads-on-ip...
For me it's "football", I was looking for disambiguation. People in the UK often hate USA-ians calling it soccer, despite that name coming from the UK. The comment was a question, hence the punctuation.
> Any script kiddie SHOULD be able to write a dapp. Most people don't [understand that they don't] understand the complexities our our modern financial system, but we don't require that one has a PhD in order to spend a dollar. A low barrier to entry when dealing with financial transactions is desirable.

I think that simple market approach works well when customers are able to understand and compare what they are buying (or investing into), but it doesn't work when customers don't have the means to do so. That's why the financial industry is one of those that needs to be heavily regulated. So, no, IMHO having lowering the barrier to entry to write complex financial instruments that can trade hundreds of millions of dollars is a recipe for disaster, not for useful innovation.

Of course I understand that, if you're a libertarian, you're not going to agree :)
Jeff Bezos owns both Amazon and WaPo. The original comment went to sustaining WaPo on Amazon's revenue, not ownership. The conflict of interest already exists. Don't expect anything substantially critical of Bezos or Amazon from WaPo.
I'm starting to wonder if there's a single US cop that knows the law.
>on website it says, "...and if you look closely, those numbers are Megabytes-per-second..." when referring to their speeds

>is actually megabits-per-second

D R O P P E D
> How about if all ISPs were to charge a very small levy to customers?

At least in the US, we know we can't trust the ISPs to "do the right thing". Maybe things are different elsewhere but I cannot support this idea in the US. Sorry.
> Churn (= number of lines changed) is actually pretty well correlated with bug count.

Is a rewrite considered as bunch of line changes or not? I would say not.

Also, can I assume that by "correlated with" you mean "positively correlated with"?

If so, isn't a rewrite reducing bug count because you'll end up with far fewer "changed" lines?
When green threads, fibers etc. were a hot topic in the node.js community I was pretty involved in core development.

As far as I remember, we were never so much against the idea of it, but we didn't believe an actually good implementation was possible.

The primary concern was scalability. At the time supporting high concurrency networking (10K+ connected clients) was a top priority for us.

The solutions proposed by Laverdet and Jouhier used libcoro or fibers to achieve the desired "cooperative threading"; this may not involve actual OS threads but it does require the creation of a thread stack for every fiber. To handle 10K connections you would need 10K stacks so you have to allocate 40GB memory right there, too much.

We were aware that there were more effectient ways to do it, but this would have big changes to the V8 javascript engine. We didn't have the resources (nor the skill) to get it done and take on the maintenance burden.

There were also concerns about the surprising language semantics it created; suddenly callbacks might run "inside" a function, e.g. after it's called and before it has returned, not something a javascript user would normally expect to be possible.

Nowadays with async/await the callback-hell problem is actually solvable (to the extent that node-fibers solved it, anyway). It'll take time though before that becomes noticable, because a lot of packages need to change their APIs to take advantage of it.
It's called a tuple so why would accessing its elements by index be "bizarre" in any way?
A better analogy: Your boss' boss is also your boss.
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Is it suppression when your employer declines to use their power to amplify a message they don't agree with? Seems like that crosses the line into expecting others to help you speak, which is not a right.
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You can see Google and co stand on ads here [1]. Enforcing Coalition for Better Ads standards were marketed as adblocking is coming to Chrome for example [2] recently.

[1] https://www.betterads.org/standards/
[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/01/google-confirms-ad-blocker-c...
The goodies in question are local refs and ref returns, right? Which really only make a difference when you're writing memory safe code. If you're dropping down to "unsafe" and manual memory management for other things, then refs don't do anything that raw pointers don't.
Encona is also a very popular and in my opinion delicious brand of hot spicy sauces in the UK.
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This is how making the constants available could look like. Currently they are available via a module, and they are implemented like above:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/libcore/nu...
nice article.............
he means in different careers. people use that turn of phrase all the time.
I suspect longer ranges are possible with intermediary interchange stations, covering the drones in solar panels, and increasing wing span/loading capacity.

The concept is proven. Now they just need to upgrade the drones to create higher capacity.

Really impressive.
F# with it's built in actor model, robust OCaml based syntax, great support for functional Akka[.net] actors, simplified concurrency and asynch programming support, and very own ELM implementation is a great contextual answer for anyone who wants to be on the front lines of lightweight non-blocking concurrent & parallel web development in .Net land.
That's my point. So much is about iOS - it's the first class citizen.
> With very few exceptions, especially in the consumer space, you won't need advertising if you actually need something. You'll search it out or your friends will tell you what to buy.

I typically use adverts to help me decide what to buy, but the adverts count as negative points towards the product, because I feel that if a product needs to rely on persuasion techniques, or to bombard my eyeballs all the time (especially if they're preroll-type adverts rather than passive banners) or if they're beside spammy adverts, then the product is likely crap anyway or the company are.

Blame all the spam for this attitude, and all the obtrusive crap that is shown to me against my will each day (it seems that almost no matter where I look, online or physical world, I'm bombarded with someones shitty adverts)
Finally :) I've been arguing for fibers, coroutines and generators with non-blocking IO as an alternative to bending everything backwards to fit in event loops for a long time. And begging for salvation from ever dumber and clumsier programming languages and more ignorant hipster programmers. I ended up writing my own language to investigate further since no one else seemed to be interested in stepping far enough out of the box.

https://github.com/andreas-gone-wild/snackis/blob/master/sna...
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Not sure about the US, but in Europe, you can never trust the odometer. Displayed mileage is often a third or a quarter of the real mileage.
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> he was pushed towards the open arms of the right and alt-right media

I dispute that he was "pushed" since his views were already in that direction (and the MRA overlap therein.)
I think you're trying to sell a fish when really all you have is a horse.

Wikileaks isn't contemptuous of its audience; its contemptuous of an ignorant public who have allowed their state to be infiltrated and usurped for the purposes of allowing special interests control over the technological prowess of 5 nation states. And in my opinion, that contempt is quite well targeted - because, just as you have demonstrated, its all very easy to dismiss these incursions into our basic human rights as being 'necessary' or 'so easy even kids can do it, therefore its acceptable', or so on.

The fish is dead. The horse, not so.
Then there is the average being pushed down by cars scrapped because of accidents or massive failures such as big engine failures with low mileage.

Also: Here we have a very strict road legality checkup (joints, breaks, rust, lights, belts, ..) for all cars. Once a bad/cheap car reaches the age when it starts failing the checkup, it's often not worth fixing. So while it could probably do another 100kkm with the dodgy wheel bearing, it's not allowed to without immediate expensive repair. So these checkups effectively purge every car that would need repairs to any vital parts costing more than its worth every year.

I have a 10 year old peugeot worth around $1-2k that has gone 18kkm. If it were to fail a checkup for even something simple like a wheel bearing or uneven handbrake appliance - I'd probably hesitate to repair it because I could just as well get another one (A recently checked one for $1k would limp along at least 1-2 years to the next checkup while mine is banned from the road immediately).
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"Payne — who says he wanted the blood sample to protect the patient, not punish him"

So, this man is in a hospital, supposedly being cared there, and the police wants to play doctor to protect him? Look like BS to me.

I also find the repeated use of "unconscious" by the writer weird:

"blood cannot be taken from an unconscious patient unless the patient is under arrest, unless there is a warrant allowing the draw or unless the patient consents."

makes it look as if blood could be taken from a conscious patient any time of day, regardless of whether he is arrested, consents, or a warrant exists.
> ISPs are not Google-scale

That's right. ISPs have regional monopolies. Google competes on a global scale.

Google's biggest competitor may be Baidu and China.

> Consider the fact that Google is, bare minimum, as evil as Comcast

No way. There is tons of evidence of Comcast acting evilly. They constantly underperform in their quality of service and costs. Google outperforms. You just feel they are evil because of their success.

Google has gone to great lengths to give back to the world on whose infrastructure it was built. They give tons of services for free to non profits [1], they publish a lot of their most innovative research, and they use patents for defense rather than offense. That's just naming a few things. Comcast does none of this. They just hold out their hands for more money without providing additional value.

[1] https://www.google.com/nonprofits/
Yah your argument against adverting is bullshit.

Even consumers love ads.

Did you know that they even pay money because they want ads? Those 900 pages of Vogue that they buy every September, do you think they're filled with articles? Because they're about 870 pages of fashion ads. People specifically buy them because of the advertising.

And did you know Sunday papers are a thing, filled with coupons, that are basically ads?

Sorry, but advertising serves a purpose that consumers actually pay money for.
Once you go LINQ you never go back! Also, easiness of async/await.
> "Wait, this thing I thought was stupid, there are some really smart people who are into it... they've invested a lot of effort and research and have some coherent arguments to support it... I should really take another look."

That's what causes hype around technology. Even if people don't 'get it' they think well everyone else is doing it there has to be something to it.
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It's a mix.

For example, I have taken over the Wordpress hosting and management of several existing websites. They pay me a fixed fee and from time to time I adjust some things for them.

And there also ongoing projects in development where people leave feedback.
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it seems too much to both not support a thing directly and also decry potential support as unfit.
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No shit.

The world isn't your personal charity for you. Advertisers don't owe you anything.

But if you really want to get blown away, it actually does serve the public interest, because it increases commerce, and any sale is an increase in the GDP.

Did you thank advertisers for growing the economy?
Well, I dunno; writing Elm means I get a compiler warning about unused imports, which a lot of compilers can do. Automatic handling of imports coupled with easy pruning of unused ones seems like a complete win to me, what's the downside?
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It's not clear from the text how they deal with the severe production bugs. By the time the bug is found, the master branch is full of new code. So your bugfix has to deploy with all that new code?

And with so many people checking in to the master branch, how is it not permanently broken? With 1000 devs pushing code, you're bound to have severe bugs daily.
Yes, but then the whole ecosystem is missing micropayments. I subscribe to some sources, but sometimes I just want to read a single article. Would gladly pay 20 cents, if it was a matter of a click.
Thanks everyone for the responses. It seems that forcing clients to use a particular ticket system is not a good idea.

I have now created a free account at Hubspot. Hubspot keeps track of all e-mails and calls I make to people and I can automatically add notes and tasks to each form of communication.
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Back in my day we only had stone tablets which had space for just one dot. A whopping 1 bit of storage! /s
> A static type system also requires continuous attention.

I'm not sure what you mean by this, or how it constitutes an increase over the demands of a runtime or weak type system.
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I find it unconscionable that a country with nuclear weapons and a space program still has a caste system, receives foreign aid in the 100s of millions (£) and is 93rd on the social progress index (2017). Get it together India!
A sort of A/B test, where what is tested is the implementation.
I think people buy Vogue (and all other advertising-sodden media) despite the ads, not because of it.
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Yeah, that's the distinction I'm trying to make. Using a gun/bomb is overwhelmingly negative, having one is significantly more ambiguous.
> If you want to make a fair comparison, that should be compared to all the things you didn't find because useless ads took up your time and mental space.

Why would you save mental space for non-adverised products? Are you supposed to be a product researcher? Is that your job? Is time not valuable for you? Because efficient people buy the first thing they recall, for crap that doesn't matter.

> I've been TV- and ad-free since 2001 (yes, yes, I know: the "how do you know someone doesn't watch TV? They'll tell you"-smugness curse strikes again)

How many newspapers and magazines have you bought that contained ads?

Because your complaint is about user-experience, not advertising.

And yes, the anti-advertising smugness is the worst. Everybody advertises, always have, always will. I mean, you had Roman gladiators in ancient times that were sponsored by brands.
Your post implicitly suggested the poster was incompetent though, not just the company in general, since procuring the servers was apparently his responsibility. Seems a bit insulting to me.
Hope ads like this will drop form internet soon. You are right, they are annoying and useless.
Advertising definitely works on me: it helps me decide what not to buy.
> The same forces are at work on Python (or Ruby, which gets faster at every iteration.)

Python performance has been one step forward two steps back. For example, dict() has significantly evolved over time and some other things became faster as well, but most stuff just becomes slower as more stuff is added or previously native code is replaced by pure Python (see io in 3.0, which was reverted, or import).

Ditto for Python application performance. Python has exactly no zero-cost abstractions, so when something is refactored to use classes or big methods are split up, the result is almost always slower than before.
Is this what is bricking Safari on the occasional YouTube video? Sometimes a reload works, other times I need to copy the URL and paste in a new tab.
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I don't know if I'm being downvoted by the ones who think like you or the ones who agree with OP.
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What is the relevance of this comment to the article?.
Actually, Python does have that :) It's called __slots__:

The presence of __slots__ does several things. First, it restricts the valid set of attribute names on an object to exactly those names listed. Second, since the attributes are now fixed, it is no longer necessary to store attributes in an instance dictionary, so the __dict__ attribute is removed. Instead, the attributes can be stored in predetermined locations within an array. Thus, every slot attribute is actually a descriptor object that knows how to set/get each attribute using an array index. Underneath the covers, the implementation of this feature is done entirely in C and is highly efficient.

http://python-history.blogspot.be/2010/06/inside-story-on-ne...
Ads are bad. I'm not shopping not stop. I just want to read my article or whatever I am doing at that moment.

When I want to buy something I go to a shop and being there I still don't want ads. I want accurate specs, relevant statistics, maybe pictures and honest reviews. Sometimes I could use a guide, when it's not my domain.

I never stopped in the middle of something to say "I'd so watch an ad right now".
you might be surprised how many "articles" are "sponsored", hard to tell really.
People making YouTube videos to teach strangers how to do things is one of my favorite things about the human species :')
At last a real use for drones. And also drones and launch systems well designed for the duty.
So basically they found a way to change microcode in ten-year-old processors... though, it's still impressive.
I'm sure that one of the Tesla founders stated that one of the reasons that device batteries failed after a couple of years is because longer life wasn't prioritized by the companies buying them and so not much effort was put into that dimension.

You can spin this in a bad way ("planned obsolescence") or a good way (they were optimising for other things that customers valued), but the point remains the same, if car manufacturers (or grid storage units) require longer lifetimes, then it's not a hard physical limit at the current lifetimes that's been hit yet.
Yes, everything flattred is visible for you on your dashboard.

But not all data or everything you visited etc, as that is a to high of a privacy invasion.
"space program"
It helps ensure software doesn't degrade to a chaotic state.
Just because someone did that activity doesn't mean it was their responsibility. As an employee hired to write software, I've done everything from fixing laptops to cleaning the office fridge.

In fact, in my post I explicitly assumed that nobody was made responsible for the task, exactly because I assume the poster is not incompetent.
It would be an interesting experiment to put out a non-ad-subsidised version of Vogue and see how many people bought it. I would guess at "not that many".
> The problem with a "pure democracy" is that majority cannot be smarter than the top 5% individuals, so really good ideas almost never getting thorough the bulk of a bell curve.

Python is governed as "benevolent dictatorship" (with Guido as BDFL and maintainers as your "top 5%"), definitely not "pure democracy", so your argument doesn't really hold.

When it comes to the syntax, just because something is "very clever" doesn't mean that it's necessarily a good idea. Syntax changes should be carefully considered and introduced only if the benefit clearly outweighs the cost of extra complexity.

If you still believe that it's such a good idea then feel free to draft a PEP: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/
That discourages hiring poor workers. "Everyone under $100K per year (which makes CEO pay $16 Million) is now officially an employee of {INSERT OUTSOURCED COMPANY HERE}". Heck, just make them contractors.

I like all these ideas in principle, because I think the morality behind them is on track, however these ideas almost always rely on the the very antithesis of what they purport, e.g. that greedy CEOs would play by a different set of rules if we just made them.

I am not saying this is easy, or that the sentiment is wrong, just that this oft quoted remedy is deeply flawed, and likely to be bad in infinitely many ways that are not well thought through.
Some clearly doesn't work as intended though.

If I see an advert for Coca Cola, it doesn't make me want a Coke. I hate Coke and I understand that it is not at all good for me.

No amount of advertising is going to make me buy one. Simply being aware of the brand in this case seems pointless, because I'm doing nothing with it.

In other cases advertisements will merely lead me to avoid that brand or company out of spite, because I hated their advert (as I do most adverts).
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Fair point. For sure the fate that befell him did nothing to change his opinions.
Do you think people owe advertisers a living?
I've pared down my twitter usage and who I follow, and increased the use of words to mute. I regularly delete old tweets. In a way, the golden days of Twitter occured when we all were on it, the early adopters. It appears to me that the rapid growth of the platform has not been accompanied by a rapid growth in, well, growth management. Spammers, politics, ideological motivated manual censorship / safety council, bots, spam, flame wars etc, It used to be about broadcasting your current status - the status like what you would update on your instant messaging client. The chase to get as many people on it as possible leaves huge holes for bots.
The only traits that illegal immigration selects for are desperation and a willingness to break laws and live on the fringes of society.

Alternatively, entrepreneurial go-getting risk-takers with the gumption to actively make better lives for themselves, planning ahead and investing in their own futures, able to prosper with minimal assistance from the state.