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I think Web Components will have/already had the same fate.

To paraphrase the meme: "Stop trying to get Web Components/Polymer to happen. They aren't gonna happen".

At least not in this version of them. It's like XHTML that went about for years before it was taken out of its misery.

We needed something like Web Components for a long time -- but the current implementation is exactly how it should not have been done.

React/JSX got the good parts of it, and added even more useful things. If we could add the missing parts on top of that (like encapsulation from the external DOM), it would be perfect, and the rest of their horrible API/design can vanish.
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Not sure why you are being down voted. It is worth knowing.

Besides the poor hours of course, I can remember the following:

1) Unpaid overtime.
2) Spiteful, political management.
3) Revolving door of employees due to firings.
4) Replacements were not trained, so nobody was set up for success and growth.

These are just things I remember experiencing second or third-hand, but so much of the grunt work and broken processes flowed to my counterparts in Oracle India.

Their reward for trying to make sense of everything was being fired, regardless of performance.

Oracle US employees were usually spared a few years of runway until being laid off, regardless of performance.
Wasn't the rat pack study debunked or at least shown to not be replicable (enough)?
They will also escalate you pretty quickly of you go to a Minor Injury Unit with something that turns out to be reasonably serious (see comment elsewhere)!
> the only downside [is] that there is no good option to enforce HTTPS

You also have to use GitLab.
And even stranger that with concerns about battery life; we should now be moving back towards server side rendering.
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they won't do it as it's one of their major selling points: one click ssl

by offering the "flexible ssl" option at all it seems that they couldn't give a toss whether on not it actually protects anyone
Most people can detect lies easily, they just don't bother with confrontation so maybe you did not get better at lying, simply people started giving less weight to your words. Your relationships got easier because they become weaker and more shallow and that might be one reason why you get super depressed once in a while.
If they don't pay for anything where does the money go? Where does the money the US Govt does pay to it's employees, contractors, suppliers and in benefits come from? This really is nonsense on stilts.

I know governments are in a unique position to be able to print money, but that is not how the US government routinely funds it's budget, and certainly not how it mainly or exclusively does so or inflation would skyrocket.
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>I think that people that disregard Polymer fail to understand that Web Components are already here.

XHTML was "already there" too.

>They are fully supported on Chrome and Safari, and hopefully Firefox and EDGE will eventually catch up with them.

With React, Vue etc going strong, I don't see them going anywhere even after that. They solve less problems in a messier way.
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We have building societies but they don't really service business customers.
I think the limit was upped to $250K in the wake of the financial crisis.
Fair enough. Straight "CamelCase" has a pretty long history. Semi-random capitalization like NeXT would seem to be less common as you go back in time but it's fairly common in tech today.

Just anecdotally, it would seem publications tend to respect camel case but may or may not when there are other capitalization oddities including lowercase first letters.
Thanks! This is an important problem I wasn't aware of. Googling shows a lot of different opinions and confusion about this; it'll take me time to get to the bottom of this.

If one takes seriously the idea that all FOSS licensed under the GPLv2 and other licenses that don't explicitly say they're irrevocable (as GPLv3 does) is at risk of being un-licensed at will, the whole ecosystem is at risk.
Difference of shutting down and preventing access to funds. It is legal, based on small print, to shut down an account on the sending of a letter (proof of sending a letter) and place funds for all accounts (businesses likely to have multiple accounts, globally) in a nostro account for transfer, waiting for payment instruction, just-like-that. Quite ugly, but done. That's a bit different from OP's case, however.
In the short term, it will probably be a very distant third. In the long term, as the wild west gets settled and mobile computing hardware stabilizes toward longer life cycles, I think Microsoft will be more of a player in the business world. BYOD works better when the mobile device is not the primary computing interface within a business. As the mobile device becomes a primary computing device for line of business applications, the vertical integration provided by the Windows mobile platform provides serious advantages.

The competing operating systems are not driven by developer support because the underlying businesses are hardware sales and data aggregation. Microsoft is a tools company.
I think the chap has been incredibly calm about the whole thing. I'd be in my local branch every day refusing to leave until they take the necessary steps to re-open the account.

This really struck a nerve with me, as I've had similarly infuriating experiences with Natwest (though never to the point of my account being suspended).

Passed from one team to another -- and even witnessing colleagues from different teams argue with each other, not realising that I wasn't properly on mute... I wish I had it recorded.

Opening and administrating a simple small business bank account has been the single most unnecessarily difficult and frustrating thing about starting my own business.

It's why I'm so passionate about someone FINALLY disrupting the circle jerk of the mainstream banking industry and the organisational, bureaucratic and regulatory clusterfuck that it has become.
Metro, Material, and iOS7 (after Ive took over software visual design) are probably the leading examples. Noteable that they all come from the top three brands in consumer tech.

Most of the conversation around flat has been removing all the superfluous ornamentation (shadows, reflections, 3D icons) from when UI designers were taking skeuomorphism too far. So if skeutomorphism was about how unnessarily photo-realistic we could make UI, flat design is an effort to simplfily... to see how minimal a UI can be.

Just like any pendulum swing, some UIs way overcorrected and lost a lot of the small UI affordances that helped make interfaces understandable. Aesthetic preferences aside, it IS harder to know what's a button when buttons are styled to have fewer visual differences from normal, unclickable text.

You'll see that the most recent interpretations likes Material or Windows 10th Annivesary seem to actually be bringing back some of the depth, layering, shadows and other visual cues.

The answer, like so many things, is "just enough and not too much".
Sure, but Google or AWS looking at your specific certs and using them to decrypt your traffic or impersonate you is probably far less likely than someone MITMing Cloudflare's connection to your server or even worse finding a vulnerability in CF (see cloudbleed [1]). I really really dislike how Cloudflare has legitimized MITMing many sites while making it look 'secure'. It's basic security, never trust someone else with your keys.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudbleed
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I looked at that webpage. About halfway down the page there is a "Latest Media Coverage" section: http://imgur.com/a/pCXCm

I tried to click on the Forbes, TechCrunch, recode, and Adweek links, but actually they're not links; that section is empty. The empty section is included to imply that there has been media coverage by these sources (or any other ones), but it is just an inactive placeholder that uses their greyed-out logos without permission to imply some kind of coverage. Clicking anywhere in that empty section does nothing.

Why does the page include an empty "latest media coverage" section that is completely empty (but includes famous news brand logos)? You and I both know why - it's obvious.

That might be fine for companies that are bootstrapping their own future: "imagine if we had something here." But this is why I didn't ask about such companies, but instead about companies that already have done that bootstrapping.

A lot of money has traded hands in ICO's. Has a single traditional tech startup that is shipping some kind of real product (hoverboard, whatever) totally unrelated to blockchain, been built as a result?
>I think web components are low level and non-opinionated to give you freedom of implementation for higher level things.

Yeah, that worked so nice with X-Windows...
I had the same expectation. That said, in the Bay Area, the hype for Pliny is greater than it should be. Personally, I find Blind Pug from Russian River as good or better.
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I don't know if they do this but I had poor service from Barclays, bad enough that I moved to Santander. Unfortunately, they were worse than Barclays so I then moved to HSBC.

Interestingly they have been good so far, apart from closing my local branch.
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I much prefer GitLab to GitHub.
It also works if you want to keep arresting Johns and make the service unreliable in your jurisdiction, too.

Note that a similar technique also works for criminal gangs interested in robbing Johns who want to exploit your platform for their funnel.
> It's strange to me to see this on hacker news, especially since we as computer scientists, do understand much better than anyone else the complexity of the human mind.

Citation needed.
Pretty much every study on societal stability, social measures and economic development says the American kind is better. (Search Google Scholar for well-cited intercountry studies of corruption.)
Indeed, nothing really about the supply side. If they don't take care of that, spending more money on health care will just raise prices. Don't tell Americans that though. They believe, as a matter of ideology, that spending more money is the only effective solution to all problems
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It doesn't have to be this way.

Most PM tools are designed to have a somehow central enforcement of the process and workflow with some central admins that have ways to change that (permissions, fields, workflows & all). This cannot be anything but a failure if the central admin doesn't say NO to 99% of modification requests because there will always be this influential project manager that will come to "add this little field I need to track this stuff for $IMPORTANT_CUSTOMER". So, by design, it will either be bloated (everyone get it's change so bug template is fat) or useless because the form will be so simple that everything will need to be managed with text content in comments.

That's why we (Tuleap team) propose an alternative:
- You want a simple -github like- issue tracker because you are 3 in your team and just a title and a description, please go ahead.
- You want a full blown, CMMI Level 5, Spice 3, what not issue, requirement, risk tracker, please let the craziest process guy do.

What's the difference with Jira (and others) ?

Each "tracker" (issue definition) is local to one project (of course you can template for re-use) and 100% owned by the project. You are not limited to 3 or 4 central templates that nobody can modify, you own them.

Let say the "simple" team is mad of tracking which component of the application an issue is raised on or how much effort was need to complete the issue, in 30 seconds the template is modified and usable without impacting anyone else.

See https://www.tuleap.org/how-easy-it-customize-my-project-trac...
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Nobody care of your rights, if you think you deserve it you have to fight for it. What concrete action have you take to fight it ?
Continuing your strained analogy, so because you didn't want to make only right turns, everyone else should spend an extra 10min in traffic each morning?

The reason to "constrain your solution" is to not rule out very capable candidates who have "stage fright" and not offend other very capable candidates who take offense to your crappy brain teaser problems that don't actually reflect anything they'd do in their real job.
There's probably a potential in visualizing code execution, see e.g. this: https://twitter.com/doegox/status/811934079620878336
If Uber had made shares available to unaccredited investors, they would have gotten in trouble. I'm quite certain that the grandparent was not in the list of Travis's top 35 people to raise $10k from, and as such he had no legal opportunity to buy shares, even if Uber had wanted to sell them.
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This author didn't seem to realize he was reviewing the testnet alpha release of OpenBazaar 2.0 rather than the current 1.0 release that is available for easy download on openbazaar.org.

Since version 2.0 is entirely separate from 1.0 and about to transition from the alpha testnet to the beta livenet, those listings he tried to view are old and don't work anymore. It won't be a problem once beta is officially launched this week and while the effort is appreciated, this review is premature. Users are encouraged to revisit OpenBazaar later this month when the full release of version 2.0 is available!
By the way, that is not how it works in Canada. Seems it's not legal to pay for additional access. Private insurers are used for drugs, paramedic bills, and other things not covered by the province; but they can't pay for enhanced medical services, only coverage of out-of-pocket expenses.
This fits with the convention that, generally speaking, links generate a GET request and buttons generate a POST one —
javascript & the odd GET-form-for-searching aside. Of course, webapps have seriously muddied the water!
If you're genuinely spending £400 pcm on just food then you really need to sort your budgeting out. Especially in retirement, when you've way more time to cook big meals and freeze stuff.
This is why msync is for. You can sync page by page and ensure ordering yourself.
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There is a homeless survey that SF does every few years which is comprehensive you can try searching for. In my recollection a majority of the homeless were longterm residents by any reasonable definition but I'm going off memory.
There are "Building Societies". They are mostly like banks but tend to be more local.
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You can live indefinitely on way less a million. :)

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-sim...
That's a great question. I mean ability to serve concurrent requests, or throughput. Microservices will typically worsen other metrics like individual response time.
Wow! 400k illegal aliens in Houston. Note he is an electrician; a solid trade, immune from illegal labor (who only take the jobs no one wants). Anyway, he will have plenty of work soon enough.
Joint accounts are also insured at 250k per person per bank and count separately from individual accounts. So a couple can have 3 accounts 2x 250k + 500k in a joint account at the same bank.
Yeah, lots of options...

Ombudsman, politicians, media, lawyers, business interest groups...

HN probably isn't local enough.
This seems antithetical to the concept of ownership. If it's my house, why do I have to give it up just because someone with more money wants it? Why should my taxes go up, just because people value my property at an increased rate? Property taxes are supposed to fund the services provided by the local government, not evict poor people for the benefit of the rich.

You suggest that buying a house that people want is like winning a lottery ticket. That ignores the possibility that you bought your house as an investment, because you recognized the potential of a neighborhood, or that you were responsible (in part) for building the value of the neighborhood. Setting those possibilities aside, being rich is a matter of luck too. Your parents were well off, you happened to study the right thing at college, get involved with a startup at the right time, or were even born with the genetics and upbringing to generate a high iq. That's all luck too. Why should the rich person's luck be rewarded by forcing the poor to give up their home and move somewhere worse?
Also, the majority of American's are actually in favor of having some kind of sane medical system, like other first world countries. That's well supported by polling (though interestingly they don't like "Obamacare" but do like all the policies that make up the Affordable Care Act)

This was also a talking point for Trump and his supporters for the past two years. ("we're going to have insurance for everyone", "No cuts to medicaid", "No one will lose coverage", "Nobody will be worse off financially", "I am going to take care of everybody … Everybody’s going to be taken care of much better than they’re taken care of now.")

Of course, in that case as well, he took them for the rubes they are and likely had no plan for delivering on his promises.
Wrong comment sorry.
That's what's happening now, isn't it? "Blue" states are paying in more so "red" states can pay in less?

I suspect it isn't only because of the relative poverty of "red" states. Rather, it's an unavoidable compromise among states with different political preferences. The reason that "red" states will agree to greater entitlement spending than their voters prefer is because they are bribed to do so. The reason "blue" states will agree to the bribery is because it helps them fulfill their voters' preferences.

If decentralization ends this cooperative arrangement, it won't be a disaster. "Red" states will have to reorganize their spending priorities. "Blue" states will have a little more money to spend on whatever. Life will go on, but just a bit differently in South Dakota than in Oregon.
If you're using Django, Python Social Auth tends to go a good job at this without any extra servers.
> The most functional countries seem to all have a small population

The least functional ones also have a small population. See http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s8863.pdf
It's not physically possible to design a UI that's going to be intuitive for all 7 billion human beings, there will always be people who don't 'get it' or make mistakes. We've come a long, long way from the days of Windows 98 and certain things are somewhat intuitive, like the hamburger menus or the swipe gestures on mobile.

I think this simply boils down to people having to learn how things work, and being able to adapt to the form factor being used. Be it mobile, tablet or desktop. There are UI conventions across platforms although that gap is being bridged somewhat (many desktop websites have hamburger menus now, for example).

Software changes and so does UI, not much that can be done except better education, otherwise we'd still be looking at the ancient windows desktop interface...
A good example is that we usually always develop on Windows and don't care where the JEE server is running.

Windows, some flavour of UNIX,maiframe system bare metal, container, whatever, it doesn't matter.
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I don't think the parent was referring to making money via start ups. Just get a decently paid engineering job and live frugally.
Indeed, it's excellent. I'm using it with an ldap back end for my companys internal infra. Unfortunately it doesn't support u2f as a 2nd factor yet, just totp codes. That's the only thing I can think of as critique for keycloak, so it's pretty damn good.
I think part of the problem is banks don't make much money from the average account outside of fees. I would rather banks just charged say 20$ a month and had actual customer service instead of the mess big banks evolve into.
Peterson is one of tre most repulsive figures in modern (political/philosophical) discourse, in my eyes. His strawmen only make sense if you either know nothing about any most modern theorists or philosophy in general or if you need some narrative to sustain your beliefs that (((something))) went wrong. In short, besides being absolutely no authority on the issue, extremely emotional most of the time, he's constantly trying to push the story that "his side" is the rational, sane and logical , while everyone he opposes can be put into a nice linear group from Marx over Lenin & Stalin to Derrida and the rest of the "post modernists". And at the risk of being dismissed as a paranoid, I'm going to point out that there is a certain anti-semitic undertone to all of this, just like with the "cultural Marxism" conspiracy, that has surprising parallels to Peterson's story. It might not be his main point, or any point part of his actual argument at all, but his proud fanbase of "Kekistanis, Pepe memers, alt-right Nazis"[0], sure might.

And regarding this said fanbase, the fact that they're de facto paying him ~$60.000 a month[1] to play their intellectual "red piller", will probably not help him become more objective, if you ask me.

As a great antidote I'd recommend Rick Roderick's lectures[2], since already back in the 80's the same arguments were being put out against these alleged horrible post modernists, treating them as some destoryers of civilisation. In short, he's a hack.

[0] https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/87194043854615756..., http://kekistan.wikia.com/wiki/Jordan_Peterson

[1] https://www.patreon.com/jordanbpeterson

[2] http://rickroderick.org/
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Intermediate-mass BH candidates are rare, so it's great to spot the first in the Milky Way.

It's also interesting because there are much larger supermassive BH candidates in other spiral galaxies than we have with Sagittarius A*, and lots of room to speculate about why. For example, maybe there are lots of IMBHs in the neighbourhood of our galactic centre, but they simply haven't merged yet.
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The vast majority of Firefox users either don't use extensions or only use an ad blocker. I downsized to the same myself quite a while ago for performance and stability reasons in Firefox despite being one of the niche users that used to keep 10 extensions installed. Yes, there are quite a few different niches of users that use specific legacy extensions. But the legacy extension system is a mess and has been holding Firefox back for a while. Mozilla is going to fully embrace WebExtensions and keep moving it forward to enable as much functionality from old extensions as possible to serve several of those niches.

I'd argue that many of the users that choose Firefox over Chrome do so for the fact that Firefox is 100% open source and isn't tied to an advertising giant trying to capture tons of extra private data from you. This won't change that. It will mean you can't change the layout of the entire Firefox window and add tons of new custom buttons and things like that. But most users don't care about that.

For the niche that can't stand using a UI they can't fully customize, they're free to use a slower and less secure browser that continues to support XUL and the associated extensions while still keeping up to date with at least the slower Firefox ESR branch of renderer underneath. Pale Moon, for example.