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I remember discovering these in the mid-2000s, and thinking along the same lines as the author: why hadn't they caught on and been standardised like XMLHttpRequest, etc. had been?

I think the reality is, Microsoft introduced these technologies at the tail-end of initial "dot com boom". Shortly afterward, most of the companies who might have built ambitious web apps using them went bust. Microsoft stopped investing in IE, and for quite a while afterwards, web development regressed to people building document and brochure-style sites. People were too busy trying to figure out complex CSS, and what `hasLayout` meant in IE to build component-based apps.

A few years later, web development crept out of the doldrums: JavaScript's reputation began to be rehabilitated, the term "AJAX" was coined, and companies like Google began building more ambitious web apps. But by now Firefox was the browser of choice for most developers, and had gained enough market share that you couldn't build IE-specific sites.

Mozilla teamed up with Opera and Apple, and later Google, to create what became HTML5, and that included reverse engineering and standardising a number of proprietary IE APIs. However, they chose to ignore element behaviours. Presumably because they had their own component technology, XBL, and wanted to make that the basis of web apps. And, since element behaviours never made it into Firefox, developers never started using them.

My guess is, had Firefox adopted them, they'd now be a standard part of the web platform, and we wouldn't have web components as they currently stand. There are a lot of similar "what ifs" in the history of the web. For example, what if Microsoft had adopted XBL? What if flexbox and grid had been implemented in early 2000s when they were originally designed, instead of fifteen years later? What if ES4 had been accepted and implemented? What if Cassowary had been built into CSS when it was proposed, instead of being ignored (and later used by Apple as the basis for auto layout)?
Privacy in the ad targeting landscape?
What do you think are some of the most blatantly privacy violation ad targeting technologies at the moment? How about great examples of "privacy by design"?
Ah, so farmers never can do good. And when they do good, it's an "propaganda picture".
Societies with more evenly distributed wealth tends to have lower crime rates.
Kinda like that. Except, while you can still refuse to wear seatbelt (pay fine or don't ride in cars or trucks at all) you won't be able to refuse mandatory health care. US already has a history of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States#...
It's a bit more subtle than that. Newpipe and youtube-dl don't use the youtube api. They emulate browser behaviour AFAIK. That's probably the biggest reason they haven't received some form of a letter in general. That they won't be allowed on google's own store is actually not that interesting. The fact that newpipe managed to make a more functional app in a lot of ways than the official youtube app (and I don't mean just the RED functionality) without using the youtube API is quite commendable.
This anti-government ideology is self-reinforcing. We underfund government programs, then hold them up as examples: "Look, government funding doesn't work. I told you so!"

In reality, the people doing the actual work of health care wouldn't change -- the money to pay them would just come from a different place. Do you really think the folks at insurance companies have more custodianship and duty than people working in the public sector?
>Each and every one of those could in theory

I prefer to stick with what works in practice, even if it's imperfect.
Generally, a lobby represents one body/industry. If it's working against a group (say, farmers) it's because it represents something else rather than is solely against farmers. In which case, you should be able to guess and identify the lobby from its attack pieces. It might be someone who stands to benefit from sales of pesticides, or an environmental group, etc.

I can't speak for the Netherlands, but in Australia, while there is an active and growing green movement, I would consider the industry-specific lobbying groups to be more successful at landing media pieces to influence the public. These would be lobbyists representing mining, banking, meat production, etc. This is usually because those industries are very well-funded and consolidated compared to environmental groups.
They're not really multicored. They're actually just big SIMD processors. The key distinction is that the article is talking about computers that have a lot of cores that can switch between threads very quickly and easily (multi-threaded machines, like giant CPUs) not about computers that have a lot of cores that all share a very small number (comparatively) of common threads (SIMD processors, like GPUs).
While I agree that that's a pretty scary thought, it's a bit of a strawman, since you don't have to go full state run - you can give everyone a baseline and allow for private insurance on top for those that want the gold plated treatment.
Why is this being built? Have we not had enough trouble with veracity of audio and video already?
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"it was more or less understood that the government wouldn't be getting involved in this sort of thing."

I propose you use some other rethorical device to back your argument. it was also understood back then that government would not ban slavery and that only people with property and penises could vote.
Yes, that's correct. Pliny the Younger wrote in his account of the eruption that it looked like his father has just fallen asleep.
I prefer:

We do what we must because we can.
For the good of all of us
Except the ones who are dead.

But there's no sense crying over every mistake.
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
And the science gets done and you make a neat gun.
For the people who are still alive.

(https://wiki.jonathancoulton.com/Still_Alive/Lyrics)

The point being, it shouldn't be about comparing castles, it should be about making everyone's castles ever better (until eventually, at some point, we discover concrete and the castles will no longer get swept away by the tide).

(And for those not knowing the context, the "gun" in the song is a tool, not a weapon.)
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There are some people who, if they are free (as in not institutionalized), will waste, misuse, or destroy any amount or kind of help given to them. Mostly such people have mental illnesses.

(No, I'm not saying it's their fault or that they deserve to suffer. Just making a positive, not normative statement.)
Really? So how does a 32 bit CPU run 64 bit code?
There's posts about this on a regular basis, every 2 years or so. Every now and again someone looks at Cisco IOS and Juniper JunOS and the various smaller ones and decides that they just don't work well, because they have subtle bugs, no real tests, etc. (Never mind that both these pieces of software predate TDD by decades, with code in there that has been proven to be incredibly reliable much older than that)

There is no more value in posts like this than there is in the regular academic "we should reimplement the linux kernel in 10000 lines of code" shit that also comes by. Every now and then someone even actually does reimplement it, but it never quite replaces the linux kernel because ... well the linux features are mostly there for a reason. By the time you have an actual workable kernel, it's also far beyond what most developers seem to consider reasonable complexity boundaries.

And so it is for those networking features. In reality there is a reason for all those protocols. They (well, some) also work incredibly well, and, crucially, those protocols that are required from a router all have global footprints and interoperability between dozens of vendors which is not optional. There is a reason for the complexity and there is a cost to cutting out complexity, a cost we won't be willing to pay.

Just to be clear: I don't deny that there is value in trying to reimplement these critical infrastructure programs from time to time. But the value in that is mostly in improving your personal understanding and abilities, they cannot reasonably replace the infrastructure we use. And if they can, well then they are also very complex.

What can we say ? The real world is complex. Mostly ... for good reasons. So if you want to work/program in this space, you'll need to deal with the complexity.
Wouldn't 802.11w protected management frames prevent this device from working, as long as the sysadmin has that enabled on their wireless routers?
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Also it's just not really true. The middle class in America is perfectly well off. It's the working class that's in shit, and those that can't get a job at all that.
There are lots of different ways to change the world. I sort of like the way SpaceX, with re-usable rockets, and Tesla, with electric cars, are changing the world.
The experiment was not 'flat' vs 'not-flat'.

It is weak-signifiers vs strong-signifiers.

They have a hypothesis that states that users will be able to accomplish their task with less effort given strong signifiers.

They tested the hypothesis with two versions of the same page: one with weak signifiers and the other with strong signifiers. Both versions were created to _test_ the hypothesis. To either confirm or disprove the hypothesis.

They measured user eye movement activity and produced heat maps.

The heat maps confirm their hypothesis. With weak signifiers the users spent more time searching for the elements they wanted.

How is this not scientific?

Like all good science the conclusion is not 'flat bad, skewmorphism good.'

No, it says whatever you are doing ensure you provide users with signifiers.

So the final result is not a false dichotomy of flat vs non-flat but a useful set of guidelines: "Early pseudo-3D GUIs and Steve-Jobs-esque skeuomorphism often produced heavy, clunky interfaces. Scaling back from those excesses is good for usability. But removing visual distinctions to produce fully flat designs with no signifiers can be an equally bad extreme."
Most right libertarians would. Left wing libertarianism (what libertarianism started out as in the 1850's) started from the socialist and anarchist premise that de jure rights without the access to resources to enjoy them are not real rights - for rights to have meaning, people need to be able to take advantage of them.

Specifically, Joseph Dejacques polemic against Proudhon [1] where the term libertarian was coined focused on the latter's willingness to talk loftily of liberty on one hand, but the next moment limiting to liberty related to capital rather than the emancipation of all, specifically throwing women under the bus because Proudhon did not see them as equals:

> Moderate anarchist, liberal, but not libertarian, you want free exchange of cotton and candles and you seek to protect man against woman in the exchange of affectional human passion. You cry against the great barons of capital, and you would rebuild a proud barony of man on vassal-woman.

Dejacques makes an impassioned (and poetic -- the letter is well worth a read even if you disagree with every word) argument both for anarchy, and against the monopoly on resources, and the turns Proudhon's own word against him in arguing that for men to monopolise power is the same thing - talk of liberty becomes meaningless when we allow there to be arbitrary limits on who are afforded said liberty based on ideas of who are worthy:

> Attribute not to him a stock of intelligence which belongs to him only by right of conquest, by the commerce of love, by usury on the capital that comes entirely from woman and is the product of the soul within her. Dare not to attribute to him that which he has derived from another or I will answer you in your own words: “Property is robbery!”

> Raise your voice, on the contrary, against the exploitation of woman by man.

Dejacques set the term "libertarian" up as a step beyond "moderate anarchists" (!) and "liberals" such as Mr "property is robbery" Proudhon:

The emancipation of human beings, according to Dejacques, comes from taking the ideas that Proudhon happily promoted in economy - to limit power, be it over persons or property - to the full conclusion with a focus on the emancipation of all humanity.

Mere de jure emancipation will not do, then, if people can not take advantage of it. Maximising liberty to Dejacques meant being uncompromisingly willing to take that which is being hoarded and share it, be it money or power, or authority.

As such, the idea of maximising liberty from a left libertarian viewpoint does not see property as the holy cow that right libertarianism does, but in fact has from the outset seen strict property-rights as a direct threat to liberty, rising to outright aggression (e.g. if you try to use force to prevent someone who is starving from eating to maintain life you are putting their life at risk).

Right-libertarianism makes a mockery of libertarianism by sacrificing the principle of maximising liberty in order to provide an ideological veneer for the protection of wealth and privilege.

[1] https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/joseph-dejacque-on-t...
With a significant following of rabid Amiga fans. Not sure about the net gain of that, though. :-)
That's not binary data at all! That is data stored in a binary, but the data itself is hexadecimal.
I mean, that's the thing, right? You can't just give them up, short of moving away to the Libertarian paradise of Mogadishu or whatever.

Like, it's easy to say "well if somehow all of the public goods I enjoy were taken over by private companies then I'd be happy to pay them instead of taxes", but such a changeover doesn't really happen--you end up "freeloading" on the public dole until this future comes to pass.

And again, I know you aren't making this argument. It's just really annoying to have to hear it from otherwise intelligent friends when it comes up.

(Also, why the heck anybody would want to live in a world without a guarantee of basic services and rights is beyond me.)
Ah yes, you can't defend your position so you simply declare mine sophomoric and run away. I'll take that as a concession, have a nice day.
I can't be the only one who immediately thought what, they had IPAs 2000 years ago?
Couldn't you open a TCP connection, do the handshake, then pass just the session key to the new process, along with the handler to the TCP connection?
It's important to make people realize that this technology is here. It's impossible to stop the technological advances but at least we can reduce their impact by making it well known.
100 years ago in Australia, there was a 'great strike'. It was about a lot of things, but the straw that broke the camels back was timecards. Workers felt like management were 'Americanising' labour, and the pressure of worsening or stagnant conditions wasn't helped by the country being in the middle of contributing to the war.

Anyway the strike was overall 'a failure', but filling in the outline I've given above was some wonderful bits of colour and detail to the story that were on the national radio here in Australia recently. I hadn't heard before - and while I can't find the radio link just now, a summary is here [1].

I thought it was interesting to note that the issues from 1917 are remarkably similar and understandable to those in 2017, for employees and employers.

[1] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-28/100-years-on-the-great...
If you can get Jon Hamm to star in this script, I guarantee there's money in it.
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Remember that for anyone to go to jail, prosecutors must prosecute. And this will open up space for within-government backroom deals, presumably between the DOJ and security forces. All done under the shadow of whatever the president wants.

Still, less spectacular good things might happen anyway, through civil procedures such as this. Besides, populist calls for for jailings set of my own BS detector. Better if this kind of lawsuit actually gets won or lost on rational grounds and over time becomes a serious incentive to people making business decisions. And, I'd say we have a long way to go before we get to that goal-state.
I agree about the frequent use of the tactic of making government dysfunctional to persuade people that they don't want to pay the taxes necessary to expand government services, but that tactic probably isn't going away. You can thank people like Grover Norquist who really, really want taxes lowered.

Also, something to keep in mind with fully socialized medicine is it would almost certainly reduce doctor pay, because the government would have almost all the leverage in pricing. I know some doctors in France well, they're extremely poorly paid compared to doctors in the same practice in the US.

And if you squeeze doctor salaries too much, what fraction of would-be doctors are going to decide that they don't want to go through the hassle and expense of medical school?
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Yeah, A/UX is incredible, feels like "OS X before OS X". What I love most is the GUI for (some) terminal programs: http://toastytech.com/guis/auxcmdo-ls.png
Angular v1 or v2 though? :P
>to employees' working environment

Referring to workers as 'employees' portrays an inherent bias against workers, as if their status as workers is somehow dependent on some mythical 'job creator' giving them the gift of a job.

> unionists when going on strike, prevent non-unionists from working

Good. If striking workers can just be immediately replaced without any good faith negotiations then that undermines the process of good faith negotiation!
As an Indian, who has lived and worked in USA, UK, Singapore and LatAM, I can attest that produce in supermarkets in all these geographical regions are tasteless. Mostly because, as someone mentioned below they are now bred for ease of shipping.
Even in India, vegetables are slowly going the tasteless route, particularly chillies and garlic, but they are a lot more flavorful than their western world counterparts. I remember as a kid garlics were so pungent, you could smell them from a mile. Not the case anymore.
> you won't be able to refuse mandatory health care.

You mean you won't be able to refuse paying for it (that might be the case) or not able to refuse actually receiving the care (no one will force you)

The only exception is vaccination possibly, which should be legally required.
I can see how this will be useful for screening tech candidates.
To this day - many API calls on iOS reference "NS" as a prefix. That's from "NextStep"

Acronyms take on their own life sometimes.
> If it were to collapse, the disillusionment and blame that would come out of it may be enough to start a revolution.

You mean, if it's not different this time? The average person doesn't understand the monetary system, and having cryptocoins won't change that.

Most people buying these things just buy because the price is going up _fast_. But these ICOs don't have any inherent value -- they're tokens being created out of thin air by random people with mostly stupid ideas.

> As more people start buying cryptos and start doing more research, they become increasingly sceptical about the existing financial system.

The financial system has its flaws -- for sure. Blockchain tech is very interesting, but I don't believe crypto is a valid solution.

That said, you can still make money in a bubble, so enjoy the party while it lasts?
I'm not sure what else there is to say. Realizing what's going on doesn't accomplish much. I mean, what's going on has been obvious for decades.
Thank you. It beats me that Americans when looking for alternatives to their current system(s) or the lack of systems in third world countries overlook the European models where "socialized medicine" in various forms works well and has done so since around WW2 (different from country to country).

My experience in Europe is limited to living in Denmark, Spain and Bulgaria, and in each place health care could certainly be improved. But most citizens don't worry as much about health care as they did when I lived in the US.

Having seen hospitals in those European countries and what is supposedly a top class Manhattan hospital, I would not trade the European model for the American. Just the humiliation of asking a woman in severe pain for her insurance before treating her; it's undignified.

But whereas the European models could - and in my opinion should - inspire in the US, they are not easily transposed to third world countries where you lack a strong government without too much corruption to collect taxes. Here, a private model might work better.

Anyways, kudos to anyone trying to improve healthcare in the third world or ours.
One of the best experiences I've had is using HackerRank. They have a nice code editor with a audio/video communication tool built-in. This is sort of the reverse of that.
If I were to be bold enough to rephrase what you so elegantly said.

We're looking at the universe as the pre-copricornians were. Seeing chaos and logging the data, believing that the order behind the masterpiece was all locked away in God's noggin, hidden from man's grasp.

Instead we should be looking at the universe as Copernicus did. Re-frame our base assumptions. Among all this chaotic data is a simpler pattern. It may make no sense whatsoever to our human assumptions about reality, but if we are to know reality, then we must evolve within reality.
>>Even if it were by design, how can it be countered or worked around.

My post wasn't meant to invoke a solution. I am not sure that there is one. It's quite the solved game.
What is 'fake' about single payer healthcare? It works in literally every other successful country.
Thanks for being so open to sharing. Do you have a blog? How do I find your blog? Before you posted this comment how would I even know to look you up.

Just because someone on the internet had a particular setup doesn't mean I want to follow it. Or that I have time to track down several people's opinions.

Getting install stats directly from the homebrew project, which I know because I use it, is infinitely more useful to me and much more easily discoverable. that's just my opinion though and you're entitled to your own.
I think it was the influx of designers from print media, where bevels and gradient usage are generally considered crutches used by beginners who don't understand the fundamental aspects of design. Likewise whitespace is considered mana from the gods because it's in such short supply on the page.

Because there is now a strong connection between the two disciplines I'm less certain than most that this will simply be a fading trend.

I never had any trouble with flat design but I do have trouble with all the non-convention that arises out of app style design, which I feel is the real culprit of ux woes.
Good. That should reduce the unreasonably high (and mostly fake) cost of tertiary education pretty quickly.
How do the chatbots work? If they only gather information to fill in a form - then I would prefer filling in the form myself.

The other role of the chatbots might be discouraging people from doing actions that the company does not like - like taking refunds etc. I guess there will never be a solution in this area that would be welcomed by both customers and companies.

By the way I have heard that in debt collection people prefer to talk to a chatbot than to a human, because it is more impersonal.
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