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webkit was based on khtml (LGPL) - not much of a choice for apple
I always saw this as a "things I hate about JavaScript because it's not Haskell" list.

Some of these points are of course legitimate, but other to me sound like a cry of "blasphemy!".

I like functional programming, I took a course on Haskell during college and it was a humbling experience.

But I just can't get over the fact that its community is like that.
There are a lot of charities that have been working to help areas affected by these recent storms and earthquakes. Is there an easy way to donate and have it be spread across several trusted charities at once? What is the best way to help here?
I don't think there was any implication that the example is what should be done but rather it was just meant for illustrative purposes.
Lat time uninstall it when it drop support for firebug.
Exactly. I never bought that argument. They can trade with everybody else, so that embargo doesn't have much of an impact.

Especially with the rise of containerized shipping. The US gets a lot of stuff from China and ships can get to Cuba for less than it costs to reach any city on the east coast of the US.

It's their rejection of the free market that makes them unable to procure goods in the free market. It's ironic that some people want the free market to serve a system that denies its citizens access to that same exact marketplace. They don't seem to question the ideas they are repeating.
Open source is not primarily for making money, no.
I imagine they mean adding a pile of content management bloat...
how do you feel 'anchoring' applies in 'body-image situations'?
You teach, don't you?

(That last line was a pretty good answer and did not really need the rest of the post above it, informative as it was ;-)
There's a more subtle issue with high-index plastic lenses and the new RGB LED monitors: the high dispersion of the plastic interacts badly with the red and green wavelengths of the RGB LED backlight, to produce a much more severe color separation effect when you're looking through a part of the lens not near the optical center. I wrote a blog post about this [0]. For the last couple of years I have been using lenses made of CR-39, the older, lower-index plastic (with a correction appropriate for computer work; that's about -5.75 diopters for my eyes), and they work much better.

If your absolute correction is larger than maybe 3 or 4 diopters, and you use an RGB LED monitor, I recommend looking into this.

[0] http://scottlburson2.blogspot.com/2016/01/lcd-backlights-and...
thats basically what i did.

the problem is with this step:

4. Prune empty containers.

you can prune/flatten these containers but then the deeper messages that you do have are not direct replies to their ancestors in the flattened/pruned version of the tree.

i didnt say that threading did not work. it does. but it is imperfect at best and can be misleading at worst.

in my case i was constructing an MPTT structure (Nested Set) for optimal thread fetching and simply leaving in the dummy message placeholders that i didnt have a copy of.

i plan to experiment further, but there arent really any earth-shaking revelations in that post. it's all fairly obvious.
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Google:
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Microsoft:
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Whether or not it is viable, it also seems like life would continue. Like, power outages happen, even very long ones, and people mysteriously continue living their lives.

Granted, it would suck for a while.
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Not this again...
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As I understand it, there are no bad actors post-ante. Either your transaction is accepted or not. If, for example, someone steals your private key and moves money from your wallet to theirs, it is, according to the block chain, their money, even if that's not true according to any jurisdiction on the planet.

Which is kind of where I wonder how overrides can be put in place. How can one return that money? How does one force a bad actor to hand over the private key for the newly flush wallet ?
When I was going through "Learn you a Haskell...", and writing various programs with it, my first thought on the "$" operator (which basically lets you not parenthesize everything after it in an expression), was, "Why?".

And then I wrote more Haskell, and found, wow, that's pretty useful...

... for writing Haskell! I've never wanted it in any other language I've used.
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Would you mind to elaborate a little bit on your suggestions? That is if it's not too specific.
Backend software development.
Uh, so the suggested management solution is to "hand it off to backplane"?

Would have been nice to have some technical details about the challenges and solutions instead.
It refers to fashion, behaviour and the like, not your natural physical attributes, that I may add are not quite accurate either. I am not 6' tall nor am I blond, despite being to my knowledge ethnically Swedish or Scandinavian since at least a century back.
I moved away from Sweden a couple of years ago but the Sweden in which I grew up in there were a lot of immigrants for various reasons and by now a couple of generations of them. Some of these people have now become major popculture phenomenons precisely because they do not follow the stereotypical Law of Jante characteristics, most notably Zlatan Ibrahimovic who is no stranger to claiming to be the best or speaking his mind.

Personally, I find the effect of the Law of Jante to in many cases hold back the progress of Sweden, in that the desire to improve is often low to non-existent, okay is preferable.
Me too. maybe less rinse and repeat, but I've found tht after I got something to work it's easier for me to go deeper
It was not really my point though. It was originally addressing the fact that to attract top quality engineers with tech, the tech needs to be exciting. And Apple hasn't exactly shined in that regard in the past few years.

Now of course, they're a behemoth company and I'm sure they're tackling complex problems, but they're not rewriting entire operating systems or browsers, they're not strong in the Cloud, they don't have a massive distributed systems offering, they're not creating whole new languages, which I would think is what gets the star engineers going on the middle to long term. The reason for that is that their current pace is more about refining things and not messing with a formula that's been making billions year in and year out for the past, what, 10 years?

You do raise a great point about the hardware part of their business though, I would agree, it is something that sets them apart from companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon or Microsoft and that is a game-defining aspect as far as attracting talent goes, though in a specific niche.
Where can I read more about your claim?
This is key. Switching brands can make a huge difference.

In one, my eyes feel dry and itchy after just a few hours. In another (more expensive, of course), I can go 12 hours without discomfort.
I don't mean it in bad faith. I am one of the people you and Zooko talk about preventing from using zCash. That's very offputting and since I cannot audit zCash it makes me nervous. People tell me zcash is very advanced and thus hard to understand and audit for other people too: newer crypto.

I am not implying any backdoor, just that it seems you are sympathetic to such works. I don't follow Zooko's explanation that he wasn't talking about zcash but about some other unmentioned layer. If it's a generic statement about all currencies, why bring it up and mention zcash in the same breath?
Ha, no way. I like keeping my money away from potential fraudsters. But it's intellectually interesting that he could change the world with his plan.
Not sure (I haven't tried it yet), but the developer manual stub mentions using gnome-terminal.
I can understand it. I just thought it was a bit too extreme. At some point it seemed like I was interviewing them (but I hadn't asked any questions).

They seemed a bit bummed out when my hobbies weren't traveling around the world or helping impoverished communities in my spare time. They asked me what great thing I wanted to learn next and when I say $tool_X, I could feel the disappointment.

But it was good to see this first hand. On one hand, I think maybe HR is running the cultural filter a bit too high... who knows if the engineering culture is like that?

On the other hand, if that alone without asking a single question about my experience or skills is enough to reject me... that's a bit too extreme. I guess I'll find out soon enough.
This is overly sensationalistic and seems to be based on a single bad personal experience.

Most people can wear contacts just fine with zero side effects. I've been wearing contacts for more than 20 years. I started with yearly lenses, then monthlies, then dailies, then multi-focal dailies. They've all been superb, and I've never had any issues with dryness. I use contacts from morning to night, only switching to glasses when going to bed.

People are different. I know several people who wear glasses and who say they tried contacts but that it was very uncomfortable due to drying. But I also know many more people who do wear contacts without issues. I know a person who uses "night and day" lenses that you sleep with. I tried this type myself, and every day I woke up with my eyes clogged with mucus. Again, people are different.

A good opthamologist will monitor your vision and look for corneal issues. As one gets older, the risk of corneal detachment increases, but again, it's highly individual.
What Mitch Hedberg needs is a gummint that will give him a tax break for making retailers issue receipts that are also delivered (by wire, natch) to the revenooers. Paper not needed, his tax break is also by wire.

Yes, that's a thing.
It was also a really bad implementation. I developed for the firefox os reference phone before the launch - it was atrociously slow.

Think low end android phone (of the time!) running software that was 10x slower than android's.

It's really hard to describe how slow it was if you didn't personally use a firefox os phone. There were times when it felt significantly slower than a 386 running windows 3.11.
Lately I'm getting less emotional about this stuff, and realizing that the market is probably smarter than me. If skilled businesspeople, politicians, and people managers are more rewarded by the market, they are probably more valuable to more of society, or at least the parts with money to give. The elite probably choose to have their children educated in the humanities rather than the sciences for a reason. Given that an entry level software development job will give me enough money to sustain myself indefinitely while saving a lot, I'm investing in these areas rather than being upset. My logical reasoning skills (as I can observe them through my performance at chess or math, two of my hobbies) seem to be improving anyway.
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How many decades of life do the people have under their belt that you're judging?
It's not like they are going to go to prison rich.

Well, this is the most interesting part: They will. If they go to prison at all, they'll go to prison rich, and no one will be able to take their money. Once they're out, if their opsec is half-decent, they'll still have it.
I noticed that rest only somewhat helped, but was significantly more effective if absent of any worry of external responsibilities.
E.g.
If I took vacation from work and didn’t tell my girlfriend about it so she wouldn’t worry about me and text me incessantly... I could turn off the thoughts/worries of the outside world completely for a few days and that made a pretty dramatic difference. I didn’t cure me at all, but it took me out of the really dangerous zone after about 2 days.
Also, sleeping in a hammock, haha.
So much better than breathing stale air for 2 days.

This is more circumstantial however, as my trigger at the time was accumulating too many perceived responsibilities and fearing failure. To be honest I feel the triggers are nearly irrelevant, but removing myself from them gives me enough temporary relief for my body to get out of stress mode. Which in turn removes some of the depressive overhead to give myself a golden window of opportunity.
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Not sure I understand what you are arguing compared to what I said. Can you be a little more specific.
While I can't easily read upside down text, I can instantly recognize it as not only text, but that it needs to flipped upside down in order to be read. That's something current "deep learning" AIs can't do reliably, if at all.

If I had to describe the root cause of this problem it would be that humans process "problems" rather than "things" and we "learn" by building an ever growing mental library of problem solving algorithms. As we continue to "learn", we refine our problem solving algorithms to be more general than specific. Compare that to a deep learning AI that learns by building an ever greater data library of things while refining algorithms to suit ever more specific use cases.
Yeah it's odd to think not too long ago that's how credit cards were copied. The big slidy handle machine went ka-chunk! A faint imagine from physically rubbing against your card with carbon paper was legit way to do it.
No, I haven't. I educate myself about lens materials and choices online but then I get my prescriptions and glasses at the Berkeley School of Optometry brick and mortar. You're asking about fitting and I think opticians are really good at that. Berkeley is. I'm talking about educating yourself on choices.

This is another online site with a lot of information:

http://www.visio-rx.com/vision-topics/lenses/polycarbonate-v...
> All that said, I went to Berkeley and I use their School of Optometry

wait, can you expand on that? i went to ucsd, is there some uc program where alumni get some kind of benefits from the medical programs? or is it just cal?
> what's PE/RE?

Preinstallation Environment [1] and Recovery Environment [2], basically stripped-down "live" versions of Windows for deployment and repair purposes. They're frequently customized by PC vendors and corporate IT departments.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufactur...

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufactur...
Wow talk about Americentrism. I will be just fine, the FCC has no authority here.
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>"The internet" or "the web" is already dead, in the sense that most people use a handful of sites run by a handful of large companies. The internet could essentially be a native app run by a corporate governing body and more than 95% of people wouldn't notice.

Even if true, an open Internet provides a hedge/fallback/alternative to corporate overreach and therefore is necessary.
Which brand works best for you? I gave up on contacts a few years ago.
You are still doing a near lossless transformation of the unique part of the credit card and name as one of your goals is zero (minimized) hash collisions. The character set and length of the input plus reasonable assumptions about the salt and hash make it very likely "reversible" using rainbow tables or other brute force techniques.

Choose metadata that doesn't have such high financial value. Additionally, it's been years since I've been involved in e-commerce and the details are now foggy, but if I recall storing those addition credit card digits, even transformed, will prevent you from achieving the industrial certifications.
I have the exact opposite experience. I have only used their support once, but it was great. One of my servers had hardware issue (unable to access half of RAM), and less than hour after first contacting them via website they had moved drives to another, identical machine and everything was running fine (and most of that time was spent waiting for my responses).
I am unable to judge zcash and must rely on other cues. So when the founders seem to be saying they're OK with backdoors, it makes me think hey, given the chance maybe there's something they could do.

Anyways once they get mandatory shielded transactions I'll look at it in more depth and see if I can get comfortable.
> except for the subtext that homeless people are all fucked up losers who aren't really trying/can't really be helped.

I would never say that. My point is only that with even if we had "unlimited free money" to give, there's only a fraction we will save. I'm not saying "don't give money" and saying need more than just money.

I'm actually living near the poverty line and surrounded by people with similar financial situations. I make just too much to afford food stamps, but my medical bills (and large debt from student loans and a period of having to live off credit cards) basically throw me below the line. Money would absolutely help me. I need bills paid. I need treatment. All I want to do is get back to my career. (Read: fixing me would generate a net gain in GDP.) But I'm also surrounded by many people who are not interested in getting better. I'm surrounded by people who (to quote someone else) "act poor"--that is, even though we're poor we don't keep our house like a trashheap with stuff piled up. We don't associate with people with drug problems, stealing problems, and more. We're poor but you've never guess at face value because we spend very carefully, and we're entirely functional adults. Meanwhile, there are people who make more money than us who--through their conscious and subconscious decisions--are constantly in trouble with the law. Giving these people money won't magically stop them from having drug dealers in their extended family.

Give two people the same internet (everyone has internet on their phones these days), one uses it to read Wikipedia and watch instructional videos, and another uses it to watch videos of people fighting all day. Clearly one is statistically more likely to succeed than the other.
Yeah, I’m not quite sure I perfectly grasp where wallets come in. It’s not covered in the article, since it’s focused on how the blockchain works at a pretty basic level. Protecting transactions is still a mystery, since it seems one could with the implementation shown, with access to the chain and all transactions, just craft a block that transfers everything to themselves.
It seemed interesting until he started with the ideology...
It doesn't matter if it's a secret or not. Constant exposure to lies can change perception even in highly rational people. Critical thinking takes effort and nobody has time or energy to digest every bit of information that hits their brain. Slowly but surely people begin to subconsciously accept the lies.

This is why propaganda is so effective. It doesn't have to even be convincing to be successful so long as it is pervasive.
It’s not. It’s celebrated.
WebSocket support is planned (not sure if it will be in v1).

The issue with game servers is that you probably need to make sure all the players in the same game instance hit the same worker. There won't be any way to do that with workers in v1. But, this is definitely something we've thought about, and as a big gamer myself I would like to see it happen someday. I have some particular ideas for a different kind of worker (not a Service Worker) that serves this use case. But it's probably a year out.
I can't tell if the author is being funny or being insane, but it's great either way.
> Since companies have every incentive to develop software with cost-efficiency and velocity, they will want to use the best workflow possible.

in the abstract these are generally viewed as or presumed to be positive, but the pressures and objectives of a business can be rather complex and other things will often compete for finite resources.

having worked in a number of large organizations, the waste and inefficiencies one can find is absolutely staggering.

outside the sales pitches, it's also not clear how an alm interacts with notions of 'cost-efficienty' and 'velocity'. introducing process and bureaucracy isn't always a win.

perhaps the presumed predilection of large organizations for alms can be found in alms addressing (or seeming to address) other needs, pressures or requirements.
Minor correction: XNU is not a microkernel.
The word "bully" does seem to imply that the unions have all the power in the disagreement, which is rarely the case
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The internet actually stifles dissent. People are just keyboard warriors.

In the days of MLK if they had internet everyone would have just retweeted #marchonwashington.
is jante a religion, or really anything very similar? is there a 'holy book'?
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> overly sensationalistic

Maybe, but you can check the Internet about eye dryness. I think there is a lack of stats in this area. The problem is that people react differently. And for some people the damage from dryness is quasi-permanent. So unless there are very established measures/stats, I'd not take risks.
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Yep, it sounds like you pretty much have it. In addition to the two examples you mention, here are some other examples of monoids:

Lists under concatenation
Booleans under AND
Booleans under OR
Numbers under max
Numbers under min
Lack of good options to put a libre OS on phone hardware and build a libre phone.

Why can my top-of-the-line desktop be libre but must my phone be locked down?
You don't have to be a "paranoid prepper" to be ready for a Cat 4 hurricane while living in an area most prone to them.
30 seconds in to the video and all I've seen are some spinning computers and a message saying "these computers are just for show, they're not really running anything". Please, when you try to sell a product, start by TELLING US WHAT IT IS.
I remember hearing this said about Lisp programming in the early 1980's. Specifically, there was a "tree-based" editor for InterLisp on the Xerox Lisp machines... I only ever met one person (hi Marty!) who even basically understood it.

I really hate the "we've never had one so we'll never have one" argument about anything, but I think in this case it may well be true, although the argument stems from the fact that a lot of people have tried to make "tree based" editors, but I've never heard of anyone making one that got any kind of traction.

Even the guy who could use the Xerox tree editor preferred emacs (on other machines).
All I can say is that I certainly hope the browser application runs in a separate, sandboxed process from the rest of the, er, "OS". Imagine a world where clientside browser JS can interact directly with the desktop environment...
The net providers and Ajit Pai's would sell it as a 'premium feature' being made available to poor start-ups at a discount. FTC can't go after Amazon for giving out large AWS servers to start ups for some equity.
Maybe I misunderstood you, but it seems you're saying that people _either_ "comply" with Jante or succeed, but my point was that Jante, broadly understood, affects even successful people.

Sure, if you take it literally then I suppose it would stop people from succeeding but the way I see it "Jante" is what explains the relative humility of many successful Scandinavians. In a way it's just a flippant way to describe the (downsides of) the Nordic egalitarianism, as argued eloquently elsewhere. So in that sense there is no real opposition between Sweden being full of successful entrepreneurs while enforcing Jante.
Bully is defined as someone in a position of power harming or intimidating someone weaker. Unions are a reaction to the power imbalance of the employer/employee relationship, and at best make that equal. Characterising what Unions do as bullying is nonsense.

Of course, it is becoming common for people in positions of privilege to complain that others demanding equality are bullying them by expecting the same rights they get to enjoy, so it isn't surprising.
Wait... is this a parody?