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Sometimes, like when I'm working on a UI, it's nice to have the code, the chrome debugger, and the UI view all up and running. But I'm finding it less necessary, because of the trade-off.

I really enjoy the simplicity of my 11" MBAir and the portability of working anywhere. You get really good between swiping between desktops. And having limited screen space means I quiet down all the distracting notifications, popups, email, etc...

Also, a lot of dev work I do REPL-first development, then copy the code into the actual editor (on a different virtual desktop) and this minimizes the swiping around, and increases my productivity that way.
Once an OS trains it’s users to enter their password without thinking about it, because of random (seeming) password prompts, they’re already fucked. Apple screwed this up on iOS years ago.
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Yeah, thanks for the note, I noticed that but was too lazy to re-do the screenshots.
Which network? Three has an offer like that but I found connectivity quite weak once you leave larger cities. Although that appears to be the issue with most/all networks here. I currently use vodafone and can't remember when I last had 4G outside of major cities.
Powershell script to do something similar:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/enigma0x3/Invoke-LoginProm...

Blog post with screenshots: http://enigma0x3.net/2015/01/21/phishing-for-credentials-if-...

There's probably some browser based equivalent somewhere too.
Surely if you're customizing a van for #vanlife you can figure out how to build your own monitor-stand.
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I see nothing in the rules like that.
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one interesting thing is how people are trying to operate a business and hire local people to do things are assaulted by taxes out the wazoo, and software companies like apple hide their profits overseas and avoid taxes almost entirely.
> I'm not sure you're familiar enough with what a sufficiently powerful type system can accomplish.

At what cost?

I'd estimate it to be at least 10x development cost.
Why not ask users to set a unique phrase to identify themselves when you set up the OS? If this phrase isn't in the box that asks for a master password, you know it's phishing. Hell, just put that IN the copy on the master password box.

"If the words below do not match your unique phrase, do not enter your password."

If I see "Green eggs and ham", I know it's safe to put in my password.
Supporting Development Seed in developing Mapbox is one of the Knight Foundations biggest successes and is on point with their mission.
That is an interesting point. I didn't even take the lonely factor into account.
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This isn't viable for large files. First uploading to your server, then through to S3. It will take a long time. Have your api return the upload url and then when you switch providers, instead use their signed url? AWS and Google you just PUT to the url, shouldn't change anything. Then hit your own api after it finishes
Having used Google Maps in a professional context for quite some time, I certainly welcome the competition. Their data is the gold standard, but their Enterprise licensing team is difficult to deal with. One example: We were sold a license that we were subsequently told was inadequate. We were then forced to use a 3rd party broker to negotiate a new deal, and even then the terms were unclear. Also strange because you get 75% discounts at each pricing tier, so we ended up in a tier that gave us "lots of room to grow".
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> Ever try to grep weakly typed system for name definition?

For what purpose?
I think that answers your question. He's just drawing a more familiar parallel.
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My bad - I said certificates when I meant public key crypto. They would only check in a public key.
not sure if serious or not; but just move monitor back against wall it's attached to and strap it down while moving. Generally solved issue in the RV industry with TVs.
The same things that make it great to be in the software business make it extra-difficult. All of your competitors have the same advantages you do, and pretty-much anyone in the world can become a competitor to your business!

One advantage that local businesses have is a proximity lock-in. A restaurant in Portland just needs to be good enough relative to other restaurants in its neightborhood to survive. A SaaS headquartered in Portland needs to be globally good enough.

Personally I think a skilled plumber/electrician/tradesman would have an easier time starting a successful business than a software developer would. It's hard to generate demand for software, but those skilled trades are things that everyone definitely needs.
I think the idea behind ctrl-alt-delete is that it generates a non-maskable interrupt that can't be hooked from user-mode. In days past, this sort of thing was called a secure attention key.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_attention_key

And you're right, this needs to be a default part of any login handler. Why don't we use it when logging into a Linux console? The login prompt could easily be spoofed by a user-mode program.
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It's also far far slower performance-wise to put it on the heap. GoLang also does stack-copying with their continuations, and it's probably the best implementation strategy we have right now.

There were a number of interesting projects at Da Vinci, including full TCO. I wonder how much further along Java would be if more of those projects got merged into mainline.
"why can we have a top of the line desktop PC which is totally libre, but not a smartphone?"

"totally libre PC"? All major CPU manufacturers implement hardware level backdoor we can't disable. The newest version of the most popular OS tracks your every step by default. All of these tiny chips in pretty much any modern electronic device are full of binary blobs you have no way to inspect. Maybe we live in different worlds then.
It's a good idea, but a security solution that relies on users noticing when something is absent is not exactly airtight.
No one. It was lunchtime and it's possible no ne traded so far that day.
FUD pure and simple. Please read about the actual telemetry and the warning you get on first use. I'm sensing a weird anti-Microsoft push in this thread and it's about 10+ years late. MS is about as open and friendly as it gets for being a large corporation.
We're still paying for it. It's just that the currency's changed.
I don't understand, how would you detect photons that are going in a direction orthogonal to you in intergalactic space? They have to be coming toward you for you to detect them, right?
takes one to know one eh?
Ok, but that's hardly the point...
I'll echo this and also say that you should target companies where remote work is the norm, not companies were remote work is allowed but not actually feasible.

I've worked at 3 employers that allowed some degree of remote work.

At two of them, everybody worked at home at least 1 day a week and some people were 100% remote. Everybody understood that somebody was going to be remote for any given meeting, so web conferences were standard in every meeting. People also called/chatted with each other when needed. Focus on companies like this for a weekend project. These are the places which are open to remote work and are open to addressing the issues with it.

I worked at another company where HR encouraged work from home, but there was no enforced standards and the company had a strong history of butt-in-seat time. The end result was that any work from home (even for a day) was perceived as slacking off and adding a web conference to a meeting was seen as an massive inconvenience for the people who were willing to attend meeting face to face. This company did not need a tool to help them with remote work, they needed an organizational change.
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Without clicking, I have no idea what these links are or why you included them in this conversation. Care to elaborate?
In Ireland you can get unlimited data for 20eur/month.
Dialogs owned by the OS should probably pull the drawer down and display in there. The simplest way is not allowing the application to access some sacred part of the UI, and putting system stuff there. Same thing web browsers do.
> The US is primarily a christian country supposedly founded on christian values etc.

Nitpick: the predominant Christianity flavor in the US is a branch that split off after ~ 15 centuries, officially for purist reasons but practically for "pick-and-choose" reasons. Naturally, that's instable and that branch furter split into more and more isolated denominations, carfully picking what they choose to believe in and rejecting the rest (or rejecting factual history, thus doomed to repeat it).

In particular, many in that group (but not all: it's impossible to generalize here) have forgotten how "life is inherently special" and became more preoccupied with justifying how their particular branch/flavor of belief is the best, applying personal judgement despite the warnings of the One they claim to follow.

Of course, being Catholic, I'm biased in this matter and am certainly no saint. But there's a fundamental difference between adhering imperfectly to a set of beliefs which are hard but coherent, and adhering to a subset carved out in order to feel good about being able to follow everything and judge all those who don't.

And worse: there are many Catholics who use particular points of doctrine to cast judgement on others and white-wash their personal bias, and missing out on the bigger picture. This is something we're continually having to address because we are all imperfect and living within the influence of our culture. But this is where time and plurality of culture comes in, because over the centuries, knowledge has been accumulated regarding cultural notions that turn out to be very bad ideas, and distilled into a (relatively) compact compendium.
Wow. You still think your internet points are worth something.
Thanks for the reply. Very neat adventure you're on.

> Sometimes you meet people who don't love the "simple" life like I do.

Hey, if the ladies don't dig the man with the van, their loss!
) Take outrageous risks

) Be the 1 out of 500 million for whom it pans out. This one is key so focus on it.
>China can't extradite me or arrest me

They can just run you over with a car on your way to work!
Does anyone with more expertise in this field know what resources/books there are to learn more about systems and synthetic biology?

Also, what are the dozen or so subfields in biology that may have more relevance than others such as epigenetics, evolutionary bio, comp. bio etc. to engineering biological systems?

One last question, from your perspective, would it be more useful if one were coming from an engineering background to synthetic biology or purely a biology background to synthetic biology whilst learning some basics engineering principles? I'm currently studying physics and mathematics.
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This is an excellent description of the situation--one that I thought was more common knowledge than it appears to be. :/
There have been cases of people falling and injuring themselves in the bathtub too.

That doesn't mean we need bathing licenses, a corps of parasitic "bathing inspectors", and constant live streaming video from every shower stall.

I'm not sure how the idea that everything should be (or even can be) 100% safe at all times gained dominance, but it needs to go away.
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It's the same problem that you have, isn't it? You don't want to support two codebases, you just want to build your app once and have it run in two places. It costs time and development budget to maintain two different codebases, and you have to prioritize. Can you really blame Microsoft that they don't want to maintain both a modern codebase and a completely separate fork/back-port of it for a much older branch?

That said, it has been possible to share a lot of code (if not almost all of it) between a WPF and UWP app for a while now with PCLs, or after that targeting .NET Standard. That gets even easier once UWP support for .NET Standard 2.0 ships soonish. There's also been work recently on Xamarin.WPF for Xamarin's cross-platform code sharing, and the XAML Standard 1.0 work trying to converge much of the XAML across all the platforms Xamarin supports and UWP to get rid of a some of the dialectal nuances.
I did not mean to imply that only black people act shady.

BUT, if someone who looks very suspicious based on their appearance and behaviour (mannerisms, language, choices of clothes, tattoos, etc) it's normal and dare I say _healthy_ for residential (family type) neighborhoods to be suspicious of them.

If they also happen to be black, they might want to use the race card "OMG You suspect me because I'm black? Racist! How dare You!" etc, but who cares.

I am honestly surprised by the down votes my comment received.

If you let criminals into your neighbourhood because you're scared of being called a racist, something is wrong with you.
> My take: give it a few more years, and software, too, probably will follow the same path.

I doubt it. The stakes are much lower than people's lives and health.
Maybe we should change the name of the industry from software to spyware.
> a huge issue is racism in law and police policies (not necessarily in individual cops) - crime statistics need to be taken with a grain of salt

Homicides are one way to dis-entangle this (in jurisdictions not prone to To Kill A Mockingbird asshattery). It's objective as to when it happens. And our courts are relatively better, at least in the post-DNA era, about due process when it comes to such crimes.

It appears blacks committed 52.2% of homicides from 1976 through 2005 while representing 12.3% of the population [1]. The 2013 statistic for "murder and nonnegligent manslaughter" arrests of blacks is also 52.2% [2]. That said, (a) arrest does not mean conviction and (b) we decided long ago, and rightfully so, that projecting population characteristics onto someone who did not choose to be a member of that population is morally wrong and therefore, oftentimes, illegal.

[1] https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htius.pdf page 12

[2] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
This is not a new problem, and the GlobalPlatform TEE trusted UI goes a long way to address such a problem.

Though Apple does not officially support the GP TEE, the concept could be borrowed. Trusted code running inside the secure enclave combined with a hardware backed indicator for trusted user interactions driven by code in the secure enclave can help.

This is pretty much how their fingerprint sensor data is protected, via direct connection to, and control from the secure enclave so that none of the fingerprint data enters a non-secure zone.
> REPL-first development, then copy the code into the actual editor

side topic, and not to start editor wars..
but you might want to look into emacs.
Thanks! TIL and I will actually need this info next month :)
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No solution is airtight, but if it makes it better for 10% of users without making it worse for the other 90%, it seems like a good idea.
FWIW, I (not a biologist, though) only use LibreOffice for importing CSV these days. It allows me to look at the fields first and tell it if I want to suppress special treatment of data in a column.

EDIT: LibreOffice also allows you to tell it what encoding a file uses and what character(s) are used as separators.
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Stonebraker has done a lot of fine work, but also has a lot of false negatives; he got down on recursive queries, on data-parallel compute, and generally most other things that he's not directly working on. It ends up with an in-crowd of folks who think he is great, and an out-crowd of folks frustrated by his constant unfounded dumping.

I've personally found it is hard to take him seriously when he says a thing, and you should first check which company he is currently flogging. Doesn't mean he is wrong, .. but check.
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Microsoft is a joke, and not even a good one.
>Their families have mostly been saying the same thing.

To be fair, they probably just want grandchildren.
> I'm not sure you're familiar enough with what a sufficiently powerful type system can accomplish.

A sufficiently powerful type system can compute any partial recursive function at type check time. That's pretty much the upper bound.
> "founding_year” is intriguing. It could mean that it may be getting easier or harder to build a sustainable business.

It could mean that. It could also mean inflation. The threshold of 1B is worth less and less every year, so the number of billionaires is expected to go up every year, skewing all data toward today.
Mapbox is an amazing product, it's super expensive and pretty hard to swallow the bill every month as a small startup, but the product is just so good, their APIs are fantastic. For sure a company to watch, their COO Roy was the COO of Twilio and he knows what he is doing.
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#Vanlife, the Bohemian Social-Media Movement

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/24/vanlife-the-bo...

Five Harsh Truths You Need To Consider Before You Start Living The #Vanlife

http://uproxx.com/life/harsh-truths-vanlife/3/
I have a joke with my family that I am forced to enter iTunes password on at least one iOS device - daily. We share one iTunes account, and when you enter the password on one device, all the others prompt for a password when unlocked. It's mildly frustrating when you have kids, and multiple iOS devices.

The scenario goes like this: One of my kids' Messages app stops working (thanks Apple!). I am forced to turn off/on Messages, and during the process Apple asks for my password. Then, when I attempt to use my other iOS devices, I am prompted for the same password ... on ... every ... device. Then, about 20% of the time the password does not "take" and I am forced to ignore and attempt at a later time.

/rant
Ios apps cannot log keys at all. They're sandboxed.
Like they don't care about community. Like they don't care about the law. Making loud noises. Dressing strange but flashy.

I don't know. Are you going to pretend like there are no way for people to act suspicious now?
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Why don't you call it out? Like it seems that this stuff gets going because nobody ever raises their hand and says something, so the people who are left just get into a feedback loop.
Yeah, If i get a password prompt and I didn't do anything to "initiate" it, then i'm not typing my password in. I've never had anything fail using this behavior so I feel I'm safe.

"feel" being the operative word here - am I safer? Who knows?
But if there's a massive untapped market of ex-felons willing, able, and desperate for work, then any company who hired them would have a huge economic advantage!

I think in reality ex-felons are much more likely to be unqualified, under-performing, and high-risk hires that could cause major issues at a company and that companies on average are smart to avoid them.

Obviously that sucks tremendously for the ex-felons who would have been model employees, but you can't exactly weed them out by asking nicely during the interview process?

I think best case is there may be certain jobs which are "firewalled" enough internally/externally that you can risk hiring a convicted felon but in most cases it's probably a rational choice by a company not to hire them.

Broadly excluding any applicant with any conviction at any point of their life is certainly not appropriate and possibly even effectively illegal racial discrimination, but the flip side is hiring a dangerous felon, aka negligent hiring and if it causes harm to a customer or employee you can be sued for that as well.
> Back then, too, the thoughts on medical safety also were divided into 2 schools: the professionalism and the process oriented

The key difference is in the medical world safety has been a primary concern from day one.

I.e. There has always been a high level of professionalism.

That is not true in the software world.

Imagine a doctor saying it's 5pm on a Friday and I'm meeting a friend in an hour so I'll just do a rush job of this surgery and it will probably work out fine.

I've seen devs happily check in shoddy work just to be finished hundreds of times in my career.
Actually my fellow comrade, people say that kind of stuff fairly often.
Funny about the adult thing. When I managed other peoples computers, had I fucked up really badly, about 1200 people would've not been able to do their work and some company would've potentially lost a few million buckazoids. If I were to fuck up really bad when sailing (or boat maintenance), I and those nearest and dearest to me would die.
The pattern i'm suggesting is how most mobile apps i'm familiar with work anyway. Though some have made the mistake using an AWS SDK in the client, rather than just using presigned URLs.

Basic pattern is:

Client: Hey API server, I want to upload a file

API: Sure, here's a URL you can PUT the file directly to. It will expire in 10 minutes, you can always ask for another if you run out of
time

Client: Thanks!

-- Client uploads file directly to URL --
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Once you have enough of a following brands will contact you for product placement, ads on website, etc. etc.
Jesus. How childish are you?
I honestly cannot understand the point you're trying to make.

Also,

> It's possible to be a billionaire on paper and starve to death.

Can you provide an example?
about as easy in python:

pd.read_csv("file.csv").to_latex()
If anyone is looking for a good niche, Quickbooks utilities is one. Things like import/export, mass update, Sql access, synchronizing, Paypal integration, etc.

Tools do exist, but they are very clunky and expensive. It's also easy to read user forums and see what's needed, where existing tools fall short, etc. And then market your solutions in the same forums.