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> one of [maintainer's responsibilities] is to act respectfully towards others.

Depends on what "respectfully" means. He shot down your pull request straight,
fast, and with clear reasons. He respected your time.

> If this would be said in person, it would be considered extremely rude to my standards, especially since he lack context.

Well, you failed to provide any, so don't complain that he lacked it.

And he wasn't rude. He was harsh and blunt, but those are different things.
Maybe it's you who was too sheltered? Give this idea a thought or two.

And then, internet is not an inherently nice place, not more than any other
aspect of life. Learn how to receive harsh treatment without whining, because
it happens and is not an event worth spending much of attention.

> If this would've been me 4 years ago when I was learning to code, it would have been devastating for my motivation and joy for the project. As a core maintainer, you need to take this into account.

Well, no. It's submitter's job to ensure he won't get devastated if it turns
out his work is crap or if the judging person happens to be simply a jerk. If
the submitter is too fragile to handle that, he shouldn't submit his work for
judgement in the first place. There are dedicated places that are intended to
provide encouragement, and this project was not one of them.

Also, maintainers usually receive too much sub-par third party work to be nice
and encouraging to everybody. It's very, very tiring.
> negotiating parties will reach a mutually beneficial deal at the 11th hour

Compare with the situation of Greece. There was essentially very little change in the EU position, and Greece eventually realised they had no leverage and would be worse off outside the EU and had to acquiesce.

The only deals that have a chance of happening are "forget the whole thing, no Brexit" or maybe "Norway" (EEA including free movement, but no voting rights). "No deal" would be a disaster.

And if it's left until the 11th hour plenty of companies will have no choice but to avoid planning beyond that time. Like Ryanair pointing out that they can't take bookings without knowing what legal framework will be in place: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/11/ryanair-chief-mic...

Addendum: this article by Gordon Guthrie, Erlanger and former extremely minor politician, sums up the lack of choice: https://medium.com/@gordonguthrie/no-deal-wont-happen-e185f9...
P2P and anonymity are orthogonal concerns. Maybe I want to peer-wise distribute content to well-known friends of mine, to whom I am well-known. Alternatively, perhaps I want to contribute an anonymous voice to a globally centralized conversation?

There is even a third element which is missed by this false dichotomy, which is that "blanket anonymity" is not the same as "managing how much of my identity I want to reveal".

Without the latter, you actually end up with a digital commons whose social dynamics asymptotically approach the chans or Youtube comments.
> No great harm comes from calling it a theory, and nothing of importance is settled by instead calling it a hypothesis or conjecture.

It's fine to believe in this, however one must wonder why it is that an individual may hold String Theory to the same standard as General Relativity or Evolution, and when finally it is observed that String Theory is not the case (or some other Theory gets trendy) this individual loses credibility on Science as a whole. - Just the other day you scientists had a theory that the universe was expanding!! How can I believe in your other theories?

It should not be required to the casual curious reader to understand this distinction. A notable scientist on the other hand, specially one that has visibility, carries some responsability when (s)he writes about such matters.
yeah, but marking it "rustic" solves all my rough-looking problems :) The warping is definitely happening, but my table is also an outdoor patio table so its fine in this case. Thanks for advice though... will help on later projects.

I would like to get some time back this winter and make some inside pieces.. I agree with the pocket screws, but I think I can get around some of that with a joiner. I feel like a joiner and planer are the next tools I will invest in.

>>people want things cheap and nice looking

I agree 1000% but, after the aforementioned fire, I personally have a new perspective. "Collecting" things is way below being able to say I invested in myself/family and built something.
Delta Air Lines Scraps Check-In for Users of Its iPhone App
If you're scared of mass immigration, you're going to be terrified by London...
Meh, that is not a critique of Corbyn as a Marxist, it's using communism as a scare word without delving into what Marxism actually is and why Corbyn matches the definition. Do you have a critique by someone who actually knows what Marxism is?

I can find plenty of descriptions of many politicians as Fascist (and usually better researched than this), doesn't mean most of them are.
Quarterly 'summary' accounts for small businesses that will almost certainly require software and incur penalties if made late or with mistakes.

Asking your average market stall trader or a small retail shop to now require that they keep their management accounts up-to-date quarterly (when at the moment it needs to be done annually and the average accountant charges several hundred ££) is why its contentious.

Edit: here is a short summary from CIoT: https://www.tax.org.uk/policy-technical/technical-news/makin...
I totally agree with the idea. However, the "has no connectivity" bothers me. It's OK for devices to have connectivity as part of their feature set. I'd be very unhappy if my iPad couldn't connect to the Internet at large. However, it requiring even occasional connection to some specific service in order to perform its functions is the red flag.
Most people don't live in countries such as Kuwait where it is normal (and affordable) to watch 4k netflix streams via LTE.
I don't think it's that it would be OK if it worked. It's just that when you're trying to convince people who think it's a good idea, "it doesn't work" is a lot more persuasive than "it's morally wrong."
I didn't say anything about my political view.
I said the Daily Mail is not acceptable as a source in Wikipedia. Which it is not.
I'd like to go further and require the seller to pay for insurance to give an extended server life in the event the company folds OR release code for public servers that work all advertised features of the device.
Reading through all the comments and this one stood out. I am currently a 'reluctant vegetarian' for health reasons of course (bad choices were made during my younger years and now I am so paying for it). However. In-N-Out would be allowed were I near one. I like to eat grass (grass like veggies). Cows eat grass. I will eat the cow that ate the grass at In-N-Out burger. /shrug. Sounds legit to me.
- I'd also have a 'healthy shake' there as well. I remember their adverts that mimic'd/mocked the shake diets and it still makes me chuckle.
Many years ago, one of my mentors was a senior programmer who had gone from programmer to manager back to programmer again.

At the time, I couldn't imagine why anyone would leave the management track-- wasn't that the logical career progression for a programmer? So I asked my friend.

His response: "Because in management, they nip at you from the top and they nip at you from the bottom." Meaning that you have to answer to those above you, and also deal with flak from those below you. It's a constant struggle.

His words (like many other words given to me by others) have proven true.
Nice to see a "Dear <open source project>" that was a full blown love letter instead of a critique!
Landscape architects designing for mass shootings
Countless studies show that consuming refined sugars alone has very different effects on the body than consuming complex carbohydrates along with the fiber found in natural foods. This is like saying that all protein contains glutamate so there's no difference between eating a steak or a tablespoon full of refined MSG.
Its a matter of preference, I think. I was only able to play UT growing up, thanks to its software renderer, and finally played Q3 (Quake Live) in college.

Q3 is more minimalist, which makes competitive play more interesting. Q3 has also maintained a competitive scene to this day where UTs seems to have fizzled out.
@danberg, thanks for the information. If you have any updates, please post them here.

It looks like the README.md for Grafeas was updated a few times in the last few days.

https://github.com/Grafeas/Grafeas/commits/master/README.md

This section of the README.md is interesting:

TODO:Document the process for adding a new kind to the spec and generating the model, documents, and client libraries to include that kind. #38

Hopefully, these types of things will be fully explained when we see companies like IBM commercialize Grafeas and offer it as a service.
Anecdotally, I knew drug dealers in high school. It was not out of necessity, but greed. I'm sure some are out of necessity, but not all.
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Now You Can Order Food with Facebook
Sonoj Convention: Community organized conference about opensource music software
The problem I've always found with the California warnings is that they're so damn generic. There's nothing forcing companies to tell you what compound is harmful, where it is, or what it's used for..

A fishing sinker made from lead is pretty obvious when you see that warning. There's only one ingredient, lead, and it's obvious why it's harmful. But when you buy a complex product that says "this product contains chemicals known by the State of California to cause cancer or birth defects", the first thing I want to know is what the chemical is, the second is where it is in the product, and the third is why it's there. Nothing in the warnings makes manufacturers tell you any useful information.
Appreciate you putting this out there. Best wishes, and keep journaling!
The influence may not all be equal, but at least in the developed world, for the sake of a contrived example - the number of people who can choose to spend $2-5 on a coffee vs a non ad-supported app is pretty high - and unfortunately, people seem to be choosing the coffee most of the time.

> What you seem to be saying is "if the large number of poor people in the world cared about _their own quality of life, they would have it".

Definitely not - but what I won't mind saying is - if the large number of middle class people in the developed world cared about the poor people, the living condition of poor people would significantly improve.
P2P apps are enough of an onboarding hassle that they have only gotten popular when there's a powerful incentive, such as the promise of downloading every popular song or movie at will or evading the speech laws of a totalitarian state.

It's not binary, however. As friction decreases, the number of sufficiently motivating use-cases increases non-linearly and there are multiple thresholds.
It's not as application-heavy as a lot of other platforms, but there are definitely some great applications built on top of .NET.

If you're looking for a CMS, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better open-source CMS that runs on ASP.NET than Umbraco.
As I understand your comment, you're saying that there is no "morally justifiable" moral framework under which torture would be acceptable. Other people here obviously disagree, using e.g. the trolley problem as an example scenario - would you torture 1 person to save X people from death? This is a legitimate moral question, and I don't think it's anywhere near "decided" at this point.

Also, you write: "Most of the moral decisions western society has taken about how we show act are on the principles of first doing no harm and respecting the rights of the individual."

Well, much as I would love to live in that world, I don't think it's the one we live in. I mean yes, theoretically this might be true, but practically speaking, there have been plenty of wars involving the west where I don't think many people will say that the West was 100% in the right. There are plenty of situations where we don't care about individual rights that much. E.g. most libertarians will say that basically the entire rise of the welfare state is explicitly against individual liberty. I'm not even sure most socialists will disagree with that!

Most importantly, even if the general principle is to try not to do harm, it still doesn't really solve the torture "dilemma". There certainly are some pacifists who cling to "do no harm" as a founding principle, but they're not considered to be the standard view (nor do they claim they are).
Thank you for this great reading list!
Currently I'm using Firebase for a medium-sized BI web app, but I'm really interested in BigQuery for bigger datasets.
I agree. With the exception of all but the fewest scenarios, a hiring decision is not to going to come down solely to one-dimension like this. It's also painting with a very broad stroke that all hiring managers think and/or behave this way. They don't.
From what I can tell (and I am not an expert): Zeronet and IPFS are really fixated with solving the P2P secure content distribution problem. They convolve the solution of that transport-level problem with what I believe to be the central problem, which is a distributed content integrity system. DAT is a technology is that primarily fixated on that latter component, and is relatively independent of transport.

I think that things like p2p transport via Tor, bt, etc. are all red herrings. The robust computing infrastructure for the next-gen, distributed information system that the world needs, should not be tied to transport layer concerns like that. It should work reasonably well via flash-drive-sneakernet as it does over fiber and LTE.
Yes. Thanks.
Also encryption by default and much larger user base mean there is more focus on iOS than Android (like the old windows versus mac virus argument) the difference I see is that you are much more likely to get compromised by an application on Android than iOS. And since Google has been very friendly with the USG I would find it much more likely that Enclave or not that it will be NSA weakened crypto that will be the demise of your Android rather than exotic exploits of your wifi. And if your paranoid you carry a Nokia 7715 and extra SIMs or you back something Debian based like Purism.
It's less about being smart and more about having habits that fill in the gaps that a lack of static analysis leaves. This can happen through TDD or through REPL driven development. Each has their own strengths and weaknesses.
> In actual reality you will never have any certainty about the outcomes of interactions like these. All you have control over is whether or not you hurt the person in front of you.

There's a shooter actively killing people.

Is it OK to shoot the shooter?

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What's the benefit of doing physics problems "in a vacuum", etc? It lets you get to the essence of the question.

Similarly, a philosophical thought experiment lets you analyze your beliefs - rather than just a knee jerk ("No, I would never harm someone and anyone who harmed someone is not a morally decent human being"), you can come up with a more complete ethical framework for your decisions and judgments.

By identifying extremes, you can identify your priorities and understand the tradeoffs you will actually be faced with - what degree of harm are you willing to cause, and at what distance from "in front of me", to what benefit?
Oh little fruit flies, how I love thee! We had to keep fruit flies and track mutations in my intro to genetics course. We would put them on these little fabric platforms and pump CO2 through the fabric. This would anesthetize them so we could look at them under a microscope and count things like how many had white eyes, deformed wings, etc. They really are the workhorse of genetic studies...they should build a statue of a fruit fly next to the monument to the laboratory mouse!
> Torture obviously works.

Can you cite some cases where torture has got correct, verifiable, and timely information that couldn't have been got by other means?
You never know X and Y and there's no known physical process which you can use to determine Y (and, often, X) before you start torture.

However, there's definitely a legal process in place once you accept the possibility of torture.
It's only mildly funny and culture-dependent.
Something more technical, like a flight that doesn't make it through a profanity filter or a date arithmetic glitch resulting in time travel, would have been received much better.
Is it 1000 updates across all tables per day, or 1000 updates per table per day? Asking because the page says "Daily update limit: 1,000 updates per table per day," which sounds like you could update thousands of tables hourly.
Oddly enough, every time I practice Keto, I am almost the exact opposite; always hungry, cruddy energy but I sleep like a rock.
On low(ish) fat and high carb; easily satiated, decent energy, sleep like a baby (awake a lot but no screaming or poop).
With the above explained, I have not tried A Balanced Diet - perhaps to get the positives of both modes and mitigate or lessen the negatives. Honestly this is the first time, while I am typing this, that I've come up with that angle for myself.
Interestingly, I want to know none of those things. I'd be more interested in knowing how statistically likely the chemicals are to increase my risk of getting cancer.
> must necessarily be) very little implications of "Brexit", technically speaking

How (what mechanism) is this a necessity?
I haven't been following development too closely; what's the maximum packet size of an unladen swallow these days?
Not exactly a startup, but I had well oiled Ltd running for 10 years in London.
I shut it down and I am running my business via another European country. Clients are a mix of US, UK and EU projects.
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Most users notice very little, ever.
PostgreSQL gets so much love due to its exceptional quality.

Perhaps MariaDB is not of exceptional quality.
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Fruit fly is a facinated tool for study genetics. And many of those study it was in Morgan’s lab or follow the linage. Fruit fly has a big role in genetics, development, and other field of studies. Actually a lot of the pioneering work of neurodevelopment is from fruit fly. And those early fly guys made interesting, light-tone names of genes which kind of lost in present academic culture.
I'm flabbergasted by how some western societies have become willing to debate torture during the last decade.

> as if torturing a person would still be okay if worked

Spot on. "I was trying to save million of lives" is not a valid excuse for committing atrocities.

Especially given how easy it is to construct such narrative and use it to justify anything.
No, because it has to be true. All companies have their own scales, and they would probably get sued for not accurately disclosing those. There are also exceptions, which would go outside of the range and invite scrutiny/lawsuits as soon as a minority discovers one single white/Indian male whose salary exceeds the stated target range for "senior engineer".

It's one thing for employers to voluntarily provide a good faith range, which some will, but another when they expose themselves to a gender discrimination lawsuit by being wrong.

Also, everybody is going to insist on max(range).

This law seems to create a lot of legal landmines that I don't think will be beneficial. High earners can volunteer their salary anyway.
If we're thinking about this purely scientifically (ignoring the ethics for a moment) then you're asking the wrong question.

The question is not "does torture work". The question is "which techniques get the interviewee to honestly reveal what they do (or don't) know". Or to put it another way, the relative results should be your focus.
if you live on a plant then you don't have much of a choice anyway.
It can be a red flag, but it is often not 100% of the truth.

The larger the company gets, the less useful glassdoor is. The same company could have very awful very political teams, and very awesome and great teams.

More useful.. go out to the bar with your future team. If you didn't enjoy it, then pass. If you enjoyed it, then think about working there.
> Torture obviously works. It just also creates a lot of false information

Which means it doesn't work.
The judgment about when it's productive to feel angry or more importantly express anger is the tricky part.

We shouldn't let ourselves be abused or threatened beyond what is reasonable, but where is reasonable?

It's not good to be an abrasive difficult to deal with person who explodes at every perceived slight. So when in doubt I think it's better to error on the side of patience.
Start with basic observations. Tool acquisition is not tool mastery. Tool mastery does not mean jobs for or at Google. Janitors are not getting IPO payouts for lives of leisure. Cold war coastal higher education, city living and corporate trading prowess have drained many interior communities of their best brains throughout decades of deindustrialization and deskilling.

Some better nerds here can hardly imagine perfectly smart people who cannot yet touch type or turn a spreadsheet into a group calendar. Our miraculous simple decision support tools are still opaque to majorities of Americans. Only Americans far outside Google will create value to create jobs. That takes planning for any possible sweat equity or financial investment. We have generations of people to train with tools. The boy genius prizes for ever new tooling are not really separate concerns. Cultivating and harvest new boy geniuses from the field is expensive. They don't exactly grow on trees.

Google like Apple or Microsoft had to discover and rediscover their own relevance. They cultivate their markets now with intensive growth. This is a good move.
I think the key in your scenario is that a person already has settled substantive beliefs that aren't tilted toward any particular candidate. As long as someone really feels like they can justify their pox-on-both-houses apathy on nuanced policy grounds, that's perfectly fine.

I'm talking about something slightly but importantly different. I'm talking about someone who isn't already settled on those questions, but nevertheless feels that their sense of indignation at having their dinner interrupted by a phone call is more important than who the next supreme court justice is.

There's two failures there- one in the chosen form of interaction, which has no possibility of creating a real connection to a person and doesn't seem to come from a place of caring what they think. That's real and needs to be taken seriously.

But then you have the second failure: of letting this personal desire for validation of one's autonomy become the whole of one's political perspective, at the expense of any consideration of policy outcomes that will affect hundreds of millions of other people.
Sorry to go off-topic, but this was a very nice sentence: "We extrapolate our experience to the whole universe."
> I know zebrafish aren't

Actually, they are part of the minnow family (Cyprinidae). Some, restrict it to smaller fish in the subfamily Leuciscinae, but there is no single minnow species/genus making the term somewhat ambiguous.
I read about proposal to prominently put expiration dates IoT devices, to show how long it will be servered with security updates. That could be interesting and also raise awareness.
why not grow crickets for salmon feed?