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I am sorry but I fail to understand your arguments. I assure you that I am humbly trying to understand and would like this digression to move past sarcasm. I'm guilty of the first strike in that regard, but I feel it's getting in the way of the discussion at this point.

a) I am willing to accept your statement (I am no OS expert, I have no formal CS training; I'm just a developer of rather high-level software and I've only been tinkering at home with computers for a short couple of decades); however please note that I was merely opposing the parent post's implication that macOS is the most advanced OS.

I suppose this is perhaps a matter of perspective: I define and judge "advanced" here not from a CS standpoint but rather from a real-world pragmatic standpoint: does it do the job, for whom, and how well? I observe that macOS isn't dominant in business nor in server rooms of any kind, and that Linux is pretty much the only relevant solution for most cutting-edge computing projects. Please help me understand how macOS has more "advanced features", as stated by the poster I was replying to. I sincerely fail to see what macOS has on Linux or Windows nowadays. I, for one, can't do anything better on it.

b) I see your argument as slightly derogatory, but let's move past that. Surely you understood that using anecdotal arguments, implying my mother of all users (!), had the evident purpose of downplaying my opinion to just that: an opinion, not a scientific judgment about the advancement of an OS; thereby implying that the parent post I was replying to had no more grounds than mere subjective opinions to make its statements. At least, none that I could find. There is no conflating of anything, but perhaps that was due to bad wording on my part, in which case I understand the negative reaction (but stand by my opinions, I vastly prefer Windows 10 UX to macOS as of 2017, and I should perhaps add that I was a 100% mac user from 2008 to 2016, at the notable exception of casual gaming which I've quit since then and does not even factor in my current opinion).

I'd gladly hear answers about the respective advancement of each major desktop OS because I'm truly interested in the matter, if only from a dev perspective (and obviously as a consumer/user).
For testing smart contracts in a private environment.
Don't forget about Microsoft's Adaptive Cards.
Having a black belt in some random martial art won't mean much if you are a small woman having a non-sport-type self defense situation with a much larger man.
Mainly because of bike snobbery: mirrors are seen as for dummies. [0]

I have a rearview mirror on my road/commuter bike that replaced the plug on the bar end and it works a treat.

[0] http://www.velominati.com/the-rules/#66
UChicago is notoriously stingy stipend-wise for top-tier school. A good friend ultimately went to Yale because their stipend nearly double.... also they were Yale.
Ha, obviously. : ) I know that. But I think I was careful enough to word my edit as "please explain"; nowhere do I complain about the downvoting itself. I accept it, period. I an genuinely interested to know which part is flawed in my opinion.
I talked to drivers for didichuxing they told similar stories about promotion being not achievable...
I don’t get it - are you saying sexual harassment happens to exciting, attractive people only?

The point is that it happens to women everywhere, also (and perhaps even mostly) in ordinary settings where other oblivious men think it couldn’t possibly transpire.
Have you heard of this car startup from California, PayPal? They've successfully been landing and reusing rockets now, and they're apparently saving about 40% of costs: http://spacenews.com/spacex-gaining-substantial-cost-savings...
All fair points, and "how well do you survive" - for me, if nature as we know it has gone, it would be a pretty shit survival.

But I feel we might make more progress if we can tell people that they will be able to keep playing their video games, rather than have to fall back to some peasant existence where they till fields from dawn to dusk.

Because we do have technology on our side, we will need to travel, and its impossible to imagine us living in anything other than a capitalist structure where people are still working, enjoying themselves, competing with others. Even if its competing for the best quarters within the biodome rather than the biggest beachfront house.

I feel that talk of the death of "current ideologies and institutions" is probably scary to many, and (I don't know if you're suggesting this) starting from the point of having to stop all economic growth will alienate many.
A few examples come immediately to mind: Adam Orth, Tim Hunt, donglegate, and shirtgate.

It's interesting that (except for Adam Orth) the men involved, who were factually the victims of massive harassment, were portrayed as the villains by most of the media for minor infractions of progressive political values.

Edit: Just found another, an electoral college member who received death threats for voting for Trump (as he was required to).

http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/308226-elec...
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ICOs. The time to invest in UCoin is now!
I saw this a while back and it seemed amazing but I was wondering if there's any way to open the actual live documentation page. So for example if you choose the documentation for `Array.prototype.map` then it'll pull up that page on MDN, rather than the locally cached Dash page.

I know the whole point of Dash is to have locally cached, offline documentation copies, but I was thinking it would be amazing to use that to feed Helm candidates, but actually open the real, live documentation page.
Thanks, Ian! Really appreciate the kind words. Our Grandma & Grandpa love it so far, especially my Grandpa. He’s almost deaf and can’t use the phone. Getting photos in the mail from our family helps him keep in touch with what everyone is up to in life between visits.
A private blockchain spread across for example, several organizations, may be a good vehicle for sharing a database in such a way that all parties know it can't be falsified.

For example, you could use a different consensus algo and enable each organization to have one vote, one mine and this would enable sharing of data that you want to ensure hasn't been modified.

This model could connect possibly thousands of different organizations together with a trustless setup.
Don't overestimate the difficulty of screwball EU regulation. The blighted cookie law is really the least of it. Even just selling something over the internet inside the EU is so difficult due to the disastrous VAT rules that you practically have to pay third parties to handle it for you, at least at the start.

There are several basic problems. The EU sees tech firms as a foreign source of money that it can squeeze "for free" because there are so few tech firms in Europe to start with. So it passes hostile laws all the time that make business hard under the assumption that big companies can handle it anyway. The Commission does not really care about small companies but the problem is replicated at the local level (UK and Ireland being notable exceptions in my view). The attempts in Spain and Germany to force search engines to pay newspapers is a good example of European countries killing off their own startups in an attempt to extract money from Google and Facebook.

The second is that it gets caught up in politics a lot. The EU places its political priorities first, always. One of the primary ways it achieves its primary goal of replacing European countries with a new super-state is passing lots of EU-level law. It spends huge effort finding places where it can create new regulations, even if none are really necessary.

The "right to be forgotten" is a classic example of the issues here. A right that was discovered by the EU's courts, then written into law by people who do not answer to any voters (thus have no incentive to keep regulation in check), which basically makes it impossible to create a startup search engine of any kind. The EU cookie law is also like that.
Or food to have energy to work, or clothes to not be ridiculed by your peers, or shelter to be well rested so you can maximize shareholder value?
He tends to behave like your average 4Chan user rather than a higher-up in a defense contractor. I think he's going to learn that dealing with people in the defense industry is a lot different than appealing to your average video game obsessed teenager.

With this being mostly Palantir + Luckey, I can see them reigning him in a bit more than Facebook did.
The 365 day expiry time is a little frustrating - but you probably don't want customers stretching out the quota over 2+ years.
The problems you mentioned still exist at universities where grad students are unionized.

Some fairly large university systems have had grad student unions for a long time, including the University of California, so I don't think it's a matter of waiting for a critical mass of unionized universities to develop before change can be made.

I think the root cause is one that you mentioned in your post: "there are now a "glut" of PhD's that are far outpacing the very limited # of academic positions". As long as that is the case, academic labor will be cheap and easy to replace, and there will always be enough students willing to work in the conditions you mentioned for professors who could help them in their careers.
I take it you can't expand on that a bit?
In the physical sciences (soft sciences too, perhaps) NSF proposals that don't have explicit funding for graduate students are D.O.A.
Their complaint is that the Canadian government subsidized development costs (which it arguably did), so it's unfair competition.

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

However Boeing is also quite subsidized, just more indirectly through defense contracts. And what's more, Boeing doesn't even offer a competitive product. They don't sell any aircraft in this size range.
BS4 includes Flexbox and it has been designed to be much easier to customize with SASS. They have also added a bunch of utilities for spacing, colors, etc which makes customization at the CSS level easier as well. For a practical example, I only had to write a few lines of SASS to give some components (e.g. modal) a material design look. I think your criticism is valid for BS3 but not BS4 unless you are building a website that is drastically different than 95% of websites.
> idea of doing the same thing over and over again

You can change your exercises every 2-3 months otherwise your muscle will hit a saturation point or start facing fatigue due to same type of work out
All of these articles and reports about KRACK keep repeating the same thing:

> The caveat is that an attacker would need to be within a close physical proximity to the Wi-Fi network to carry out the attack.

I'm no expert on any of this but I don't know how much we can count on that little bit of "safety". Remember NIGHTSTAND? 802.11 attacks (paraphrasing) "from up to eight miles away".

Yeah, you're not gonna pull it off with an off-the-shelf laptop with built-in Wi-Fi and antenna. With a powerful transceiver and directional antenna (both easily purchased) though, "close physical proximity" can suddenly be a lot farther away.
My gut feeling about rocket building is that it's not the labor for building parts and putting them together which makes them expensive but the labor for inspecting, reinspecting and then reinspecting once more before putting parts together, only to do some more inspecting on the combined subassembly. The launch is the first true dress rehearsal and the rocket equation leaves little room for "engineering math" (calculate to seven digits, then multiply by two for safety).

My gut feeling about 3D printing is that it just makes it worse. How do you inspect a welding line as long as a rocket's dry mass?
Bingo! It’s free country — you don’t like to be in academia, go somewhere else!

It is also a free market — you get paid how much you are worth.

Disclaimer: dropped out of PhD program many many years ago for this and other reasons. Don’t regret it for a second.
https://jepsen.io/analyses/mongodb-3-4-0-rc3

> MongoDB’s version 0 replication protocol is inherently unsafe.

Tell me again how MongoDB took 8 years to get to the point where its replication is kind of OK.
The argument is that Bombardier was selling jets at unfairly low prices thanks to subsidies from the Canadian government. I have no idea if this is true or not, but generally you can't get tariffs without pointing to some alleged unfair trading practice.
This page is difficult to read on mobile. Feels like pulling taffy.
"start"? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/24/sexual-harassm... andhttp://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/03/23/top-uc-berkeley-... are recent stories from one college alone.
In many of the physical sciences both Masters and PhD students are usually paid a living wage, do not pay tuition, and work double or triple duty as student, teacher, researcher. These students usually do not accrue additional debt beyond what was needed for their undergraduate degree (if any). Despite their importance to many parts of the university system such as instruction, research, and funding (NSF proposals that don't have explicit funding for grad students are D.O.A.), they can still be treated pretty unfairly. Given the hours they work, it is still most common for them to be on the books as part-time employees (0.49 full-time) which cuts off access to employee sponsored health care that is mandated under the ACA. In almost all cases they have no benefits outside of tuition payment.

I think grad students unionizing is a fantastic idea. They are in every way the critical grease that keeps the capitalistic university system running. They should be able to protect themselves and have a stronger impact in how the universities are run.

The only concern I have is the huge turnover. Unions are most effective and most rationale when the members are committed for life. The longest any of these students could be there is 15 years (5 masters, 10 PhD). This would be very extreme. Most are looking to be out in 2-6 years.

Are there any other examples of unions for occupations that have mandatory turnover or term limits?
> I will make a statement about this at midnight tonight on live video here on Facebook

Huh, scheduling your crisis management for maximum views (as opposed to getting out a statement ASAP to control the narrative) is a new one.
Bombardier got a huge bailout by the Quebec Government, so it effectively funded a US companies competition. That type of thing is bad for competition. But, as a result, the few hundred planes they would have sold will not be made by their largest competitor in the US.
One thing not on this list that is an easy win is to make your pages fast. This will separate you from 90%+ of competitors. A lot of the bloat in modern web apps and web pages is easy to remove, and people will love you for it.

I never mentioned it in Pinboard marketing, but I moved heaven and earth to keep the site fast for everyone, and it was speed that gave the site its first toehold.

That said, I think the leap from 100 to 10,000 users is very hard, and I don't know of any advice about how to cross that gap.
You are making bad choices as a consumer by spending all of that money on flashy new graphics cards from Nvidia. I'm not interested in supporting a company that treats Linux as poorly as Nvidia does. Buy cards that have good open source driver support. The burden is not on sway to support Nvidia, but on Nvidia to support sway. AMD and Intel seemed to manage it just fine.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/sql-prepare-trans...
The elitism is something I've noticed, but espousing socialist views is purposeful to what end?

My best guess is that the behavior is an unconscious projection due to underlying narcissistic tendencies of people who are put on an intellectual pedastal...

I suppose it could be camouflage for being an asshole but that just seems too exhausting to be sustainable. And if they don't genuinely hold those beliefs, then what do they actually believe?
That's interesting. I hadn't thought of that.

So are you thinking they're affiliated w/ (or are in fact) a consulting firm recruiting as if they're a recruiting firm? In other words, they more than likely already know exactly which project I'll be working on?
I don't think whether or not that is true is relevant to the point of her own statements about her own mindset about the matter. My point speaks to mindset and how that influences choices leading up to the incident.

I blogged about it. I can point you to that series of posts if you are interested. I don't intend to rehash it at length here.
Academic Marxism - or "Marxist Critique" - is really better referred to as dialectical materialism, historical materialism, or even more generally as Hegelian dialectics.

The political philosophies, namely socialism and communism, are a product of such thinking, but are not the same.

For instance, many feminists make heavy use of dialectics and are considered Marxist critique, but may not identify with e.g. communism.
Really, the key is solving something important that people absolutely need, and will overlook all these weaknesses for. Then something like a good UX is a can you can kick down the road for a long time.

If instead you're doing Yet Another Pinterest, then good luck, you're playing a very different game.
I feel like Masters degrees have become a way for immigrants to get a foot in the door by buying some time to get a H1 job. Citizens in master's programs that I've seen usually just end up there by tacking on a bit of extra time to their undergrad tenure.
The kind of profs that are the norm at Chicago aren't living off their educational salaries.
> While alcohol has disinhibited me, it has never prevented me from distinguishing between right and wrong.

The whole reason that Quinn got involved was that there was a drunk woman making out with a drunk man and the sober people standing around thought that the woman had so much to drink that she could not distinguish between right and wrong.
yeah... no. Can you explain why being "from a different era" (and so having a hell of a lot more development time and battle testing) is a bad thing.

While you're at it you could also elaborate on why Postgres is much less "solid" than a database that literally eats writes without any consensus as to if they are valid and/or actually written. After that you could explain why "post-cap" is a thing.

Until you do, your comment is pretty useless and it sounds like you could do with a nice shot of consistent, well designed database right to the heart.
I live in Shenzhen. We moved from Yunnan about six months ago. Yunnan is one of the best places for cycle touring on earth: huge mountains, beautiful forests, great roads, little traffic, camping available but not required, plenty of people who can help you resolve mechanical issues for change. My mountain bike - XTR Shimano components, no lights or electronics at all - is literally in a shipping box, and the comments on this article have inspired me to re-assemble it this weekend.

On another note I'm planning to take a cycle touring trip through Mizoram in far eastern India over Chinese New Year, probably for around three weeks. Anyone crazy enough to want to join? :)
I do like the Rust way because it’s standard (so far anyway). The situation in C++ is more like “a thousand blooms of nullishness”, where each library and API is frustratingly different in terms of something so fundamental. Objective-C with its messageable nil is so much better in this respect.
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Very likely that they've been used for that.

I once talked to someone who had worked at a company in the 90s that was shipping crypto software. This was shortly after Snowden, so the topic of backdoors came up. He said that back in those days, they'd been visited by the NSA and told to change the primes they were using, otherwise they wouldn't get export clearance. He said they couldn't figure out what was different about the primes they were given - the number passed primality testing, so they switched to using them to avoid being denied export clearance. His theory was that they were pseudoprimes that somehow passed testing because primality tests were statistical and not definitive.

But I guess this is an alternative explanation that would also make sense.
Excessive goverment subsidies can destroy competition in otherwise healthy markets (which I wouldn't classify the Boeing/Airbus duopoly as to begin with).

For example, look at dairy products in Africa. Local farmers couldn't compete with the heavily subsidised European industry for a long time.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/eu-subsidie...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_subsidy
Have you had a look at Lektor (https://www.getlektor.com). It's from the creator of Flask, and is a static CMS implemented in Python. It goes beyond just simple blogging, and allows you to define models for any entity you want to store. It's extremely flexible. It also has a pretty decent UI for writing things in, and is Dropbox-friendly for non-tech users, too.

The landing page explains the benefits quite well. Also, it has good examples of Lektor being used for a catalogue: https://www.getlektor.com/showcase/architekten-ronacher/ (direct link to the interactive version http://www.architekten-ronacher.at/projects/)
Of the 2,457 students in the bargaining unit, 1,103 students voted in favor, 479 students voted against, two ballots could not be counted and 873 did not vote.
Yah, I did one for S17, and they are the same as the in-person interview. This is usually a good sign coz it means they like you, but there's something in your application they need clarity on. Know your weaknesses, and be prepared to defend them with solid arguments. Good luck!
"It would just break all ads all the time"

Sounds like a feature not a bug.

Anyways I'm sure tech savvy folks who care about privacy and hate ads already have all the basic angles covered. I know I do!
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Because it lets you ship crypto-systems with keys that appear to be strong on inspection but which are actually weak (if you deliberately want to ship backdoored crypto).
Yes, it happened: https://www.theverge.com/2013/5/15/4333656/larry-page-teases...
They promote themselves.
> racists and men's rights activist should troll somewhere else.

There are definitely many of those in the comment threads on Eric's blog. But are you saying that ESR is himself one of those? Because I've seen no evidence of it myself.

[Edited to remove the 'gun nuts' bit, because ESR proudly self-identifies as same; it was the racist / MRA thing I was questioning.]
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So I read your comment history and it looks like you changed jobs quite a bit to get to the higher salary. Do you also focus on a particular niche or are you just a general senior engineer?
> Thank you. Links to catb have no place in a rational discussion.

Categorizing people who disagree with you as irrational is in itself a behaviour that has no place in rational discussion.