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Though an interesting article, it should be noted that the article reproduces and makes available copyrighted - and expensive - materials. Case in point, a $40 PDF that was converted to a .png and displayed on the site:

https://cdn.paperpile.com/blog/files/Goldberg-2014.
So it's a question of UX, not security?
It should be noted that ClickerHeroes didn't have p2w for months, maybe years.

I did quit after the addition of Rubies. But the game was legitimately good at balancing the heroes. A good amount of my effort in Clicker Heroes was spent on optimizing builds through linear algebra and other optimization problems.
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> No one is forced to give their data to Facebook.

Neither do we have to. Facebook is grabbing it all anyway. With pre-emptive measures ala ad-, cookie and tracker blocking we can reduce the amount of data they get, but they still get something.

If they'd only collect data about their users, that would be totally fine. But they don't. They build shadow profiles of people who are not on FB and track them just the same way.

FB is a whole lot closer to Orwellian surveillance apparatus than it is to entertainment site.
Speaking as an ops person, my first thought is that you have technical or architecture debt. Obviously, big and/or very rapidly growing systems will hit limits and need constant attention, but these days designing most applications to scale is not a problem.

The root cause of many operations issues that I see these days stems from one or more deficiencies in the development process. I don't say "deficiencies in developers": to get safe development at speed, you need a disciplined development process with appropriate feedback mechanisms: unit tests, integration tests, performance tests, static analysis, code review etc. The default state of code is "buggy", because humans are not perfect.
"No one is forced to give their data to Facebook"

With shadow profiles, they are being forced to give their data to Facebook or live like an outcast.

How intrusive are the shadow profiles actually? We will know only if their data collection process (as well as the data collection process for all these ad-first companies) is completely and thoroughly investigated.
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There are no guarantees in life. But we know that the present system doesn't work especially well - dissatisfaction is widespread.

See this comment for my comments on the NPR show I heard after posting my mildly-inflammatory comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15738275
It's an extreme example, and therefore does invite a tendency to easily dismiss non-mainstream thought, but that's intentional within Wikipedia.

The 'how to reply' sections make it clear what most fringe theories try to rely on to convince editors, but Wikipedia is not a place for convincing - it is a catalog of what's currently, broadly accepted.
That's an interesting theory but the New York City Council is over 90% Democrat[0], the New York State Assembly is over 70% Democrat[1], and there's only been one Republican governor in over 40 years.[2]

If you're going to blame Republicans, you should probably make sure there are enough to make a difference..

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Council

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_Assembly

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_New_York
Thanks, death penalty opponents, for insisting that scarce budgets be spent keeping him alive all this time.
* where are my dragons? i mean add-ons

* https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/ leaves original firefox row of tabs opened. so now i have two sets

* ffox currently eats 8-12% of cpu (i.e. almost one whole core) for itself. the consumption does not seem to stop.
I have tried their first opus after reading this article.

Come on ! This is clearly tailored to hook into our addiction loops by always presenting us with a next task that is almost complete.

I have a very hard time believing that these folks did not know exactly what they were doing.
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That is an interesting point, but I think most companies incentivise whales by putting them up against people who they can crush, whether it is deliberately (as in the case of activision's patent) or by having a matchmaking system that doesn't strictly separate people by their in-game power.

Imagine a game where players only interact if they are the same level. If you can pay to gain levels, that doesn't necessarily make the game unfair. If you can pay to gain an advantage at the same level, that is unfair.
Just yesterday I was looking for a simcity-like game for my iPad to play that didn’t use microtransactions. It’s simply not there. Not a single city simulator that you can actually play without paying for some stupid credit system.

I was easily willing to spend $10 for such a game, because of the scarcity. I would expect some indy dev to jump into this space, but I guess microtransactions are just too lucrative?
Don’t know, my concern was what the intended behaviour was if a declaration stated the bind context as well as the caller.
That may be true, but:

> the negative impact of my tweets was amplified by the fact that I, a white, Western, male CEO of a key company in the Maker community

This guy was not low status by any definition.
As stated in the blog post, if I were her, I would tone down the internet stuff to be less in your face blatantly sexual in terms of framing of photos while continuing to dress exactly the same way.

It is a position of "I can dress any damn way I want for my own pleasure, no I am not your whore."

It is her body. Some pictures currently frame it as a toy for any internet stranger. I would stop doing that one thing. That's it.
Regulated and privatized are not mutually exclusive, some activity can be privatized and regulated in the same time.

Edit: to elaborate a little, one shows the ownership form and the other how free of constrains is that activity on the market.
Everyone understands that letting third parties sell your personal data at no cost to you is what happens when you use the internet, but it doesn't have to be that way.

With some meaningful regulation, we could put a stop to this overnight. The internet existed and flourished before this manipulative business model became the norm, and it would exist if we outlawed it. We wouldn't even need to outlaw it, just require explicit written consent to sell personal data.

Can you imagine the ramifications? Once you eliminate the lazy, tired, and frankly intellectually barren model of "make a mediocre service that sucks enough personal data from our users so we can sell ads against them", startups could go back to designing products that solve interesting problems that people are willing to pay for!
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I guess the onus is on the company to fix these things rather than on interviewer.

Let's say the candidate behaved in this way, should the company ignore it?
> https://youtu.be/c5hQ6WlioRE

This has to be the worst possible way of sharing information; a video of 2 still images and a computer voice reading a text.

Right up there with images inside a word document, inside an email.
> Not that we should cannibalize our working (!) people-moving infrastructure for something worse.

> Cannibalize

What's wrong with cannibalizing a system that's fundamentally broken?
Or so you would think, but as I recall her biggest detractors were SJWs complaining about how much skin she was showing. The whole idea of her being just a facade for some male engineer was driven by the feminist notion of "male gaze". By contrast, the "misogynistic nerd" crowd (Gamergaters and the like) were quite supportive of her.
> but what is 1 cup of cheese? Or 1 cup of broccoli? 1 cup of walnuts? ... depending on how granular it is, how finely chopped or shredded it is

Well, the recipe should give you an indication of granularity, although you won't get an ASTM number. That said, for cooking you're supposed to eyeball it a bit and judge through experience. Rarely does a little too much broccoli kill.

It sucks when it's a new dish or you are inexperienced -- but if you can't afford practise runs where the result is allowed to be sub-par, then it's probably a good idea to switch to a different source of recipes.
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Apologies for the sarcasm, really I'm just wondering what you're using then. To me there's no "secure" and "insecure," there's only "more secure" and "less secure."
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It concerns me that Apple and Google are happy to take 30% of all the gambling exploitation on the markets. And looking at AppAnnie, they appear to be the largest grossing segments of their app store profits, or "increeased services growth", as Tim Cook might put it during a quarterly call.

All this while being incredibly censorious of their stores otherwise, to the point of bragging about their store curation. Political commentary is out. But gambling mechanisms aimed at children is OK. Hell, outright name your app "Big Fish Casino" or "Slotomania".
This is actually quite an excellent idea, and one which hadn't occured to me before. Forcing federation by giving a deadline for a split (plus open API) seems like a very sensible solution - it preserves the free market and creates an opportunity for new entrants.
I've been enjoying a f2p game for a while - Paladins. I understand it's a lot like Overwatch, and that the comparison annoys both camps.

They charge for skipping a bunch of grind, but in this case 'grind' is playing matches, which is why I'm here in the first place so...
> I was easily willing to spend $10 for such a game, because of the scarcity.

Your willingness to pay $10 for a SimCity-style game probably explains the scarcity. If you and enough others were willing to pay $40-60, you'd find that game.
How much more convincing do you need that it will be Apple? No one comes close to them in ARM performance. The iPad Pro’s processor is so overpowered compared to the software you can run on it, it’s incredible that we don’t have ARM MacBooks already.
Gareth Evans' 1978 1-pager "Can There Be Vague Objects?" is notable both for its brevity, and for its significance.

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That sounds fine at first, but tends to mean that real progression is heavily slowed down in order to encourage people to buy cheats.
Facebook is accountable to their customers, which are the firms that they sell ads to.

Facebook is accountable to their users in the same way a farmer is accountable to his livestock.
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You're not alone - I feel the same way, and from what I can gather there are lots more that identify with this sentiment.

From what I've read, the common advice is just to keep slogging away and not let the terrible interviewers get you down. Which doesn't seem particularly helpful.

I personally avoid any interviews like this and simply end any interview that starts going down that path. Fortunately, I work for myself and currently have no problem getting work through networking and take-home projects to showcase my skills. But I am fearful of if (when) I have to interview again for full time positions because I know how awful it is.

Anyways, I feel your pain. Know that you're not alone, and I'm reasonably confident that you're a solid programmer!
Ethical investing suffers from a really rough dilemma: it either doesn't work or underperforms the market.

If ethical investing works, then it does so by making capital more expensive for companies you do not invest in. And the market for capital is two-sided, so the people who do invest in it get above-market returns at your expense.

If you get market-rate returns, on the other hand, you haven't made capital any more expensive for the unethical companies.
Your reply started out good then sort of went off the rails. Care to cite supporting data that shows where "religiosity" and Young earth creationists are having a material impact on the overall US education system in the 21st century?
The company probably won't ignore it, but they also might have missed out on hiring the best candidate for the position. Just like how you may miss out on the best career move.
From what I can tell, the Play Store only shows a price range per individual in-app-purchase item, not a maximum overall spending limit.
I'm active in the clicker/idle game scene so I can give a bit of background:

It isn't rare lately for people to come to https://www.reddit.com/r/incremental_games/ and discuss possible ways to monetise games. How to best implement microtransactions, opt-in ads, or even some talk lately about cripto mining.

Then yesterday someone wrote a post about the 'unannoying way to monetise', which is to make the game paid.

https://www.reddit.com/r/incremental_games/comments/7e1u9f/t...

It wasn't massively well received. If you look at the top comments, they still prefer F2P and microtransactions. And then CH2 dropped this bomb today.

From my personal experience, I am quite skeptic about a paid model for this particular genre of games. Also, 30$ for this kind of game seems a little bit too step.

Nevertheless I wish them best. Hopefully if they are successful they will show the way for others and we will move away from these kind of predatory techniques.
Sometimes in an interview its better to just say "This is not the right job for me" and end it yourself. I've done that a few times now for various reasons. Sometimes simply just because I know I probably wouldn't like to have the interviewer as a Colleague or Boss.

If I thought I was interviewing for a Django/Python job and they completely changed the job description on me I'd have probably cut it right there. You can't just completely change the job someone is interviewing for from under them.

I definitely feel you on it though, I'd much rather earn less in a comfortable job where I'm happy than go through the stress of interviewing and having to refresh my knowledge of CS trivia so interviewers can throw a few at me.
Its gets worse than that; if you read further the reasoning is that "Its hard to buy apartment for less than $800,000 in Brooklyn".

Great excuse next time they interview you for the job; check how much is average housing, divide roughly by three, and here is how you have reasonably arrived at your salary.

If they look at you odd, just refer to NYT article.
Do you consider your credit card number sensitive? Your username and passwords to all of your, bank accounts, social media accounts, and email accounts? Your personal photos? Your personal notes with personal information about your family? Your track record of your interests and hobbies?

I do. And, if I have a choice, I'd rather not have to wonder if this data is in the hands of a stranger after my laptop is stolen.
.....eh, not exactly. While privatization was done under Clinton, he wasn't the first (at all, Carter ran on exactly that) and more importantly it wasn't done because of any percieved "effectiveness", it was an ideological pitch to Regan democrats and that all but invisible voter "moderate republican but I'll vote for a Dem if they woo me". And the idea that somehow federal workers are more expensive then contractors is .... bizarre. It is very much the opposite.
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Seems really odd that they make you send a tip before the food gets to you - my understanding of tips is that they are supposed to reflect and encourage the level of service you received - if you pay them before you were served, they don't really do much. Not a fan of them either way, but this seems even more pointless than normal.
Can't speak for software but in the case of these specs, 'Modern' in the title pokes fun at the fact that the core protocol specifications most people refer to are around 25 and 18 years old, respectively. RFC 1459, very commonly referred to and still the first reference for a lot of IRC software authors, came out before I had my first birthday!
26 is considered extremely late? ._.
There are games like EU4 or other paradox games that kind of straddle the barrier. You don't need the DLC, but your game is updated and the AI and all other players you play with has it so your game will get worse over time unless you pony up.
Incredible, good luck with Clicker Heroes 2 you guys deserve it. Keep up the good work.
If Wikipedia thinks the Earth is flat, I didn't realize that a neutral point of view was moving, relative to the Earth, so close to the speed of light.
Exactly why I quit playing league of legends. The meta is much more stable in DOTA as a result of the champions being free (and properly balanced).
A bit tangential but amusing: my PhD dissertation was 51 pages, all math. One of my committee members approved of the work but wanted the dissertation to be bulked up with a program listing- thankfully my advisor firmly rejected this suggestion :-)
It's possible to never pay a dollar in League, and wind up owning all champions. The problem is how long it takes to unlock them all with the free in-game currency (previously IP, now Blue Essence). It takes 3-4 years of near-daily play. Once you own all to-date champions, there is no monthly real-money requirement - you earn enough free currency to instantly buy new champion releases.

Some people, like me, spent a ton of real money to unlock all champions faster. According to Riot, it's not "necessary" to have all champions unlocked. However if you don't own a champion, you cannot pick that champion early in the team drafting phase for someone else to play (swap/trade) - even in ranked. It is a disadvantage, though admittedly minor - a 5 man team that owns all champions has more flexibility in drafting than an enemy team that has holes in what they own.
You clearly have an agenda dude. Don’t think it’s worth discussing anything with you.
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So what do you think happens to those people if by a requirment on minimum income by instacart, they are barred from that job opportunity.
> a commercial IDE made by a guy named Manuel M T Chakravarty

He's not just "a guy". Check out http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/papers/ . He's an old timer in the field.
It is in the 'read more' button allowing you to read the whole app description.

Maybe it is A/B tested ? I doubt it though, I think it is an old feature.
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Programmer here, currently in my first year of a Psychology degree. Just started but time is on my side.

With any luck I'll keep doing development part-time until I graduate. Much better than most student jobs for sure :)
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Ain’t no problem that couldn’t be solved by adding another layer of indirection, eh?
I don't see why would I want to assign my bound class methods to external variable, and if you do that, you are responsible to bind the method to an instance. The reason it is a class method is because it operates on that class, taking it out and using it externally is against the purpose of it's existence.
Maybe FB does need regulation... I don't trust FB to do it. Obviously.

I trust the government even less.

There's got to be a better solution.
Uh

http://blogs.nature.com/thescepticalchymist/files/2014/06/nc...

http://blogs.nature.com/thescepticalchymist/2014/06/a-chemic...
About the origin of the flat Earth myth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth

Tldr, it's from the end of 19th century.
It's interesting to me how upset so many people got about the level of detail that the NSA collected while so many hand over their entire digital presence to FB and Google.

Maybe they think "you don't have to use FB"... By that logic "you didn't have to use AT&T or the internet at all" either.
League of Legends doesn't require you to pick up champions when they are released. Yes you can buy them with real currency but also with ingame currency aquired through playing the game. Will it take longer for new players? Of course it will but you dont need every new champ to win at this game. For long time players like me it wont take long as you can easily get the points needed for the unlock between two releases.
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What about an Indian company selling overpriced market-segmented-to-hell shit?
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I suppose so. But i do like reactjs declarative style rather code behind. Something which Flutter does as well.
> It works fine except when it doesn't

That can be said about anything.

> which is most of the time

Not to come off snarky, but citation needed.

> either secureboot, or the EFI boot manager

What issues do they cause? Really?

> Windows 8+ "fast startup" thing that can turn itself on during an update and sets the EFI next-boot option

Clearly annoying, but easily fixed.

I'd rather have this once a year than Windows deciding it has the right to write to my MBR, and overwrite GRUB, causing my Linux installation to be unbootable without a recovery-disk.

> Compared to how hassle-free multiple operating systems is to do via legacy boot

That may be true for multi-volume scenarios. For systems with one volume only however (like most laptops), it's absolute the opposite.

> It feels unfinished, is fragile and breaks far too easily for something so critical

My experience is quite the opposite. With UEFI I feel I can fearlessly dual/multi boot several operating systems without fear that one OS is going to mess up another one.

And I know that if something happens once a leap year or so, EFI has proper tooling so it's easy to fix, unlike black-boxed MBR bootloaders and the hacks involved with chain-loading different OSes on top of them.
…when you’re sitting next to a keyboard, quality is on the “I’m surprised it works at all” level, and when speech recognizers do not really exist (it was at least a decade later that we had ones that had to be trained for hundreds of hours for each speaker, and still were bad when there was background noise)

Nowadays, I think speech interaction has its place. If we get butler-level AI (where the machine knows what you want without you even telling it what you think you want), it will get away again, but that’s a big if.
Subway isn't fundamentally broken; mis-aligned management incentives are...
I'll raise my hand.

When I look back it seems I'm experienced at hearing other peoples software requirements and implementing them.

From university to the workplace, I seem to be very good since those who receive the end result always benefit.

Done it so many times, for others and for my own ideas.

But check this out, occasionally in a dry period, when I feel I should find a job and get an interview.

I get asked a puzzle, unrelated to anything, no benefit to the interviewer or their company, in a language that requires a thicker than the bible manual, to program in some corner case that I would never find myself in and to someone to see the solution in the future to also feel the urge to puke.

And don't even get me started on the latest frameworks buzzword bingo crap.

You know, the tipping point was once when I got a rejection email where the top guy said I wasn't even good at a particular language, one which I'd programmed several applications for some years.

Some guy, who last "coded" by "clicking" on a button which generated a TODO list single page web fucking app.

Fuck all of you because we do what you dream of wanting to do that you'll never be able to do, not because you are running out of time, it's because you just don't have the chops.

You really should be doing something else with your life.
It's hard to read this and not want to offer help. I don't know if this is the best venue though.