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The "wealth distribution" is entirely at CAH's expense. They only surfaced that language because they made a point of communicating to the non-recipients that they wouldn't be receiving anything on top of their original contract (of getting the game for cash, which they totally got).
Gnarls Barkley, buddy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd2B6SjMh_w
Could be this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W71BTkUbdqE
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I used to have this same idea. I changed it when I looked into the costs of outsourcing sales vs outsourcing dev. Market rates are around 80:20 sales vs dev when outsourcing. That should tell you something about where money is made and where you may not want to limit your involvement. Funny you mention Jobs and Woz...
Who's going to work for USD if no one wants to hold them?
Is the MS something that you can obtain immediately?
If you look at Paul Graham's predictions from 2012, Slack and Stack Overflow are in there: http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html
This article and a lot of opinions I hear like this are incredibly ignorant. There's nothing wrong with using Rails in a "classic" way as everyone seems to call it.

I do think calling Rails' method classic and these new frameworks "modern" a bit ignorant. If anything Rails is "modern" and these new frameworks are just that, new. Being new does not mean you're modern. It means you're new. A trend. You'll likely be gone tomorrow.
Robert Graham, for example: http://blog.erratasec.com/2017/12/libertarians-are-against-n... (He's an admitted troll, but I think this mostly represents his true opinions.)
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Over the last year I was mainly living out of Craigslist short-term rentals and Airbnbs. I always preferred Craigslist because there are no fees and it feels more authentic, but Airbnb is more convenient when you need something quick and want to avoid scammers. However, after a while I got so upset with the fees on Airbnb and the fact that they make you work around their censorship (emails, phone numbers etc. are redacted). I thought that there must be a better way of doing this. What I've come up with is a decentralized version of Airbnb where guests pay hosts in crypto. After a few transactions, through which users are vetted, travelers can book through a smart contract without any fees. The site is called https://www.cryptocribs.com. I've launched it on Reddit about two months ago and by now it already has around 500 listings.
It's less of a waste of time that encouraging people to call the FCC, which a lot of people are doing.
He's a bit of a troll, but he's also a libertarian. Lots of libertarians don't support Title II NN. I'm not a libertarian --- I find Graham's rhetoric barely tolerable --- but I think Title II NN is a silly issue to lobby over. (I'm not "against" it; I just don't care.)

If you want to find people of all political spectra opposing Title II, talk to backbone engineers that don't work for content companies.
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We have dev offices for quite a few majors (Oracle, SAP, IBM, ToughtWorks, Boeing, Boeing Defense etc.), but lots of little interesting companies too.

I’m in Systems programming/electronics design - it’s probably a different story for a front end dev - I don’t think there’s much of that at all!

One little company I used to work for was in traffic systems, basically IoT/sensor networks before it was cool (all on private networks though!) and we developed a system that GPS tracked ambulances and fire engines, and predicted their likely path (destination was known) and ran interventions on traffic signals to both minimise travel time for the emergency vehicle and minimise disruption to other traffic. It’s a lot more effective than the dumb IR blaster systems used elsewhere. We also had a ramp system that staggered cars coming in down on-ramps near chokepoints that significantly increased highway flow and reduced nose-to-tail accidents (from the stop-start traffic) by something like 30%. I think they’re rolling out that tech now with some US cities departments of transport.

Now I work at a little company that makes class-leading satellite/microwave equipment, including maritime and road-vehicle satellite-tracking terminals, frequently up- and down-converters, etc.

There’s actually a surprising amount of microwave engineering, and lots of aviation/defence work (some in the city with Boeing Defense and some out in Ipswich at Amberley), as well as Virgin Australia being headquartered here.
That's not whimsical and silly?
> The current method of Multi-process rendering generally uses one process per tab but when an event in that tab triggers an action that opens a new page, those pages now share the same, singular process. Likewise, if multiple domains are visited within a single browser page, the one process is shared among all the events. Site Isolation will eliminate this sharing process.

Finally. Chrome's multi-process architecture is insanely great because it separates rendering from UI from networking from graphics from... etc., but people always incorrectly talk about how it protects one website from another by separating them into different processes, when this isn't actually how it works (particularly if you are actually using the tab feature, in which case you have so many tabs that Chrome constantly shares processes).

The reality is that not only do I already have a tab associated with my one critical service--email--in every single renderer process, but attackers can pretty trivially force a tab with any website they want to end up in their process. The way this feature is understood by random people--and the way it is often marketed (which is a big reason people believe this version of how it works)--is finally going to match reality.
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You have summarized logical positivism. It holds for the physical sciences where, say, dropping a stone from a certain height has repeatability. Social sciences involve people, and sometimes even the same person responds differently to similar stimuli.
False; mostly because a simple analogy can make one understand at least slightly topics that one has no prior knowledge; dogs cannot understand even the simplest of analogies, mostly cause they have no language.

And even if that argument isn't good enough; the dog has no tools to escape its constrains; humans do; we are messing with our brains constantly looking for a way to make it better; may it be by genetic therapy (DNA mods), chemically induced (drugs) or hardware implants (artificial neurons).
> But the never mention the most simplest: that broadband monopolies can just charge customers more money.

They already do. Comcast and Co. simply charge users extra, if they want to avoid data caps. They only can get away with it because they are monopolists.

What it means in practice, that they basically make competing services more expensive, giving edge to their own which they obviously don't count against those caps.

So why would libertarians support such garbage behavior? The answer is, they wouldn't. So I don't buy his argument that he is a libertarian.

> The answer is that the claim "monopoly" power is a deception.

Yeah, right. Ignoring reality won't change the facts.
I can take my seed words inside my brain through airport security.

Let's not get started on verification of the asset!
How would they do CI/CD if it's all in one big repo?

I suppose you could do it if you had a very strict rule where absolutely everything that could affect a "unit" was inside its own directory (but never and nothing higher up than that "project root").

So you could check which sub-directory is affected within a commit and so on.
It's kind of interesting that nowadays people assume that version control system == git.

For a huge, non-open codebase there are some pretty large downsides to a fully distributed VCS in exchange for relatively few benefits.
Yes, they all failed due to lack of miner support in the form of hashing power. Are you eluding to them failing because non-mining nodes were guarding the entry and exit gates of bitcoin? If that was so, it would be quick, cheap and easy to spin up millions of VM nodes on worldwide servers by bankers and government agencies and just outvote with non-mining nodes. The reality is that bitcoin protocol only recognises mining nodes thru proof-of-work. You are delusional in your understanding of bitcoin networking.
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California, in the 1990s. I thought it was surreal at the time, but I had more pressing concerns since I personally had life and property on the line; I was a victim trapped in the disaster area, doing what I could. There was a lot of stopping and starting work, and they had supervisors flying in to make sure everyone was following whatever their workplace SOP was. There was a memorable 1 hour work stoppage because someone complained that (in all seriousness) the tasks were not equitably distributed across genders -- the lead supervisor on site deftly squashed that but it kind of blew my mind that it took precedent over the task at hand. I have a lot of great "wtf?" stories from that experience.

Don't take it as anti-union, they just had a lot of rules and processes that made them relatively unproductive under the circumstances. There were 30-40 of us working together, an ad hoc organization of volunteers, working 16-hour shifts with almost no breaks that essentially did the bulk of the disaster mitigation work. It made for poor optics with the locals; they saw a bunch of ragtag out-of-towners trapped in the disaster with them working their asses off while the government employees stood around drinking coffee half the time. I understand how that happens but it wasn't a good look. And this is why communities love their volunteer disaster response. (And full credit to the local community, they took fantastic care of us the best they could.)
Sales is about discovering what people's real problems are and helping them find a solution. It's the polar opposite of inauthenticity, but there are an awful lot of clueless salespeople who are trying to live up to the stereotype they've seen in movies and which you are talking about. It's a strange job because in some ways it's like being a counsellor, but at the same time a ruthless numbers game (for the salesperson) and therefore very stressful for them.
Okay, haven't read any Foucalt yet, but just thinking more through it myself, it seems self-evident to me that there is no separation of self from the society that self finds itself within. Much like mind/body dualism makes zero sense to me, there can be no truly conscience self to understand and pursue science without some semblance of societal structures.

Of course the society steers science, and vice versa.
This used to be done manually via "gcheckout" but that's long since been replaced. Users now don't do anything but create quick throwaway clients that have the entire repo in view.

Until very recently there was a versioning system for core libraries so those wouldn't typically be at HEAD (minimizing global breakage). Even that has been eliminated now and it's truly just the presubmit checks and code review process that keeps things sane.
But not the pain in the ass of managing them, or managing the manager if you hire one.
>The really worrying thing is that such practices are deemed to be legal.

What is your basis for this claim? Are you aware of a single successful lawsuit on the basis of a clause like this? If not, you can't claim that it's "deemed to be legal", since only a court can do such deeming.
Why would anybody tell you they oppose NN if you will brand them as bad-faith interlocutors by definition for opposing it?
Which framework is best for building backend/server with GoLang?
Although I use Django for all my projects, this time I have decided to use GoLang as the building language as it is very much faster. But I am confused about which framework is best. Any suggestions?
This is dated but really interesting: https://www.nrel.gov/docs/legosti/old/5703.pdf

It's worthwhile to recycle glass.
Coming from someone who haven't been here? You're a joke. All the sources that you're linking are from Liberal leaning media which are full of spin.
Just about everywhere in the US does this too (down to rolling the fan around, it’s actually a little fun to watch), but it’s not the same as what the parent is describing since those machines crush the glass to be recycled.

I’m pretty sure the parent is describing reusing the bottles after reconditioning, which requires taking the bottles intact.
Yep a website full of spin. It's a joke.
What's preposterous about the wall? It's not useful but plenty of far more expensive government projects are useless (e.g. Joint Strike Fighter etc.) But I see people opposing the wall more than the Joint Strike Fighter.
It's great they are giving away money, but they are also stressing a political agenda that doesn't make any sense. First, they are advocating for a fixed tax regardless of wealth, but not taxing the poorest 7%, then giving money to the poorest 0.07%. The Republican tax plan they hate so much still severely taxes the rich, basically doesn't tax the bottom 45% at all[1], and actually gives money back to a much higher percentage of working poor with children who can actually end up getting paid by the government instead of owing taxes. What does Cards Against Humanity have against poor people that they have chosen to benefit the rich so much compared to the federal tax system?

Ok sarcasm aside, does CAH seriously want Donald Trump et al to decide what to do with more of their money? Tax cuts equal more money for you to decide what to do with instead of the people in charge of the government. They could send 1,000's of needy people $1,000 checks each year with the money they will save in corporate taxes. And they can choose where that money goes! And if there are tax cuts at all they will benefit the wealthy, because the wealthy pay all the taxes. According to the IRS, in 2015 the top 50% of earners paid 97.17% of Federal income taxes, the top 30% of earners pay almost 89.82% of Federal income taxes.[2]

1: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/45-of-americans-pay-no-fed... - new tax plan cuts taxes at all income brackets, so this number will only go up

2: (xls download) https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/15in03etr.xls linking source: https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-individual-inco...
Yes, anyone with values and priorities different from our own look wasteful.

I bought a new car recently and when someone saw it, they said "what? you couldn't buy a used one? What a waste!"

Since it was a 2013 with ~60k miles on it and just very well maintained, their statement said more about them than me.
Does it still consume infinity GB of RAM to have a dozen websites open at once?
I would love to understand if this is because of the site I have open vs chrome being a hog.
Aristotle was notably precisely because he was an empiricist. He was the first philosopher to actually observe things (mostly plants and animals). This was a departure from Platonic rationalism, which told you that knowledge of reality was knowledge of forms.
Anyone know how feasible it would be to run this on solar power in the near future?
Methodologies are like any other pattern of human social behavior: if they're not structured in such a way that individual actors have a reason to buy into them, then they don't work, no matter how great it could be if everyone just bought in all the way. Literally everything else in human civilization is like that, why should software development methodologies be any different?
Oh it works really well. One benefit is all tests affected by your target is run as you presubmit. The benefit is everything is at head so things like library bugs, security bugs are all handled naturally as part of the new releases. This usually happens twice a week for most server binaries.
I've never seen a single argument against NN, which explained how repealing it won't allow current monopolists run amok with all the anti-competitive garbage they are known to engage in. So you don't need to explain anything, but I'll treat those who hold such position as corrupted shills or those who are manipulated and don't put any thought into the matter.
Kids are dying and the former administrator are trying to cover it up. If you can't wrap around your head with this better shut the hell up.
See also Rice’s theorem [0]:

In computability theory, Rice's theorem states that all non-trivial, semantic properties of programs are undecidable. A semantic property is one about the program's behavior (for instance, does the program terminate for all inputs), unlike a syntactic property (for instance, does the program contain an if-then-else statement). A property is non-trivial if it is neither true for every computable function, nor for no computable function.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice's_theorem
Very interesting train of thought. Kind of an expensive thing to try if it fails though.
Plenty of opensource projects are in google3(that frequently gets merged into external)
By this definition of "centralized", nothing is centralized. For DNS to have any meaning--particularly in the way it is used by HTML--requires there to be a person whose job is to run a server that maps "name a human enjoys using" to "name that a computer can connect to" in a way that is stable over time. To the extent to which DNS "the protocol" (as opposed to DNS "the concept") is incapable of enforcing that everyone uses the same servers (as no protocol can force that; again: with this definition, nothing is centralized), we have been building out cryptographic mitigations into other protocols (such as TLS and X.509) that act as a form of checksum against DNS failing to be used to access the one shared reality. Yes: a user can opt to use a totally different "shadow Internet" by using different DNS root servers and different CA root servers, but that is true of any protocol.
non-mining nodes attributed nothing to the failure of those forks. Look, you can stay stupid forever, it's ok, stupid people can still run nodes and use bitcoins.
Instead of finding better ways to sell ads it would be great if the smart people in SV worked on finding better ways for recycling. This would truly benefit mankind.
I think perhaps the reason you never see arguments against NN is that you participate primarily in forums where people who oppose NN get shouted down as "shills" before they can make a point.

Even I engage this topic gingerly on HN, and I took the other side on "NSA vs. Snowden" here.
It's mentioned in the source:

<meta name="Beat is a html5 audio/canvas experiment inspired by Propellerheads Figure iOS App.">
How do they even detect that? Monitoring voltage drop on current spikes to determine internal resistance?

I had a phone with a faulty battery and it would simply turn off on a large current spike (think camera with flash taking a picture) presumably since the voltage crashed.
While most heavy rationalists insist that Foucault is full of rubbish, it is pretty easy to see how his vantage has a significant degree of merit, even if one entirely ignores the transmission of ideology.

If we look to "science" today, we can see that it relies heavily on funding. In fact, so much so that "science" can't move without it in some instances. So where we have markets and capitalism, we can see that the thrust of science is driven by such; some "science" is crafted, other "science" is utterly ignored or starved. So even in a superficial way, we can begin to take note as to how our perception of what "science" is has a contextual element from within the society it is birthed from.

Foucault's primary gist, if you can survive reading his work in English, is that the very ontologies are fundamentally flexible and yield to the ideological underpinnings of a given time. One must historicize to see "science" clearly, and indeed he does just this in the work. Others have written since then, including discussions of the recent creation of "science" as we know it today, which isn't nearly as ancient as some would have others believe[1].

It can be an incredibly difficult tome to wade through, but one that comes with significant reward if you manage to parse the work.

[1] https://dangerology.wordpress.com/2013/09/13/steven-pinker-i...
People who do not understand tech. It's quite easy to sell the repeal of net neutrality as "pro competition" to someone who doesn't understand the issues. Unfortunately this includes a lot of people.
I think we should be fine with it if there's more than enough taxes on emissions.

And there should be luxury taxes too. The super-rich get this shit on discount (20% capital gains in the U.S.?), while most of us have to pay upwards of 40% extra for doing salaried work. It's not right.
To me the defining aspect of a monorepo is storing apparently unrelated code in the same repo, which is highly non-intuitive.
So long as the presubmits are configured correctly, or someone ignores failures and force submits. :)

It's usually quite nice though, and changes that break lots of projects are rolled back quite fast. Usually.
>perhaps ultimately from the US military

Does this have something to do with aftermath of Vietnam War in 1970s?
US got broke, to recover, they made a pact with Saudis, ditched gold and use USD instead for reference currency, and oil transactions are in USD (i.e. 'petrodollars')

Then things went downhill globally.
Consider for a moment the following: What if poor people are poor, because they spend all their money? Not one of those testimonials said, "I will put this money away for a rainy day" or "I'm putting this in my retirement fund."

You're never too poor to save.

Edit:

Give a man a fish, or teach him how to fish. Walmart is arguably doing more good by teaching the poor how to save

https://www.npr.org/2016/11/25/503316517/wal-marts-unconvent...

I'm not mad, but whoever downvoted this post is a "give a man a fish" sort of person.
Slack also doesn't support FF for its Slack Calls functionality. It's infinitely infuriating.
I went to the Startup cafe a couple of times, but I failed to grasp all the general amazement around it. I hoped to meet new people and learn about their entrepreneurial activities, but again, the people didn't speak English; and those that did, didn't seem interested.
re the cold call/mail outreach -

1. You need to be contacting individuals not generic addresses or gatekeepers ('people buy from people')

2. You need to be explaining the value to them or people like them that they can identify with in terms of shared problems (i.e. in the same line of work), not how it helped you. So for example, if you can get the first customer in any way (maybe a friend or freebie), you can make a case study to send to similar people.

3. You need to contact people with a mix of phone and personalised email 8-10 times until you get a meaningful conversation, which should be in person if possible. Everybody is firefighting and you will be astonished how many come back to you on the 6th time thanking you for persisting and reminding them. You will need to learn about objection handling as well (loads of articles here - http://blog.close.io/manage-any-sales-objection-successfully).

Sales is very hard work, but getting results is very rewarding.
For anyone that was confused while reading it, by fablab they mean a general workshop to build things, not a place to produce semiconductors.
It's even closer if you use a 'metric foot' of exactly 30 cm. Then you're only off by 0.1%.
Of course it can't scale. Blocks can't grow larger than 1 MB, which means no more than three transactions per second.

If you want scale, you have to look to Bitcoin Cash (which carries on Bitcoin's original vision of being a massively scalable peer-to-peer electronic cash) or Ethereum.
+1. Many OSS projects live in google3 (e.g. gRPC, protobufs, etc.)