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sure. I honestly don't see why that's a problem though, especially since "at every commit" can have clear markers for if it's expected to be buildable or not.

My point here is that you're describing a known problem with known solutions, and saying it's impossible. I'm saying it requires work, as does all this in a monorepo.

edit: to be technical: yes, you're correct, it can't always build at latest at every instant. Agreed. I don't see why that's necessary though. Simplifying, sure; necessary? No.
> It’s clearly not staying around and thus not a threat. Just a simple “proof of existence”

Or a scout. You don't send your invasion/colonization fleet until you've got better intel.
Nintendo fucking nailed it with the Switch. It captures the dream of having one "computing" device with you for everything and all of the play modes are so polished they don't feel like gimmicks. Back during the Wii days, there were comments that compared Nintendo to Apple in terms of philosophy and industrial design. This is them at the top of their game again...everything just works...no muss, no fuss. There's a very simple and elegant core philosophical concept to the Switch that they relentlessly pursued until all the edge cases were filed down.

Turn it on, you pick up your game right where you left off in about 5 seconds. Controllers sync in seconds, the dock as a charger and TV connector is seamless, the joycons work beautifully, the mobile experience is top-of-the-line. It comes out of the box ready for multiplayer, something no console has done since maybe the SNES. And the initial software releases are diverse, fantastically produced and incredibly enjoyable.

This is the part where Nintendo's fundamental DNA as a toy company comes into play. It's their job to generate joy, not wow with consumer electronics. It's like every interaction with the system is designed to instill confidence and a preparation for fun. The system is powerful enough for general computing, but they've cut out all that stuff and focused it on gaming. It doesn't even come with a web browser.

There's some knocks against Nintendo for not getting on-line play, and I think that's true. But philosophically, Nintendo wants you to get together with your friends, because that's more fun. I can imagine whiteboard meetings at Nintendo where they analyze the shortest path to joy and maximization of player fun as serious discussions.

I just hope they can keep the software coming so they can sustain this. Nintendo deserves to be top dog for a while. This is a great time to be a gamer and this makes Sony and Microsoft just look like their going through the motions at this point.
#1 issue with applets was integration. Was it on the browser? Which version? How does auto-update work? etc.

Adobe did an amazing job of making sure Flash was there, and seamless. To the point people barely had an awareness.

Java Applets failed because Sun was a 'debating society' (per James Gosling). Definitely not a consumer oriented company, thinking about end user behaviour etc..

Other reasons as well, but that's #1.

Source: me, deployed a bunch of Enterprise projects on Applets back in the day.
If you buy bitcoin you aren't buying it from the author of the bitcoin client to fund further development. I'm going to say not a security transaction.
If you get a chance, try DocFetcher[0]. I use it for my personal calibre ebook library at home, and I love the fact that between it's independent indexing and the calibre portable distribution, I have a completely portable library on my network.

[0] http://docfetcher.sourceforge.net/en/index.html
Kind of. Every technology has costs and benefits. It's important to evaluate the net benefit on a personal and societal basis. Criticism of rock and roll was clearly overblown, but I do believe that most forms of TV and social media are detrimental.
Well, it is not about pre-mining specifically that makes it a security.

You could, for example clone Bitcoin exactly, but make a change where you recieve a billion free coins. It would be dumb, but that wouldn't be a security.

The problem is when ICOs premine and sell you a token for something that doesn't already exist yet. The token represents a future promise, as opposed to something that exist right NOW.
We don't; unfortunately English is silly and uses the same word for "no-cost" as for "open".

While we implicitly give away the software for no cost, we don't really try to brand it as such (though for some, lack of cost is certainly a big plus).

It's a shame "open source" got co-opted by the OSI and the Free Software purists are left to continue to use "free". I doubt something like "libre" would catch on; some people use it, but it doesn't seem to be used widely enough.
I agree that this is all about culture.

To make it even more interesting, the Famous Company (multinational) recently expanded their business by buying a local company, and I think that's why they're interested in hiring people who have experience working in both countries (me).

The name of the Famous Company would look amazing on a résumé, and it would be really exciting to work for them.

But I'm not motivated by money or fame. I need years of continuous relevant work experience to help with my visa applications.

I wish I can find a way for everyone to benefit, and maintain trust with all the people involved.
I encourage Main Street investors to be open to these opportunities

This is ominous.
>”It kind of shows how some men basically only see women as objects that they can manipulate and be forced to do anything they want... It just shows a complete lack of respect for the porn performers in the movie, and also the female actresses”

This statement is confusing me in many ways. Can anyone explain the exact logic behind it? Specifically, for “forced to do” and “lack of respect”.

How does it, and implications of it, seem for you?
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The difference usually lies within addiction and the knowledge of one’s addiction to it. If you knew you were addicted to cigarettes and dissatisfied with that addiction, for example, you’d likely feel a wave of depression after lighting up.

Some people can “handle” porn in that they don’t experience any negative effect from it. Some, unfortunately, cannot.
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he's saying that some of these tokens should be classified as securities, while others should not.

Gotta love the unlimited supply of optimism in the cryptocurrency world. Every single existing token is either a security or a commodity, but people still think they can squeeze through the "utility token" loophole.
It's just an easier form of speech recognition. That was plenty advanced in 2002.

(Here is Shazam in a chip from 1988:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFth9K_IvwA

Now imagine you have a magnitude better signal fidelity and 10e8 times the storage and processing power)
Only true in a fairly narrow sense. At my company we use a ton of open source software. We have support contracts for a few of the big-ticket/core pieces, but I doubt anyone would even think to bother to pay for support for the vast majority of OSS we use.
No idea about the EU, but lawsuits under the ADA (Americans With Disabilities Act) are real in the US.

And yes, modern sites really are accessible. Screen readers traverse the DOM looking for the semantic information that's already there. Look at WCAG (https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/), you'll see how easy it is to follow the guidelines. Unless, of course, you stick a bunch of stuff in a <canvas>...
I don't know if that's the mindset of most founders, but it is probably the mindset of most founders who have a company that is still alive.
They've been pretty clear in the past about the Howey test and ICOs running foul of it, so that part of his letter wasn't all that new. They're already taking action and should be - just today I saw an ad promising 60x returns on an internal market.

I didn't expect to see him acknowledging the positives of cryptocurrency and the ICO funding model overall.
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Eventually but consider how much long-term damage will be done before most of the people living when that technology becomes commonplace stop voting. Think about Brexit and the US 2016 elections, both decided by generally old people who believed factually untrue but widely repeated claims – there’s no easy way to reverse something like leaving the EU or not dealing with climate change even if a decade later the average voter is considerably more savvy.
My boss is first and foremost a friend. After knowing him for several years, I started working for him.

I think it would be rude to hurt the friendship by just saying goodbye.

My boss thinks I can do better so he wants me to leave in 2019 anyway. I just don't want to go around interviewing before then, without telling my boss/friend.
I work at a tech company and one of the things I have recently noticed is how ML and AI terms are being increasingly used by the business people. The guys who have no technical understanding, these are accountants or marketing guys saying we should ask tech team to design ML to solve these problems. Its as if ML is a thing to through at every kind of imaginable problem and it will be magically solved. I believe a lot of this has to do with PR around this by big tech companies. Take for example, the recent alpha zero vs stock fish PR, it has been spun around by Google in a way as if it was some magic. You hear a lot about how it took just 4 hours and I find it hard to explain to people that 4 hour time is meaningless. It is about how many games it could play in that time. Moreover the match happened between two systems on a different hardware and that is a big difference and also the fact that it used a arbitrary type of time control of, 1 min/move. Again this can make big difference but it is a big struggle to get past this PR fluff. To be clear, I am not denying the advances made by deep mind, I just want people to understand that it has come on back of probably the the world best team of scientists alongside state of the art Google designed hardware and incredible monetary resources of Google.
They decided to kill it so that people would start using Google Photos.

This would greatly encourage people to keep all their photos in the cloud, tying them to the Google ecosystem and giving Google plenty of data to munch on, at the detriment of user experience.
Oh c'mon. You go to see relatives and it's often great, but there's a lot of downtime. If I'm into something, _anything_, it's going to be on my mind during those periods, and the switch helps with that.
Actually the first thing I do nowadays when I start a new project using rails is turn off turbolinks. Rails has so many "magic" hidden underneath and Turbolinks is the epitome of this problem. I have no idea how it works, but all I know is it breaks my apps too often if I ever make use of a lot of JavaScript code.

Nowadays I do:

1. Pure old school websites with no SPA approach (Surprisingly, most web apps work just fine this way. You're just being tricked into building SPA when you don't need one)

2. Use rails as API backend and use frontend JS framework (I do this when I know I will need to make this work both on the web and mobile. Since I just need to write the API once and use it cross platform, it's much more efficient this way IF I'm doing something like this)

Turbolinks actually doesn't fit into any of this workflow and just complicates things IMO.
the founder of bitcoin gave himself/herself a mining headstart with low difficulty, this can be seen as a founder reward
This is exactly where my argument ends up with anyone I discuss this with. The problem of people starving and dying won't be solved, it's going to happen in some capacity.
I've noticed an alarming uptick in articles around job titles and what people call themselves, so I feel compelled to say something. I couldn't be bothered what someone calls themselves as long as they can actually get shit done. The focus on titles is misplaced, especially for people who work in BigCo, as most titles in such places are handed down by HR anyways so I don't focus too much on them. But what does the person actually doing on a day to day basis? Is it stats? Is it exploratory analysis and modeling? Are they using ML, or working with data that doesn't fit on a single commodity machine? Writing people off based on what titles they might have had at some job (which they probably might not have any control over) is a good way to lose out on talent that you might have appreciated. But of course, this cuts both ways, would you want to work for someone who gets hung on things like that?

Anyway, overall great article, but this was the one thing that bothered me enough to comment.
I think this is more negative for ICOs than your quotes imply. Look at this:

> By and large, the structures of initial coin offerings that I have seen promoted involve the offer and sale of securities and directly implicate the securities registration requirements and other investor protection provisions of our federal securities laws.

Basically, almost all ICOs so far are illegal. He says that it's possible to make an ICO that isn't illegal by following SEC rules, but I would be surprised if a single existing ICO actually qualified because most of the benefit of doing an ICO comes from not complying with the regulations.
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there are other places to go to find your challenging music

what are those? I have to work hard to find interesting music, so I'm curious if I'm ignorant of some really huge obvious places for music discovery.
I love servethehome, but find their actual reviews (of which TFA is not one) somewhat frustrating.

Most motherboards they review get a rating of 9.something/10.

They provide some interesting insights but often gloss over aspects that I, at least, really care about.

I could go on, but it's easy to criticise. They're the only ones covering a lot of what they cover. And I love their forums.
Yes, ignoring absolutely all regulations does tend to be advantageous.
> if you can't mine it yourself, or get someone independent from the issuer to do it for you, it's a security

That's not quite right.

You could say that WoW Gold is "premined". You can't "mine" it yourself, and it's only issued by World of Warcraft.

Same thing with Walmart gift cards and Disney Dollars.

Call it money, or tokens, or scrip, but it's not a security.

If you sell it to users primarialy to transact with it, it's probably not a security.

If you sell it to fund the development of the enterprise, and buyers expect to profit from that enterprise, then it probably is a security.
Storyboard is absolutely incredible if you like comics. Takes a video and makes it a completely different story. we
Translation: I'm not allowed to officially say that all of this stuff is illegal, but... you should ask if it's legal.
>Are they trying to get us addicted to taking photos and videos?

No, everyone likes taking pictures already.

What they want is that all those random snaps and associated metadata should be stored on their servers. That's something even the Stasi would never dream of, but we're fine, because Google promised to do no evil some time ago, and Facebook is doing the same thing.
Such beautiful, thoughtful writing. Thanks for sharing.
The kids of today don't use facebook anymore, though.
It's way down, but this strikes me as the key section:

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By and large, the structures of initial coin offerings that I have seen promoted involve the offer and sale of securities and directly implicate the securities registration requirements and other investor protection provisions of our federal securities laws. Generally speaking, these laws provide that investors deserve to know what they are investing in and the relevant risks involved.

I have asked the SEC’s Division of Enforcement to continue to police this area vigorously and recommend enforcement actions against those that conduct initial coin offerings in violation of the federal securities laws.

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That seems a pretty clear warning: most ICOs will be treated as securities under US law. I'd be willing to bet that the SEC will be making an example of some people relatively soon.
It’s just another distraction.
Of course it would be ideal if freelancers could just find contracts because they have a great portfolio, but that isn't reality.

It has to be a big site in order to compete with the SEO and marketing budgets of big agencies.

Individual freelancers don't stand a chance of being found.

So I want to create a place where we can be found and also promote each other.

More importantly, it needs to be a site where clients can post potential jobs maybe with a process of clarifying job description and help identifying a realistic budget.
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Spark has a place: at large scale. For 100s of GB to a few TB of data PostgreSQL works very well. At least, it does for my team. I don't want Spark, Kafka, NoSQL or any other modern fad near my team's data. It's just not appropriate.
> Downvoters: I presume you have evidence that Google won’t use your interactions

That's a shifting of burden of proof. Do you have evidence that HomePod won't be listening in on you and share your data with advertisers?

I think you just happen to prefer Apple over Google. Nothing wrong with that, just be upfront with where that preference comes from.
What does that have to do with assignment of blame? I can say a book is crap, and makes it's readers dumb, without saying that I'm going to ban it.

I can say a social media site is bad and it's creators should feel bad, and that's just another kind of critique. The critique might shape the behaviours of those who read the critique, and are able to reflect on whether the social media site is worthy of their time.
If you don’t vote for this bill we’re going to post the video of you being mean to a pony when you were eight.
Most of the benefit of doing an ICO is that investors are throwing a ton of dumb money into ICOs.
Apple Music has recommendation playlists as well: New Music Mix, Favourites Mix and Chill Mix which all get updated weekly based on your likes/dislikes and existing music collection.

I actually find Spotify apps to be far worse than iTunes at least on iOS. And the Apple Watch app for Apple Music is really impressive.
Machine vision dataset.
A slight oversimplification, it'll either get pulled off the truck and take a spin around the center or be looked over by someone there, but yes that's totally possible. Getting residential ground delivered "on schedule" isn't much of a priority (ground delivery guarantees are suspended for peak), although obviously that situation isn't ideal, particularly if it's more than a couple days.

Basically what's happening is your local center can deliver X packages per day, with very hard limits imposed by DoT hour caps, and are dealing with X*N volume. If you need it faster, have it dropped at an access point (UPS Store) or have it held at the center.
Nintendo lives on its 1st party offerings. If you want mobile gaming that isn't gimped, then get something like the GPD Win (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPD_Win / https://www.amazon.com/Aluminum-GPD-WIN-X7-Z8750-Bluetooth/d...). But you can't play the latest Zelda and Mario.
Really, that would just be a Home Mini with audio output, and I suspect the Home and Home Mini don't have a separate audio output in an effort to make you upgrade to the "Max". Because frankly, you would be so much better off buying a regular Home and a $300 speaker setup than buying the Max.
My use of the term "blackmail" was related to them expressing possible negative consequences for you telling your boss about your conversation, and in the context of "seduction".

When they sent their first email, they had no idea of if you would immediately go to your boss/friend to discuss things. Only when you told them of the possibility did they want to control what you did.

It's best not to think of this as seduction, or in the context of a pretty girl flirting with you. It's a company looking to hire your services, when you already have obligations.

Tell your boss. Don't tell Famous Company. If Famous Company asks you if you talked with your boss, say "of course I did - I want to make sure that I could take time off to meet with you without disrupting things at work."

The only reasons I can think of for Famous Company to have you not talk with your boss are 1) they are poaching you so they can compete with your current company, and 2) they don't want your boss to offer a raise.

Yes, you say you don't care about a promotion. But they don't know who you are or what you want. It's to their benefit for someone like you to be left in the dark about what your options are.
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Nixon's effective admission to knowledge of the Watergate scandal and cover-up was recorded on tape. And this is someone who probably knew of/ordered/did himself the erasure of 18½ minutes of tape, the contents of which are still unknown today.

Even if you believe that such first-order evidence didn't exist, bureaucracies generate massive amounts of second-order evidence that's hard to erase. For example, if you believe that the conspiracy selected Oswald as a fall guy, you have to ask how; and the simplest way of doing that would be to send someone down to the records archive and search for a good one... which would be noted as someone accessing the records [1].

This is the problem with conspiracy theories: to explain the lack of evidence, they have to expand the conspiracy to be able to erase that evidence, which generates more evidence that needs to be erased.

[1] I don't know if such accesses were logged back then, but I'd be surprised if they weren't.
To be honest, you should visit the country either way. Estonia is a pretty wonderful place, at least it was when I visited.
I find it somewhat understandable from non-tech people. I’m more surprised at now much people within the tech world but the hype.
> how many packages the average driver delivers on a route

Packages? This time of year, 300-600. Stop count: 250+. Depends on center (how many extra routes over peak to absorb volume?), local labor market, etc.

> what happens if a package is stolen i.e who is liable?

There are 3 ways packages get left at your doorstep: consignee release, shipper release, driver release. First is relatively rare, 2nd is common among retailers of lower value stuff. 3rd means the company is liable, so various strategies are used to mitigate the liability: don't leave high value packages (absolutely never if it's valuable enough to qualify for the chain-of-custody tracking), buildings with reported thefts get DRs prevented for a very long time, etc. Quite a bit of driver discretion is involved in judging whether to leave packages; things like leaving it hidden/under a doormat are encouraged. IIRC Apple has some special setup and will never get released without a signature.

Also, business stops (which are a lot of volume) never get released without a signature.

Piss bottles and lunch breaks: piss bottles are extremely common, and skipping lunches is very common since it's unpaid (at least here) and when you're scheduled for 10-12hrs it's nice to get out 30min earlier. Difference between the UPS and Amazon drivers, at least based on the article, is a huge amount of pay - top rate before O/T is $30/hr+.

/teamster
Nintendo's philosophy is "software sells hardware".

Meaning, do not license their franchises on hardware that is not Nintendo, with very specific exceptions (e.g: Mario Run).
What is new is the tight, software-driven loops of dopamine release and conditioning feedback that Facebook and others have developed and exploited.
Does Freelancer seeking Freelancer actually work to find high paying contracts?
Thanks for summarizing one of our major points.
Thanks for posting this summary. I haven't seen it yet.