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It's wrong anyway, if you're someone who doesn't bother with unit tests writing front-end code is still a nightmare compared to back-end programming. So it can't be the unit tests that are the problem.

It's more a problem that iterating/debugging/testing is generally so much harder for front-end, however you do it and regardless of whether you're dogmatic about unit testing or not.

Focusing on the difficulty of unit testing is simply focusing on one of the symptoms rather than the root cause.

Like in backend code, I can back out of a method, rollback to the start of a call and re-run it all again when debugging. In front-end code, that's simply not possible because there were a bunch of user interactions and you can't re-run them, you have to restart and click, click, click.
Not in my case, I don't pay income taxes (my income isn't high enough) and most of my income goes on rent.

However, I suspect my living costs (in an apartment) are actually somewhat lower than the Frugalwoods in their country villa.
I did the same. While I used to use my account regularly 5+ years ago, my feed was just full of stupid updates. People posting food pics, family commenting on news, and old viral videos, and lots and lots of ads. So, hey, I deleted my account. While Facebook isn't loosing any revenue from me, it certainly didn't ever attract me back into the active user status. Good riddance.
Great list. I would add financially sustainable, by which I mean there is some way to pay for expenses like bandwidth and paying people like professional content producers.
If Ubuntu and the like were successful with a strong ecosystem on the low end, why wouldn't they find someone to build a high end device? Companies that just... don't like profit, perhaps?

Android won it's success in the budget market, and that gave it the ecosystem it needed to survive in the high end market.
It's been changed.

https://code.facebook.com/posts/300798627056246/relicensing-...
If top tier is a low enough bar that Facebook, Google, and Apple can hire exclusively from it, then it doesn't mean much at all to be top tier anyway.
Ads are also visually intrusive and incentivize tracking.
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Those Google apps are part of the default Android experience. And I'd prefer a consistent experience as possible from phone to phone. It should however it possible for the end user to install any other apps of their own preference. I certainly don't want to manufacturers and carriers to force them upon me.
I definitely feel what you are saying with the temperament.

Many of these students do not have an authentic interest in business. To me, business is an intellectual pursuit. I know that this sounds silly and ironic, but I enjoy following the financial markets, learning about monetary policy, testing a business idea by designing a prototype, etc.

What I was getting at in this post is that I have no desire to be a middle manager.
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Poor choice of example. "Electrical boards", aka PCBs, have a lot of safety requirements, and poorly designed ones are often implicated in electrical and battery fires.
OK, I think I figured it out. See my edit.
Does it fix Facebook's removal of exif/metadata from images?
Facebook's offers are still higher value than Google/Startups. And Google (although not the company in question) has nearly as questionable data use as Facebook.
Of all his pages, this one is by far the largest.
“Facebook… is the largest data mining operation in existence.”

You know what? It's actually a true statement. Just add Google as a co-conspirator.
For those wanting to run this locally:

git clone https://github.com/textileio/textile-facebook

cd textile-facebook/

python -m http.server # Python 3.x, or

python -m SimpleHTTPServer # Python 2.x
It seems like for the women in this story they kept being misdiagnosed with other issues, so their experience has likely been different.
Before we start talking about solutions we should defind the problem.

How would you define the problem at a high level?
After hearing people talk about finding very personal things in their archive like audio recordings, I tried downloading mine. I was almost disappointed to find that it essentially just outputted my public facebook profile. Nothing remotely unusual about the data, but i'm sure there's much more that they wont admit to or hand over.
That's fair. I agree that a dual-tech-income is a lot of money compared to the national average.
I wouldn't particularly mind if it lost another 100-200b in market cap. It's gotta be enough to have a long term affect, and to teach the other social media giants a lesson so they don't replicate the same behavior. Unfortunately the might just get better at hiding it.
unless the privacy protections are codified in the company charter from day one with some poison pill type mechanism. last I heard a social network called ello was trying to do that. lately they have rebranded themselves into a 'artist social net'. IMO still worth the switch if moving with close friends.

Honestly if fb were to just take the money from me and leave me alone i'd be happy to pay that ransom for my friends.
Things like this are what might actually turn the trending #deletefacebook statements into actions. Maybe.

While it's nice that 'alternative Facebooks' are gaining visibility, those I don't think will really get people out. Simple tools on the other hand, to give people their data in a usable format, will.

Next, perhaps a nice 'export registered groups with Admin and user list,' or 'list of sites I've used Facebook login for,' or, 'export Facebook pack: Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp...
except that 2M isn't wasted, it funds the productivity of an average person's life which they then use to pay taxes, buy food, and pay back their student loans
Oh no! I saw that FB put the metadata into the html but didn't realize they ALSO removed them from the images. I'll look into what's possible!
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Do you see how you have continued to pry the topic away from how to fix this issue that everyone agrees should be fixed? This is the desired outcome of whataboutism. Do you have any input of how to address the issue at hand other than commenting on the details of why people care today or when this problem started?
At least take Calc 1. Even if you fail it, Calc is a very good lens with which to view the world. It is VERY much worth the effort.

Other than that, there is a high likelyhood that whatever your major is at graduation, it may not exist today. Get the hard and difficult classes out of the way so you can get set up for easier classes that are more your speed near graduation.

Also, don't just graduate with a degree and a taste for cheap beer and jazz. Do something big. Write a rock-opera, do a thesis in planetary dynamics, go climb a mountain and write about it, take her/him on the date of their life, volunteer somewhere kinda dangerous and do some stats on the place, etc. Whatever you do though, write it down, have it edited and torn apart, that way you have something to show for yourself.
I also wonder how sending requests will work for companies maintaining shadow profiles. PII is defined quite widely, for example my phone number is PII because it can be used to uniquely identify me.

So how to get my PII deleted from FB's servers, for example? FB mines other people's phones for this data continuously, so will they setup a blacklist, so that my phone number will not get mined ever again from other people's phones? Blacklist will have to contain my phone number in order to work. Somewhat self-defeating. Hashing will not do much, because the search space is so small.

Also, they may have my phone, and some guess at my identity. Providing a much stronger link between my identity and my various other identifying information (phone no, emails, ...) to random shady companies and hoping they'll use it to delete data they may have on me... uh. It does not add up to something sensible.
heck yeah! thanks for the comment. we're down to do nice exports of some of the other data types. we'll look into it for sure.
>They should have behaved ethically, something which is sure to have been mentioned - even if only in passing - at the Ivy League schools they attended

FB was founded on ethics violations.
As if the poor ever had any power in politics. Huey Long might have been a lightning rod for poor people, but it's not as if their votes have been courted since I've been alive.
What happened to the previous manager
Your question brings to mind the (possibly apocryphal) story about (IIRC) Target, who through the use of a customer's purchase history deduced that she was pregnant before she had informed her family. They sent targeted mailers to her house, leaving her father wondering why she was getting advertising for diapers and the like.

I think the general public would care more if they got a better sense of what having a large volume of their seemingly innocuous data lets companies figure out about them.
“thought-leader-ish” peo­ple --- the author doesn't really respect those people, and thinks JS is not a great language to build anything game changing.
> They downloaded the entire US social graph (also something no other app was allowed to do)

That would be germane to a campaign finance complaint (this appears to be an issue of automatic flagging followed by discretionary response, which also happened in the CA case, and those are fraught because it's very hard to say that the terms and pricing were the same as generally available to other customers and not an in-kind donation of special services), but not to the kind of complaint being made here.
"Watch this space" for some of those other tools ;)
Just so fantasies are soooooo appealing.
The first paragraphs here are horrifying: https://www.mv-voice.com/morgue/2001/2001_01_19.supe19.html

> According to Alana Lee, the EPA project manager for the site, the air stripper on the Netscape campus was constructed in 1989, and because of a grandfather clause, is permitted to emit 24 pounds per day of toxic material.
>
> The current limit for air-strippers is 1 pound per day.
Disagree with what? That there are 24 hours in a day?

They choose to spend that time working 2 jobs. I've done the same in the past. I've decided between buying dinner or getting gas to drive to work to earn enough to cover the commute in the first place. Eventually you make decisions to get you out of that life and into a better one. There's luck involved sure, but I absolutely reject any excuses as if it's completely out of your control.
What US phones don’t come with NFC these days? Dual sim is a niche feature that doesn’t make sense in the states.
>So what is Facebook selling? The same thing any other media platform, from newspapers to TV, is selling: your attention.

But as the article points out, in order to get people's attention it does things like allow fake news to be posted, and allow apps to collect your personal data.
If it's a fantasy then perhaps you're not spending your time wisely...
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We get entirely different outcomes when we think of that scenario. In my mind the manager goes "hell yes I remember Facebook, give me some of them stock options!" - the "questionable" data gathering was the entire reason the platform became so valuable and started printing money.
We also put it on ProductHunt in case any of you want to share with others over there, https://www.producthunt.com/posts/facebook-gallery-recovery
They could have made a genuine effort to ensure the data was actually deleted. The idea that a legal certification would be enough from a company that conducted itself in such a manner is laughable.
Running it with a broken safety feature isn't recklessness? I think it is. Also gross negligence.

(IANAL, though. Legal definitions of those words may not match my intuitive understanding of them...)
450. Yikes that reads as pretty out of date/touch.

For those wondering here is zillow returning zero results under those conditions: https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_rent/New-York-NY/house,cond...

Also making a tax credit like that without a gradient produces some pretty nasty effects.
Is this supposed to be satire? On my device, I see two pop-ups on that site - a do-not-track popup and an unclosable open-in-app popup, as well as a bar at the top which obscures content.
>But privacy and security are not "cool", and never will be.

Ever heard of James Bond? He was kind of cool, private, and secure.
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The 13.3% bracket starts at around a million dollars a year. Where do you get $20,000 from? A single person with no dependents with that income would pay about $11,000 in state income tax and $37,000 in federal income tax.
Coinbase is just playing catch up at this point. They started years ahead of Binance and it's surprising how far behind they are now in comparison to Binance. Chalk it up to regulation or them just resting on their laurels, but with Binance coming up with fiat-crypto pairs and setting up their operations and banking in Malta, it will only be a matter of time before Coinbase's advantage as a fiat onramp to altcoins becomes irrelevant.
I wanted to find out, so I looked at vgo's source code, and found that vgo does indeed have some solution to this using Github Access Tokens and ~/.netrc: https://github.com/golang/vgo/blob/b6ca6ae975e2b066c002388a8...
Yes, and? All of those are different, narrower, and conduct-based bans not the same thing as (or even a similar thing to) any version of Trump's Muslim ban.
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My dad recalls one summer where three people died on coasters and another incident where someone lit a (very unsafe as per fire code) haunted house on fire.

It's gotten considerably better since then though when I stopped going they were in the middle of a serious nickel-and-diming phase.
It surely seems now that the biological imperative is just a luxury for the rich...
The point is that your b2b customer is itself a b2c business that holds customer data in the product you sold them. Irrespective of whether it’s hosted or on-prem, you’re considered a processor in GDPR parlance, and your customer is a controller. Your customer needs to be able to handle consumer GDPR requests, so, if your software ever touches end-user data, it needs to be able to handle whatever those GDPR requests might be
It will be back up within a few weeks. That is the way it works.
Personally I agree that in modern society its a good idea to wait to have kids until you can provide for them....

But its a little weird that a Caveman's most basic prerogative (To procreate), is not something many people in modern society can afford to do.

It's also something that is fairly important to the continuation of our species, so hopefully we can figure out a way more people can responsibly afford to have children.
" I mean, are we going to also remove ABS, because the AI could learn to modulate the brakes itself?"

I think that's a reasonable definition of ABS - an AI (in most cases for ABS, an expert system AI) that knows how to best mediate the brakes, with levels of performance that exceed the vast majority of humans.
I mAde a similar comment on the video link last week. The good news is that the NTSB is extremely good at human factors stuff - google Cockpit Resource Management for a fascinating trip down the aviation safety rabbit hole.

I sadly agree with you on the scapegoat point.
Yes, Facebook's current network is fairly strong, but you shouldn't look to where the masses currently are, you should look to where the trendsetters, the young, and the people in the know—where they are. These people are ahead of the curve, and the signs they are emitting is that Facebook is not serving their interests and needs. Young people don't want to use facebook because it forces you to interact with everyone, including parents and people out of your circle. Privacy conscious people and many at the forefront of technology all either personally avoid and limit facebook usage or keep their children away from it (if they aren't already disinterested in the first place). Yes Facebook allows you to "fix" these issues with enough configurations, but then why would a new user go through the hassle of all that when they could just install snapchat or instagram (yes I know facebook owns this, but it's not facebook).

So unless there's a fundamental shift in its business model and allure, its trajectory will be doomed. It doesn't mean Facebook the company will fail, but it does mean that the Facebook product—what it is in its current form—has a finite shelf life.
For full effect, it requires control of the flow of information. It has indeed often failed in America and other countries where people had relatively free access to information.

But with digital information replacing newspapers, magazines, and TV, and with access to digital information being filtered through a handful of companies, those companies have immense power approaching that of governments that strictly regulate the media.
Hmm that's an interesting point. However, much like a bank needs customers doesn't Google need users? I find it not very persuasive that withholding an entire continent of users would result in much more than an empty threat on Google's part. If Google can't service Europe, then Europe would develop its own services, much like China has, a terrifying prospect for both American foreign policy and Google's future prospects. Perhaps Europe would even turn to Baidu. I don't think that would happen, but the threat would be alarming to Google's negotiators.
Maybe we should start with Dan Rather. His fake memo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_controversy) was the first attempt (that was caught at the in real-time) in using fake news (literally a faked meo) to influence a Presidential election by a major network. A lot of today's distrust of media traces from that incident.
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You can scrape it from the original photo page. I made an extension that does that:

https://github.com/tantalor/fb-photo-meta
That link doesn't work for me, but this one does https://www.textile.photos/ :)
What I had in mind was an education system where people generally felt more financially free and stable after they had completed their college education. In short, tuition wouldn't go up faster than the value the education provided and hopefully it'd go up a bit slower.

In my view, the product hasn't improved at the rate of tuition increases and I'd just follow where the money went to know where the problem lies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/opinion/sunday/the-real-r...
It's only been changed for their most popular projects, though.
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The first thing I did after I got my FireHD8 was to sideload google apps.
But the side effect was losing the battery life and making my tablet useless. I then did a factory reset and just sideloaded MoonReader and that was it.
The battery lasts longer now.
Yes, those pesky "females" always ruining the good times of people who just want them to shut the hell up.
Android Studio, and in turn, Jetbrain's IDE are an absolute godsend for productivity. Quick actions, macros, shortcut egornomics, etc. are top notch and make me a happy developer. I would even dare to say, it's a better IDE than Visual Studio.

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Other founder here.

Coming at this from another angle: people in film approach me with ideas for products, and always ask "where can I find a coder?"

The only answer I have for them is that they don't need a "coder". They need a co-founder.
The entirety of China should be a Superfund site. I lived in Suzhou for about a year or so and Lake Tai nearby is pretty much radioactive [1] (figuratively, but it wouldn't surprise me if it were literally.) It seems that much of the surface water in China is extraordinarily polluted -- and I saw people fishing out of canals or waters near industrial sites as if they were in the Alaskan wilderness or something.

There's likely a huge under-reporting of pollution-related illnesses. I know that respiratory illness statistics are an actual state secret -- you can't get access to the actual data on pollution-related illnesses.

Chinese pollution is beyond crisis levels. All of this worry about the Paris agreement and CO2 -- that's nonsense: China has problems with actual pollution that kills people, such as benzene and other highly toxic chemicals and particulate pollution.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Tai#Pollution
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"This is a sign the economy is nearing full employment when previously marginalized workers are suddenly treated well."

Another explanation is that jobs have become harder to fill, and that's why companies are treating previously marginalized workers well. They know if they don't they'll have a hard time finding people to replace them.

Or it could just be that employers are now starting to realize the value of older, more mature, and more experienced workers.

Or maybe they're rejecting ageism as discriminatory, and want to treat everyone more fairly. Attitudes towards discrimination have certainly changed greatly over time, and a lot of discriminatory activity has become much less acceptable than it once was.

The explanations probably vary from company to company, from person to person, and from time to time. I'd be curious to interview hiring managers and older employees about this to get their take on it.
Those people are on Instagram and WhatsApp...
Can't edit anymore, but:

Yup, I pretty much predicted Gambs official statement.

They really don't like the doxxing. They posted an official statement and asked nicely to not post their private info on the website as everyone can google it now. And if shit get's out of hand with their private data in the public now they'll shut down the website.

Edit: Oh, they also said they've never banned anyone for posting the screenshot but asked them nicely to wait for the statement.
That would be germane to a campaign finance complaint

That may be, but the crux of the complaint - allowing third parties to use data in a way that was not consistent with publicly disclosed policies - also occurred in the Obama case. The only difference seems to be that the actions of Facebook in assisting and endorsing the violations were willful in the Obama case, whereas the allegation seems to be that they were simply negligent in the Kogan/CA case.
"Schlitterbahn co-owner Jeff Henry arrested in Texas on Verruckt-related charges"

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