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I think there is no other way to be a dictator (as long as he's appointed byt the board).

Now what is a dictator to me ? A dictator is someone you can't disagree with. The dictator may be benevolent or not, may exercise his power or not, but in the end he's the one in power. And you can't disagree with him because you have much less power (he can fire you, he's got the money, he decides on what you work, you're the one who needs the job, etc.). Just try to contest the authority (not the ideas, the style or whatever, just the authority) of your boss, and you'll see what happens.

Now from the board of director point of view, the CEO is not a dictator, he's someone who's running the company and giving advice on how to make it grow, make it better, whatever. So he's definitely in a positive role.

Could he be something else than a dictator ? Maybe. He could be "secretary" and then the power could be given to a part of the company's personnel, like a union. Those people would attend the board of director. But that would assume the fact that the board is willing to do that... I guess it's easier to scream on the CEO than on a group of people :-)
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You should always have your own local wallet, and if you use an exchange, you should immediately transfer your funds to your local wallet once you buy them.

In terms of exchanges, there are many alternatives to Coinbase which you should look into. Coinbase has some sketchy history like insider trading, blocking Wikileaks without giving reasonable explanation, several times they've turned off their markets when conditions aren't favorable to them (sudden price drops). They're also not able to keep up with the technology as they've lagged way behind many of the other exchanges when it comes to implementing technical updates like segwit, bech32 addresses, transaction batching. God only knows how long it will take them (if ever) to be ready for the Lightning Network.
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Yes, Cairo will probably have self-driving cars over a decade after New York has them. But that doesn't mean self-driving cards aren't a commercially viable product before they work in Cairo. Very few technological innovations work better than the thing they replace in all circumstances initially. Back In The Day there were a lot of places a horse could go that a Model T couldn't but that didn't prevent cars from replacing horses.
To be fair, "weird science" isn't even trying to be an exception here.
You'd think that, but the percentage of failure I've personally witnessed tells me there's profit in the write-offs, too.

ETA: In the venture capitalist realm, I hear you fund 10 businesses with the hope that one of them strikes it rich.
a.

It's really the only thing of those that people are going to care about.

I kinda like that idea, it's like a snapchat/tinder merge.

Here's why I don't think the others will work:

b) This might be useful for a very few, but most people use Facebook or Whatsapp from their phones and thus a browser extension might be a waste.

c) How often do you really need to edit videos online? Or how often does the general public need to edit videos online? The answer is: Not so often, if ever.

I don't see it working in practice either. Like how are the video edits going to be available to anyone, but yourself? And if not, then what's the point?

d) Is this really a common practice still? I mean, most people still use Photoshop to design the basic layout, but I don't think anyone really uses sliced PSD's as a mean of template anymore, at least not professionally.

e) Just seems like it's going to be a noise creator.
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Microsoft has a long history of extend, embrace and extinguish, IE was just one of those.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-exec-ms-wanted-to-extend...

> It was in this meeting that Microsoft executives said they intended to "embrace, extend, extinguish" competing technologies, including Internet standard HTML, McGeady said

https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/atr/legacy/2006/...

> we will loose [sic] the Internet platform battle if we do not have a significant user installed base. The industry would simply ignore our standards. Few would write Windows apps without the Windows user base. — at your level, if you let your customers deploy Netscape Navigator, you loose [sic] the leadership on the desktop.
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OP is being downvoted for starting off on a rant, but he is 100% correct about the grease fittings.
The thing is you can visibly see how it interrupts Jeremy; he is in the middle of explaining something, then has the face of a surprised person, loses context for a few seconds etc. Better IMO would be if he just finished a small section in its entirety then did Q&A, instead of allowing himself being interrupted all the time. And often those questions are missing the point, which is to be expected with newbies, so the lecture loses efficiency. If I didn't know most of the basics already, I'd have problem following them. I found just doing the exercises better for learning.
I think the analogy of "aircraft carrier" is flawed. "Indestructibly large?" Studied anything about the Pacific theater of World War 2?
The fan boys came out to rep you, but they're wrong.

First of all - it takes less than an hour to set up a WAF, and it doesn't worsen your security position. Not only is it free, it's fast and easy and will demonstrably be better than no security at all.

Saying "don't put up a firewall because it isn't perfect" is stupid. You don't have to be a security guru to get that, which obviously several people have, or they wouldn't all be giving you crap about it.

Securing your application long term is a complex, expensive, time consuming process. Suggesting that spending a couple months to be "serious about security" is somehow better than first taking one hour to do the most bare minimum effort is ridiculous.

If I have a computer on the internet, I put a firewall up. Is it defense in depth? No. But that doesn't mean it won't stop the most basic, most common attacks, and it takes no time and no skill to apply it.

I don't know what weird thing you have against WAFs other than apparently they aren't cool or sophisticated enough, but 1) they remove attack surface, 2) they filter the most common drive-bys, 3) they can be both passive and active, 4) they're free, 5) they're easy, 6) they're quick to deploy.

How is it 2018 and I have to explain to you of all people that the web equivalent of iptables might be a good idea if you have zero security?
Agree. I have scripts regularly updating the whitelist with dynamic IPs every 5 min. But I don't use VPNs for various reasons.

OpenVPN on windows is very slow (unlike on Linux), it's hard to get above 5-7MB/s, which is a problem for large file transfers (and that was pre meltdown and spectre patches). It's also hard to configure, and the server still has WAN connectivity so it's easy to misconfigure it and get no protection. I also found that having an OpenVPN LAN with no gateway in addition to your default LAN on win7 tends to interfere with Chrome on the client, which will occasionally complain that it has no connectivity.

Being a belt and suspenders guy, and only dealing with windows machines, I found that a good solution is to combine it with IPSec, which is straightforward to configure on windows, fast, and adds encryption when the underlying protocol doesn't have any (SMB2). You can configure the firewall to only use IPSec for certain ports. But it's a nightmare to interop with non windows machines.
So I am curious if companies have popped up who will try to provide localization for traffic laws similar to how we have companies that provide data on zip codes to regulated materials. an example would be to know when a right turn on red is permitted even without signage. which while not a quirk there are many small towns with special rules that tend to catch people off guard.
Hi, Wm Leler from the Flutter team. There are several map integrations available. I think what you might be thinking about is the integration with Google Maps. We have a solution and are working with the Google Maps team to implement. We will announce when this is ready. Meanwhile, there are three plugins that can do maps.

There is no "long-term architectural concern" with Flutter. We play well with video and other views.

If you have a more specific question, I'd be happy to give more specific answers. Feel free to contact us.
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It's also horribly written and essentially a bad joke. I don't have anything against Apocrypha in an otherwise serious document, but this is so badly written that I know people who only understood what it was talking about on the third read of it, specifically looking for the meaning.

It's so low quality that I suspect many people simply don't care about keeping it in, especially as it comes out of left field and not, let's say, general snarky tone (which can be great as anyone in the trenches can recall from time to time).
>Has anyone spotted any other similar oddities in the wild? I wonder if it's a trend.

The noun-ifying of verbs and verb-ifying of nouns has been a trend in language evolution for hundreds (and possibly thousands) of years. For example, the etymology for "drink" is a verb of "to drink"[1]. A few hundred years later, it was noun-ified. (We can now say "I need a drink" -- without the language police snickering.) We just don't notice it and/or it doesn't bother us because it acquired its extra "noun" meaning before we were born.

By some quirk of human nature, we are extremely annoyed if words acquire these new extra meanings after we are born. This means the cycle repeats itself... the people living in 2018 are irritated by it but the people living in year 2130 won't care. (To the world: Please stop changing the language and keep all meanings+spellings+pronunciations static while I'm still alive!)

[1] https://www.etymonline.com/word/drink
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That would bother people. Say you convert something that's private or not public yet. Not sure you'd want the next person to see it. I don't like it when sites do it.
Doesn't work for me in Chrome Beta or Canary I'm afraid, unless I reload the page which is probably not intuitive for many users.

What I've been doing is sending a pop-up to users on audio-critical pages (where audio is the entire point of the site) that says "hi, let's get started, you'll hear audio on this page so please adjust your headphones or speakers" and that seems to give the best result. It's also helpful on a page like yours where the sound is quite loud and I found it a bit loud for my headphones. You must also just provide a button that changes the sound volume which would have the same effect, of telling Chrome that the user has interacted with the page.
That is as much a technique problem as it is a fastener problem.

Use a torque driver if you can. And always bracket the bit with your fingers.

If you are straining, something is wrong.
As for another example in the wild, many people have settled on "invite" instead of "invitation."
You are missing the point, that is full part of their experience opening to unrepresented classes and styles. It is human together with efficient, the heart added to the mind.
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Gram matrix, some non-linear optimization. Deep Learning is simple, complexity comes from loss function, trying to adjust weights of under-represented categories, different LEGO blocks in building your network and seeing if the particular non-linear optimization works in your case or not. You can go super deep with state-of-art math research in reading about "why do we think Deep Learning works, when it shouldn't", which is mentioned by Jeremy.
Do you really need the space or is it just some anxiety issue / ocd issue?
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And yet, the ones who don't need it don't get it, which is the whole point.
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11 years and counting. Born in Germany, I've been to the US, UK, Spain (and short 3 months in Mexico), now again in the UK. It has absolutely been valuable, though I feel the question does not really apply to me as I always felt I had to go abroad. Everything has good and bad parts, but the one thing I can say for sure is that I am much more "alive". The thought that I might have stayed in my home town (Hamburg, which is one of the nicest cities in Germany) for my whole life truly horrifies me.

However, now with wife & kids priorities change significantly. We are planning (though it is not sure we will do it due to wife's job) to bring our kids to Germany while they're in school and then retire in Spain once they have grown up. Let's see if that works out ;)
> What OP should be monitoring is the activity that occurs on the system - logins, processes spawned (e.g. php or mysql suddenly spawning shells for no reason),

In my experience, monitoring this takes about as much effort as adding a new apparmor / selinux / firejail / ... rule which would block it in the first place. I mean, with processes spawned we're almost at auditd level already.
If single lane road deadlock is a problem, the city's urban planners should (and probably will) install a left turn signal to solve it. A better solution than reckless driving is to report the deadlock to the city.
I used to run a web service, an API, that created 3D models of people from photographs. It was a character creation service that made likeness models of real people from a photo. I knew we'd get a lot of hack attempts, and a consultant recommended we get a high end Sonic Wall appliance, a $20K piece of hardware that cleanses all network traffic to and from my data center.

Best decision EVER! We'd get hack attempts, we'd get DoS attacks to the tune of 130K hits per hour, and that Sonic Wall shrugged it all oof like nothing. For a while, it looked like every script kiddie was trying to hack into our servers. No one got through, and we could care less how or what they were doing in their attempts. We had real work to do, that did not include fucking around with those idiots.

We also had a block list for customers from China. Not a single transaction from China was legitimate, all forged credit card data, so we just blocked their billions of potential customers because not a single purchase from China was real.
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Hey we all 'program' right? And I 'paint'. And a doctor will 'cure'. Its been going on for aeons.
it misses sonic screwdriver

(sorry, couldn't help myself)
A couple of questions for you:

1. What OS / distro do you use?

2. Do you have automatic updates enabled?

3. Do you use info pages in preference to man?

4. Do you use LibreJS?

5. Why did you link me to a YouTube video elsewhere in the thread? Did you wish for me to run non-free JavaScript?
Do:

* Try to have job descriptions that make a little bit of sense. A lot of times it's just a dumb collection of somewhat related programming keywords, which just makes me cringe.

Don't:

* Don't tell me my rate should be fine, and waste my and company's time by proceeding to interview process, if my rate is way more than what the company can actually afford to pay.

* Don't mass spam people with job postings, because most of them time they are a bad match. E.g. don't send ASP.net position to an iOS developer.

I know this is a lot to ask, because recruiters are busy, and would rather send the same message to 10,000 developer than go through each profile individually and pick only the ones that really match the criteria for the job. I'm just pretty tired of receiving all the recriter spam about developer jobs that don't match my interests at all.
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Well, when you are not the first, most of the time you end up learning a lot from your brothers/sisters. You are almost always the first for someone in the family.
> The daycare discovered a lucrative business growth opportunity that help improve their customers' lives.

"Staying open later and charging your customers for the service they receive during that time" isn't exactly a business secret. It also can be detrimental to the quality of life of the employees that are unsure of when exactly they'll be able to end their shifts.
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The motivation behind it is that this is where new words come from. Two words which start out with similar meaning can acquire nuance over time, which increases the subtlety and capability of the language. I don’t understand why people (often people who claim to love language and words) can be annoyed by the coinage of more words.

On one level, sure, utilize, use, and even employ are synonyms - but there is a shade to ‘utilize’ that suggests more ‘extract utility from’. It’s there more strongly when used comparatively - there’s a difference between

“How can we use Dave more?”
And
“How can we utilize Dave more?”

But of course the distinction is completely absent in

“This solution uses Golang and Mongo”
Vs
“This solution utilizes Golang and Mongo”

And likewise there is a nuance of difference between an ‘ask’ and a ‘request’, or a ‘solution’ and a ‘solve’. Maybe you can’t hear it yet because these words are new and people are experimenting to find the nuance, but it will likely emerge.
Not a single one of those people asked to be born. Many of them still haven't decided whether their birth was even a good thing, and a few have decided it wasn't. Some are considering suicide (and you often wouldn't know by talking to them). What should we do with people like this?

I've been close to the edge in the past, a few different turns of luck and I could have easily been on the street. Fighting off thoughts of self-imposed euthanasia was one of several Bad Things I went through.

At any point during my worst struggles I would have happily checked myself into a competently run mental facility for long term, inpatient care. There is no such place.

Folks in these situations, without intervention, end up either dead or on the streets. Once they realize they can actually continue existing without being trapped in a constantly uncomfortable dystopia, they might find they are able to smile when offered a free meal, and relax into the generosity of others for a few minutes. After they've spent countless hours fearing for their safety and exposed without shelter while getting dirty looks from hordes of strangers, I think that's probably a little bit okay.
I don't believe so, over that month I spent many hours talking to them and heard many times that they would rather be homeless than live a regular Joe life. I imagine that kind of freedom could be somewhat satisfying.
Outside of designated crosswalks, I don't think drivers are usually considered liable when a pedestrian walks in front of them if stopping would violate the laws of physics. Stop if possible, yes. I'd do the same for a squirrel, so that doesn't seem like too much to expect. At least the human might get cited for jaywalking.
It's a keming issue.
> metallic hydrogen

It makes sense from the periodic table, but I really didn't know this existed. Very cool!
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Your example makes no sense in the context.

Your example is a tool holding making the community. However, the original statement was about how a tool was holding back another tool.
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Well if you're free to ignore the principle of charity, then you can ascribe any sort of unethical motives to your opponents. I could just as easily argue that such anti-discrimination efforts are really driven by white-people hate, and accuse them of refusing to address this point. And how you feel right now at that over the top statement is exactly how your opponents feel when you make the contrary claim.

Absent some expressed inconsistency, you take people at their word. As I've explained elsewhere in this thread, there's nothing inconsistent with what the LLVM dev has said, and it's fully justifiable from ethical principles. Maybe he is being disingenuous, but that doesn't make the argument itself wrong.
Those arguments don't work.

Just because a goal of the project is an inherently political one doesn't mean that any outcome or action even remotely political is inherently the goal of the project. That's an absurd hasty generalization.

Further, just because one of the overall goals of the project is political doesn't mean that every goal of the project is political. That's a composition fallacy.
Considering the stories of the breakdown of MIT AI Lab, you might be... surprised.

(No, Levy's book was not honest to the facts)
You were making a point about people should run their own data centers. Netflix is not running their own data centers. Can you run your own data center in 90 areas around the world? Can you run your own globally distributed CDN? Your own globally distributed DNS? Are you saying that you never had any downtime? Can you stand up a replica of your object store, your caching and your database in both Europe and Asia so it can be closer to your outsourced developers and foreign customers? Does your data center in your basement allow me to set up subnets that span regions (not AWS “regions”, geographic areas - “Availability Zones”) just in case your basement floods?

What if I don't want a replica of data, what if I want to duplicate my entire infrastructure in Asia so the developers there can have a clone of our infrastructure - databases, storage, VMs, load balancers, multiple availability zones, etc. How long would it take you to do that? I could do it with a JSON script and run a command.

How fast can you provision a half dozen load balancers and five or ten dedicated computers - not VMs “dedicated hosts”? I can do it by creating a JSON file and running one command from my terminal.

And why should I trust you to set up a more reliable, redundant, network than AWS? Again Netflix didn’t trust themselves to create more reliable infrastructure and decided to trust a competitor to do the “undifferentiated heavy lifting” and the guy who lead the transition is now a VP at AWS, so I think he knows something about infrastructure.
Not loans. Things they pay with other people's money. Just need to make sure you get paid, and that's it.
What does that even mean? Who said it?
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People sometimes overlook the fact that the FSF is clearly a political organization, the GNU project places politics over technology, and Stallman himself is a political activist first and foremost. Yet people forget this and treat GNU stuff like technology-driven projects.

Personally, I'm much more comfortable with the approach Linus Torvalds takes, where writing good, functional software takes precedence over purity concerns, and where technical limitations would not be introduced with the purpose of complicating interactions with proprietary software.
Not a car thing? Welcome to Melbourne, Australia!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh92LirlCf8

My wife used to drive in the Melbourne CBD daily for work, but would always go around the block instead of attempting one.
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