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Man, i wonder if there is ever a act so vial/ a atrocity so overreaching, that i can open a thread, and can not find that one guy justifying whatever the government just did.

Certainly, the shooting of students at the Tienanmen place was a bit extreme, but...

Now we are all a bit caught on the emotional side by stalins deportations of conservative forces to Siberia, but consider for a moment..

Right, now everyone is starting to call the battle between Hutu and Tutsi a genocide, but if you take the step back...

So where do they got you by the balls?

Anyone threatened your family?

Did you sink so much devotion into a concept like the always-correctness-of-hierarchical-highers, that the temporary lapse of these becomes unthinkable?

Im just seriously curious.
Initially it was planned to become operational in 2016, but still in development, new plan is 2020-2021. With the current sanctions against Russia and it’s economic impact, I’ll be very surprised if they deliver.

In addition, that thing is silo-based, i.e. only launches from well-known locations. Naval-based ICBMs, esp. submarine-based, are more reliable.
Agree entirely. Sonos 3 sounds fantastic even to more discerning ears. And, I’d never allow an always-on smart speaker from in my home.
Ha, my thoughts exactly. Agree with the author at the end though, but this reads like a cringy mystery thriller “he put clue of only jQuery on his resume, I decided to investigate further to this strange mystery of the CV...”.

In all seriousness, everyone starts somewhere. I have seen people with zero experience in a technology become complete beasts in months with a little direction and help - even better (or just as good) than someone with a good amount of experience. You find the right person willing to learn, it’s a bargain.
Yes I do mind, because this absolutely deserves a 'what the fuck'.
> If it's important enough, I guess the registrar could be used as relay.

If the registrar is in the middle, they have a considerable interest in failing to deliver sales inquiries, because they will tend to lose out on them. Same with certain types of abuse inquiries. The registrar has a conflict of interest with most forms of legitimate inquiry on a domain. If the registrar allows unfiltered messages, or messages whose content is entirely unknown to the registrar, then you're back to square one, because the end address ultimately has to filter the spam.
chores are my best thinking time! I can't recommend doing the chores for restoring intellectual productivity plus the very probable (if you're not living alone, but satisfaction either way) boost from doing good by your roommates.

I am certain that the benefits of doing chores for intellectual stimulation arise from the very familiar, routine like properties of most household chores.

Chop wood, carry water, as excellently pointed out below, is the most demonstrative chore I can think of right now: some task that's manual, involves a element of physical labor, and repetitive.

I began to notice my attention and motivation becoming more pronounced in cycles, when I began writing in languages that are heavily defined as boiler plate syntax and library based languages. Somehow the repetition, but with a small amount of variation in eg the cell of a array being addressed, dulled my personal flow of thought. Because I was spared from having to think beyond my immediate line's purpose, because all kinds of detail from memory management to types was sweetly abstracted away, I became more disengaged from the very process of thought involved in what I am writing. Even on the 3460 where
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The University of Michigan accepts community college credits. I transferred some math credits and had several friends do their first 2 years at a community college before transferring there.

Not sure if you'd consider the University of Michigan a top 25 school, but at least one website has. http://www.businessinsider.com/best-colleges-in-the-us-infog...
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sounds like you didn't actually understand the parents point.
I didn't know this, thanks for pointing it out.
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All you described is local network, no need to involve the internet.
Racism is defined as discrimination based on race or ethnicity.

Sexism is defined as discrimination based on gender or biological sex.

Both are well defined terms in English both in dictionaries and general usage. Stop trying to play games with words and start explaining why you think racism and sexism are ok.
Ah, the old 'lampshade our mistakes/bad decisions and hope that makes them okay' trick. It's super common in both web development and media to be honest, and I can't even count the number of TV shows, books, games and other works that think being 'meta' makes up for bad writing, lazy characterisation or deus ex machina esque conclusions.

As someone I follow on YouTube says, lampshading your problems does not make them go away.
He has already done an article on Atari ST, and GEM is included there.

https://www.filfre.net/2015/04/the-68000-wars-part-2-jack-is...

He is basically working through the years, touch upon the major topics of each one as he goes. I suspect that he is building some background on Windows 3.x, the first really successful version of Windows, with these articles.
Program design.
Netflix's android app is simply horrible. I prefer to watch pewdiepie on youtube than netflix's latest show because of that. I subscribed to their mid-level plan for about a year. One day while watching the daredevil, I realized the quality was so pathetic that it felt like playing a VCR on my 1440p screen. Canceled the subscription and I just watch Youtube now.
Why not use Azure AD B2C or Firebase Authentication?
The only way this can be settled, is a dance-off between Bezos and Hastings.
There was probably a few valid points, but the article was too long with too many flimsy, "try-hard to convince" arguments.
This is bullshit. Hiring by keywords and hype? How about actually ship software that actually works. Unbelievable.
http://mir.aculo.us/2015/08/25/how-to-actually-ship-software...
Is there? It's an inherent part of the service that Gmail software reads your mail (including until recently, for advertisement). How do you expect developers to work on that software without, at least occasionally, looking at the real inputs?
You must remember that "Expert System" is a term used in machine learning which specifically means a system in which the input is (logically, not literally) processed by humans at every step until the output is provided, rather than a term to describe "the best" AI systems.

As mentioned in the quote, this is usually done though if/else "if this is the case, then the next step is that".

The reason they are called Expert Systems is that they provably provide the correct output for any input 100% of the time.
I'd amend this--you cannot always avoid what you hate. You can try, but life often gets in the way (as do the dirty dishes).
I missed nothing.

Racism is inherently wrong. By being racist you are empirically making the world a worse place.

By being racist you are increasing the divide.
Merkel has been decent in the past, but she shouldn't have won again. It was getting obvious in her last years before the last election that she's also become too corrupt/power has gone to her head.
Literate programming might be my least favourite approach when writing normal code, because you're going to read the prose only once or twice and then find that it gets in the way of the implementation you're concerned about. Maintaining something done with literate programming must be an absolute nightmare if you've got any kind of refactoring, because you basically have to rewrite at least a few paragraphs so the prose continues to make sense. The code is more important than the prose.

But when it comes to writing a tutorial that you can also execute to get the final result, or interact with along the way, then there is nothing better because, really, you're more interested in the prose that lends explanation to the code you're showcasing.

Although this article's about emacs and I've taken the literate approach to my own config too. That's less for the benefit of adding paragraphs of explanation to my config, but because org mode offers a fantastic way to organise code in one file (which is more often than not what an emacs config tends to be).

In either case I don't think you can do better than being thoughtful when writing code, thinking about the bigger picture and not just the individual functions and variables in isolation. For others and also yourself. This is also true for emacs itself, considering the idiosyncrasies it presents when most of us learn elisp by copying someone else, rather than reading the language docs.
ASAP doesn't mean "immediately", it means "as soon as possible". What's "possible" depends on what's being done and expectations. Managing expectations is key.
>"There is no real reason why we need to work this way. The hardest thing is, how does [change] start?” Carstensen said. But “once it starts, there’s very little question that it’s going to roll on."

I will continue to work intensely for my first 10 years of career and retire. Additionally, I'm raising my children to do the same.

The rest of the slaves can feel free to "take time off and work until they're 80".

I can't believe how far our of touch this women is from the nature of dominance hierarchies and productivity.
Why is there still a prevalent knee-jerk attitude towards some drugs (or external catalysts that affect the body)?

Are the lawmakers uninformed on the real effects the drugs have?

Do they know but they can't take a 'pro sense' stance because of (irrational) fears that they'd get booted by their constituents?

Are they influenced (lobbied) by powerful players to resist pouring more money towards research or being more open to moving towards legalization?

Do they actually know but don't care?
> ou're in a smaller city, and when you run job adverts, you only get a handful of applicants who can code and they're mostly Javascript+Windows guys (that's what the other big employers in town use).

> So you'll have to train them on new languages, new problems, new conventions, new tools, new platforms, new build systems, new ways of debugging, new quality standards, and so on.

I would scour the country for embedded engineers of any stripe before I would hire JavaScript or Windows devs for an embedded role. Hell, I would even hire freshly-minted EEs for that role before I would hire those experienced engineers.
It seems to me that there were several different factors in the Radio Lab experiment. I think a few of the important distinctions include:

1) the furby was intentionally designed to look like a cute thing. Oversized eyes, fluffy, etc

2) it verbally protested. Which is the big thing they were stressing in the episode.

3) the children were alone and not being pressured by someone else in the group. They were also aware they were being watched.
>Put another way, how can you beat thoughtful variable or function names and judicious comments?

Writing why and how you did something.

The setup for org lets you write the equivalent of jupyter notebooks for every language, which means that you can show a toy implementation of what you're doing before the real code. This toy code is live, completely independent of the rest of the project and can be poked at by anyone opening the org file without screwing anything else up.

I have programs written in org-mode which tangle and weave not only the code but the devops. Chapter 1 is the setup for the system, chapter 2-N is code, chapter N+1 launches the app.

I have only really done it with python and C so far. But I managed to get Scala setup today in less time than it would take to get an ide working.

The tools are still immature, tangle especially needs much finer, and better documented control. But even in this state it's the only tool I can use to write programs which I can pickup three years later and grok in an afternoon. The only downside is that the development for the tool is stuck in the 90s with emails for bugs and patches.
Even then, "greater than or equal to" is >= not =>

I guess they're meant to be some kind of arrow?
Yes, definitely much smaller scale. Still, the unit of work is similar (massive stone cut, moved and placed).

If it takes a lot of people, that implies a lot of people coordinating at that time an place. In a sense, it gives us a minimal level of societal complexity that must have existed. Since britain didn't seem to have towns or cities, the nature of this complexity would be pre-civilised in the literal civil=city sense.

I agree though, civilisation has been getting older as evidence emerges. Or, as I prefer to think of it, the mysterious precursors to civilisation have been getting more impressive.
If you only have to go a couple hundred miles, the cruise speed isn't a significant factor to the overall trip time. Let the airlines handle the 1000+ mile trips (with all the associated hassles); slower airplanes don't give up near as much time on short legs.

Door to door, I can beat the airlines on most trips under 1000 miles. I don't need to get to the airport 90 minutes ahead of departure, go through security, wait for boarding to complete, wait for pushback, connect through a hub, wait for bags, and can often land at an airport closer to where I want to be and have a rental car or cab waiting. The fact that cruise speed is only 215 mph/350 kph is made up for by all the slippage inherent in airline travel.
$40 a month and EC2 is not “Enterprise level”. I am a developer for a small company and one of the AWS admins, but when I don’t want to be bothered with dealing with AWS support, I’ll punt to our outsourced AWS suppprt consultants and let them handle it.
Pure git isn't easier than CVS. Git just adds complexity over CVS (in parts just for the sake of being obtuse). CVS had its shortcomings, but complexity wasn't one of them.
You're not really doing something very revolutionary if you're not running into some dead ends.

You don't have a clear idea of what it's going to be when you start, you have an inkling and then, each step tells you what the next step is but you don't know what the next step is until you've gotten to a certain point.

We thought we were making an exquisite product, the best possible thing at the time but then, we figured, in a few years we'd make something a lot better, completely different. We didn't realize the architecture we were putting in place could last five years, let alone 10, 20, 30 years.

I think the essential way to do anything great, you have to have some incremental development philosophy because you're just going to be wrong with your grand design that you don't iterate on.

Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup ;)
I started my software engineer using CVS. I was using CVS as recently as 2014.

Why? Two reasons. I'd played with git but hadn't really understood the power of trivial branching (though I was one of those CVS power users who could branch, but tended to use my IDE to manage it). I remember thinking to myself, oh this is like CVS, because that is how I used it when I played with it.

The bigger reason is that I was managing a team of 2-4 developers that rarely worked on the same thing. We all worked in the same room. The codebase was relatively small (35k loc). I could see no good reason to make the change when CVS was "good enough". I was the same reason we used the same old crufty bug tracker--too many features to write to spend time upgrading infrastructure. Unless it was a 2x efficacy improvement; we did add automated testing and scripting around deploys because the benefits were obvious.

Now I love git and the power to branch and stage commits but I am still not sure it's needed for colocated teams of that size.
I'd argue it's more complex than most others--it can be a "stand-alone" emotion, or an amalgamation of several others.
Fair point, though on bad winter weather days, a 3.5 hour drive is still a viable option. (Flying on clear winter days is great; airplanes love the cold weather.)
>What do you mean?

Login with user/password. Now the receiving end knows your plaintext password. It might get hashed, but you don't know when. Twitter I think had the latest failure with that, logging the password.

TLS is just that no MITM can see the data and that you can somewhat verify who you are connecting too.
What's the political/ideological undertone?
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I agree with your last point but have seen so much fad chasing that I wouldn’t be so sure about the assertion that people using React have done that nuanced analysis. An awful lot of these comparisons come down to what whoever is leading the project wants on their resume, and I’ve seen a ton of small sites using huge frameworks because that person didn’t want to learn a few bits of standard JS or CSS.
It bothers me that in all the hype about Kratom the fact it does produce dependence is obscured.

I know a few folks who have had a terrible time getting off of Kratom. Only one of which is totally free of it.

All of their cases were similar, going from a small brew a day the first week to doing 6-10g a day within weeks.

People I know who still take it regularly remind me of addicts to other substances - claiming they can quit at any time but since they aren't having a problem they don't choose to quit.

Yet they also constantly crave Kratom and freak out when they can't get it.

Of course there are a lot of legal addictives - like a whole range of mood altering drugs like Xanax, Prozac, etc. - which are far worse long term.

That still doesn't excuse the unrelenting hype that Kratom is safe and that it isn't addictive.
Would you say Youtube works better now as it is fully SPA?
> I'm fine with governments being the only ones who can view domain registration details.

Which governments, where, and at what time? North Korea has a NIC, so does Eritrea. Should the dictator of Eritrea have more privileged access to your WHOIS information than somebody who could actually give you a productive tip? (i.e. "Hey, your mailserver keeps trying to relay this message, which is not destined for where it's being routed", or "a host under your domain is ICMP flooding my IoT gateway, maybe you have an unwanted access on your hands"). I've used WHOIS productively in the last year, and WHOIS proxies work to get your address off the registry, I just don't think that the actual owner of the domain (you, domains by proxy, etc.) should be permitted to register a domain without somebody being directly responsible for its behaviour in some way which is a step before a civil suit (which seems to be the only way your system would work). You need an address for your corporation as well, it's mostly the same idea.
Do you think this law will require the government to offer online opt outs for their subscriptions?
His feelings about being black in tech, how he felt he had to act when he was in that unique position and the feelings he had about being an example.
Curious how many have moved from LDAP to using OAuth?

Would seem the future for enterprise will be OAuth.
Isn't that kind of what they do in sports? I know that they do a softer version of that, hooking very young kids to the coffee clubs' training schools and facilities, in order to change guarantee a constant supply of raw talent.
I'm willing to accept that there's some complexity in the regulation of substances people use for medicinal purposes, whether they come out of the ground or a lab. The DEA is an abhorrent institution, though. And while it's clear the writers of the article swing one way about it, the DEA and FDA seem to be acting like they want any excuse to ban the stuff.

When they start locking people up for selling Kratom, and then a year later big pharma comes out with "Kratolizine" at 50x the price, I won't be surprised.
India is a highly price sensitive market, like some other developing countries. If something is "free", it will win in India. Not that paid services cannot survive, but "free" will trump those by a huge margin. This just cannot be changed. But with higher disposable incomes and reducing mobile data charges (which still cost a lot on some providers), people are willing to spend a little on quality.

Hotstar has a huge user base mainly because it offers a lot of content for "free", and this is something Netflix and Amazon don't do. If someone were to get the revenue numbers from paying subscribers, I'd bet on Hotstar being far behind the others.

As someone who has used these three services, my ranking of Hotstar would put it way below Netflix and Prime Video. The Hotstar app is quite primitive and is probably two or three years behind Netflix. It doesn't even have lists, ratings, profiles, etc., leave alone features like skipping title screens and others. Hotstar is also restrictive for paying customers since it allows only one screen at a time. Like Prime Video, Hotstar is designed for individuals, not families. For a family of four, if they wanted Hotstar's paid content, it would cost the same as Netflix's highest tier. This is subjective, but it'd most likely be a poorer deal for many.

Those who want high quality content and don't mind paying would go for Netflix. People also share subscriptions with their friends or family members to defray costs. Those who don't want to pay a lot would go with Amazon Prime.

What Netflix and Amazon need to do to grow their subscriber base would be to license a lot of local content (the latter is doing well on that), like movies and TV serials in different languages. They should also look at providing English and other foreign language content voice dubbed in Indian languages. Hollywood movies have long been released in India in English and local languages. The same goes for many English shows too.

Netflix and Amazon will hopefully figure things out, and I'm confident that Netflix is here to stay as the leader in quality on multiple fronts. The rest of the players may replace cable but remain ad supported (like 20 minutes of ads in an hour of content) and kill each other with their "free" and partially free offerings. They're more of a threat to each other than to these two behemoths.
I remember importing all our RCS files into our first CVS repository, around 1991. It was back when CVS was primarily used for maintenance of SunOS. As a result, this is the first commit in the repo I spend most of my time in:

commit 0d92e7f51fa3e1dd3d2257e9900e7ea0b37d96de
Author: jkf <jkf>
Date: Mon Oct 21 07:53:43 1985 +0000

Initial revision

RCS migrated to CVS which migrated to git.
> What distinguishes print from electronic media that means that justification works in one place but not the other?

Browser are pretty bad typesetting engines. Word breaking doesn't work very well, they don't and can't do protrusion or expansion. The low resolution of displays means you microadjustments don't really work, because they at most slightly shift contrast from one anti-aliased edge to the opposing edge.

Justified text works very well if you're able to competently apply all those techniques (e.g. MS Word and similar document editors didn't do any of that for a long time).

Bad justification results in rivers, uneven spacing, broken edges etc.