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This involves an interesting difference in the British parliamentary system of absolute parliamentary supremacy compared to the American principle of separation of powers. Basically they can pass a law that does anything, including ones for the start of investigation, the filing of criminal charges, and the seizure of evidence and assets. Facebook was very stupid to make a weak excuse of being tied up with legal process in an American court as the reason they refused to cooperate, because in the end the UK parliament can compel anything they want.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_sovereignty
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There are a number of technical limitations to gpg signatures. Your hypothetical attacker who has access to github can simply add his/her key and show up as a verified committer. gpg signatures have many other issues including metadata corruption, not to mention the nearly insurmountable issues around key management. As mentioned below, we have internal systems that allow us to audit/authenticate the repository. We will be rolling out a UELMA-compliant authentication scheme based on TUF in the next several months that will allow the public to authenticate the repository.
Isn't it a matter of ones preferences though? Even if the leadership is capable if a person finds day to day work with crappy codebase and poor tooling a drag there is no point in joining.
a) Crucial Conversations, Kerry Patterson

b) Way of the Wolf, Jordan Belfort

c) Never Split the difference, Chris Voss

d) Radical Honesty, Brad Blanton

e) Outthink the competition, Krippendorff
Are you trying to justify innocent human experiments by saying nature is doing it anyway ? Nature is a mad scientist, unfair and horrible so let's be like it ?

Maybe if you were seriously ill because of a genetic experiment we did on you (and that you did not need) as you were an embryo, then you would not hold the same view.

I don't think you get where the morality problem is... It's not about being Amish that say "we shouldn't temper with God's perfect creation".

It's about a country doing human experimentation on innocent people that do not need it, it's not to cure them from an heridetary problem but to breed a stronger race. China will only show the success of their experiments and will hide from the eyes of the world all the failures, handicapped babies, secondary effects of their human experiments. They'll make experiments on babies with lots of failure (it's science, you never get it right at the first experiment) and once in a while they'll put a video on YouTube like they just did saying "Aw look how healthy they are". But behind there going to be a lot of guinea pig children with serious secondary effects. And the worth part is how they'll make sure the rest of the world never see those "failed" children. This might be Nazi-level stuff that's going to happen and this is what people with a glimpse of ethics left are concerned about, it's not about "not tempering with God's perfect creation"
In the context of a startup, I would expect almost all of those to be disappointing. But maybe that's what you're hoping to see.

In my opinion, if you're a start-up and you've got all those boxes checked, you're possibly doing the right things in the wrong order, and that's a red flag for me. What I hope to hear are responses like, "so this is how we're doing CI. It's awful, almost non-existent. But that's because at our scale it just wasn't important. But as we grow it will become VERY important, so here's what we're thinking about doing in the next 6-12 months..."

I've experienced a start-up with lots of tooling and process , none of which matters when you take forever to ship (and stay shipped).
Hmmm, I think relocation expenses are pretty standard, but not as high as they may need to be if you need to break a lease or something like that.
OK, so this announcement is not about .NET Core 3.0 not conforming to .NET Standard - it's about ASP.NET Core 3.0 only running on .NET Core, and not on .NET Standard.

I agree that's still terrible news though, and I'm not sure how I managed to miss it. This seems like a very bad idea.
> In the first decades of the Twentieth Century, cinema did in fact deliver news.

That was my point...
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Slightly off-topic, from one of the comments to the original article:

> as a foreigner living in Germany you definitely see a big difference when it comes to web privacy. One thing I found surprising is that many German people will use nicknames on social sites like Facebook as to not reveal their identity online.

It has more to do with common sense, doesn't it? Unless you want to promote yourself, you will probably want to use a nickname, and change these nicknames from site to site so that an individual or organization targeting you for whatever reason can't reveal your identity and do any real harm. A reasonable person doesn't shout it on the rooftops where they live, how wealthy they are, what they kids look like and so on. And yet, this is what people do when posting things online while using real names (as required by Facebook and a couple of other companies).
Sorry for not responding until now...family demands :)

I appreciate the writeup, I find it really interesting, but I can't decide whether I agree. I'll take a stab at explaining my thought process, but I haven't thought this through very much, so bear with me.

On the one hand, I definitely see the phenomenon you're talking about. The access to info we have, and the speed we have to access it, means that more and more of our lives seems to be driven by feedback loops. We also make it worse by naturally gravitating towards loops (like communities) that reinforce our preconceived notions. That's always been a concern but we have so many more options now, and we can find a slice of the world where there's basically no disagreement at all, and then ruthlessly expel anyone who questions our dogma. I see this a lot in certain subreddits: insta-ban if you reasonably question the gospel they espouse. I don't know, maybe there is room in the world for conversation spaces that aren't constantly subjected to the disagreement of outsiders, but it's also a little alarming to see it spreading so fast.

On the flip side though, here are two things that give me pause about your theory.

First, no matter how unfashionable they might be, the laws of physics still operate. Everyone might be flocking to some new-fangled framework, but if it's clearly inferior to another, then there's an opportunity there to go against the grain and win. It doesn't always happen, but it's not that rare. Ditto for your political example: Reddit was (and honestly still very much is) an embarrassing echo chamber of leftist ideas, with very little tolerance beyond a few subreddits (which usually have their own intolerance, just on the other side). But Trump still won! The echo chamber has influence, but the laws of physics ultimately don't care that much.

Second, technology does allow for more individualism. Maybe most people are becoming more "standardized" within the big groups, but others are able to be more honestly who they are, aren't they? So maybe the world is splitting into two parts. The much bigger part is becoming more homogenous and clustered, and then a few people are becoming more individualistic and creative and able to chart their own path.

I don't know though, as I'm writing this, I'm wondering if those people aren't actually more individualist, they're just in a smaller group that behaves the same as the larger one. But is that driven by technology? Or have we always been like this, and technology is just making us better at being terrible?

Anyway, if you're ever in NYC, I'd enjoy chatting about this over coffee or beer :)
> small companies and startups are left to the whims of bunch of bureaucrats

... and they might even have to comply to other laws, too. god forbid. why can't they just make a quick buck without anyone bothering them? ...
I use Scala quite a bit, and I just can't bring myself to regard it as a functional language. It's a kitchen sink language ("multiparadigm" when I'm in a polite mood) that happens to support a lot of nice things from FP, but with a distinctly object-oriented flavor.

There are add-on libraries like ScalaZ and Cats that are meant to make it easier to follow a more thoroughly functional style, but, even with those, I can't shake the feeling that I'm swimming against the current if I try to take a functional-first approach.
Seems as though you actually agree with the article's premise, which you mistook to be about the sales deck.

The point is that your messaging should be about what the buyer needs, not what your product does. You happen to have different packaging for it (as do I[1]), but overall it seems we're in agreement.

[1] https://www.gkogan.co/blog/buyers/
Can you elaborate on why your payoff is $0 if you have 1% vested common stock in the company?
Idea: Startups, even moreso than mature businesses, behave similarly to organisms and exist on a fine balance between life and death. Corollary #1: all startups, almost definitionally, have the maximum amount of technical debt possible without dying (otherwise they would "move faster and break more things"). Corollary #2: Startups whose core business is selling to developers (as opposed to applications of software) are much more sensitive to technical debt.
Classical logic is optimized for the verification that no contradiction is made and convenient mathematical manipulation: Boolean algebras are very nice. Unfortunately intuition goes out the window.

On the other hand I found intuitionistic implication more... intuitive :)
Standard practice for the register I'm afraid.
> (This is all kind of beside the point that NY's transit problems are mostly due to localized cost absurdity, but...)

This is the entire point. You cannot dismiss it. What conditions allow the costs to rise so high in NYC?

> A transit line that goes where you want, when you want for only a fraction of your trips means you need a second means of travel the rest of the time.

Why should anyone want to go any place, and what makes them so entitled to receive such a transportation service? People, like businesses, will follow economic incentives. I'm sure landlords and real estate developers love the metro system, it brings great value to the otherwise less desirable realestate. For ever dollar someone doesn't pay to ride the metro, that's a dollar more in rent an apartment can charge.

You have to look at the big picture and figure out who these mass transit systems actually benefit.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that this is in fact designed to break that kind of arrangement. The problem is that the mechanics used for corporate monitoring are almost exactly the same mechanics used for your ISP spy on you or censor things. So yes, the end result is that we will need to move monitoring (and potentially blocking if you're doing that) onto the endpoints.
I'm tired of "game engines" that aren't. There's more to game development than exposing a load-update-draw loop and providing bindings to libraries. The most frequent example of this is a game framework when accurately marketed.

But I've come to call tech like this a "game software suite" when sufficiently advanced. Further, software like Unity and Unreal Engine are also just game software suites. They aren't true engines, because you still have to write everything yourself.

Imagine someone provided you the metal and engineering concepts to build an engine, but never supplied the engine itself. That's consistently, time and time again, what the games industry on the hobbyist side has provided.

Well, thanks for providing bindings I guess. Any sufficiently advanced language with an FFI can automatically do most of that work for me.

But it isn't a game engine in the same respect as any of the Quake, Source, IW engine, or derivative engines.

Where's my console? Where's my UI layer? Where's my map loading and format? Where's my multiplayer? No server browser protocol or architecture? No matchmaking? Where's my key and controller binding system? Oh, there isn't one?

It's not an engine. It's a collection of library interfaces.

Library => Framework => Engine. What's missed almost every single time is that to build an engine, you actually need a framework to dictate how a game loop performs behaviors, schedules, tasks, entity dispatch, sound emitters, and how all of these things should be networked and how they should work over split-screen or on difference devices.

If you see something exposing load-update-draw, it's at best a framework. Like the XNA of yesteryear or the LÖVE of today, that's what it is.

But a true game engine doesn't have you building your own console variable and replication system. It should come out of the box. That's the point.

That's the entire point. And if you're not working on nearly exclusively game logic, you're probably not working on a game engine. Or you're sure as hell doing both engine and game development with a half-baked game software suite.
No government should have to resort to 'sneaky' measures like this.

If you have a suspicion that a company is breaking the law, you ask a judge for permission to inspect them. If permission is granted, you show up at the main office and do your investigation.

If a judge won't grant you permission do do that inspection, you drop the case entirely. None of this 'we used sneaky laws from centuries ago to take documents from a third party'.
Ethical frameworks are optional, humans sacrifice other humans to acquire power and knowledge regularly, that's the nature of the world
>But they must have limits, like the us.

The limits on the U.S. government exist because we put them in our organic law (the Constitution) which is not solely the prerogative of the federal congress (or any lone state).

Remember this the next time someone questions the fact we're a federal republic in the context of a short-term setback.
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"How do you feel about Friday afternoon deploys?" is a great question for that. Many interviewers assume you want to hear about how they refuse to do them in order to protect your Friday night and weekend time. Really, the answer you want is that they've automated the deploy process and made it robust enough not to break production so it doesn't matter when a deploy happens.
You seem to have depression. Have you checked with a psychiatrist?
Somewhat, but 180 bushels of corn at $3.50/bushel is worth more than 60 bushels soybeans at $10/bushel. Farmers only grow soybeans because they are a source of fertilizer for their corn and so it works out in the long run.
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Adobe is arguably the poster child for a software company for which subscription vs. one-time licenses is a particularly polarizing question among its user base. For companies, it arguably didn't matter much and access to the current versions of the entire portfolio was probably a win for many. At the same time, some Adobe software was and is widely, but often casually, used by a fairly wide range of consumers who were fine with running programs that were a couple versions old given the price to upgrade. (This described me for a fairly long period of time.)

That's really where subscriptions break down. You need to use something every now and then but you don't care if it's five years old as long as it still works.

Of course, one-time purchase alternatives like Photoshop Elements are one option these days as are free programs like The GIMP.
That is a demo app that is not representative of what you can do with Ionic. As the README on Github says "This is purely a demo of Ionic with TypeScript. It is still in development."

Maybe you should/could report these at https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic-conference-app/issues...
I think the key deluded part of Facebook was thinking just because Mark Zuckerberg isn't in the UK or other nations that want to talk to him that he can just ignore them. This move just goes to show how the laws of another country can affect you without you going to that country.
> This theory posits that the formic acid produced by ants might act as a sort of stimulant for birds, and might even be addictive.

I like that idea. I also remember growing up we used to put straw on top of ant hills waiting for ants to "attack it" with formic acid, then we'd lick the straw. It was a fun sour taste. Since birds groom their feathers, maybe they just enjoy it like kids might enjoy sour candy.
I carry two digits worth of cash in my wallet. Losing that would be more of a frustration than an actual financial setback. Honestly I'd be more pissed about losing various IDs than the actual money.

Losing all the cash deposits I have would be so much worse, which is why I do business with a FDIC insured bank that will protect me against some contingencies, including account takeovers. Bitcoin offers me significantly less protection than my current setup, and would require far more mental effort to maintain my security.
I’m really proud of how capable he was to succeed in life without having too much. A guy like him deserves more opportunities
Swing can't be the worst example, it has no JButtonFactory.
Liquidation preferences mean that some shares have rights that others don't. In a liquidity event (IPO or acquisition), the people holding the "preferred" shares get paid out first, according to the number of shares and the valuation of those shares. If all the cash and other assets from the acquisition are given out to them, then anyone else holding the less-preferred shares get nothing.

Usually, the founders and VC have the preferred shares, while someone writing unit tests at 3am does not.
Everyone likes to think that sales and marketing doesn't work on them. More often than not, I find this attitude in people who have no decision-making authority anyway.
Except that fundamentally biases the law towards a certain size of business.

Universally large fines would threaten small businesses while reasonably charging large businesses. Universally small fines would potentially be reasonable for small businesses, but would be negligible for large businesses.

Why shouldn't it be tailored to the company's size/viability?
China will make sure the world doesn't see the failures of their experiments, this is the very scary part of the story
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We take long-term access to the law very seriously. For the reasons you give, we rely only on native git operations. PRs are a convenient interface, nothing more.
The most shocking part of this to me is that they are cutting the Volt? There was so much R&D in that car and it's such an amazing vehicle that I'm shocked. Everybody I know that has one LOVES it.

They just need to do a better job of advertising it. It's not advertised AT ALL. The only people who know about it know about it from word of mouth and research.
If you have to pay $10 a share and the shares are worth $10 each, your payoff per share is $0.
Good call. I was going to suggest they should be able to see:
* preference stack
* strike price
* last valuation with board/investors

If you can't get those, then unless the equity is just butter to you, walk .. as you don't really know what the comp looks like.
I think I understand what you're saying, but I think you're oversimplifying, and that would do a disservice to people who may be new to the job market. Just because someone is a big name doesn't mean they're the right fit to lead a team - some of the best engineers I've ever met have no interest in leading teams, but are very valuable to have on the team. Hiring well, and believing in the team that you've hired is important, and I think it's a red flag to see management churn.

To me, the red flags are absolutes. i.e. "Yes, we would absolutely replace our team lead because we only want the best" sounds like a toxic place, and it's not the kind of place I would expect to find (most of) the best engineers that I've worked with. And "No, we would never hire that person because our team is the best" sounds arrogant or naive.
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I'm not a native speaker, but generally "egregious" means "particularly bad", is that what you meant?
It would involve teaching (probably Statistics) and a lot of Meditation.
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This is why the Constitution was drafted behind closed doors. The contributors needed room to have dumb ideas.
Southwest provides this through their “low fare calendar” feature.
In what concerns F#, there is Mono AOT, IL2CPP, eventually CoreRT and .NET Native might support F# native compilation as well.
+1 for the Slack idea - never even considered it.
5 years ago this would’ve been awesome, I asked all of this to 5 employers in SF. Now in 2018 Silicon Valley we’re treated like chattle as coders/lower so I don’t see the relevance of any of these questions beyond signalling. You can be laid off at any time and for no reason or because of prejudiced liars who want you off the team. Call me jaded, I’ve been screwed at almost every startup and told simply that the pattern is me and left to die on the streets. My #1 question is how we feel about lying, followed by how much I get paid per hour (no salary, no options).
1 was true, but is increasingly less true. You can purchase things on the web using Apple Pay, at least on some sites, which also produces one time use tokens.

A significant number of sites also use stripe, which produces merchant specific revocable tokens. This doesn’t eliminate merchant fraud risk, but it does vastly reduce the risk of your CC details being leaked.
Let's say an original investor bought 50% of the company for 5 million dollars with a 2:1 payout.

This means that on an acquisition the original investor gets a minimum of 2x their original investment. In the case the start up is acquired for anything less than $10 million the original investor gets everything.
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So it seems that our main disagreement is about the cost of the implementation of such system.

While I agree that the current state of Blockchain and Ethereum doesn't allow this I also believe that a part of the scaling issue will soon be solve with Plasma, you can learn more about it here (https://plasma.io/plasma.pdf). In this case the transaction fees and processing time are drastically reduced and Plasma could support (in theory) 1,000,000 transactions / seconds. The sender will pay for the tx fees (probably around half a cent) and the payment will be delivered almost instantly.

So "the single reason why it would be better than current system", since you asked for it is really because transactions operated on an efficient Blockchain would be less expensive than credit-card payments.
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There's quite strong evolutionary pressure on people not to abuse it. The ones that do often don't last very long.
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The thing is you don't have 1% of vested common stock.

When joining the company, you might be granted a set of options which are described as comparable to 1% of total shares, but the number is almost always effectively lower than that.

If the company does well, future funding rounds will lead to dilution of your ownership.

If the company does poorly, VC's will have liquidation preferences meaning that they get paid back first. This can easily bring your ownership down to 0%.
Isn't all the information held within the US, therefore, a UK judge wouldn't be able to grant access?

Also, one minute you're talking about the law and order approach then you're complaining that they used the law as it exists.

The lesson of the day, don't go playing funny buggers with governments.
They don't have to ask a judge, they're not private citizens, they're the legislature.

They are the government, and they have the right to documents and information.

What criteria, exactly, are you using to distinguish between "laws" and "sneaky laws"?