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I don't think $100 can really be considered a major roadblock to any technology professional capable of doing a standardized implementation...

The problem is: the time when people learn most about programming is as students when they have too much time and hardly any money.
There are going to be multiple good options based on Chromium that will not break extension compatibility. Brave Browser being the most well-known and polished, but there will be more.
> The prefers-color-scheme media query allows a website or web app to adopt the preferred display mode of the user.

Will YouTube and Google themselves support this? I still use extensions to make them dark.
You shouldn't. Criminalizing private firearm possession is inherently a calcification of the police state's power to control the poor and protect the status quo for the rich.

You should worry about the systemic social problems that breed violence instead of fixating on one of the tools used to carry it out. We have seen with drugs and alcohol that prohibition exacerbates these problems rather than fixing them.
Their new proposal for blocking ads is exactly the same as the idea Apple offers with Safari, and it blocks ads just fine.
Say they get their cartel, and negotiate a link tax of a penny per link or whatever. How does that play out?

Will Google and Facebook drop news altogether? How much would that harm them? Do they just do a deal with Reuters and AP?

Say they drop news altogether. Does that just boost the popularity of aggregators like reddit with less than a billion monthly active users? Does it really change anything for the newspapers?
Amazing accomplishment, well done!
No, they don't need one. The article shows how some groups are pushing for legislation to allow news orgs to form a cartel, in order to compete with the likes of Google and friends, who themselves enjoy a high concentration of market share.

So, instead of promoting a competitive economy with fewer cartels, there's a push to promote cartels within the economy, ostensibly to... compete?

Nice. These are, indeed, interesting times. Cartel economy it is!
> if you aren’t going off the “government can be corrupt and abuse it’s powers” principle its actually kinda hard to make the privacy argument!

It's not just "government can be corrupt and abuse its powers", it's also "government will be inept and leak your data".

And since you can't unreveal data, "government" doesn't just mean "current government", it means "current and any possible future government".
Interesting that the concept is based on steam engine. Would there be a way to recondense the steam for reuse, or did they plan to just release all of them? Then they would need to run on water, much like the steam locomotives of the past.
Curious why you think adapting huge/lektor/pelican to mobile is an opportunity. Mobile app for wordpress seems to do the job quite well. You can create a site, add pages, add posts, pick a theme, publish etc without needing a desktop. Maybe your point is that something that's a static backend could compete aggressively on price vs something like wordpress? Are people trying / needing to publish on casual mobile envs?
I tried Firefox again, immediately encountered several crashes on youtube streaming and a few other places. Chrome it is for me.
Had a bad experience with a designer on Fiverr. They were "highly rated" and all.

The task was a logo for a side project and we settled on a clean design that was just text and code brackets with a specific font and color scheme (I ended up doing this on my own in the end)

The design was acceptable, but the delivery/communication/execution was atrocious.

The request I made from the start was SVG over transparent backgrounds with the font in two different colors, and three different positions for the logo, so six total SVGs

What I got were:

PNGs
JPGs
Illustrator files

I went back and forth four times before giving up and just marking the job as complete.

Once I finally got SVGs, they were not over transparent backgrounds and/or they were weirdly cut in ways where you could see border lines halfway below the image, and the SVGs were mixed in with the other file formats.

Every time I asked for what I wanted in explicit detail, I would get the complete opposite with, say, one SVG fixed in an acceptable way but another (which was already acceptable from the last delivery) completely broken again

Overall, completely frustrating
Can be true if local shortage. Usually not true, as we'll do everything we can to respect the major antigens.
You can eat the food that is bought with the fees that can be easily gained from speaking and consulting.
At this point I don't even bother looking up the callers. I send anything that's not in my address book to voicemail. If they don't leave a message, so be it.
I'm already done making an fpga out of my fpga, and I never had one!
Yeah kinda reads of green energy propaganda imo. Not opposed to renewables at all (own PEGI).
you could sell water as a cancer cure. That would be very bad for health outcomes.

Well, if all you have to do is compare the patient's health outcome of, say, 3 days with water vs. 3 days without, I am sure you could find a very positive correlation between the two treatment paths.
I bet you’re right. I find a lot of people that take a position with just a cursory overview, and that never go deep to see what that position really implies. It’s hard work and takes time.
How much of the "spam" is actually gigs to get thru big tech's anti-scrape filters?
Yeah lots of malts are up there, I suppose the game came about before the craft beer movement- many of these new craft beers are 9 to 13 and would never be sold in 40-form I suppose, so those are high ABV for a 32/40 I’m sure.
The B-2 cost $1 billion more than 25 years ago. Adjusted for inflation, it's probably much more.
Apparently the F-22 cost something between 150 and 700 millions apiece: https://www.wired.com/2011/12/f-22-real-cost/
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Have you considered integrating the extension's features into the main site? (Is that were folding came from?)
A "KeepAlive" system might work for funding software projects. If your company has a dependency on some open source software project, then it is very much in their interests to pay a "KeepAlive" amount per month to that project, ensuring that project remains alive and well and healthy, and thus your systems - which depend literally on that software - remain healthy.

"KeepAlive" is not sponsorship. Sponsorship has the perception/reality of being optional/nonessential and indeed there is an expectation that something further will be given to the sponsor after the money is handed over. Sponsorship isn't a great model for funding software projects. Even worse is donations.

Nor is a KeepAlive payment a support payment. in fact you might have a support system on top of your KeepAlive system. A KeepAlive payment system is simply a payment to ensure that software that a company depends on stays alive.

The super critical thing that no one seems to understand - (and Patreon is the prime culprit here) is that you simply cannot allow the money amounts to drop to the floor - it must not be possible to contribute $1 a month. This is just digital street begging.

Patreon - and any other sponsorship/donation/support/KeepAlive system that permits the payer to "choose their own price" is setting the whole system up for failure. Have you ever seen a "choose what you want to pay" system that does anything except drop straight to the pricing floor?

Any sponsorship/donation/support/KeepAlive system must assert value, must anchor the price, and must set a practical minimum that is required and not optional. For example $10/month for individual person KeepAlive payments, $200/month for small companies and $500/month for larger company KeepAlive payments. What's the value in 300 people throwing a $1 coin per month into your digital suitcase - that's what Patreon is.

Part of the problem is that software developers are typically afraid to set a realistic price point/value on their work, thus the KeepAlive system needs to do it for them - ensuring it doesn't turn into a Patreon like digital street begging system.
Over the next couple of decades, policies and bureaucracy like this are going to lead to the US losing the massive lead it has worldwide with regards to entrepreneurship and wealth creation.

I've never understood why as a country we are willing to pay for the education of international students (through public universities), but then make it exceedingly difficult for many of them to stay in the country after school. These are highly-skilled people who want to work here, start companies here, and pay a huge amount of taxes here.
The argument you make is quite popular. I'd say adoption would only be lower because there's competition that's also MIT licensed. And if that wasn't there, every framework author would be better off (e.g. in a public-private licensing scenario).

It will be hard to find evidence for both sides I guess. So it boils down to being kind of a gamble: adoption or fair compensation — you can't have both.

This looks like a race to the bottom to me, which is what the data presented in the article seems to support.
Yep. Same with pretty much every other business that asks for law changes, bailouts, etc. If you can't compete, then that means change your business model or go out of business. It's how capitalism works.

And that should be true of everything from media outlets to banks to farmers to car manufacturers and shops.
I can’t read it because there’s a modal bitching about my ad blocker which I can’t close. Way to go.
This would totally suck. I just recently got my transverter (http://transverters-store.com/) working and am trying to get my antenna in the air. Personally, I don't see this happening if the ARRL and the other radio societies get involved.
Given that they were both range limited at the time, it was more likely the time to fill that had an impact.
I've been a long-time Fiverr user. I've had my share of hits and misses, and it looks like many of you are in the same boat.

Would any of you be interested in Slack group where we can trade Fiverr referrals? If so, I'd be happy to set it up.
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Not trying to be cynical or arch or snarky here. But considering what hospitals charge for things, isn’t it relatively affordable to do drywall work, tile replacement, etc.?
I'm not sure a masters was ever worth it. I have not seen people having any notable difficulty getting jobs without one for the last 30 years. (It may help to get the first job; so far at least, it probably doesn't help much after that.)

The future, though... I would expect that in the future, a proven track record of being able to deliver working code will mean more than a masters. But as the car ads say, your mileage may vary...
"Dogmatic atheist"? I would laugh, but a Google search suggests that people do believe such a thing exists. Are they just talking about outspoken atheists who are openly critical of religion?
When I learned HJKL, I used the following mnemonic: The J key (like the F key) has a little bump at the bottom to indicate the resting position for the index fingers in 10-finger writing. Since the bump is at the lower edge of the J key, that means that J goes down.
There are many other clear examples of courts which have a statistical bias towards certain decisions. A very good example is that of Texas, where the vast majority (about 75%) of patent lawsuits are filed because they very often rule in favour of the plaintiff. This is why patent trolls often file suits in Texas.

The reason for that bias might be more complicated (the view of the local community which will be selected for a jury might be influenced through various means -- but that's a secondary question to the primary point that there is a statistical bias regardless of the reason for it).
Can someone explain to me why it makes sense to dedicate 3Mhz of useful spectrum worldwide to an esoteric group of amateur radio enthusiasts in an era where we have the Internet?

I understand it may be an active community, but it's tiny. Why should this valuable spectrum be set aside for this purpose?

Just go on IRC.
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It's hard to tell, but op may be talking about Wankel rotary motors.
> some parts are worth more than you’d think reasonable...

all parts are worth more than I’d think reasonable.
I have had the experience of doing well on the programming test at the beginning of the process and being rejected for other reasons. Maybe counter-intuitively, that made me less interested in doing such tests, since in that case it wasn't determinative. It's possible that many or most places feel that to ensure someone doesn't cheat on a take-home, they must demonstrate their ability in the in-person interview. Which is logical, but it also makes me think that going through a process starting with a take-home is a waste of my time, as long as it's not a universal requirement.
Just like trucking rockets - it is done with careful planning.
Probably for the "hide read posts" feature.
> If you talk about joining the IS in the West using non-encrypted messaging services, you are more than likely to end up on a watchlist or receive a visit from law enforcement (depending on context and severity) as well.

Aye, but if you get sent to prison for merely talking about it - much less joking - the ACLU and Twitter would have a field day.

> Expressing sentiments akin to Holocaust denial or any other mass tragedy also more than likely invites action from the platform you are on depending on their policy.

EDIT: That's a platform-specific problem - one that I happen to disagree with vehemently. If all speech isn't free, then no speech is.

> I don't see how placing the whole blame on WeChat itself is rational at all.

I'm not. I'm placing the blame on the PRC, of which, unfortunately, major Chinese corporations seem to be an operating arm of.
Would it be possible to require similar signed forms from those below you, until the bottom? If an unwarranted expense was made, the whole chain will be responsible, and the discussion can then finally focus on how to actually specify sane rules and requirements (i.e. normal volumes of low expenses get ignored, larger expenses need to be vetted by multiple people on the same level etc...)
The primary one IMO is patience. Patience technically and with people. A good majority of the CTO job beyond startups is blending the business and technology and speaking/working with people who have little technical chops.

One of the worst traits I see is knee jerk reactions and that extends beyond just a CTO leadership, but it can be horribly debilitating to an engineering team if the CTO isn't calm, focused and deliberate. This is true in small startups and large enterprises.

I also believe great CTO's stay current with technology, this of course is a burden and hard to do as the organization grows large. And in this way I think it is harder to be a great CTO than to be a good CEO, simply because change is so rapid and dynamic in technology compared to say accounting. Accounting does have changes and updates but it is not at the pace of technology.

I personally think having a wide experience across diverse products, projects and industries also helps a CTO be effective. As companies grow a lot of times it isn't custom development so much as integration of large scale systems which run a business that a CTO has to be effective at getting integrated. The challenge there is rarely one of technology but one of negotiations with other executives and getting stakeholder by in. For the longest time CTO's have been stuck at the kids table when it comes to the C suite in larger organizations, this is starting to change for the better but it is still true in most large enterprises. So a great CTO has to develop superior people skills to be effective, IMO.
I would assume that to be the case - when I think of the term I think of "The Four Horsemen" - Hitchens, Dawkins, Dennet, & Harris.
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Banning someone for expressing opinions you disagree with falls in line with some very bad history.

My comment wasnt unsubstantive by any definition of the word. There are countless examples of the govt doing things to lose trust and that is the root cause of many of societies issues.

Banning people from a forum for expressing that thought seems counter to the guidelines you post.
I'm not talking about when there is doubt... I'm literally talking about jury nullification. Why do you keep insisting on setting it up as though I'm saying something else?
Which is more likely to cause an issue, a treatment with no FDA safety approval (but also no history of problems, and possibly safety approval from some other trusted organization) or going without treatment altogether because you can't afford the one with FDA approval and everything else is prohibited?

The existence of uncertified, or just differently certified, options should also put some downward pressure on the prices of the certified options compared to the current monopoly environment. When everyone has to obtain FDA approval there is no incentive to minimize the cost and plenty of reason for established incumbents to make approval as expensive as possible to lock out any potential competition. You can always push for "more safety" above and beyond the level of risk reasonable people would be willing to accept.
If someone breaks into your house to steal your TV, knocks over a candle, doesn't put out the fire and leaves. Are they not to blame for the fire even if they were only interested in the TV?
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I switched to Firefox around the Quantum release on both mobile and desktop and haven't had a crash since. Did you report your crash to Firefox?
So to argue the other side of this, what happens when the internet is not available? Wireless communication is critical in Emergency situations, assuming the internet will always be there misses the point of the amateur band.
There is certainly a brand of atheist who is really only the flipside of a fundamentalist. One reads scripture literally in order to find it infallible, the other reads scripture literally in order to find it impossible.
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That's great, thanks for the answer. Looking forward to seeing you guys continue to innovate in this space.
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But the sum of members, sponsors, and even half-hearted supporters of these and similar organizations does not add up to 1.3 billion or so nationals, no? I don't think it's a liberal or conservative stance to practice arithmetic. You can say that some Mainland Chinese are not trustworthy, but you just cannot conclude that most or all have nefarious intent.

Insisting that all Chinese immigrants (or is it only nationals now?) are likely CCP agents does seem to fit the definition of paranoia. Acting fully on paranoia of this magnitude will just bring about more extreme thoughts--and not to mention expressions of racism given the ambiguity between what being Chinese means in the west. What exactly is the containment and liberation strategy? A repeat of the US's Chinese Exclusion Act, internment camps, and a return to the good ol' "Better dead than red" days?

Every working-age Chinese national I've gotten to know in the US would jump at the chance to get a green card, get citizenship, and get their aging parents over. There's a separate debate to be had there, but my anecdotal experience has shown that most immigrants are motivated by hard work and seeking a better life for them and their family, and not by surreptitious and opportunistic exploitation of their new home.

On soft power for those few that try to project it, they don't seem to be doing well as your links readily show controversies and suspicion. If anything we should be more concerned about soft power projection into Africa and the cheap UN votes it buys.
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Someone over on another forum that sounds like "read it" mentioned that this is likely a non-starter. There are more than a few satellites that operate in this band that cannot be moved to another frequency.

Never mind the fact that there would then suddenly be thousands of radios that could transmit on air band frequencies now in the hands of folks who ain't too happy.
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>GE is "a case study in how rapidly and unexpectedly the global energy transition away from fossil fuels travels up the economic chain and destroys value in the power generation sector," the report says. It points the finger at large shareholders, like Vanguard, BlackRock, State Street and Fidelity, who IEEFA analysts say should be doing more to push companies away from fossil fuels.

Big finance is finally waking up to the fossil fuels transition
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/climate/climate-financial...
Given that Google and Facebook are natural monopolies, what newspapers are demanding seem fair to me. The law just levels the play field. The alternative--breaking up these Internet giants--isn't in the public's interest and probably won't work.
How is that useless or arrogant? Germany used to train with Phantoms and then Tornadoes in Arizona because they didn't want to fly combat training in their own airspace. Same with Italy, and many other countries. It's a wise decision since the Southwest of the US has wide open spaces where they can do elaborate training like Red Flag etc. What would be useless would be to pay a lot of money for fighters, then just have them sit on the tarmac collecting dust (like Germany has with Eurofighter).

Having a military costs money. Living up to treaty obligations like NATO costs money. Trying to have a military on the cheap just ends up with dead troops/pilots/sailors.
> That's going too far.

Maybe, but I don't think so. If anything, I'm understating things.

> The public and businesses have benefited a ton from software written by non-experts and low-quality software.

Yes but that has to be balanced against all the problems and delays and lost work, etc... that low-quality software has caused.

> I think Excel spreadsheets still drive more value creation than most professional apps.

That's what I'm saying: Excel's benefits don't require full-on programmers to reap them, normal everyday people can "program" Excel. It's not the ultimate be-all-end-all program, but it's damn near.

> The people you refer to don't usually write it.

By "it" do you mean Excel or the spreadsheets? I think you mean spreadsheets.

> They mostly go to best paying companies in tech or finance. You could say our baseline is dependent on people with less skill stepping up to do what better developers weren't willing to do.

I'm saying, in a nutshell, that the really good programmers should write infrastructure and "meta-tools" like Excel (or Elm-lang) and most folks should be able to get their daily problems solved and work done without recourse to too much technical folderol.
Well. I got lucky. I was hired as computer operator the year after I graduated based on an internship the year before at the company - I only accepted to get to $big_city.

I was the only one that knew how to program on staff.

So yeah, taking a job as a computer operator took a lot of humility. But, it was either that or be stuck in a small city doing COBOL programming.

Even today, it took a little humility to go from being the dev lead at one company, turning down a dev lead position at another company to become an IC who is officially under less experience team leads. But, I needed to fill in some gaps in my resume.

Off Topic: I think you are one of the few people on the internet that knows the word is “jibe” not “jive”.