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I've seen a couple different camps of OSS. Some people do it to scratch their own itch. Like building a tool because it was fun to do or solved a problem the author had. This is the perfect case for OSS. People rarely care about reuse in this case.

The other case is a project desperately needed by the community and every corporation is making their own internal version of that code. No one really wants to commit the next 10 years of their life to it but someone eventually does sensing the need. The author gets many stars and forks but almost no money. Corporations then want to twist the library to their own specific needs while an individual or small team build a necessary tool but there's no business model. Then either a corporation adopts the repo to keep it going or the author tries to turn it into a business. Both of these outcomes rarely succeed for the wider needed but no one's really willing to pay for it.

These are super broad generalizations. The big problem seems to be when some software is really needed, someone steps in to build it and then no one pays them. Need != business model.
If that term just refers to veteran government workers, why do you refer to them as the deep state instead of the competent state, or government veterans? It would be a lot more understandable and not sound like a conspiracy theory with that wording.
No, a federal law that's as good as or better than CCPA would be great. But they know that's not what will happen.
Mostly you can just need a click event now since "fastclick" can now work on all modern devices (albeit may need meta viewport or CSS).

In my experience writing a component suite I have found I don't use touch[a-z]+ events that much (just like mouse[a-z]+ events don't get used much either).

I would be very careful before believing the promise of Pointer Events, unless you need to be on the bleeding edge for some reason. When I first used Pointer Events, there were heaps of corner cases that bit me hard. I would be especially careful if using them with virtual Dom updates or very dynamic pages - one of the worst pain points was issues with events when elements were deleted/replaced.
Indentation is always like in the example. Haskell has either semantic whitespace of braces everywhere, and nobody uses the braces.
No one can predict what the price will be in a year. Diversifying before a possible recession would be prudent, especially since payment processing volume is presumably highly correlated with consumer spending.
I mean, being able to use bathrooms in government buildings as a non-employee is definitely a service that is being optionally provided to you by the government - and that service is being supported by funding to have those bathrooms serviced and cleaned more often then they otherwise would need to be.
Yeah, I'm curious too. I've got a E-M5.2 and the photos I get on it are consistently better than what I get on my Xr. I mostly shoot in Aperture priority mode, but I switch to full manual in tricky situations. I do very basic editing with Darktable.

Before I bought my E-M5.2 I had an E-PL2, looking at some of the pictures I took with the kit lens they are generally still better than the pictures I've taken on my phone.
New York Post:

"Under the dividend plan revealed July 30, a crypto-payment will be awarded to Overstock shareholders of record as of Sept. 23 on tZero, a blockchain-based trading platform operated by an affiliate of Overstock. The dividends, accessible only through a Dinosaur Financial Group brokerage account, aren’t payable until Nov. 15 and cannot be traded for six months afterward — or May 15, at the earliest."

Dinosaur Financial Group:

"Dinosaur Financial Group is a company of global capital markets experts who operate on the assumption that what you want to do can be done."

You can also read the tZero site, but it reads like every other weirdo ICO token company.
That's how it is with lots of things governed by laws though. Even murderers have to deal with a confusing patchwork of laws and penalties. "Do they have to prove premeditation in this state? Can the degree of the charge be changed at trial? Is there a death penalty?" It's getting so small-time murderers have to have a wall of law books just to do business!
"I wonder if there's a similar decline in other animals that rely on insects, eg bats"

Bats have had a massive population dip in several areas in the americas, up to and including to the point where places bats hibernate to have been forbidden in an effort to stop the spread of a fungus ('White Nose Syndrome') that causes the bat to wake during hibernation, speeding its metabolism and causing it to starve itself. Several species have gone from common to endangered/critically endangered because of this. There's ongoing research as to how bats became more vulnerable to this existant disease- is it higher temps? Toxins?
Returning to WWII is a scaring but it seems that increasing popular idea. We can do it better, and we must do it better this time.
The main lesson of value I took away from this book is to value working software above all the trendy tools and tricks and languages and processes - including what "Agile" itself has become.
Broad wording means companies have to be conservative (collect less data) and less loopholes. That's a win for the ordinary person.
>needed many requests with Stripe support

Could you forward one or two of those to me? edwin@stripe.com
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Amazon tried this, developers just made google based apps. So much of the compatibility libraries are tied in with google service it was impossible. Also even with Huawei size, it's easier just to write it in Google and ignore everyone else.
> HTTP/API endpoint checks and alerts

Do you manually configure these in the web UI? I wasn't able to find an API or repo sync for these last time I looked, and it doesn't seem feasible to manually make sets of synthetics for every environment we manage.
Yep. Fair conclusion thanks for pointing that out.
where is Torvalds?

the hell, where is Sergej Michajlowicz Brin?
If your business is operating so close to the boundary of the law that you could be breaking it in some places but not others, then yea, you should be worried.

If your business operates well above board and is not doing anything close to what might be the danger zone, then you should have nothing to worry about.

It's always the folks walking right next to the cliff complaining about how complicated their path needs to be.
This is BS. They never did that.
my father worked at the Mitsubishi plant for 20-something years. left a few years before they shut down. spent 5 years at Tesla.

he just started at rivian, back in the old Mitsubishi plant.

has to be surreal
The rates were not showing on our receipts. They were showing on the bank statements of our customers. They were charged an extra 2 EUR by their banks as a FOREX fee on the Tomotcha payment, on a line showing the USD/EUR forex rate, despite us charging in EUR. Very weird. That issue was only ever reported by two customers in France.

This is on top of my head, but I will forward you the relevant and exact information.
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Ah yes. Great point.
Tesla is having a hard time these days, but if Elon was at all serious a few years ago he can know he made all the major car makers start to retool.

I never would have thought GM, Ford, and etc. would so seriously commit to making EVs even in the face of all the obvious reasons Elon would publicly explain.
It's unfortunate that this post links a bad CNBC summary, rather than the actual Amazon press release. There's a lot more to Amazon's announcement than just buying electric trucks:

https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-det...
Anybody who doubts whether Stripe is worth $35B just needs to read this comments section

I don't think I've seen a unicorn get this much love from developers
>tell everyone you're a friend, it's not allowed in this building but everyone's doing it" .

I had the same bullshit happen to me a month ago in Hawaii.

More specifically the owner waited for the period where I can cancel to be over before demanding that (among other rules which were reasonable).

When I did not answer his message (I was considering my options, I have no intention to lie for a stranger), he contacted airbnb support who contacted me.

I explained that asking me to lie for him was ridiculous and I that I was ok with a full cancellation. The airbnb support then pressured me to keep the reservation.

The vacation was awesome but this place was pretty meh.

The same kind of issues happened later in Los Angeles.

That's just anecdotal, but I feel that the quality of the experience on Airbnb has really worsened for me in the past 1 or 2 years.

Too many people that (poorly) operate multiple airbnbs at the same time.

As far as I am concerned, hotels are back as my plan A. The prices are comparable with Airbnb in most cases and the experience is WAY less of a headache (no need to search for the keys for 2 hours because the owner tries to hide that there is an airbnb there ...).
aka, buy bitcoin instantly once you've deposited your USD into some partner bank account which you don't have access to but Sparkswap absolutely does.

This isn't really new or interesting and has been shut down repeatedly before because most crypto companies can't handle the fraud mitgation, here's a clue, it's not cheap or easy and can't be automated at this small scale. Instant access to the coins has never really been a boon to anyone other than scammers. The loss of private keys is a huge setback to the consumer and to adoption, which is why Coinbase has been one of the most successful applications within the crypto space.

I don't mean to say that this isn't something idea and shouldn't be done, its just not really interesting or useful.

buuuuuuuuttttttt, then you had to go and say this:
> a real product that solves a real problem and enhances the biggest proven use case in the cryptocurrency industry: buying Bitcoin.

the biggest proven use case in cryptocurrency is... buying crypto...?

I've been in crypto full time for the last 6.5 years and that statement actually makes me want to quit.
Indeed, insect population decline was the first cause that came to mind, and then I read:

> In addition to habitat loss, pesticides may have taken a toll.

Which is also the main cause for insect population decline. I just cannot believe why governments still allow the use of pesticides, it is so damn wrong just for economic purpose.
I mean they also were the first to market Heroine, that hasn't really stopped sales of asprin.
"In the film and media industry, if a film released in theatres fails to break even by a large amount, it is considered a box office bomb (or box office flop), thus losing money for the distributor, studio, and/or production company that invested in it." [1]

Also keep in mind that Hollywood typically inflates costs to avoid taxes and royalties [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biggest_box-office_bom...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
I don’t discredit Booking’s priority on conversion, but Airbnb is also known for prolific A/B experimentation, atleast in the first booking funnel
This is a step in the right direction but it is so generic that it basically corroborates everything that is being done today. Is basically says to big tech co: keep up with the good work.

What we need is laws like this: opt-in is mandatory and very well explained. Stop the "would you help to make XYZ better" and contractors listening private conversations, pictures videos calls and who knows what everywhere.

What we need is: people must have a way bypass all AI automated BS and talk to humans at any given time. Stop the click here, open there, press one, press two, press 99, please hold BS.

I shouldn't be commenting on privacy news because I beleave that by the time we get any real effective regulation for ordinary peoples (not CSS/JS pop-ups everywhere) all peoples PII will be out there in the wild and we will have lost control and ownership of names, SSNs, pictures, voice.

To kentye question is less yownto regulate surveillance economy and more how to live in a world where SIM swapping is everywhere.
I've worked in well-known tech companies, and full-text search is very much alive and well. Sure, semantic search is obviously better. But you immediately add a ton of value to many use cases just with FTS. And upgrading to SS is, in several cases, not important enough to warrant the complexity.
Is there any reason to not just produce a larger binary that contains a code path for every possible (well, probable) page size? Only one code path will be taken at runtime, so it's not like it'll harm cache locality.
People also think we avoided the future predicted by “The Population Bomb” but we didn’t.
I quite like Stripe - but them forcing the recent switch to Checkout V2 has me a bit miffed.

Previously it was super simple to add dynamic card payments to a site - just drop the JS in, make a call to your server and then call Stripe from your server. Done. And it's all done in a popup on the same page (so no context switching UX for the user).

Now it seems they've killed the simplicity of that in favour of a more PayPal-like experience - where the user gets pushed out to the Stripe website to checkout. And it becomes more complex to implement too - due to everything being async and webhook based. At this point I think Paypal might actually be easier to implement for a certain class of simple one-off payments (although their sandbox servers are cripplingly slow).

I'm a little bit skeptical of this change because I think it's partially a strategic play by Stripe (with the smokescreen of SCA-compliance + Apple Pay support) to become more of a user-facing online "wallet", rather than just a behind-the-scenes payment processor.
Any sensible person nowadays stays away from certain discussions. Not sure if that's good or bad. Commenting this makes me a tad uneasy.
We've all already been successfully trolled.

The well has already been poisoned.

Paranoia has now been compounded.

Clarity regarding contemporary domestic political landscape has now been further muddled.

Effective astroturfing was always a secondary objective.
It really, really is a shame that they removed proper extensions. While Safari never had a good extension story, it was at least bearable, and in all other regards its simply the best Mac browser.

Now I have to take a really hard look at switching back to Firefox, and that would be a downgrade in almost every regard I care about. Pity.
> and the competition (except C :P) is improving the whole time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C18_(C_standard_revision)
what would you say are the real pain points that are being solved here?
GOTO was supported in LLVM from the beginning.

The new feature is ASM GOTO. An ASM block is opaque to the compiler, and the compiler treats it similarly to a function call. A called function may contain control flow internal to itself, but can't cause control flow to happen in the caller. ASM GOTO is a new syntax for informing the compiler that this inline ASM may contain a GOTO to a given label. GCC added it around 4.5-ish, and LLVM is adding it in LLVM 9.

*FYI, the name for the thing that GOTO permits which combinations of if and loops doesn't is called "unstructured control flow".
Here is a hint:

Stop working so fucking hard on apps/websites/digital junk that helps no one, except by making your boss rich (be it manager, VC, or otherwise).

If you engage in meaningful work, then it is impossible to get burned out for too long.

Stop being a drone. Take a step back and look at the big picture and ask yourself: what am I coding for? Who is going to use this? Will it help anyone in any meaningful way?

What is "meaningful" is up to you. Just make sure it matters to you and own it. Don't let someone else own it and dictate it to you.

Set yourself free, and cast off the 24/7 toxic work culture of SV that's keen on producing useless shit for problems no one has. Don't let yourself be consumed by the entropy emamanting from startup land. You don't have much time on Earth. Don't give it to unworthy efforts and assholes.
> LLVM will now remove stores to constant memory (since this is a contradiction) under the assumption the code in question must be dead. This has proven to be problematic for some C/C++ code bases which expect to be able to cast away ‘const’. This is (and has always been) undefined behavior, but up until now had not been actively utilized for optimization purposes in this exact way. For more information, please see: bug 42763 and post commit discussion.

This will break all sorts of code. Often we have things that are const for callers of an API but not necessarily for the implementation of an API. Other cases are where an API should have used const but didn't and then got partly constified, and there are places where you still need to cast away const-ness.
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"are you actually asking for someone to purposefully preach to the quire?"

He's both rightfully pointing out that TechCrunch is preaching to one minority choir and asking for another publication to preach to a different choir. Ironically the publication he's asking for was TechCrunch before it was bought by AOL and ruined.
Certainly, and it puts the company at risk of a discrimination suit along with the associated fallout when you have arbitrary whim based termination practices like this.
> Before stripe, I used paypal and it was sooo painful!

Almost no matter what Stripe does from here, that they disrupted the PayPal monster (and the rest), will always reserve them a place in my developer heart. It really was an atrocious experience; there's pre-Stripe and post-Stripe.
Sorry - you aren't going to win this one.

Your argument essentially boils down to "I'm too lazy to do proper business compliance, therefore your rules should be invalidated."
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Each state can choose to be as restrictive as they like in their laws, and each startup can chose to invest in compliance on a wide scale or in the narrow scale as they'd like.

It'd be nice if this was unified but it ain't because:

1. Tech companies lobby like hell at a national level

2. The national government is sort of broken right now

so that's how the cookie crumbles. The fact that a number of companies have skirted local regulations and abused data usage so much is why this is happening, so don't blame the victims of this activity that want sane privacy laws - blame the bad actors that have forced this issue to need to be dealt with.
I also have not had a hard freeze since upgrading to 5.3. Very pleasantly surprised. I've had a few times where things get very laggy, but they pull out of it. I imagine those are the situations where it would freeze up before.
I've been working in environmental advocacy for about 8 years. I'm pretty sure we won't go extinct. I am also pretty sure this era of peace and prosperity is coming to a close. I think new technical solutions are coming, but I don't think they're getting here fast enough to guarantee that every country will get enough food. I recommend your children move to higher latitudes and altitudes.
"i'm not sure how it's the wrong context, but no matter."

Actually, this is important. The original article talks about government subsidies in the renewable energy market. It's only talking about direct subsidies and tax breaks, not externalities. In response, someone posted an IMF report about subsidies in the fossil fuel market as a comparison. This report does include externalities. This means that we are not comparing apples to apples. It creates the impression that governments directly gave $5.2T to fossil fuel companies in 2017, which is not the case.

My broader point though, is that the distinction between an externality and a government policy meant to deal with that externality is a useful and important distinction to make. Some people on this thread seem to be arguing that because they see no moral distinction between the two (this is debatable but doesn't matter to my argument,) that there should be no semantic distinction, but I disagree, and strongly.

For one, these things are measured differently, and the government policy is usually set in terms of the externality. Subsidies and taxes directly impact a government's budget whereas externalities don't (at least not in the same way) which matters when doing public accounting. Subsidies and taxes are mandated by law whereas exxternalities exist as a result of economic activity. Externalities can also be addressed by means other than taxes or subsidies.

By way of analogy, consider the reverse. There are both positive and negative externalities. We sometimes subsidize industries in order to encourage positive externalities. For example, schooling is often publicaly funded in first world nations because having an educated populace is a positive externality. If an untaxed negative externality is the same as a subsidy then it stands to reason that an unsubsidised positive externality is a tax. If in improving the appearance of my home I improve the value of my neighborhood (a positive externality) did I just get taxed the value of my neighborhood's value increase and am I owed a subsidy as a result? I think that most people would answer 'no'.
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The history of metaphysics is people denying that they're doing metaphysics. Materialism and scientific realism in science and various forms of Platonism and structuralism in mathematics are just too prevalent for people to even notice them at this point.
So if you need a beta tester for a Linux client, you know who to ask!

And I just double-checked and it looks like I'm only backing up a little less than 2TB in Crashplan after all.
I wasn't aware that US doesn't need a civil society since a part of the population has made mockery of the system have committed crimes and many are in jail.
I don't get how the author claims that removing the trade restriction on these digital shares removes the market manipulation angle. The short squeeze already happened! The market was already manipulated!
My favorite example is:

If a purchaser calls a suppler from state Y from state X and ask to buy something. Which laws do I follow?

* The purchaser follow laws from state X

* The supplier from state follows laws from state Y

* We then pay any duties to ship from state Y to state X

This is the way things have been done, since, well... forever. No one thinks it's weird if this kind of business is conducted in person or over the phone.

Now, with the internet - it's believed that the supplier must now take on the burden of knowing the laws for purchaser - that's kind of strange.

The supplier is not operating in country X, so it probably wont be punished by country X.

Anyway, as a developer and maintainer of making a fair amount of cross boarder trade. I host my servers in one location, the state in which I operate. Good luck punishing me.

The reality is that my only burden is the state in which I operate, otherwise we're interfering with the sovereignty of the state in which I reside... don't think they'll like that. Good luck challenging that one.
> omplex hashes/collections data structures that end up reinventing the oop wheel (and the problem the wheel was solving in the first place)

I don't think I know what you mean here...Typically wheel-reinventing in FP languages happens because the stuff in the OOP/Imperative languages require a lot of mutation, which doesn't really jive in FP land for a whole plethora of reasons.

> It feels like a false choice and you can have rich FP capabilities in a language that supports objects and relationships between objects.

Sure, I'm partial to F# myself, but at some level I get frustrated when people try and mix paradigms too much. C++ has this problem of trying to be everything, and as a result it is very hard to read large C++ codebases. Scala isn't quite as bad, but it has similar problems.