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In fairness, real (Trident) Edge fakes the Chrome UA. But yeah all iOS browsers are just WebKit.
There is no "unique personal identifier"; I have some ideas on how to track recurring visits without such an ID, but that's something for the future.

Perhaps I should clarify the README on this a little bit.
Current state-of-the-art in this realm is probably around areas like "self-assembly" and "complex systems". The idea that simple rules locally can eventually given long enough time scales organize into highly functional long range orders.

Can "artificial life" really shed insights into what may turn out to be a huge contradiction from this assumption? It's certainly worth exhausting the negative case. But that would leave us right back to where we are today. With nary a clue as to how biogenesis came to be ;)
Joel agreed with you. Better community management should have merged the Q&As, and perhaps had a better system for branching or sub-discussions.
Selling the company should count as selling the data unless the data gets scrubbed on company sale.
> Why anymore so than if YOU go to a strip club?

Two reasons:

1) People in the spotlight (like politicians) are expected to behave as role models. Especially where moral values are concerned, one can reasonably demand that politicians live according to the same standard as they demand from the citizens. Otherwise, it rapidly devolves into "rules for thee but not for me", destroying trust in the fairness of democratic institutions.

2) In close conjunction with #1, behavior like cheating on one's wife or other (mostly sexual) deviance is either considered socially inacceptable or at least to be damaging to relationships. This creates leverage for bad actors, known as "Sexpionage" - the "kings" here of course are the Russian KGB/FSB who are at least rumored to have actual material of the current US president.

Basically, the public should demand transparency and decent behavior from politicians and other state officials to make sure they are not subject to extortion attempts no matter by foreign states, criminal organizations or by legitimate mega-corporations.

> Because one SUPPORTS a specific policy, does not mean one has to LIVE their life by that policy.

The more radical you appear, the more scrutinized your behavior will be. No one's gonna bat an eye about the contents of your trashcan if you're just supporting a law mandating recycling... but if you are the major initiator of a law or lead public campaigns for recycling, prepare for being in the spotlight.
It's not always who profits - often it's who will it cost to fix it and generally what will the effects of fixing it be. Inertia is powerful, so perceived cost will result in people who are actively harmed by a broken system deciding they don't want it fixed.
No, they give data for specific accounts being wiretapped to the FBI. The FBI is a participant in the PRISM program.
My gut reaction is it’s a choice. Nobody’s forcing you to do anything. That seems like a self-pitying victim framing, but I might be over-reacting too. If you want the option to not work, then yes accruing debt might be a bad idea. Going to college at all might seem strange if you don’t want to work at all, or you want to retire at 20. In that case, you’re consciously choosing to opt-out of a high salary, which is a fine choice, it just doesn’t actually equate to being forced either way.

I prefer thinking of it as my active choice that gives me a better option to achieve my goals. My plan (like most people, I think) was to work for 45-50 years before I retire, so 12.5 years is a small fraction. Having gone to college, I am enjoying a larger salary than I would have had otherwise for 45-50 years, and in my case my loans were paid off in 4 years.
You should look into the "Chinese room" thought experiment [0], this line of thinking has been explored pretty thoroughly by people taking some position relative to that.

[0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/
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I think the same thing; people are overthinking this maybe because somehow we need to be special (in the absence of aliens).

Interesting article though; we won’t know until we understand/recreate it and if we never do, we won’t know.
And I think it would be naive and idealistic to think that the composer/songwriter/musician/performers don't have a roll in selling the music. Do I want to go to a concert where a computer is rolled out on stage and I hear amazing music, or do I want to see a performance with lighting and a performer working the crowd? The performance and the personalities of the performers are as much a part of the musical experience as just hearing sounds in headphones, in my opinion.
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Perhaps CANdevStudio would be what you are looking for?

https://github.com/GENIVI/CANdevStudio
In Gmail you can search by dates. And for convenience I've a filter for from me to me with journal title.

Stats wouldn't be possible (of the top of my head) but I don't care about that much.
Both rather dead because you get to chase Microsoft, and even Mono cannot achieve that.

Short: they're not portable beyond Windows.
There would be oversight where there is not currently b/c of the motivation of taxes. No one suggested paying taxes on illegal activity would make it legal - but it would create a papertrail.
But it will become a productive question when/if machines start becoming complex enough to be considered "intelligent." Does a machine deserve political rights? Some would say that yes, if it has consciousness. But then what do we mean by consciousness? It's a tricky question and the answer has serious implications in ethics.

Labels have consequences in social and political realms, even if they don't necessarily have them in physical science ones.
Throwing out big numbers doesn’t really approach any conclusion on its own.

The concept of inflation alone means that consumer debt would logically be at its highest at any given time. All your numbers besides the average credit card debt per person would also need to account for population increase - and having consumer debt of 120% GDP debt doesn’t sound bad at all when you consider home mortgages.
Apparently if you build a low-tech commodity product you can get a $multibillion valuation as long as you have a charismatic millennial for a CEO and an overly-excitable charismatic VC. I'll bet you could even do it by leasing buildings, chopping them up, remodeling them, and subleasing them as coworking spaces!
mmm, isn't Austin bigger than Boston? I'm not sure what you mean there.
Even then, assembly is too high level.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eunYrrcxXfw

And then we get into hardware design...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_eSAF_qT_FY
They're a specific sort of person in this scenario, literally someone who has a stake in the outcome of the situation I'm describing. Is it dehumanizing to call someone who writes code a "software developer" instead of a "person"?

Generally I agree with you and I hate the term "resource" as it's used, but I really don't agree that this is one of those cases. I could have said, "people" but in this instance it would make what I said less specific.
Joscha Bach has an interesting take on how to combine idealism with materalism. See for example his 'The Ghost in the Machine' talk at 35C3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3K5UxWRRuY
Was this legal? Did the government crack down on USD handlers?
A great achievement, congrats!

Although, it may never top your blog circa 2001, it's a fine achievement nonetheless.
For enterprises Adobe Analytics is actually the industry leader, and there are a few other options as well.

For startups there's plenty of options, mixpanel is probably my favorite.

Google Analytics probably has more users because of ease of use for small business but I wouldn't say it's a space without competition.
You are not alone but is a gross oversimplification that of course doesn't explain a LOT of phenomenon.

Check this 9min David Chalmers interview about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK1Yo6VbRoo&feature=emb_titl...
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We are too expensive for them, it seems.
> If I'm correct, then an illusion of consciousness makes complete evolutionary sense.

If you are correct, then actual consciousness would make sense as well, wouldn't it?
Sorry, but this barely scratches the surface.

The key problem of consciousness is not what we have an experience of (eg. "you're a real thing that thinks and feels"). It's the fact that it is possible to have any experience at all.

Yes, it seems quite likely that a great deal of what we are conscious of is an "illusion" created in our brains, albeit some rather handy illusions. But that doesn't get even one step closer to the core philosophical problem of how we (or anything else) is able to experience anything at all (including the illusion of being a real thing that thinks and feels)
Google and apple manage to do it.

I don't want a subsidized phone not does the average person. The frustrations I have to help people with when they go into that shitty version is always met with "why do they do they, why do I have two contact apps?"
IMO being a good engineering manager is quite subjective and varies across companies and even teams. The traits of a good engineer would roughly be the same across companies and would be ranked according to knowledge, work experience and quality of code etc. And since a software engineer reports to an engineering manager, expectations are also based on the views of one person.

Upper management in different companies would have different expectations from what an engineering manager should be. Some would want them to code, some wouldn't. Some would want them to utilize developers as much as possible while some would want them to keep work life balance of developers in mind.
Same with teams. A much younger team would have vastly different views on what a good manager is compared to a team which is filled up of more senior people. A younger team might want the EM to be more hands-on while a senior team would want more autonomy.
Then you also have HR and feedback from various teams to deal with. Company culture and popular managers would also drive some of the traits of an engineering manager.

Having been an EM for multiple teams I've had to change my management style multiple times to better suit change in higher management and different teams. But I've always been appaled by how less content exists for learning about engineering management. Nice to see someone focus on this area!
I really like the layout of the page and your manner of speaking. Both are web design ideals I strive for. I also want people to write more :)

Little nitpick - try out your signup page on Firefox mobile and you will see a one character width input field for the email input box :)
Right—that significant amounts of labor (=human life) go into this kind of waste that everyone involved knows is a joke, and that the non-joke variety is rarely treated much differently, both contribute to what's scary about it.
Tesla will.
It's a cycle. We have to go through the socialism so people see how bad it gets.

People forget people aren't inherently nice when it comes to survival.
The app is cool man good work! old school boy here made an vi alias to my journal.txt file and have been using it for 5+ years. alias opens the file in edit mode on a newline at the bottom. VI search lets me find whatever i need quickly all from the keyboard!

This whole 'email yourself as diary' seems like overkill to me when you could just write something yourself. Unless you are cool with sharing your diary with 3rd party services. Anyways it's still a cool little thing, just throwin my two cents.
This is only because politicians think people care about their personal lives instead of furthering the agenda they were elected for.

Trump is a perfect example of this:

Many evangelicals will look the other way when confronted with his personal life, because he is putting structures in place to further their agenda.
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Right, the illusion hypothesis isn't consistent and also can't explain Qualia.
You know, some companies and some countries have full paid parental leave for fathers, too. A biopharm I worked for allowed 12 weeks of paid leave to fathers. In some cases you’d be in the same predicament with males. Also, you’re overvaluing productivity.
Microsoft has no relationship with the NSA in PRISM according to the Snowden leaks. The slides show they handle wiretaps for specific people under court order for the FBI, which we already knew.
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If you haven’t seen it yet, his episode in the show “Extras” is fantastic.
Only homophobia there is the kind you imagined into it.

Article discusses european privacy laws as they relate to romantic/sexual preferences/arrangements that stopped being taboo long ago. At the same time, most european countries have no strong protection of political free speech, so you can be fined or jailed for unpopular opinions--which in many cases, tech companies are required to report.

And even in the US, where we do have constitutional protections, if my helicopter vid in the grinder profile leaks, it's like, "oh gee, i sure hope mom doesn't see" whereas, if the bossman finds out that i'm boycotting sabra hummus on FB, i lose my damn job.

edit: I like privacy, but thanks to technology, now it's a losing battle. A better arrangement would be if we just didn't exploit/destroy people for any leakages/revelations about their inner lives.
This smells like gatekeeping at it's finest.
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And for everyone who visits this outside of incognito, prepare to be contacted as your email address is exposed...
In fairness, highlighting the right button for your OS and showing an 'other downloads' button is really a 'You' problem that probably only affects less than half of 1% of users. Almost all sites also show a 'other OS downloads' button. But this is all meaningless, as shown above, UA will be replaced by a client hint property.
Possibly, but I can’t find any data that would adjust for household size. Either way, you can see the top two deciles running away with the fruits of the past few decades.
Solution: use one of the hundreds of alternatives to Gmail.
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Health insurance too. Most people in the US are a handful of unlucky mutations away from bankruptcy. Money may not buy happiness, but it certainly buys hospital care.
It's for this reason I bookmark the 37signals blog section "Bootstrapped, Profitable and Proud" [0], which is a set of posts about small companies who are just out there selling stuff. No VCs, no term sheets. Just small business, like the ones we're told America is built on.

It honestly gets tiring reading about the latest "unicorn" company that's valued at a billion plus despite grossing nowhere near that and never making a profit.

[0]: https://basecamp.com/bootstrapped
I remeber the same argument but it was applied to asp.net webforms, the stateful monster that MS created to usher desktop devs to the web world.. That was a crutch that turned out to be quite bad in the end, lots of new devs that came that route had a problem understanding that the web is a stateless protocol.
Probably faster than C ;-)
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>If you assume humans have not evolved significantly over the past 20,000 years, you have to wonder what all the geniuses were doing.

They were mostly preoccupied trying to stay alive. Also, any physical defect could be a death sentence. Have poor vision, you get eaten by a lion that you didn’t see. Unable to keep up with the tribe, you get left behind.
GoatCounter doesn't do a lot of these things ... yet, but it's definitely planned.

I'm a little bit hesitant to look too much at GA, since I don't to just make an "open source GA". In a lot of jobs I worked at we were essentially just "making a shit copy of a shit product", to put it crudely. I really want to avoid doing that.

So the way may be quite different, but the goal of providing meaningful business insights is definitely there.
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>> First, without a huge amount of collusion, somebody would release the cure to beat everyone else's treatment.

Unless the same party owned the treatment and cure. Dont you see this everyday with x-AAS subscriptions? I mean, they could sell you the software once, but instead it is a service. I've already paid for MS Office three times over because of the service cost
I have mixed feelings on this. On the other hand, I knew some people above me who are still stuck on useragent sniffing as the "way to go."

On the other hand, I did use it in combination with other techniques to provide some real information. At one point I had a hard-to-even-track kind of problem, with difficulty even looking for common trends. I created a help form for the user. Please fill out when this occurred, where you were (this mattered), what OS were you running, what browser, and so forth. What I found using the UA (and backed by other tricks) was that many users, young users who were enrolled in college, were not only unaware of their browser or operating system version but the OS itself.

Its utility began its decline when the browser makers began copying one another wholesale. It's kind of a shame. Capability-testing is better but for some troubleshooting applications, having something particular to pin your problems to is handy.
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That has been confirmed this morning in the linked article.
It's not a lie lol our pain and the pain of others is important and worth caring about. If it's not, then what is? Nothing.. so far as I can see.

If that's a lie then you're going to have to define what it means to lie before I would acknowledge a lie is any different from the truth.
> If you want to argue that individual atoms are incapable of feeling, then you need to explain how the interaction of atoms brings something distinctly non-physical into being.

How do you know it is nonphysical? How is it more nonphysical than "rain" or "red" or "planet". Neither of these things shows up in any law of physics.

> We already know atoms in aggregate experience something.

What do you mean by "experience"?

> the position you're arguing against is well supported

The position I'm arguing against provides no predictions. I can make even better theory if you value that: "everything happens because of magic". I'll call it the ultimate theory of everything, because it explains everything and cannot be disproved.
> Hint: if Apple allowed apps to run indefinitely in the background, it would be less than a month before almost every app "needs to run in the background", for user-unfriendly reasons. And battery life would drop to a couple of hours.

This doesn't happen on Android. The reason it doesn't is that the app has to display a persistent notification if it wants to run with high priority in the background. This is why I'm an Android user. It lets the user do what they need to do and prevents apps from being abusive.

Every excuse for Apple's platforms failings that I have seen so far has a better solution on Android that the Apple apologist has not heard of.
They are adding a property for this. A browser will expose a bunch of 'I Support this' flags and client hints rather than a browser version.
Orson Scott Card's sequels to Ender's Game explored the idea that consciousness is defined by an elementary particle, and emergent properties merely define the experiences that such consciousness has.
Games do an excellent job at abstracting it out. Here's a nice thesis on game systems [PDF]: https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/1167817/102082_thesis.pdf

Duhigg's The Power of Habit, and some of his other books also do a good job at applying one principle across many fields.
This is the story of a young founder who is scared and trying her best at an impossible task. And young employees who believed they were allowed to get the job they wanted at the company they wanted.

But that's not how the system works. You need to vote with your feet - you don't like it, leave and let them know you aren't going to put up with it. Without that, we're all just arguing about what's ok and what's not. Don't complain, vote!
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A few days ago a weekly letter I wrote myself called Dear Nick that I BCC a few close friends. I love doing it now

Please steal the idea if you like!

http://nickcammarata.com/writing/two-experiments-2019
The position you describe is known as "eliminative materialism":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliminative_materialism

I find this position absurd for the following reason:

> The illusion of consciousness is obviously beneficial.

Yes, but who experiences this illusion? This explanation begs the question.
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These are all very traditional system modeling problems...
I 100% read "Dairy Email" until the page loaded. I thought you figured out how to email me milk.
In which way does it 'fail to deliver on its main promise' and how is the developer experience 'quite poor'?
Communicate, co-ordinate, and delegate feels like a great sound bite for what entry level management is.
I used it for a while, and found the UX really hard. YMMV, but I wasn't happy with it.

Also, the hosted version isn't free, and self-hosting is also comparative expensive (vs. free) and time-consuming. IMHO any serious GA alternative should have a free hosted option. I wrote about that a bit more in-depth yesterday over here: https://lobste.rs/s/ooag4u/goatcounter_1_0_release#c_o76csv
> If we have those bits, then the user can make a set of choices once, for every site, and we get rid of cookie pop-ups

That one was tried with the DNT bit - of course users ended up en masse setting it to "do not track" by default. Sites won't accept that.
This seems particularly unhelpful for bug reporting systems. Being able to see a specific bug is only happening on Chromium 78 for Linux can save a lot of time and frustration. In theory the user can fill in the details on a bug report themselves, but it's hard enough to persuade them to copy paste the crash message we generate for them at the moment.
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That's not a problem since you're just going to quickly be rewriting it all using this new language, framework, development methodology, deployment mechanism and infrastructure technology that solves all the old problems so surely it'll fix these problems too.
Why the downvotes? It would be great to hear why my observation is incorrect if you disagree.