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Personally, I agree (although I haven't actually read any books yet, but I'm interested). But I would much rather spend 100% of my time playing the game and 0% learning mechanics than I would spend 50% of my time playing and 50% learning mechanics. I imagine the anti-self-help attitude comes from looking at the 50/50 (or more extreme) people.
As someone that programs as well, giving admin access to programmers generally makes sense. In a perfect world however, I'd rather give you your own sandbox to mess up and not your desktop so that when the next wave of patches get pushed out, I don't have to worry about your box not being like everyone else's because you altered the 'expected' state of the desktop the patches / configs were designed for.

Sans perfect world, as long as set ground rules are in place, any reasonable IT person should be ok with this request.
The world on its head, we need an article on hackernews to tell us how 90% of the users are experiencing the web. ;)
In distributed computing, which is the kind of computing that tends to go on in data centres, there are two types of problem - large amounts of CPU on relatively small amounts of data, or small amounts of CPU on a relatively large amount of data.

The former is generally found in scientific computing (say, protein folding studies, or SETI@Home). In these kinds of problems, it's acceptable to have a widely distributed system with significant latency between nodes, because even though it takes you a long time to move the data across to another node, it's offset by the time you save in having another CPU perform work on it.

The latter is generally what you find in the business and web applications that are generating most of the heat in data centres today. These are things like stats aggregation, building search indicies, or plain old DB seeks. In these cases, it often doesn't make sense to distribute the work out over a connection with high latency, since by the time you've done that, performed a relatively cheap CPU operation on it, and sent it back down the wire, it would have been quicker just to queue it up locally and let the same node deal with when it had some CPU slots spare.

In other words the higher the latency between nodes, the less efficient the entire system becomes, and the less economical horizontal scaling becomes. In addition, there's a ton of extra overhead to maintain concurrency when latency is high.

It could be great for some niche problems though - like CDN, P2P relays, or local backup for nearby machines.
What new technologies would you deem relevant?
I don't know about this feedback idea.

While there's certainly the matter of personal taste and preference involved, a general idea on what is acceptable and what not should be part of the site owner's common sense. If you present ads with sound / huge overlays that I need to click away in a weird way you are trying to screw me. Why would I _not_ block the ads or (better) ignore the site?

If we would have a good and standard way to give feedback, wouldn't the sites just gravitate towards the maximum of tolerable advertisement abuse?
I don't understand the idea that mustache is logicless.

Why is something that shows a message "only if person has a truthy value":

{{#person}}
Hi {{name}}!
{{/person}}

different from an `if` (except it becomes a `for` depending on the value of the argument)?

As long as you use values consistently it is never the case that a single person object referred by a variable "person" transforms into a set of people.
Since most ad blockers are whitelist-only, I assume that people using a blacklist ad blocker are explicitly blocking sites with annoying ads. Of course that's merely a generalization based on how I think I would use it.

If the stats are shown historically, a site owner could see that after a redesign or some changes on their site, or maybe after signing up with a new ad vendor, that there was a spike in their ad blocks and rethink their design or deal with said vendor.

I don't know if any of this would play out as I'm visualizing it, but I do feel opening up the conversation between site-owner and visitor to figure out what can be considered useful advertising is good for everyone.
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The issue comes down to a few factors.

1) The ECB has adamantly maintained that no banks will be allowed to fail. I assume this is because they are worried about contagion.
2) Germany, France and UK banks lent a lot of money to the PIGS.
3) In order to avoid bailing out their own banks (again), Germany and France encouraged the PIGS to take money from them (at high rates of interest) in order to recapitalise the banks of france and germany (and the UK, but they've been less active here).

It was total real politik, but unfortunately it hasn't worked, and the markets have now copped that it isn't going to work. Hence the continuing crisis.

Germany also have little incentive to fix the crisis, as they are benefiting disproportionately.

Ireland is a special case, as the reason Ireland had to ask for a bailout is the corrupt former government guarenteed a cowboy bank that was funding their previous elections.

I agree with you that its total insanity, but no-one appears to be able to say stop.
Frequent physical component failures mean cloud/furnace engineers would have to knock on people's doors all the time.

"Hi, I'm from the Internet. Your furnace is beeping? Yeah, I've got a spare uhm.. heating element."
Hahaha-Except this isn't a landgrab when all you need is better user acusition or value propostion. Facebook has won identity, but not networking. Twitter? Reddit? Ask an average America, let alone global citizen what networks they use, not either.

Lots of opportunity.
As I began reading this, I thought "ugh, someone making hyperbole about how terrible they thought ads were on the web" (I seriously doubt anyone has been able to do NO adblock-free browsing in 10 years, while using VMs, other computers, family computers, etc.). And then I read the part about clicking an ad, and... wow. I've never thought to click an ad before. Even an ad for a product I want to buy right then, I assumed would take me to some shady site or the main site only via some shady pop-up or something. I kind of really want to see what clicking ads does now.
You're probably right. I personally have no idea. I've sustained a site with ads once in my career and I've never understood why anyone even bothered looking at the ads much less clicking them.

I figure if a site's ads are annoying I can still block the ads - just that it could be helpful for the site owner to know that I am Explicitly blocking their ads. I suppose my thoughts on opening a channel of communication is to say that I don't mind ads as long as they're respectful of my purpose for visiting a site, and that communication is better than trial and error.
One thing the article didn't mention, which I've been considering in regards to this problem: an RF-based internet alternative would be prone to all sorts of other forms of government interference/monitoring. The U.S. government already has serious resources at its disposal for the purpose of intercepting or jamming RF transmissions. For "intercepting," this includes high-power decryption capabilities, and for "jamming" this includes noise jamming but also spoofing and signal insertion. So even if an RF mesh-network of some sort were to be established, the government would be able to:

1: Know exactly where every transmitter is. This means they can find you in meatspace even more easily than they can on the hard-wired internet.

2: Listen in on your transmissions without all of the legal issues associated with wiretapping. To make sure they can do so, they would probably need to pass a law prohibiting the use of many types of cryptography on unlicensed RF transmissions. Such a law would be much easier to sell to the general public "because the terrorists could be using it to coordinate attacks." If you break this law, expect a knock on your door almost instantly because of #1, above.

When you combine #1 and #2, busting "pirates" becomes trivially easy: somebody sees a "suspicious" file in your transmissions, localizes your transmitter, and a few minutes later you get a knock on your door.

There's other stuff, like injecting false traffic, etc.
Because IT is viewed as a department that is staffed by sub-par engineers, and a discipline that is less demanding than, say, software development. This then feeds into hiring standards and compensation levels and voila it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
An easier solution than forking Adblock Plus to add per-site configurations would be to create a custom filter list. Instead of subscribing to popular Adblock lists like Fanboy's List or EasyList, create a minimal filter list that just blocks the most egregious ads. I'm sure quite a few people might opt for such a list because they hate annoying ads, but feel like that want to support sites they like (by viewing their ads).
Academica has a data center in central Helsinki where the excess heat goes to the heating network used for nearby apartment buildings.

In Finnish: http://www.abb.fi/cawp/seitp202/91553a3dd19688b8c12577350036...
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CS/CE offer no discernable value to the IT scene, unfortunately. Define 'take care'. Not install spyware knowingly? Ok great. How about making sure that software you install don't conflict with regular updates that are made to all systems every month? Or what about making sure that you're not introducing problems in the areas of authentication or monitoring, by changing specific settings or services that are running for a purpose. Unless you have ever worked in IT, you likely have very little knowledge on the havoc you could cause for seemingly simple changes.

As for JRE vs. VLC, how do you JRE's status isn't simply a false negative? How many applications in your organization actually utilize the JRE? Is it a non-issue? Are you aware if there are any measures already taken to mitigate known JRE exploits? There is quite a large difference between exploits that exist in an environment vs. those that exist in an application that you actively execute.

Granted I'm not defending the specifics, I personally think VLC is likely fine. But that doesn't change the points made above. In IT, it's always better to go with the devil you know, than the devil you don't.
Am i the only one who never uses an adblock? I have two reasons for that, first is that it seems unfair to use a site and not pay back in a meaningful way. Almost like stealing. Second is that i don't visit a huge number of unique sites every day and the ones i visit are respectful enough to not make nuisance. I rarely come across any super annoying ad. I am kind of surprised how others simply take it for granted that everyone else uses an adblock. I have been living very well without an adblock for last 5 years.
"Facebook is to build a new server farm on the edge of the Arctic Circle – its first outside the United States – to improve performance for European users, officials of the social networking site said Thursday." - http://huff.to/vHOqne
Adblock for Chrome - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gighmmpiobklfepjoc...
have an option where you can "Show ads everywhere except for these domains..." (screenshot - https://skitch.com/brajeshwar/gmw2e/adblock-options). Isn't that what you're looking for?
Germans worked hard producing goods which they turn around and send to people outside Germany. This is a net loss for the Germans.

There is a lot of truth to that. It's important to keep in mind that Germany as a whole is doing that voluntarily, though. It is a (more or less) conscious political choice to be a net exporting nation, and it was achieved by (among other things) systematically depressing the real wage development in Germany by political means.

So the German position is really schizophrenic (and I'm saying that as a German). On the one hand, Germany has for the last ten years given presents (in real terms) to the rest of the world. But now Germans are saying that they don't want to give presents (aka bail outs) to other European countries, even while they insist on continuing to give presents (aka net exports) to other countries.

It is a self-contradicting policy.

The problem is that Germany - at least the German elite - benefited in the sense that accumulating financial assets against the rest of the world implicitly increases the power that Germany has over the rest of the world. So Germany is in this very powerful position right now, where nobody can effectively challenge the insanity of their self-contradicting policies, at least from the outside.

From the inside it is very hard work as well, because unfortunately the media campaigns in favor of net exports have been so effective that most regular people believe in their benefits.
I still don't get what the difference autonomous makes. You can rent a car today. If one seaters were practical they would be rentable. Autonomous isn't going to change that.

Autonomous sounds great - but not because of car or engine size.
I found the recent Stanford AI & ML course approaches interesting.
Isn't that what most people do, though? And most people are not living the optimal version of their lives, or anywhere close (optimal being defined as the life one wishes one had).

Before I started reading self-help materials, I was intellectually gifted but I was a mess in terms of communication with others, emotional stability, self-limiting beliefs, knowledge of possibilities in life, luminosity aka self-insight, strategicness aka getting shit done with a plan, etc.

Studying self-help materials for the past 5 years is the most important thing I've done in my life (a quite dramatic statement perhaps, but that's how it feels to me).

That's why I get a bit upset and argumentative when people slam self-help: it's a bit like saying I shouldn't have wasted my time reading all those things, and instead should have just plodded on in darkness.
This is so true. The AMA and FDA are really the enemies of the public, countless suffering has occurred because of them.
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For what is worth, the "Before git and mercurial, merging was a nightmare in most monolithic source control systems" seems like a heavy misconception for me. How many people actually tried? The pypy project was using heavy branching and merging on svn and it worked just fine. The only "drawback" was that everyone had to have commit rights to the main repo. I say "drawback" because liberal policies to giving commit rights never ended up badly. Actually newcomers with commit rights are always more careful than old contributors.
Wishing growth on Italy and Greece is a noble cause.

But it is not really Germany's fault that Italy's and Greece's leadership decided to push their heads into the sand for so long.

These issues were known for decades, the core of EU spent a lot of effort trying to bring up the subject and the usual response from the fringe was that: "We are sovereign nations, this is strictly our business and you can kindly fuck off!"

It is not Germans fault that people across south decided to vote for populist governments, while they were busy reforming their economy.

The way Germans see it probably is that if they succumb to pleas for unconditional help from south - the EU is certainly doomed in the long run. If they do not, the Euro might be doomed, but the EU has a chance of rebirth in the long run.

Europe is on a sort of crossroads the Yugoslavia was on in the late 70's, early 80's - when the Yugoslav leadership decided, that we can borrow our way out of this, the aftermath is well documented I believe.
Ha, good one.
If you could change your perception of the world, what would you change it to?
How does land use have anything to do with pollution?
Even if ads are less obtrusive then they once where .. the thing that really annoys me when using a browser without an ad blocker is page loads getting hung up waiting on responses from ads.somedomain.com
Yeah, but then, the town is also now on the hook for police and fire service (and probably a variety of other non-obvious costs) for a huge datacenter, though the company is paying discounted taxes...
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Your point about the US is valid. However as their national debt is $15 trillion they aren't exactly a model economy.

Why are people so obsessed about the debt of sovereign governments these days?

Think about it like this: there is (virtual) money in MMO games. Gold in World of Warcraft, ISK in Eve Online, or whatever. In an in-world accounting sense, this money is a debt (liability) of whoever runs the system. But it is ridiculous on the fact of it to worry about the total amount of money in those systems.

So why is their this obsession with the debt?

The most immediate reason is this gut reflex of "it needs to be paid back". But what one has to realize is that, for a monetary sovereign, paying back the debt is just exchanging one type of liability against another. The debt is money that has already been spent. Paying it back does not create new financial assets, it is just an asset swap. Why on earth would that be problematic?

The other objection is that the interest paid on debt causes an undue redistribution of wealth. That point is one of ignorance: a monetary sovereign effectively sets the interest rate that it pays on its outstanding debt - that is what the monetary policy of the central bank is about.

Seeing the true nature of money is initially scary, and perhaps this is what stops many from a deeper understanding. I can only hope that future generation will make fun of us for the way we are thinking about money.
Please look up "where" and "were" in a dictionary. I couldn't focus on the content of the article because I had to reread every sentence containing one of those words.
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Shameless plug: I wrote an essay called "Tony Robbins über alles: or why I'm such a gigantic self-help junkie".

Some of y'all might like it, some probably won't. Take it for what it is: my somewhat sound defense of my overly costly self-help habit :)

It's the first article in this pdf: http://interestingtimesmagazine.com/archive/IT07.pdf
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Reddit has changed to such a degree that plenty of its early users want an alternative that doesn't currently exist.

The site is involved in a tug-of-war between users who want quality news articles and those who want pictures and jokes, with the latter overwhelming the site. It's not hard to imagine a successful competitor appealing to the more mature crowd, especially since Metcalfe's Law does not apply to the same degree with social news sites since a social news site only needs a few hundred active users to be useful.

Facebook is very entrenched and difficult to compete with. It's the universal identity directory that the Internet has always needed since the start. Very hard to directly compete.

I'm still not sure I completely 'get' Twitter. I think it's used for many purposes, many of which could be eroded by rather different and more specialised services. Its 'spying on celebrities' niche seems pretty entrenched, though.
You've got it the wrong way around. At least according to the official rules, none of the member countries can benefit from the ECB system.

The ECB has broken that rule because they realized that if they stick too tightly to it, they risk a breakup of the Eurozone, and that would eliminate their power base. By giving the least possible amount of support to troubled countries, they hope to stay in power - at the cost of the real living standards of the peoples of those countries, of course, as you can see with a quick look at the double-digit unemployment rates there.

The Euro could become a tragedy of the commons, but it isn't one at this point in time. It is more an example of Wile E. Coyote running into the air since 2000 until, around 2008-2009, he realized that there is no longer any ground beneath his feet. Since then, he's falling.
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Probably because those devices cost more than the electricity they make.

The trouble is that the heat is diffuse - it's not concentrated in one spot, and collecting it from an entire building is not practical.

(Just in case you are wondering, if you have active cooling then the heat is concentrated, but capturing it will raise your cooling cost, and it will raise it more than what you gain by capturing it.)
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Actually, compute intensive jobs are becoming more prevalant over time, and request-response systems such as computer vision, speech recognition, and search (which are quickly gaining ground) are embarrassingly parallel tasks that don't require low latency dense clusters.
That is the manual approach the Adblock Plus had, too. But I have added a nice gui method for that in my fork :) . In my fork you can simply click on the adblock plus icon in the url bar and activate the adblocker for that site. Behind the scene that will add the site to the list you show in that options screen.
Yes, Ableton only have offices in Berlin and New York City.
Technical skill isn't that important for front line staff. Most IT shops will have a bunch of $10/hr types handling "how do I fix this excel formula?" questions. And they have a phone number for the big guns when they need it. Please don't interrogate people who probably know they are relatively unskilled. It's like talking about weightloss to someone who already knows they are fat.

The $150/hr techs you will rarely see are super nice, and would absolutely love a problem they haven't seen before. Your best bet is to try and shorten the path to them.
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At the very least, the position of Germany is deeply hypocritical.

After all, Germany was among the first batch of countries who violated the 3% deficit-to-GDP rule in the Maastricht treaty.

The German approach is a holier-than-thou approach, believing in blindly following rules that are elevated to moral principles ("Thou shalt not have a deficit.") without regard for the implications that this has for the well-being of their people.

What the Eurozone really needs is functional finance: define your goals for the real economy (e.g. full employment, high real living standards) and then do whatever it takes to achieve that in the financial arena.
My 'adblock' is simply not having flash enabled. I haven't seen a particularly annoying ad in ages.
Google's doing it as well. This is an example of an old paper mill (with great water cooling possibilities) that was converted to a data center. http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/locations/hamina/