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Programmers don't decide the UX. And any decent-sized bank will be pulled in different directions by:

1. The standard "enterprise problems": strategic partnerships dictating toolsets and so on.

2. The standard "big company problems": many business units acting as fiefdoms who will be arguing over how much real estate they need on customer-facing channels.

3. Tensions between customers who are scared of "money" and "online" and want everything locked down vs customers who want the latest whizz-bang everything.

4. Regulations.

5. Customers spanning a range from high-value rural farmers with vast sums of agribusiness who are stranded on dialup (yes, they exist), customers who do their banking on whatever their work PC is (XP and IE6 is still a thing - out biggest surge of the day is the 9 am rush when people log in from work to do their banking), through to customers who want the latest and greatest HTML5 webbery.

Saying, "fuck it we only support WebKit and high speed internet" is not really an option.
I was too young to understand it, but I did really like Robocop and I thought it was really cool when I was a kid.
I love, love this film. I remember being a bit disappointed by it when it first came out because of how different it was from the book. But after Sept. 11, one of the cheap cable channels, either TBS or TNN, put it on constant rotation...I don't know if they were in on the joke! but after the fifth or so viewing of it, and while the whole War on Terror was emotionally raw...I finally saw the brilliance in SS

Verhoven's other work is brilliant too, but SS is one of my most treasured DVDs
The issue is the TPP process. You largely continue to avoid this, addressing it upthread in an 'it will help speed things up, I'm okay with it' way. An unsatisfactory, superficial response to some very deep issues.

The commendable 'issues resume' you present at the end of your response, up hard against your ringing endorsement of TPP is very incongruous. Seeing as the TPP works against all of those noble causes.

Oh mysterious duplicity!
As much as you might think this is out there, I have a hunch, however stupid it might be that leaks about candidates could in fact come out this way.

it might not even be Obamas team leaking. Lets sat a partisan person who works for the NSA wants to destroy a candidate. They could in fact do all the research themselves rather than anyone even close to Obama.

I look at one direct example of Herman Cain. How did the press ever get ahold of the fact that he was paying women out? Literally, you could say the women spoke up, but with the NSA, you could say someone who works at the NSA leaked the information just because they didn't like Herman Cain to begin with.

Now that's scary. Someone's reputation could be destroyed just by a rogue NSA agent.
If you liked Starship Troopers, watch their straight-to-video sequels. Low production value, kitschy special effects, but written by the same guy.

They're terrible movies really, but a nice dose of the ultra-blatant satire.
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Unified memory architecture! Should be some cool hybrid cpu/gpu algorithm possibilities. Currently the overhead of copying stuff between the two memories in CUDA prevents any fine-grained cooperation. I wonder how much gpgpu ability is exposed.
Here is an in-movie ad for a product that exists in the Robocop universe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmSSVt7Mfkk
I have had poo-flinging contests (in banking) with external "security experts" (i.e. grads with a 3 ring binder from accountancy firms) who think ripping out the chrome is a todo on the required security checklist.
Every single time I see someone say "Things in the future aren't going to see huge performance increases like that." I smile, because the beauty of the future is that we don't know. Maybe, maybe not. Maybe in ten years we'll all have crazy brain implants made possible by some new awesome technology, and we'll be watching pinar movies as these devices render them in real time.

Probably not likely, but I'm not going to make any absolute claims about anything.
It's been like a year and a half. Maybe cut them a little slack.
In Ontario, we've had time-of-day electricity billing for a few years. I'm home this week, so I just heard from a friend that the government is increasing the rate charged for off-peak energy usage. After reading this article, it seems that all rates are being increased, but the off-peak rates are going up by a greater percentage.

So it seems that our government has succeeded in shifting consumer energy usage to off-peak hours, and has now decided to penalize those people by charging them more by closing the gap between peak and off-peak hours.

I think it's pretty outrageous and goes to show that peak demand charges are just a gouging technique and a scam.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/10/19/cancellation-of-onta...
Actually, it's quite the opposite. Starship was a tongue-in-cheek war satire. NBK was a hyper-saturated parody of satire.
"I don't think most people would argue in favor of Watergate type spying, evidenced by how Nixon resigned shortly after it was revealed."

You might want to review a timeline of events for Watergate. Nixon won re-election after the initial reporting and stayed in office until Aug of 74.
To be honest I don't know how much scarier this is than the current overt clout wielded by entities like the gun lobby.
The movie had some satirical elements, but regardless, it was mostly just crap. This is just revisionist hipsterism, just like the script writer of Far Cry 3 claiming it was all satire of "tropes" after it caught some flak.
I think what he meant to point out was that almost none of the IITians work in India or in Indian companies and nowhere in your reply did you refute that fact :)
Or let them get elected and blackmail them to toe the line...
I agree with your analysis of Robocop, but I'm not looking forward to the remake at all. There's no need for a remake. There is nothing that feels old about Robocop. Watch it again and it still stands as a great movie altogether. The remake will just put more nonsensical special effects and you can bet there will tons of crappy acting in it.
That may be the case at the more sophisticated ISPs (gmail, yahoo, etc.) but I think it's still worth consideration. There are a lot of old school email servers and spam filters out there. I would suggest using tools like litmus and others because the "stop words" are not always intuitive.
>>A decade ago, it was our own faculty who encouraged us to step outside.

Correction. That's happening from decades, not just one decade. But besides that, you do agree most of your folks don't even work or stay here.

The Indian tax payer is subsidizing the IIT's for a reason. We need to pay for the education of people who stay here and contribute(In fact that was the whole point of IIT's).

Coming to IIT's, you guys are going to settle down abroad anyways and you will also get fat paychecks. Why should you need any kind of subsidy. I am sure most banks would be more than willing to lend a education loan.
Or, don't pay for sex if you plan on running for office.
Spot on, California employment laws and Federal laws in the US will absolutely devastate your business if you try your hand at pulling this kind of shit.
Monitoring sub-atomic particles for science, sure.
The government probably watches over everyone in a position of power, regardless of their political opinions. It wants to make sure that the people in power aren't corrupt and aren't being manipulated. I'm pretty sure President Obama explicitly mentioned that in one of his statements.

I think this "theory" of election manipulation is tenuous at best. Pull off election manipulation would take a lot of balls, a lot of secrecy, and a lot of collaboration... three things an organization as diverse as the government does not have.

I'm not saying it's impossible to pull off, but the risk (potential political blowback) would certainly outweigh the reward.
Quite, if you wanted to make a satire then start with a blank slate.

Do not take a known work (of which the audience will have their pre-conceptions if they read it) then eviscerate it for your own satirical needs then act surprised when said audience gets pissed off for the butchery.
$4bn for snapchat? These kinds of valuations don't stack up to me - sure, startups are speculation not investment, but a four billion dollar valuation is an incredibly hefty speculation.

my bet is that these billion dollar speculative valuations will continue amongst growing startups until a few of them fail to build solid profitability and fold - then we'll have a classic bubble burst through lack of share market confidence, and availability of cash and growth with slow.

then, cue blog posts about "the virtues of being an organic-growth hacker"
indeed

upside of Bitcoin: no banks needed. or, anybody can run their own bank. innovate

downside of Bitcoin: anyone will run their own "bank". They will put Fortress in the name. It will be their first or second Rails app. They will live in their parent's basement. They will be experiencing puberty. But their stuff will be "secure" because they use "https://" on a few of their pages. Yeah.
This movie isn't misunderstood or clever at all. It was originally exactly as dumb as people think it is (working title: "Bug Hunt On Outpost Nine), but the studio realized they could get the license to Starship Troopers for free.

Verhoeven didn't even read Starship Troopers-- he skimmed a few chapters, decided it was depressing and that Heinlein was a fascist, and made the movie a parody of the book, and a lazy parody at that.

When people call this movie dumb, they're completely right, albeit not for the reasons they may think.
Absolutely. If Twitter could successfully get people who derive real business value from it to pay (like how LinkedIn does), they can succeed.

But unfortunately I don't think even most Twitter power users will pay. Even if brands will pay, it's a fundamentally different equation than LinkedIn's in that there are a lot more recruiters out there than brands.
The only problem being that if they are corrupt you now have the corrupt watching over the honest.

You know... kinda like J Edgar Hoover's FBI.
I don't know what it is about people that are in our field. We seem to be too trusting and too honest.

I followed this along and there are so many signs that the person should have realized, "hey, I'm being screwed here or about to be screwed, do something about it". Instead, he kept going based on what he was told even though his own intuition told him otherwise.

One thing I have learned is that strong, aggressive and manipulative people size you up instantly by throwing something at you that puts your own strength on the line. This could be a request they make of you, a statement or something else.

If you at that moment don't show that you are just as strong and aggressive as they can be but choose not to be, then they know they have you and will step all over you all the time.

Standing up for yourself and calling out the project manager for making you looking like you were fired instead of quitting is not a question of being professional or not. The obvious question will be "Why didn't you speak up? You were already being let go?" The project manager would not dare to do such a thing if the right boundaries were setup initially.
> praying

Do you mean preying, I dare ask?
I'm a Microsoft engineer that worked on animations in IE10. Unfortunately, we're not aware of the IE11 regressions you experienced. Could you please share a test page that demonstrates the issue?

You can reach me at stevebe@microsoft.com.
I agree - while AirBnB may have market dominance, it can be replaced: see myspace

Trying to knock a major bricks n mortar hotel chain off it's perch is 1000x more difficult
I think you miss the point, almost anyone can be discredited with enough information and power. Take a look at Russian elections, there were no other viable candidates for a reason.
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For the people who are curious: the answer is here.

Since I granted sudoers privilege for a couple of accounts, I wanted to make sure httpd.conf would not be changed by anybody. If there are multiple users having the root privilege, it's a best practice to have separate HTTPD instances rather than make changes directly on top of the original instance. Otherwise, it's not easy to recover from fail over.

The command to lock: #chattr +i httpd.conf

The command to unlock: #chattr -i httpd.conf
Thanks DigitalSea. To confirm, I should do whatever it is the best for my business and not being overly concerned by guilt?
I had a similar route as you and for a great many years I ran Slackware and Debian before eventually just settling on Slackware.

That was the moment that I finally really started to learn how to run a Linux system properly. I learned how to fix problems on my own, build packages from source while managing dependencies and everything. I got to spend a lot of time tinkering and could finally tinker without breaking anything.

Sadly, work and gaming led me back towards Windows and after a few years break, I just couldn't go back to Slack (I tried). Moreover, it seemed like there was a slight shift in the Slackware community and a lot of folks were now using Arch.

I gave it a try and haven't looked back. I still love and respect Slackware, but Arch is totally kickass-good-to-me.
Thanks ethana. To confirm, I should do whatever it is the best for my business and not being overly concerned by guilt?
At one of my first jobs, I resigned after about a year because I found a job that offered 2x as much in terms of salary.

Director: "How much is the new place offering? We can match."

I told him the number.

Immediately his tone changed, and said I should take the other offer.

I wanted to give a 2 week notice, which I thought was the norm, but he asked me to leave immediately and use up my remaining days as vacation days as my last few days at the company.

At that time I did not realize that I was entitled to my pay for the remaining vacation days, so I agreed to it without much thought. Part of it was because I could not imagine this guy doing anything shady in my previous interactions with him, as he always seemed like a stand up guy.

By forcing me to use my vacation hours, the company saved a few hundred dollars, which would have been a lot for me at the time as I only had a few hundred dollars in my bank account.

But looking back in retrospect and reading many similar stories, it seems common, almost expected, for younger kids to be screwed over like this in the workplace, especially when departing a company.
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I worry more about people high up inside the national-security state using their insider knowledge to help take down a politician. Is part of the deference they enjoy due to politicians worrying about that too?

There is an argument[1] that this may have been what took out General Patreaus. It was no coincedence he was removed from the Army and put into the CIA post just prior to catching Bin Laden [2,3]. Patreus would have received all of the credit, not Obama. But we know that the prep work for Bin Laden involved building a replicate of the abbatobad compound in the US, etc. so was well underway under the leadership of Patreus, not Panetta. Obama was very wary of Patreus entereing the 2012 elections, and would have been a much more credible candidate than any republican. In the end, Patreus was of course done in by someone snooping through his gmail. Wether or not he was also the victim of a parallel construction, in how that came about, we'll never know.

[1] ie, Informal line of resoning or logic. In this case, circumstantial.

[2] edit: The move was orchestrated and announced earlier in the spring. viz: On April 28, 2011, President Barack Obama announced that he had nominated Petraeus to become the new Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

[3] Bin Laden: Died May 2, 2011 (aged 54)
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Sadly it ends up feeling more like a roadmap these days.
Vice-President, not CEO, is working with the gangs.
Well you're making the assumption that people can protect their wallets better than a bank.

I hope I'm not making a crazy statement to say that people in general aren't that great at security. Unless you have the wisdom to keep your wallets offline or secured with a password longer than 20+ (or whatever) charactes, it's only a matter of time before a worm or virus gathers up hundreds of insecure wallets.

Secondly, there's nothing intrinsically wrong with banks. Banks help the supply of money and keep economies going through investment. Banks can build green addresses for instant purchases which Bitcoin needs to be successful.

Bitcoin wasn't designed to get rid of banks. Bitcoin was designed to give banks and people a common way of transferring money without expensive accounting auditing, secret protocols, and government centralization.
Not only that but if somebody finds the bug/vulnerability in working with the distro, they can very easily contribute the fix upstream.

This is the big plus in favor of Slackware and Arch and something you don't see so much with say Ubuntu.

There's a good reason why the Slackware and Arch communities have generally always had the best documentation of all Linux distributions and even if you're not a user of either, the information is often friendly to solving problems in other distributions.
I disagree. Your website should run on your own infrastructure and a separate status page, under a different (sub)-domain should be operated from another AS (autonomous system) e.g. statuspage.io or whatever you like/prefer.
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> I worked back to back all-nighters

You don't think this whole scenario you've described represents a victory for you, do you?
I wonder why they chose Apache instead of something like NGINX instead which is far superior and scales a whole lot harder than Apache can? I've seen Apache in the right hands scale well, but why make things harder for yourself than they need to be when you can use NGINX which is lighter and consumes less CPU and memory?

Cool stack though. Seems like MongoDB has emerged as the clear winner in the commercial NoSQL arms race. I do like it and with every release it's getting better and more feature-packed.
I'd like to like Starship Troopers more but I can't.

Starship Troopers had a couple smart things to say but said it through a shit movie. Turgid dialog, horrible acting, repugnant characters and general cheesiness. I know the writers wanted to say all these people are idiots but society doesn't go astray because everyone is an idiot – you have to show how smart characters are caught in situations that constrain them to be idiots or at least a have few characters that realise the ridiculousness but are overridden or sidelined. You can't just write a bad movie and blame the characters for being stupid.

My standard rule is that to properly satirise or ridicule something, a story must simultaneously be a good example of target being parodied as well as having a strong parody element.

Starship Troopers tries to parody the military machine but it fails because its a terrible military action movie. To be a good parody of the military (and the political and social machine around it), it must also be a good military action film – both levels must work for the film to be good.

I like to give Galaxy Quest as a good example of a film that's both excellent parody and an exemplar of the genre being parodied. It absolutely pillories Star Trek, bad sci-fi writing, unbelievable monsters, magic science, red-shirts, ridiculous sets with no purpose and humanoid aliens-of-the-week but at the same time it has likeable characters, excellent acting, a properly scary villain and has a real sense of "earning" the ultimate victory at the end.

Starship Troopers has none of this and tries to use cheesiness and parody as an excuse for failing to make the movie better. Sorry, I have to evaluate a film based on more than its satirical message.
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It appear to be how you approached the situation with how this relationship was formed. I once had a similar situation, because I became to personal with the employee. They were here to do a job, and not b involved with everything I commented on. If I had left the person alone to perform the tasks.

Make the offer with a disclaimer, and settlement offer, it is best not to be sue for civil rights violations because you became to involved with the employee.

There are many issues I have with employees, but as long as they perform their duties respectively, I do not have anything to include, because they did not violate any company policy or violate any state or federal EEOC laws.
We still have it working on a box in the office here. I used it last week ;-)
If your political system depends on convincing your average non-techie person to believe sensible things, then your political system has a design flaw.
Aye. I think the OP's dates need to be revised slightly as well. All of the elitest jerks definitely started using Gentoo starting in '03ish. That's not a slam on Gentoo or anything...Sabayon is a fantastic project...just that's how I remember things.
The central characters in Robocop were treated empathetically, the scathing social satire and black comedy were not central to the main storyline of heroes and villians, so there was still an engaging film even for those viewers lacking the social awareness needed to appreciate irony.

In Starship Troopers, every character was disposable, hence the gigantic 'whoosh'.

I recommend 'Hollow Man', Verhoeven's last, and largely forgotten Hollywood film, released in 2000. It's even more subversive, and the subversive message is even more subtle. So subtle in fact that I doubt even the film's producers were aware of what was going on. It's either a terrible B-grade hollywood sci-fi thriller, or brilliant black comedy, depending on whether or not you latch on to the subtext.
If you're opening a business just for the money
what... it's not.. opensource? peeks into javascript source code
http: //www.mostpopularpicture.com/ has it :). Not the answer you are looking for but if there was one it would be there.
Scala provides trampolining via a library. Frege can do the same.