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I seriously thought you could do better than this. I was expecting trolly responses from other framework communities but not from Backbone. I prefer reasoning and proper conversation instead of this hate speech that the framework communities are all over. I was hoping you were closer to a scientist.

So far no reasonable arguments why Backbone is better. Is it just larger, slower and less effective? I was expecting you to argue against those points that are now clearly visible to everyone.
Packets already flowing through 5.4 -release on my 'lil ALIX home router. Workstation on -current, of course.

There is nothing quite like OpenBSD out there. Thank you OpenBSD developers!
I hope that they manage to ban the import and sale of ALL Android phones, iPhones, and Windows phones simultaneously.

I'm not sure what else might actually motivate Congress to change the law.
"The authors contrasted American-style cutthroat capitalism with Nordic-style cuddly capitalism"

America hasn't had cut-throat Capitalism in a century.

Few seem to understand the difference between 19th century Capitalism, with actual free markets, and 21st century Socialism. You'd think the entire 19th century never happened, such that authors have no reference source for actual 'cut-throat' Capitalism.

We have soft European Socialism. The government system spends 40% of GDP ($6.7 trillion out of $17 trillion). We don't have a free market in nearly any sector, including the biggest such as: healthcare, education, banking, telecom, energy, utilities. When 80% of your economy lacks any actual free markets, how can one claim Capitalism as the system?

In fact, our government spends so much we're bankrupt a few times over when you count entitlements + public debt, none of which can ever be paid in full. The public debt is of course laughable, we couldn't pay it down in a century of surpluses, even at 2% interest rates. We're currently in the process of actively defaulting on our debt, using QE (aka debt monetization) to devalue said debt.

The Federal Government alone spends so much, it's half the size of the entire Chinese economy.

We have the largest welfare system in world history, by far. We have the largest entitlement system in history, by far. We have the largest government-controlled health system in history, by far.

America has more regulations on its books than any other country, by far. We add thousands upon thousands of regulations annually. We have the most regulated economy in history, there isn't even a close #2.

Our taxes are worse than Canada (supposedly a semi-Socialist nation), and among the highest for industrialized nations when you count local + state + federal. We also have the largest and most convoluted tax system by far, the total IRS tax code is so large no human could ever reasonably read it.

Where's the Capitalism? It doesn't exist.
Retaining them defensively isn't "slightly better". Using them offensively is significantly worse.

That is only until you study how you use defensive patents defensively.

Suppose that you join a patent pool like http://www.rpxcorp.com/. Then you're sued by a patent troll with no assets other than a patent. How exactly is RPX going to help you?

They used to state it in their FAQ. Then removed it, but I'm sure they still do it. They negotiate with the troll. And to make it cheap, they give the troll what they want. They give the troll another patent, in return for a binding contract to not sue anyone protected by RPX.

(I became aware of this possibility after 3 patents taken out with my name on it when I was younger got sold to RPX.)
It'll be another F-35 nightmare.
While I very much dislike the direction of Ubuntu, and am irritated by the paranoid management style of Shuttleworth - this seems a very emotional response to a very vague, very mild criticism.

Of course, nobody needs an excuse to stop working for Ubuntu for free, so if it bothers him so much this is the best decision.
This is how Open source politics looks like.

Mark may have said hurtful things but these Devs like martin take things way too personally.
Teenagers are prime audience for brand advertising. Fashion, makeup, clothing, drinks - brands want to get them young while they are still impressionable.
There were already a lot of sites doing the "keep your cash in our system" model. I was also sure there were some legal issues with a cash system, but in the end it was mostly about differentiating.
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No, but those teens are going to transition into adults, with (hopefully) some disposable income at that time. Don't know if it justifies the valuation, but certainly being a default in a large market is worth something to somebody.
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According to the details of each plan they all offer free preventive doctor visits. the 1-2 low cost visits per year are for if you got a cold or something and went to the doctor.
Back now -- our web hosting provider hiccuped. (Our fancy monitoring doesn't extend to our completely static website.)
Thanks for the reply, but I think you slightly misunderstood what I was asking. It was not a criticism over the way judiciary are doing their work.

What I was wandering is why there is no scrutiny over the constitution itself - are parts of it relevant still, could they be bettered and so on. Quick checking of the years of the enactment of the various amendments shows that after the initial flurry of activity there is some calm period for the country to settle down - but then with the changing society various amendments are enacted and we have roughly one amendment every 5-10 years after WWI until the seventies.

And then suddenly that stops for 42 (so far) years. So in times of unprecedented technological and social change there is no perception that the document itself must change.

Is the text about well regulated militia needed for security still relevant when you have professional huge standing army ?

Do we need new constitutional right in the digital era and not have to rely on the pity of SCOTUS to extend the current we have?

So basically my question is why the constitution is considered sacrosanct and perfect, and not something with flaws and shortcomings that should be fixed?
i think tencent did the investment, the point of which is likely "none of them".
Strange, but for me Firefox does not auto-fill passwords, unless you provide a username (and of course, you opted into auto-filling). What did it do, as I don't understand? Did it automatically auto-fill password fields that happened to get loaded on the page?
The trendy nature of these business is a negative on valuation in my book. Sure, it'll grow a bit. And then the next new thing will come along. It likely is really profitable for those investing early on and founders.

As an employee at a company like this, I'd worry about all the hard-work having a pay-off four years down the road when options vest, etc...
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Well, the gap isn't growing in the same way in every European country. I'm guessing you're from Germany?

Billionaires certainly exist in every country. The count of billionaires in a particular country, however, does not actually talk to the wealth gap in a country. I'm simply stating that it is suppressed by wealth redistribution, and is not reliably a function of the size of a government, nor am I sure how one would go about meaningfully measuring the size of a government.
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Well yes, I think with 'decade' GP was referring to everything from the advent of firefox to the introduction of IE9, which might not actually amount to a decade (didn't check). Within this timeframe MS was severely lagging behind in standards, thus requiring everyone to choose between

* support only IE (which they were hoping for of course)

* introduce browser conditionals everywhere

* only use a very limited feature set as the lowest common denominator (leading to table layouts everywhere, using jpg instead of png, never even think about transparency)

This did IMO slow down the development of the web as a whole for quite some time.
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No reason in particular, just put it together quickly. Yours is a good option since it keeps the DOM count low instead of letting it grow as you mouse around :)
This would make awesome reusable first stage for orbital launches. Provided, of course, other air launch problems could be solved.
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What's the deal with LVars and CRDTs?
At the height of the moon mission, we spent 4.4% of our GDP trying to get to the moon. We did it, and haven't been back in 40 years. What you're saying does not work.
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I'm interested but have a contract that will end in 2-3 weeks. Let me know if that's okay.
Thanks, this provides context.
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It's interesting that you've found it so easy, first hand antecedents are always useful. Everything I've read about living in another country and having any sort of investments or tax deferred retirement accounts in that country seems like it turns into a paperwork nightmare, especially if you invest in foreign mutual funds.
It's a myth that this is no longer possible. Want to know how I know? Because I did it.

I grew up poor. My parents told me if I was going to college, I'd have to figure out how to do it myself because they couldn't afford to help me. So I did. I worked hard in high school, scored a 30 on the ACT, got some scholarships and paid the rest myself from jobs worked during school and money saved during the summer.

I earned my CS degree, got out and found a job, and now I have a (different) job where I can afford a 2000 sq. ft. house that I currently owe just over $100k on and still have plenty of money to save up.

People today are generally either lazier or less imaginative. I'm not sure which.
Very nice...Good work.
And they'll transition into the next big thing, too, just as quickly as they transitioned onto Snap-Chat?

There can probably be made a good argument that younger generations don't have brand-affinity like older people. Younger people are being raised to move quickly from thing-to-thing? (I don't really know, but it sounds like someone should research this.) I cite some personal experience of younger family members who used to use Facebook when they were in college and when it was a college-only-thing. Now they don't use it anymore.
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what the fuck merited this response? i've read and re-read my comment, and i can't seem to find anything that would suggest that i'm seeing people simply as numbers here. are you honestly so jaded and cynical that you think someone talking about suicide prevention doesn't realize there is a human element to the matter?
Here's how you calculate the worth of a company:

Consider the lifetime of the company. Record an estimate of all the profits and losses the company will ever make over that lifetime. Discount each number for risk, inflation, and opportunity cost (because money is more valuable if you have it now and invest it in something profitable than if you wait 10 years - you should probably discount at least 4% a year, which is about what the average inflation-adjusted market return is).

This number is the appropriate value of the company.

Naturally, there's a lot of guesstimates going into here with the profits-and-losses / risk, even for big stable companies. The high price of Snapchat means that someone with money believes that Snapchat will generate a lot of revenue, or that they will be bought out. It's quite possible they're totally crazy, or that they've wrong about the risk.
You're reacting more to his tone than his content.

He's right about how VC-istan works. There's this new engine of extreme productivity that no one understands well; those with early access loot it (getting into private financing rounds where prices are set on the golf course; using VC connections to be air-drop executives) and the public (including Bay Area engineers) eats the bill through failed companies and sudden job-loss, an innavigable career ladder, financial crashes due to overvalued stocks (pump-and-dump), and exorbitant housing prices just to have a chip and a chair.

He might be damning his credibility by using "retarded" in such a way, but he's on to the meat of the problem.
Of course it is possible to criticize Ubuntu or Canonical.

What he means is that it's impossible for a prominent developer to criticize their technical decisions without facing a ton of hateful backlash from Ubuntu fans and Mark Shuttleworth himself. Which he knows, from experience, because he did just that, criticized the design of Mir and said that he wouldn't support it, and he got exactly that backlash.

If Mark Shuttleworth actually followed the Ubuntu code of conduct http://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/conduct, we would not have gotten here:

Be respectful

Disagreement is no excuse for poor manners. We work
together to resolve conflict, assume good intentions and
do our best to act in an empathic fashion. We don't allow
frustration to turn into a personal attack. A community
where people feel uncomfortable or threatened is not a
productive one.

Calling people "the Open Source Tea Party", "purely political", "outraged individuals" who have "NIH'd just about every important piece of the stack" is pretty much in pure opposition to the Ubuntu code of conduct; but since Mark does this, other people feel like this kind of behavior is acceptable and pile on the attack.
Thanks, there are parts of this that I really like. I'm hopeful that more developers will follow in this trend and release their projects in works as open source projects.

Incidentally in reviewing I also came across some of your other projects, (sockclub.com, cam.ly etc) - kudos on taking your ideas all the way!
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Gold rush is a zero-sum game with unsustainable business model, while startups are not any of these things. I feel that such comparisons are misplaced and do not provide useful abstractions to effeciently reason about startups.
Assuming you have savings high deductible plans are the smartest financial decision. Insurance is to keep you from going broke in the unlikely event that something serious happens not to pay for every runny nose you might get.
Thanks...corrected
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> The only nations that can probably deny us satellite coverage, at least politically, are China and Russia

It's pretty easy to deny satellite coverage. It's trivial to track satellite locations, and they pass over on a very regular schedule (they can't just up and change orbit on a whim). All you have to do is cover everything sensitive with a tarp at the time they fly over. Anyone can do this, and it was one of the main tactics used by the USSR and China against spy satellites during the cold war.

> and are we really going to start flying hypersonic jets over their airspace anyway?

If you can make it stealthy enough they won't even know ;) And you can also collect a lot of useful intel by flying a plane just outside the border (you can scan inside the border with radar, you can learn about their radar systems by recording all radar frequencies you see, you can record all radio chatter, and so on).

Atmospheric flights definitely still have a role to play in espionage.
It was also about securing Narvik, a very important harbor at the time.
That's my biggest gripe with Google. I'm Spanish, but for most of the subjects I typically search for (programming, research, etc.) I prefer to get results in English. I have everything in my Google preferences set to English, but Google insists on prioritizing pages in Spanish. So often I search for an API documentation, for example, and I have to skip through a bunch of incomplete or outdated translations before I find the original English page I was looking for.

Some years ago, I used the workaround of going to www.google.co.uk (google.com would still prioritize Spanish, but other regional versions, like co.uk, would show results in their language), but now it no longer works. No matter if I go to the Swedish, German or Chinese versions, and no matter my Google preferences, I still get results in Spanish.

Sometimes I even use inferior search engines due to this.
You captured my sentiments better than I could above.

Virtually no barriers to switch apps + young generations being raised in an environment of reduced fear when switching.
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This might be relevant: I've summarized a few lessons from when IKEA and H&M were startups:

http://blog.trejdify.com/2012/08/lessons-learned-hm-startup....

http://blog.trejdify.com/2012/08/lessons-learned-ikea-startu...
I can't believe people are taking this theory seriously. "Party deck"? Lol, nice work whoever planted this story!
That's what I was thinking. Or at least not Java to Scala.
Would you be potentially interested in remote workers if you found the right fit?
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Been a VGFive user since launch, and while there was a big spate of Application Error downtime in the early days, the fact that it's still up right now speaks volumes for your infrastructure improvements!
You misspelled Java.
Thanks for the link. And, I do remember Romney being on the defensive because his plan was being compared with Obama's plan.
s/irregardless/regardless/gi

;-)

Neat idea!!