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> Could you elaborate on both of these please? I am incredibly doubtful that a meritocracy naturally springs up and enforces itself. How does that actually work when everyone is on board with that idea? How does it defend against people that are just in it for themselves from exploiting it?

Look at how many FOSS projects work. Look at how many hackerspaces work. People gain reputation for doing good things, and in turn they are listened to (gain soft authority). People that try to take over get ignored, or thrown out.

Yes, I know that the economics are a little different, since it's a lot easier to fork a software project. However, this gives us a base to work on top of.

> You can make theoretical arguments that hierarchical management is the best form of management for meritocracy as well, but that doesn't hold up in practice either.

Sure, all of this is theory and useless, we need people to try it. My point has always been "the counter points are invalid", to encourage people to try it.

> Right now your post doesn't do anything to explain why the "no management" model works, you just more forcefully assert that it does, and handwave away two of the readily apparent points it could go wrong.

I'm not handwaving them away; I am saying that they are not critical to being able to sustain a "no management" model. There are existing projects that work like this. The problems people mention are real problems that are either solved well, not solved well, or not all that important, but it is very rare for them to be critical, which is the common (invalid) argument.
It's comforting to know that this, along with so many other things that most people have to take for granted, doesn't apply to software developers.

Our little corner of the world is still so employee-friendly that it's really hard to damage your career in any meaningful way if you're truly, provably good at what you do. Certainly not by taking the odd five years off to start a startup, travel the world, or play pickup basketball.

You'll still have your network when you decide to come back. Those guys will be nicely distributed across dozens of tech companies, all of which need developers like they need air.
I too, would think they would double down. But Matthew Yglesias seems to think that UI recipients have no interest in actually finding a job. Yet his article identifies the root problem as "long term unemployment" rather than "no interest in work".
Getting it to work with SBT. Even generating the project with sbt idea I still can't get it to compile correctly. And I still haven't been able to get it attach a debugger.

I think the current issue is with SBT 0.13 which isn't supported by them right now.
Get one of those adjustable keyboard trays that allow you to control the angle of the keyboard.
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It costs very little to merely survive. A warm coat and a bowl of soup twice a day is survival.
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The author is obviously presenting a false-choice.

One option he does not even mention is that there could be an open an honest public debate about what to do, and at least make a new program (not UI), which would specifically and accountably address his issues.

Another thing which is not directly addressed is that when UI ends, people get jobs. There is a large amount of literature to support this. In many cases, it is simply not worth it for people to find a job, because UI and other benefits can pay up to 90% of someone's fully employed salary.
Ah, that seems sensible - because if the chain is me -> a -> b -> badsite.onion, and the NSA owns a & b, I'm encrypting to each of those node's keys; and in the absence of a central Torland CA, I can't trust anything but what's visible.

So even if badsite.onion used TLS, I'd be forced to verify their certificate offline or risk

me -> a -> b -> badsite.onion (NSA fakery) <=> torchain -> badsite.onion (real)

Am I tracking? That's tricky.
Growing up in the mid/late 90's (HS class of '99) and without high-speed service, I think I had an interesting hybrid experience. Napster wasn't around yet, but you could still get music from other sources like various FTP sites that you could discover or IRC channels.

Using dial-up services for whole albums was time consuming but downloading individual songs wasn't too bad. So I could download one or two songs from an artist I wasn't that familiar with and if I liked the songs, I might go to the store, or CDNow :), to buy a CD.

So you could access a lot of music to sample but still only ended up with a few albums to actually listen to.

I recall growing up listening to certain albums countless times. I'm not sure if I'd still do that today. Some songs require a few listens before they really click with you, and services like Spotify don't have the limits that the old models did.

While it may be nice nostalgia to look back at how I listened to and acquired music growing up, if you could have given 16 year-old me today's Spotify, I would have taken it in a heartbeat.
I'm a librarian by trade and exclusive deals are the bane of our existence. Whether its scholarly journals or popular ebooks, it's an incredibly inefficient way for us to provide service. Just the overhead of supporting multiple platforms is problematic, never mind how inconvenient it might be for the user.
> There is NO solution that doesn’t involve either make work programs OR a guaranteed income OR people homeless and starving.

I think that's a pretty narrow view. There are other possible alternatives, like: new businesses opening; completely new industry forming that doesn't require high skill levels from its workers. Given an individual situation, I don't think it would be too difficult to imagine additional scenarios.

I'm not trying to trivialize the difficulty the long-term unemployed are facing, but I don't think it's constructive to throw up your hands and despair, either.
What will be done about Bitcoin's technical problems?
Okay! The U.S. has something like 16 million unemployed people (of working age; healthy; ready to work - 11 million currently looking for work and 5 million recently dropped out of labor force).

So when these 16 million people move to Fargo ND (a solution costing billions of dollars - just for the move!), there's going to be jobs for them, right?

This is like responding to "hunger crisis in Africa" with "I saw a french fry on the park bench over there".
"santadive.withgoogle.com wants to use your computer's location. Allow/Deny"

And that's all I needed to know.
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> A manager's primary goal should be to make themselves superfluous as much as possible.

My experience is that most managers have climbing the ladder as their primary agenda. Making themselves superfluous almost always does not align with that goal.
The "podunk" reference wasn't needed, either.
Some comments on the first example.

1. Closing a file by relying on the, nondeterministic, GC seems like a cover-up solution for sloppy programming. I've seen quite a few C# code bases where people even, instead of closing, put the equivalent of assert(self.file.closed) inside the destructor to get an early warning when someone forgets to close an external handle.

2. Why call del self.file inside __del__? If the object itself is being destroyed that means anything self refers to will be useless already and the refcount should already be decremented.
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Thanks for the thoughtful replies. I've been on both sides of this. My current position is really only for the sake of pragmatism. I notice that I enjoy my life a lot more when I'm not worried about all the ways that people are trying to screw me.
Wouldn't it be better to use this declaration though:

struct RString {

struct RBasic basic;

union {
struct {
long len;
char *ptr;
union {
long capa;
VALUE shared;
} aux;
} heap;

char ary[];
} as;
};

/* apologies if I messed up the syntax here */
#define RSTRING_EMBED_LEN_MAX (sizeof(((RString*)(0))->as) - 1)

Then you can even use the padding the compiler added, if any, plus you can add more things to heap and the embed length will grow automatically.
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There's significant effort underway in the Docker community to get libvirt as a viable execution engine for Docker. Very similar to how you can choose between AUFS and LVM.
I'm not sure that's always true. Some of my favourite artists are ones that I really didn't get when I first heard them.

I remember being away from home for a few days in the late 80s and, having got bored with the few tapes I could carry with me I bought Husker Du's Zen Arcade, as I'd read a review of an album I liked that made reference to that one. On the first listen, I thought it was an absolute chaotic racket.

But having bought it, and not having much else to listen to, I played it through a few times and by the end of my trip I'd bought their next two albums. I'm pretty sure that had I had Spotify back then, I would have managed at most a couple of tracks before dismissing the album out of hand, trying something else and never listening to it again.

Don't get me wrong - instant access to most of the world's music is great. But unless you've got better willpower than I have, that access could easily result in you missing out on some of those harder to get into artists.
If there was a 1% decline, would it work to not adjust pay but record this negative inflation so that next year if it's +2% then the employees only get +1% raises? If the economy continues to go down then this won't work, but it would handle a short bump fairly without actually reducing anyone's pay. Would people still leave?
Taking away the UI check is just as likely to incentivize people to look for jobs they can actually get, as opposed to constant, documented "looking" so they can continue to draw a check.
That doesn't make our loss of nearly 3000 "unsignifigant" it just means that our response was deplorable.
Here is a 1914 book on calculus. Calculus made easy by Thompson Silvanus Philip

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33283
GHB _is_ alcohol 2.0.

The real irony is it's only really effective as a date-rape drug in conjunction with alcohol.
Bad things were done before, so clearly they should never be remedied.
Note that the gun you linked is 4-5 inches in total length. It's still quite small, but not similar enough in my opinion to a 2-inch prop gun.

EDIT: The gun is 3 5/8" in length.

At any rate, my problem is not the TSA agent's actions anyway, but her justification. If she had just shrugged and said "I know it's stupid but I have to confiscate this", then we wouldn't be talking about her. Instead, she heaped more coals on the already absurd security panic fire by suggesting that someone could be menacing with a 2-inch gun. This is the kind of crap that spawns memes.
You also have older workers although well educated a nd skilled, pushed out of the economy via ageism but still far from retirement.
"And in the same fashion, while we can if we choose see the Church amid a mob of Mithraic or Manichean superstitions squabbling and killing each other at the end of the Empire, while we can if we choose imagine the Church killed in the struggle and some other chance cult taking its place, we shall be the more surprised (and possibly puzzled) if we meet it two thousand years afterwards rushing through the ages as the winged thunderbolt of thought and everlasting enthusiasm; a thing without rival or resemblance; and still as new as it is old."

– G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man, 1925

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100311.txt
Even if organisms got ejected with rocks, wouldn't they just die frozen or from radiation on the long journey thru the vacuum?
That's awesome! Do you make any money?
Yeah. I was thinking this.
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> it's really good

No it's not.
Well, I assume the rule is if you file jointly, or if the deed is in both names. So it's $250,000 a person up to a limit of 2.
I am reminded of 2008 - 2009. My question: will he get his Nobel Peace Prize before the world wakes up and notices that he is in fact head of the Roman Catholic Church?
I'm also curious how Yglesias would explain the lack of "slack" in the labor market after the recession of '01-'02. A milder recession to be sure (though you wouldn't know it from the political rhetoric at the time), but one that nonetheless hit employment hard. Within three years net employment was back where it had previously been, and the unemployment rate was back down in the 4%'s. There hadn't been massive spending; most of the deficit increase was lowered taxes and lowered revenue.
Some thoughts about manifestos in general:

"A manifesto is about moral authoritarianism: an absolutist statement of eternal values from which follows (typically) an absolutist ideal of the good life. If there is one thing that most defines a manifesto, it is what it lacks: a central place for uncertainty."

"The problems Haque identifies cannot be solved with manifestos because they are problems, not karmic punishments for espousing false values that will go away through the embrace of the “right” values."

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013/11/13/the-gooseberry-fallacy/
I think that given enough providers it could be stable. Right now we've got just few big players. Spotify, google, itunes, deezer in some places. Some are much bigger than others. Losing 0.5 potential listeners of not that much. But if we had 20+ providers, who would ever accept an exclusive deal? I.e. which artist would go for a "95% of listeners will not be able to access your music, but that's OK, you'll be exclusive and well promoted on our service" (+the deal signing bonus of course)
Lets hope that tools and frameworks like this will be widely adopted, thus more and more jobs requiring these skills, rather than that crap, over-engineered "native" SDKs/frameworks...
but unemployment benefits have, till now, provided enough income to allow living independently without having to go to work each day

This just isn't a reality in most cases, however, I see that Minnesota caps the maximum weekly benefits at about $600 (before taxes) per week, which would definitely allow a single individual with no dependents to live independently without needing a job (if they receive that much). I am skeptical of the argument that unemployment payments discourage individuals from working, having once collected UI myself, I know first hand how frustrating and humiliating it is trying to make ends meet with the a paltry UI stipend, but when I consider ~$2000 a month, long term abuse seems a lot more viable.
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Hi,

So I'm thinking about offering this service to startups and small businesses- competetive research and analysis. So would you pay lets say $40/month for a comprehensive analysis on your top 3 competitors every month or quarter?
Thanks!
Exactly like how all of this should have been imagined pre-Snowden. But of course it was much easier to brush off room 641A as performing simple tcpdump sessions on TV villains.
> I also do not think their claims of Tor subversion hold water. From what I understand of Tor, directory information (including nodes' key fingerprints) is ultimately verified by the hard-coded keys of very few "trusted" operators of authoritative directory servers.

I'm very fascinated by this. Do you have any links to a faq/technical entry that focuses on these directory servers and their application?
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I'll take a shot at addressing your suggestions.

Write a book, song, game, movie? For income? Are you serious? Even if you are of the type to pull that off, how will you support yourself as you create these things? It's not the same as a job with a weekly income.

Grow some food? Actually, more people should do this. Hopefully the local government won't stop you from doing it because your neighbors whine about you growing tomatoes by the side of your house.

Sell a service? Plausible, if you have a skill that fits a niche because otherwise you're probably already entering a highly competitive and low margin industry. Also, depending on the service you sell, the local government may want to have a word or two with you which will likely require capital.

Invent something? See the part about writing a book, song, game or movie above. Same thing, if not worse because lawyers.

Sell some clothes? True, you could sell just about everything. In some cases that might be ideal because you might be able to downgrade your lifestyle just a tad to lower your expenses.

But good for you that you had a skill that translated into a freelance contractor market. That doesn't work for everyone. I've never heard of freelance contractor cashiers for instance. I guess they could learn a skill first but, again, how do you support yourself during this time?

It's good for you that you're willing to exploit someone's skills at half their value but not every business looks at it that way. I would imagine most managers would not want to hire someone at lower value or being over-qualified for because often that means the job is often a stepping stone to a better job. They see it as a risk of losing the investment they made in an employee that left at the first opportunity.

Not that I'm saying your suggestions are necessarily bad ideas. It's just not always so easy a solution, such as people who suggest just picking up and moving to where the jobs are. With a little thought one can see that things are not always as simple as what they sometimes should be.
...better things to do? You mean, like playing World of Warcraft?
This is beyond ridiculous at this point. Wondering what else is still to come...
Re: Sidenote:

I tried out iTunes Radio last night, thinking "this'll be cool!" About two songs into it, they played an ad for Macy's. I'll stick with Rdio, thanks.
ahh ok cool, so I will just remember the very last thing and have it as an action in the header maybe? how does that sound?

Thanks for the feedback, once again much appreciated.
Has anyone found the root password for the kvm qcow2?
Ok but if your problem is that no one will look at your resume because you haven't worked in five years surely one of these jobs will solve that at the very least.
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> take a job

You seem confused about the reality that there are no jobs.

The equation for millions of people in the United States today is: apply for 1,000 jobs, get zero offers.

So out of the zero jobs offered, which of the jobs that are below them should they take?
Isn't that the thing that requires the Ultimate Edition? That's why it is not in Android Studio.
What was not blocked:

== Disconnect:

* s3.amazonaws.com

* cloudfront.net

* echoenabled.com

* troveread.com

* trove.com

== Ghostery:

* s3.amazonaws.com

* echoenabled.com

* platform.twitter.com

== HTTP Switchboard

* echoenabled.com

For HTTP Switchboard, I could easily identify glancing at the matrix that what was requested was a CSS file, I then proceeded to block with one click anything coming from `echoenabled.com`. The page still displayed properly for all three blockers.

Also of note, with Disconnect and Ghostery, there were some scripts running requesting data from api.echoenabled.com and echoapi.wpdigital.net every few seconds. These requests were blocked by HTTP Switchboard without my intervention to prevent this.
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Note that the relevant Intel docs (http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-digital-rando... ) state that the final CSRNG is AES in CTR mode, according to the spec detailed in http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-90A/SP800-90A...

As far as I know, there's no known issues with this approach, unlike with the elliptic curve random number generator detailed in the same document, where the NSA is believed to have pre-selected the elliptic curve points.
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We overcomplicated the hell out of both our products
If immigrants can survive on (and desire) the income provided by the jobs which you deem to be 'low wage', why should Americans disdain and forgo the positions?

Put another way, you seem to suggest that because people cannot find jobs they want, they should be considered unemployable; Why is this true?
Most people with a car probably have at least one of car payments (because it is relatively new) or high maintenance costs (because it is relatively old). Driving a car less won't lower your payments. It will bring down maintenance costs, and can lower insurance.
"Problem is, most sedentary people, especially men, do not know and cannot feel the difference between hip flexion and lumbar spinal flexion. When you ask them to touch their toes, they keep their hips mostly extended and flex their spine instead. Very bad."

Agreed. This is something I didn't know I was doing until I started doing Yoga regularly -- after a while, you become very aware of the weakness of your back muscles, the tension of your hamstrings (if you're the typical male), and how the overall tendency is to tip your pelvis backward while seated, which makes your spine bulge to the rear. And when you're standing, you tend to tip your pelvis the other way (due to weak abs), leading to the "beer gut" phenomenon, and impinging the lower back. It's no wonder that people have back trouble as they get older!

For men especially, Yoga focuses on stretching the hamstrings, straightening/strengthening the back, and increasing range of motion in the hips and legs. I highly recommend it -- if you keep at it, it really helps reduce pain in the lower back (plus, you get addicted to the stretching).
There has also been major effort assigned to getting containers working with OpenStack and Docker.

Relevant interview w/ Alexander Larsson: http://opensource.com/business/13/11/docker-fedora-red-hat-c...
Not necessarily. It's worth reading the entire article. We've observed small life surviving raw space exposure before.
"You do this by raising the minimum wage."

I don't mind this, but I don't see it to be the solution. These multi-billion dollar corporations will find a way to cut out the labor using more automation in workflow or they will out-source this work.

What I'd like to seee is tarrifs go up considerably. If you want to offshore your labor then we'll make up the difference at the dock when you offload your goods.
Who will create these jobs, part of the issue is that no one is willing to pay the amount it takes to create the jobs (pay rate, training, taxes, insurance). Unless absolutely necessary, companies don't want to hire extra people just to 'create jobs'.
Thinking about ownership is something that is natural for C++ programmers and will naturally affect design choices. We (C++ programmers) don't avoid shared_ptr at all costs and the primary reason for avoid it is because it muddles ownership semantics. In other words: if a magical zero-cost shared_ptr implementation appeared, we wouldn't start using it everywhere.

You can keep extolling the virtues of Java performance, but fact remains that Java doesn't see much use in areas where performance is critical. It doesn't mean Java doesn't have a use, it's just not there.
Yeah I do like the idea, to me it is better than having some database for it or the likes. Going to compile an issue list of what's come up in the feedback and start looking into making those changes.

Thanks again for your feedback!
If you can't discover #2 without drugs... I don't know if you're really understanding anything.
Well, it was a pretty vague "manifesto", but Tcl (not TCL) did the event driven thing before it was cool, back in the 90ies. That made it quite responsive for Tk GUI's.

Erlang does a lot of the stuff in their manifesto too.
TFA: "Three metres is the minimum they think necessary to shield microbes from the Sun's radiation over a journey lasting up to 10 million years."
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