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> You got to have priorities, and "being yourself" is lower than having a good job and career.

Perhaps for you, for me, being myself is the highest priority. You can always find a new job or a new career, but once your back has been broken, you will forever be a spineless wimp whom nobody will respect.
The Last Night Skillet :D great song
Check out my arrangement of this great song. I uploaded it a while ago dedicated to the tragedy that happened at the Boston marathon.
I think you misunderstand what government actually is. Government is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.

I have a right to use force in self-defense.

Therefore I have the right to hire a bodyguard to use force in my defense. (In fact it is the same right - delegated.)

Therefore we have the right to elect a sheriff to use force in our defense.

...But I do NOT have the right to beat and rob people.

Therefore, neither do I have any right to hire a bodyguard to beat and rob people.

Therefore, neither does our sheriff have any right to beat and rob people -- even if we voted for him to do so! Because you cannot delegate powers you never had.

Therefore the question isn't whether society should provide social welfare for the needy. Rather, the question is whether we have a moral right to use VIOLENCE to FORCE people to provide social welfare for the needy. (We don't.)

The only time we have a right to use violence is in defense against murderers and thieves. Once we start trying to use it to solve social problems, we end up making those problems worse, not better.

The reason you see poverty in various nations is because they do not have economic freedom and secure property rights. The nations with the worst poverty are the ones with the worst protections of rights. The nations with the lowest poverty are the nations with the best protections of rights. And note: those are also the nations who donate the most money to charity.

Government can never fix poverty by using violence to forcefully redistribute wealth. All that will do is cause worse poverty.

The best a government can do is strongly protect rights and economic freedoms -- then you will have a rich nation, which will not have poverty problems in the first place, and which will easily be able to cover the rest through private charity.

Unfortunately we do not see any governments today that respect rights and freedoms in this way, although some are better than others. But proposed solutions based on "social welfare" will only make those problems worse, not better.

You say that you do not deal in "what if" scenarios -- you say that there is no "perfect state." I agree with this. But behaving more and more like North Korea is not some magical solution either. It just makes things worse.
Go is simply the follow-on to Limbo which was developed at Bell Labs.
Paul Dini explains why execs don't want girls watching their superhero shows
Left to its own devices, a baby will stick pretty much everything into its mouth.

If you believe that evolution generates behavior to maximize survival value, this fact about babies seems relevant.
It doesn't really change your current negotiating position because the net future value after 35 years is zero under all normal business assumptions.
Clearly Mr. Ford did his things for self interest too.
Is there a commandline http client that can negotiate WebSockets? If so, I might be tempted to experiment.
As a member of the post-community generation, I am skeptical.
Only if the mind is not part of physics.
You "log into Facebook once a day, maybe."

How few companies can you say that about? That you use their product every day? Your mattress. Your refrigerator. Your toothpaste. Your car. Not only have all of their manufacturers have been around for nearly a century, but they all have perfect substitutes: Crest and Colgate. By your own anecdote, Facebook is in a very enviable position.
I am happy ..But I want you people better than chrome in all terms.You are guys doing well but you need to do hardwork..
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I live in an apartment with 5 other computer science students. We move over 100gb/per week easily.

- WFH (syncing toolchains or source repos over VPN, or downloading VM images)

- Dropbox, or syncing disks to backup services

- Constant streaming of music from Spotify/Pandora/Soundcloud

- 1080p video

- Gaming

- Youtube

With a 120 mbps internet connection, it's pretty easy to rack up usage quickly.
Wacky and wisdom-filled?
What Your Wireless Carrier Knows About You
Meanwhile, Python comes already installed by default in most linux distributions. So, forget .ini files, forget apache until deployment time(hell, don't be forced onto apache if you don't want to. Choose whichever deployment server you want. I know... options... it's weird... you'll get used to it), forget worrying about php upgrades on shared machines, forget that apt-get line. .py file, and you're up and running (and headache-less).
Actually, I've been looking at SCGI with Nimrod... ;)

Seriously though, I've been trying to find out lately whether CGI is at all useful in this day and age, or whether if some well-designed scripting language that used the PHP style of run-time would be better to avoid using it.

There's not much info on CGI/SCGI in 2013 :'(
I disagree that there is no room for PL innovation left. I think the situation with Go is that the authors were deliberately trying not to innovate too much in the interests of familiarity.

There's lots of programming language innovation going on, you just don't see it in languages like Dart and Go. Which, by the way, is fine; Go has plenty of reason to exist without being innovative from a PL standpoint. (I would point to languages like Clojure, Kotlin, Scala, and C# as examples of industry innovation in programming languages.)
Commentary: Global innovation + ‘big tent’ capitalism in Seattle
Thanks for the heads up. Just fix this, removed the GoDaddy root cert from the chained cert.

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=commando.io&h...
> Dart

> much less interesting language than Javascript

What's so interesting about Javascript? It's prototype-based OOP that raises the shittiness of dynamic typing to a whole new level? :-)

I mean, seriously, just the fact that Dart brings static typing and sane class-based OOP to web front-end is enough for it to be considered worthwhile.
Is Google's research: http://research.google.com/pubs/papers.html inferior?
That is cool that you're paid in BTC. If you only have BTC, then it can become your primary currency, because you have no other option.

However, as long as people have access to cash in their local currency, it doesn't make commercial sense to spend BTC.
Bitcoin is a self fulfilling prophecy because of this...
As a marketing guy, I can't help but wonder if anybody's ever attempted to engineer such a situation.

It's not hard to imagine. Get someone to take the fall, or create a fake account. Come up with a nasty comment that is not only horribly nasty, but carefully designed to be refutable by the CEO for maximum effect. Make sure that in the process of refutation, the CEO appears to be the sort of leader that the world is lacking today. Screenshot, share on social media, aggregator sites, PM/email anonymously to news agencies, adweek, etc, profit.

It could do wonders for a small business, if nobody ever finds out. Might be a risk worth taking.

Not that I'd ever do anything like that, of course...
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>It's not food or a drug - you don't put it into your body at all.

facepalm

Do you really think those products you are rubbing around your skin every day and sniffing up your nose don't get absorbed by your skin and lungs!!? I mean they make drugs that can be rubbed on like lotion, as well as medications that can be delivered in patch form and your telling me "well it isn't going in your body so it won't directly affect you."

We don't know yet. There are thoughts that triclosan might cause endocrine disruption. but I don't know and I don't think the science has been done yet. The FDA wants to find out. This is GOOD. The FDA should be doing more to vet the cosmetics industry which is mostly a wild west at the moment.

The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics explains:
http://safecosmetics.org/section.php?id=75

The agency charged with oversight of cosmetics, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has no authority to require pre-market safety assessment as it does with drugs, so cosmetics are among the least-regulated products on the market. The FDA does not review – nor does it have the authority to regulate – what goes into cosmetics before they are marketed for salon use and consumer use. In fact, 89 percent of all ingredients in cosmetics have not been evaluated for safety by any publicly accountable institution.

Ironically, most consumers believe the U.S. government regulates the cosmetics industry the same way it regulates food and drugs sold in this country to make sure they're safe. The truth is, no one's minding the store when it comes to shampoo, skin moisturizers, baby products, lipstick or any other personal care product.

The FDA’s own Web site explains its limitations:

“FDA's legal authority over cosmetics is different from other products regulated by the agency .... Cosmetic products and ingredients are not subject to FDA premarket approval authority, with the exception of color additives.”

The emerging evidence on the body burdens of chemicals in the American people, as well as the new science on how small exposures to these chemicals can add up to harm, suggest that there is no health-based rationale for the difference in regulatory powers between the different FDA divisions.

Here's a link about formaldehyde in hair straighteners:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=us-governme...

Josimov began to realize it was her life that was changing. Her progression of symptoms mirrored hundreds of other stylists – the burning eyes and sore throats followed by chronic runny noses. Respiratory infections settled in for months, accompanied by scabby blisters in the nose. With prolonged exposure came the asthma-like wheezing and shortness of breath.

After Arce's exposures, she started getting rashes, headaches and sore throats. Now she coughs up bloody mucous and is on two inhalers. Marino would get nauseated and dizzy, and would have to stick plastic bags in her purse in case she had to throw up in public. She was diagnosed with asthma and sinus infections.
I highly recommend deactivating for a month, just to experience the difference. It's phenomenal. If you choose to reconnect, you'll look at everything differently. It's just amazing, you have to try it.
Surely everyone knows that the people who created UNIX, C, and Unicode are the same people who have created Go. Right? Ken Thompson? Rob Pike? You certainly know who these people are. Do you care what company they currently work for?
I know of dozens of secretaries and typists in the medical field. Voice dictation software doesn't cut it yet. Software that works sort of ok is dependent on platforms companies don't have, and humans are better at error correction, answering the phone and resolving problems. Many surgeons seem to have 2 or 3 secretaries to keep on top of the work. It might be an industry or country specific thing, but secretaries aren't going anywhere fast in my little world.
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So, am I very far off in my belief that a reasonable "lay" explanation why the universe should be "holographic" (i.e. embodies one fewer dimension than we perceive) is that the universe adheres to the uncertainty principle?

i.e. The uncertainty principle says we can never measure all four space-time dimensions of a particle; we must always sacrifice one entirely or accuracy in two or more. What more reasonable explanation than that there are in fact only three dimensions to start with?

(Note that the uncertainty principle naturally arises from other systems when viewed at a higher dimensionality. e.g. Any one-dimensional signal, such as sound, exhibits uncertainty when viewed in two dimensions, such as time vs. frequency.)
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Well, good thing that PHP is open source and we can just pop a visit to http://museum.php.net/php2/ to actually see that it is true.
> You need hunter-gatherers to find them, corral them, and set up a collaborative sales process with them.

I guess it depends on what the product is. I've initiated contact in a bunch of cases (mostly situations where the product is a public SaaS or already well-liked) and in others, evaluating a product stems from of a conversation at a meetup or conf.

IMO, the best thing anyone can do is make the product discoverable. If it has competitors, write blog posts and clear feature comparisons (they don't all have to be positive, either). If performance matters to whatever it is, write objective benchmarks and discuss performance aspects/tradeoffs. If it is something with an API, try to ensure there are a variety of platforms supported. This stuff is all good-to-have anyway, but many companies might not realize that people from large companies are browsing their sites and leaving unsatisfied.

I think developer-evangelist roles actually play a big part in this. Having someone set up real-world use cases and blog about them or post code somewhere can really help a customer out who just wants to try something but doesn't want to spend a lot of time doing it.

If the product is private, maybe have an easy way to generate an expiring VM image with some kind of demo setup so that you can quickly send it to leads. There's not a single person on earth that wants to do rounds of conference calls and in-person visits to just play with something.

> It's much easier to sell services to bigcos than products.

I've found the exact opposite, but maybe it depends on what you're referring to exactly. Carving out budget dollars for "3 people @ X/hr" is much harder and more scrutinized than product. "Product" is a loose term, though. "1-yr license" or "1-yr maintenance contract" are products, not consulting, even though the company selling them might not view them that way.

When it comes to SaaS products, we typically want to buy an appliance (read: VM image) that just works, deals with some form of standard authentication/authorization tech (LDAP/AD, OAuth, SAML, OpenID), and x-yr support contracts. Per-seat licenses usually involve more effort. Purchasing professionals are looking to mitigate risk. They don't want to enter into a purchase that has an attractive up-front price, but open-ended potential rate hikes down the road.
I requested removal from Quora last week. 27 hours later someone from user operations emailed me confirming it was done. Perhaps they did improve the process recently.
You should read ESR's blog on fast food strikers:
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5034
> you tried to disprove his

You can't "disprove" a definition for a word. "Exploit" can mean simply "make productive use of", or it can have sinister connotations. Since I was the one to first use it (in this thread at least), I was merely pointing out that my usage was valid. @lsaferite made the semantic point and I responded to it, but your implication that the word's definition is the crux of my argument is inane.

> trying to determine one is foolish

You can go ahead and keep saying this over and over and over (and, if you wish, over), but that doesn't make it true. You think you're above the responsibility of moral judgment, but what you're actually doing is placing your moral judgment somewhere in between the two parties. This is still a moral judgment. Just because your determination is that both parties are somewhat aggrieved doesn't mean you're being fair or above it all. You think your judgment is special and enlightened because it's centrist? It's not. You're just a schmuck with an opinion like the rest of us.
Ephemeral Messaging App Frankly Updated To Give Users More Control
Edward Snowden on this ruling: "Today, a secret program authorized by a secret court was, when exposed to the light of day, found to violate Americans' rights. It is the first of many."

Well said, sir.
I'm guessing that the reason each branch has its own history is probably related to the goal of only appending new entries at the end of things. Since any branch can be under development, they need their own files. It sort of makes sense.
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Makes sense. Their customer database is likely mostly for supply-chain management and affiliate marketing. They don't want to remove people, because it screws up the statistics (e.g. number of visits in the last month.) So they just irreversibly anonymize your data instead.
Did they sent you a report showing all the items that were deleted as proof, or am I just being too paranoid?
And such conditions are created by coercive and socialist governments, not companies like Amazon.
I don't seem like a good fit for any of these positions (Java/C++ engineer >.<), but I'd love to learn more about database internals and how things work and how to make them better. Is there much to do in that area, or is it pretty much complete? Should I just pick a bug and try to fix it, or is there some process to follow >.<
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> show ten fingers, close both fists, show nine fingers. (eleven plus nine)

But now the number of fingers you held up doesn't equal the number of items you were counting.

Also, that's not base 11 any more than me holding up 4 fingers 5 times would be base 4.
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The idea is to make it less monolithic. I'm digging more into the inner workings of git now. The functionality might already be in there, just not obvious.
You can see reviews on thefunded:
http://thefunded.com/funds/show/Khosla+Ventures
In my opinion, yes, but others are free to disagree (and "inferior" is subjective). In addition to the kinds of applied research that Google also does (machine learning, etc.), MSR also does a lot of fundamental research much further afield, like that done by the biology group at MSR Cambridge [1], or the quantum computing work done in the quantum computing group and Station Q [2] (see also Scott Aaronson's relevant blog post [3]).

[1] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/biology/

[2] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/quarc/

[3] http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1471
In aggregate (military contractors) sure, but there's no doubt individuals who benefit more during war time than peacetime.
Wow it turns out the author of the article pulled that factoid along with his next accompanying quote straight Wikipedia! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness#Etymology

And the second half of the article is a Google autocomplete screenshot. The article is complete fluff!
Check out Ali Soufan's book (http://www.amazon.com/The-Black-Banners-Against-al-Qaeda/dp/...). I'll loan you my copy if you're in the Boston area. He has had quite an interesting career. According to the book and the New Yorker, it turns out that Soufan probably would have stopped 9/11 had the proper information been shared with him. Again according to his book, he was also a major voice against the use of enhanced interrogation techniques and had the chops to back it up. The book states that he was one of the most effective interrogators of captured Al Qaeda suspects and his method essentially boiled down to serving them tea and debating the Quran with them in Arabic.

For a general idea of what the book goes into, you can see Soufan's profile in the New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/07/10/060710fa_fact_wr.... In the (Pulitzer Prize-winning) reporter's own words: "Soufan became America’s best chance to stop the attacks of September 11th.".
Scientists concerned for world's banana supply as plagues and fungus spread
Yea, I came here to ask the same question. I don't understand the presence of "despite" in that sentence.
But what is stopping someone from opening competing operations to Amazon, compete with Amazon in the marketplace, provide more choice to workers, thus driving their salaries up?

What is stopping the workers from learning some useful skill and bringing more economic worth to their jobs as opposed to a skill that will be automated 5 years down the line?
No amount of "being a better programmer" can fix the fact that $x == $y && $y == $z does not guarantee that $x == $z or $a[$x] == $a[$y]. Nor that passing by value may or may not protect you from destructive updates, depending on whether your caller passed by reference. The language simply can't be trusted to behave predictably; a huge number of its features have some kind of trap built in by mistake.
Ah, the wonders of low-level assembly programming. I was a teaching assistant for an assembly course this semester at school, and one of the students was running a program in the debugger. (Specifically, Microsoft CodeView running in DOSBox.) F10, F10, F10, until she got to the load instruction that would fill the cx register. Press F10 again, and suddenly, the debugger shows "cx = DEAD."

She freaks out a bit, I freak out a lot. We're both worried that something really bad happened, then I realized that DEAD is actually a number in hex. I look through the data segment, and I see a AD DE in there (yay Intel byte reversal!).

I check through the code a bit, and even though it looks like the data segment is being initialized properly, it's still reading from the Program Segment Prefix. So, I find the Wikipedia article on the PSP and see that address 05h in the PSP has a cross-segment jump to CP/M compatibility code.

But, there's nothing at address DEAD (at least, nothing sensible). So I go searching through the DOSBox code for that string, and I find these lines:

// far call to interrupt 0x21 - faked for bill & ted
// lets hope nobody really uses this address
sSave(sPSP,cpm_entry,RealMake(0xDEAD,0xFFFF));

As it turns out, because DOSBox doesn't implement CP/M compatibility, they simply made it jump to DEAD instead, just to make sure that if anyone tried running a CP/M program they would get the picture. And the assembler just happened to put the variable in the right place that the load pulled the DEAD instead of random nonsense.

I can only imagine the problems that can manifest when you're dealing directly with hardware, and don't have access to commented source code.
We're hiring C++ engineers. You don't have to know anything about database internals, but you do have to know C or C++ well and understand all the standard software engineering stuff. (I didn't list this position because it's a less hair on fire sort of thing). Please e-mail me -- slava@rethinkdb.com.

As far as getting started on the codebase, we unfortunately don't have a guide/mentorship program yet for hacking on the internals. The best way is probably to pick a really simple bug and try to fix it. I'll see if we can work on making getting started with core contributions easier.
They should neither be blamed, nor praised, and nor should be Amazon.
Is P vs NP formally independent? [pdf]
I don't know if Clapper was under oath at the time, but if he was, isn't lying to Congress a crime?

Edit: Actually read the Forbes article and it states that Clapper was under oath when responding to Sen Wyden's questions.
I had this happen to me 6 years ago in the U.S. on a cell phone. The only thing out of the ordinary was I was in a ship (not a cruise liner) at the dock with a bad cell signal at the time. I'm not exactly sure what happened then, but it was probably a "perfect storm" scenario for that to happen.
Oh the other hand a company like Facebook uses it and then they have to resort to developing Hip Hop to wring out more performance.
Computer power (or lack thereof) is definitely not the limiting reagent in science today.
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> You can always find a new job or a new career

That simply isn't true or realistic for a large amount of people.