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Yes, voluntarily. People would kill to get these ostensibly terrible recording ontracts. Because, statistically speaking, the alternatives for artists are to 1) starve to make their music or 2) get another job. Playing live does not make real money to any but the small fraction who are already famous, and guess how they got there in the first place!
I agree with your point, but I'd like to say that the woman-founder article was a personal blog entry that got 104 upvotes, is 8 hours old and currently ranks at #90 on HN at the very bottom of the third page - compared to this piece of meaningless top-ten writing which got 39 upvotes, is 6 hours old, and still going strong on the front page.
Having spent a few years in the finance industry, in my experience most people in my area of work were not these type A money addicts described. That said, I am confident they added no value, and made millions of dollars taking management fees in exchange for lower returns to their clients than they could have gotten in an index ETF. That might be just as big a problem: that even honest members of the industry can convince themselves they're worth their exorbitant salaries, because someone's willing to pay it.
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I've often wondered if it carries the weight we think it does over there. What if people are bowing all the time when a mistake happens? Does it seem as hollow as "I'm sorry" does in the States?
1. Better usability through a more well-defined standard.
2. Geolocation, allowing for localized data.
3. Video support without basically needing Flash or obtuse browser plugins.
4. Better cross-browser support. Users use a variety of browsers these days. Being able to support more than one browser is essential.
5. Offline/local cache, which improves performance and usability. Lose your power while typing in your comment? Still there when you get back!
6. Improved performance allowing for more performant applications.

But the real problem is this:

> in fact the most informative and most visited sites I use

You are mistaking yourself for the majority. Therefore, the reality is, none of the above will be "better" as defined by you. However, if what you are saying is true, then any site of yours using HTML 3.2 would be a better site as a result of using HTML5, as it's more semantic in nature, and as a result, provides better support for providing usability and accessibility.

You are free to disagree, of course, but you'd be wrong because your reasons are not 'better' than mine.
Well, it doesn't seem like a well known concept (and it was new to me that torrents can do such a thing).

How is the proposed concept in any way less secure than the given model? You already have to trust the source that the file is the promised one and not a infected, and you already have to trust your peers not to log your ip and sue you. An update-url shouldn't change much.
yeah, I mostly complain about trying to fit everything to the Map/Reduce model
I have been following this for a little while and their site hasn't changed much since 2012 - if at all. I am really curious to see what they are doing now.

Many of the founders' angel.co profiles don't show any other employment but beyond that I haven't seen much else from these folks, on twitter or otherwise.

Anyone know?
Suspect that most people use less because of one of a) bootstrap uses it, b) it's easy to run under node or c) you can just drop an existing CSS resource into less without modification. I suspect that even if SASS could address b) and c), a) would provide less with a large userbase.
Would love to know what extension it is, or Github repository?
Great, let's eliminate the last remaining service sector jobs! What could go wrong?
> Now I have to deal with people thinking I was skyrocketed into the good life simply because I'm a tall white male. The reality is I gave up a substantial portion of the beginning of my life to propel myself into the life I'm in.

This is a strawman. The concept of privilege isn't "white males are always fantastically successful"! Privilege means that, on average, someone identical to you but female, dark skinned, disabled, etc. would - again, in general - have a harder time of it.
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Unfortunately these privilege checklists are hugely anecdotal and flawed (especially the "Male Programmer Privilege Checklist", which annoys me like no other, because it claims certain privileges when in fact the reality is the exact opposite).

The general logic that goes behind these checklists seems to be "I'm a woman in tech. Something inconvenient or unpleasant happened to me. Therefore all women in tech suffer from this institutionally and men are privileged not to experience it."

Most complaints make me believe the author(s) have some sort of narcissistic or histrionic personality disorder, with only a few legitimate points.
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Unfortunately, these are not all the people or institutions with power.
When your process use more than half of the memory, e.g. DBs.
That's not my point. You cannot infer from the color of my skin how hard or easy my life has been.

What just happened was, someone commented that I have it easy because of my supposed white privilege. They simply just assumed I'm from a white middle class post-college family just because of my skin color.

Now if this was real life, and I worked at some nice company, now I have to fear people blaming my position and my state in life because of my privilege, when in reality it was me who struggled day and night with basic necessities to get to where I am today.

Nobody is denying that privilege exists in our little micro upper class bubble, which is my point exactly. Did some hiring manager have a better outlook on me when they first met me? Yeah probably, but that doesn't do shit for me if I can't back myself up with good work.

It's just such a dumb inane topic. I am now being discredited and disregarded because of "white privilege".

The benefits of being a white male in this society are negligible at BEST.
I think everyone is too old for the word "derp". I think I missed the target of the parent comment. I thought the focus was on the casual nature, not the specific word "derp". On rereading, I believe I was wrong.
>avoid perpetuating that state

Why? Surely a state that allows some people a comfortable base on which to build wealth that benefits everyone is a good thing rather than a bad thing.

Don't forget that everything as an opportunity cost. Would you rather eg James Watt fretted about privilege, or used his to build the steam engine?
> "Innovation has brought great benefits to humanity. Nobody in their right mind would want to return to the world of handloom weavers. "

Interestingly even this is the opposite of what we're seeing. It may be more expensive (cost), worse (quality), and less efficient (time and materials) but:

I like to brew my own beer instead of buying it. I like to build my own cabinet instead of shopping at Ikea. I like to take a day off to raise my child instead of sending them to daycare. To fix my car, make my own lamp, walk the dog, etc.

I just went to an open air museum where perfectly right-minded people were looming their own textiles (for free!). I recently met a regional queen in Indonesia who wove her own, as well, because it was cultural, not because her family needed the money.
+1 Flask, especially if you already have experience with it.

Check out this Flask boilerplate: https://github.com/imwilsonxu/fbone

It has Flask-login, sqlalchemy, wtforms, and other key extensions all configured out of the box.

I don't have the most extensive experience but from what I understand, this template app incorporates a lot of the best practices for large scale applications.
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"More resources -> less reproduction" has, to the best of my knowledge, one example in the entire animal kingdom: Us.

You're looking at the reasons, which are also interesting, but the next layer of abstraction down from the point I'm making. (Though I'm not sure you're not explaining why poor people have fewer (surviving) children, which is the opposite of the data....)
It's been 10 years since the first Scala release, not since the inception of the language.
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Not me.

Maybe I've seen too much big money fraud, but sometimes the combined weight of a very wealthy and powerful federal government is all we have separating the mostly civil society we have now to one where we are constantly being bilked by what amounts to mobsters.

I'll give you an example. The urine screening industry. Many players in that industry set up labs and then proceeded to give doctors, hospitals and clinics kickbacks for approving 'enhanced' urine tests for thousands of dollars rather than the dozens of dollars they used to cost.

The other players (insurance companies, honest competitors, the government) are slow to realize what's happening. Within a few years these unscrupulous companies have amassed a massive war chest.

Whistle blowers appear. They are sued into submission. Competitors complain. They are sued into submission. Insurance companies start to sue. They are sued in return. State level politicians are brought in as investors or otherwise paid so they can ride the gravy train. This gives insurance companies pause. In the mean time the owners and officers of these companies are still bilking all of us to the tune of hundreds of millions, maybe even billions of dollars.

Only the combined weight of the federal government with essentially all the time and money in the world, which has just now amassed enough evidence to go after some of the worst offenders, pose a threat to these people. Anything else is a mere nuisance.

Sometimes it is very, very good to have a counterweight to the power that can be bought.
Apparently, the people from Archive.org are very interested [1] in this feature.

[1] http://forum.deluge-torrent.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=45839
You can drop an existing CSS resource into SCSS without modification.
I've seen a few people reporting running Scala on .NET successfully with the help of IKVM [1]

[1] http://www.ikvm.net/
Hey another good new year's resolution is to "Don't talking condescending unless you have something valuable to contribute". I.e. give me data showing I'm wrong.

I'm not saying they make lots of lots of money of merchandising and tours, but from what I've gathered they make more of money on those, unless the studio contract takes part of that as well. Basically they earn more money on a merchandise they are on, or a product line they sell than on records.

Your metaphor is more like starting a startup to get famous enough to start another startup to pay the debts of the previous one.
Yeah, but... https://github.com/jlong/sass-bootstrap
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Better to plug our ears, cover our eyes, and pretend that the technology doesn't exist, right? Automation is going to displace workers (and it should). This is certain and it's something we need to prepare for. The transition may be painful, but the end game is that humans are no longer required to work to survive. This is a "Good Thing."
I'd consider vibratory feedback to be a subset of haptics, so no argument there.

My point is 'haptic feedback' - as with 'responsive design' - is in the process of getting its meaning thinned down due to the limitations of the technology with which it's getting commercialized.

Haptics means much more than just vibrating devices, as your own definition supports. But in practice, we're redefining it with a much smaller scope.
I largely agree with you except on a couple points.

DC is changing, but very slowly. The last couple mayoral administrations have done a pretty good job of gentrifying (I don't think that's necessarily a bad term) parts of the city and encouraging new residential construction.

There still isn't much of a nightlife in the city though. Sure there's been little pockets of it at least as far back as the early 90s when I was old enough to look for that kind of thing. But I think the loss of Chinatown in favor of the Verizon Center and a few trendy bars is one of the great tragedies of the city.

But still, most new transplants I run into looking for a hip place to move to end up in Arlingon or Silver Spring and to some extent parts of Alexandria. Many of my gay friends do find homes and community in D.C. around DuPont and a couple other spots, but even with a scene in the city, about half of the folks I know live in Arlington/Alexandria.

In general, a constant theme I could apply to people I know (anecdotal I know), they try to make it work in the city, then quickly move out as soon as their lease is up. There just isn't the kind of benefit of city life that you get in more regular cities.

It doesn't help that, while having lots of little parks, they're virtually unusable due to deep rooted homeless problems in the city that haven't materially improved since as long back as I can remember (the 80s). Getting panhandled virtually every block in some areas gets old very fast.

As for the historic housing, lots of people have visions of this https://farm1.static.flickr.com/118/263237392_a4aacdd50f_m.j...

only to find endless listings for places like this http://sweetpaperdoll.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/100_0259.j...

which means on top of the already inflated price, they'll have to put in endless expensive refurbishments to have a livable home.

It's kind of a shame since the public transport network in D.C. is one of the few functionally useful ones in the U.S. I think the metro is the 2nd most used subway in the U.S.?

The good news, like I said, is that it is slowly changing. The population is increasing for the first time since the 1950s (the city back then was over 3/4 of a million people, it hit 600k in 2010 an apocalyptic population drop. Estimates say almost 50k people have moved in in the last 4 years).
Yeah, that's entitlement, not privilege. Look at the world we currently live in. Everything we do has already been done for us.

Look at it from my point of view. I now live in a world where:

- I don't ever have to think about money, or food, or basic necessities
- Everything I do is simply making use of all the shit that has been delivered right to my doorstep

Define "harder", because if you are struggling in the first world with such intangibles like race, skin color, and sexuality, then you really need to check yourself and realize how good you have it.

Because some random manager or someone formed an initial bias about you based on your outward appearance is not privilege, it's personal bias and we all have it.

The fact that I work at arguably the whitest place to work (largest investment bank in a first world country) that employs over 50% females of all varieties already wrecks your "privilege" assumption.

Do you know why? All those different people were hired solely based on their work and experience, nothing else.

I see all these articles and postings about what white privilege affords me, but none of it is concrete. I can't find anything tangible, where someone was explicitly discriminated against in the tech industry for their skin color or sexual preference.

I'm also gay as it fucking gets, yet I don't go around flaunting it and start making it a problem, to the point where my life revolves around my sexuality.
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I'm not sure if anyone actually listened to his album but the production on it is pretty solid. I would love to know who made most of this. It sounds like all the pop EDM garbage thats out there right now. A lot of the lyrical content is totally in that realm of meaningless phrases about life and partying. Songs like Keep Getting Better could have me fooled that it was a Rihanna song (really both of the girls Amari and Ilati sounded autotuned like her).
"Everybody sharing" is one thing. I already give the bulk of my paycheck (which already has nearly half my income confiscated before I see it) to 3 other no-income people. "Curb income inequality" doesn't recognize the sharing already occurring, but instead promises to put a gun to my head if I don't "share" more, which I do indeed find very scary.

Before taking from "the rich" while on this income-redistribution crusade, find out how many others they're already supporting, by contract or charity or responsibility.
Or Docker...?
None of those features matter if you're of the opinion that conditionals, loops, and functions don't belong in the styling system.

And I think that's a reasonable opinion to have, since we already have a language (JavaScript) that can do conditionals, loops, and functions much more naturally than some styling system on steroids. And of course you can use any other language to produce the markup in the first place. Do we really need to turn the styling system into yet another Turing-complete scripting language?

I'm waiting for the day when I can forget about both Sass and LESS, and just use vanilla CSS4, CSS5, or whatever comes next. Variables are coming soon. Proper nesting is probably next on the list. I may be wrong here, but I suspect that using LESS (which is closer to vanilla CSS) in the meantime will make it easier for me to transition to CSS4/5 later, because I won't be spoiled by all those fancy features that will probably never get implemented in vanilla CSS4/5.
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I guess uptime on those servers isn't that important: "Network availability: 99.9%" - http://www.soyoustart.com/us/offers/sys-e32-1.xml#support
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Or he could go with the much friendlier and less elitist: "feature you might not be aware of", "feature you might not be using yet".
yep. I just hope the value doesn't drop like a rock once the credits end. This thing has to keep a little equity for the economics to work out for me. It's a little bit of a gamble.

Also, the federal isn't a credit, it's a discount off of msrp. The state is a deduction, so you typically have to carry it a few years to see the full benefit. Just in case anyone is curious.
Im mostly disturbed by the "most powerful" part because this is subjective to project and how you work. It's not a very common case for me to commit parts of changes in a file because in most of my cases all changes I do to a file belong to the same commit since I work with feature branches. However when I do need this it's indeed powerful but judging by the enthusiasm of the post and title it just smells like the endorphin release of new feature discovering.
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Afaict, you don't actually need to be downloading the content in order to check for updates and the signing is not mandatory ("should be signed" not "must be signed"). Don't the content providers already pose as peers and even share (sometimes corrupted) torrents in order to track down infringement? The feed could even be legitimate in and of itself, even when signed, but still pass on user information to a centralised server.

I'm no security expert and it's quite possible that it's all quite safe, but to my layman's eyes it seems there's substantial potential for abuse, especially to unsuspecting users.
For those of you who already use Grunt (if you aren't using Grunt, you can probably get used to the Ruby cli for SASS), there is indeed a relatively easy way to compile SASS: https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-contrib-sass

I plan on doing this for our team pretty soon.
I've used LESS and have been happy with it. It was so easy to get up and running, and most of the companies I've worked at use it instead of SASS.

Has anybody tested out Myth yet? http://www.myth.io/
In this regard, C++ templates suffer from two problems. First, C++ templates are far more general than just generic types (in fact, they're Turing complete). Second, and the cause of lots of redundancy, is that C++ has no module system. C++ has no module system, and instead relies on the linker to provide functionality that could reasonably be provided at compile time given a sufficient module system. I'd say that generics in Go could avoid both of these problems: first by being just generics, and second by leveraging the module system.

Yes, generics will increase compile times. I seriously doubt it will increase compile times by an integer multiple, and most people probably won't even notice.

I'm not entirely sure what's going on that is causing the instruction cache to be underutilized, but it seems to me that the only way to avoid it is to also avoid abstraction in general. As usual, there's a tradeoff between performance and maintainability -- that's nothing new. Pick the appropriate abstractions for your use case.

Russ Cox is wrong in this case because his sample consists of one language: C++. Go is not C++, so it's a mistake to assume it will suffer from the same problems.

To get an idea of how generics could be reasonably implemented, take the Clay programming language as an example: http://claylabs.com/clay/
OK. So given all this thinking, where's the 3D printing era, JIT-manufactured, elegant hack in response that fundamentally rethinks the problem domain and is one with kettle-nature?

I guess the author is saying "kettle is a kettle is a kettle" (except for price, certain design features that don't really count).

One thing they left out of the estimate was the cost of passing national electrical safety regulator test regimes. As anyone who has actually produced new electronics can tell you, this can often be an expensive PITA... particularly for lower-volume products. 100,000 is not high volume.

Please contribute your kettle hack ideas in this thread.
I disagree for two reasons.

1) It is good to have choice.

2) LESS is simpler and closer to the thing it compiles into: CSS. When dealing with complicated abstraction layers, it can be useful to not veer too far away from the target.
A kettle-element where it used sound to listen for the bubbling of water above instead of measuring heat and automatically dropped temperature. It could track immediate temperature variation (for pots within a certain distance) to attempt to detect waterless operation and perform a shutdown for safety (to prevent fire).

A kettle where it doubles as other things. There are a wide variety of essentially similar cooking appliances (pressure cookers, slow cookers, kettles, Iranian-style rice cookers with crispyness-control, standard or Chinese-style rice cookers, stovetops, etc.) which should be possible to combine more elegantly than the wasteful duplication of the present.
"Joke currency" my ass!
It'd be nice if people stopped complaining about articles being old news. The guy posted this in 2012, and said he learned it a year ago (2011).

If you already know the feature, move on to the next article. Other people don't know about this feature and upvoted it.
Sensationalist title. The article is about stand-up comedians, not funny guys in general.
I didn't read the rest of the forum posts, but has there been any update from either party?
In the UK a suit has a different meaning than in the USA because almost everyone has worn a suit (or at least a shirt and tie) since they started school. I suspect that the reason that some jobs don't value a suit is because they align themselves with the same sentiments that causes school leavers to tie their ties to the school fence when they graduate. But there are still a lot of jobs in industries whose job is to keep things running, and in those industries a suit is considered normal attire.
There's a few groups trying to make a Bitcoin ETF who are amassing coins from private buyers in large purchases done as dark trades that don't manipulate the overall price of BTC.

All those new cashing out corp/merchant services like Bitpay and Coinlab don't have any limits either to the amount you can turn into fiat
> ...frees up all of the hamburger line cooks...

Frees them up for what? Unemployment?