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I wrote a thing to start & stop OpenStack servers via JavaScript. HTTPS is a thing.

I have trouble thinking of any API that shouldn't be callable from a client.
The trick I've used in the past is to start by tackling a single, small, isolated feature change. After you finish it, start with another one that's related to this one. Keep doing it until you've covered the whole codebase, making sure to only do small ones! This trick doesn't work.
This is true. Bear in mind, my experience in EVE doesn't extend quite that far. My own character is capable of flying battleships (the largest sub-capital class of ship) and freighters (a special type of capital ship), but I've never even seen a titan in-game. (The largest class I've seen is a carrier, owned by friends in an allied corp with a POS in lowsec.)
Titan pilots are like 20-30b. So they'd cost you ~$650 if you bought GTCs and sold plex on the market(legitimate way of buying characters with cash).
There's keyconfig extension (it's not available on addons.mozilla.org) that could help you.

http://mozilla.dorando.at/keyconfig.xpi
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=72994
Google searches aren't really a product with a zero dollar price; they are a payment to the suppliers of advertising views. charging for them is, de facto, cutting the price Google pays to the suppliers of the main product it sells, rather than a price increase on a product it sells.
Can't prove a negative. Next question?
Tried sudonow.com for Angular advice. Got valuable help the first couple times, so I bought the monthly subscription.

The next day, radio silence. No replies on the site, no replies to emails or requests for cancellation. They use Stripe for subscription billing, but even Stripe can't cancel my subscription. Have to dispute the $25 charge every month with my bank.</rant>

Take-away: Be careful with these sites.
Another 4D game: Miegakure http://marctenbosch.com/miegakure/

As referenced in a XKCD http://xkcd.com/721/
Now I'm paranoid that I might be a weirdo for holding my phone primarily in my left hand even though I'm right-handed. Am I alone in that? I think the reason I do it is because text and navigation are generally left-to-right, so having my thumb on the left side of the screen feels more natural. The animation in this post seems to confirm that.
It depends, but generally yes.
Right, but SOMEBODY had to.
or perhaps dish gloves (which already exist) are long so they do not become submerged in the water.
It looks very bad to me, doing everything against the UI conventions of the OS. The menu gone from the top right, why oh why? Didn't Firefox success started with being more "native" (close to the OS UI) than the predecessor? The history of bad decisions seems to repeat with every new generation?

Mozilla guys, you really want to annoy your users again? Why?
This really is an excellent book! It has helped me keep my sanity when working on large legacy codebases. Highly recommended.
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You can be let go at any time. It will be a surprise - companies typically go to lengths not to provide any warning. Usually you just go to work one morning, and get turned away - sometimes you won't even be allowed to go to your desk. You'll be able to collect unemployment, which is like insurance that you paid money into via taxes. You have to show that you're searching for work while you collect.

(I've been laid off once before.)
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"The real "free market" hypocrisy is that Silicon Valley was created by government spending. Still plays a huge role today."

My opinion of Twitter has gone down after I learned they were given $22 million in tax breaks. This was in exchange for charitable work in San Francisco. Although the company has done some charitable work, the amount is a fraction of the cost of the tax breaks awarded them.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/justinesharrock/the-twitter-document...

The most ridiculous quote from the above article:

"The company also disclosed it spent over $750,000 on food items, all bought within 50 miles of the office in order to support local businesses, which it said constituted a sort of charity."
> FOSS aren't even a player

I strongly disagree. FOSS is a huge force for both backend development and front end web development. One can also argue that Android is mostly open. EDIT: The large majority of servers in the world are running on FOSS. I can also predict a large number of upcoming devices like the internet of things to be running on it. Whether or not they run Android is another story.

The only reason FOSS may not be a "player" is because it's not a single monolithic organization, but instead it's a very loose coalition of thousands of individuals, organizations, and companies.

> How many languages can you use to write apps for your iPhone or Android device? Objective C and Java respectively and that's about it.

This may be the case for clients, but a lot of mobile apps also depend on server side apps.
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Wait till you try Angular Dart. Even better.
Almost all conversations about pricing make the same mistake: they assume that we all have the same goals. Your goal might be to squeeze as much money out of your customers as you can. That's totally fine, and completely ethical, but it's not my goal. I'm guessing many people are similar to me.

I want my business to be profitable. I want to get rich off of it. But I want my customers to get even richer. I want to know for a fact that I'm leaving money on the table for my customers to capture for themselves. I suspect that in the long run this will actually be a good business decision (happier customers now = more word of mouth) but even if it isn't, I still think it's the right decision for me. That's why I don't raise my prices.
I wonder how many companies have had similar breaches that went un-noticed or un-announced. Scary.
Came across a recent interview of his, by Om Malik, discussing the future of technology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ8Hiss2EkE
In actual practice, no single player will construct all the components for a titan. An alliance will spread the work of building the components around, especially since some of the same components used in titans are used in other capital ships and can be allocated to building whatever is necessary.
In reading the title of the post in question, as well as this comment, I'm going on a bit of a brief tangent:

Why can't we all just get along?

I think it's great for someone to say:

"Hey guys, I find it fits in my workflow really well to not use SDK's, and I
feel I get a lot of benefit from it."

I think we'd all agree that a similarly toned response would be great:

Interesting approach, thanks for sharing why you do things that way. If I
may chime in as someone who designs these SDK's, we really target them
towards people who have less experience, and who need simpler tools to get
things done. We'd counsel everyone to keep this in mind when picking tools
to use for their projects. Remember, always be thorough in exploring your
options and choose the best tool for the job!

See how nice that could have been, for both parties? I don't think we benefit from titles that come across as vaguely hostile like "Why I Don't Want Your SDK in Production", or from responses that might be interpreted as overly dismissive like "That's cool. You're not the guy we built it for".

I am conscious that this post might come across as condescending or insulting, but I'm genuinely not trying to go for that. I like hearing the different opinions people have, and it bothers me that there's such low level hostility and tension in much of the discussion I see. I hope we can all be a little nicer when we talk online.

Seriously, we can all get along!
And if a bunch of politicians mess up with some bills (which they do all the time), that would collectively be called BillGates... :-P
12 billion dollars a year. There's your answer.
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> inextricably entangled with certain positive phenomena, which should be explicated

Let me attempt to disentangle them: You assume collectives (not only individuals) have rights.

> approximately 0.1% of the US population has been systematically winning asymmetric zero-sum games against the lower 99%.

You treat clusters of individuals as players in a game, and infer injustice from systematic winning of these games; as though justice would necessitate "fair gameplay" between collectives, not just between individuals.

There's nothing to disagree with in your formalisation, but your formalisation is meaningless to anyone who disagrees with the underlying philosophy of rights and justice.
Are there documented cases of that happening?

It's one thing for an SOD tip to put a cop at the right place at the right time to observe a transaction or pull over a car driven by a guy with warrants out.

It's another thing entirely for an SOD tip to be the totality of probable cause, and for the police to lie to prosecutors or prosecutors lie to a judge about it.

The latter case sounds much less likely to me, given the effort these slide decks show of LEOs trying to stay within the confines of the law (I don't happen to agree with where those confines are, but the evidence we have shows the DOJ paying at least lip service to it).
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Isn't that just very basic web-tracking and ad targeting? Somewhere an ad-server is keeping track of keywords your browser is associated with and now atrazine is in your list.
"has the right to know both the evidence and the accuser
which makes for longer messier trials that cost more."

That sounds awfully like a quaint oft-forgot notion most people know as "due process".
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I've deleted my look back video and now I can't get it back? I re clicked the link and it now just comes up of a grid of about 6 photos!? Anyone know how I get the video back? 😞
It doesn't have to. That's the beauty of an open software ecosystem.
Top tech companies end up paying more for H1-B engineers than US engineers. Not only that but they have to pay for legal fees and wait for the legal process to take place. Why would they go through this if there were good US candidates available? Also tech salaries for entry level engineers at top tech companies (Google, Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox etc.) have increased by about 50% in the last 4 years.
You have too much choice until it comes to shipping your work to the public. Then you're at the various App Stores' mercy. The gate keepers may choose to postpone your approval indefinitely, and reserve their right to yank out your product at any time in the future. As a developer, never before in history have you been more beholden to a corporate entity!
ITs the same story with me, first I hit the link I was able to see the video.....later on its just disappeared,after waiting long and refreshing no result.
"ever had to really crunch data"

Most people don't, that's why it doesn't matter. I volunteer as treasurer of a cub scout pack. We switched from Excel to Google docs spreadsheet. We're using about 1/1000th the power and limitations of google docs, and google's capabilities are expanding faster than our needs are expanding. I don't care if Excel would be "better" because we'd only need 1/100000th its capabilities or it would take 20 times longer to learn how to use.

Most business tasks run into exactly the same scaling issue.

Business decisions are never made by qualified techs on the basis of pessimism, they're always by completely technologically unqualified managers in a hurry on the basis of optimism.
"Too many parentheses" is a cop out for "This language is too far out of my comfort zone." And I think that is why Lisp is not as successful as other languages.

I also think the almost mythical status of Lisp is also a hindrance. Lisp couldn't possibly live up all the hype. This leads to a backlash of common complaints ("not enough libraries", "smug lisp weenies", "bad culture", "no ide", "prefix notation is unreadable") when it does not live up to the hype or worse the user fails to grok lisp. The mythical status also leads to a higher percentage of trolls.

Back in the day, most programming was from scratch or at most trading bits of code. Lisp was great in this environment. Coding from scratch was quicker than other languages and due to its dynamic nature morphing someone else's lisp code was easy. Today most programming is patching together libraries or tools. Scripting languages are ideal for this. No one "steals" code any more, they "steal" whole libraries.
In the past MS was very antagonistic towards open source and even open source projects within their own ecosystem. N-Hibernate and N-Unit come to mind as examples.

Why did this matter? Innovation is much faster and a lot cheaper with open source. Other platforms benefited and grew from it, and a lot of people left the MS ecosystem because it seemed to stagnate i.e. you have to re-invent a lot of wheels when staying in MS's world while all of that is already done and freely available to you on other platforms.

I'm not saying that MS hasn't changed their stance on open source (Codeplex is a prime example). I'm just telling the story of how MS lost traction with developers.
you are indeed wrong. By default apps need only to be signed. This is also easy to bypass (right click and select open while holding...option i think? not at workstation right now..) as well as easy to change globally (preferences).
> geyser

Is that a local term for hot water heater?
I don't know why, but I find it a little unsettling that your page has exactly the same layout as coinbase.
Any API that uses some form of authentication token that is not obtained via some user-based interaction like OAuth may need to be at least proxied via a server side piece to prevent exposing credentials/keys.
I keep this in mind. We need to find an easy way to export examples formatted with the good template etc... before putting anything public, to ensure it's not too hard to update the production server when we release sigma.js.
> We wanted to focus on historical narratives from American slaves

Sadly, there are still slaves in America today as a result of human trafficking. Slavery in the US hasn't ended.
"zero-sum detrimental finance games"

That depends on the market, doesn't it? They didn't say they were explicitly building systems for Forex, right?

And who are you to tell people what they should "waste their brains on"? A lot of programmers I know in research labs/academia speak condescendingly towards really intelligent SV programmers who "waste their brains" on moving pixels around a screen in order to make people click more ads.
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I agree that s-expressions are not necessarily always the best choice.

But your argument about this having to do with what compiler one is using doesn't make sense to me. S-expressions are easily parseable in virtually any language. S-expressions are always going to be one short-cut around the problem of deciding what syntax your language should have (my object is this short-cut may not help your language in the end - your S-expression language will be considered less-than-understandable by the same reasonably large group of people who consider LISP less-than-understandable).

For example, Google give this complete lisp interpreter in c:

http://www.umcs.maine.edu/~chaitin/lisp.c

Haskell may have facilities that make parsing any language reasonably easy, sure. But I have news, parsing language is easy once you learn a bit anyway.
I am a freelancer and i wanted something simple and clean, so a up for Reactjs and Backbone for most of my projects. Angular is a awesome framework but it just scare me a little bit :).
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I actually don't know how the video is made. How do you create, and modify, a video with a programming language?
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Hmm... addiction makes it so you can't really trust people's decisions surrounding their own health and having lots of addicts looking to get their next fix at any cost means lots of petty crimes.

Disease and crime are hugely damaging to society. You might (in internet-"libertarian" fashion) decide that people should be free to damage themselves, and that health insurance providers should be free not to cover those people (and you'd have a completely logical rationale for being a selfish asshole), but how do you account for the additional costs to the security infrastructure from the crime?

With socialized security infrastructure (state run police and prisons) everyone pays for the damage that drug manufacturers and importers are doing to society. Without it (private security/insurance) you could decide that premiums for those services will just follow the increase in drug-related crimes in a given locality, but then you've completely given up on solving the root causes, and we'd just have the same kind of security profiteering surrounding drug use we see now, minus a whole lot of effectiveness.

Do all of the people who resist addiction and want to have a decent level of security in their lives and possessions move to gated communities? What about the ones who are not so privileged? Do we just give up on entire neighborhoods of addicts and those too poor to leave.

Certainly, prosecuting users and low-level dealers with hugely inflated mandatory minimums is a crime against them and their families. Certainly, criminalizing production of tobacco, alcohol, or cannabis inhibits the potential for economy surrounding them without much benefit to society.

Is the value of preventing the import and production of hard and/or impure drugs like methamphetamine and the damage that their use does to civilization not as certain?

It seems pretty obvious to me that having social infrastructure surrounding drug laws and their enforcement, and treatment for addicts is hugely beneficial - society benefits as a whole so everyone should pay, and there is definitely potential for benefit greater than the costs (I suspect that even as bad as we are screwing this up now, we are past the break-even). It seems pretty obvious to me that we must disconnect sentencing from politics by making mandatory minimums unconstitutional - judges and juries must be free to sentence as they see fit. And it seems pretty obvious to me that we must refocus law enforcement on the sources of drugs, not the users or dealers - who are mostly victims of social effects and mental behaviors which are outside their control (this is very likely to mean reduced spending in total surrounding drug law enforcement).
Is it time to ditch the "normal" OS? My startup is looking to do exactly that but I would like to know what others thoughts are on the matter.

My proposal is to have a small exokernel between the hardware and the application. The exokernel is there to provide very simple access to the hardware (like the disk or network) and will rely on the application to do anything complicated (like handling TCP/IP).
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Cost of doing all of the above (travel, paying people) would run what? Hundreds of thousands? A Million a year?

What about the very people who ran the operation? They were probably retired law enforcement or some govt intelligence type. I can't think of normal office worker (CPA, MBA types) being capable of the methods described.

They must've been paid pretty highly in part because the higher ups wanted to buy silence from the operatives...

All the methods are NOT assumptions but from internal notes of the company. Pretty amazing. Shouldn't this be investigated by the govt attorneys who go after racketeers? They sold a product that was damaging and did pretty much everything (except physical injury) to try to continue selling it.
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Checking bags adds a lot of time to your trip after the plane lands, you have to wait ages in many cases for the ground crews to unload and process your baggage. In addition the size for carry-on luggage is pretty large with a small amount of work you can pretty easily get all you need for a trip into the carry-on baggage.
> What’s remarkable about this result is that it does not depend on the precise distribution of the requests, the order in which requests are processed or any other variable that might have conceivably affected the result.

It says that (# requests) = (# requests / time) * time

There is nothing else "that might have conceivably affected the result", it's just algebraic cancellation.

Everything else that might have mattered is ruled out by saying "stable system" and saying that all variables are averages.

I'm not saying it's not useful, but that's an awfully "gee whiz" tone to use to comment on r = (r/t) * t

This part is more worthy of an exclamation point, since it makes clear a practical impact:

> Because L is the minimum of all these limits, the OS scheduler suddenly dropped our capacity, L, from the high 100Ks-low millions, to well under 20,000!
Hey, it worked for Uwe Boll.
I hear you.

What I'm saying is not "leave zero customer surplus"

I say don't create value purely by lowering prices.

More specifically from the post:

"Focus fanatically on this: offering more value to every single customer than you extract from them with your pricing.

Do that by constantly adding more value to your customers life instead of lowering your prices and discounting your product heavily."
You're not a weirdo. Left-handed people are smarter anyway.

(South paw here who uses his phone with his right hand.)
I would say that impounding of a vehicle is fine, since if someone is under arrest, you need to do something with the vehicle. What should not be fine is searching the car once it has been impounded, since the 4th amendment should apply here.

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons,
houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and
seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue,
but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and
particularly describing the place to be searched, and the
persons or things to be seized."

The car should constitute an "effect" and just because it happens to be in the possession of the police, does not mean that it should be searchable by the police without a warrant describing the car as the place to be searched, the probably cause upon which they are basing the warrant (failure to yield to a pedestrian shouldn't even be admissible as a cause for search) and the things to be seized.

It would look mighty ridiculous if the police arrested someone for a moving violation based on parallel construction or this new tactic and then tried to get a warrant for searching the car based on that fact.

Simply enforcing fourth amendment rights even for articles and effects in police custody should be enough to protect people for these absurd tactics.
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