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Visual-based programming is definitely something that can help more people solve problems, but it gets complex to manage too (or so we've been told by blogs and others).

Perhaps something like visual-based programming would suit a different mindset altogether.

Truth be told though, programmers have managed to solve the website problem with all the new site-builders out there. They all seem to be "drag and drop", which should have been addressed long ago as a standard for at least the frontend.
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I'm fairly left and I'm not opposed to privatization at all. But...

The highest bidder can police the fish themselves. If they fail to police the fish, their ownership is revoked and the rights are re-auctioned.

Nice in theory, but in practice the highest bidder often ends up as such a strong political lobby that it prevails on government to do the policing, fights tooth-and-nail against quotas, and rights are almost never revoked. Coming from Ireland I remember fishing lobbyists being only slightly less powerful and vocal than the farming lobby and I see no reason to think that privatization will change this - it's been the same in every other coastal region I've ever lived.

As for revocation, consider the case of the Drakes Bay Oyster Company. In 1972 the US Department of the Interior bought the land the oyster farm is on and agreed a 40 year lease for the oyster farm, after which the plan was to shut everything down and let it revert to nature. Another company bought the farm in 2004, knowing full well the terms of the lease. When the lease ran out on schedule in 2012 they ran around seeking extensions via Congress and then suing the government. After having their case rejected, they're now preparing to appeal the matter to the Supreme Court. See http://www.marinij.com/ci_24909002/court-denies-drakes-bay-o...

Now, this is the opposite of your privatization scenario on its face as the government bought the land with the intent of creating a nature reserve, but it is a good example of a private actor voluntarily entering into a straightforward contractual arrangement with the government, much like the purchase of a fisheries license. 40 years is a pretty long lease period - well over a generation, more than enough time to plan for the economic dislocation of the lease expiration. But the leaseholder is fighting this like the injustice of the century, claiming that he had an expectation for lease renewal, the government is screwing him etc. Now I have no opinion about the oyster fishery itself (which I believe is well-run), nor do I think the department of the interior is necessarily great to do business with - for all I know they could have given the business owner a completely mistaken impression about the prospects of lease renewal. But the fact remains that the contractual arrangement was spelled out very clearly a long time ago, and losing your lease on a commercial property is the sort of thing that happens in business.

If a clear-cut case like this can end up dragging through the Supreme Court, I have little hope of more ambiguous and hard-to-score cases involving offshore fisheries being any better. Privatization alone is not the answer, although it is certainly a valid part of the answer. It won't work without onerous regulatory power as well.
...Not sure you know what "Ad Hominem" means...

This is not a disaccreditation of the man based upon his character or something unrelated to the topic, his ability to write good code is highly relevant to the issue at hand.
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This idea has been around for years, Tidbit is nothing new [1]. GPU mining through browsers is just as old [2]. None of this is particularly hard to conceive of or difficult to implement. I would love to know who advised to proceed on this matter and their reasoning.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=9042.0
[2] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=9876.0
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I dig this analogy. Since moving my folks over to iPads, I get emails from them daily, photos shared with me and zero distressed support calls.
Nature itself inflicts immeasurable amounts of suffering and death.

There's a view that says that there's a balance and grand scheme in nature -- the Gaia hypothesis. I don't subscribe to this, and have been seeing a few fairly persuasive arguments that it's fairly wishful thinking.

Which isn't to say that the biosphere won't exact its own vengeance on humans if we continue down our present path.

What distinguishes humans from other life forms, that we're aware of, is, well, that we're aware. We can form models of understanding about the world and Universe we inhabit, and we've done a fairly impressive job of this over the past 300 years or so: Newton, Darwin, Mengel, Einstein, et al.

And one of the things we've been aware of ... for a fairly long time ... is that the very things which have given us an advanced industrial civilization cannot continue unabated forever. William Stanley Jevons wrote of this in The Coal Question in 1865, and referenced works back to 1789 (John Williams, "The Limited Quantity of Coal in Britain"). The alarm's been pulled repeatedly since (CO2 induced global warming: 1932, peak oil: 1945, 1956, 1972, 1998, ..., pollution and environmental impacts: 1962, 1972, ..., population: 1798, 1972, ...).

While moral arguments do get invoked quite a bit, I prefer a more empirical basis for argument. Joshua Greene (http://www.merrimack.edu/live/news/1124-joshua-greene-phd-re...) has some very interesting things to say on moral decisionmaking with which I find myself in generally strong agreement.

Life exists to find and exploit entropic gradients in stocks and flows. Humans have done a bang-up job of finding and exploiting one particularly copious class of stocks (fossil fuels). The end of that stock is well within sight, and with our job done, we may well find ourselves unemployed, biologically speaking.

I'd prefer to avoid that unemployment if possible. And I think that's the question at hand.
Very interesting learnings, and well-presented too!

I have to say, I don't see this as abandoning crowdsourcing -- the "crowd" of experts is continuing to work together. To me it looks more like investigating various approaches to getting good results from the crowd, and discovering a better alternative for the particular problem. Terminology aside, it's very interesting to think about what other situations this pattern could work in.
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Automation is a by product of Process. Automation hides (and outsources to a machine) the complexities of certain Process(es). When one decides to automate the Process is a question of debate and usually revolves around some sort of Opportunity costs. In the end Process is Great since it sets boundaries (rules) and leads to Automation.
I've used both apptopia and flippa to sell apps within the past year or so. I sold one app on apptopia for $500, the sale came relatively quickly, maybe within a week or so of posting it on the site. However, I stopped using apptopia when they decided to start charging for listings, which were $50 or so last time I checked. I would only ever use them again if I knew my app was going to fetch a certain price and not just $500 like the one I sold did.

I also sold a bunch of apps in a group on flippa a couple of weeks ago. The interesting thing about this was that I no longer had the source code for the apps (so all I could offer was transferral of ownership in the app store), but even still, what I thought would only sell for $150 or so ended up going for $550.

I'd say both are great websites to use.
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Twitter's sputtering user growth unnerves investors
I noticed the same. Come on man, billions of pieces of trash? How about snapping a few pictures to bring more fire to the discussion? Nah...
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MVPs are great, however new business opportunities and new ideas will always come up on a monthly basis, at least.

Especially in startups, you never have time to take care of technical debt. In practice, technical debt is dealt with "on the side" and teams that don't do it will end up in situations in which simple features or pivots are extremely hard to execute, which will lead to lost business opportunities. I was at some point in this situation due to a minor pivot that should have been painless but wasn't, with the solution chosen being to rebuild the product from scratch. This is why I've been telling my colleagues to always leave the codebase in a better state every day, even if that means just renaming a variable. Sloppy code also suffers from the broken-window effect.

What you really want is to write elegant code that works and that's delivered on time. And the greatest trait of a senior developer is not "cutting corners" but rather simplifying the problem. That's not the same thing, as the simplification of a problem often leads to more initial work.
One of the key parts of this for consumers to keep in mind is that this is a massive PCI violation. Target neglected many of the most basic requirements in terms of network segmentation and data protection. Target is a large tier-one retailer. They had 3rd party audits to "guarantee" PCI compliance.

However, the 3rd party is usually a single 'auditor' who interviews the staff and looks at the network diagrams provided by the IT department. This information may be inaccurate to the point that it may not even exist.

The focus in these audits is almost always ecommerce. I'm sure Target's ecommerce site has been scoped very thoroughly. Almost every retailer is just as exposed. While every client I've worked with has (by the time I left) been PCI compliant on the ecommerce side, the internal networks are often completely flat, even across global locations. SOX is a joke as a result, as there is no separation of concerns.
A bit more feedback:

In chrome 32.0.1700.77, clicking join did nothing, it only scrolled to the top of the page.

Also, I'd love to see a quick video introduction. I like the concept.
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This feels like the Codecademy for programming gangsters.
Seems like so many times these days, people's actions are defined by a process of:

I don't understand this -> I don't like this -> I'll research reasons to not like this -> You may never be permitted to do this.

Never, "Let's weigh the pros and cons and figure out what we will do about it." It's decision first, then rationalization.
i have them backed up on an external hard drive. i'll upload on dropbox and send them to you
I have seen TV broadcast equipment with SNMP and web interfaces exposed on public internet addresses. Days ago.
Upvoted. I agree that it's annoying and confusing. I don't like it either. But that's the standard that IEEE, ITS and USDOT are supporting and car/truck companies are working on that. Unlike WiFi routers, vehicular networking requires everybody to use the same standard in order for it to work. I'm not sure how much space there is to make an effort to build an alternative.

They have their reasons for replacing TCP/IP, among which one is to reduce IP overhead in vehicular environment. Since most of time communication is temporary and doesn't require routing, IP layer is not necessary. They want to reduce the IP header overhead for each packet. I doubt how much it improves reliability though, given the fact that people have to implement another whole stack other than just using mature TCP/IP stack.
Perhaps it's a form of copy protection but IMO, without it being digital, DRM isn't possible.

I did purchase this book because the last version has so many good reviews and I too would have preferred a digital copy but to me, calling it DRM is technically incorrect and smells like bait. I'm mostly disappointed that I fell for it.
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> If they fail to police the fish, their ownership is revoked and the rights are re-auctioned.

This is not actually privatization; it is just outsourcing regulatory authority. Under real privatization, private parties are free to waste the resources they own.

The theory is that they won't, since it would harm their long-term ability to create value. The reality is that individual humans only need so much money, so decision-makers are often perfectly willing to sacrifice long-term value as long as they, themselves, collect enough personal money in the short term.
It also had plenty of unintended negative consequences. See suburban sprawl, oil dependency, the health impacts of commuting, and a ton of other negative impacts.
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I also had issues creating an account.
While the story may or may not be true, I cannot believe that Sony would have been able to sell Microsoft on the idea that some of their "PCs" were going to run MacOS. There was a pretty interesting example of how Microsoft responds when ASUS first tried to ship a x86 laptop with Linux as standard. (the EEEPC line) It resulted in a huge flap that spilled out publicly with things like ARM laptops being ordered off the expo floor at CeBIT and Microsoft bringing back a "dead" version of Windows XP for that particular model. But the bottom line was they went all out to keep ASUS from shipping a non-windows Laptop and that was in 2006 or 7. Five years earlier I expect they would have just threatened to pull Sony completely out of the OEM licensing program.
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and I'm always told that macs are superior because they "just work," hmm
"but mention using a VPN and that's too much work for them."

I don't understand the problem, if they want access they will have to deal with the security protocols.
"A relief from the unintuitive, unscalable, unfounded snake oils like OOP, markup, APIs, or the triumvirate of HTML/CSS/JS. As if these technologies are the best we can do."

At first I was mad. Then I read the above quote and everything clicked into place. This article is hilarious and I love every shrill, indignant, purposefully absurd word of it.
Funny how the biggest opponents of this kind of thing seem to also be the biggest fans of Javascript, which was developed by freezing whatever syntax Netscape came up with in three days. If this had been the process back in 1990 the web would never have got off the ground.
It's almost as if, at some size, a company's "internal" network should be considered no more secure than the internet itself. Defense at the perimeter only is flawed, especially when the perimeter is the only thing protecting cash registers that update with unsigned firmware. One wouldn't connect such a client directly to the internet, so neither should one connect it directly to a network shared by millions of devices at 1700 stores.
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Come again? North Atlantic Right Whales are already functionally extinct. Fin Whales are still on the endangered list as are Blue Whales.

No major whale population has been removed from the endangered list since being placed on it.

And yet fisherman still complain bitterly when they're asked to use sinking lines for their lobster pots to help avoid entanglement. Whales are not a great example to trot out of a healthy ocean.
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Darpa funds IBM development of chip that will self-destruct
An infinite loop can do that just as well. Is that illegal now as well?
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Very cool, one of those sites you can very easily spend a 1/2 hour on without realizing it...
I don't think programming should be mainstream, I think software should simple and intuitive enough to let anyone get work done without having to know how to write code.
ACLs don't go far enough. You need an air gap. Chances of ACL/VLAN configuration failures are higher than someone purposely connecting a patch cable between networks.
I see a service anecdotes, positive and negative about Newegg. I don't know if they're real or if they're from Amazon shills, Newegg shills, etc. I guess we're stuck with anecdotes, not data. For myself, I'd always been happy with Newegg (ok, another anecdote) and like their faceted search and their prices. I also bought less from them after I got an Amazon Prime subscription.. I'm guessing Newegg must have noticed their loss of customers, perhaps and is fighting back. Go Newegg! :)
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MOAR (some) PYTHON.
I once ordered an XBox Live Membership Card from them. I ended up getting an empty envelope. Imagine shaking the envelope furiously and holding it up against the sun to see if something drops.

Contacted the customer service, they asked me to email the picture of the desperately ripped open envelope. Once done, they finally sent another one. Well nothing really to complaint about but it was still weird receiving an empty package with extra padding.
Might wanna start off with telling us what Stormpath is rather than burying that info halfway down the page. You seem awfully concerned that nobody knows what Stormpath is, but then you don't really tell us until 10 paragraphs in.

Congrats on the new gig, though.
No! You may not have my email address after two woefully simple problems! I don't need you sending me emails every day, "You forgot to come to Codewars.com in the last 2 hours, why aren't you spending your entire life on this site?!"
> The thing that makes us different from say Wikipedia or Github is that we don't provide just source code, but live infrastructure delivering the algorithms as a service. So rather than uploading code to github, and putting the burden on a user cloning the algorithm, setting up virtual servers, deployment systems, load balancers, etc. We handle all that. That way algorithm developers are free to focus on algorithm code, and the infrastructure is taken care of.

Virtual servers? deployment systems? load balancers?!? Huh? It all looks like gibberish to me. What does any of this have to do with developing implementations of new algorithmic techniques?
Twitter Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2013 Results
A previous solution based on explicit naming of "parts" of shadow DOMs was withdrawn several months ago. And update was given the the CSS WG last November that outlined the changes. FWIW, the "::part()" solution would have _worked_. It's entirely feasible that we could have improved the world by providing Shadow DOM with that as the primary styling mechanism. Not ideal, though. So we have been willing to change course in response to feedback.

Here's the Blink bug: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=309504

All of this happened in the open, in consultation with other vendors (not necessarily at WG meetings, which aren't where you design features anyway).

Remember the context here: Googlers have been doing the heavy lifting on this front for _years_. It's exciting that others are starting to pay attention to the problem space. That they don't think providing Shadow DOM to users is as urgent as we do is their right. We, however, are willing to take some pain in this (relatively small) instance, should they not be willing to help us work through the naming issue in short-order (which, as you can see from the thread, is the actual request; our goal is to improve things through web developers, preferably via collaboration.
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I think stretchwithme is actually fairly accurate in his portrayal of the tragedy of the commons. The key is the externalities must be internalized.

The problem arises where "privatization" is floated as the answer to a resource overconsumption situation, but where the property boundaries of what is privatized don't encompass the entire set of externalities. You nail this in your criticism of the hypothetical WalMart sale of Yellowstone: "Wal-mart has no special interest in preserving it as a common good." If that's the case, then what was privatized isn't the full set of externalities. And that's where Hardin's tidy solution starts getting messy.

If you're familiar with his works, you'll also note that a second essay of his addresses another challenge: "lifeboat ethics". While privatizing a commons (properly) can address the economic inefficiencies of privatized gains and socialized costs (banking, anyone), what it cannot do is fundamentally increase the carrying capacity of a resource beyond its absolute limits. Yes, it's possibly that privatization might lead to technical optimization, but some limits remain. And ultimately, the ability to provide for people (and ecosystems) has bounds.

There's also the challenge of properly valuing a resource over time, and that's a place where any market solution seems fundamentally limited, at least as presently implemented.
In the meantime, if you need to get it working right now, you can build your own binary as outlined here: http://blog.devtable.com/2014/01/using-docker-on-osx-with-pr...

We've confirmed the instructions still work with Docker 0.8 (make sure to change the checkout branch though :))
You sure it's not so you can email us every day to pester us into coming back to your site?
Right. One key question is this: what does "high quality" mean?

If your product is a first iteration on a web application, user interaction may be a key part to quality while database tuning may not.

If your product is a data analytics service, database tuning may actually be very important while the user interaction may be less so.
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Same deal with JavaScript - there is a significant lag between when I hit submit and see if the submission was correct. It seems like it would be trivial to get JS to run in the browser, but maybe I'm overlooking some caveat to eval that the creators foresaw.
Man, people are so overly sensitive... it's almost like someone is trying to promote job security.
I think this is an amazing initiative from Google!
Hey, you don't need to be a statistician to understand the "data mining" fallacy. If you look at 100 different null hypotheses, and you set p<.05 as your threshold for rejecting, then you're going to find ~ 5 ones you can reject at p<.05. Duh. Monkeys typing Shakespeare and all that.
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I'm suggesting if people in the appropriate working group feel as if a particular solution to a problem (regardless of how old the problem is) wasn't given due consideration, the notion of "speak now or we'll ship anyway" is not productive. I don't believe that Google in particular is a bad actor in the standards community. Far from it! I do feel as if something as fundamentally paradigm-shifting as Web Components needs care and thought to be done correctly and respectfully. Saying "we're going to ship this solution ASAP, any last-minute objections" puts unnecessary stress and time constraints on the task of making the best, most useful solution possible.
I would argue that the reason you are choosing to recouple things, is because you fall into that 10%. Most problems can and should be solved first correctly, second elegantly, and you will find at that stage it is "fast enough". It's so rare to not find that to be true, overall (i.e., some industries, such as high speed trading, there is no such thing as fast enough, but they're writing < 10% of the total amount of code being written), that yes, I'd say the quote is accurate, and the exceptions fall into that 10%.

Interestingly, too, you indicate "recoupling". That is, to couple again. Meaning for you to even be in this situation, realizing what you need to do, you had to first make it elegant. Otherwise you'd be optimizing...what, exactly? You have no metric.
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