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I didn't see such a note, but I'm not sure it would be true, either.

DNSimple doesn't actually implement a new DNS record type, it simply puts a TXT record on your domain that says "ALIAS for some.fqdn", and presumably it causes their DNS servers to do a recursive lookup for you (to whatever's in the TXT record) when you try and look at the A record for the naked domain.

From github's DDoS prevention's point of view the result is the same: an A record lookup points to their IP. They don't know that you got there by way of looking at DNSimple's servers and their ALIAS technique.
Compared to most of Europe, one of the things the US has to recommend it, is easier access to personal bankruptcy, jingle mailing underwater house keys etc. Of course, given the obsession of our time being to trick someone into putting his name on some dotted line, the politicos are doing their darnedest to destroy this, but it's still easier to just walk away in America than in most places.

Good to hear Sweden has as good, (perhaps better?) access to such facilities.
Oh, that's because the demos are loaded in an iframe. Not sure what the best solution is, but I'll think about it. Thanks.
To clarify, Om does not "spam" state change notifications via requestAnimationFrame - all rAF calls are batched. For example if a state change occurs we schedule re-render via rAF. If another state change occurs we will not call rAF since one is already queued. In fact no state changes can queue another rAF until all changes in the current cycle have been completely flushed.
http://brooklynoptimist.com/2014/04/10/hacker-school-banning...
It's difficult to give any credence to those obvious agenda bent articles rife with unsubstantiated claims.

The first author makes a stink of the fact (and mentions no less than three times) that one is fired if they are late the first week no matter the circumstance. Oh, the travesty. But then she even details the performance point system they use in which one is marked down 1.5 points for not SHOWING UP to work. And it requires 6 to fire you. You can actually just not show up 3 days to work and not get fired. Incredible. I mean really, she paraphrases a conversation she just happen to have with a woman in her late 50s about the tragedy of having to be at work at 5am the first day.

The second author's statements are full of innuendos such as "if someone talks during work hours, the rest are expected to shun them." No claim that this is written policy of course of which he could not back up. No, the only explanation being, "it's a subtle thing because they ask you to "report possible anomalies to your superiors."

The horrors of capitalism. Guess what? Working at a warehouse sucks, but after fully reading both the above articles it actually doesn't seem as bad as I thought.
Regarding giving up after 500ms: I don't think the issue is that people are consciously abandoning a site after a single page load that seems a bit slow. It's the cumulative burden of slightly slow pages that make the site slightly less attractive compared to other alternatives that respond faster. The differences are noticeable - if only subconsciously - and the result is that a portion of the users will move to the other service that just feels more responsive. Responsiveness of the site is part of the value being offered (even if people don't recognize it explicitly) For any site with significant volume of users and some effective competition for their service, this distinction results in measurable changes in use/conversions. I think the _actual_ change in user activity or conversions for s specific site would depend a whole lot on the nature of the service being offered and the alternatives available.
Unless you were actually following the propagation of Snowden stories through the MSM in realtime as I was (at the time), it'd be tough to realize a story isn't getting covered.

People also tend to have intentionally blind spots when it comes to their own institution.
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Maybe it's because we've received the secret developers-eyes-only memo:

True Agile:

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
Getting shit done over attending meetings and conferences
You can, but then you get automated emails from Github Support telling you that your DNS config is wrong and that you should be using CNAMEs rather than A records (since Cloudflare flattens the virtual CNAMEs to As if you do a DNS lookup).
Alright, but we need to agree a time limit. Shall we say by the end of the month? That's over two weeks.
A large percentage of the Zuckerberg money went towards the NTU teacher contract that rewards teachers with bonuses based on performance.

http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/13/10/22/explainer-mark-z...
The WaPo review is even weirder. The author can't even maintain the pretense that he's commenting on Greenwald instead of just defending his own home turf.

Anyone reporting in DC for a media outlet with any access to politicians, knows they their reporting is tempered by their desired to maintain that access to power. The fact he doesn't acknowledge that says pretty much everything you need to know about the quality of the review. Edit: Turns out Cole is a law professor: I guess that explains his deference to the current law and attitude that what we already know the NSA is unable to be scandalous in and of itself.

Even when Cole attempts to elucidate a criticism of Greenwald I already agree with, he looks like a hack. Once the Casablana quote comes up it's obvious this guy is just sputtering trying to find a way to look down his nose at the guy that won his paper a Pulitzer.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/no-place-to-hide-by-g...
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> The NYT is a joke.

While I absolutely wish the NYT were more forthcoming with its reporting on these issues (such as the example you pointed out), the NYT is by far the best "mainstream"[0] news source around.

Let's also not forget that the New York Times did stand up for the first amendment in one extremely important whistleblower case resulting in a Supreme Court decision that is highly relevant to the Snowden leaks[1].

This review was painful to read, but let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater ("The NYT is a joke"). The NYT reports on a number of these issues with higher-quality reporting than most publications. As with any reporting and editorial team as large as the NYT, we can point to both cases in which they have done their job well and case in which they have not. But I wouldn't say that the NYT is "a joke" - I'd reserve that judgment for publications that truly add net-zero or net-negative value[2], not a publication whose history is "mixed, but still better than almost anything else out there".

It's also worth noting that the NYT has less leeway with editing the content of editorials and reviews (such as this one), and for good reason - as a policy, it limits the extent to which editors can censor writers (or makes it more difficult for them to do so).

Yes, it's certainly possible - policies are, after all, just policies. In the era in which a company can be served an NSL, I think we can all agree that nothing is impossible, for any company[3].

[0] ie, not single-issue journalism, or publications run explicitly by advocacy groups

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_papers

[2] Fox "news" would be the obvious whipping boy here.

[3] Put another way, I can totally understand if you're concerned about the government having undue influence on the NYT's reporting (either directly or indirectly). But for that, no publication with a reach as large as the NYT can be immune to that. That's certainly a sad statement about the state of our government, but it's not a statement about the NYT specifically.
As a developer, I know how Agile works. It's pretty simple. Now why would I want to waste a few days of working time to go to a conference about it? Most people can probably do zero to two conferences a year paid by their employer. To me this sounds incredibly boring compared to something related to my field or ecosystem.
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OM and ClojureScript are great - but it is all about choice.
Sometimes i prefer/need JS as a language.

It would be great to get the AMAZING clojure-community ideas into the JS world.
Thank you for replying! I got a staggering number of unexplained downvotes before anybody was prepared to talk to me.

Thinking about it I can well believe that if you want people to stay on your site and click around, probably because you want to show them ads or products, a small delay will impact on the number of clicks. I would imagine that's not the motivation for most github pages sites though.
"By your logic, that man could neither be detained, questioned or have the copies removed from his possession."

I didn't say they couldn't detain him. I asked what the point - the actual objective - was.

I think you have a valid point that reducing (by one) the number of copies of the document collection in circulation was a valid and rational action by the UK authorities - especially since it appears that Miranda was carrying a piece of paper with the encryption password written on it. But it's also an empty gesture given how quickly the documents could be re-copied. How many new copies could be created by others during the nine hours that he was in detention?

Your analogies with people breaking into houses or places of work are sophistry. They involve the commission of criminal acts against individuals. Miranda didn't break any UK laws. Neither did Snowden.
The Agile processes are ways for managers to enforce a manufacturing-like process to software development to micro manage development activities to squeeze every little bit of productivity out of developers in the expense of creativity. They work well for managing junior developers or for body shop. Senior developers hate them.

The daily meetings usually turn into daily status meetings, no matter how much the Agile advocates claim otherwise. The rough estimate become a hard deadline, with daily remainder of why it's slipping. Pair programming - free training for junior developers, a waste of time for senior developers.
No? Have a link explaining it properly?
Agree with regards to the NYT. I cancelled my subscription when they published a front-page NYT Magazine story on how wonderful Anthony Weiner was, how he had reformed, and that he was a real family man running for mayor of NYC. It was so transparently a propaganda piece that I read it with dismay, seeing immediately that it was nothing but arranged by a PR machine. Then of course just a couple months later we found out that he hadn't changed his behavior one bit. Of course there was no acknowledgement whatsoever by NYT that they'd either been had or that they participated in a thinly-veiled PR strategy.
Oh certainly, I'm not saying I'm there's a need to be a fanatical purist and go through component that goes into my equipment.

I'll just stop purchasing the bulk from US supplies and subsidiaries it's not like there aren't alternative suppliers with good prices.
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When 'Agile' became more process heavy and process driven than previous models, I sorta gave up on it.

Nice idea, shame about the religion around it.
But a nicely formatted error message, so long as it is correct, can be read by many more people than a core dump.

I don't know how I would read a core dump of an error in a python program to understand where an exception came from.
> The movement of Agile away from developers has been happening for awhile. It's just another management philosophy now.

No, its not. Its a management buzzword now. It started as a philosophy, and where it still is, the substance of its principles remains important. But, increasingly, its become a meaningless phrase that marketeers that neither understand nor care about technology slap on snake oil to sell it to managers that are out of the day-to-day process of technology.
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Most of the research says agile teams of 7+-2 are best. At my work we have been trying to look at the differences that team size makes in software output.

SAFe is interesting because it can help show large companies understand the value to using XP practices. Crazy ideas like unit testing your code.
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Trying to sell Node using soft arguments: "Argumento ad populum" and "Argumento ad novitatem", which BTW are fallacies. No technical arguments, no polls, no facts. Just fallacies.
Yep, the "Agile" that I was taught through a 2-day course I went to for a client I used to work with was quite different than the "Core Agile" that was laid out originally. It didn't take long for the company to slide back into a sort of waterfall-agile or, as this author phrases it "everyone is falling backwards reverting to 30 day waterfall sprints under the umbrella of Scrum".

Really sad that at the end of the day "Agile" meant more admin work and meetings and no noticeable improvements (to me). Of course management saw "improvements" but the "scrum masters" would just tweak numbers to make it look like we met deadlines or completed enough story points. It was really sickening to watch everyone pat everyone else on the back for doing a good job when I knew at least 1/3rd of the scrum teams didn't get close to what they were supposed to accomplish.
Perhaps this is just rephrasing ianawilson's reply, but it seems that if Crowsnest eventually supports fifty different cameras (or switches or thermostats or what have you), then (via the tumblr demo):

crowsnest_data = request.json
image = base64.b64decode(crowsnest_data['files']['image']['data'])

would be an abstraction layer over the internal functions of all of the cameras.

That way, if I wanted to, say, build an app that does mood lighting depending on how many people are in a room, I could use Crowsnest as my middleman, and then my app would support fifty different cameras and fifty different switches (hypothetically), instead of the one of each that I happen to own and test on. That way, I could swap out devices or distribute my code to others, without having to worry so much about hardware integration. That sounds valuable from my personal perspective.

At least, I think that's how it works, from browsing the site and demos. Feel free to correct me, ianawilson. :)
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Procedural vs. object oriented isn't an interesting distinction. Every good general purpose language in use supports some sort of run-time polymorphism, but it's an open definition as to what constitutes true object orientation.
> What Zuckerberg should have done is to put out $10M-$20M of that money as prizes for small non/for-profit startups to come up with ingenious solutions.

What kind of solution would a startup come up with for a kid who doesn't sleep under the same roof three nights running or who doesn't have a single role model who succeeded at school and is doing well professionally because they live in an area which has been systematically screwed over (race, class, etc.) for so long that everyone they know has given up?

There are a few areas where the tech-world style approach could help — building better software for class management, lesson planning, etc. if for no reason other than reducing the amount going to huge, under-delivering enterprise software vendors – but most of the problems are areas where we've chosen not to invest as a society: jobs, housing, medical care — critically long-term disability care — etc. Ask a teacher how it feels when a bright student starts missing school because their family was evicted or is being pressured not to go to college because their family wants them to watch a younger/disabled sibling while the parents are at work.

The best use for that $100M probably would have been opening some sort of high-headcount employer in the area to help break the cycle — even a call center job is a big step up if it provides a consistent, livable income.
I recently watched a presentation about React's approach (I think from a recent JSConf) and it sold me, at least enough to try. The approach makes total sense to me, and I agree with many of its criticisms of Angular in particular. I really loved the reconsidering of our idea of "separation of concerns", that if we reconsider the scope of the concern, we can devise an approach where templating and logic go together. I'm excited by these ideas.
Public schools and the NEA are a monopoly. Monopolies will never fix themselves or act in the best interests of their customers. The only way to fix a bad monopoly is to divest it of power, break it up, and let others take a crack at using the same resources.
if you observed that the private contracting waste was where the real hemorrhaging was going on, then your problem was with all the privatized resources being paid with public money - essentially the vast influence of the "free market" on a public resource that is not well suited to traditional free market forces. This article is specifically about the failure of privatized resources, such as charter schools, private donations delivered directly to contractors with no public oversight or review for the purposes of improving the public good. It is about billionaires with no experience or justification for being at the center of a complex public system attempting to inject gigantic, ad-hoc donations into systems they don't understand, and failing.
Aw, that’s a shame. :(

Thanks for your honesty! I updated the article.
Many devs I speak and work with are either ambivalent or disillusioned about agile. In my circles this article keeps coming up in discussions about agile - https://securosis.com/blog/agile-development-and-security/.
"Young, energetic outsiders" in the "startup set" are disproportionately likely to also be in the set of individuals from privileged backgrounds; in America this means they're also more likely to be white and male. They haven't got the empirical foundation necessary to even comprehend the depth or scope of the problems, much less devise "ingenious" solutions to them.
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Let's also not forget that the NYT was at the forefront of banging the drum to lead us into the Iraq war, not to mention it's perpetual hawkishness on Iran.
I don't think that we can infer anything about the modern NYT from their involvement in the pentagon papers. For god's sake, they still have a hard time calling Bush out for torture and instead stick to the use of "harsh interrogation." The NYT thrives on being part of the political establishment.

http://www.salon.com/2011/03/09/journalism_11/
I believe these redirects are also the reason why open graph data for Facebook and Twitter cards won't render.

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If the movie is called "Alien", is it really a spoiler to say that you see the alien by the end? I suspect that most of the movie is spent dreading the eventuality that we all expect. ;) Granted it's been a long time since I saw the movie, so I might have forgotten why it's a spoiler.

edit: I suspect that I saw Aliens before Alien, and therefore already had an expectation of what it would look like. Thanks to the sibling/cousin comments for explaining that :)
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Precious.

Another instance of the principle that money is, in many ways, like violence: you'd like to think that if it hasn't solved your problem already, if you just keep throwing more and more at it it, you'll solve it eventually -- but all to often, it just makes the problem worse.

And inasmuch as Zuck would like to believe that being young means you're smarter... whatever your baseline, oftentimes, having too much money -- in Zuck's case, literally more money than he knows what to do with -- just makes us stupider.

Between 2010 and 2012, The New Yorker reports that "more than twenty million dollars of Zuckerberg’s gift and matching donations went to consulting firms with various specialties: public relations, human resources, communications, data analysis, [and] teacher evaluation." Many of the consultants were being paid upwards of $1,000 a day.

“Everybody’s getting paid but Raheem still can’t read," Vivian Cox Fraser, president of the Urban League of Essex County, was quoted saying.
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JSX is a build step and is completely optional. If by "databinding stuff" you mean React's setState and friends, almost all of React's code deals with the actual diffing and browser handling. Components are not much more than functions from props to a virtual DOM output. It's easy to use React without ever calling React.createClass (just pass the output of React.DOM to renderComponent). Still, we're looking at separating these parts of React so that you don't have to pay the file bytes but it's not a very significant difference right now anyway.
My feeling nowadays is that to develop you need to know how to program, that means, you need to know something.

But to be a project manager or scrum master all you need is a chance, that's all you need, a chance to do something you don't understand, you don't know how is built nor how it works, later you can show up in conferences and training sessions (paid by the company of course) to try to improve your performance/understanding in your current position.

Knowing that, is hard to show up in some events, conferences and meet these bozos.
Yup, that's exactly it!
Well that is depressing.

They should have watched the documentary "Waiting For Superman" which talks about schools that defy the odds and produce good outcomes for the their students in places where the schools in general are a total failure. It used to be on Netflix streaming but looks like it is only available via DVD now.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/185389

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_%22Superman%22
The NYT is probably the most prestigious PR mill that exists in the USA-- nearly everyone of import gets their own interview or too-favorable opinion piece written. Their criticism is forever tepid and toothless, and their "objective" descriptions too-frequently appear to be mild praise.