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>Channels which set their chats to subscriber-only mode are shooting themselves in the foot.

I think both chat modes (sub and free for all) have their place and time. I enjoy chats that are put into sub-mode, just to read a sensible conversation and have the streamer answer interesting questions, that she otherwise wouldn't have picked up on. On the other hand, some stream chats live off of the chaos that is twitch chat.
Besides the two mentioned, the other main competition in 2005-6 for YouTube was Google Videos.
> the more people who do it, the worse off we all are

No, that's totally not true. The more people who do it, the more pressure on advertisers to actually make less distracting ads - so that people don't feel like they have to block them. That's good.
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Because you have to move your hand away from the home row. And that's not what some people, like me, want.
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thanks for your reply. we are tracking engagement ratio aswell, but not sure what is the average engagement ratio like for enterprise link sharing tool. Your 2nd point is very interesting & we have to incorporate that. thanks again.
I am confused. I use DuckDuckGo's Jabber/XMPP service (dukgo.com), and I can easily talk to Google Accounts through Bitlbee, even if they are using Pidgin, GMail's chat interface or whatever.

The only obstetrical I have encountered so far, is that it requires at least 3 or 4 tries to add a Google user. But afterwards, it's not a problem.

Edit: One of my friends using dukgo.com also confirms this behaviour.
A website displays on _my_ computer. I should have more control over that "space" than a "public space", for sure. There's nothing wrong with wanting complete control of how my computer is being used.

If the business model of the advertisers requires that they trust that my computer displays their ads then I see it as their fault for misplacing their trust.
My understanding of it is that Rogoff is a great economic historian, but not a great economist. Or something like that. Paul Krugman, for instance, often points out that it's sad R&R are so consistently wrong about how to handle the current crises, because this book was so good.

So the book may be worth reading in spite of the bad research they've been attached to since.
Besides that, food and the process of eating is not just physical and chemical, it is also psychological and social. Could you meet the bare-bones nutritional requirements of the homeless by replacing soup kitchens with soylent kitchens? Probably. And I'm sure you could even serve them with hot bowls of soylent. But handing someone an actual meal, with food prepared by someone who wants to help them, will, without a doubt, provide much more emotional and and therapeutic benefit than will handing them a pouch of powder and a spoon. The whole concept of soylent smells like a halfassed answer to a barely understood problem from a cut-rate engineer.
I've been meaning to check it out, thanks!
maybe a restatement of the question would help

why do you expect to be able to broadcast copyrighted music for your own enrichment without paying the copyright holder?
You forgot mustache, buying either extremely expensive things or extremely cheap things and generally preferring 'old-timey' things (VHS, vinyl) that have been surpassed.

It's not young people, it's young people with specific yet generic taste. Like goths. Only somehow lamer.
It's possible to apply to have your ads unblocked if they're unobtrusive.

https://eyeo.com/acceptable-ads-application.html
Is there anything particularly notable about this release? The release notes make it sound quite minor, with a small handful of bug fixes.
I wish they would support open protocols too, but that just isn't Google any more. They are closing down lots of APIs besides XMPP compatibility after all.
On consideration, I was probably trolled.

I pointed out that without rule of law, societies generally becomes clan societies. Out of pure game theory. And discussed why and how we know to avoid that.

You quote part of my description of clan societies -- and condemned humanity.

If you're not a teenager, that is too stupid to be anything but bad trolling.
> [..] this is probably something which is actually easier to sell to comparatively rich countries rather than comparatively non-rich countries.

If you compare Switzerland (rich country) to Ethiopia (poor country) that's true for anything I can think of.
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I have been doing zazen meditation as 2-3 hours per day for 10+ years.

The way I see it, mindfulness practices and meditation gives long term effects because you are doing the effort yourself. It's not the mental state you are in during the meditation that brings the long term benefits. What works is your constant effort to look at your mind and notice what it does, even when you are distracted or feel vexed and especially then.

When you do 7 day zazen retreat where you meditate 10-16 hours per day, you feel pain in your legs, periods of intense drowsiness, agitation, strong emotions, boredom, etc. all this while sitting and looking calm outwards. Within all this internal storm you are just looking at what happens your own mind at the current moment. Attaching yourself to pleasant mental states you get in meditation is just waste of time.

The way these EEG devices work is by giving you feedback loop that gets you into relaxed state. That's not same as meditation. It can have good effects, but it's not the same.

One person drives with car 10 km every day and other person runs 10 km every day. The amount they travel correlates very closely, but only one person gets exercise.
Measure your growth rate in users every week. 5% is good.

http://paulgraham.com/growth.html
It's a problem specific to ABP (both in Firefox and Chrome).

I posted links to the (GPLv3) javascript code at the end of the article, and explained that it is rather modular, i.e. easy to import and adapt.
Maybe it contains a vial of microbes that can be used to re-seed the planet in the case of an extinction event.
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> New scientific theories don't suddenly invalidate the otherwise working old ones [...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlogiston_theory
Yes, but area also scales square of radius, so it will consume power proportional to the area covered.
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I wonder if someone with migraine somehow could benefit from such a device/training.
So now we know why it won't land. There is no way to get it back up. I'm assuming this is the only rocket capable of doing so and the ban by Russia to use the engine for military missions is enforceable.
You're making some comparison that I don't understand, how exactly are these devices comparable with tracks?!

You're saying that keeping the lights on is a higher priority to the people of India and Africa than keeping themselves safe from malaria?

If that's true, so be it. It is still it's better than nothing. If this could work as an energy source would be extremely good anyway :-)
Heh.. Sorry man, but this is pretty funny. I think we are going to start having to resort to the old chatroom techniques to get around words which are censored. Want some b1tc01n5?
A nightmare? What gives you that idea? There's free as in beer certificates from StartCom, and free as in freedom certificates from CAcert. Agreeing on those would go a long way.
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As someone who comes from a country where bandwidth caps are the norm. I can tell you that you have no idea how easy it is to control/monitor your usage. You're spoiled by having huge bandwidth pipes and caps, so you have no notion about how to conserve and utilize it efficiently.

Wireless is the predominant form of internet access in the majority of Africa. The poor might not have a place to sleep, but I guarantee you, they have a cheap cellphone. The slightly better off have a smart phone or blackberry with data access.

It might not be perfect. They might not be able to watch Netflix or hours of educational videos on youtube, but it's a start and better than what the poor have traditionally had since ever. Please stop moving the goal posts, it's intellectually dishonest.
But google invented Jingle, and in the XMPP space I can't imagine they didn't have a dominate authority. And you can add whatever extensions you want to XMPP, standard or not.
Actually, a study on this just came out: http://www.bus.umich.edu/ConferenceFiles/2014-Mitsui-Finance...

From a 3rd party summary: "...Kenneth Ahern at the University of Southern California and Denis Sosyura at the University of Michigan, reviewed 2,142 articles written about 501 rumors between 2000 and 2011. Of those rumors, only 167 were followed by a public bid for the company. The Wall Street Journal was the most prolific publisher of such articles, with 158 during the time period. It was followed by Dow Jones Newswires with 67 and the New York Times with 38.

“The rumors published in the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones News Service are also more accurate than the average rumor, with accuracy rates of about 39%, compared to 33% for the average rumor,” wrote the researchers. “In contrast, the Los Angeles Times and NYT Blogs have accuracy rates less than 20%.”
Yes! It's really frustrating because if you are using another chat client (e.g. Apple messages), everything seems to work except you won't see any sign of group chats. This has caused plenty confusion for me with friends wondering why I'm not responding to messages.

What's even worse is that Google's hangouts app is pretty much unusable. For some reason it doesn't list all of my contacts, won't show if anyone is available and gives no indication about who I could chat with.
I would have said, when starting a new job:

1: make friends with everyone, avoid making enemies. Make sure you have read "How to win friends and influence people."

2: make a good first impression, get some big wins under your belt in the first six months and impress. Your reputation at your new company will persist for years and it will largely be defined by your initial achievements.

3: politics: either avoid it entirely, or play it very well. If you're playing, make sure you have read "The Prince". If you're playing, make sure you win. If you play and lose, you should move on.

4: do more listening than talking.

5: if you are ambitious, commence your ladder climb after six months of points 1, 2, 4 above.
I think this is abomination. Who in a right mind would eat it? Unless the world is overrun by zombies and there is a major apocalypse there is no market for this crap.
of the four items here the most important one (to me) is the "rate your work" point. but only because (emphasizing specifically for me) when you want to justify a pay review you want to have a list of things you have done. so instead of rating it based on how i felt about it i rated it based on how much the completion added to the company in excess of the basic requirements of the task.

negotiating for a pay review is almost like the interview for the job in the first place.
I agree. EEG signals are buried within layers of much stronger artifacts.

I'm relatively sure that this device just notices when you you relax your face and forehead muscles. That's good indicator of your relaxation.
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Plan9 was already largely rewritten in a precursor to Go called Limbo. It's garbage collected and runs on a virtual machine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system)
And that's where RequestPolicy comes in: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/requestpolicy...
My word that article triggered my bullshit detector instantly.

Cloud, fog, internet of things, big data, smart, edge computing. Ugh.
Interesting idea at the "Rate your work" paragraph. There ought to be an app for this, though :)
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In order to have nutritious very cheap food the "make it yourself from cooked ingredients" way, you need:

- Large amounts of skill in planning, choosing, preparing, and cooking ingredients. The fact that you absorbed those household skills by watching your mom doesn't make them trivial. Many people have no such skill.

- Free time to do the work of sourcing, preparation, cooking and cleaning. (Not always available to people who work as many jobs as they can or have kids.)

- Predictability of demand and usable time (often not available to "casual" workers).

- Good project-management skills, to bring ingredients together in usable form at the right time.

- A location that conveniently offers the ingredients you need (rather than a food desert), at their optimal prices (rather than marked up).

- Enough knowledge of basic nutrition to balance the meals you make over the long term.

- Enough knowledge of food risks to not poison yourself (easily done with raw meat, undercooked beans, etc).

- As a nice-to-have, enough actual skill cooking to make it taste good.
A very good point; I'm considering using LLVM for some projects, but I'm only interested in 32 and 64 bit x86 and ARM targets.

What big iron targets would you say are also required? Here are some possibilities I can think of: SPARC, IBM's z/Architecture (what about ESA/390 or earlier?) and POWER (the latter of which historically includes more than one ISA), Intel's IA-64 (Itanium, used by HP).

Modulo the various Power ISAs, which I am not familiar with, LLVM claims "is generally reliable" support for all of the about except IA-64: http://llvm.org/docs/CodeGenerator.html#target-feature-matri...

Which doesn't mean production level quality, of course.

More critically, just because LLVM has back end support of an architecture, doesn't mean any particular language using LLVM will support it, or at least as I recall, the language has to know and use details about the back ends it's targeting.
Readline definitely got fixed so you no longer have to apply patches to get it to compile.
How to Win Friends and Influence People: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influenc...

The Prince: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince
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It's the dirty little secret about democracy/government that no one wants to mention. Everyone has grand ideas, and noble causes. But no one has the political balls, or the support of the people to actually fix it with actual solutions. So it's this constant back/forth game of funding and blame... and it never fully solves the problem. All it does is siphon funds from the public into the pockets of the politically connected ruling class and make it seem like the problem requires "just a little more" funding to make it work.
This doesn't work for me in Chrome 34 for Linux. I get the "use a real browser message." Anybody else have that problem?
You don't have to switch. The code is GPLv3, rather modular, and if they decline to import it, the idea behind it can be easily implemented.
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I am the "database guy" for a sequencing centre. I have built the database and web front end from scratch, and the organization has grown over the last 3 years since I started there.

There are a number of major improvement that could be made to the system, but as it is live, I find I am unable to work on anything that takes more than a couple of days coding, as I am always interrupted by trivial but "urgent" things that need fixed. (Most of the time it is user input errors - they insist on using excel for uploading data, despite it being a very error prone process).

Does anyone have advice for working on something that requires more effort, while there are constant interruptions?
"Exactly. I think the "friend zone" concept reflects the cultural idea that a person (mostly woman) can be persuaded to fall in love with someone if that someone just tries hard enough. It kind of reflect the idea of women as passive objects that have to be "conquered" or "persuaded" by feats of courage, strength, show of wealth or humor."

I feel it's the exact opposite. The entire idea behind being friendzoned is that you can't get out of it and should cut your losses. It isn't considered heroic to "fight" the friendzone... it is considered stupid.

The problem with the friendzone is the power imbalance. If there is no imbalance it is just simple friendship. A few women love the power and take advantage of it just like a few bosses love the power and take advantage of their employees.

If the cool "jock" takes advantage of the nerd who desperately wants to be cool we (society) think the jock is being an asshole. But if an attractive woman does the same thing it is suddenly the nerd who is at fault.
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I think he proposes leaving these in areas that are prone to forming puddles after storms. And they would turn on automatically when wet.

That way you don't have to immediately locate all puddles.
> It's perfectly reasonable to have reservations about Soylent, but your comment just sounds like a "damn kids with your video games, get off my lawn".

Actually, your commented tried to ridicule, whereas mine was made in good faith and would have likely been exactly identical if I'd written it at 25 instead of nearly 50. In fact, back then I probably needed the health and social aspects of food and company more than I do today (and I was well aware of it).

I simply laid out my reasons for definitely not jumping on this bandwagon, and I don't have any dog in the race financially or otherwise.

So, what's your motivation for attacking anybody that dares to raise doubt about the product, or that maybe simply disagrees with their philosophy with such energy?

9 comments in one thread is a bit much.
And now, you can even have Erlang without the syntax, a la Elixir.

But as a novice, I do not understand people whining and whinging about syntax in language X or Y. Every language makes choices, and lots of those choices are emphasized by focusing/adapting the syntax to doing those things well. In each language that will be different, and that is the beauty of the diversity.

I cannot image Python without Python ranges, yields, and looping constructs. I cannot imagine Ruby without do blocks and the class structure and sigils and how really Rubinesque (this is a joke) code is for DSLs.

I like what the author of the OP did hear: if you complain the language syntax is ugly, perhaps you do not really see the perspective of the language creator quite yet. This explains how I struggled with different languages I studied in school (C++, then Perl, then Python) and even ones I work with which I hate (VBScript, Windows batch), because even those have logic to them when you keep the goals in the forefront of your mind.
We grow lots of our winter produce in hydroponics under artificial lights.

People campaign against flying in stuff like aubergines from Isreal but it is less energy intensive than the tomatoes they have with it.
Don't bats eat a healthy diet of mosquitoes?
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He suggests using it to store some very basic info about the tasks that have been completed each day. So this is maybe a couple thousand rows per year, with several columns each, all for personal use.

Are you really suggesting that somebody not spend the 2 or 3 minutes it'd take to set this up in Excel or LibreOffice or some other spreadsheet program, and instead spend far longer using some other database software, for basically no gain?

Even just finding, downloading and unpacking a SQLite binary release will take longer, and that's before creating a schema and anything to help make it easier to work with.
It's target market seem to be gamers, but I was just wondering are there any other positive effects that a software engineer would benefit from, besides memory?
Well there is one option for funding websites. I'm sure ingenious people will come up with dozens more. Instead of how it is now where they are forced to squander their creativity making sites that are ad-funded.

Not all of the web is ad-funded, and it's just a matter of us giving that part of the web a chance.
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Google did start Jingle and large part of their work ended up in the Jingle standards at the XMPP Standards Foundation. However, Google Talk and the old Hangouts took quite a while to move to the standardized version, and were never fully compliant. Also, in other areas, Google never quite interacted with the community and left major issues unresolved.

Basically all of the issues, perceived flaws or missing features attributed to XMPP in the old implementation of Hangouts were either misinformed or have seen development or new specifications in the XSF. Google never contributed to such discussions, with the exception of individual Googlers helping with Domain Name Associations (DNA, http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-xmpp-dna-05).
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If they've switched to Hangouts, you will no longer be able to reach them. Google users using the old non-plus-ified gchat, which is being phased out, will still work as before, but for people who get upgraded to Hangouts, they'll be cut off. So this basically includes everyone on a smartphone, or everyone using video chat, and soon it will be just everyone entirely.
Still wish I had an option for encryption. - certs cost money, which I (and many other people I know) CANNOT[1] afford. StartSSL won't give me a cert (they did previously, but want $$$ now).

This problem affects more people than you probably realize. Remember that 15% of the population (48 million people people)[2] in the USA are below the poverty line. The internet has already been a powerful tool, accessible in various ways even at this end of the income spectrum. Despite that, the PKI system is serving as a barrier-to-entry if you want to encrypt.

So I ask again: what is a FREE option for SSL. TCP, HTTP, DNS and most other protocols work fine once you can send packets, and do not require an extra regular fee. SSL does.

Or is the intent to have secure communication only for those that can afford it - the rest of us doomed to plaintext or rejected as "self signed" by the SSL servers of the rich and middle class? Or are we supposed to only use the internet as if it was TV, and be forced to trust our plaintext with some 3rd party?

sigh - I suspect the answer will instead be "[-1] Don't want to be reminded of the hard issues."

[1] I realize that the idea of not having an extra $15 doesn't make sense to those of you with salaried jobs. Well, lets see you come up with that extra $15 on a tiny SSDI check. Domain (3rd level) is free. Internet is very cheap and flat-rate. An extra $15 would be some new(-ish) clothes, not a SSL cert.

[2] https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/about/overview/
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We recently decided to shift some of our nodejs production code to erlang. One of our main fears to shifting was the lack of really good online resources for beginners ("Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!" is really good but does'nt cover topics like rebar etc).Also the learning curve is really steep compared to say a language like ruby or java
So far as I can see, the Hangouts implementation still uses XMPP, and even sends some federated messages to other servers. It looks like there has been some kind of code added to specifically block the functionality for which code already exists.
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