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The way I understand it, part of the core value prop of Quora is that writers own their own content distribution. If you want to post an answer on Quora, and re-post it on your own blog, that's fantastic. If you want to post on Quora and mark it _not for reproduction_, that's totally your choice. If you think of it this way, it makes sense that Quora is not letting their content get automatically distributed, since once it goes to Archive.org, it's no longer under the users' control to revoke access to the answer at any time. Not only do they not claim to own your content, they don't even let it propagate without express permission from you, the author.

Taking a stance like this just gains trust from authors. If you want your writing to get mass distribution, it's up to you to distribute it. If you want it to be archived, publish it in multiple places.

I don't necessarily agree with it, and I've pretty much stopped writing on Quora for a number of reasons, but I see where they're coming from. It might be the best way for them to get the trust of some pretty high-status figures to post honest answers on their platform.
Again, I didn't say larger phones are better. If you tried a larger phone for a while and didn't like it, good for you. What I'm pointing out is that you cannot honestly say "I don't like large phones" without actually using them for a while. I'm also pointing out that personal anecdotes don't have any value in discussions about what the market really wants.
yeah but unfortunately you can't get one for insomnia or just stress.
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Just add ?share=1 to the URL to remove that (ideally the person posting would have.)
Thanks!

I actually made a VM using Vagrant when scoping out the 3rd edition, but getting everything to work cross-platform was almost as much trouble as just installing things natively. That's why I ended up going with the cloud IDE.

By the way, I recommend reading the Rails Tutorial before Agile Web Development with Rails, which makes a good follow-on (as indicated at https://www.railstutorial.org/book/following_users#sec-guide...). But of course go with whatever works best for you.
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> Quora is not a private communications network. When users contribute to Quora, they're participating in Quora's mission: to "share and grow the world's knowledge".

Well, in many ways Quora (just like any other web platform) IS a private communications network.

And their mission is certainly not to "share and grow the world's knowledge". As with any company, their mission is first and foremost to make their investors happy, mostly by striving to make them richer every day than they were the day before. The dreamy tagline is just a way to make the pill more appealing to swallow for the users.

(remember Google's "Don't be evil"?)

I also despise Quora, and used to think it was terrible that huge swaths of human knowledge would be lost a few years from now when they inevitably get acquired/go bankrupt/etc.

But I'm not losing sleep over it anymore: they will be a mere blip in the history of human knowledge, and while some valuable chunks of knowledge will be lost, we can't do much about it.

I do wish the Wikimedia foundation set up an open Quora alternative. Wikipedia is about objective knowledge - it seems like there would be a place for a counterpart project about subjective knowledge. Properly moderated, it could be really, really interesting.
Yes, I'll accept that some of them may be issues that aren't encountered too often, but they are things that I'm battling with right now so are on my mind ;) But for saving images, why isn't there a Save method to BitmapSource! This to me seems endemic to WPF where the API isn't optimized for common tasks.
But coincidence is a type of correlation, is it not?
> I mean like "Curry-Howard isomorphism" and "state space" and "monad" and such.

What's the problem with those?
You sound like a completely sane person.

The use (abuse) of substances is widespread among large swaths of the majority of mental illnesses. Associating the use of marijuana specifically with schizophrenia is absurd-- schizophrenics also abuse alcohol, does that mean wine causes schizophrenia?

I speak not only as a person with a mental health disorder (bipolar) but a member of a family with several actual schizophrenics.

Correlation is not causation. Downvote as you will.
Really cool idea! Nice easy UI! Good luck with it!
Quora is what would happen if George Lucas tried to design a Q&A site. Brilliant in many ways, but it has all the signs of one single guy at the top refusing advice from people for years about a few core issues and consequently holding the entire enterprise back.
> Can barely use it with one hand and it doesnt fit in my shirt pocket, sticks out, cant put it in my pant pockets, because it will break. Its very inconvenient size wise. awesome phone though and excellent battery life.

I mean this in all seriousness, how small are your pants? When I got my Note, the first thing I checked was to see if it would fit in my pants pockets. No problem with a single pair. I keep seeing this complaint and the only conclusion I can come to is that people who complain about this really buy tight pants with tiny pockets.

If I can't fit my entire hand comfortably into the pocket of whatever pants I'm buying, I'm simply not buying them.

But I'm getting to be an old fart, and maybe the fashion you kids wear these days demands useless pockets you can't carry anything around in. But I've never understood this issue.

Even women, who have next to useless pockets in their pants buy this size phone in huge numbers.
Wait - this supposes they had quality to start with. Not in my experience, and I have been using their offerings since almost the beginning.

I think the difference is that people are finally feeling the confidence to state the obvious - why is the software so sucky?
>And this a great danger because ... what?

It's a great danger because a 10 year old could have picked them up and shot someone.

>It is of course a danger, but so is crossing the street.

And so is kissing an ebola patient. What's your point?

>What did you do when you found those weapons?

The boring, responsible thing, and the occasions passed without incident.
This isn't new. Also, some data sets require sending a hard drive into the USGS I believe.
As referenced in this article[0] a major blocker for shipping newer versions of the command line toolchain is the fact that newer versions of these tools moved to an incompatible GPLv3 license.

[0]: http://robservatory.com/behind-os-xs-modern-face-lies-an-agi...
In my experience, it's not the amount of software, but the amount of quality software. For instance, I wasn't able to find a decent RSS reader that doesn't stutter on the Nexus 7 (2013). Not to mention the ridiculous amount of rights some of the readers want. On my iphone, it's hard to decide which reader I'll use because they are really good (I've tried quite a few).

Music apps are still pretty much dominated by iOS. Also some quality games are only available on iOS or are released much later on Android.

While I do think that the "app gap" does indeed exist, I believe only dedicated geeks/musicians/gamers will notice it.
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That'll do for now, but CFRs are a sustainable strategy that will keep the pensions rolling.
>>Coincidence, not correlation.

You probably mean not causation?
Thanks for the note, and the concern. It is an issue.

The risk I think you're saying is: if we charge a company with a stolen bank account and pay in bitcoin, it's irreversible. That's true. We're mitigating this — that's why there's an ACH chargeback period that we wait out. And why we verify bank account ownership before charging. These are standard KYC rules that we have to comply with before accepting a company on payroll, and charging bank accounts is all done on the company side. I hear that they might fail, but we're not allowing anyone to run payroll and pay out in high volumes (eg. 80+%) of BTC to start with until they've been manually verified.

We've checked this through our lawyers and via Fincen, and we're mitigating risks every way we can.
> If you want to post on Quora and mark it _not for reproduction_, that's totally your choice. If you think of it this way, it makes sense that Quora is not letting their content get automatically distributed, since once it goes to Archive.org, it's no longer under the users' control to revoke access to the answer at any time.

This would be a totally reasonable explanation if copyright law didn't exist, but it does. Content you create is already marked "not for reproduction", and if someone -- including the Internet Archive! -- reproduces it without your permission, you are legally entitled to ask them to stop. The Internet Archive won't even make you involve a lawyer.
This is what I'm doing.

We're able to produce a standalone desktop application and a web app using the same code and have it looking/working exactly the same, on different platforms.
It's probably just curiosity about how our own brains work, and what they're capable of.
Also: regarding multiple selection, this series of blog posts explains the problems: namely that there is no built in way to do MVVM multiple selection with virtual list boxes, a common use-case at least for me.

http://grokys.blogspot.it/2010/07/mvvm-and-multiple-selectio...

(unfortunately the images seem to have expired, grr)
As a generally inept arts grad that really has no business (/formal education) in developing web applications, railstutorial.org is a big reason why I can now just about pull it off. Must have tried about a dozen things, but that's what got everything clicking. Take that, past poor decisions.
Not everyone wants to use both hands.

Some of us would like to be able to respond to a text message while carrying something, for example.
Their email blasts have recent pulled me back in. Some of the stuff in there is definitely unique and interesting.
Apparently locking kids up for their own good didn't do much good after all.
A blank query string works just as well too. Just add "?" and skip the other 7 characters.
we are talking out of the box experience. One could make the same comment about os-x: it is possible to customise icons, change look & feel of the UI etc. to make it look the way you like it :D
It would seem prudent to assume Ebola is transmittable in aerosol form, and it astounds me that we're approaching Ebola with what seems to be astounding optimism. We're doing less than we should across the the board and hoping it will be enough. We should throw everything we have at it, lest we see what it really can achieve at global scale. The greatest threat to millions of lives in this case is our arrogance and optimism. As the authors of this paper suggest, a minimum requirement for all healthcare workers should be respiratory equipment capable of ensuring they're not inhaling Ebola. Furthermore we need a lot more treatment centers in outbreak areas, and a lot more staff (doctors and nurses, etc.). But from where I sit it looks like we're trying to put out a bon fire with a bottle of water.
A trade implies choice. What are the phones with amazing battery life? There are some DROID phones (MAXX, etc.), but is that it?
I only noticed it because I got bored and looked through all the settings. There's also an obscure option to tell Android that a particular wifi point is a mobile hotspot (i.e. should be subject to the same data restrictions as the 3G/4G connection). I have no idea how many apps pay attention to the setting though. Bizarrely it's under data usage > more options > mobile hotspots, rather than being an advanced option on wifi networks.
So, Quora's rationale for blocking the Internet Archive is that Quora can't go back and automatically rewrite history whenever one of its users wants to.

It's the same rationale that EU courts used to make Google remove search results on user's request. Many people think like that apparently. It had defenders even here.
> Honest question does anyone still use Quora?

Absolutely. Every day. Quora is one of my top most visited sites. While I don't disagree with all of the criticism of Quora, I find it a terrific resource, and - for now anyway - I'm willing to tolerate the negatives because there is so much good content there.

Of course as an Open Web advocate I'd like to see them operate in a more open manner, or perhaps see a competitor come along and displace them who are committed to a more open model. But in the meantime, I find Quora immensely valuable.
I wish shaking hands would go away in the modern office.
There are still a significant number of people who dodge soap and sometimes even water when they leave the bathroom, then go on to shake a whole load of hands. I have found senior people some of the worst.

Don't get me started on people who mine their ears and nose for nuggets of horribleness, then flick, and go onto shake hands.
> Docker solves the wrong end of application packaging by essentially packaging up the entire damn global (and non-portable) OS environment.

While that's the convention, I don't believe that will be the case going forward. I think it's a pretty negative and short sighted response.

I saw a demo very recently of someone creating an extremely barebones container - they were able to trace the exact dependency tree of an application, isolate it, and put it in to a Docker container. All that existed was apps+dependency, no userland. That's the future, imo.

> So much for the portability of modern language runtimes (Ruby, Java, Python, etc), or even being able to cross-compile to other platforms.

Funny you should mention that, because cross compilation happens in Docker all of the time.

Does that address your concern? If not I'd be happy to discuss further.
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Strong correlation requires a large number of 'coincidences'
I'm planning on developing a collaborative helpdesk application for my small team (perhaps 30 users), having only previous experience in standard HTML/CSS/JS/PHP/SQL development.

I was thinking of going the web application route but I get the sense that a Windows executable is the way to go here, with its faster/more responsive interface. Major features needed: Embed and modify web pages in tabs (recreate a web browser), social "ticker" or feed, lots of cross-connections between different types of content (KB articles and tickets, for instance).

Should I go with a WPF application? I would have to teach myself XAML and C#. It would be limited in scope so that's good but it could still take forever.

Make a browser plugin in HTML/CSS/JS?

Make a full page Angular app?

In all these cases I'm going to have to learn something new, learning about Windows development may help me get ahead at my company more than other technologies, but if this project takes too long then it won't be worth it.

Any thoughts?
It doesn't sound like a typical manic episode at all. Perhaps a mixed episode (mania and depression at same time, or dysphoric mania) with psychotic features.

"Schizophrenia" is a weird term and diagnosis, because it's probably many different diseases. I'd guess that most of these mental illnesses are symptom profiles related to dozens of different physical maladies. The symptoms were clearly psychotic (not all mania is psychotic, and hypomania rarely is, unless you include the benign religiosity) but I don't know (having experienced neither psychosis nor schizophrenia) if it's of the same character as what people with chronic schizophrenia experience.
"We do the same for Facebook: Slotboom is able to intercept the login name and password I entered with relative ease."

Is Facebook not using encryption for login? That would surprise me. Or is the author either blatantly lying or intentionally being deceptive (ie, he clicked passed an invalid certificate warning or similar).
Does the hungry person have lower body temperature or are you making stuff up for the purposes of argument?

If we are at that, turn off your home thermostat few degrees lower and ignore your body. Don't turn on heating in your car. You'll loose weight even faster. The point is to ignore what your body is telling you. That you are going to die. You won't. It's lying to you. Same goes for excercise.
So - I have no idea, I've never used Terraform, I just spend a lot of time thinking about infrastructure automation theory.

I think that would be a good feature if it doesn't exist, though.
Visualy it's not a problem. But now you need to maintain the links at all times. So all the operations must be aware of the whole program calltree. I think this could cause problems, especially when linking across libraries boundary, doing dependency injection, reflection etc, but I may be wrong.

Would like to see it implemented out of curiosity. My mine problem with merging trees could be solved by @pshc idea so maybe it could work?
So you can leverage your/your team's existing knowledge of C#/the .NET Framework, which seems like a good enough reason. Lots of Web sites are still built on ASP.NET MVC.

Also, one unfortunate aspect of the .NET community is a lot of people know next to nothing about anything outside the MS ecosystem and have a blindly dismissive attitude toward it (at least until MS latches onto it like they have with Angular and others).
This is not correct. Archive.org will take things down retroactively when asked.
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> And their mission is certainly not to "share and grow the world's knowledge".

Well, I obviously agree that it's not their actual mission as executed. But I'm putting it in quotes because I copied it from Quora's official About page: https://www.quora.com/about
In my opinion, Dart makes JS less lame (via dart2js). It's the closest you'll get to C# in the browser.
Hey man, me too. Read it 4/5 years ago, been coding ever since - its my day job. Honestly thanks.
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Is that response in the negative or the positive? I always get confused when people toss out the fallacy card to answer simple questions. It's not like I claimed no true Scotsman would commit copyright infringement, they are simple questions awaiting a yes or no response.
> “Normal” visual acuity for healthy eyes is one or two lines better than 20/20. In population samples the average acuity does not drop to the 20/20 level until age 60 or 70.

http://precision-vision.com/Introduction-to-Visual-Acuity-Me...
A shining example of user-friendliness, that.
Apple said: "iOS 8 includes over 4,000 new APIs that let you add amazing new features and capabilities to your apps"

Maybe not a good thing.
Well, one nice thing about using JavaScript and HTML 5 for the front end is it does, as you say, give you a lot of decoupling, which means you don't actually have to use Node for the back end; you're free to use C++ or Python or whatever you find best.
> and if someone -- including the Internet Archive! -- reproduces it without your permission, you are legally entitled to ask them to stop. The Internet Archive won't even make you involve a lawyer.

That's right.

And this is important, because the Archive, like everyone else, is subject to copyright law. What Quora is asking for is something more: an API that allows them to go in, without any sort of human process or judgment, and sync up the Archive's records with what Quora wants those records to be. That's much different, and much worse.
Services like this are cool but as with Facebook, Twitter and other APIs, they often don't work properly in a web view. Consider this from the docs linked to in this submission:

> Clicking that button or link should then call gapi.auth.signin(), which will ask the user to sign in to your game in a separate window.

You can't open a separate window in a web view, so the sign in doesn't work.

Hybrid app development is a pretty big deal and PhoneGap looks set to go up another level with the latest web view improvements in iOS 8 and Android 5, but it still surprises me that many top APIs out there fail in a web view simply because they try to open a window or some other presumably easily worked around issue, and nobody bothered to test it there.
I believe this is the link that was intended.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/williampentland/2014/10/15/lockh...
>I think the difference is that people are finally feeling the confidence to state the obvious - why is the software so sucky?

I agree; the Jobs distortion field is wearing off. There's a lot of cognitive dissonance to get past (this must have been better before because I liked it before), and this dawning recognition is getting projected onto Apple.
> coal plants, which still make up the majority of U.S. energy production

This is no longer the case.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_power_in_the_United_States
I've been a Top Writer two years but I hardly use it anymore, apart from clearing notifications every now and then. Moderation on the site is having major growing pains, plus more open access to content seems to have been loosely promised for years but nothing has ever eventuated. Ego contest is accurate in more cases than it should be.

I'm probably going to copy a lot of my better answers on there and republish them on my own blog.
But, splutter, I thought Docker was the new hotness? I guess it truly is webscale already!
There are a number of companies that have done iterations of this in the past and I don't see how this is going to play out differently.

Azure Dynamics stopped production of their electric Transit Connect.

Smith EV was in financial trouble until they were bought by Sinopoly.

Boulder EV has also folded.

It doesn't seem like there is an appetite for EV retrofits in the $100K price point. While this is technically a hybrid, they are doing a similar full powertrain replacement as these other companies.
Ditto. Also unlocking your phone. Rewinding/Fast-forwarding on your phone. It's all so slow. And for me at least, it feels like there's a 50/50 chance if I seek in a video it'll just break the stream, I'll have to close the Youtube app entirely, and try again.

On the other hand when you're interested in something specific. Car reviews for example. The TV-Queue is really sweet.

But I just cast from Youtube to my Sony Bravia or Roku's. I'm not sure if that's Google Cast or not. I just discovered it by accident last week.
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The linked article is now slow to load, for me. But I recall that the fellow who was having issues with the rock crusher was called out as a Seebee.

Perhaps he's there as sort of general contractor, working with the locals to build stuff, and not part of a battalion.

Which seems stupid, to me. Building a lot of stuff on short notice, as a team, is what the Seebee battalions are for.
Yeah sure, I understand that use case. I personally wish Apple had kept the 6 at the original form factor and made the larger phone as-is to give real choice. The way they did it was "go bigger" or "go biggerer" and I get that there are people who really do just want the smaller form factor for whatever reason.

Okay, so I did have a moment the other day where I wanted to text somebody but one of my hands was full and so I made the extremely difficult decision to wait 5 minutes until I was in a better place to do what I wanted. There was another case a couple weeks ago that was similar, but I just used the speech recognition to type the texts out for me (a pattern I'm getting more and more into even when I can comfortably type anyways).
Hey, this is Madhan from Azure team.

Great to see this conversation about Octopus. Stay tuned for news about Octopus and Azure.
Quora did recently shut down the private blog feature they had, and a dump was exactly what they did.
he was talking about a legal source that works everywhere... I know that DRM doesn't stop piracy, it only inconveniences law-abiding customers (inconvenience is probably too light of a word).