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I've always seen the ability to reserve parks for usage like kickball leagues and the like, but only a few days out of the week were reservable.

It looks like this was a similar situation, so why would anyone feel "slighted" because someone made a reservation?
I do actually answer questions on Quora on occasion; I haven't paid much attention to the "historical record" issues in the past.

But my quick thought here is that any time a company claims to be doing something detrimental to the outside world "on behalf of our users", it's worth checking if they've consulted their users about this, and if the users can opt out.

I can see the value in keeping control over what permanent, external caches are allowed to archive Quora content, for some users in particular. That said -- I don't care if my answers are archived, and I do care about contributing to a knowledge store that won't be lost in X years when Quora's business model doesn't quite line up with the vagaries of the economy.

What about supporting two views of the site -- one (with a "/pub/" added to the base URL, perhaps) that's archivable and displays only answers from users that have granted that permission in their profile, and the standard URL that shows all responses and blocks archiving in robots.txt.

That's not technically difficult at all, but I haven't seen any discussion of this sort of option.
Is it going to be useful for developer preferring local editor and all that stuff instead of cloud IDE ?
Right, I guess I meant that it's not just for HKT, but for something useful.

Anyway, none of this particularly matters.
From what I can tell, all this means is that Debian packagers will have to drop hard dependencies on components of systemd in many cases. I see nothing objectionable with this, as there have been some absolutely inane things going on at the packaging sphere. For example, treating the fact that upstream provides a systemd unit file as a dependency on systemd. To some extent, this can also be blamed on inherent weakness in most contemporary package managers that lack the ability to easily express multiple classes of dependencies, and treat everything as a hard one.

That said, we still keep saying the same shoddy sentiments from systemd proponents. "Can't we just move on?" "systemd hasn't had any problems for me. Don't like it? Leave it!", "This must be Canonical.", so on and so forth.

The /r/linux thread is a depressing clusterfuck of uninformed proponents, as always.
There are well funded recruiting events at all good universities. That doesn't mean it is easy for the average non technical graduate to get a "top" job.
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The funny thing is that Michigan's legislature is run by yokel conservatives who made a big show of becoming a "right to work" state (i.e. making it illegal to have mandatory all-union workplaces) - when corporate interests and Fox News talking points were at stake, they were remarkably eager to thump their chests about free association.
Yea, I didn't actually try systemd on Debian because of the unstable-ness. I actually tried it on Fedora, and like I said, had nothing but trouble. Normally I would fight through it, file bug reports, etc, but the benefits of switching to systemd didn't seem to be worth it. When I see debates about systemd, I rarely see compelling technical reasons from _either_ side. The only technical reason I can see to move to systemd is improved boot times, which doesn't seem worth it when (like someone else in this thread mentioned) most of your systems are either always on, or suspended to disk.

EDIT: I should probably also say, my desktop GUI setup is rather sparse. I usually run a debian server edition with SLiM & XMonad, which starts up ridiculously fast no matter which init system I am using. So, systemd seems a bit like overkill for my usecase.
Just called the governor's office and the lady answering the phone was quite nice. I urge all other residents of Michigan to do the same.
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I used that word because I assumed that someone would complain that my suggestion is insecure. Of course the internet is entirely built around sending data publically across networks that you cannot trust. If you are building a new system to route data intelligently from the first hop it would make sense to include an encryption standard to make it less bad than the status quo. Having different classes of trusted networks just encourages a false sense of safety.
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We’re looking for a front-end web engineer who:

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Sorry, but all your reasons are no bugs or technical problems. Frankly, it seems to me that this is your inability to accept change.

Yes, sometimes we need to embrace new things and learn new things. That doesn't mean they are bad.

And sorry, but i don't see how 99,9999% of Debian users should stay on sysv init just because you might or might not use Debian/kFreeBSD at some point in the future (instead of FreeBSD in the first place).

If i remember correctly kFreeBSD even is in such a bad unmaintained state the the discontinuation of it is discussed. Yet, you bring it up as an argument against systemd.

(FYI: As of February 2014, popcon registered 130 kFreeBSD, compared to 32 HURD users, and 165,821 Linux users. )

P.S.: I reboot my laptop everyday, i don't suspend.
Funnily enough, we actually used to have both Either and Result, until one day we went through and realized that no code in existence was using Either and decided to go all-in on Result instead.
Wow.. Just wow...
Money is not speech, despite the Citizens United ruling.
No doubt Pottering will try to get his grubby little fingers into this and we'll see Mir with systemd as a hard dependency.

Ugh.
We did something similar, but it was years before xauth and xhost.

It also wasn't anything malicious, just a prank, when you run xeyes on someone else's terminal. They would laugh a little and then continue with their lifes. Nothing serious, requiring sysadmining.
Fedora is known to be horribly unoptimized: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Optimizations/

I've also noticed that the unit ordering and dependency chains can be quite flimsy and slow, occasionally freezing entirely before the display manager is started.
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While I agree with you about Detroit, the rest of the state is doing fairly well.
>Do you have any source for that? Genuinely curious, because I haven't heard about that beeing an issue.

No, that's speculation. It's well known the big banks have been reducing head count, and I suppose that most people in such a system will at least start by trying to find a seat in the same industry. At least one guy I know has been looking for work for ages.
Just installed it. It freed 7GB on my Macbook Air's flash drive. Nice!
> Frankly, it seems to me that this is your inability to accept change.

I'm more than willing to accept change if that change is at all beneficial. Systemd simply fails to offer any beneficial changes to me and several harmful ones. You're right, they're not so much technical issues or bugs as usability and system philosophy issues. But issues which should not be simply dismissed nonetheless.

So, please, tell me, why should I accept change just for the sake of change? Especially when those changes seem to be against the philosophy of a simple, easy to understand system.

EDIT: thought I should note this too

> And sorry, but i don't see how 99,9999% of Debian users should stay on sysv init

I'm not suggesting that they do. By all means, change the default if most users desire it. This post is simply about allowing for flexibility of init system. I don't see why you have such a problem with that.
I think you have the wrong end of the stick. The NSA are making it their business to remove people who aren't interesting from the list of EVERYONE!
> The point you're glossing over is the kids have no representation in the local city council.

Nonsense; they have the same representation anyone else in San Francisco has. The fact that they cannot vote doors not mean that they are not represented.

Moreover, this being America, their parents or guardians can vote.
I'm new to programming. Is Coda worth the $99 price compared to Sublime?
At Pusher we use Docker for CI.

I've developed a little command-line tool (https://github.com/zimbatm/cide) that can run the same environment on the developer machine and Jenkins. It also makes the Jenkins configuration much easier since build dependencies are all sandboxed in different docker boxes.
The tool is mainly for legacy apps and is able to export artefacts back to Jenkins instead of publishing Docker images.
> The only technical reason I can see to move to systemd is improved boot time

What about service isolation & monitoring and the unified journal? IMO those are huge improvements to the status quo.
This has happened to me on Android and I've hated every uninvited notification they've sent me about people I don't follow and don't care about. Just don't do it Twitter.
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Here's a follow-up article on the issue from today. Some are claiming that Tesla direct sales are already illegal in Michigan:

http://www.mlive.com/lansing-news/index.ssf/2014/10/tesla_di...
Only because you've not changed the slides in a while.
I stopped reading the article about halfway through, because it didn't seem like anything radically new... but the one comment i'd make is that it's clear a combination of genetics and environmental factors affect intelligence, and frankly both are improving. The article seems to go on about how genes are improving, however the internet is having a pretty significant effect too.

A well built house can be renovated from something that looks terrible, to something people will pay loads of money for. A fully functional brain can be renovated too. People can learn how to think, and while there are parts that are quite degenerate, there are a greater number of parts that help people learn.
That's rather dramatic but then again this is the sort of response the blog post is meant to elicit. Tesla has proven to be very adept at working with state governments for financial gain so it would appear that they're not complaining about the closeness of state government and automobile companies. Just that they came out on the losing end for now of this particular instance

- "Greater Phoenix Economic Council President and CEO Barry Broome said Nevada offers of upfront incentives and cash put it as much as $300 million ahead of other states bidding for the plant. Tesla considered Arizona, Texas, New Mexico and its home state of California"
Agree. I worked for one of these three companies for a span. While I was there, they did have a rule that if you're not driving their car, you can't park it in the covered parking lot. That was the extent of the backlash, and I've lived in this area most of my life. I think a lot of these stories and anecdotes about tires getting slashed, and people being harassed for driving foreign are not accurate today.
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Depends how you like to code. One is a text editor with an optional fee of $70 the other is more like an IDE for web development. Both are powerful and useful tools. For most people I think it's just personal preference.
If you take the steps for, say, AWS, of building a new AMI for every role you have, then it's pretty much the same.

(but in my experience with building AMI's, that process is way too slow compared to Docker)

Docker becomes closer to declarative when you build static Docker images for every role and rebuild for every change and re-deploy. Even more so when your deployment is based on a tool like Fleet that declaratively specifies your cluster layout.

The point is to avoid ever having situations where you say "install package foo on all webservers". Instead you say "replace all webservers with a bit-by-bit identical copy of image x".

The benefit is that you can have already tested a container that is 100% identical, and know that the deployed containers will be 100% identical, rather than hope the commands you pass to the config tool handles every failure scenario well enough.
The end result of such a system would probably be to charge websites for last mile bandwidth instead of users. In a system with thousands of small ISPs that could actually work well to fund bandwidth expansion. Of course at that point everything would move to P2P and the system would break again.
Ctrl+F'd in this thread for "eye strain" to see if anyone else reports oddly having more eye strain from using a retina screen.

I used a 15" macbook pro retina for 2 years pretty much 8 hours a day and noticed my eye sight deteriorating rapidly. I thought it was just the hours I was logging in front of a computer screen and thought 'well atleast I'm using a retina screen'. But now that I've stopped using the macbook and have moved to an old 20" lcd screen and working on Windows 7, I find that my eyesight has recovered significantly. I can read road signs and my ability to change focus has improved.

I'm not sure what the explanation could be but I wouldn't be surprised to hear that your eyes are actually more stressed when they try to resolve the denser retina pixels.

Any one have any insight?
I think it's amazing what a angular does -> creating your own html elements => directives.

Eg.

<timer autostart="false"></timer> or <span id="DeliverOn">{{delivery.on | fromNow }}</span> (displays something like Tomorrow on 12:45)
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I would argue that most people inserted the SIM in their phone themselfs. People switch carries all the time and most carries don't have stores, so who would put in the SIM if the customer doesn't?

If you buy the phone and SIM on the carries website, you don't get the SIM and phone in separate packages, so again who would insert the SIM if not the customer?

Changing carries from the settings app would most likely be more confusing. I think some people would be worried if the see the logo of a carrier other than their own in the settings menu.
Agreed. Then we can finally send Arial and Verdana to the grave and use other fonts. We're tied to these fonts at the moment because they're the only option for sharp body text on low PPI displays.
I'd suggest trying out their trial version (I think they still have that) to see if you like it. I used to use Coda, then Coda 2, but moved onto Sublime Text and haven't looked back. I still fire it up occasionally, but ST is my go-to editor.
Depends on what kind of coding you are interested in and what your workflow is like.

If you are a new web developer it could be worth it, if you are looking into other non-web programming sublime or atom are probably the better choices because there are a lot of plugins and they support a bunch of different languages.
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Is this the same Jonathan Blow who said "Braid physically cannot be ported to Linux, the sound APIs simply can't handle it"? :P (Braid was later ported to Linux by a third party and runs fine, IIRC)

Regardless, the answer is "everything is simple when you imagine a single use-case", which as far as I know is what he is doing. I would suggest that people with experience building multi-use-case display servers would know best, those building single-use-case display servers second best, and everybody else is essentially working on guesswork and imagination.

That said, if he wants to go ahead and prove us all wrong by writing a small, elegant display server which fulfils everybody's needs without compromise, I wish him luck and can't wait to start using it :)
> The best and most interesting output of the human mind since
> 1790 were not in the arts but in the hard sciences, outside
> of the realm of copyright.

This is the most utterly ridiculous claim I have heard in a long time, not least because what constitutes "the best works" of art is entirely subjective.
This is a great project, but preserving the original hardware for as many people as possible is very important too. Few of these games "feel" the same when they're emulated, for whatever reason.

Actually loading a game up on a C64 and playing it on a Kempston is a very different thing. I'd like my children to experience that; perhaps it's vanity.
There you go again with "both".

Turkish boys have a greater tendency to misbehave than German boys (and Danish boys, Swedish boys, etc).

We seem to agree that those Turkish boys (and their parents) ought to change their attitudes. And everybody else around them also needs them to change their attitudes. So who is the other party who needs to change?

Edit: inserted the word 'also' + emphasized to word 'needs' for clarity.
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I think what he's trying to say is that minor taxation implies minor-intervention on the part of the government.

So the more taxation you have, the more funding is given to the government. The implication being that more funding means that they can institute more, or more overreaching policies that distort free-market operation.
If i remember correctly kFreeBSD even is in such a bad unmaintained state the the discontinuation of it is discussed. Yet, you bring it up as an argument against systemd.

It's not, that was a lie. You're free to join #debian-kbsd on OFTC to see that development is ongoing and active, and that there's more than just one maintainer. They've switched to the 10.1 kernel and they frequently commit to Git.
I live in a very cold place with weather comparable to Norway. There are lots of problems when it comes to dealing with cars in the winter. I have no doubt that Tesla could be a decent choice for a car, but it makes perfect sense to be a bit wary about electric vehicles manufactured in California sunshine, especially if you don't have a garage to store the car in.

In addition to battery life and cabin heating issues, there can be lots of small problems. I'm a bit worried about the fancy electric door handles, for example. I've been locked out of my car because the locks were frozen and sometimes even the doors themselves frozen solid.

I have no doubt that Tesla can overcome these issues but they will have to do extensive testing as well as make it known to the public that their car is a reliable vehicle even in wintertime.

People up here in the north tend to favor simple and solid cars and marketing Teslas and other electric vehicles is going to be difficult. The issue is half technical and half marketing.
Here's a diff of the changes
https://www.diffchecker.com/idjdre6n
That's pretty long for a tweet.
Yes, it uses sockets. How else would you do it?

I mean, it's a server. It's a singleton process, which many other processes much communicate with. What other widely supported ICP technique do you think is better for this job, and would make it simpler to develop against?
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I think part of that might be the crowds you hang with. I would expect petty vandalism more from blue collar types than I would engineers and other professional types.
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I definitely outgrew Coda a few years ago although I occasionally fire it up to use its visual grep. However, in the time since I switched to other editors (Chocolat, Sublime, and now Atom), my workflow has changed significantly.

I'm ready to do a clean install for Yosemite, and maybe it's also time to give Coda another look. I had been planning to switch back to Sublime after giving Atom a shot (there's a lot to like, but it's slow as molasses and the autocomplete is total garbage). So much of my workflow lives outside of my editor these days, so maybe it makes sense.
Multidispatch traits are being implemented as we speak, and you are correct that this whole discussion is blocked on them (they are mentioned in the first RFC linked, the one discussing `FromError`).
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From your first link:

> "Electric cars have been especially popular in Norway because of generous subsidies, free parking, government-provided re-charging stations, the right to use express lanes on highways and exemptions from tolls."

Yeah, Michigan has (almost) none of that.

Cold weather battery performance could be ignored here if there were charging stations all over. Sure, there are a handful of charging stations scattered around if you live in Ann Arbor or something, but it's not like I can drive from there to Traverse City and reliably find charging stations. Especially in cold weather where I couldn't make it on one charge without freezing in the cabin. And good luck in the Upper Peninsula.

I'd love to own a Tesla / other electric vehicle. But between the cost, the winter performance, and the current lack of infrastructure, it's just not smart IMHO.
If you want to get access to Sublime Text 3 Beta, the $70 fee is not optional. Just an observation.
The amount that most firms , especially large consulting firms etc are willing to invest in securing a fresh Cambridge grad is on a different scale to what they will do to hire someone from a middling institution.

It's much easier for them to be hired into the sort of positions that will catapult their career to the top in the least amount of time.
I disagree. It's blatant corruption and it's not dramatic to call it out.
Oh don't mind that, that's your inner biases and preconceptions talking. Some see one thing, others see differently.
There is an architectural failure if your desktop environment depends deeply and inseperably (product tying) on how you spawn processes at boot.

systemd may or may not suck and I'm not discussing that aspect in this post. What definitely horribly sucks is product tying a desktop environment (you know, cut and paste, drag and drop, background images, window animations) deeply in with the earliest intricacies of the boot process.
Ed Seykota, one of the first systematic futures traders, has a whole web page up dedicated to "stopping Bernoulli abuse" and instead proposing the "Theory of Radial Momentum" as a way to explain lift:

http://www.seykota.com/rm/

The material isn't explained all that well (at least, for a non-physicist like myself) but it would appear that an object or structure which forces a fluid to expand in multiple directions, will reduce pressure and induce lift.

The example is a playing card adhering to a thimble with air going through a spool. Also works with water from a hose.

Interested to see what someone who understands this stuff well thinks...
Those very well might be better, in the technical sense, but none of them seem particularly compelling to me. None of those solve a problem I am having (or have had). Change is fine, I will happily learn a new init system when it provides solutions to my problems, but switching because "the current init system is old" doesn't seem worth it to me.