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I wish there were more publicized about this. I was setting up my wife's exchange-based work email with the default mail app in Android and was prompted with some really crazy permissions that were to the basic effect you mention. She decided that she didn't want her corporate office to have that much power over her own personal device just for the added convenience of being able to check work email on it. I'm going to mention this app to her and give it a try instead.
> This is a bit metaphysical, but in my opinion there is a cosmic opportunity cost to not having kids--a lost opportunity for a human person to experience the joy of being alive.

By this logic you should have as many children as possible.
"Is [technology company's] database a sitting duck for hackers?"
Need I mention http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 ?
Can confirm it on Firefox 33.1 in Linux. The memory usage shot upto 98% and swap got filled by 50%. Had to kill the process.
How long it takes to rebuild an app really isn't that important. Revenue + traction trump technical sophistication 9 times out of 10.
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Agreed. I went to college in the US and got a EE degree and along the way almost switched to Applied Physics because of a really awesome professor I had and during which the physics I was taking was making use of the EE courses I went through. I was introduced to Elctro-mag theory from a physics class that was again used in some of my EE classes. I still remember physics experiments of passing current through two conductors each placed on balanced aparatus and watching the repel and attract due to current direction.

I had (still have) a knack for math and science but I'm just so amazed by guys like Maxwell.

The one thing that strikes me over and over is how insightful guys like Maxwell were. At such a young age and time he was piecing together I guess what others living at the same time might call phenomenon. Same for Einstein and Tesla. I mean he literally devised the mathematical model that foretold what we would discover in the future. And some 20 years later, Hans Christian Ørsted obtained the first evidence of a link between electricity and magnetism is quite amazing to me.

I recall reading an article some time ago about Tesla and how it was described that Tesla literally envisioned and saw AC current and then struggled to write it all down. I write software and I can see a similar pattern in myself. I often know and see, in my head, how something should work is so hard to explain. Of course at a much more basic level than these guys. It's as if Maxwell just saw and imagine how things were connected.

I keep waiting for the link that adds gravity to the mix.

Very nice article.
I want to say possibly but the honest truth is Nordstrom has (or had) a personal shopper option and I never used them when shopping there so I can't imagine doing so anywhere else either.
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It also seems to be a bit more performant than some of the other methods (like `.shift()()` or `.call`). http://jsfiddle.net/brbcoding/hyw6a9kw/3/
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Is there some reason that hospitals can't fund the programs themselves? Or do they just choose not to?

More usefully, what could be done to get hospitals to fund the programs? Some hospital systems have billions of net income, they can clearly afford to fund at least a few residencies.
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Certainly an anecdote, but also the reality at this company. I'm guessing they'd be burned in the past (see comments above) and this is why they acted the way they did.
Presumably loading a 3D vector would be a good use-case?
That's a straw man. It's a good thing that there is specialization for tasks (automation is even more efficient) but with that comes other consequences. The organization always seeks to grow and expand, to create demand even if there isn't any. That is a consequence of the fact that the money it gets is more valuable to it than the services, since it can be spent on anything. Meaning it is more widely accepted so trading services for money is a net gain, and the more they do it the better for them. However on the collective level, this results in exploiting any externalities that they can including people's attention, free time, the planet's resources, polluting etc. The incentive is always to expand at the expense of the environment, until ecosystem collapse is threatened (see for example logging forests, etc. or yeast making beer). In short, the tragedy of the unmanaged commons.

Thanks for asking, I don't think I've been able to tie it all in under one overarching picture so clearly before.
Nothing in the OP's argument was quantitative. Both are qualitative arguments.

The OP raises some good points that deserve serious thought, but I find his argument sketchy and hand-wavy. The crux of the argument is this:

> "Our mainstream economic system is oriented towards maximal production and growth. This effectively means that participants are forced to maximize their portions of the cake in order to stay in the game. It is therefore necessary to insert useless and even harmful "tumor material" in one's own economical portion in order to avoid losing one's position. This produces an ever-growing global parasite fungus that manifests as things like black boxes, planned obsolescence and artificial creation of needs."

Everything else in the post is either analogy or following the assumptions in that paragraph to their conclusions. But the sheer amount of reasonable objections that are ignored or dismissed in that paragraph is staggering.

If today's capitalist systems have systemic issues that result in gross misuse of resources, I don't think it's for any of the reasons that the OP suggested. For that reason, I am skeptical of his proposed solutions.
There is the one-off about this being the last of its kind space vehicle, and the booster pack in orbit had been there for quite some time. You can somewhat fanwank that into meaning they had to use older, simpler technology to get the capsule itself into orbit, but then could take advantage of the pre-Blight technology already in orbit for the rest of the movie. That's about the same as your explanation, though.

Pretty weak, so it would be nice if they had at least given us a throwaway sentence or two to wave it away like they did with spaghettification, as the rocket orbital mechanics, at least, were distracting. I imagine the real reason was Nolan wanted to invoke a parallel to the Apollo missions in the liftoff from earth, but didn't want to waste time with the very hard problem of getting off other worlds once you get there.
Even if that were true, and progress on social matters slowed somewhat, might it not be worth it to save many tens of millions of lives every year?
I disagree that the name unobtanium is an example of lazy writing. I always took it for an in-universe joke (doubling as a meta-joke), and/or a deliberately gimmicky marketing name invented by the corporation.

There are plenty of playful scientific terms in the real world (the "sonic hedgehog" protein just to take one example).
That is one problem I have with big exits lately. No one is allowed to grow or develop as independent company.
The post mentions not having a daemon running as root, but then you have to run `rkt` as root anyway. Won't this just mean that instead of having a single implementation of a Rocket daemon running as root, there is now one custom one every time it needs to be automated?

It's great to see this problem broken up into reusable pieces though. It totally makes sense to function without a daemon, especially out of the box.
Sure, I'm just making the point that sometimes when you look at something like that and think it can be improved, it's worth considering that the cure may end up being worse than the disease.
Thank you. I couldn't have put it better myself. Gmail is the only reason I have two factor authentication in my Google account.
Some of Docker’s earliest supporters now believe that the company behind the technology, also called Docker, has strayed from its original mission, and they’re exploring a new project that aims to rebuild this kind of technology from scratch.
Interestingly enough, with flannel, docker's advanced networking capabilities become pretty trivial, and communication across hosts is also pretty trivial.

I think all in all, CoreOS has built out a ton of tools to make using Docker easier, and they're all very well defined, and compossible. I'd even say that a lot of docker's features could be completely removed by using some of these tools.

Links? Nah just use ips/dns + etcd for service discovery.

Networking? Need very basic bridged networking, and flannel will handle communication on a single host, or multihost.

Deployment? Use fleet.

Not that all these are 100% perfect like I've made them out to be, but any individual component could be swapped out if you want.
At the heart of the military organization, there is an essential core of operations that ensures that anything that absolutely, positively must get done can be done. The remainder is simply there to exercise and maintain the massive required capital investment while it is functionally idle.

The gigantic failures exist so that when there is an actual need for aerospace engineers to respond to an actual threat, rather than the theoretical projections based on the data from the last war, it won't take 25 years to train them up from scratch.

The failures are not quite as horrible when you realize that it could be more expensive in the long run to do nothing at all. But then the questions turn toward the amount of pre-emptable core capabilities we need to maintain. For a long time, the doctrine in the U.S. has been the ability to sustain simultaneous nonnuclear war in two separate theaters plus nuclear second-strike capability sufficient to create a MAD deterrent. That is expensive. And since we haven't actually needed that much war materiel since 1945, that leaves a lot of room for waste.

It could be argued that the limited regional wars of choice that the U.S. has pursued since then have simply been capital maintenance, to prevent the military from decaying into expensive uselessness. I think in its deepest backrooms, the generals still gauge their effectiveness by whether they could fight both Russia and China at the same time.
This is hilariously awesome!
Aparently it's using ymacs (which I didn't know about until now) http://www.ymacs.org/ for the 'emacs'and an emscripten compiled version of Gambit (scheme).

So wrong, yet so right. I would hire this guy.

(working swell in Chrome)
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I don't see any jobs listed that are specifically remote. To apply as a remote developer evangelist, would one need to simply apply for, say, the SF one?
"Hacker" is also the brand of a German beer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker-Pschorr_Brewery), a bridge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchen_Hackerbr%C3%BCcke_...) and as we see here a family name. It unrelated to the English word. Probably comes from "Holz hacken" (cutting wood with an axe).
nope, there are some cases of "interim" too in IT.
Does anyone know how popular was their app? How fast was it growing?
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This article reads like a confused run in circles [0]. Parents are responsible for kids they cannot control? How can you be responsible for something you have no control over??

Sure, there is a tendency to blame parents of evildoers, but that is fallacy of the accuser, not the parents.

[0] @native speaker: Is there a good phrase for this?
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While is it true that the tools exist to collaborate equally well online vs. in person, the culture of an organization also needs to support it.

It is nearly impossible to just throw a new toolkit at a company and expect them to be able to thereby switch from an in person culture to a remote one.

It requires a transition of culture, which in turn requires both vision and support of the switch from the leadership of an organization.

Certainly remote collaboration works. But there is more to it than just flipping a switch or adding some tools.
"in this precise, extremely rare situation it is possible, if we ignore all the other side effects"

Isn't that storytelling? The impossibly ridiculous plot works only when all the pieces fall exactly as the author wants. Depending on your point of view, all the circumstances that brought intelligent beings into existence on our planet are themselves an extremely rare situation.
Any Exchange admin can confirm that. It is interesting the array of devices people add to their 'work' email.
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In hard science fiction, "science" is physics. Maybe chemistry, maybe. But biology is all squishy and such and doesn't carry the mathematical gravitas needed to be taken seriously.
> Gigabit ethernet port - ( PROPER eth port - unlike the Raspberry Pi shit)

This is, by far, the most lacking feature of the Pi. I wonder why the RPi Foundation has not corrected this in the B+ revision - I understand why stuff like GPIO pin assignments etc. cannot be changed, but who bitbangs their ethernet port!?
Doesn't this say more about Spdy than https?
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So the average web developer salary is quite high?

In the other southern countries, I seldom know anyone with budget for Macs, unless they happen to work for some cool startup.

I do enterprise consulting across Europe and usually the guys with management positions are the ones with glowing Apples.
The great part of having a spec separate from the runtime is that Rocket can use systemd, but other compatible tools won't have to.
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It isn't tied to systemd. The stage1 that is in the current prototype uses systemd to monitor and fork processes but we would love to see other stage1's that configure other process runners. For example configure and run a qemu-kvm filesystem as the container.

Also, even though it is using systemd to monitor and fork processes a design goal is to run on all Linux's that have a modern Kernel.
Maybe click baity, but it is a serious question which is being asked. Not out of the blue but after a pretty shocking revelation of the unnecessary information they are gathering.

Opening up innocent people to hacking is one of the most important reasons that this new school of data gathering is being discussed.

Is it unethical when it appears as if the answer is almost certinly "YES!"?

edit: I'm specifically thinking of Uber gathering which customers have phones with vulnerabilities.
This was my first reaction as well. I've tried using React but the designer in me hated having views inside my controllers. So I've ended up writing vanilla js, and a helper MVC framework: https://github.com/techlayer/espresso.js which borrows a bunch of concepts from React but is really just a tiny helper lib.