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Isn't it all very individual though? What if someone derives happiness and satisfaction from working? Should they be prohibited from working more than a set number of days/hours per week?
"the purpose of forensics is to solve crimes"

I agree with this article, I think it's a good one. But here's my nit: the purpose of forensics isn't to "solve crimes", it's to get convictions, which isn't the same thing. That's a huge part of the problem.
I was thinking something similar. If they were to materially invest in Linux (specifically help in it's sore spots) I would be able to forgive them. If they were just a positive force in software as a whole and made everything they touched better, and contributed their efforts to all sorts of existing community efforts (like linux; but other projects like browsers, databases, etc), they would win over the masses overnight. No question.

Microsoft, as a company that makes great software, is what I've always wanted them to be. But they've been so caught up on their own platforms and solutions that have run counter to that.

In a version of the future, it could happen. There could be a day where I, as a RoR developer, consider using MSSQL as my database, because it manages to be better than postgres or mysql, and has approachable OS/support licensing. Where I write code in their frameworks because they're better than Xcode and output code that runs on all platforms. Where I use IE because it renders the best and fastest and has the best inspector (and obviously, zero IE specific code required; and starts running on linux and OSX).

So it could happen. It's a sharp, sharp pull up from their current path, but there is a path to me advocating for them and what they build.
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"Furthermore, it highlights that the companies' embrace of complex encryption techniques is making it even harder for GCHQ to spot potential threats in the "204 million email messages, 100,000 tweets and a million Facebook posts" sent every minute."

You mean just like it is hard to spot potential threats in physical mouth to ear communications?

Why is it okay to look at internet data for threats but not okay to put listening devices on every person? Seems like it's the same flow of data coming in either way.
Its definitely not a problem with the person. That person may be working on a, say, date picker component (or something equivalent that is not yet covered with HTLM5) that provides minimal styling (with the ability to override it). They don't even know all their end-users.

They decided to use the name `.calendar`. Was that safe? Nope, their user #3 had an "upcoming events" calendar using the same class name that totally breaks when the datepicker CSS is included on the page. Should they make sure to prefix all their class names with their name? What if someone else with the same name also decides to do this? What if they make a new alternate datepicker, must they add the version number/descriptor too?

This is probably one of the reasons why we don't yet have separate reusable components with minimal overridable styles for the web (instead we have only entire pre-styled frameworks)

If styles had scope and HTML had a way to import them, we could say `import calendar from "path/to/file"`, then use the calendar style on our component and be sure that there is no way its going to leak outside of outside its lexical scope. Web components will fix this (html imports, scoped stylesheets). But web components aren't ready yet.

Let me ask you a different question though: is there a reason for the "oh god, not JS" sentiment? The solution is potentially even simpler than CSS: styles are defined as variables containing JSON objects, they're exported as a module, and can be imported and used by any component and mixed freely. No cascading/selector rules, no priorities, no overrides. When HTML CSS and JS share scope, things become much simpler.
While I totally agree with your point that missing meetings is a quick and frankly valid reason to get fired, his situation can't be resolved by pills if he truly has this diagnosis. From having learned about it because a past employee suffered from it, there are actually chemical/hormone differences in their bodies that cause it, and not something they can control totally; but they are not totally helpless either. From what I learned consistent sun exposure even helps some people.

That doesn't mean they don't have any control, just that depending on the severity of their phase difference they may not be able to do a 9-1700 job like you said, so contracting or finding a more flexible employer or industry is the better route.
I was just making a point about archaic software :-)
git at revision 0 worked the same way. You can see that there are no references in git at that time either. They're both copying bitkeeper, which worked the same way.

Nowadays git has references (branches), and hg has bookmarks which are the same, plus hg also has the option to label every commit with a permanent branch name. They also still have branching-by-cloning, and if you listen to Linus's original Google code talk about Git, you can see that he conflates "branch" and "clone" because that's what he originally envisioned! Even in 2007 he was still thinking in bitkeeper terms too. I bet that branching with references was Junio Hamano's idea, after Linus did the code hand-off.

I find branching-by-cloning a bit more natural in hg, because you can push to any repo. It's useful for quick, throwaway, local, easy testing out of ideas. In git, you can only push if your push doesn't modify HEAD, which typically translates into only being able to push to bare repos.
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I'm very happy to hear that this tech is doing something useful for you. We want to make it better. (I was the founder of Anybots, and know a lot of other people in the telepresence and drone worlds.) It's great that you're telling your story, because it's much more motivational for people working on the tech than some of the current popular use cases, like managers walking the cubicle farm while traveling.
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Maybe also that is why big things come from the US? True pain-points are more obvious in a place where one is not pampered and protected by society too much?
Here's the gist of it for UK startups as I understand it:

1) If you're already VAT registered, this isn't really adding much work. Just track IP address and credit card address for the sale (you probably are anyway). Your accountant can take care of the rest.

2) App store sales are unaffected as long as they are collecting the VAT for you. As far as I know, both Google and Apple do this.

3) If you are not VAT registered and are under the threshold of £81k/yr. You have two choices:
Register and go through all the compliance (this is a pain).

Or don't register, then block all non-UK EU countries from buying. You can still accept UK and other countries such as the USA, but the moment you make a cross-border transaction into the EU, you will have to register for VAT, start charging VAT and filing quarterly reports.

I assume that other countries with VAT thresholds will be similar, don't sell to EU countries other than your own and you should be fine. Although obviously check with your accountant first!
Is there a usable GUI version of NeoVim yet? (e.g. like MacVim)?
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So you don't recommend starting fresh?
If the European Commission is seeking as an end goal to force Google to split its business, on anti-competitive concerns, then that is similar to what the DOJ does with anti-trust enforcement. The intent is the same: to see business X split. The DOJ's domestic powers are far greater than the EU Commission's ability to impact Google, but that's not for lack of wanting to.

My point stands regardless. Show me where the United States Government attempts to force major European or Asian companies to split into pieces. I'd love to see numerous examples of the US Government doing what the EU Commission is doing.
It's strange, I found it very clear and readable. Maybe it has to do with one's level of familiarity with the topic, though.
I'm curious about NaCl, would it be possible to replace OpenSSL with something based on this library? If not, why not?

The feature list certainly looks impressive!
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We've also started creating a dataset as a part of our more broad-reaching PHP library: https://github.com/commerceguys/tax
Yes, it is very limited, indeed.

However, W3C is not a single group. Specs are developed (and proposed) mostly by charters or separate working groups. They are developed without "strict" control by W3C. This means that there are lots of specs being built in parallel[1], which means that having people develop the Clipboard API standard won't imply less (or more) development on the textarea-related standard...

[1] Some of them even collide, while others are designed to serve specific (corporative) interests.
Sure, you can use: contact@robotsandcake.org.

Edit: sorry, missed your question about streaming! All of the hard work on the streaming for the event was done by Andrew Nesbitt.[0] He's definitely the guy to talk to about this.

[0]: https://twitter.com/teabass
Did a senior representative of Privacy International really just advocate a position where the only technically possible solution is to give governments the power to monitor everything and forcibly prohibit the use of any technology that would prevent that from being achieved? Surely that must have been taken out of context somehow.
Hitler may not have followed all of Neitzche, but he almost certainly took the "will to power" idea from him. It also seems to me that Hitler took the "superman" idea - the man who is above morality and can do whatever he wishes to those below him - but I'm less certain of that.
How do you research a market from the outside? Especially in digital/saas products where the barrier to entry is already low, it seems to me that the successful people don't want to give up their competitive advantage by telling the world how to reproduce their business model (for good reason).
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Remind me how citizens voted for it?
Amazing (: I like the '&:hover': { part. Take a look at rcss https://github.com/chenglou/RCSS
Your lib would be amazing to work with react.js. You would need to create the class names based on the contents instead of incrementing an id to make server side rendering faster. Take a look at rcss on how they do it.
Like I said: reductio ad absurdum.
Disagree with the premise that apps can change lives, at least in the way I think you mean. Apps are conveniences, that's all. An app is not going going get a person out of poverty, unless the person is the developer and can sell the app to people who have the disposable income to pay for conveniences.
If you're a mobile network operator, you use microsoft windows to access and administer the base stations out in the field.

It doesn't change much because the base station software probably has more security bugs than Windows.
It is not clear if he knew what the shots were and it is not clear if he opposed capitalism.
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>but this Javascript solution does the exact same thing.

But with this lib I don't care about classes. I just put thing in, and I have 0 conflicts. I can do whatever I want and no conflicts. Try that in css. Also take a look at react.js this lib is perfect fit for that.
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It's recently also becoming common in Denmark to work only a few days a week, especially in tech. Working 2-4 days/week at a "regular" tech job is a popular way to fund your startup. Usually it's fairly linear, e.g. you can negotiate to work 75% time for 75% pay. The fact that companies don't typically provide benefits other than pay and pension contribution helps, I think. I have friends in the U.S. who are worried about going from "full-time" to "part-time" status, because they'd lose things like healthcare coverage, childcare, maternity/paternity leave, etc. But full-time vs. part-time doesn't matter as much when the social system is decoupled from employment.
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Now they only need to add a "commitToServer()" feature that uses some diff since the last commit and we got a stew going.

That tech is promising though, I like that we're opening new possibilities all the time.
After reading this who is surprised?
Businesses in the UK which aren't VAT-registered certainly pay VAT.
In fact it is different from how the US President is elected.

The electoral college doesn't get to choose any person for President. It's a direct correlation vote: do this, get that result. Such is not true with EC appointments. You vote for a national government, then you pray they appointment an EC that you favor, but there is no legally required direct correlation that says they have to appoint X person. You make that point within your own post (where you note that governments who have chosen unpopular candidates suffer), contradicting your claim that it's just like how the US President is elected.
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I worked full-time for 5 years, freelanced for 1 year & then moved back to full-time.

I have the intention of starting my own business eventually, but I didn't have any money saved, so when I freelanced, I would constantly have to be hustling jobs.

I ended up with some good (not great) permanent clients & was making great money, but even then, I was designing & building websites only (mostly Wordpress) which wasn't the work I wanted to be doing. I wanted to work in startups on a product & realised that going back to full-time was the better option for me.

If you haven't ever worked full-time for someone else, I would recommend doing that first. You can still learn a lot about running a business in a full-time job - sometimes even the most important things like communication, managing a team etc. It's also a good chance to work out what you actually want to do whilst having a steady pay-check.
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I did a python barcode decoder for Code39 a few years ago: http://www.wiredfool.com/2006/07/04/barcode-recognition/ . Alternate symbologies aren't that hard to do since the decoding instructions are floating about.

And helpfully enough, my code needed a pretty good crop on the barcode, and that's what this article gives you.
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so was he
War & hunger.
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The fact (or not) that stamp prices have been increasing along side inflation is irrelevant and is still not (and shouldn't be) the only factor in raising prices! What don't you understand about raising prices "because of inflation" for an essential, constitutionally mandated service is not good for consumers aka citizens?

My whole point(again) is that first class mail delivery should be handled by the government and NOT privatized. The government is supposed to handle certain things for it's citizens. Let's say in 1965 (when the postal service was running the postal service) paper costs, because of some crisis jumped 1000%. The government would not have raised the price of a stamp 1000%. A private postal service would have had to (not exactly because supply and demand is also in play) which I hope you understand.

Thank God we outlawed poll taxes and didn't privatize polling places. Adjusted for inflation, we would probably be paying $50 to vote on election day.

We won't get into why the government requires USPS prices be tied to the CPI-U or the pension fund mandates. Hint, union busting and lobbing money via UPS and FedEx.

This wasn't really even about the postal service but why the government needs to regulate ISPs. The Internet is now an essential service and citizens shouldn't be at the whim of monopolized private companies.

Well, this thread has been beat to death but thanks for playing...
You're right. What I meant was that someone looks at something and says "This is so cool/interesting/useful, I wonder how they made it?" For a language like OCaml, this means getting existing devs interested but the same approach works for less technically experienced people, who are keen to know how basic websites work (c.f plethora of how to code programmes).
This reminds me of one of their earlier posts about Calculus and monsters http://datagenetics.com/blog/october12013/index.html

It's amazing to be reminded about how much math you forget after High School and never need to use again :(
They could prevent payment services from allowing EU customers to pay you.
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I wish i could try this editor but had no luck compiling it. Some troubles with deps (lablgtk) and then infinite compile cycle issue i could not resolve. Would be nice to have deps included in install script or something.
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Cool idea for a plugin: reddit karma checker
I have a cool idea for a plugin: it checks your Reddit posts for any post with some threshold of negative karma (-1, 0 etf) and then deletes it automatically. Occasionally I'll post something that for some reason people hate and it will get 7 or so down-votes before I can delete it. This plugin will scan your recent posts every 5 minutes or so and auto-delete the bad ones.
The current trend is to find and expose the low-level primitives that let developers build their own tags, so that instead of needing more features added to <textarea> you can build an element that does everything <textarea> does and more. Then you are not constrained by the W3C process or decisions.

Web Components plus the Selection and Range APIs get you most of the way there for <textarea>. Unfortunately, I've found them to have different bugs in various browsers, probably because they're not used so much, but fixing these APIs opens up a lot more than just better <textarea>.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Range
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Selection

Custom elements can't participate in <form>s easily yet, which should probably be fixed, but a lot of apps are skipping form submission for XHR calls anyway.
I do have a reason for saying "oh god not JS". In my experience, the biggest reason people try and solve CSS issues with javascript is because they don't fully understand CSS and how to structure it in a maintainable way.

I used to hate CSS. I still think it is very flawed, just google how to center something and watch all the blogs pop up.

But rather than cursing it the rest of my dev days, I took the time to learn it and structure it properly. I now never spend longer than a few minutes trying to resolve a css bug.

Ideas like the OPs only procrastinate someone's true problem, which is they don't know how to properly work with the technology that they are forced to work with.
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No, he's right. The PET and Apple were second generation 6502 machines - intended to be personal computers. The first 6502 products were evaluation kits like the KIM-1, which only had a keypad and seven segment LEDs for entering and viewing code in hex. Even this was quite an advance over the previous generation like the Altair where you had to enter code by flipping switches. This page has a picture, explains the process and shows some handwritten source code:

http://blog.jgc.org/2013/04/how-i-coded-in-1985.html

(Despite the title, this was more typical of 1976 or so.)
It seems awkward, but it was quite workable for embedded
controllers, which was the original application that the microprocessor manufacturers had in mind.
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> Unicorn didn't market itself.

You don't remember "I love Unicorn because it's UNIX?" http://tomayko.com/writings/unicorn-is-unix as well as GitHub's postings about using Unicorn?

I admit this particular campaign makes me a bit... unhappy. But every open source project does marketing, explicit or implicit.
It is not a question of morality, it's a question of risk tolerance.

Most SEOs will advise you to err on the side of caution, but most SEOs work with large businesses that already have a lot of link equity and brand dollars thus making the point kind of moot.

People say create good content, but good luck creating the best content in the world and thinking that Google will feel obliged to rank you.

The reality is that with any venture you have to take risks, specially in the beginning, and if done smartly, buying links is a pretty balanced risk-reward scenario to kick start your property.

Lastly, in most cases a few well placed links are all you need. Once you start gaining traction you'll automatically get the motivation to create more/better content and do other forms of link building which are safer but much more time consuming.
When I was logged in Google (I usually am), it didn't ask me to solve a captcha. When I tried from a private browser, it did.
I typically like the most scientific ones rather than the touchly-feely ones. There was one about stock market crashes which I found really interesting . here it is http://www.ted.com/talks/didier_sornette_how_we_can_predict_...
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And the remainder of the problem is that too many of the people inside the system believe that they are the same thing.
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Are we allowed to suggest our own? :)
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I have no problems running Syntastic. What are you running in to?
Talk about jumping to conclusions. This is both a gross misunderstanding of their culture and government, as well as unsubstantiated claims of causation.
Thanks for telling your story. I have an odd question. How do you feel about the way current members of the military and veterans are treated w/r/t painkillers like Oxycontin?
Was Ryan Tomayko involved in Unicorn? My point was that it would be different if Eric Wong wrote a post like that. Ryan Tomayko taking the time to write that post is exactly my point: good tools spread by having users that love them.
It depends on your use case.

If you need something that speaks TLS, then no. NaCl is a different (simpler) protocol that does not have TLS compatibility as a goal.

If you're building a new application then NaCl is probably a good choice. There are some problems you may need to solve yourself, if your application calls for them. For example, NaCl has no notion of a CA hierarchy.