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From the article: In my hometown of Mumbai, we have had many of these conveniences...This narrative ignores another vital ingredient, without which this new economy would fall apart: inequality.

Only one problem with the narrative: India (Gini 33.9) has considerably less inequality than the US (Gini 48).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...

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Obama calling for Congress to act is what we in this year of our Lord 2014 call "trolling".
that's very clever! I'm curios how that works though: does the system suddenly give you superuser privileges?
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We have refineries on land, too. We just put fences around them. The ocean is a big fence.
I'd expect this to be easier to secure than the LNG plant that it replaces. No pipelines to secure, just ocean around, so it's very hard to sneak up on it. Access can be controlled much better since there's no fence somebody might throw equipment over. A small dinghy is not going to put a major dent in that beast, even if loaded with explosives. The sides are impossible to scale. It's a floating fortress.
It’s actually really easy.

I tried understanding the APIs several phone apps are using, (the apps are heavily obfuscated), so I decompiled them and hacked my own small deobfuscater where I could rename stuff half-automatically.

Then I went through the code of Google Apps with this, and it’s actually really nice. Although kinda surprising how many Google Apps have hardcoded API keys for their services floating around, for example there is one Google App which has a hardcoded key that allows full unthrottled API access to all of the Google Maps APIs. For free.

I just did this out of fun, as I’m mostly working on Android OpenSource apps, but it was quite easy and interesting to see how Google obfuscates their apps.
That's a great news. I see ppl setup their own CI, b/c they need some custom stuff.

With Travis CI supporting docker, it is way easier to do that with them.
Having meetings at a time that suits you with people that may be considering going to bed, and actually are outside any kind of office hours whatsoever should be unacceptable behaviour of any leader.
It seems there's a pattern in how she sees other people.

* Trying to design the Yahoo logo herself in a weekend (how hard can it be?)

* Reading a children's book to a room full of employees, to stunned silence

* Disallowing remote employees but building a nursery for her child + nanny. (Do other people get Yahoo! daycare too?)

* Requiring extensive credentials for other people [Gwyneth Paltrow better have a degree!] but not bothering with background reference checks for people she wanted (Henrique de Castro, who cost Yahoo over $100M for a year's worth of shoddy work).

Believe it or not, Jobs had empathy for what the user truly needed, which gave him a killer sense of taste. I feel that's lacking here.
Of course it doesn't affect people in the USA that much.

It only affects all its neighbors and trade partners.

It has a very real cost, but it's something you pass to others, just an externality with no lines in your own ledger.
It was said at some point to be 3%. Anywhere in 2-5% is plausible. Doesn't take much; a nearly-empty stage weighs next to nothing in comparison to a fully-loaded stack. In fact, even with only one engine at minimum throttle, the the F9R-1 stage still has a thrust significantly higher than its weight. Thus the "hover-slam" description of their landing mode: they try to slow down to just above 0 at just the right altitude. Quite a bit of precision required.
Seems a bit unsporting to just put their email on front street like that, but I guess on the other hand the way they do these deals is something worth talking about.
If Marissa hired me, I'd tell her, "Throw away everything and focus your team 100% on search." Search is her core competency -- so stop pretending to be a media mogul and get down to what you know best. Web search is far from done, and it has loads of potential. It's her "iPod."

How ironic would it be Yahoo displaced Google, because Google had lost their focus on doing one thing (search) and doing it really well?
To everyone asking "why" or "what for", please read [1] and [2]. The data behind may not be as abundant as other studies, but the conditions are met in Venus and extremophiles could already be living in the upper atmosphere. A mission like this one could potentially take exobiology from theoretical to empirical.

Alternatively, we could take extremophiles cultures from earth, take a sample of venusian atmosphere, and study their survival in such an environment -- of course, taking care not to contaminate the atmosphere.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20110807004311/http://gltrs.grc.n...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Venus#Possibility...
I think there are some BYTE issues in there too.
Uh, what? Cuba isn't a Soviet vassal state any more.
Or that cigar imports is probably the most utterly trivial and selfish thing to consider in this move.
Exactly, believing in God has about the same scientific support. I wonder how many people don't believe in God but do believe there is advanced, intelligent life that choose not to contact us and how they reconcile that set of beliefs.
In 2008 G W Bush has removed North Korea from Embargo list, and embargo has to be renewed every year based on "some" Enemy Act of 1917. Cuba is the only country in US embargo list, I understand it is personal as Cuba is just few miles away from US, but still the embargo is inhumane and people are suffering. John Oliver has a very interesting piece on his HBO show.
Massive wealth inequality combined with few jobs leads to servants. Servants more-or-less stopped being a job in the US after the last Gilded Age with the rise of the middle class, but with Uber and other service apps, they are back, fractional reserve-style.

There's a corollary to this, which is that if the economy starts growing again (for regular people, not just programmers) people now doing 1099 piecework employment are going to find better options, and these services are going to have to increase their prices to attract workers. The cheapness of Uber has been subsidized by investors and made possible by desperation.
"Generally speaking, there are only a few ways to make money on the Internet."

And the article goes on claiming that e-commerce and marketplaces, hardware, and ads are those few ways.

This can't be true considering how much money Netflix (subscription), AWS (metered pay), mobile games (IAP) are making.
Some rough numbers: bundle install has gone from ~50s to 3s for my Jekyll + s3_website setup. The overall build has dropped from ~120s to 45s thanks to that and using a cached version of Ruby.

One gotcha for anyone with a similar setup: make sure Jekyll's _config.yml is set to exclude/ignore the vendor directory. Oops.
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Do people mostly use sticky notes / white boards for this? In theory UML tools should be great at this, but in practice I've found that they mostly get in the way. Even if the tool itself works well - then disseminating the info locked in the tool becomes awkward.

More recently, I've fallen back to frequent meetings and a wiki as the best way to work through this kind of activity - but it feels like there should be a better way.
India is less unequal than the US, yes. But it has a lot more poor people.
What makes a privacy concern legitimate, to your mind? It's giving data about a person to a group that otherwise would not have had access to it. It seems first order a privacy concern.

There's also some possibility it could be turned into more sensitive data - if my app tends to be recommended around social circles, and I see two people were on the phone over the same period of time, it's likely they were talking.
Why don't I pretend it's an evil from the bottom of someone else's grave I just dug?
Wow, this is really cool.

But I wish we'd stop saying "memory" when we mean "storage" ... seeing "Memory" and "RAM" next to each other is a bit confusing, since they're the same thing.
I agree with most of this, but I don't agree that the lead should only care about inputs/outputs when it comes to a task a given dev is working on. A lead should have defined conventions for how code in the project is written, and I think it's absolutely reasonable for that to be part of handing off a task to a junior. My approach is usually something like: "Ok Paul, I'm going to have you build out feature X, Y, and Z, defined in ticket #s 1,3, and 5, see the README about coding conventions, and let me know if you need more context/detail on any of these. I'll swing by each morning for a few minutes to see how things are going"). Then beyond talking to each team member every day, we have standups to keep everyone on the same page, on whatever interval makes sense given the complexity of the project.

I think a lead should care about how their team is implementing the features they are working on, because as the lead, it's crucial that you know the ins and outs of the system - where I think we agree though is that a lead shouldn't care about how the work is done, as long as it's done within the project guidelines (coding style, consistent structure, testing, etc.).
Is Marissa Mayer on the way out of Yahoo? This article which lists all her faults, summary of mistakes suggest a sort of open warning. Mainstream media like New York Times won't list mistakes of acting CEO because of the fear of backlash unless something is happening in the background like merger/replacement or some influential person(s) are actively leaking out his/her disappointment/frustrations.

Some how, I am getting impressions of HP's former CEO Carly Florina, while reading this article. Hope it won't end like that.

It appears Marissa Mayer is in hurry to prove something but without proper strategy. She is sort of mixing Apple's Steve Jobs way, netflix way, Google's data obsessive ways to somehow create some recipe for success.

I feel she has to cool down and make some original recipe rather than mixing from various other companies.Wall street, Yahoo Board and investors need to be told that turnaround may take at least five years and there should be no hurry in between just like HP's current CEO Meg Whitman did, irrespective of consequences. This can give her peace of mind and helps in creating a better strategy. It appears, she wants to rush but do not know where to and meanwhile falling. She has to slow down and rethink.

Also, this article can be condensed. It lists about yahoo from its start to previous CEO's, her hiring ...etc. Yahoo's past before Mayer may be irrelevant in the context of this article.If needed, URL to past article may be sufficient.
What arbitrage, exactly?...
Disk encryption only protects against physical theft of the drive, which is not the primary concern with most servers. If a server is up 24/7 and I hack into it, it doesn't matter that the drive is encrypted since I have access to the decrypted files anyway. Encrypting incoming emails works because the mail server doesn't really care what the content of the email is, so decryption keys don't have to be stored on the server.
Didn't know your tech guys were based in israel. Would that explain, now that i think about it that i see a kind of similar spirit between wix.com and zilo ?

Also, i was a zilo user back in the time, and really liked it. Glad things turned out well for you !
WRT wind tipping the stage: while in flight, it has several control mechanisms to counteract wind, and may have some inherent stability as well.

After landing, it's extremely bottom heavy. Got a bunch of engines and legs down there, and up top a big empty tube. I imagine it's still possible in bad weather, but they'll probably try to avoid that. I imagine it will also be tied down or put on a recovery ship some time after landing.
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I agree completely, but to me, this speaks to an organizational design issue as much as a scheduling issue. If you have direct reports in N different timezones, and there's almost no functional overlap between some of those timezones and your own, then why are they your direct reports? You are fundamentally incapable of directly managing them, and they are incapable of directly reporting to you. Put a better org structure in place, and shed whatever reasons you have for insisting on those people's directness -- be they playing to people's vanity, an overreaching desire to be "flat," or something else entirely.

(Obviously, this is easier said than done. At that level, the politics of moving around direct-reporting lines is going to be a nightmare.)

But I do agree. The complexity of scheduling increases dramatically as the number of timezones N increases. You try the best you can to schedule a standing meeting that accommodates everyone. Someone's going to have to make a sacrifice in convenience. As the leader, you should try to find a time that makes a sacrifice on your end, provided it's not too ridiculous.
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He he, I thought of that just before clicking submit, but was also interested in your reply.
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It would have been nice to see if the changes actually were noticeable or not. Yes, one version may be faster than another, but simply ordering a set of tests like that doesn't show if it is worth the trouble doing anything about it.
I hope this doesn't out me as short-sighted, but I'm looking forward to a vacation there in the near future!
Spot on with my own observations. My one addendum is that if you do make your email and/or phone available (even in odd places like whois records) that you seriously handle the security implications in regards to hacking vectors. Here is an example: https://ello.co/gb/post/knOWk-qeTqfSpJ6f8-arCQ

Simple measures will possibly save your butt if a serious attempt was made: Do not to answer security question fields truthfully, instead use long, random, high-entropy strings. Do not use text based 2FA, when app 2FA is available. Do not use text based 2FA as a backup to app based 2FA (e.g. Google). Etc.
The issue is that Ruby can't give you the tools you need to catch such things before runtime. Haskell can.
I thought they dropped search years ago. Nowadays their search is powered by Bing?
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Removable battery would be another good filtering option.
No job is worth that. Also consider the performance and morale damage from being forced to deal with that at the start of every week. Thanks but no thanks.
The announcement says that android builds run on linux and iOS builds run on MacOS, so sounds like no.
That's exactly why that anecdote has gotten an incredulous reaction.

If it's accurate that the position was for a contributing editor for a food blog, caring about a degree is completely nonsensical.

It's certainly possible that the story is inaccurate, but it seems to have been included in the article as an intentional example of bizarre decision making.
Did they disclose anything to you that's covered by the NDA? If not, then you don't have anything to worry about. Since you didn't actually work for them, the odds of there being something you learned from them accidentally are slim to none.

I'd say forget it and get on with life. And yeah, think hard before signing anything: there's always time to think about it.
Practically speaking, don't worry about it, especially since you've never done any work for them.

Don't waste your money on a lawyer. (Many people here are overly paranoid and will tell you otherwise.)
Will it have sonar? Approaching from below would be trivial.
I've been in their private beta for a week or so and this is cool, especially with their recent revamp of their pricing.
Microsoft bought Powerset (company) on July 1, 2008: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerset_(company)

On May 11, 2008, the company unveiled a tool for searching a fixed subset of Wikipedia using conversational phrases rather than keywords.

The natural language processing part of Bing (Powerset) is based on Wikipedia data (scrapping the content), but they had a prototype based on Freebase too:

On April 16, 2008: "Powerset demonstrated our integration to Freebase. At one point, a group stood in front of the projected computer and threw out queries to see all of the different Freebase types that Powerset could handle." (source: https://web.archive.org/web/20080430113649/http://blog.power... )
Of course!

And it can get even worse with a proprietary system, if the company goes bankrupt, then there's no system or code left at all... or they may open source it. Although, the companies that open source their code after going bankrupt are extremely rare.

But then there's the question, what will the clients do with that code? If it is a large system, it would take months to continue development on it - and who would pay for it? The most likely outcome is that the clients will go to the nearest competitor.
If that's all you need, then that would be fine. However, for most projects you end up needing many other such polyfills, to the point that you might as well use one library—jQuery—to provide them all (plus a lot of other functionality).
Again, you having garbage print handwriting doesn't mean everyone does. My printed handwriting got a compliment just this Sunday, and mine pales in comparison to that of most people's I've seen.

If print, on the whole, was impossible to read and write clearly, it would have died long, long ago. But it hasn't, because it's a perfectly acceptable way to convey information, without pretending that everyone's cursive (which, again, hardly anyone gets practice with--I can't even remember around 1/3 of the lowercase letters, or most of the capitals, like G) is so much nicer, and the only way to 'properly' go about things.

I'm glad that you're happy with cursive. Nice cursive handwriting does indeed look quite nice. But it's fallen out of favor and out of practice, and it's not, and I say this without hyperbole, the one true way that you insist it is.
I am not sure why this would affect that, as far as I know that part of Cuba is considered to be US soil.
the best thing might be if the cities themselves licensed and ran the ride-ordering technology, as a public good.

Isn't the inevitable problems therewith, as exemplified by NYC's taxi regulation system, exactly what led to the rise of Uber?
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It was Zlio not Zilo (Yep, I know it was a poor name)

Wix and Zlio: We had the same investor. Mangrove.
They discovered Wix when they came to Israel for a Zlio Board. They know own 25% of Wix.
Do you mean you need to run iOS- and Android-based tests all at once on the same machine? You have Homebrew, sudo, etc at your fingertips in our OSX VMs, so you should be able to setup anything you need there. If you just need to run iOS and Android tests in separate projects, then that's very easy--we have a lot of customers already doing that. Ping us at sayhi@circleci.com if you have more specific questions and we will make sure you can get things working.
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The timing seems really clever here.

The USA and OPEC flood the market with oil (literally), crashing prices and sending the Ruble into a spiral. Just as Cuba starts to worry about Russian support going forward, the USA swoops in to provide some economic bracing.
I think that may cause more trouble than it's worth. They will likely have forgotten that you exist by tomorrow. But if you email them specifically asking about the NDA, they'll remember your name forever if there is ever a breach of information.
"Bit of a shame it's dedicated to continuing our use of fossil fuels really."

Well, I guess the onus is on us to greatly reduce our use of fossil fuels. They're doing their part to more efficiently meet our demand. We can't help but be happy when gas gets cheap then we can buy large vehicles again.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/12/02/automake...
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This is bogus. Imagine how much more valuable Uber would be if 100% of people could afford to ride them on a regular basis.
This article fails on two basic points:

1. The fees can be collected on transfers which occur between two members of the network without funds leaving the wallet. That's clearly the long-term goal of any network -- to grow to the point where everybody is on it.

2. The stated goal of ChangeTip, as seen in their videos and materials, is to replace advertising and other indirect ways of monetizing content with a way to directly express support for creators.

Advertising is a model whereby content creators get vanishingly small amounts of money for views, while having to place their content next to third-party claims and pitches which they do not endorse. Historically this has been because the rates on payment processing have dwarfed the actual value that a single article or video view delivers to a single consumer, so asking for half a penny was not feasible. You can express that level of support with BTC however.
One thing I noticed -- the Nexus 6 actually comes in either 32GB or 64GB, but when I search based on memory/storage or on price, only the 32GB shows up. This is probably happening for other models with multiple variations. (Also, I think the price you've listed for it is just wrong -- likely due to limited supply on Amazon)
> I don't know if there's a way to switch WMs without shutting down the whole x session though. Would be interested to know if it's possible.

Some WM's support the '--replace' flag (Both the WM being replaced and the one you're starting have to support it). If you run a new WM with the '--replace' flag, the old WM will shutdown and the new WM will take-over all the windows it was handling. This is only switching WM's though, so you can't really switch into Gnome or KDE doing this and then switch-out. i3 doesn't support it though (It would have a bit of a hard time supporting it anyway), so you can't do it with i3.

If you can't do it that way though, then just have your X session start a terminal on screen instead of a WM. The X session will stay live as long as that terminal stays open, so you can start and kill any number of WM's as you want as long as your other programs don't mind it. Not everything shuts down very cleanly though, so you might not be able to start and close Gnome and then start KDE in the same session. You should be able to kill i3 and start openbox or xfwm though, for example.
> Dissent can guarantee that each user of an online forum gets exactly one bandwidth share, one vote, or one pseudonym, which other users can block in the event of misbehavior.

Dissent seems like a strange name for a protocol that enables minorities within the group to be silenced.
To my understanding, cities never did dispatch...
What compiler optimisation levels were used for Clang?
Nope your still missing the 64GB Variation.. You only show apple and oneplus at 64GB memory..
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It awfully sounds like Yahoo is JCPenney of tech. A super-star was brought in to revive the growth in to JCP, Ron Johnson. He tried it too hard and too fast, and almost ruined JCP beyond recovery. "Alibaba" is the one silver-lining that gives Yahoo something to play along, but this just reminds me JCP & Ron Johnson.
Now you have your scrum/agile modules which can be outlined and given to subordinates, and tracked.

"Agile" micromanagement is great if you're looking to bleed talent. Highly recommended if you're looking to reduce costs and don't care who leaves.
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