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> There's even a $500bn global industry (advertising) largely built around exploiting these same psychological heuristics.

First, advertising is largely a mass market phenomenon. Spammers only need a small fraction of recipients to click through and give their credit card info.

Second, point one aside, isn't advertising undermined by all the churn in the advertising world over the last decade or so? I was under the impression that the question is actively being reevaluated. Perhaps advertising is great at branding (remember us!?) and information (we do this!) but poor at changing minds (now you're buying Androids and not iPhones!).

Third, I still don't see what makes these particular examples egregious. If the judge were displaying these images, there would be a problem, but prosecutors aren't supposed to be impartial. And the defense could similarly show photos of the defendant kissing babies, right? Don't both sides do the equivalent in oral arguments already? Why is photo-shopping crossing the line?
I'm not saying that the author doesn't know what a framework is in general. What I'm saying is that this article can be boiled down to something like: "Javascript has support for feature X, Y and Z, therefore we don't need any frameworks". I should probably also not list Ember's features in my comment, because it's not only about any specific feature - it's also about conventions and app architecture.

I think that the underlying concern is valid, ie. we would all be better of if we all joined forces and push for web standards, which can be used in any framework. The problem is that the conclusion, ie. we shouldn't use any frameworks to achieve that, is wrong.

Framework authors care about standards and I personally think that each framework will try to adopt more and more native JS and HTML features, but it doesn't mean that we won't be needing frameworks anymore.
As a resident of New Jersey, please, no more unions.
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> but those 2 hours a day are entirely my own.

You haven't tasted freedom, my friend. Commuting hours are enslaved hours. I have the fortune of a 15 minute bike ride to work. The extra hours in my week can be spent in any old direction, not just listening to podcasts. I can go to the bank, sit in a coffee shop, play some guitar, whatever.
Wow, the level of crazy there is very high. Up until today I thought that PHP was fine, but nobody should ever use it for anything remotely real. You have changed my mind. We must kill PHP with fire.
I believe you are grouping "those who don't have the skills or abilities" as one unit. Seems like a very large container to be making decisions about.

Let's exclude those who cannot learn enough to function in society. If anybody wants these people to starve, I haven't met them.

Suppose you graduate from college with a degree in repairing fax machines. Fax machines are quickly disappearing. Should you:

1) Continue to learn about fax machines while the rest of society pays for your food, shelter, and health care. After all, it's not for us to judge what you do with your life.

2) Expect fax machines to be mandated by law so that you and the other fax machine experts can have a job, or

3) Expect things to change. Try to match your own skills and desires with whatever most people want. That is, try to fit yourself into the society and world you find yourself in and not expect the world to change for you. (Whether or not the rest of us support you during this time is irrelevant, except in terms of whether it helps or hinders the change you need to make)

I believe this is the same set of alternatives you have offered, only looking at it from the individual level instead of as some hypothetical external observer.
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When an engineer writes a short story
My Short Story "The Donkey Lane" is now published on kindle (free over the holidays, so please do read).
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00RA3UD20

As a software engineer I've authored technical books and written software, so writing fiction should be easy for me, I thought. My plan was to do a MVP, that is, write a quick story, put it out for the world to see, and if there is a positive response, continue writing. It will be a humorous short story, I told myself. However, most of the humor was outside of the short story: the story took me over six months to write. Why? Scope creep and distractions. First distraction: could not find a mac text editor that I liked, so I started creating my own. This led to the creation of the Mac app: Published! Manuscript Manager (www.published-app.com.) I put it out in the Mac store and soon started communicating with a number of its users. First it needed a "submissions module" which authors of short stories would use to submit and track their submissions to various publishers. Then it needed an Income and Expense module which writers would use to track the profit/loss from each of their work. Each time I used my own text editor to write my story, I discovered some new enhancements that just had to be done, and finally when I reached the enhancement saturation point, and had about two pages of my story written, distraction #2 hit me: I thought, won't it be nice if I have a platform to display the fecundity of my mind to the world, if and when such fecundity occurred? Thus started my next journey: creating the web site www.mystacki.com, which writers can use to display "stacks" of their work.

Every good story should have a happy ending and mine does too. My fictional story "The Donkey Lane," is no longer fictional, an abstract Platonic idea up there in the sky: Its been written. Please do read it and provide feedback. "The Donkey Lane" http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00RA3UD20
On the Ec2 side security groups can be used to only allow access for the company IP. Then VPN can be used to secure connections from coffee houses back the the office.
Yeah but in this case no one who works for Uber is forced to actually do any work. This is an ad hoc, "I feel like making a few extra bones" type deal where they provide an affordable and convenient service to the populace. To say they are being exploited is wildly dramatic.
Why are you discounting fat? You don't lose that when cooking the steak. You've forgotton to add anything for the butter they add. I don't think the bone weighs six ounces - but I admit I have little idea what a fucking ounce is.

Google tells me there are 291 calories in a cooked ribeye steak. That's over 1,000 for a 16 ounce steak.

You are severely underestimating the calorie content.
My voice mail message at work for the last few years has suggested that people contact me through email and that I tend to ignore my voicemail blinking light for weeks at a time. As a bonus (for me), I don't include my email address in the message so the only people who typically leave me messages are vendors cold-calling me.
you can get your tv shows and online movies. You could even before the internet. If you mean, when you can get them without flash then you can do that too. Netflix, Hulu, and iTunes all work on iOS without flash.
Don't the opening and closing arguments already commit this fallacy?

"I'm going to show that the defendant, Mr. Kool-Aid Man, intentionally and recklessly burst through the wall, terrifying the crowd and causing little Tiny Tim to wet his underpants. I'll then show that he proceeded to ... etc."

...why is this just now crossing the line?
But they wont run this firmware. There is no information available to start to build a firmware for that platform that I know of.
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Yet another reason not to eat chicken-periods.
The problem is that voicemail is obnoxious to use and pretty pointless. The last company I worked for, I didn't even have a phone number, let alone voicemail. If someone needed something they could use an asynchronous form of communication, like email or IM (we were required to use Hipchat).

The last job I had where I had voicemail I refused to check it. Not because I was dodging work, but because listening to long, rambling voicemails is time-consuming and irritating. I can skim through a rambling email very, very quickly to get the information I need. I can also search my old emails quickly and easily. Neither of those things is true for voicemail.
Absolutely, I've seen similar things. Even after explaining the pitfalls some people are reluctant to do it. Partly because people don't want to embrace the aws ("cloud", the new way of doing things) completely, they still want to think of everything as if it is their own machines in their own data server only amazon plays the role of the ops guys.
Unlike OpenGL, OpenCL allows writes to arbitrary addresses computed by the OpenCL kernel. To be safely run on the web, you have to solve a very difficult validation problem to prove that an arbitrary kernel won't do bad things. I don't think anyone has adequately solved that problem. As stated at <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664147#c30>, "The future for GPU compute in Firefox is ARB_compute_shader, which is now part of ES 3.1."
Also relevant is the "Distributed Algorithms" course at Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. Seems to be a little bit more theoretical, but might be an interesting complement to a more practical course.

YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL700757A5D4B3F368

Course page: http://www.ict.kth.se/courses/ID2203 (appears to be down at the moment though)
Not only that but they will drive the whole efficient and affordability premise into the ground just for the betterment of their drivers. In this case, with the competition being what it is, it would be more for the detriment.
Had this happen once, apparently fixed with zapping NVRAM/PRAM. Never happened again...
Last year we had huge protests in Brazil. They were sparked by police brutality against a tiny, routine protest in Sâo Paulo. That thing spread to every other major city in the country.

Some state governments decided to send the police to the protests, some didn't. Guess what: where there were no policemen, the protesters went, did their thing, and no violence or damage to property was reported. Where there was police, the protest always escalated, and always in the way you decribed: the police sets some random arbitrary limit, the huge mass of uncoordinated people do not follow their orders, police attacks.

Take from that what you will.
It's this and that the owners of capital have so much power over labor, that employees can't simply say, "I want a 3 hour day," but hear, "You have to work 10." And you can't argue because unemployment is so high (because of those productivity gains).
Some particular bedroom practices I learned from porn scared away two of my prospective wives.
Pretty much. That there are more people willing to do the same job for less because there's an oversupply of labor as a consequent of globalization's progression. Further, because of the optimizations of production, it's cheaper than ever to produce most things and especially zero unit cost goods like software. The only problem/challenge from the supply side is that niches are getting more microoptimized because the big problems have already been solved a zillion times over.

My hope is that when people get to live and work in space on a semipermanent basis, it will start the single biggest goldrush the human species is or ever will witness beyond leaving the solar system. (Hint: invest with Musk.)
In 10 years of consulting with a large team for companies big and small I saw a total of none applications built this way.
We use our own chat system. Very streamlined.
While I understand how you can understand that from my post, the stream-of-consciousness style of posting on websites muddled my points:

- I see as the only long-term sustainable trend for much more people to move into smaller, much more densely populated areas - megacities. But there are no (not yet) facts that corroborate this claim, although more people in my field and adjacent fields are at least informally starting to share this idea. Not that it's very relevant what the objective situation is - many people feel cities are Bad and think we need to move away from them. And politics follows popular opinion, on macro topics like this.

- 'Accessibility' is not just 'smaller centres'. Without wanting to get into the debate over which of the 5000 definitions is the 'right' one, what I meant was that thinking of time it takes to get to different places in terms of 'we need to increase rush hour capacity so that I can get to work faster' is (apologies to the GP, not meant personally) stupid. The congestion-decreasing effect of adding a lane on a main artery lasts, give or take a few years, 5 years. After that, people have adapted to the new circumstances - i.e. bought houses further away from where they work, because it's cheaper there (in the first years after the intervention) and thereby made the problem worse.

- I disagree with your assertion that the trend to build more and wider roads and more public transport are a way to deal with concentration of economic activity on less area. Moving people into dense centres is, but 'improving transport' is (imo) a band aid to deal with negative externalities of densification - i.e. rising house prices, lagged upgrades of amenities in areas that increase in density, etc. Said in a less roundabout, academic and cautious way: politician build more roads to deal with constituents bitching about not being able to buy a detached house with 10 ares of lawn for their children to play on in the area where I work, and look there are plenty of houses in that shithole farm town over there, just build a road and I'll vote for you.

I'm not quite sure any more where exactly I'm going with this to be honest, just wanted to say that the solution to transportation issues is not 'build more roads' but 'create an environment in which people will naturally need to travel less'. But building roads is easier, of course.
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Given Prof. Stefan Nilssons "Fundamentals of concurrent programming", which is taught in Go [1], it would be interesting to see whether not the distributed systems course will adopt Go as well, in the near future.

[1] http://www.nada.kth.se/~snilsson/concurrency
Voicemail is dead, and it's because of the significant minority that leave giant messages, as well as anybody you never met who "just wanted to touch base with you". It's a shame too, because there are times and topics for which texting/emailing is an incorrect alternative.

Unfortunately people don't realize the 3rd rule of Dr. Luther Waxling: "Just because it happened to you doesn't make it interesting" (at 1:24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGfc2zZ2PQI)
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I did 24pullrequests last two years. This year, I didn't actively participate (had 8 PR, but not because 24PR). It was a great experience. I tried to find new projects, related to projects I already used.

It is difficult to contribute to Django, Flask, Rails, Linux or any other large project. Look for small and undermaintained projects. They are easier to understand and have more low hanging fruits.

* I started contributing to Postmon (a brazil zip code API) during a 24pullrequests. Now, I'm a core developer of this project.

* I helped with freedomsponsors.org development a lot (the creator is a friend), looked for issues there too and fixed them (counting for 24pullrequests and receiving some money for it).

* Contributed a lot with bottlepy core, bottlepy plugins and Flask extensions

* Fixed some 24pullrequests bugs =)

* Fixed some docs

I wrote about how 24PR help people to increase OSS contribution, using 2013 stats: http://notenoughmemory.com/2013/01/24pullrequests-post-morte...
So far my plague experience has been random photos of random locations, text quotes of famous people, and text quotes of users. So basically, a lot like Instagram. Neat concept, but I'd rather it be pictures of something exciting down the street that I may pass forward to others in the area and if it's exciting enough, even further. Not reposts just to gain points for how far your post reached.
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It's like survival of the least terrible... And then standards of a country plummets and it becomes less competitive compared to an upstart that then disrupts them completely. Upstart is banned.
It's not about pricing. In Germany one of the issues for Uber was that they weren't ensuring the vehicles had the more frequent mechanical safety checks that the law requires for commercial vehicles (the logic being that they do far more miles).

How is the average customer supposed to be able to decide how much risk is involved in the fact that one vehicle hasn't had its breaks inspected in the last X thousand miles, and another has? In the Uber world, how does the customer even get hold of that information?

It sounds perfectly reasonable to me to compare failing breaks with contaminated food. Both have the potential to be highly dangerous.
The only application holding me back from using Linux on all my machines is xcode.. only if there was a wine for mac apps that could run xcode.
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It's hard to get from Bromley to Victoria in 45 minutes.
That's also how I got mine.
I failed to correctly express my opinion. You are correct to jump on that. And you are correct in your argument.

I've editted the post to more correctly express my opinion (namely the last sentence).
We're moving away from the attach-patches-to-bugs model, but in another direction: bugzilla integration with reviewboard, with changesets pushed to a review server and review requests being triggered automatically.

See https://mozilla-version-control-tools.readthedocs.org/en/lat... for details
Well, otherwise, I tried to get some help collecting nice Distributed system links and news in the relevant Google+ group: http://bit.ly/distsys
This is what I use Google Voice for. It translates the voice mail into text, and will send it in an email. It's not perfect, but it's good enough to figure out why the person called, and it does a good job capturing the phone number the person leaves.
Let me know when you release the OSX version, I'm very interested in purchasing.
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"...that might or might not benefit you as a consumer, but
that's not the immediate goal."

"You're focused on the wrong thing vis a vis unions.
They are there for the workers, that might or might not
play out well for the consumer."

Bah Humbug! Then why am I - as the consumer - should want to foster the growth and strengthening of unions?

To create another entrenched interest group whose influence I cannot hope to counter, using my already significance-dwindled vote, in a state that is already rife with the influence of such powerful unions?

In California, the biggest special interest donor, the California Teachers Association, spent more than $118 million on campaigns in the state during the past five election cycles.[1]

And what do the "consumers" get for that?

The Golden State's fourth-graders ranked 47th in the nation in both math and reading. Eighth-graders ranked 45th in math and 42nd in reading.[2]

Looking at states like California, it is not a stretch to extrapolate that unions - once they reach a critical mass - tend to indulge in a cycle of voracious self-fattening with their growing influence, election cycle after election cycle.

As a consumer, I am supposed to help create more unions and enable this kind of behavior?

[1] http://californiawatch.org/money-and-politics/states-top-100...

[2] http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_24475260/california-students-s...

edit: typo
Doesnt use of natural gas have an adverse impact on climate change?
Even for real-time use cases, the range of bitrates where (spatial) SVC provides an advantage over simulcast is relatively small, and it's not a big advantage. Plus, it's a patent minefield. I've also seen people argue that it has a computational complexity advantage over coding multiple streams, but a properly written simulcast encoder can share a bunch of the work between encodes as well (libvpx has an implementation of this for VP8, for example, for use in WebRTC).
To do external monitoring, couldn't you have the computer for the plant display the information on a screen in a particular font and then an internet-connected computer read the video and OCR it?
Nothing can stop a persistent threat. This version is supposed to slow down threats without being annoying to 'real' humans. Prefer v2 over v1 all day.
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Structs are coming to JS proper in the form of Typed Objects. For a whole load of details, check the spec draft (https://github.com/dslomov-chromium/typed-objects-es7) or this very readable paper: http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/pubs/2014.04.01-Type...

Implementation of Typed Objects is progressing very nicely in Firefox; if you want to play around with them, just download a Nightly build.
No. Not exactly. You cannot both focus on the radio and driving at the same time with the equal amount of attention that a person who is just listen to audio while passively riding. It is not possible. Driving is not just visual clues, it is audio. Are my tires making the correct noise? Am I being honked at? Is that a siren I hear? Does the feedback from the road tell me about any dangerous conditions the road my present?

There were over 30,000 traffic deaths in 2012. Over 5,000,000 automobile accidents. Yes, listening to audio while driving can be enjoyable, but it is a secondary task to not dying or not killing someone else.
This kind of discrepancy seems more like a penalty for being poor _and_ breaking the law.
I like de tl;dr. That is pretty much what I think.
I edited the post to add "I would not recommend buying this if you can afford otherwise." Thanks.
Counter point: How much do I have to offer you to kill yourself?

The actual answer is I can't. Because your life has infinite value to you, because without which you may not acquire any other wealth. I.E.: Your life is worth all the wealthy you may obtain to yourself, or potentially all wealth in existence.

Therefore, what is the quantifiable value of something with inelastic demand? Economics tells us its infinite (or we have to divide by zero to calculate it). But you say otherwise.
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"React isn't a framework" but nevertheless includes it's own implementation of classes.
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How much can I pay you to give you a lobotomy and chop off your legs?

I find its easier to put a price on the abstract notion of the life of someone you don't know then your own.
There WERE chemical weapons in Iraq as recently reported by the New York Times [1]. I'm not saying this was justification for war, but informing you of incorrect facts.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleea...
Sounds nice :)

The old model felt rather clunky. I always had the impression that the coding was the easy part, getting the patch-creation right felt like a chore.
Instead of “commit”, I should have used the word “enhance”.
Except I've never seen a framework help with this at all. I've lost count of the number of code bases I've had to pull a part that used express, symfony, rails, angular, or whatever. Controllers stuffed with business logic, views modifying models... You can't protect coders from themselves.
In 10 years flash will be dead and we'll be using memristors.
Maybe I'm skewed - I'm from South Carolina - but I don't necessarily view unions as a monstrosity, surprisingly. I do hear the horror stories, but there must be some middle ground.
The FARC funded a big portion of their operations off of unregulated/poorly regulated taxi service. It's a lot easier to kidnap somebody when they willfully get in the car you intend to kidnap them in.
Humans have to read these expressions and understand them for auditing purposes. RPN might be suitable to CS and mathematics geeks, but not everyone in banking has that background.