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Ah, now I get how you meant that. Still, that is less choice than before in general. One could before let his music be tagged and was not obliged to do anything with Youtube. Now, to have the same as before, they are trying to bind artists with a 5 year contract and release obligations. That is pretty evidently less choice, and (probably) still having the option to not get paid but remove music from fans does not make up for that.
"Shanley Kane is a young tech industry observer and founder of Model View Culture, an acid-penned, widely read website on which she routinely exposes and excoriates the white brogrammer establishment. "

That's a very kind way of describing her. Here's another, far more accurate, way:

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2014/12/10/the-madness-of-qu...
"There is simply no way that you can say that you know Javascript and at the same time support Angular. None."

These kind of statements always make me think the author is trying to be dramatic because they don't know enough about the subject to try to get their strong feelings across in any other way.
So you have nothing to hide except for things that could put you at risk if publicly disclosed. I think that disclosing any information could put a person at risk in some way or another. So I'll hide everything until I decide it's necessary not to.
I think it's strange to point to that Netflix article as a better way to do vacation. Unlimited vacation policies open up way more opportunity for employee abuse.
My PDA back in ~2005 supported shorthand input. I'd be disappointed if there wasn't someone selling it as an input method for android.
Backdoors are "intrusive" in China, legal in the USA
Did you try the ribbon for a week or two? I loathed it too. But then I got used to its workflow. It exposes a lot more options more intuitively than the current LO menu system.
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That is not the same monetization as using ContentID to add ads to all other videos with the music. That ability would be lost when an artist is not accepting the new terms.
The notion that there is some intrinsic property of women that makes them uncompetitive in computer science, but not in accounting, actuary, law, medicine, &c is an extraordinary claim. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. No such evidence has been presented.

The notion that a male majority which happens to almost entirely comprise the upper echelons of the technology industry might, intentionally or (just as likely) not, set up self-reinforcing cycles of encouragement for men and discouragement for women is not an extraordinary claim. It is bog-standard human pack-animal clique behavior. And nevertheless, clear, ringing evidence of these phenomena are published routinely.
I really didn't find the jump from 2007 to 2010 jarring. Even 2010 to 2013 was trivial for me. The ribbon changes have been minor since its introduction.

Obviously 2003 to 2007 was a big deal due to the introduction of the ribbon, but we're taking something that happened eight years ago.
Absolutely. And it should explain herd immunity very clearly, a bit like this demo:

http://op12no2.me/toys/herd/

People need to stop believing that it's a personal choice for them alone. That is no more true than if they were to go around blowing cigarette smoke into the faces of other people. It's anti-social behaviour and even worse, the consequences are potentially deadly.
which, I think, was the entire point of this article. But it speaks a lot to the angular community, and the heavy hand Google has used to build and maintain it, that the top half of the comments on this page center around people intentionally not seeing this
Funny to see Amelie there as a counter-example - it's pretty much my favourite movie, and one of the things I love about it is the autumnal quality of the light. Normally I wouldn't notice that kind of thing at all, perhaps it's the contrast with all the orange-and-blues (or maybe just the exceptional loveliness of the film itself)
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For Netflix, the interface can only get in the way. People are there to watch movies and that's basically it. You can't "nail" the interface like you can with applications you interact with more.

It feels like there is a bias against web based apps in general because I usually have a bad experience with them or stop using an application when I get annoyed with the user experience. I'm sure it's possible to create a good user experience with a non-native toolkit. It just seems like the people that really give a damn go native in order to offer a better experience.
This seems similar to attempts to rewrite a complex code base to be simpler, more consistent, and easier to understand.

In practice, a lot of the quirky, wonky code is there to fix an actual bug that was encountered, and taking it out re-introduces the bug.

How do we know eliminating some of the complexities of current laws won't re-introduce some of the problems those complexities were trying to solve?
Are you seriously suggesting that diving fully into the deep end of the hype cycle is a viable, let alone preferable way to build anything but a throwaway MVP for your resume?
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This idiocy encroaches on property rights.

You should have a right to generate jamming radio waves, if their intensity attenuates to a negligibly low level beyond the perimiter of your private property so that no neighboring property suffers any ill effect.

Note that I'm not in support of hotels doing this to their guests. It is a customer relations issue that can be resolved by the free market.

Let's make an analogy in acoustics. If you go to a club on a Friday night, the music is so loud that your conversation with the person next to you is "jammed". Should that be banned?

Also, the proclamation seems to ban radiating equipment such as microwave ovens. Any time you heat a frozen dinner such that Wi-Fi is cut out, you're potentially violating. (Panasonic, are you getting this?)
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It is necessarily harsh. The industry goes in these cycles with monolithic frameworks. Each time they end up collapsing under their own weight and each time a new generation goes and builds another piece of bloatware that catches on and away we go again...
Oh, please. He had a valid point and you made a personal attack. A precise definition of what should be public and what is private would be a valuable contribution to the conversation, insults are not.
I love the idea that the most accurate way to describe someone relies on a link to Breitbart. You were being ironic here, right? Well played: a trenchant commentary on the absurdity of personal takedowns.
Hi! I helped create video to GIF and would be happy to answer any questions.
So, I want to use a pretty lightweight framework, but then I'm not writing javascript anymore? I have to compile it like coffeescript? But what if I'm already using coffeescript? What if I want to use typescript?

Now I have to introduce a build step when I'm developing, or do I just say compile it on the client? If I use the new nodejs tools for visual studio, how does it affect debugging? How does it affect completion and highlighting? Does it break node-inspector? Maybe my team uses a bunch of different IDEs and debugging methods, now I have to see which ones break?

For me, it's a non-starter b/c having a framework say, "oh we recommend you write in a different language" seems so completely backwards to me.

I also don't think their justification is very convincing. Basically they say, "markup and code belong together because we think they should and that's why you should use JSX." So basically, they want people to use something that's not javascript because of a design decision they like. Weird.
Personally, I'd choose one from many languages.

I'm not convinced C++ is a good choice for user-level applications. Maybe for the performant parts, or for compatibility.

Perhaps other factors like skillsets came into play...
I like the ribbon, but it takes up too much vertical space on a 16:9 display, especially in Word. LO Sidebar uses the space better, and I can see more of the document at once.
Well, the hardest pulling argument I have for privacy is the following:

1. The government claims it must violate everyone's privacy in order to look for a few individuals, planning terrorist act X.

2. Though I wasn't involved in X before, I now go out of my way to avoid appearing sympathetic to X or involved in Y, which, while different from X, is adjacent to X, and therefore suspect in the eyes of the government who are hunting X. By a broad and ridiculous interpretation of X, X and Y come to be equal in the eyes of the government.

3. Discussions of or relating to X and Y are squelched sans privacy for fear of backlash; Z is next on the chopping block because it is adjacent to Y. At the start of this chain of events, discussion of Z was probably not quite mainstream, but it was certainly not equated to X, which was never acceptable by anyone. Thus, the slide from X to Z is complete, and the fallout from whatever is after Z can begin.

Dissent is treated like treason in the USA.

Anyone with an opinion that differs from the government has their speech targeted by reductions in privacy, and their speech will likely be chilled the more the government pushes the dissent-as-terrorism angle that they've shown to be keen for. They've already pulled "journalism", "privacy", "aiding or abetting by making youtube videos", "protesting", "whistleblowing" and "terrorism" into the same perverted continuum.
Microsoft also started some FUD when registering a patent of their ribbon design. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_%28computing%29#Patent_...

Personally, FOSS or not, I simply don't like the ribbon style menu.
Hmm. I think I'll check out what my boss blogged about today..
Maybe it's because I'm a software developer myself but I never had a problem with GIMPs UI. I never had a problem with Blenders UI either (only when they changed some things and I couldn't find them anymore because they are now somewhere else). In fact back in 2001 when I once tried Photoshop I found GIMP quicker to grasp than Photoshop (maybe because it has less features and thus one can get an overview of all the functions quicker).
Yes, totally agree. I think we could be lenient on moves validity - let's accept that the program will work correctly only if the opponent plays legal moves, and it also doesn't need to castle. Maybe it is also not necessary that it will detect mate or stalemate, we can assume that some external arbiter will end the game. But what I think a chess program absolutely needs to implement to be called a chess program is:

- should be able to play with both white and black

- support all normal moves obviously

- must allow opponent to play any legal move (castling, en passant, promote pawn to any figure)

- must not keep its own king in check
Anything that's convenient for them, I guess?
I don't know how about in other circles, but recently Bandcamp and Soundcloud are much more popular among my friends (of whom a lot are musicians) as it offers better terms and control of how your music used. They skip Youtube altogether and if music "video" still ends up there, it's usually uploaded by a fan. Sadly, I don't know any really good video alternatives to Youtube yet.
About coding by voice, there was an article some time ago about a programmer who developed a bad case of RSI and came up with a system to code by voice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6203805
Thanks. I checked it out, it might work.
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This is anecdotal, but I once found this incredible use of $scope while viewing the source for a sports page: https://gist.github.com/tcrosen/96279e39f9b0fb85c266
Instant download once I realized wushupork made it. His apps are great!
Jesus. How did you even realize this, I didn't see that anywhere? Goddamnit.
Thanks for all the resources guys! I really appreciate it!
I'll start diving in!
Or a mixed-race house. Let's be the melting pot America was supposed to be.
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I've never freelanced before but would like to very shortly. There are three things I'm really curious about.

1. How do I set my rate? I assume I consider how good I am and what skills I know, how much I want, and the market rate but I have no clue what those things might amount to.

2. How to get started. I'm assuming I'll get started with Elance, freelancer.com, or a similar site but I really don't know the negatives and positives of each. How else do I go about starting to get work?

3. Everything else. I know there are a lot of things I don't know about this space that are completely unknown to me. I'm more curious about the first two items but I'm fully aware that I'm naive in this sense so open to any thoughts you have to offer here.
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> Lastly, Angular has something that many other frameworks don't: a commercial backer. This means that it's not likely to just bitrot on GitHub for years when the original author loses interest.

Google's track record is hardly impeccable in this regard.
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It's (partially) up to the government to protect other people's children from your recklessness. Saying that not vaccinating is a choice is like saying that driving drunk is a choice. It's literally true, but the government has a valid interest in curbing both behaviors.
What about moves validity, and detection of mate/stalemate? Would it be ok that the program assumes, that the opponent is playing legal moves only? Also, should it be required to detect mate and stalemate, and stop playing at that point?

Also, there is a 50-moves rule and 3rd position repetition rule, but I believe this doesn't need to be implemented, since you are not required to invoke the rule.
By any chance have you come across Trailers (Apple's own movie app) which does exactly what you describe with notifications for your favorite movies.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/itunes-movie-trailers/id4719...
I wonder how this will face up to gfycat? gfycat has the ability to turn a video into a gif as well as an HTML5 video - it is already pretty popular and the benefits of HTML5 videos over gifs seem obvious. How much longer can we expect the gif format to be around for?
Personally, I'd go for Java, if my team were OK with it.

Maybe others would go for something more modern.

I guess you're right with the skill set, but I'd like to hear it from their devs.
Microsoft made an unfortunate decision in taking a really promising technology and giving it a deliberately misleading name that's bound to enrage the early adopter market. HoloLens isn't in any sense holography -- it's an augmented reality device that integrates light-angle depth cues.

Augmented reality is important. Glass failed miserably at it, because despite all the sensors, Glass locked down the ability to use them -- and on top of that, Glass locked down most of the FOV, preventing meaningful spacial integration between real and virtual objects. The Oculus Rift will, largely, not be used for augmented reality -- you'd need to add a camera, and there are definite safety concerns if the camera is damaged or disconnected.

Depth cues are also important. VR sickness is not merely related to lag, but also to lack of coordination between depth cues -- something that is hormone-bound (which is why women have a comparatively harder time with head mounted displays -- estrogen levels are linked with the degree to which stereoscopy dominates over color and light angle depth cues). What microsoft has introduced is the first head mounted display that won't make women puke -- which could conceivably double its market over the Rift (since a little over half of all serious video game players are female).

However, when you introduce an exciting piece of consumer electronics -- especially something so novel that a brand new API has to be made for it -- you need to be targeting the technical people who will be using the development kits. Those people are exactly the same people who are likely to refuse to develop on HoloLens because some marketroid who didn't know what a hologram was decided it sounded cool.

Glass also alienated developers, but arguably in a more extreme way -- by limiting them to static web pages, basically. But, Google has good mindshare among techies compared to Microsoft. It may end up being a wash. After all, Glass essentially failed because it was borderline-useless, and it was borderline-useless because the designers pulled a Steve Jobs and heavily handicapped third party developers; Microsoft, on the other hand, may end up pulling an Atari Jaguar on itself -- having too few developers and too few properties because nobody ended up putting down the effort to learn how to integrate with the thing.

The most likely result, however, will be that Microsoft will do what it did with the Surface -- before HoloLens comes to market it will have transformed from a proper AR device to something more like Glass, the same way Surface started out as a computing coffee table with all sorts of interesting features and ended up becoming an uninteresting tablet by the time it was released. Then, some other company will take their idea of using micro-mirror arrays to handle angular depth cues in an AR display, and produce something indistinguishable from the original demo much cheaper.
Not everyone likes ribbons, and "touch-first Office" is going to be the thing LO needs to aim for, though probably not by imitation. LO could be a big part of making Linux tablets useful.
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As a web developper, I would LOVE if you could compile a list of things I should do to make your life easier. I have read the best practices. However, I would love to have a list that comes from you. What are some websites that are doing it well?
Yes, absolutely. There are cases where hundreds of millions have gone missing in carousel frauds. I'd assume those take precedence over small VAT cases.

Not sure on the second part, but I do know some tax authorities are already using various data mining techniques to flag certain behaviours.
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So why can't they apply Watson to the challenge of improving Watson?
I downvoted. If you want to use the ribbon-style MS UI, then use MS products. I am glad to have a place to go that allows me to read and edit ubiquitous Office documents without having to be part of the Office eco-system. I agree that LibreOffice probably reminds more of old than of modern Office—I use both as little as possible, so don't keep up with the trends—but so what? To put it differently, why should Microsoft automatically be celebrated for monkeying with an input regime that worked? What is wrong with 'classic' software?
I've been on both sides of dizzyd's interview process and highly respect it, he should be a mentor to other software engineering managers on how to improve their hiring practices.
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You can double click the heading on top of the ribbon to collapse the whole thing.
I believe there was controversy in the FOSS community over Microsoft's patent application for the concept: https://www.google.com/patents/US8255828

I'd speculate that this patent application provided at least a small amount of hesitation towards the FOSS community implementing a similar interface.
For Photoshop, Krita is decent: https://krita.org/
Hence, why I asked, smarty.
Thanks for the vote of confidence Peter. I appreciate it!
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So I realized you're describing GATTICA but based on private information instead of DNA.
I've built GIS databases w/ parcel data, owner data, tax data and zoning layers of high growth Virgnia and North Carolina jurisdiction. It's a very time consuming and ad hoc process. Some jurisdictions charge a lot of money for this data. If anyone has any interest in exploring a parcel based CRM startup concept, contact me. There is a lot of demand for this service. I have a few paying consulting customers and thinking about building it into a SaaS tool to power real estate development.
If you see convolution as basically truncated recurrence this approach ties in very strongly to recent approaches to machine translation using recurrent nets. I guess depth should allow you to find longterm dependencies, but the fact that CNN were designed for images which have strong local structure and much weaker long term structure makes me think RNNs are better for language, where we see a lot of important long term dependencies. As an example: "The man with the long brown hair entered the saloon" - I would tie saloon and man as the key pieces of that sentence, but that dependency is pretty long and somewhat different than natural images where you don't really expect the corners of images to have any strong relationship in general.
agreed. but we live in a society ... not isolated from each other. if not vaccinating your child poses risk to everyone else around him, you NEED to take responsibility for it.

Its like ... you have the right to raise the child as you see fit and if you feel its within your rights to teach the child to defecate and urinate wherever he/she feels like it, dont be mad when someone else objects to it.

This is the biggest problem with vaccinations. By the time you realize what you have done, its already late. Compare that with the horror people see immediately when someone insists on teaching their child something like bad hygiene and say its their right.
Whenever I think of this topic I think of a simple comedy skit done as a commercial.

EX: We at the all seeing eye believe in transparency.
From our naked policy (Queue lots of fat and somewhat blurry people), our computers (no cases) or our bathrooms (no stalls), we have no problems with you watching us watch you. (All Seeing Eye logo.)

PS: I can easily see a long list of really creapy skits in this vein.

EX2: At work (Moving all seeing eye coffie mugs) at play (kids tossing an all seeing eye ball) in sickness (All seeing stethoscope) and in health (pool lined with all seeing eyes) we are watching you (queue logo).
I miss SodiPodi, with it being multiple-document single-toolbar'ed. Iirc this was the sole contention of the fork- Inkscape was born explicitly to have each document have it's own suite of controls.
Universities, employers, and insurance companies already do that.
Inkscape is a vastly underrated app. It makes simple things possible and for complex things, it has a great Python-based plugin system. The API is quite easy to understand. You would be building scripts in no time to automate your art pipeline.

Best of all, it has great single-key keyboard shortcuts for higher productivity :)