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Despite the highly talented and proven founder, this company has already jumped the shark. Having that much funding and expectations before launch (for this type of venture) is kind of ridiculous. There's going to be unnatural pressures to this business, and I predict it will be a colossal disaster.
From the email it seems the student just wants to see his exam, hardly an unreasonable request. He doesn't ask for a "review," of the exam, and this seems like it should take all of two seconds. He walks in, takes the exam, and leaves. If the exam can't leave your room, he walks in during office hours, looks at the exam, and returns it. I've caught multiple grading errors simply by actually collecting past exams, and would be understandably pissed off if I was given no opportunity to collect an exam I'd taken.

While the contract teaching situation seems pretty bad, this guy seems unreasonable here.
NICs or FPGA boards with NICs? If the latter, I'm all ears
Interesting article but it fails to answer the basic question, "why do anything at all?"

The obvious answer is that one must do something to stay alive, such as gather food. It's how animals, or more accurately, heterotrophs, live. They find things to eat and try to eat them.

Humans lived like this for a long, long, time.

But then people specialized in things, some learned to grow plants and domesticate animals, others built structures, some specialized in warfare, and so on.

Specialization, which allowed people to become more proficient at a smaller set of activities, came with a price - peole now had to work together because they were no longer self-sufficient. This meant either banding together consciously, for example a tribe, where duties could be allocated somewhat equally, or trading one's specialties for those of another's. Barter was a worthy first stab at trade, but eventually people found using a proxy - a medium of exchange - much easier. A purse full of coins was much handier than dragging around one's flock of sheep.

Then came things such as contracts, courts, and all the other baggage of a money-oriented society.

This is not to say I agree with the conflation of one's job with one's identity - and maybe in a society that doesn't need everyone to hold a job such questions may become passé or perhaps even become categorized as "too personal", as we consider questions about one's politics or religion.

But back to my original question - the writer didn't seem to consider the trivial case of those who choose to do nothing beneficial for others or themselves. Again, maybe in a world where work is optional that might be moot - but I know several people who would do nothing but eat, drink, sleep, play video games, and breed like rabbits. It's hard to imagine any society being able to produce enough food to keep a rapidly multiplying cohort of parasites fed. And then what?
Without a doubt, Marx and Engels have been hugely influential in the deaths and enslavement of countless millions over the past century. They have indeed been among the most popular philosophers for several of the most murderous tyrants in human history. A member of my immediate family learned about the evils of "wage slavery" in "classes" taught by Marxists at the Chinese work camp where he was a slave without wages.

I don't know that the term "legitimate" has any real meaning, but when it comes to making a useful contribution, I suspect that Marxist theory will make about the same contribution to employment that it has made to agriculture, industrial production, journalism, civil liberties....
That's a problem I notice when lawmakers don't have a the domain knowledge and this leads to all kinds of loopholes, the good thing is that it's a start.
By that logic everything that's possible is also inevitable. The feasibility of something is only one factor and, more often than not, new developments are extensions of older developments.
What are VCs shooting for here? Even a 10x exit at 6B valuation seems outrageous for a service that doesn't seem that easy to scale.
3.5 years of open development for a procedurally-generated adventure game
It sounds like you want Cloud Foundry (or OpenShift, which I have no experience with). (http://www.cloudfoundry.org/about/index.html)
The article would have benefited from explaining in what situations you might prefer this to a UUID
You can indeed choose to not work. But you might, like, starve.
Also relevant, and containing video and audio chat support, is uTox[0] and qTox[1]. Looks like they are currently working on getting group video chat working.

[0] http://utox.org/
[1] http://utoxisfinished.info/
If eating isn't slavery, couldn't you choose to not do it? Needing to do a thing for practical reasons does not automatically make you a "slave".
Well, it will be at least interesting to see what happens. They are also potentially the most anti-Lean Startup we have seen in a while, and now that seemingly everyone has accepted Lean Startup as orthodoxy, that might be a unique angle.
One of the main arguments used to distinguish the current tech landscape from the dot-com bubble is that today's companies have real products and real revenues to back up their valuations, whereas many dot-com companies soared to huge valuations without a real product.

But Jet.com is a company worth $600M with no product... so where does that leave us in relation to 1999?
The Moonman devlog has been a great read so far. Good insight into how much work it takes to make a polished game. Looking forward to playing it.
True slaves can't quit. While most people do need SOME form of employment to provide income, changing jobs or working for yourself are both options that are available.
The home page[0] seems to suggest that there are also audio and video capable clients... are they still in development, or is there something functional already?

[0] - https://tox.im/
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It's for marketing:

> The capital will help fuel Mr. Lore’s grand plans, which include an estimated half-billion-dollar marketing budget and projections for $5 billion in annual transactions by 2020.

(From the full WSJ article : http://www.wsj.com/articles/jet-com-raises-140-million-led-b...)
> hardly an unreasonable request. He doesn't ask for a "review," of the exam, and this seems like it should take all of two seconds

It doesn't change the context that the instructor isn't being paid to do it - he says he's already spent more time on the course than contracted. From his point of view, it's not an unreasonable request that he should not spent more of his (insufficiently remunerated) time on even small issues.

> and would be understandably pissed off if I was given no opportunity to collect an exam I'd taken.

But does that make it reasonable to blame a guy who's not paid to help you for not helping you?

I do understand the nature of your point, but I don't think any of the original argument is actually affected by the size of the task he's refusing to do.
Nobody forced them to participate. There are many employers out there. Developers could find other jobs had they wished so. An employer cannot be considered an authority because he and the employee enter a job contract voluntarily and both have choices.
Open-source DPI library, http://www.ntop.org/products/ndpi/
All other considerations aside, contract faculty often don't have office hours...or an office.
I wouldn't single out just Austrlia (I'm Canadian but live in Australia). I suspect that many of the 'friendly' governments are working together and allowing access to each others network info.

It's much safer to provide your friendlies with your citizens data than have them actually infiltrate your systems.

IANAL but I think this also gets around the issue of "as a government I am not allowed to spy on my own citizens, but there's nothing that says I can't give my data to a 3rd party to do it".
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"I was unable to comply with this request"

He was unwilling to comply, not unable.

Supply and demand is a thing.
I say it like it's far from an extreme or outlying view in the wider sweep of history. The idea that just about everybody should be an employee is a very recent one
core C lib: https://github.com/irungentoo/toxcore

Qt client: https://github.com/tux3/qTox

ncurses client: https://github.com/Tox/toxic

metro/windows client: https://github.com/Reverp/Toxy

plain C client (uses xlib/win32 to draw the UI): https://github.com/notsecure/uTox

racket client: https://github.com/lehitoskin/blight

there's also java bindings: https://github.com/sonOfRa/tox4j

etc...
The China mentioned in the article is not China, actually it is the China belong to Communist Party of China. It will be the enemy and virus of the world until Communist Party of China step down.
If he holds office hours regularly (as the email seems to imply), then there is nothing extra he has to do but let the student find his exam in the pile.
I share the feeling, but at the same time Apple seems to be what Sony was back in the day. They have central very successful products, and are spreading their influence in numerous new markets while betting a lot on artificial restrictions keeping users in their ecosystem.

Sony wasn't the biggest company in the world I think, and the game was a lot more primitive back then, but I remember owning a walkman with a Cybershot, a Sony music compo and at the end a matching laptop because all of there where integrated. If I had the money at the time I'd bought a Handicam and a matching TV in a heartbeat.

Sony seemed unstoppable, until the pieces just crumbled; there would be way better laptops, the camera market evolved and there were far from keeping in touch with the best players in the field, then the music industry moved on, and keeping the integration going on becomes more and more compromising.

With today's Apple, while they are spreading, the same cracks seem to appear to me.

They still have very competitive products on each market, but these are more and more compromised as deep design decisions are made and the competition is getting better.

As an anecdote, a year ago I broke my iPhone and decided to go android for a few month waiting for the iPhone 6, and surprisingly to me it didn't really matter much in my day to day use, except for the artificial limitations (no iCloud, no iMessage) on the integration. But these limitations instead of being a deal breaker, really forced me to go into Google/third party centric services on my laptop/ipad/other family members devices. In a Apple heavy household there is now one device that forces the others to change service providers for central things like email, messaging, calendar, online storage, and the thing is it's not really difficult nor handicapping, the pros and cons balance very well.

Interestingly enough, with Apple Pay, Apple is starting to step on the feet of the new Sony who've been investing in payment processing and ecosystem for so many years now.

TLDR; I think Apple has started playing a game that put them in a position where they have to be better than everyone else at basically everything. Right now I don't think they are at the top of their game, especially in giving options to their customers or software quality/reliability. So, while they have a ton of money and are super successful, I think there is even bigger pitfalls waiting for them ahead. Hope they don't fall.
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At this point, considering how absolutely consistent the USA has been with extending copyright expirations when major IP is coming up to the deadline, I've come to assume that copyright is now perpetual.

The US doesn't even make a show of it anymore. Mickey Mouse must be protected at all costs in perpetuity, all the benefits of expiring copyrights to the population at large be damned.
That reminds me, how is color.com going anyway?
To the extent that startups are swinging for the fences, everyone should be well aligned (0.5% isn't much unless the total is pretty huge), since you're trying to optimise for the extreme outcome, rather than "average", having such a clause could let you benefit in other dimensions that help you towards your goal.

I'm speaking in generalities since I'm not sure about specifics, but as an example an investor might be willing to accept a smaller (i.e. less controlling) stake with liquidation preferences for the same price, which leaves you more equity to sell to others.
> There is perhaps no idea this blog has litigated against more fiercely than the idea of low-end disruption and the inevitable doom of the iPhone.

They have been disrupted in markets where phones compete on price. Their most successful market, by a wide margin, is the one where phones are capped at $200. The comparison to BMW that is often made is laughable. If only BMW sold to dealerships who then turned around and sold the car for the same price as a Toyota. It's a droll-worthy position to be in, that's for sure.

It would be interesting to see how the U.S. market changed if there were no subsidies. My guess is that payment plans would be more common so it wouldn't be such a tremendous blow. But I always wonder if "good enough" Nexus style devices would become more popular and the Galaxy Ses and iPhones a little bit less.
Toxic has 1 on 1 audio chats, and GUI clients such as uTox and qTox additionally have group audio, as well as 1 on 1 video. Both clients are usable, though I would personally recommend qTox.
I promise to shut up after this. The writer also has a false idea about value and worth. I say the answer is very simple - the value of a thing lies in how much someone is willing to pay for it. That seems circular, but recursive might describe it more accurately. We use a construct known as a market to describe the process.

1) someone (whom we'll call the producer) brings a thing to the market, offering it for a price. Usually the price equals what it cost to produce the things plus a little extra, which we'll call "profit" because it sounds cool.
2) if someone else (we'll call them the consumer) pays the price, then maybe the price of the next item will rise, or maybe it won't.
3) if no one pays the price before the producer runs out of patience, then the producer might lower the price or maybe they'll leave.
4) steps 1-3 continue until everyone is satisfied or runs of of patience.
I don't like how C was completely ignored when talking about languages with comparable performance. :p

The Zend Engine 3 (aka the stock PHP 7 interpreter) is, according to one HHVM developer, 'embarassingly competitive on the test suites', and it's written in C.

/rant

C++ is probably much nicer to maintain, though. C ends up being macro hell.
This looks like a longer, simpler form of twitter's 64-bit snowflake.
You have no future ... there are too many people that want to teach at universities and when the labor pool us too large for the market, prices, terms and working conditions will be depressed. We're still cranking out PhDs that have no hope of a university position, so I expect your chance of earning a living will drop.

I can't comment on employment elsewhere on the continent, but in Pennsylvania (US) there is a severe shortage of AP Physics, AP Chemistry and Calculus teachers. You could easily land a full-time job at a high-school here.
I would argue that such a definition dilutes terms like 'slavery' or 'coercion' to the point that they become nearly meaningless.

Is this discussion we're having right now really worth considering a form of slavery? Am I attempting to control you, or are you attempting to control me? In this context, can it even be argued that language itself is an act of violence, or that there is even anything wrong with slavery, if it defines human interaction at so many fundamental levels?

After all anarchy itself is a societal construct, with commonly accepted norms, accepted practices, attitudes, cults of personality. What would happen in a perfect anarchist society when someone inevitably questioned anarchy?
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My promise extends only to the original post.
I feel for the author. I really do; we need great teachers giving their best to the students, and it won't happen unless they're not living in poverty. On a more personal level, it sucks to feel like you have to heavily compromise for your dream job.

I was on a similar path about 4 years ago- 2 years into a PhD, preparing myself for a career in academia devoted to the two intellectual loves of my life: computer science research and teaching. And then I saw my older lab mates on the verge of graduation, struggling to get a decent offer that wasn't halfway around the world. I saw post docs in my lab, who had been working hard for years for very little pay and no prospect of "tenure track" anytime soon.

What did I do? I left for startup landia, where a company was willing to pay me 3x more than I could have made as a post doc 5 years later (and many times more what I made as a grad student). Now I work in R&D at a large company, paid way more than even a tenured professor (and I'm not even considered senior yet). The research is different, but just as gratifying at the end of the day. And I get to teach by volunteering for a non profit over the weekends.

Does it suck that I had to leave academia for a comfortable life? Absolutely. I wish I could have been a professor. But you have to vote with your feet, because as long as you accept the conditions imposed by the university, well nothing's going to change- why would they? Writing blog posts and sending ranty emails to students (who probably don't give a shit) isn't going to change much at all.

If you want to have an impact, quit your job and go somewhere else. Right now universities can afford to pay professors (ie the only ones doing real work) like shit and give great bonuses to administrators because professors are okay with this. Yes, that's right: you might be writing a blog post saying how upset you are, but at the end of the day, if you're employed by them then you agree with them. Things will change if enough professors quit and universities have to offer better pays to get quality teachers; but as long as that doesn't happen, things won't change.
DISCLAIMER: I am one of the many Tox ex-contributors, who used to work on it in the past. I don't want to be identified due to harassment other ex-contributors suffered in the past. The following message is my point of view on the project as a whole.

Proplex, a long-time member of the Tox-Foundation and in charge of both infrastructure and marketing, called out tox devs because the 2 people in charge (irungentoo and stqism) were dealing with money in a shady way and he got suspicious. This lead him to leaving the Tox Foundation
Proof: https://gist.github.com/irungentoo/5af26f5edefcdb7eac72

After he went away and stopped to pay for the website and other servers (he hosted everything), Tox devs got angry and tracked his online activity by his browser UA, read his private email sent to his @tox.im address and considered breaking into his VPS account
Proof: https://gist.github.com/urras/ba792274f5aaf662a082/5d91d2a78... and https://archive.today/KkSWp

Members of the Tox Foundation such as stqism try constantly to sneak in copyright changes in unrelated fixes:
Proof: https://github.com/irungentoo/toxcore/pull/1219 and https://github.com/irungentoo/toxcore/pull/1224

irungentoo enforced censorship on his github repo to try to cover everything up
Proof: https://github.com/irungentoo/toxcore/issues/1227

After it got out of hand and too many people called out the Tox Foundation, this happened:
Proof: http://a.pomf.se/kqwgsg.png

irungentoo claims Tox is secure just because he uses a secure primitive, which is really arrogant and something only a pretentious deceiver would say. This is a crypto 101 mistake.
Proof: https://github.com/irungentoo/toxcore/issues/121#issuecommen...

After the points exposed above, the conclusion is obvious, at least for me.

The Tox Foundation claims Tox is completely secure and nobody can break in, not even the NSA. Still, there's been no security audit and it is highly likely Tox isn't completely secure, given it's alpha software. But their website gives the idea people face no risk by using Tox right now. They are deceiving people to believe it is secure so they gain more users at the expense of putting users privacy at risk.
Proof: https://tox.im itself. See all security claims even though it hasn't been audited. Saying it's "alpha" doesn't mean to anything to non-tech-savvy, they will think it's missing a feature or two, not that their privacy and security is possibly compromised.

I believe it's my moral obligation, and of everyone's else reading this, not to use Tox.
You are contributing to a shady foundation composed of menchildren that don't care about other's privacy, deals with money in a shady way and dox people who go against them. Do not trust the Tox Foundation - this is my personal message.
The only reason to use this over a UUID is if you want the primary key to be implicitly chronologically ordered.

The ordering guarantee is weak though, it's provided by clients all potentially with their own concept of time.
Well, if it's not "random finger wagging" then that makes up for the fact that he spends several paragraphs berating the reader for not being as smart as he is and seeing what he sees and spends exactly 1 sentence explaining what it is that he sees.
Have you found an OpenWRT firmware equivalent for these devices? A lack of an open-source firmware for such a switch has been one of my hangups. I'm leery of the firmware that would come with such a device, especially given the history of the firmware of home routers being implemented poorly (bufferbloat, obsolete versions of software with known vulnerabilities, a lack of upgrades available from the vendor because they've EOL-ed support on the device to make room for the new shiny version -- which is also shipping with vulnerabilities).

I think what would be ideal is something in the vein of the Linksys SFE2000, with an open-source firmware akin to OpenWRT. AFAIK, that, or something approaching that isn't available. However, I would love to be wrong in that regard.
I guess this is bad, somehow, but eh...if you've got an Android phone you're already updating Play Services pretty frequently anyway, so, I'm not sure what the ramifications here are one way or the other?
> Take advantage of Jet’s audience of millions of loyal shoppers and build a direct relationship with the customers you acquire.

I don't understand how companies can make claims like this [1]. Unless I'm missing something this has to be false considering they haven't launched yet and their homepage says 350K people have signed up for early access.

I run an online business and a couple of our competitors make false claims very regularly about being #1 (quarterly ranking from the MFG has us at #1 every time). I just can't imagine making a false claim like that - and knowing it is false.

[1] https://partner.jet.com/
Swift wins the popularity contest: most watches per repository, third most forks per repository (R has most forks per repository). Anyone up for an iOS/Mac App with a statistics backend?
I'm sure someone's built something at least semi-large with React by now. Would love to hear about the performance at scale.
So, if I understand well, people with mental disorders cannot access to medication if they cannot pay for it?

People with mental disorders use to have trouble to find a proper job if they cannot threat their issue with medication. So maybe they just end up in jail or living as homeless?
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I took his meaning to be that appealing to peer reviewed journals as an "authority" is what is wrong. The value of the peer review system is the rigorous process and the continuing
search for the truth.
> In logic, science, or debate, the identity of the person making or disputing a claim is irrelevant.

Are you describing logic/science/debate as you believe it to
be or as you believe it should be? If the latter, are you suggesting ending peer review?