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> You can stop kids from entering public schools without them, sure

Public schools, universities is a good first step.

Well the 0th step if you wish is to not accept their argument during discourse on equal footing. As in "it is a free country and your crazy opinion is just as valid as well established science, now let's discuss".

So treating them like crazies is important, they are to be made fun of and marginalized. Which is kind of like what this blog did.
Not very often I can look at a library and easily follow the code. I may spend a couple afternoons reading it just to understand how this works. Very nice.
This is a great tool! I'm interested to see how it takes off. I will definitely give it a trial run sometime within the next week.
If you like the Crunchbang aesthetic but don't mind trying something non-Debian there's Archbang. Also GhostBSD, which is FreeBSD with an option to install OpenBox.
This is a pet peeve of mine that I developed while doing video production in the live event industry. Unfortunately almost nobody cares about protecting their hearing.

Pretty much everyone in food service in the US exposes themselves to dangerous audio levels throughout their work shifts. My coworkers with SPL meters routinely measured sound pressure levels above 105 dB for hours at a time. But try wearing earplugs as a waiter or bartender... you will be treated like a lunatic.
It's not a particularly elegant language.

Even with the RFC process, php-internals still resists adding language features useful only to advanced developers.

The standard library is full of warts, including odd spelling, inconsistent argument order, etc.

The killer though, as mentioned in the article, it has a low barrier to entry, so lots of neophytes write lots of bad code in it. There's also a tremendous amount of horrid, obsolete code out there, written by people that didn't know any better at the time, and kept up because the internet never forgets.

PHP is far less of a joke than it used to be, but people will continue to hate on it and look down on people that make a living writing it.
You're deflecting, which is usually when I walk away from these things. However I think it's important to make this point.

I agree with you on the things you are trying to distract with. You want to smoke? Great, that only impacts you. I want you to be able to make that choice for weed and heroin too. I'm with you on the wars, but that's so far from what we're talking about here it's not worth getting into.

I was a registered capital-L libertarian for many years. I campaigned for Ron Paul before the words "Tea Party" were anything other than a chapter in a history book. I get it.

But the libertarian (small-L) philosophy is let someone have the freedom to do anything they want, as long as it doesn't impact other people's freedoms.

This is one of those things. Anti-vax people are impacting my life, are impacting my kids life, impinging on my safety and well being and my kids well being.

If society isn't going to enforce a law about that, then what's the point?
I get your point, but this is a bad analogy because it's quite easy not to drive. A better analogy would be the recent change to force everyone to buy health insurance.
I might not support that law. BUT, if you're opting out of society, you can't complain that you're not being treated the same as everyone else. If you voluntarily opt out of the normal schedule of vaccines, you can't go to public school or to my kids' pediatrician's office.

I wonder if this would even be an issue if we would flip the equation a bit: you don't have to get your kids vaccinated, but then they have to go to a school filled with other unvaccinated kids. This wouldn't solve the overall problem, but it would do some 'fear aikido', redirecting them to see that they are trading a nebulous risk for a very real one.
Apart from things like:
* WiFi on my x230 in Wheezy doesn't work ootb, it does in Crunchbang.
* Install debian and openbox and you get a barely configured desktop without a panel, with no power management, no network applet, no decent fonts etc.

It takes a bunch of work to get Debian up to the level of Crunchbang, enough to put off novice users.
No they don't. They're addicted and don't want to admit. Everything else is window dressing to that.
Heh, I think a far more egregious error is having the word "instance" appended redundantly in a method name.

obj.SetUp() or obj.Setup() I'm indifferent to, but (mostly) there's no additional info gained by appending "instance" to it.

I say mostly because sometimes code could pass bound instance methods around for others to invoke alongside other functions.
Yes (+1), and to be clear: I would vaccinate my children against measles and everything else. My parents would have done it too. Maybe I should have written "I could think that measles is easily survivable..."
There is a small chance of death or severe illness from taking vaccines. So, no...I don't support you making that decision for me.

That's the difference between taking a vaccine and paying your taxes or buying car insurance.
Honestly I kind of agree with the sentiment - and I am a web developer.

Most web developers are doing CRUD apps.
It's a craft requiring technical skills, and I still enjoy it, but I can still see it for what it is.
relevant xkcd.com/224/
That divide exists in all programming languages - good devlopers can move from the clueless side to the profesionsal
>There are only upside, no downside, and anyone who has hesitation is just a misinformed creationist.

I don't disagree that there are no downsides, only that they should not be the bulk of the discussion. When you discuss the risks alongside the benefits, you elevate the risks to the same level as the benefits. If a vaccine has a 0.1% chance of side effects, but we spend 50% of the time talking about it, doesn't it make the risk seem a lot worse?

The article you linked mentioned 60 people in Canada experienced side effects with the HPV vaccine. Whoop-di-fuckin-do. 60 people out of 35,000,000. But yet here we are, with an entire feature article on this vaccine and its side effects, completely neglecting the serious benefits it has provided to Canadian society.

Vaccines are something that need to be black and white. For common people who aren't doctors, there should be no middle ground. Leave the skepticism to the researchers and doctors developing the vaccines.
I am running a monolithic installation in a container (1 core, 4gb ram) that is being hosted by an intel NUC. I'm taking in about 100k records a day from 10-12 syslog sources and have no trouble with slow downs at all. (I do almost 0 processing of the incoming data, however.) I think I could lower the containers ram allocation to 2gb... maybe.

I haven't tried aggregating a years worth of data into a single search, but for reasonable log troubleshooting everything is going well.
"Signing in with Facebook allows you to save your designs and download your collages!" Nice, but I just want to try it out and don't save anything...?

Let people start using it immediately and prompt them for login if they want to add photos from there or save it.
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They have become quite common now at the top tech companies.

Keep in mind, $250K doesn't go very far when real estate like this is considered a "bargain":
https://www.redfin.com/CA/Cupertino/1157-S-Stelling-Rd-95014...
Both the Associated Press Stylebook and the Chicago Manual of Style recommend spelling out numbers less than nine and ninety-nine, respectively.
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The problem is that they do not choose for themselves, they choose for their children and they endanger the life of their children on the first place. If a child had pneumonia, would you agree that is their parents right to choose to treat it with garlic oil rather than antibiotics?
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Those who have created the native environments (Google, MS, Apple) are also creating the browsers, with another big player thrown in (Mozilla). Facebook makes web applications, has no native environment, and is trying to swim the other way.
While these are fun to read from our smug pro-vax point of view, they provide no effect on everyone else.

I actually suspect the effect may be negative.

The piece seems persuasive if you already agree with its premise: that vaccines are essential for safety, and that their costs and risks are overwhelmed by their benefits. But someone who disagrees with that would find the analogy false, and hence the piece merely obnoxious and misleading.

In fact, consider the effect such an article from the other side would have on you. Set in the 1950's, the author writes, "Well, sure I smoke tobacco. They keep coming out with studies that say it's beneficial, and the government sure seems to want me to, and sure I trust those guys..."

I'm not sure what your reaction would be to that sort of thing, but mine (which I suspect is common) is, "Ah ha! The fact that they are forced to resort to bad analogies proves they don't have any good arguments!"

By way of contrast, study my rhetorical hero, Milton Friedman. Seriously -- agree or disagree with his stance on things -- go watch a clip from a debate with him on Youtube. He radiates a profound respect and agreeableness, constantly smiles, assumes the best of his opponents' characters (even when arguing they are making the world a much worse place for many people!), seems almost apologetic that he is forced to disagree with them, and focuses relentlessly upon the meat of the argument as the source of that unfortunate disagreement. He makes it very easy to change your mind. Very easy to agree with him. By assuming you are a good and smart person and focusing only on evidence, it is safe to say, "Oh, yes, I hadn't thought about that", and remove emotion from the equation.

That is the most effective strategy I am aware of for changing people's minds -- and he's good at it.
Well, let me know when making fun of them starts working.

I think the best we can hope for is that this is a fad, like macrobiotic diets or biodynamic grape farming.
That "happy enough" feeling would eventually wear off. Like anywhere else, it is just a job.
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as opposed to the average GP (familiy doctor) or lawyer :-)
How many different kinds of environments have you been in.
I think that your opinion is definitely valid and just goes to show that different things work for different people. I actually really enjoy stand up because it's the only way I get to know what other people are working on. It also makes it so that it's easy to prioritize depending on dependencies.

However I would argue that the problem isn't stand up itself, but a culture of not being able to say you didn't finish something. After I realized in my last company that it was okay to say I couldn't finish something in time, the environment quickly felt much nicer to be in.
These sorts of inefficiencies can only be remedied by transparency about data. This is a direct threat to cronyism which is hard coded into governments across the world.
I have had this exact same problem, I mean exactly the same. I found out a few things:

1. It takes time, be patient

2. Get under people and push them up. Instead of standing over them and pulling them up. What's the difference ? In the first you are saying "I'm not too good too grab someones foot and boost them up", in the second you are saying " I have arrived now I'm going to drag up to my level of greatness".

3. Sometimes people are distracted and slow because they are a square peg being jammed into a round hole. Not every programmer thrives in the same environment, you have to tailor your management and help style for each individual.
"they provide no effect on everyone else"

I'm not so sure. In between convincing the anti-vaccine folks that they're wrong (not gonna happen) and mere trolling is a third option: moving the Overton Window.

http://www.mackinac.org/OvertonWindow

Many people believe that we shouldn't try to be "fair and balanced" when it comes to vaccination. The science is just too solid, and the stakes are just too high. If one is pushing for a mandate, then one tool is to marginalize and trivialize the anti-vaccinationists' POV to such a point that nobody even listens to them. Then there's no resistance. To that end, derision does serve a purpose.

Note that I'm not actually condoning these tactics, even though I believe that in this case the goal is a worthy one. I'm just explaining part of what I believe lies beneath these otherwise-just-obnoxious kinds of comments and posts.
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And calling a lot of prefesional developers "blue collar" will get you a nasty look at best if not a whack upside the head.
Google Native Client is a big push for native -> web, though I haven't heard much about it lately...
The "declarative component model" is not an innovation, it's an obvious approach that has been used for ages when prototyping. You can achieve the same conceptual model of your interface by just generating the entire HTML of the page and rerendering it whenever something changes. This obviously doesn't perform and has some edge cases where it breaks things (textboxes, for example), but the idea is the same as react's components.

FRP is based around the idea of declarative components, but a lot of developers have an aversion to it because of the academic aura around it.

React's innovation is using virtual DOM to make declarative components usable without delving into FRP.
On the front end it's pretty cool since you are targeting internal tools you can assume modern browsers and use the latest frameworks and tech with zero legacy support to worry about. We look for people who have full stack experience and can be flexible and help out on any area of a large web application (including a some ops and continuous integration). Communication skills are super important - usually these projects are on small teams that need to work well together and support people within the company who use the tools. We also try to make sure people are good with details and are thorough in their ability to properly build and test their stuff - these tools are critical for the success of the mission so they are every bit as important as the code on board the vehicles.
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Have you read the judgement?

It quite literally says they contravened articles 8 or 10 of the ECHR but now comply.

With a quick read up on the ECHR it seems that the judgements made are binding but, since according to the judgement they are now compliant, it doesn't seem like any action will be taken.

Again this is from a view of complete ignorance of the law, but censure seems like the most appropriate word in this case.
There was a time where computers was available only to "the priesthood of computing." You had to be in a special group in a very big company (or military research setting). Because no one else understood these so-called electronic-brains, few could question you for anything involving The Computer.

I think PHP makes some developers frown because it represents an entry point for what they may consider the riffraff of developers. "Anyone can code now - if only a little!" <insert snobbish sniff here>

So developers chase off to increasingly intimidating technologies and languages not necessarily because they have SO much more to offer but because the culture represents a return to The Priesthood of days of yore.

A few centuries ago, "Don't know Latin? Get out!" and nowadays "Don't know Erlang? Get out!"
There should be a SlackerNews for the rest of us. :)
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Yeah, but do you pull out the airplane schematic to familiarize yourself with the layout of the airplane you're riding in? Serious question: Without looking it up on your travel itenerary, can you honestly tell me what make/model airplane you last flew on? I can, because I read the pamphlet, which gives me knowledge that could save my life, but if you don't want to live to see 30, that's your perogative...but it's the law you have to listen to flight crew, even if you don't want to interrupt your Instagram surfing.
It's rare for individuals, because a patent costs ~$25k to file and maintain, and the process takes ~5 years. Patents are narrow and taken out very early in the inventive process - so prone to being irrelevant or silly. The really valuable patents - fundamental ones - are particularly risky. This adds up to meaning that the mass insurance of corporate sponsorship is the only way for inventors to profit (marginally, and as a group).
You're right - for the long game. Stick with it for a century or two, and hopefully a majority will believe in geologic-time evolution. That hasn't actually happened yet in America because people keep coming along to loudly shout down science, but maybe some day.

Public health does not have the luxury of waiting centuries for naysayers to die out. Whooping cough won't do us the favor of not striking while we build consensus.

I strongly believe in the correctness of your approach. I just don't think that's an option here.
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Ractive also uses a virtual DOM.
http://www.ractivejs.org/
I found the blog pretty useful for comparing to React: http://blog.ractivejs.org/posts/whats-the-difference-between...
I like the answer empathy below. A bit of everything really is a good approach, depending on the audience. I also think fear will help it along. Pediatricians around Chicago are getting calls form more parents now.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-measles-chicago-...

We have to understand the position that there were people that respected the opinions of a friend or loved one. When it came to their own child it was a difficult decision to make considering that herd immunity was making it a non-issue for so long. Satire can be an excellent approach to limit the numbers of those opinion makers.

For the parents that decided against immunization I think it is important to remember that we can disagree but still be respectful. At the other extreme calling those parents privileged or gullible will not go as far. It all depends on audience.
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I guess you could stand in front of abortion clinics with pictures of children in iron lungs, wheelchairs or braces with a sign that days "Choose life, choose vaccination" but there's an overlap with people who are both anti abortion and anti vaccination, oddly. I'm not sure you can convince someone using faith-based arguments without potentially challenging their faith.
They are probably required to. Space launchers and intercontinental ballistic missiles are pretty much the same thing after all.
One interesting benefit I see is the ability to easily parallelize the work. Take a look at the render implementation here - https://github.com/fogleman/pt/blob/master/pt/render.go#L28
It's a fairly recent French loan word with Anglicized pronunciation. It has two meanings:

1 - A person who performs (alternative to performer). With semantics that suggests it's for more serious roles.

"The performant did a wonderful job during the ceremony."

2 - Efficient, effective. Considered a term-of-art in technical disciplines.

"The shape of this new hull design is far more performant than previous generations of ships."
SpaceX is guiding rockets into space which I'm guessing is a lot like guiding missiles. SpaceX is probably required by law to guard some, if not most, of their technology.
Beg to disagree.

If your effort is half as good, you still get half million people to donate $1.

On the company case, one million is not pocket change, so this will be a serious decision that has to be approved by several independent branches within the organization, each with veto power. Screw one of those and it's a deal breaker.

Furthermore, I'd say that this decision is one that is particularly difficult to frame for the company. While corporations do understand direct costs very very well, they are practically hardwired to ignore/exploit the gift economy. So the discussion will be stirred towards what indirect benefits will the company receive from donating to a worthy cause (public relations, tax exceptions, etc) and away from the consequences of letting a (unacknowledged) strategic partner to go under.

Not to say that a corporation cannot assume stewardship of a distressed project, but it almost always requires executive fiat to get over the bureaucracy.
Thank you. I'm not an anti-vaxxer but if I didn't want my kid to be vaccinated I think it's reasonable to expect me to home-school them and find a pediatrician who supports my freedom to choose even if it meant moving out of the country.
> In other words, matrix factorization is the real deal. It’s the stuff that separates true data scientists from charlatans — the data alchemists, data phrenologists, and data astrologers of the world

I certainly hope this is sarcasm. Matrix factorization is, like, the go-to tool for people that don't know anything about what they are studying (i.e. it's the phrenologist's favorite weapon). Factor a matrix, throw the results out there, slap on some perfunctory "discussion" that has no real mechanistic insight. Boom. Published.

But maybe I'm describing "the stuff that separates true scientists from data scientists".

Data science manifesto: The purpose of computing is numbers.
I recently saw this pop by in the news: http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/news/20080718/l... -- the bottom line is either what you suggest, or that loud music intrinsically motivates drinking. The authors don't know.
For the logging layer, have you considered/looked at Fluentd? Disclaimer: I am a Fluentd maintainer and would love to hear feedback from folks.
that's true as well, I wasn't aiming at a blanked statement covering every case, just adding one more thing to consider: the risk of hiring a passive engineer that goes task by task should be lower when poaching from highly demanding employer.

acquihires are indeed risky, you have to factor in both the culture change and the sudden shift in middle management directives, but onboarding an apple engineer isn't the same as purchasing a whole company.
Have you noticed a change to include "no vaping" as well? The briefings do change with the times. Before lobbying / tantrum throwing gadget junkies allowed devices to be on non-stop, there were times when they were permitted to be on or off, and that was part of the briefing. As you might be able to tell, I tend to pay attention in spite of having heard them time and again, because thankfully I'm an infrequent flyer these days.
Pardon my ignorance, but I am curious. If one child in classroom full of children is not vaccinated, what risk is posed to the vaccinated children?
It's a bit too soon, but at some point, one of the large banks(probably coinbase or circle) will be issueing USD on the Bitcoin chain. At that time, the pot-shop will accept BTC, which will immediately convert into COINBASEUSD. Problem solved. Junseth articulated this pretty well: http://junseth.com/post/109579766177/the-blockchain-isnt-goi...