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Sure - just use what you want. Outside of the dispatcher, flux is mostly a design specification for clientside information flow. Actions, stores, etc aren't native to flux - they're just approaches for accomplishing the desired information flow. Check out the examples closer - they aren't react classes.

That said, my personal opinion: the deeper you get into a big project the more you'll see the incredible value of the approach. The breakeven between the overhead of learning the approach vs the productivity (and performance improvement) of using it comes pretty early on, in my opinion.

With a lot of software, the more I get deeply into a project the more I feel I'm battling the artificial constraints of the tools I'm using. Flux is exactly the opposite. The deeper I get in, the more I feel it's working for me (and I'm not even using their dispatcher - since I had written my own initially before flux came out, so I can't speak directly to their dispatcher, just the Flux design styling within a React project).
Fair enough. I suppose you are sitting on the evidence belying it?
I'd rather just replace the ignition system with a short driving game that you have to complete to start the car

I've heard there are cars with a breath analyzer connected to the ignition. A driving game would hopefully pick up more than alcohol, so I like that idea. Unfortunately, I suspect many drunk drivers will just do what they do with the current systems and have their sober girlfriend pass the test for them.
That actually sounds like a neat app. What's the name and is it available on Android?
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A lot of the science that says it drops your IQ seems to have been poorly done. Smokers are dumber in general, but that may well say more about their socioeconomic backgrounds. However, I personally wouldn't risk it. Do you know what I would pay to raise my IQ by a half-dozen points? I seriously considered taking Ritalin at one point, to see if it might give me a boost (actually I still haven't ruled it out, just shelved the idea.) I wouldn't dare use a substance that had the potential to lower my IQ, or reduce my ambition/motivation.
Offline jobs are an interesting idea, but they weren't what we were really thinking of. Instead, we use stenographer more like a database of recent traffic. Consider this as a simple use case for intrusion detection:

set up snort and steno
foreach snort alert
request all packets in stream from steno: srcIP,srcPort,dstIP,dstPort match
OR request all packets on that srcIP,dstIP, to get OTHER connections between those hosts
store pcap to directory (or central DB, or whatever)

Then, when a human analyst wants to investigate the alert, instead of getting the very limited PCAP that comes out of snort, they get a ton of data they can use to build context, write new detection rules, etc.
some tlds don't allow two letter domain names. .de used to forbid two letter domains.

(After a court order because of vw.de those restrictions were lifted, and now there even exist one letter domains, though most of them are just squatted, for instance g.de which just redirects to p.de)
I want to know if it will have caching for offline use. Don't care if it is like Spotify and needs to check in occasionally but would really like to be able to have something for the kid on long haul flights.
There's an extremely extremely rough utilitarian analysis that says that the largest positive effect in QALYs added comes from fewer road traffic deaths due to people substituting away from driving while drunk to driving while stoned. See section IV of http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/01/05/marijuana-much-more-tha...
From what I understand, that Java API would not return "Windows 9". So while those tests are wrong, it would not cause a problem.

I have not seen a single case proposed that would actually break.
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> This is why most algorithmic art is so uninteresting. It falls on one side or the other of the randomness/repetition valley, without hitting that sweet spot that the best human creativity finds.

> That's not even thinking about emotional associations, intellectual abstractions, social awareness, and models-of-mind. You might need all of them to make a genius-level creative AI, but I'd guess that the more you have, the more likely you are to get something worth keeping.

I don't agree. I find all of those things boring in art. Mathematics and computer science are much more interesting when you think about how it relates to the mind, and why people may choose to create abstract art instead of metaphorically painting themselves naked.
Mozilla has passed the 1 million bugs _ever filed_ mark. Across all Mozilla products, for that matter.

Some possibly more useful statistics:

For the "Core" product (read: Gecko), there are as of right now 52k open bugs and 230k closed bugs.

For the "Firefox" product (desktop, not Firefox android), there are 21k open bugs and 128k closed bugs.

Note that these "bugs" include feature requests, so unless you think the number of requested features will decline over time....
What specifically do you mean when you say that it doesn't play nice with serverside?

I wrote my own Flux implementation (back when it was first announced, and there were no/limited libraries for it), and i don't recall having a problem with my implementations.

I probably broke a few rules though, hard to say. I'd be curious to hear your experiences with it :)
.com four letter domain names

http://www.domainnamesoup.com/4letterdomainnames.php
I liked the exposition, but it would have been nice if the author had compared his implementation with something more meaty. Like Sustik-Moore[1], for instance.

[1] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/moore/publications/sustik-moo...
Today we have have vastly stronger, concentrated wax/oil that can be up to 99+% THC enabling much faster and bigger consumption. Weed consumption and delivery will continue to be refined, a fatal dose is "impossible" only until it is not.
Another approach is to diversify: have a second product that is targetted at larger businesses, with a nice seamless transition from Etsy to this new platform.
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You'd be surprised how much you can learn from a classic Haynes manual. Start small (changing oil, tires) and you might surprise yourself!
Popular apps can essentially request any permission and you'll still download it — are you really going to forgo having Facebook on your phone because it asks for a couple of slightly-objectionable permissions?

On iOS, the average user has a chance to download that mainstream app and deny it access to their contacts.
Product vs. Growth, or why startups hijack roadmaps
Is there an example using e.g. the rails asset pipeline / ruby gems instead of bower?
There is definitely logic behind it: anything that impairs one's driving can result in a DUI. Commercially available egogenics (caffeine) do not impair one's driving under typical doses.
5:00 wake up (no alarm)

5:01 roll off your mom

5:02 get dressed

5:03 drive home

5:30 shower

5:40 coffee, muffin

5:50 pack lunch

5:55 turn off lights, etc..

6:00 leave for work
Yes, it's both on Android and iOS: http://family-fortune.ridgebit.com/
It's as if this is a single data point that can be used with other data points to draw a conclusion.
I've run gulp and then got this error, related to CSS/SASS:

Message:
error /Users/gkbonetti/code/flux-getting-started/public/src/scss/partials/_messageBox.scss (Line 3: Invalid CSS after "	&": expected "{", was "__list {"

"__list" may only be used at the beginning of a compound selector.)
I'm glad to know Stripe's API is sane but you cannot ever rely on that when designing something like this!
This might be controversial, but if you want a good example of a code base where this is painfully obvious look at Android, especially the UI components. There are interfaces for everyyyyything.

So many of the UI components are unnecessarily internal, which can be a pain in the butt if you want to do something just slightly different than default (you obviously can't inherit form an interface, so you end up copying the code). A lot of the cruft is probably from trying to make Java work, but when I read through the code I find myself wondering why it was implemented the way it was implemented and the only explanation I've been able to come up with is the one described in this post.
I still believe that COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) is, overall, beneficial legislation that puts in place the minimum rules for protecting children's PII. As the Internet becomes more accessible to a younger audience, we should be considering the societal benefits of such legislation and how it should evolve with the technology. It's shortsighted to fault Google for complying with the law.
.gg goes for $75 on Gandi, compared to $150 on iwantmyname
> The design document is a good read ...

and large chunks of code is in go :), with only performance related stuff (read packet-capture) being done in c++, pretty cool.
This is so true. I make fractal art and desktop wallpapers as a hobby and it can actually be pretty exhausting (in a good way). Finding results for other humans is only part of the problem--finding results that keep my own continually evolving aesthetic happy is very difficult.
"Encrypted Butt file backup"

Hmm...

Oh, right, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cloud-to-butt-plus... :-)
Non-coding contributors in open source
I'm pretty sure there's data of the translation from marijuana users->hard drugs users.

The data for oxygen is far more alarming.

100% of hard drug users users first started out on oxygen.

Furthermore, if nobody was allowed oxygen, all illegal drug addiction would stop.

Oxygen is the ultimate gateway drug.
Less good? Infrastructure breaking because of load is one thing (concurrency/DB issues) but nothing like this should ever be exposed to the user on general principle.
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I have a huge gripe with any feature that is "free". It's not free - it's included as part of the $9.99 it's costing me to sign up. Also a Certificate of Completion is useless - putting this on my resume will do nothing for my value as a Swift programmer.
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It's a taboo. People are highly unlikely to self-report honestly on something like this.
"kid-friendly publishers"

What does that mean?

I'm one of those minecraft weirdos and I can authoritatively say based on many hours of entertainment viewing that Direwolf20 and Pahamir have never said anything non-G rated, at least in their team video series so far as I've seen. So that's boring and no point discussing.

And my son has this unique skill to find "lets play" minecraft videos where basically every other word is "fuck" every time a player sees an aggro mob or their pick breaks or just for fun, which seems to be quite often. So again thats boring and no point discussing.

Whats interesting to discuss is in between. OMGchad is about 99.9% G rated but when he gets really, really frustrated, like once every ten episodes, out comes "damn it" and my wife says "language, change the video" and I laugh because my wife says worse stuff than OMGchad and my son is going to be driving a car in a couple years and voting in a couple more and probably on 4chan etc and from my own memory of being his age I suspect he is quite familiar with all the swear words yet behaves himself in public so all is well.

So video training a 3 year old to walk around the house saying "damn it" randomly is not going to fly, but how about a kid who's in his last months of preteen? Especially if the video is 99.9% G rated? And I can see differing opinions, like a extreme fundamentalist being alot more worried about some Dawkins video than mere straight pr0n or something...
You're completely missing the point. The message I'm responding to says:

"So why shouldn't Americans take a little credit for Brin's success?"

I'm not saying that living in America had nothing to do with it, it obviously did. I'm saying that the overwhelming majority of Americans had nothing to do with it, ergo being proud to be American is, in general, about as warranted as being proud that your favorite team won a tournament.

If you're a founding father, fought in the revolutionary war, influenced legislation in a historically significant ways, or did something of the sort, you may have a claim to be "proud", otherwise, you're a spectator, just like most people.
>- to learn from the past, and then let go of it. You need to focus on the future. It's especially important to let go of cynicism and bitterness as they poison your future and hurt everyone else around you.

This. Past is past, it cannot be changed, put your efforts where it matters. I would also add that revenge is overrated, do not waste time on it.
Also this:

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/02/spy-cables-world-espio...

And talented people will have to care about politics more and more as time goes on. It's vital that we get better more moral people into politics and everyone has a duty to act in accordance with their own morality. Maybe we can fix some of the problems around the world that cause most of the harm if more people stop being quiet about the bad things that governments are doing in their name.
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Update your sass! :)
The question is how Etsy wants to position itself relative to Ebay.

Now, there's nothing wrong with being ebay! It's a fine way to find traders selling mass-produced items. But I was under the impression Etsy wasn't trying to compete with them directly.
And after that, read his docs on Tarsnap itself, which seems relevant to the topic at hand: https://www.tarsnap.com/
From a purely selfish point of view, having well adjusted kin who will fight for you when you're old is an advantage and a comfort. The ideal would be to be able to have grandkids without having kids. :)
What I want to know is when will Google Wallet introduce Apple Pay-like tokenization so merchants can't track your purchases?

Google is actually kind of doing the opposite right now. It's tracking your purchases through a virtual credit card number and then giving all that data to merchants. Sure you can reset that number, but since it's not automatic like Apple's tokens, that means it will be used about as much as resetting the advertising IDs on Android phones - so almost never. It also doesn't help that Google is pro-actively giving that data to merchants (and now to carriers, too, I assume).
You need to update your SASS version to the latest; you're hitting a BEM syntax error.
> drive under the influence

The research about Marijuana's impact on driving is inconclusive, but there are indications that it might have no negative impact (for the most recent example: https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1667...) and even that it might reduce risks of crashes.

As a result, it's unfortunate that it's apparently socially acceptable to assume without question that marijuana has a negative impact on driving. New research could still demonstrate that it does not, just as new research has been strongly suggesting that our other assumptions are likely flawed. If marijuana is found to not be dangerous for drivers, then it will very unfortunate that we've promoted yet another misconception about it due to unchecked assumptions.
Okay, but what's with it? It's a kind of problematic region but not in the warfare sense.
I think your very first response exhibits that you were looking to have a spat with the support rep.

Most level-headed people would have thanked the rep, or said "That's unfortunate--I really would like to see a way I can script the install of this on new machines."

Again here--I don't think the rep seemed clueless at all. He exhibited a pretty in-depth knowledge about your topic of discussion. I think his point was "I wasn't trying to guess what you were really asking," and your point was "you should have guessed what I was really asking."
Why do people need tickets to go out in the desert and have a big party?

Perhaps my thinking is naive here, but tickets seem to run counter to one of the main principles of Burning Man which is "Radical Self Reliance". If I'm paying you for a ticket then I must be relying on someone for security.
I feel like if we did this we'd never get to an actual working system. How do you formally verify that a remote file system interacting with a faulty hard disk is doing the right thing? This reminds me of Hurd, which is arguably a superior design that will never be finished.
+1 On Reflux. They have an awesome new async api now, too.
This is a 'tour de force' study for sure, but has a very limited scope (and reliability)- First, it only works if the attacker knows both the route(s) ahead of time and the power consumption profile of the routes, which requires careful mapping of the region with a recording device. Second, its accuracy degrades drastically depending on the number of apps running -- they only tested with background apps, which already rendered the method only slightly better than a random guess, with an arbitrary app running in the foreground the power consumption goes bananas and so does their method.

Storm in a glass of water, if you ask me.. (But you wouldn't know this by reading that abstract alone ;))

-@r2r
not that I approve of this bandit behavior, but they could have injected ads using a browser extension without screwing with certificates, no?
The computer is not capable of making a secure HTTPS connection. The connection can be decoded by anyone with the SuperFish key, which is the same for every computer loaded with SuperFish. So I would argue that, no, they are not capable of making HTTPS connections, because the entire S part is practically non-existent.
If you think regular usage of cannabis increases the general prevalence of schizophrenia sharply enough that it would prohibit further medical research, I don't really know what to tell you. I just don't see it.
Soot from bits of stalk in a spliff is going to be little different from breathing in soot from any other bit of dry burning wood.
That does make for some interesting math. For instance, there's about four million children born each year, so that gives us an upper bound of about a million joints consumed. The penal system seems to regard about thirty grams as the unit of scale, so the total mass would be 30 Mg. According to their own website, the DEA seems to seize about an average of 400 Mg of marijuana a year.

So we now have a lower bound on production (400 Mg) and an upper bound on consumption (30 Mg). Clearly, production has greatly exceeded demand, in violation of basic micro-economics. Thus, the statement there are four children born for every joint smoked is one of the greatest refutations of capitalism you can imagine. Everyone who believes it should be issued a free Che Guevara t-shirt to show their disdain for free market enterprise. Similarly, anyone who supports the war on drugs should preferentially hire jobs candidates wearing Che Guevara t-shirts in order to avoid hiring those pot heads.
Family gets some good revenge on prankster little brother
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I would question the claim that Americans are bad drivers in general. Compared to driving I've seen in other countries (particularly India, China), even the worst drivers I've seen in America aren't so bad. And the worst drivers in America I know personally are not actually Americans but internationals.

Maybe we are generally worse compared to other western countries but my experience suggests the prevalence of driving in America puts our skills among the best. If someone has data which suggests otherwise please share.
- Over the short term there are a lot of variables to success other than being a smart, hard working, good person. Over the long term things start to even out.

- Being smart is the price of entry, but drive matters more. (The #1 & #2 people from my high school class of 500+ had nominal professional success. The breakout successes were the 5'2" guy who made the basketball team, and the chunky musician who never missed a class 6-12. Both were smart, but their drive carried them.)

- If you see a partial ethical lapse from someone, the odds are there are more full lapses to follow. Give second chances for a lot of failures, but not ethical lapses.

- The group of who you is important to you shrinks, not grows over time.

- Somehow you have a lot less free time when you have the so-called "boring, married and 2 kids" life. It's still worth doing. (Kids are simultaneously much more time than you'd imagine, much more frustration, and much more awesome)

- Be smart about money. Remember that every dollar of debt needs to be paid back. Would the future you say, "I really wish I had pissed away X getting..."

- Throw out stuff. You won't miss it, and there's a cost of carrying it around. Spend on experience instead.

- With alcohol, go for quality over quantity. You'll spend less money for a better experience.

- It's not worth spending time with negative people.

- Don't wait until you have a daughter to lose the sexism.

- Go to the dentist and doctor regularly, and listen to them.

- Prepare to reinvent yourself multiple times.

- Most of your peer group won't achieve the success that they assume will happen naturally. (Life is a pyramid scheme, and what gets you across the first few steps won't get you past the next few, and lots of people drop off along the way)

- Luck matters a lot, but operate like it doesn't at all.

- Be twice as responsible as you think you need to be, because you don't know the other person's perception. Assume the other person will only be half as responsible.

- If you see warning signs at work, move quickly, leaving the handcuffs behind. They won't stay gold for long.

- Take the soft classes seriously.

- Become so talented that you're the "Go To" person, and such a good teacher that you've replaced yourself by the time you want to go to bigger and better things.

- With other people, you sometimes have to choose between Being Right and Having a Relationship. There's no loss of character for keeping quiet.

- Confidence inspires confidence. It's ok to commit on 80% certainty when the other guy is committing on 60%.
Penetrathur, the bottom 2 emoticons are for "I do not know" and "I do not know but ask others the question". Emoticons are used as substitutes for those texts. A click on any of them would give a hint on what their purpose is.
Thanks for the comment.
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The fact that I cannot use my iDevice at all before connecting with apple servers (on an iPhone, just because I did not had sim during first boot, I was not able to use it even as an iPod) shows who controls what the device can do. It is not you - the owner who payed for it.

> Once I've paid for my iPhone, Apple won't take it back.

But they can still wipe it remotely ...

Oh you obviously own some amount of atoms and molecules. You just don't own and control what makes your device useful or device.
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Are you going to provide the definition used by all sensible people and institutions?
Older drivers (85+) are generally extremely risky per mile. "On the per-mile basis, the death rate of target drivers aged 85 and older is nearly triple that of
drivers aged 16 to 17"

https://aaafoundation.org/sites/default/files/OlderDriverRis...

They drive fewer miles, but even still their far more risky than teenagers.
"The per-driver death rate of target drivers aged 85 and older is nearly double that of target
drivers aged 16 to 17 (Rate Ratio [RR] 1.93, 95% Confidence Interval [CI] 1.66–2.24) and is
over six times that of drivers aged 50 to 59 (RR 6.25, CI 5.48–7.14)."

Also of note, new drivers of any age are generally more risky than experienced ones of that same age. So, a large chunk of the teenage hit would happen even if you banned people <20 from driving.