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You will never be able to code email templates and that just shows how clueless you are as to the rabbit hole your devs have got you in to.

Email markup is so arcane and complex at the moment that one mistake by your non-technical team will mean hours of pain.

I know you want to support your colleagues, but they have made a bad decision which will make your job less doing the things you are good at and more dealing with things that should never have been your problem.
"Do the needful" is British bureaucratic English from the days of the Raj. It is not strange that various parts of the Raj have retained different mannerisms.

The linked article is extremely condescending and smug, (agreed, written by an Indian), and I remember reading it a while back. You might as well complain that Indians use the word "flat" instead of "Apartment" and use "colour" and "centre". By the way, two specific points against the article are merely literal translations of equivalent expressions in Indian languages, similar phrases will exist with other people for whom English is a second language:

1) "Do one thing" is a literal translation of "ek kaam karo", which is a valid Hindi expression. The ideal English idiom in the same spirit as the Hindi one would be "Try this:", which is perfectly reasonable.

2) "Sleep is coming" is a literal translation of "neend aa rahi hai", again which is valid Hindi.

One usage which is common to Indians, and cause confusion to even other Indians: does a student of a course "take an exam" or "give an exam"? What about the instructor of the course?

While on the subject, one could complain about silly Americanisms as well:

1) "We will be with you momentarily" - even if it is technically right this is slightly confusing: why not be with me for somewhat longer, dear? - "We will be with you in a moment" is unambiguous.

2) "Water with no ice" waiters/waitresses in the midwest stare blankly if you say "water without ice"

3) "To go?" - just step back and think what this means. It certainly does not immediately suggest a parcel.

and probably others. The point is: be thankful that English has the global appeal it has, and enjoy the quaint idioms of the different parts of the world which formed the British colonies.
I don't want to take from your good reply, but in the UK having a landline is often a prerequisite of having broadband/internet.

(There are alternatives, but they are atypical.)
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I find these sort of arguments very naive. They limit the definition of ^work^ and then discard it as being unnecessary. Let me give you an example of work that would still exist in the narrowly utopian no-need-to-work world -- No, I don't mean the type that might eventually be taken over by machines, like picking up the garbage, cleaning your apartments, farming and making sure all the machines that pick up the garbage, clean your apartments and farm are still working.

No, let's assume we get there as well and everybody is free to choose whatever the hell they want to do with all their free time -- that kind of world. Assume that you wake up in that kind of a world and decide that today you will climb Mt. Everest, because well, you know, you can !

So you train virtually, buy all the needed supplies and get them delivered to your house with no human intervention automatically, book your flights, get on a plane that flies itself and land at the base camp. Now what ? well you have to find a sherpa and hire him ...why ? because you just can't do something for the first time all by yourself even if you have all the tech in the world. Work (although not as we normally define it) is simply another way to say 'having experience with a certain skill for a sufficiently long amount of time and doing it at a sufficiently reasonable level of proficiency that it is of value others that do not have the experience'.

The sherpa example is just for making a point but even if we limit the discussion of machines doing all 'work' -- who will build the machines that build the machines ? who will look after the machines that look after the machines ? who will teach those who build and look after the machines ? ...and why would any of these people to do any of these things that obviously don't come naturally but require time, patience and perhaps some skill to master ?
> I mean, who's going to lend money to someone when you know they're going to tell you that you were a sucker if you thought they'd pay you back?

It is perfectly normal for countries to default. That is an expected part of lending.

Here's the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_debt_crises
Reproduction causes a loss of half of the chromosomes. If he only has one offspring (unless it is a lot more sexually successful than him), his line dies out.

Different organisms have evolved different reproduction strategies through selection:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory
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While she's entitled to share her music with whoever she pleases, fans aren't going to see it that way. They'll see a greedy artist that wants more money, and is happy to restrict what is essentially uploading a bunch of music files to a server as a ransom for not getting that money. Given the way she immediately backtracked, I think most people see her move as nothing more than a publicity stunt between her and Apple to promote both her new album and Apple's new service.

Spotify works because you're safe in the knowledge that you can listen to pretty much anything you want. With Apple Music in the picture, piracy will almost definitely rise, should artists decide to lock themselves onto specific platforms like Swift has chosen to.
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This is a law that will never help a single person, and eventually will be used and abused against people the state finds undesirable.

Most countries having laws that limit freedom in favour of protecting people from abuse. They're used frequently, and they do work (at least to punish if not deter).

A law being abused by the state is a problem though; hopefully the New Zealand government will word theirs to protect against that happening.

Really sad to see freedom of speech being killed off yet again in an idiotic pursuit of an illusion of safety.

Freedom of speech is not absolute. It never really has been. You've never been free (in the specific sense of 'free' meaning 'a right protected by law') to lie about other people, to be abuse other people, to be obscene, to threaten other people, to copy other people's speech. There's a long list of case law about people who want to be free to say things and have been denied that right - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...

Saying, printing, or posting online things that are designed to abuse another individual is not, and should not be, protected speech.
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Sure. DNA/histone modifications do seem to serve some kind of purpose in gene regulation.

I just find it a bit amusing that people seem to hold these two specific mechanisms in such high esteem to invent a whole new term, "epigenetics" for them; especially when the inheritance of these mechanisms isn't well established. It's akin to the latest technological buzzword in the tech industry.

I am just being nitpicky here, but semantically, the term epigenetics applies to any mechanism that's not inherently related to the information contained in DNA. Transcription factor binding to DNA is technically "epigenetic". Any non-primary structures formed by DNA that produces some kind of function is technically "epigenetic".

The conventional meaning of the term now in biology seems to only refer to DNA modifications/histone modifications. It's just not a very precise term.
I don't think making it a specific crime is the way forward long term. As the article states, in most countries everything is already covered by existing legislation (and society's general view of common decency but that doesn't necessarily help in a court).

The problem is one of implementation. How do you gather proof/evidence, how do you prove intent beyond reasonable doubt, and how do you support the victims during and after. A fair amount of the existing problem is similar to bullying in other area: the victims being scared to speak out either just through fear of the perpetrators or through the thought that nothing can and/or will be done. And other key problem is people in law enforcement (from the cops on the street all the way up to the judges and legislators) and people in society's support structures (parents, teachers, councillors, and so forth) not understanding: being out of touch with the technology, or facets of modern culture (cyber-bullying is a lot more common in the young and many who where young 20 or more years ago, and I'm including myself there, don't quite understand those people), or often both.

Sometimes the more specific a crime the easier it is for a good legal team (or just a clever arsehole) to find loopholes that allow them to get away with things that are effectively the same thing but are not covered by the exact wording, so great care needs to be taken in drafting the law.

Having said that: making it a specific crime might be a very useful stop-gap measure though. It at least tells both the victims and those on the other side that the situation is being taken seriously, brings the matter to sharper focus for the implementers/enforcers of the law so they'll see the need to fill the knowledge/experience gap, and to an extent brings the issue to increased public attention (hopefully with similar effect where needed).
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I'm in the bio-pyscho-social camp, I believe the three elements work in concert to keep the show going, over stressing all three consistently does seem to correlate with an immune malfunction, and treatments that approach only 1 of the three 'prongs' appear less successful than those that approach all three.
I feel we should get there by empirically studying the whole thing. We need more data. Also we need this research to be more user friendly, that everyday people can read and then decide for themselves if that can be the way forward.

Changing because this guy talked about something on his blog isn't certainly the thing I want. Funny that that's exactly how real-life politics works: just people talking with little backup of actual data.
Good thing is servo team is supporting API compatibilty with chromium CEF project. That mean, if you write an html5 app using CEF, it will just work so with servo engine as well.
So - according to the bill, anyone with a complaint has to send it to a delegated agency that will be responsible for assessing each complaint. It is there to screen for trivial cases, etc.

If there is cause, they can then send it off to a court which will then determine what is to happen. The court can refer it back to the agency for more attempts at mediation etc... before making a ruling.

These are all reasonable checks on balances from the point of view of ensuring that this is not abused to censor speech etc. The courts are even instructed to take account of the "intent" of the communicator. So it's not like the nutso feminist-left - with their "intent is not magic" belief - are driving this bill.

So from this point of view the bill is actually quite reasonable...

Of course, from another point of view - i.e. when you consider the sheer number of assholes on the internet, it remains completely insane. The stated intent of the bill is to provide timely redress to victims. Lol - when hell freezes over.

My prediction - The delegated agency is going to be woefully under-funded. As far as I can see in the legislation - it is actually toothless. Any enforcement has to come from the courts. So people will learn to ignore the agency... feed-backing more cases onto the courts which see their time getting taken up because people can't get along on the internet. edit: the problem being that people WILL submit frivolous cases. Lots of them.

Victims won't by-and-large get the timely redress promised - except for a couple of high profile cases that make it into the media. And this non-result will come at great expense.

But thanks for being the test case NZ... nothing like empirical confirmation of any point of view.
Of course, but apart of tolerance you need also controlled reproduction, selection of specimens with desirable characters (reduce the genetic pool) and changes in morphology. As seen in red fox the later can take only 30 years if the former occur.

Those wolves are non reproductive specimens, not are different than other wolves of its species, thus could be seen as 'domestic' for geladas (like sparrows, spiders or house flies for us), but not domesticated (like canaries or fruit flies). This is not much different than to say that crocodiles are being domesticated by hippopotamuses.
Just because all of my needed math is done on a calculator doesn't mean I can no longer add.
> I don't foresee any garbage collectors or plumbers working "for the fun of it" or "personal fulfillment" anytime soon.

Most of these kinds of propositional ramblings engender a handful of predictable responses - including the dubiously authoritative 'I can't imagine how this will work, qed it can't work', underlying which is an assumption that the proposition needs to (or indeed can) be enacted in isolation of any other cultural changes.

So here's a bit of anecdata back to you. One day in the not too distant I'm intending to build my own house. Because of local regulations I need a plumber (and electrician, etc) to vet all the work performed, but not necessarily perform that work. Unrelated to either regulation or cost, I'm looking forward to performing as much of the work as I can. It is, basically, an opportunity to obtain new understanding and skill, explore some new problem domain, and given the scale (one abode and surrounds) not expected to be especially onerous.

Point being, I expect it'll be fun and personally fulfilling.
While this is likely true it doesn't detract from Christensen's point, which is that the steam shovel companies went out of business because they couldn't switch. The steam shovel companies saw hydraulics as toys, or a sideline, or as sweeteners to throw in with a big steam shovel contract. They didn't understand how to exploit hydraulics when they finally developed enough to move earth by the ton more cheaply than large steam shovels.
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I mean an interactive Doodle, when you click on it you can interact with others.
What do you think?
Please explain how that's different from today on other OSes. A JavaScript exploit or other browser corruption is still an issue on current browsers, right? (I only see one Firefox process on my machine, so I'm gonna guess if you break the browser, you have code exec with my user access level.)
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Sounds in some ways quite a lot like Discordianism or motivated by Discordianist principles.
I would love to know how did they make it (interactive infographic)
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Those aren't the only sorts of motivation folks might have to work.

Plenty of people working in sewage, collecting rubbish and so on do it because they think it makes an important contribution to society, same as people in the army. I find it hard to disagree that their contribution is more important than software development in some ways -- I'd rather have streets clear of rotting rubbish and rats than a new version of office.
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I really share your sentiment, I've been going through the same thing and I live in Seoul too.

I was working at a startup, got accepted to a startup accelerator and cannot afford to participate as it's overseas. Have to work remotely and move back to my country.

Sold all of our furniture as we couldn't pay the rent (wife + baby). I have applied to companies in my home country (Australia), and have interviews set up. This might be the way to go for you.

Jobs in SK are really tough if you are not fluent in Korean.

Keep your head up high, things will work out!
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Yeah, this was the first thing that came to my mind, but I couldn't remember where I read this (I thought it was posted on HN recently), but I guess I heard it on Radiolab. I also found a more recent study about the same phenomenon:

http://newsroom.cumc.columbia.edu/blog/2014/07/17/effects-of...
It's difficult to tell whether you're a troll or just very attached to a single perspective. Yes, it makes sense to look at Google as primarily an ad company in some contexts--for instance, attempting to understand their business model. In other senses, Google has done a lot to distance themselves from being just an ad company, diversifying in image, product, talent, markets, and company culture. Probably more, but I don't know too much about the intricacies of what Google actually innovated on. Just by doing this, yes, I do think it is inherently dishonest to group them with other entities that do just resell web space. And I do not think that Google would cease to exist if people boycotted advertised products tomorrow, either, because their grasp of tech culture is so strong. People will always need analytics, retargeting, and profiling, so reducing an entire company to advertisers is downright insulting. Just the competition to ios alone has irreversibly changed the future of smartphones, mostly for the better.

Hell, just the market value of Google's brand is enough to distinguish them. You cannot buy that trust, you earn it by providing more value than an advertising brand could.
I found it interesting. Why is it considered boring?
Open Firmware is an amazing piece of software. Mitch's Forth Lessons on the OLPC wiki are a great resource too, especially if you have an OLPC XO that you can boot to the firmware prompt. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Forth_Lessons

OpenFirmware is one of the main inspirations for the design of Snabb Switch too. I was impressed that Mitch writes his own drivers faster than most people can integrate off-the-shelf ones. He sets a great example of getting more done by making a habit of self-sufficiency instead of accumulating ever more dependencies and keeping them up to date.
Background from an overseas New Zealander:

New Zealand's centre right National party under John Key has made a lot of concerning moves regarding civil liberties, censorship, and the internet. A couple examples:

Expanding the GCSB (NZ's NSA) to allow domestic spying http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objecti...

Kim Dotcom's shakedown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom#Arrest_and_extradit...

I view this bill as another attempt to control speech online with "cyber bullying" being just a useful phrase to push this sort of legislation through..
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I'm quite sure that those 10k hours are not with a single version but they are already being updated all the time.

A human driver on the other hand similarly also updates his driving behavior throughout his life.
I dont believe there is evidence for any of those practices predating biologically modern humans. How far back to you have to go to find a life form that did not face constant fear of starvation?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9516910
You haven't broken the podcast RSS feed, thank you. Another large podcast network recently did a redesign and broke all of their feeds, apparently on purpose. Crazy.

However, the podcast feed is impossible to find now if you didn't have it before. Previously I think it was on every podcast post as an RSS link. Now the individual tag RSS links all point to the main feed, rather than to a per-tag feed.

e.g. http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/podcasts/feed/ still works if you know it, but going to https://blog.stackexchange.com/tags/podcasts/ gives you an RSS link to just "/feed/".

This is probably not a good place for bug reports :-S
I do, that's true.

If the author of the linked article were to just be expressing those sentiments that would be fine. The author goes far beyond the pale, losing himself and his thesis in the process.
The abolition of work is one of the most important political essays after the situationist international. It was published in 1986 and also published in over 30 languages.

While what you want from Black is hard data, he wants from you to think and discuss. It's not a post in a blog, it's not a paper, it's an essay and that's what it aims.
I have a feeling this would be a Material Traceability DB, Due to the high Quality Assurance/Control Requirements at play.

I haven't dealt with Ceramic tracability before but I deal with steel tracability on a daily basis.

A quick primer on steel:
When you buy steel from a mill, you usually get it in plates or sections. These will be stamped with a Heat Number which links it back to the conditions under which it was made; the chemical ladle analysis and properties to meet a particular specification. These then undergo visual, non-destructive and destructive testing to verify everything is acceptable.

A third party / independent verification body (or IVB) will also confirm this by basically shadowing every step of the way and confirming everything is legit; right from the internal processes and systems of the company down to the certification of testing equipment involved and witnessing the tests.

If this is the case and everything lines up you will get something like an EN 10204 3.2 cert with your plate/section.

Then to maintain tracability from plate to part, there are standard processes and requirements (either industry standard, or client imposed) which then help maintain a chain of custody as it were.

I would hazard a guess that it's similar for ceramics.
This software may not have non-technical users. What are you after?
You should use this nowadays: https://github.com/nucleic/kiwi

Kiwi is an implementation of the algorithm based on the seminal Cassowary paper.
It is not a refactoring of the original C++ solver. Kiwi has been designed from the ground up to be lightweight and fast. Kiwi ranges from 10x to 500x faster than the original Cassowary solver with typical use cases gaining a 40x improvement. Memory savings are consistently > 5x.
I'm a front end developer, but I've been stretching my legs in the backend lately. I'm in the southeast US. I'd rather stay anonymous and not have this situation tied to me. Nobody knows I live like this.
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"There seem to be hundreds of accidents like this [1] annually where large trucks smash into cars stopped at red lights or that have slowed down during traffic jams."

Isn't that solved by the automatic collision detection with emergency braking, as implemented by Volvo?[1]

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ridS396W2BY
A Javascript browser exploit is still an issue, however it won't usually be able to read and write to kernel memory. TempleOS runs entirely in ring0. That means any exploit whatsoever and the exploiter can not just access some of your data, they own your machine entirely from the kernel up.

http://www.templeos.org/TempleOS.html is a good explanation of the point and purpose of the project, one which is reasonable and makes perfect sense. It explains why a TempleOS machine should not ever run unchecked third-party programs (let alone be on any kind of network), but could be an excellent OS to use on a remote abandoned island.
I was about to comment explaining how this isn't everyone's experience, and how I love London, but realised this isn't the thread to do that.

Yes, if you want to save money then don't live in London. I'm currently commuting 1.5 hours and walking some of the journey to shave off as much money as I can from my commute expenses. Trains still aren't cheap and travelling is exhausting but it saves me money. In my experience London salaries are higher on average (£2-4k) but not necessarily.

Maybe try freelancing in the evenings to scrape together more money.