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Yes we do. This is exactly the kind of society we want, where you can do as you please with your property as long as it does not psychologically, financially, physically hurt anyone.

Otherwise we will begin to go in your refrigerator and take the food that is certain to end in the garbage, go in your closet and take the clothes you haven't worn in x years, give you your money back for the vacation home you bought and visit only 7 days out of the year and remains locked the rest of the time.
Except in this case the domain was registered 16 years ago.

You can't just see a domain you like, go register a trademark for it and demand they give it to you. Atleast not for .com.
When EV is used, iOS ONLY shows the EV information - not the URL - in the address bar.
Scala and F# are probably the most popular enterprise choices. Both connect well to existing infrastructures (JVM, .NET), are relatively easy to train new developers on, and have largish companies backing them.

Scala is probably the larger of the two options - big users notably include Twitter, Linkedin, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Walmart and Reuters.

The use cases for F# tend to be smaller scale and more UI-oriented - internal reporting tools at a hedge fund, for example. That's not to say they are simple CRUD apps, merely that F# apps are not usually massive distributed systems.
It might be useful to distinguish between the vision, the plan to implement that vision, and the execution of that plan.

I think what you're saying is that you cannot conceive of a plan that will successfully implement the vision to make money.

I'd add that execution seems to be sorely lacking, whatever the vision or plan, assuming a real plan even exists (which I suppose it part of execution as well, "have a plan").
Civilian comment: the Gnome/dbus/logind/systemd situation seems to have arrived as a result of a number of independent projects each on their own random walk but responsing to the earlier states of other projects that each depends on. So it may be overall integration issues (Linux based systems have always seemed to me as a user to be like bags of lego) rather than efficiency of any particular aspect of one project.
The unfortunate thing about the case is that both parties are Internet natives and, Mehta especially, part of the startup ecosystem.

What the fuck does this mean?
isnt the renewal fee already enough "tax"?
The core algorithms Knuth discusses are unchanged in all those years. The practicality concerns are wildly different. Study the algorithms from the book, because it doesn't have a huge amount of opinion on when to use them anyway.
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In all seriousness, I could see a future where the browser is just another user environment. Desktop OS (Linuxes, Mac OSX, Windows), mobile OS (Android, iOS, Windows), and the browser (Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, IE/Edge).

We compile things against it (there's a standard library/API/ABI), it has a screen that users interact with.

At the risk of sounding more irrationally exuberant than the parent, the browser is an OS in itself. Yes I realize that "OS" and "browser" are actual terms that have narrowly defined definitions, however the sentiment is the same.

It's just another client for our code/binaries to run on and in actuality what's running our code is irrelevant.

I'm intentionally avoiding calling it a platform, though.
Uh, no, it doesn't.

Just because you happen to wish the world and the law worked differently doesn't make the article biased.
Which is going to look ridiculous as soon as it hits court, because there's clear precedent for the standard meaning - sixteen years of it.

Team Harsh are probably hoping for an internet-ignorant judge. I wouldn't want to bet on their likely success with that gambit.
At my company (publicly traded; >200 engineers) I know that Scala has begun to be picked up by the Java people. We're also rolling out Storm (Clojure) but I don't know if there's anyone actually writing Clojure code.
Regarding (b): do you have a pointer? I've never heard of this, and would be rather interested to know how it's done.
While I can't say with certainty whether mild and predictable deflation is bad for the economy, I don't think that these standard arguments that are used are sufficiently persuasive.

1) It is clear that a deflationary spiral, defined as possessing the characteristics of being unexpected, not written into contracts or loans, and relatively severe (double digits) while accelerating is bad. The great depression makes this clear. We can also see it in the current Greek situation. However, runaway inflation is equally bad, as we can see from post WW1 Germany, and modern day Venezuela and Argentina. Is it the fact that the change in the buying power of money is large and unexpected, or is it the sign of the inflation percentage that is bad?

2) Under the current debt based money system, the negative effects of inflation fall primarily on the poor. The wealthy purchase government bonds, which protect them inflation. They also have bank accounts, or finance debt either directly or indirectly. This means that instead of inflation falling on the populace evenly, it falls doubly on the poor.

3) Under a constant money supply system that eschews debt, the rich must seek out investment that actually increases productivity, rather than doing parasitic zero-sum investments (such as bond purchases and loan giving) that merely transfer value from one person to another. This would tend to grow the economy faster.

4) Under a constant money supply (like Bitcoin in a few years), wages and prices would tend fall by however much the economy was growing (2% - 3% a year), but the raises that people give out for seniority would tend to overwhelm the wage issues.
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Most of the companies I worked for, only IT has a say what devs have on their machines and servers. You need tickets for everything.
Sorry but freedom existed before law existed. This argument that everything has to be defined by the law is silly.
Number 1 is a huge. The biggest thing with procrastination is actually starting on the task. Usually it's something I want to do, but just can't get myself to do it for various reasons. If I just do something as simple as saying I am going to write one line of code, I usually get sucked into the project.
Best place to post writings so they'll survive in perpetuity?
If I wanted to post some writing that'd be in the public domain, Google-searchable, and highly likely to remain accessible in perpetuity (e.g., without pay), what would be a good way to do this?
> the more extreme the weather anomaly, the less likely it is to be caused by human-induced (anthropogenic) global warming.

I'm not an expert in this field by any measure. However, this assumption goes against everything I've read from people who are experts.
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Is it society that would be benefiting from Harsh taking away Keen's domain? Or is it Harsh? By defining the benefit as being to "society" one might sound noble while masking the reality: Harsh is attempting to steal Keen's domain name in a sleazy and opportunistic fashion. Defining this kind of hijacking as a benefit to society is misdirection at best.
No, the renewal fee is fixed. The comment you're responding to suggests taxation on an appraised value. If you're sitting on a domain name for which there are documented offers of, say, $100,000, an appraised tax would assess you annually N% of $100,000.
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As much as RHEL is super conservative, Fedora is the polar opposite. They'll wantonly break things, throw things out, completely overhaul how things integrate.

For example, in previous releases they've removed ifconfig, and lately, even yum got chopped.

It's like living a few years in the future. systemctl was there years ago.
I suppose I look at things differently, because I use the BEM/SUIT methodology. There is already a logical one-to-one mapping between most BEM components and React components, so the effort required to change everything would be roughly the same.

The point of using inline styles isn't to be hip: it fixes most problems caused by specificity wars, global selectors, monkey patching, code bloat, dead code, and indeterminism. I agree that there is yet to be an implementation that is perfect, but there are some very smart minds working on this problem at the moment.
But if it's government-issued, why not use a centralized server manage the ledger? Since the government is going to be capable of producing as much currency as it wants, at will, there's no reason to have a blockchain.
This is terrifying on so many levels, but hardly surprising.
i work for a company that helps people find freelance work, and i agree 100%.

i always say think about our site as the equivalent of a BATNA: always find work via referral, but we're here when you can't :)
Honestly, I've been programming for almost 5 years now and been learning a whole lot of different technologies, languages, frameworks, etc. since I started so its safe to say I'm barely an intermediate in alot of things. Because 5 years isn't alot of time, I google answers quite often for different reasons. Most of the time, its to figure out how to code something up instead of trying to figure it out myself (I have a general idea how to do it) so that I can get stuff done. Frankly, I'm too lazy to make mistakes. This is pretty bad since I don't really understand why things go wrong most of the time.
I think the React philosophy on this is that JS and CSS (and HTML) separate technologies, not concerns.

For very simple layouts, CSS is good enough, and it perhaps makes sense to split out the css into a separate file, so long as it's pretty clear what each class does, and the classes are pretty much all global so that changing a property of a class will do exactly what you intend (make the font size of all page titles on the site bigger), and not have unintended consequences on other components you weren't aware of, or thinking about.

For web apps built from many complex components, the flat, global nature of CSS becomes very clumsy indeed. The power and flexibility you need to manage styles of these components quickly outgrows the power of CSS.

You start having to rely on splitting the css into files that contain only styles applying to each component, so that the structure is manageable and you can find things and make changes easily. So why not just drop those styles right into the component file where they're referenced anyway? What concerns are you separating by keeping the css out in a separate file?

You also start having to rely on build-time tools like SASS and LESS to introduce the necessary features to handle complexity in a large, component-structured codebase: variables, scope, mixins, etc. All these things are trivial features of JS, so why not just use JS to put in the styles directly instead of doing it with css propped up by a complex tool-chain? What are you gaining by doing so, other than having the CSS in a separate file? And, again, why is this a good thing?

CSS is just a technology for applying styles to your markup. For many apps, it's in inferior technology to JS for doing this, particularly when using a framework like React.
No way. I thought that mugshot looked familiar...
I doubt Kneen will lose, my old startup PAID for a domain that was the legal name of another company held by a reseller, we didn't even file a counterclaim and they lost the dispute resolution process essentially because they were the low bidder.

(We both had trademarks in respective countries)
I purchased a domain name about 5-6 years ago that I had every intention of creating something for. However, time and resources have slipped away from me and I've simply not gotten to it and my interest in the project has waned.

In the mean time, I've been contacted about selling the domain twice. Both times, the persons who contacted me, have failed to follow through on the purchase. I continue to renew the domain name in the hopes that someday, I'll get to the actual project, or perhaps my kids will.

Having said that, there are lots of things that would benefit society as a whole if we aren't using them, cars, houses, money, etc. I would argue that a domain name may, in some miniscule way, benefit society as a whole, but let's not kid ourselves, there are far more important things to accomplish than suing someone over a domain name he bought 16 years ago.
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Yeah using a compass and a magnetic field model using GPS position should let you estimate the bias from the gyro.
Don't make assumptions.

Here's a possible explanation (but who knows):

At a certain page height, WebKit/Blink may change rendering behavior. It doesn't need to render elements that are far away from the viewport.
For what it's worth, I went to a presentation by Knuth on this exact section with a SAT expert who frequently commented how (for the presentation at least), significant amounts of relevant material had not been mentioned, and some techniques introduced were not particularly close to the state of the art, or good for educational purposes.

What I'm saying is that there's plenty of literature on SAT Solving already, and some of it is probably better.
I guess it depends on the idea of the concept car vs show piece of future production. I think some of the concept cars that GM/Ford/Dodge sometimes display are obviously concept cars that will never see the light of day. However, Tesla isn't really at that stage. So when they show a concept, it needs to be closer to reality. Toyota had a concept Rav 4 a few years ago that I really liked and had hoped they would put into production, they never did and it was extremely disappointing.

I guess what I'm saying is, if it's going to be a concept car, make it so outlandish that no one will believe it will be production.
That Feist v Rural case is interesting. The Feist Corp were not able to copyright telephone listings. I wonder if the telephone company itself could have laid claim to their copyright though.
I'd be a little worried if my countries finance minister starts posting about bitcoin...

Nothing against BT...but sheesh.
I like Scala, but it's still got mutable state, for loops, and lots of other imperative trappings. It's got some functional features, but I don't consider it to be a functional language (IMHO). If Scala is functional, then so are Ruby, JavaScript, and a host of other languages with higher order functions and the ability to be immutable, so long as you make the effort to not mutate anything (though anything is immutable by that logic). That doesn't make Scala bad. I actually enjoy writing it most days, but I think it's not quite accurate to call it a functional programming language.

For that matter, even Clojure has enough imperative parts that I don't consider it to be functional. Maybe I'm just overly strict in my definitions.

Anyway, Elixir qualifies, but isn't heavily used. I hope that changes some day, because it's a beautiful language. It manages to be principled about being functional, while also having an easy learning curve, and rock solid dependability. I want to see Elixir grow, because a language this good deserves to be popular.

According to the Red Monk rankings, Haskell is close to Scala in usage. The learning curve is much higher, but I love writing it. I love the clean, simple code that Haskell pushes me towards, and it usually does the right thing the first time I run it. It seems to be gaining traction lately, and Stack has me excited about the possibility of things ramping up even further.
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Space-based particle weapons?
The legal fees will be way more than that. They probably figured since he was out of the country they would get a default judgement. There's a new business model for you. go around filing lawsuits in different jurisdictions and get default judgements. Then go to the domain provider and get it swithced.
> It's easy to see how the world would be different if ESP worked

It's also easy to see how the world would be different if genetics played a significant role in the power distribution. I did not make vague allusions nor was the power structure I described slightly different: I described a chaotic, unstable, though rather uniformly distributed power. Just about the complete opposite of the power structure we have on this planet now.

True, we do not know how (or whether) the world would be different if genetic contribution were small, but neither do we know that for weak ESP (like in the infamous Derryl Bem experiment, where people could guess with a slightly better than random probability, one of two possibilities -- provided they were related to naked women -- a second or so into the future). Still, we don't put too much effort looking for weak ESP.

> In fact, we know it's false for height, skin pigment, and a variety of other easy to measure traits.

Oh, we know skin pigment affects power very well. It just does so with the mediating factor of society.

> But I guess it's completely impossible that some harder to measure trait might also exhibit similar variance.

So far it is you who are making vague allusions to mysterious traits that you are not even able to describe at all, let alone ascribe to genetics in any shape way or form, when a simpler explanation exists which so far explains observations rather well.

Is it impossible? Of course not! But what you're doing isn't too different from creationism. We can't disprove that, either.

If you have some better notions of what it is you're looking for, why you believe it may be genetic in spite of drastic revolutions in power distribution among the races -- occurring over mere centuries -- then we'll have something to study. You haven't even made a clear hypothesis let alone a falsifiable one.

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And I must say once again -- though of course it isn't enough to dismiss it -- that your case isn't at all helped by the fact that experiments have shown a strong desire in humans to believe in innate differences, even as very young children, who view social differences as hereditary, innate and immutable. It does us a lot of good to believe so: it absolves us of moral considerations, alleviates fear of change, and gives us a strong sense that what is is what should be. In short, it makes it easier for us to cope with the world -- just like religion. Religion (or magical thinking) and racism (or ingroup allegiance) appear at a very early age, and are possibly instinctual.

This is one example of a study (there are tons) by my friend's former research group: http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/.premium-1.528187
Exactly. It's still a separation of concerns, just a different set of concerns. Organizing my code by feature/component is so much easier on my brain than organizing it by file extension.

You can mess this up, of course. We are really good at making things more complex than they ought to be, especially while the ideas are fresh in our head. We just need to keep that in mind to :)
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> But who knows what negotiation talks actually happened?! The tone, the mood..

That is irrelevant, though. We know they didn't come to an agreement, yet Office Space (that's their name, really) pursued the domain transfer anyway. That is fraudulent in my book.
Yup, certainly true. In fact, the post alludes to the fact that tweets, being transitory in nature, may not be a great venue for marketing pushes like this... they're just too ephemeral in time for them to translate into real sales conversions. There's a reason why marketers on the internet and television see value in customers receiving multiple impressions... it helps to deliver and then reinforce an otherwise transitory message.
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OWASP Foundation:

We are in the last stretches of reviewing the OWASP Application Security Verification Standard 3.0, to be released at AppSec USA in September.
If you are an application lead, lead developer, developer, tester, pen tester, code reviewer, or auditor, please review the draft here: https://github.com/OWASP/ASVS/blob/master/OWASP%20Application%20Security%20Verification%20Standard%203.0.docx
We would also appreciate if you could pass this draft onto software engineers, practitioners, developers, CISOs, and architects. Please log any discovered issues here: https://github.com/OWASP/ASVS/issues
I don't get it, it's not really unexpected if you pass the name of the executable (which just happens to be a script) via a flag... used explicitly for passing an executable to run.

I mean, is it unexpected if `./my_command --execute-this-right-now=somescript.sh` executes somescript.sh?
What is the feasibility of this idea? Can it be scaled up from more than a 10 mile radius?
firefox is on a 6-week release schedule, and has been for a while. They increment a by whole number each time, but the for both chrome and FF they shouldn't really be thought of as .0 releases. It's a fairly minor, incremental change.
OWASP Foundation:

We are in the last stretches of reviewing the OWASP Application Security Verification Standard 3.0, to be released at AppSec USA in September.

If you are an application lead, lead developer, developer, tester, pen tester, code reviewer, or auditor, please review the draft here: https://github.com/OWASP/ASVS/blob/master/OWASP%20Applicatio...

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I'm no stock expert, but I still don't see how people are getting "screwed" by hft. If you are concerned about a price fluxation just place a limit order. Simple as that. If you don't care, then place a market order. There's always been someone out there with more information, smarter people, and now faster connections than you. It's never been a level playing field and will never be.
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I remember here some nasty comments about the previous owner of the dropbox.com domain (similar situation of an old unused domain), calling him squatter etc when Dropbox finally acquired it.
Can you elaborate? I'm having trouble making the connection from domain names to real estate.
But it has succeeded in being a viable desktop for software development for the web. I wouldn't call that a complete failure on the desktop.
I'm absolutely not trying to defend Harsh Mehta's tactics.

I'm just trying to start a conversation about the value of Kneen's sitting on a domain name he isn't using for 16 year.
Both archive.org and perma.cc are doing this. I believe currently anyone can use archive but only professionals can use perma.

Write something online, then save the link to one of these repositories.
I would argue more that Firefox opened the door and Chrome entered.
Maybe you should lecture him on it:
http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~cliff/CliffsVitaeLatest1206...
> quality rendering engine that has the same experience everywhere and gets updated with each major iOS release

That's the problem. Google can regularly update Chrome without updating the OS. Apple can't because it's a system app.

> Apple have always put the end Users Experience before Developers, so it's primarily focused on maintaining a fast, fluid browsing experience on iOS

Not really. They actually started backtracking on most of those. They even allow third party keyboards now, most of which are slower and harder to use than the stock iOS keyboard. Considering keyboard is a more integral part of the OS, it seems weird they still do not allow third party browsers.