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Perhaps the choice lies outside of the actual functionality of the web itself but instead in the OS and browsers.

Consider someone who ships their iOS app that is basically just a web page instead of using a web page. For doing this, they get two benefits that are not really related to the web. One, they get an icon to tab from the home screen to launch their app, instead of going to Safari and then going to their webpage. Two, they get to avoid having to go through Safari, which one could speculate is something Apple was already wanting them to avoid as it allows Apple to create a better walled garden (not to say Apple is the only one who does this, I'm only pointing them out because I used iOS in my example).

How would a change/upgrade in web standards allow for the web app to compete with the iOS app housing a web app on these two fronts?
As someone who knows C# & JavaScript well and has been occasionally playing around with Go, I think you've convinced me to give Kotlin a try for some Android development. Hopefully it's as easy to pick up as you say. It's been quite a while since I've done much of anything with Java.
I would venture to say that Packer/Mesos is far more important than Docker. You get automated full infrastructure builds from source or trusted binaries, and full cluster management. Docker is useful when you have many layers of apps turtled together as snowflake configurations.
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Found this new social app, has massive potential, its called Critizen and seems to be a Reddit beater with a little more gameification and focus on the user. Its at www.citizen.com
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They are actually a public company as you can buy stock in them.
Fabric is a great tool at first, but the problem is that it's always procedural. Want a deploy script? Write it. No other way around that.

Something that's more declarative is definitely superior. Why? Because it will be shorter and easier to debug. I am not a fan of `git push` as a deployment strategy (because git is a version control tool, not a deployment tool), but it does force you to create and use a system that's by definition declarative. This is why I use dokku for my new projects.
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> 1) 'docker logs' relies on using the json logdriver which means the log file is stored in /var/lib/docker/..... and grows forever. No rollover. No trimming. FOREVER.

Even without that issue, I'd prefer my logs to be centralised. So as well as my app should I be running a logging daemon, process monitoring, etc for each docker instance?
There was a bit of talk a few weeks ago around about creating a new classification, somewhere between W-2 and 1099, for people who aren't really contractors but aren't really full time employees either, but I can't find any of the articles.
The headline is misleading and clickbait-y.

The rule in question (3500 calories deficit results in one pound of weight loss) is mostly true, even if oversimplified. The fact that your metabolism drops as your weight drops just means that the calorie/day input needs to drop correspondingly to maintain the same deficit.

As the article states, the fact that the weight loss isn't entirely fat is a minor error. Thus, the 3500 calorie guideline is maintained, as long as you remember that it is a deficit and not a static amount.
During peak times, rainy days and the occasional government clampdown, got tired of having to constantly monitor Uber manually for an acceptably priced cab available nearby, so wrote a small Android app to automate the process a bit. This is absolutely trivial code written over the Uber developer APIs, but since I've already written it for myself, just throwing it out there in case anyone else finds it useful.
I'm surprised we aren't all reading this on shitty xerox workstations with black and white graphics...
The funny part is that Docker was supposed to be higher level.
In the kickstarter page, you say that "a private key is stored, which is encrypted using military-grade encryption methods with his fingerprint". How does this work? It seems to me that there is no way of encrypting data with a fingerprint (since it varies drastically depending on how it is placed on the scanner). So are you encrypting the RSA priv key with the fingerprint or just checking the fingerprint before using the key?

Also, how are you planning on getting websites to use jar for authentication?

Another question: "fully-encrypted cloud storage". But previously in the description you say "losing your JAR does not create a continuous lock-out for the user". How does this work?

How much storage is available on the jar?

Also, you say "The private key stored on your JAR is generated when setting JAR up for the first time, using your fingerprint as a random input". Do you have another source of entropy for the jar? Because a fingerprint does not have that much entropy (certainly not enough for a 2048 bit encryption key).
I'm surprised to see MongoDB as #1 in the db list, is it really now taught at colleges?

My favorite article on MongoDB: http://nyeggen.com/post/2013-10-18-the-genius-and-folly-of-m...
Strange that a recording artist would do this. :-) Makes one very cynical about his reasons for running for congress. And also very cynical about Mary following her father's footsteps.
Efficiency improvements (both in software and other areas) is the usual rationale. For example, this article[1] lays out some hypothetical economic benefits.

> I would not only have to keep track of the sun set and rise shift but as well as the working hours in that particular part of the world

The same issues exist currently when traveling. Instead of looking up the timezone offset, you would look up the sunrise offset. Any additional information (e.g. work schedule differences) are still a factor today; when visiting Spain you have to learn that dinners are late and siestas exist.

But this is not "my argument". While I think it would be an interesting experiment, I expect the transition costs of moving to a single global time to far outweigh any marginal efficiency gains for many, many years. What we have now is generally good enough (though if I had the power I would get rid of the sub-hour offsets and daylight savings time).

[1]: http://thejakartaglobe.beritasatu.com/archive/changing-times...
Do you have any plans for Geo functionality? We're working on a massive project that Aurora sounds perfect for, aside from the apparent lack of that feature.
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I first read this as satire of the complexity of musical sub-genres ("How do I find things like this song I like? Is there a name for it? ... wait, it's really just five people posting things on youtube?"). Then I realized that it might not be satire. Brilliantly played, if the former, and also if the latter. ;)
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I personally would prefer epoxy because just about anybody can apply it, whereas to safely cut traces on a motherboard requires someone with a modicum of technical skill, the purchase of suitable tools, hardware testing afterwards, etc.
Hey, that's neat. Thanks for the link!
This is one of the best ways in which you can illustrate how powerful the web is.
Well, it is over a decade old. I think I need to cross it off "cheap" also as its now impacted the far side of the price bathtub curve and costs a bit more than newer competitors. At least it is a relatively simple chip.
WebGL that more often than not crashes the browse, CSS animations that saturate an octocore ... one wonders if there are no more pressing matters.
metal-air fuel cells are in many respects even better. And with metal content around 50% they become weight comparable or better than 30% efficient ICE.
It's a much bigger idea than this one list, however people don't seem to 'get it' unless I show them an example list on a topic they love. I want to do the same for all of Voat. And then all of reddit. And then...well, I'd better not say lest you think I'm crazy :)
Hey, cool, trough of disillusionment!

That means we're like a year away from it being boring and just working, right?
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There will be a nice opportunity for a law firm to understand these rulings in every state to help service economy businesses scale quickly. With each state ruling, there will be different standards, and acceptable language in contractor agreements. As companies decide to scale quickly, they will need someone to tell them how to structure agreements in a way that doesn't invite lawsuits in each state.
That's the beauty of a vote-based system: enough people thought it was interesting, so it made the front page.
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I witnessed a scene like this a while ago and it was such a pure horror, that I still get tears in my eyes when recalling the event.

I was lying with my wife next to the pool, casually watching. A small boy, maybe 6 or 7 years old, stepped to the ladder and climbed down into the water, in a completely confident, unspectacular way. With the water up to his neck, he did not start to swim, though, but just continued downwards, slowly to the ground of the basin. I loved to enter the pool this way as a little boy as well.

The boy made no movement underneath the water, at all. He just sank to the ground and that was it. There was nothing suspicious, and it took us some time to realize that he would not come back up. I would guess roughly two minutes. Then we and some people in the pool realized he was not moving for too long. The boy was quickly recovered, lifeguards rushed in and reanimated the boy. It was a remote location and it took the emergency doctors 15 minutes to arrive, in which the boy was puking, caughing and barking his soul out. His mother was just 10 meters away when it happened and had a complete nervous breakdown when they reanimated the child in front of her eyes.

So there was a happy end, but we were shocked to the bones that a child almost drowned in plain sight, 4 meters away from us, WHILE WE WERE WATCHING THE CHILD DROWN. The disturbing point was, that this child showed absolutely no signs of panic - he did not wave the arms, tried not to grab something, made no swimming movements with the legs, just nothing!

A few weeks later I was back in the same water park (which has a dozen of pools and slides) with a group of 7 boys in that age celebrating a birthday. I can tell you, I had no real fun that day, desperately trying to track the bunch and not loose them for a minute.
Honest question: like what technology? Is there an area of technology that is relatively patent-free?
Yes - this seems to be a common design in DSPs. TI's c64x series is similar - 'instructions' are 32 bits wide and 8 of them are bonded together and issued simultaneously for a mammoth 256 bit instruction 'packet'.
I think the deployment is the weakest point of the Docker ecosystem.

The reason why I am using Docker is the forced honesty on the environment side, if your app runs on your laptop it does not mean it will run on the production boxes. If the Docker container runs on your laptop it gives you higher confidence that it will run on the production infra. No missing JARs, environment variables, misconfigured classpaths, etc.
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Satellites? I doubt it. Too expensive. Long-duration high altitude aircraft, maybe?
How much faster is Guile than elisp? I always believed that once an optimized Guile could replace elisp, it would greatly enhance the software built with Emacs.

http://emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacs
Exactly. Except that this supposed ratings system could potentially have a bigger impact on quality than the cable model, though I'm not entirely convinced.

I assume most channels make their income almost entirely off of advertisers, and channels which are not watched as frequently are presumably not paid as much. In the proposed system I would assume the idea is to decrease/remove advertising and content providers would be given a share of the revenue based on user ratings? Seems interesting, but probably not terribly practical. It seems this could devolve into clickbait hell pretty quickly.
I just started reading the book and he mentions the "Four Gears" model as more useful for B2C companies. Googling around, he seems to indicate he doesn't believe there's a real chasm between early adopters and pragmatists in the consumer space: http://www.cmo.com/articles/2014/6/13/geoffrey_moore.html
I was a lifeguard at a beach. I didn't have any dramatic rescues like the video, but you soon get a feeling of which kids are a little too adventurous and need keeping an eye on.

Your brain soon kicks into holding your breath while watching kids swim, if one is splashing around while you start to feel uncomfortable it's time to wade in and drag them to the surface.

Often for us it was the uneven sea bottom, someone takes a step forward and plunges out of their depth. Run over and hoik them out.

To this day, when the surf is up and I see toddlers paddling I get chills and can't stop watching them. Doesn't take more than an inch of water for them to fall and start rolling out with the backwash.
> Just for basic site visit and device type tracking?

Like Awstats?
To anyone who upvoted this, can you relate why one may consider using TCL today? What are it's strengths and weaknesses compared to other 'common' scripting languages ie python, lua, ruby, ... ? And why is translation and static compilation desireable?
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Perhaps the most Web 1.0 place on the Internet, which I mean as a compliment. I don't quite get the revision/comment setup, but it's great.
How about having 10 or so webcam watchers help the guards watch for drowning people in real time?

Edit: Ok it's a bad idea. I think I'd get PTSD if the guard didn't make the rescue.
> Configuration management software like Chef and Puppet is widespread, but feel too heavy handed for image building. I bet such systems will be phased out of existence in their current form within the next decade with containers.

Hmm, I don't think so. My reason is that, in addition to the maturation and feature growth of containers, there will also be feature growth in Puppet et al.
From a tech standpoint, yes. There are some pretty powerful interests that don't want to see the open web on mobile. Google and Apple get handsome cuts of all the revenue on their semi-closed platforms. Consumer demand may shift that, but I'm not holding my breath. The open web was an historical anomaly: historically the large information infrastructures have been nearly monopolized (telegraph, phone lines, cable/broadcast).
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I'm not too fixated on posix + containers. It's just what I'm familiar with.

It's more about what the complex web applications are trying to do: Run in an isolated context, run compiled code from whatever language the developer preferred and utilize various low level features in ways that people didn't predict in advance.

Basically, what's irritating is that the web standards committees are trying to hand-craft poor knockoffs of lower level APIs, one at a time in ways that are incompatible / don't interoperate well with existing native software. I mean you can't even pipe data in/out of a tab if you wanted to.

Instead it might be better to look at already existing APIs that have been refined over years + some security namespacing.
I think the real solution might be to reduce the number of classifications, but I doubt it would be particularly popular.
The FAA certification process is the largest limiting factor for bringing an unleaded fuel to the market. There are about 9 different formulations of unleaded fuels flying in experimental aircraft right now. I have my own "favorite", but it's unclear when, if ever, that will be available for sale to non-experimental aircraft.

The magazine article you reference says that 70% of aircraft could use (a lower octane) unleaded fuel available today. That's true, but paints an incomplete picture. That's 70% by aircraft, not 70% by flight hours or fuel consumed.

Cape Air and similar and other turbocharged piston aircraft are the ones that can't use the available unleaded "mogas". Those are also the aircraft that fly the most hours and thereby use the most fuel. Fixing the 172s and Cherokees doesn't move the needle much on TEL emissions.

I want to get rid of the lead from my aviation fuel, both for environmental reasons and for practical reasons. (Practically, it's a pain to deal with on the supply chain side, is expensive, there's only one manufacturer of TEL worldwide, it tends to gunk and foul plugs, etc.)

The FAA is the regulatory body that is presiding over this, much more than the EPA. End running the FAA to get the EPA to make another "lead is bad" proclamation won't do any good, IMO.

My engines can't burn any available and certified unleaded fuel.
It also doesn't imply it works or cant be gamed.
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Mongo and MySQL - it's like hackathon participants don't really care about data integrity at all :)
I assume this is a joke. This would be terrifying. The MPAA are trying to stop google from fairly distributing pages they disagree with. Google is net neutrality and should act as a dumb pipe utility in the sense that it returns the most relevant info based on your search.

If google returned empty pages for something it didn't agree with, the implications would be appalling.

Google should do during the spectrum wars when they bid on spectrum and territory to leverage telecom co.s. They should threaten to back netflix or start a studio to make movies and content. They already have distribution and funds.
This is correct. As your weight continues to drop you should recalculate your TDEE and reduce your food intake accordingly. Likewise if you are trying to gain weight.
In that case you have lithium oxide to take care of and you have heavier plane with each second (of course most of the fuel is wasted on lifting the plane, so it may be better)
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Please learn from Secret. There are some things you should choose not to build. This is one.
How to become a tech investing powerhouse: start by being an investing powerhouse. Seems like it was theirs to lose. And they nearly have several times.
Fully agree.

That's why you should talk to the points and not make personal statements like "you shouldn't give advice".
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I really enjoyed this conference, specially the talks on CSP, Mobile, The new GC and "What Could Go Wrong". I also hope to see Kelsey Hightower in stage again in GopherCon 2016, he was awesome as MC.
Is this similar to HP's memrister effort reported in Wired recently? Sounds like it. "Memory with the density of Flash and speed of RAM."
While I agree with the general idea, I completely and utterly disagree with both his examples and approach.

First, it's almost like he's arguing that IE6 was a good thing for the web. This one completely boggles my mind. Yes, some people came up with some pretty creative tricks. Did it stifle innovation? Absolutely. Countless hacks were made that are arguably(?) worse than polyfills. These hacks persist even to this days. Further, modern browsers must take all of these hacks into account when moving the web forward. This is massive technical debt. Additionally, how many man hours were spent creating these hacks to deal with the shortcomings of IE6? That time could have easily been spent working on something awesome.

The other example on page transitions is a bit more reasonable, so I'm being a little pedantic on this one. I agree that page transitions are a bit much, however why is a polyfill really necessary?

All that being said, I agree with the general sentiment. We need to slow down and put thought into the features we're creating. However, I don't think we need to stop working for a year and see how everything plays out. What happens after 5 years? We stop for a year and continue as if none of this ever happened, then continue pushing things forward for 4 more years. Then we run into the same exact problems. We need to have a way to vet experimental features, and a plan to remove them (and old features) if they don't pan out.

We've progressed far enough to where removing legacy features is as (if not more) important as introducing new ones.
I think the fact that music is so easy to get for free makes it difficult to assess what value people would place on it if that outlet wasn't there. Surely some portion of the pirates would pay for the music they're torrenting if it wasn't available for free.
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Yeah, I assume everyone is joking or something. Do we really want google to set such a precedent? Killing pages of things they or their affiliates dislike. Scary.
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"it has yet to disrupt production"
This overused buzzword in context of production looks ridiculous.
Upvoted that article. I am tired too. I am not contributing to browser development, but I just want to get more work done instead of spending more and more time on learning.
It doesn't connect containers across nodes though, so it's use in realistic production scenarios is limited.
From the notes, this has landed:

A replacement for contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir that does not rely on symbolic links and make sharing of objects and refs safer by making the borrowee and borrowers aware of each other. Consider this as still an experimental feature; its UI is still likely to change.

Let me play this up a bit: This is first-class support for multiple working trees per repository. There was a contrib script that could handle this to some extent, but had its warts.

This SO post provides a bit more color on the new feature, the `git worktree` command:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6270193/multiple-working-...
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