ChrisArgyle

Isn't it odd that this press release spends so much time discussing encryption? Neither the FBI nor Apple will be touching any encryption functions of the device.

It seems the primary aim of this statement is to prevent rumors that would spook Apple users into thinking their data is fair game

Don't forget early OS X. So slow it was nearly unusable until performance improvements in 10.3.

> The way I see it, pip and virtualenv are not practical for deployment or distribution. You shouldn't have to download and install things during a production deployment. I even created a tool (https://github.com/objectified/vdist) to mitigate this problem, but it will always be a hack when doing it this way.

Please excuse my newbness but doesn't python wheel do most of this (besides compiling to a single package)?

The goal being Alice will transmit her methods and habits to the entire team.

Hopefully by then someone will notice Alice should be a team lead or manager due to her pragmatic and customer focused nature.

I remember this well. Especially when it came to browser compatibility.

The big reason I remember from my PHP days (late 90s early 2000s) is that you want to separate design from development.

Graphic designers were expected to know HTML/CSS while developers focus on PHP.

A support rep's main job is to put the customer at ease. The more details the customer has to contend with the more stressed out they are.

The best action here would be explain that there was an internal process issue at Tesla, apologize and then make an offer to reconcile the error.

edit: wording

So many red flags, time to find a new job. The big one I recognize from a previous job is the 2AM feature implementation. In our shop it generally went like this:

* Sales, having trouble closing a sale, promises a non-existent feature

* Customer tries to use imaginary feature, calls sales to complain

* Developers have to drop what they're doing and implement imaginary feature full steam

edit: formatting

There is a huge cultural/generational component to it. There are some people who you just cannot wire to be suspicious. Either hire the right people or build security into your processes.

About 7 years ago I had a job where we supported almost every Unix all the way back to AT&T SVR3 (including OpenServer, UnixWare, HP-UX, AIX, Linux, OSF/1). With the exception of SVR3 every single one had binary packages for Perl 5.

tl;dr Even climate change deniers must face that fossil fuels are polluting our air and water and are eventually going to run out. Investing in clean energy is just pragmatic and doesn't make you a tax-and-spend liberal.

+1 on the Caustic recommendation. The mobile version is perfect when you want to explore ideas without being chained to your workstation.

My mother expatriated Cuba when she was in her 20s and this is exactly her experience. Basically, if you're not important to The Party you're on your own.

My thesis advisor had a saying about crackpot physicists: The easiest way to get noticed is to say that Newton is wrong, Einstein is wrong.

To my knowledge none, but there do exist problematic constants that we can't measure consistently. Famously, measurements of the gravitational constant G vary in a pattern that repeats every 5.9 years. There are a few theories about this systematic error but no solid supporting evidence in experiment form.

tl;dr No constants have been proven not-constant but there are some that might be pending further research

tl;dr Prisons are designed like their goal is not reform but waste containment. Also, your sentence doesn't really end after your release due to housing/job restrictions, societal biases against ex-cons.

A pretty good read but nothing that hasn't been said before. Skip it if you've seen Orange is the New Black or Vice's "Fixing the System"

^D^D should do it

And now I know what I'm doing for April 1st next year.

This topic definitely needs a lot more discussion but, unfortunately, the author mischaracterizes the strongest argument against `curl|bash`: trust.

> Most package managers will even execute scripts from the package at install time – as root. So in reality, although curl|bash looks scary, it’s really just laying bare the reality that applies to every popular package manager out there: anything you install can pwn you.

Security-minded individuals are well aware that binary package systems execute code with arbitrary privileges. That's why we only use packages from trusted sources. RedHat, for example, is bound by their commitment to investors. They would be completely ruined if their software channels were compromised.

Some person with a GitHub account? Not likely.

The number you really want is the size of the market that Chile sold in. More than likely this is much smaller than the total worldwide production.

I couldn't disargee more about Microsoft's current place in tech markets. They've lost quite a lot of weight since their 800lb gorilla days in the 90s.

They used to exploit their dominant market position to replace de-facto standards with their own: kerberos "extensions", creating ActiveX instead of just implementing NPAPI, removing JNI from the MS JVM. But they can't do that any more. They lost too much ground under Ballmer.

Now they're nearly tripping over themselves promoting their cross-platform tolerance. Run Linux in our cloud! Run our apps on all the platforms! Sync/connect our apps/devices to any service!

Source: Age 34, started with Linux in '97 (Slackware 3.2)

The author's take on ad blockers is quite alarmist. There are plenty of obvious solutions and counter-arguments:

* Is it fair that you collect and sell data on your users without telling them exactly what that data is? Do you think they'd continue patronizing your site if they knew up front?

* Create a mobile app for your content and enforce its usage

* Bring ads on premise. Back in the 90s we all hosted and sold our own ads.

* Pivot. The world only needs so many BuzzFeeds.

Ignorance easily explains this unfortunate, embarrassing incident.

The boy's father is from Sudan and is well known for being outspoken against anti-Islamic policies. To an unworldly south/midwesterner that spells "potential terrorist". It's not too much of a stretch to see that diagnosis extended to the son.

This is the exact article that taught me decorators. Simple, to the point, well-written examples with helpful sample output. A very efficient way to learn decorators.

From the national anthem of Canada, O Canada:

"The True North strong and free"

Same paper that suggested America planned the Charlie Hebdo attack [1]. Next.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/1134...

Same experience here running a client's email server (Postfix, Dovecot, SpamAssassin, ClamAV) for 2 years.

Spam filtering techniques (and subsequent techniques for circumventing them) are constantly changing.

Unfortunately this article neglects one of Gmail's strongest features: superb turnkey spam filtering.

Anyone with an email address older than 5 years is going to be buried in spam thus will need spam filtering with a super low false positive rate.

It's one of those dark, dirty corners of physics theory that doesn't have a great conceptual explanation (like wave function collapse). The math works but we honestly don't have a great understanding of "what's really happening".