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Any rewrite or big change is a gamble. By setting this metric they avoid performance degradation. I'm admitting that I'm just assuming this, but the changes are probably a start for easier future optimization. Setting two big targets: make it a lot faster and make it a lot better, seems to me like a mistake.

Land hasn't changed, but the right to own it certainly did. In the late roman republic state owned some land but most of it was owned by large estates of slave owners. And working the land or being in the military was mostly the only way to make a living.

So land was a much more important commodity, therefore I don't think you can't compare it reasonably with today.

Is this really an argument? I could just say there's no proof that google intended for the device to act as NSA proxy, and you could say there's no proof that ....

Thanks! TIL and I will actually need this info next month :)

Not an expert on this.

This doesn't seem secure. How are you confident you don't allow people to misuse your s3 bucket?

Strictly speaking of ads - what happens when someone is using VPNs, let's say because the are contracted by an american company?

I like your idea, I'm just curious how this would work? Google might find themselves in violation of the law.

What do you think?

How about a yearly national tax proportional with the amount ad buyers pay for targeting a country - the argument here is that Google, Facebook, etc. are using a national infrastructure to do their business.

YES! cause nobody reads news.ycombinator while taking a dump.

Throughout history a lot of highly educated people feared the worst and argued why it might happen. It's not like they are prophets of doom, they don't assure people it will happen, they just express fears that it might happen, usually with reasons to back it up - and that's OK, people tend to not think about problems proactively. If society is introduced to a new problem it's usually a good thing.

In his case in particular, I feel there's a big disconnect between what he's saying and what the titles end up being. For example, he says there's a possibility we could live in a simulation and explains why, only to end up with a title like "Elon Musk thinks we live in the Matrix".

You could always say he knows more then most of us (classified research, etc.), but I think he's just talking about things that he fears _could_ happen and the media, and society, instead of engaging in some discussion about this, just treats it as tabloid - "look what Musk says, shock!".

An exaggeration could be written for any language. A decent programmer would not write code like the one you showcased as an example for callback hell.

This https://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/2.5.x/javadoc-api/org/spr... is not an exaggeration and I still would not use it to showcase how I felt when I had to work with Java developers.

What's wrong with free trade?

We're also a lot more sedentary. I am convinced without being able to produce proof, that this is the biggest problem - the lack of physical work.

I used to believe we eat shit, but my ancestors were really poor and basically ate just a few food types most of their life. I think I've come a long way and am convinced that, even if I were to eat a very occasional McDonalds, it'd still be eating a lot better. It's a lot more diverse and that really makes a difference. Don't know about you but I very rarely eat the same thing two days in a row.

Meaning: Ember doesn't have a big company actively spending money on marketing, like Angular - Google and React - Facebook.

Making assumptions like this is a dangerous habit.

1. React and Ember are different things, one is a framework, the other is not.

2. Ember 2.0 was a backwards compatible evolution of 1.0 that shifted the approach from MVC (old state of the art) to a more components based approach (similar to React in concept, not in implementation). Tom Dale was instrumental in making this happen, he didn't just ship v1 then proceeded to use React while doing some sad Ember support on the sidelines.

3. Why would he be one of them? Angular 1.x was the best thing for many JS developers, yet React came along. Why wouldn't the React developers just love Angular 1? There's a possibility that React will loose popularity to another solution.

4. Popularity is one potential indicator of how good a solution is. Despite it's popularity, many seasoned JS developers heavily disliked Angular 1.x because it felt like an overengineered-java-like-approach to building web apps. There are many seasoned JS programmers who are moving away from React to other solutions (Angular 2, Ember) because they have other pain points now, than 2 years ago. For example, Tom Dale once told me that he doesn't like redux as a solution for keeping the entire app state - yet Redux is all the rave now in Reactland.

5. JS (similar to PHP) has huge numbers of junior developers that can't build a web app on their own yet are working inside teams and are, in various degrees, competent at doing specific tasks. Almost all of the junior developers I know have heard of React and want to work with it despite not having the least understanding of what problems it solves and what problems it adds.

I like how you phrased this. I have a similar feeling about this but I couldn't express it so clearly.

It helps people who don't know JS code for JS. And it helps people like c# / java devs just writing code without learning more that typescript. This is very powerful but it also can lead to Enterprise-like code writing.

This is stupid. Those guys are breaking e-mail accounts using exploits that were probably dumped on an IRC channel.

That city is renowned for cybercrime, but if you actually go beyond the media frenzy you find out that the vast majority are phishing and fake ebay accounts. They even brag about how they fool other people into buying fictional cars - I know this because I met some of these people.

There are no true hackers in HackersVille, only some people - journalists - who have almost no idea about how computers and the internet works but insist on refreshing this story every year.

Chrome OS is a browser in a linux box ....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microkernel search Windows or NT. OS X, Linux and NT don't use microkernels.