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ISC comes to mind - https://www.isc.org/

Didn't you get the silly valley memo? The sheep that use our products aren't people. They're wallets with intent, and it's our job to program that intent.

I remember my dad going to all of our family gatherings and baseball/basketball/soccer games with his trusty Canon A-1. He passed it along with a few of the lenses he no longer needed when he moved to a Canon SLR, and it's been my trusty sidekick when documenting family gatherings and niece/nephew's baseball/basketball/soccer games (though it helps my {brother,sister}s{,-in-law} don't share pictures on Facebook - they want a nice scrapbook like their parents had for them).

Yes, but you need to look at the ROI. If it costs more to keep these people on and train them than it would to get the community to do these things then IBM is rationally externalizing these costs. They're not a charity.

That said, I agree that if they need support for these things internally, long term, and consistently, then it makes more sense to train up staff internally.

Are or were any of them experts on the things that IBM wants done? Are the involved in the communities that IBM wants work done in? If not, then they're still a net drain while they come up to speed, and engaging these communities and spreading out some money in the form of bounties makes sense.

On the flip side, I think those that have been more fortunate (as in acquiring obscene wealth) have a duty of noblesse oblige to the society and people that helped them get there.

The fact that so many shop at Walmart is what keeps the Walton family wealthy. Why would it be wrong to expect them to pay that back in some way? Nobody is saying they should go broke doing it, but they owe their success not only to their business acumen and good decisions but to the people that continue to shop there in the face of alternatives.

Also, many high schoolers coming in are playing with "house money" - easy credit for student loans, daddy's money, and scholarships and grants focused at high school kids.

Adults going in and paying their way are more likely to stay focused and complete.

One of the features of Snaps is that they explicitly automatically update. From the front page of https://snapcraft.io/:

"Automatic updates for everyone"

If you don't want your software to automatically update then don't use a distribution format where the software automatically updates.

The author explains his reasoning for PDF for this document here: https://arachnoid.com/latex/why_latex_pdf.html.

The author also has a Hacker News profile: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lutusp

Ted Cruz would not be satisfied with just ruining the lives of 37 people.

Bootcamps can be viable if you want to be a computer programmer, but if you want to learn CS then a bootcamp will leave you ill prepared.

Untrue. Get majorly sick or in a major accident and lose your insurance because your job finds a reason to restructure your department. Trust me, you will enter financial desperation very quickly while you wait for the social safety net to catch up, and by that time you're thousands of dollars in debt, likely already out of your house, and totally screwed.

Who says technology doesn't have a sociopath problem

It also got the US Intelligence Community off they are back as it gives them a single point of interception.

Nobody is going to steal your Dunning-Krugerands

This reminds me of the concept of censor-bait in movies. Filmmakers sometimes include over the top, obviously gratuitous scenes, images, or language in their films so that the MPAA ratings board feels like they've done something when it's cut to later make an R or PG-13 rating.

This feels like Google inviting in regulation here so that lawmakers can feel like they've done something good and just, and that Google can later rely on this saying, "Hey now, we're not fighting regulation! We invited you in to look at the bail bonds thing!"

Iran is primarily Shi'a and Saudi Arabia is primarily Sunni.

Saudia Arabia and Wahhabism are also responsible for 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11.

I use GPU passthrough and run games in Windows under KVM with equal or slightly less (~3-5%) frames. Photo manipulation and graphic design work fine in Photoshop in my setup. Not so sure about video editing.

I have a mac mini for my study desktop (use it to shell into machines to develop, watch YouTube tech videos, and listen to music with iTunes from my NAS), but every time I think about buying an MBP I remember the horror stories from watching Louis Rossmann's videos on YouTube and think "Do I really want to drop almost $2,000 on a device that is going to break down because it's more slick than it is well constructed?"

I've had zero problem installing Python and pyenv from Homebrew and just getting things done.

Or the other way around - Windows under kvm on Linux.

Why? If anyone can print the cards and therefore play the deck that they want then the game comes down to a limited amount of luck (as decks are randomized before play) and skill in both play and construction of decks.

This has become a more pronounced issue as realistic counterfeits of Magic: The Gathering cards that are no longer in print and in some cases cost more than a car are starting to appear on the market. They can be detected by a trained eye, but to they look "close enough" to a casual or even sharp observer. While the people producing the cards and discussing their quality often say "these cards are intended for use in decks but not to trade or sale as if they were real cards", some in the wider Magic: The Gathering community feel very strongly that legal action should be taken against the producers, sellers, and in some cases, even the users of these cards.

On a practical side, using non-genuine, non-WotC produced cards is against sanctioned tournament rules - from Friday Night Magic up to the Pro Tour, but what right do others have to tell me what I can and cannot allow in non-sanctioned play or at Commander night with my friends?

That said, my friends and I often "cheapass draft" in our homes - we generate random boosters, print them on paper, cut and fit them atop bulk commons in sleeves, and then draft/battle for the cost of six sheets of color laser print. No money changes hands, we're never going to try and pass off these obvious printouts as anything other than playtesting.

Just figured I'd expound on the ethics - both societal and personal - around this topic since you questioned them.

This is just a virch to appear on board with wider trends in the community, and addressing the issue you raised give StackOverflow no more recognition, advertising revenue, or standing in the community.

Invalid for tournament play, certainly, but between two kids for playground bragging rights, not invalid if the people playing the game agree beforehand.

If the address is used you must refuse.

There are few things more ideologically pure than Google's employees.

I've made a note to ping Jason Scott and Archiveteam about this on IRC when I get home.

After you take depreciation, wear-and-tear, insurance, and maintenance into account?

If only the media wouldn't feed the electorate the message that voting is pointless because they already know who is going to win in a landslide!