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Disclaimer: Canadian, we abolished pennies because they are worthless and a pain in the ass. ;)
Even if nobody ever uses the app to switch, it got some chuckles during the keynote, and gives us iDevice users a cheap laugh. Of course, I don't give a damn what phone you use. Both operating systems are good, and both offerings have good hardware. The only "defensive move" seen here is people on both sides trying to protect their choice of device against criticism from other people. Stop caring what people think about your phone. And stop caring about other people's phones. Everyone wins!
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Imagine you broke someone's leg. Would you rather kill the person and pay $1000, or spend the rest of your life in prison? Letting the person live and paying them $1000 isn't an option. You either get away scott-free, or ruin your life. I can completely understand a culture in which the reality of the consequences makes people choose the lesser punishment.
The solution isn't to increase the punishment for killing someone on the street. The solution is to abolish the ridiculous costs associated with merely injuring someone, especially if that injury comes from an accident.
Of course what's absolutely a joke is people acting all aghast about another country's culture from behind their white picket fences. You do realize that if you were born in their country, you would have the exact same perspective? What the fuck is with this high and mighty bullshit? Your upbringing in a privileged society doesn't make you better than those from less privileged societies, it just makes you privileged. Be thankful your day-to-day routine doesn't involve having to worry about the possibility of having to kill someone in order to keep your pristine life intact.
You say you've forked out money for both PHPStorm/PyCharm and the expensive IntelliJ. I thought IntelliJ automatically supports all the language addons, so why separate copies of the language-specific bundles? Am I wrong about IntelliJ, or did you just happen to buy that one last?
All too often, we think of staging as nothing more than a clone of the development environment on a remote server where QA can get at it. If you run your load balancer (haproxy), web server (apache, nginx), database (mysql, postgres, mondo, elasticsearch), caching (memcached, redis) all on a single server for staging, you're eventually going to stumble on this kind of hard-to-diagnose problem.
One of the main disservices you are doing to yourself with a single-server staging is that all of your traffic is going to be travelling over localhost or, worse, over unix sockets. You're not even testing basic network latency or performance.
Staging should really be considered a first-level production. Its configuration and maintenance should be handled with the same attention to detail as production.
Properly theming (at least in 3.x) took a lot of effort. Just try to make a theme whereby at first glance, you can't tell that Bootstrap was used. It's not that it's not possible to do, it just took a lot of time and effort to nitpick over every detail.
In professional environments (ie: real flesh and blood companies), developers cannot say "we're using Bootstrap's default theme". The business has designers, the designers come up with a design, and unless the developer can customize Bootstrap to accommodate the requirements, in a reasonable amount of time to meet deadlines, Bootstrap is simply not an option outside of using the grid system.
I don't understand how people manage this. I fall asleep in less than 5 minutes if I lie down while the Sun is up in the morning, and stay solidly asleep until an appropriate number of hours have passed. Going to bed in the dark, I can toss and turn for anywhere from 30-120 minutes before finally dozing off.
Night owlism is real, and it's seriously debilitating to be required to conform to working a 9-5/10-6 job. It's Friday night, so I get to live my weekend hours. It's 2:30am now, and I'll be up another few hours. Whenever I am on vacation, or between jobs, I instantly swap to a nocturnal schedule. It is extremely painful to have to work during the day, to the point where I burn out after 12-18 months at a job. For the first time in a decade, I've almost made it 2 years at a single employer. That time is running out. I need a reversion back to my normal hours for a while. :(
I know we're not supposed to post negative comments that don't "add value" to a discussion, but the only thing that comes to mind is "really?". Your setup is as secure as you make it. How you use your API access is up to you. Putting all your eggs in one basket is not insecure. This article doesn't actually bring to light anything important. There is no risk involved so long as you pay attention to what you are doing.
Any set of credentials, if leaked, destroys security. So... don't set yourself up to leak your credentials? I mean, come on, seriously?
*edit: I unfairly used the word "incompetent". Change to a phrase about paying attention to what you are doing.
This is the reason why I can't believe we're not all on IPv6 yet. You would think that the online advertising industry would have done everything in their power to push IPv6, at any cost. 90%+ of people on IPv6 will literally have a unique identifier FOR LIFE on every device they own. Marketers can now pinpoint down not just to an IP address that identifies a single NAT interface, but each individual device.
I hope that operating systems and/or routers will provide the option to rotate each IPv6 address on a routine basis. It would also be nice if ISPs would rotate the block that is handed out to each customer, but this is unlikely to happen. Every phone, every tablet, every PC, every thermostat, every door lock, every fridge... uniquely identifiable from the day it is hooked up to a network. :(
Please provide a real-world example of when this has most recently happened in any situation important enough to actually "count". The abuse exists everywhere you look, and there is never, ever, any serious backlash against it. The problem is that 99.99% of the population can care, but it only takes 0.01% willing to take advantage of the remaining population.
There will never be a sense of justice in such things. People who want the power will always take it, and there is nothing that will change that. Cynicism is not a negative trait, it's the bloody goddamn truth of our species. It sucks, but that's how things work. There is no changing this. It's simply not in the cards. Anyone who disagrees is either full of themselves or totally blind to the way the world works.
4 years in, no profit. After 5 years, they became "profitable before marketing costs", which was the largest business expense (in the millions).
Huh. I should dig and find out if they still call themselves a startup from 2009.
If you have a passion about anything at all, good for you. Preaching its importance to the world at large means very little to those who don't share your interest. You might introduce a few new people to a topic which they will then grow into themselves, but the majority of your words will fall of deaf ears.
Fanatics of science are especially prone to this problem, because of this idea that it's all based on facts and improving life, and so surely every single damn person on the planet HAS TO CARE.
Not to mention that the real science buffs typically can't even begin to understand that _not everyone thinks the way they do_. Brainy people tend to think everyone else alive must be as curious and obsessed with details about every aspect of life. You know what, some people are very happy living without daily intellectual bombardment.
Basically, dead man's switch is not even remotely guaranteed to work.
And of course the truly interesting experiment: a child born in space, who spends their entire life there. Of course, "child abuse" means this will not happen in our lifetimes. Let alone seeing what 2-3 generations of space-bound life results in.