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Is this really practical for small time items? Does this happen at scale, or there's some other mechanism to create fake reviews? Seems like the practice is widespread, all real purchases?

Could somebody explain the mechanism for creating "verified purchase" fake reviews? Somebody actually bothers to go through trouble of doing a purchase and creating a fake review? Anybody has any factual examples? Any pay for services that can be used? Seems like an area just waiting to be investigated by a media outlet...

Isn't this the same old news from a week or two ago? Something about a letter from lawyers of guy that worked at Uber, that contains various allegations, some of which the guy now refuses to acknowledge. Very confusing.

Your public lands? Under attack. Your Internet? Under attack. Your government funding? Under attack. What do you get? Nothing. Prepare to get f$cked over by your friendly republican majority.

At this point I normally assume that if Google does something a certain way, or uses a particular proprietary technology, then it likely should NOT be used.

I work for a place that tried to model itself culturally after Google and Facebook and has had a lot of engineers moving back and forth. If Google is anything like us, then it creates wrong incentives to invent in-house stuff. See, in their expense scheme the salaries of engineers are not a huge deal. It's cheap to have people do things. There is also an incentive for an engineer to try and "leave a mark". There are also a bias to hiring new and unexperienced people, who fail to learn the existing tech and replace it with something different, simpler and less functional (by the time it matures, it becomes just as complex, however).

I live in Java world, so I am seeing Google reinvent (poorly) every bit of Java tech: DI (Dagger), build tools (Gradle), commons libraries (Guava) and the list goes on and on. Well, apparently, they also reinvented internally Git, Jenkins and the rest of the tools. The rest of us should probably NOT do it this way.

"Go is a better* C" It seems like Go is propelled into popularity by people discovering the joy of C/POSIX programming for the first time.

Some of us remember, however, why we left C behind (it does not work beyond a certain degree of complexity). Why would I want to do Web programming in C? We spent years creating better tools for this.

Billings, MT is a horrible shithole. I don't know of any other town along any major road between Colorado and any other place west, where I would have less liked to stop. Pollution, chemical industry, grim setting, run down downtown... The weather is awful too, summers too hot, winters too cold.

Meh. The sons of bitches will do whatever they want. Bend over, America!

There's definitely an element of jealousy about Uber. It's the largest startup, still not public and very selective in hiring.

That's silly. Uber has a revolving door with Google and Facebook. Nobody is getting screwed, or it would not work to hire people away.

That concealing was a year ago. Now discovered by an internal investigation and disclosed. CEO has been different for a few months too.

Good for us. Thanks, Google.

The thing about Go I do not get is why somebody would go back to essentially C to develop modern code? The tools are lacking, the language features are lacking, the libraries are lacking, so why?

Go is still garbage collected language, so in a sense it combines the most problematic features of C and Java.

Not sure about using Spring for creating Web services (most use JAX-RS), but otherwise Spring is great. Not sure what we would do without it. The two major aspects are the dependency injection and just sheer number of service libraries to do anything imaginable.

I generally try to stay away from strong opinions and assume that when something has an opinion there may be a reason behind it, but in the case of Spring and Java, I have concluded that those not using or familiar with Spring are simply clueless jokers.

The fact that the old Uber HR did nothing to prevent sexual harassment clearly puts the blame on (upper) management. Yet, the specific cases involved people lower down the chain, and it is indeed a revolving door between Google, Facebook and other prominent tech companies. The same bad actors are still around and just have moved on.

What happens to all those "older developers" when they reach the ripe old age of 50? (or 40) Surely, not everyone makes enough money to retire at 50. There can't be enough management positions for everyone either. So, where?

The scariest part here is that surgeons are concerned with being "marketing experts". Single payer.

This is a fair point. What I meant is that I think the usability niche for Go is similar to that of C. Is that a fair statement?

I was unfair to Go and this is because I seem to see many cases where Go is brought to where it does not fit.

Wow, who uses Office these days? I thought everyone has migrated to the cloud docs. Have not seen a Office file in years now...

Cool! A variant of C language, makefiles... Now all I need is a tower PC with Windows NT 4.0 on it and I'll be all set!

On another thought... no. I'll stick in 2017 with modern tools and languages.

Sounds doubtful.

Worst Internet is not on the Navajo res (UT, AZ)? Not in Hanksville, UT or a bunch of other small towns in Southern Utah? I am not even talking about ranches in places like Robbers Roost canyon complex.

Nothing in Colorado is really remote and unpopulated. Roads and people are everywhere. Maybe San Juans qualify for remote wilderness somewhat.

Yep. Just look at Fox News front page: only crime and scare mongering, everywhere, from politics to everyday life. People wired to be afraid of life and looking for a strong figure in politics end up being Republicans. These and the religilous.

I thought Waymo thing has essentially fizzled, no?

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/07/07/waymo-drops-most-paten...

If I am flying to Austin I am not going to bother with "local competitors". I just want to know whether "Uber is in Austin" or "Uber is in Russia". Yes? I will factor this into my travel plans. No? Not going to even bother. The barrier of entry for an app to MY iPhone device is very high. The barrier of my trust into a company is even higher. However much somebody might like to hate Uber, it is irreplaceable, precisely because they are manically expanded into everywhere in the world.

Nothing there. The article says "maybe they will fire CTO and Graves" and then goes on to discuss how bad it would look. The initial premise however is that the firings would be done to make the company look better. Makes zero sense and contains no new information.

Ah, Gila!

Everything that I have seen on the ground makes me think that livestock can't be beneficial for an ecosystem, be it a desert or a forest. All I have seen from cows in the west is damage. The times have changed. The economy is different. The priorities of the country and people's attitudes have changed (conservation). It is time to get cows off public lands where it makes little economical sense.

BTW, in your case it is not grey wolf, but even a more endangered mexican wolf, correct? These are critically endangered, if I remember correctly.

In western states (like Utah) if you hit a cow on a highway you are going to pay for both, the car repairs and the cow. People die all the time: black cows, open road, after dark, the cows are invisible.

Ranchers are free to buy their own grazing land have their own rules there. On the federal land, the fed makes the rules.

"I honestly don't think people understand how important rachers are to the ecosystems, a thousand times more important than wolves."

All right I'll bite. Where in Arizona? Mogollon Rim? Arizona Strip? The Kaibab?

Aside from these above Arizona is desert. The desert is fragile. The cows destroy the desert. The American West (deserts) are mountains of cow shit. Every stream, every spring, every alcove is fouled if the cows can get in. The cows are the biggest destructive force in the desert I have ever seen.

The saddest part is that the open range ranching in desert Southwest is not even profitable without large subsidies and support by the taxpayer. These ranches are "pretend cowboys" making a living by other means. A handful of cows they own does not really help anyone and the costs of us all are huge.

Now, to the forested parts of Arizona. The Kaibab and the Arizona Strip are essentially a park land. If not for cows, it would be a pristine wilderness. This is all federal land. We do not need cows there either. 6 months ago I went on foot from Bryce to Nankoweap. The cows on Kaibab wreck havoc just like everywhere else. The Kaibab is dotted by swaths of open areas made by ranchers years ago for grazing, still nothing grows.

What is really important for any ecosystem I am aware of, is to NOT have cows and ranching. We have enough developed and rich land in other places. Please leave the West alone! Please go to Texas where all land is private and raise your livestock there.

This said, fewer cows and higher beef prices would help in general as well.

RMNP has to cull elk because we lost the natural top predator in the ecosystem (the wolf). With this comes the chronic wasting disease (which has now spread across the west).

We don't have wolves because of the rancher and hunter lobby. The majority of the public in Colorado supports wolf reintroduction.

Fortunately, this is going to change, whether they want it or not: the wolves travel large distances and have already appeared in Colorado. I would not be surprised if somebody would actually transfer or release some sanctuary animals. The Wind Rivers has wolves, then it's 100-150 miles to Snowy Range and then the Front Range is right there. Just give it time and protection.