It also said that it can develop naturally, without human intervention. I think it's a stretch to say that the software we create can develop naturally.
Absurd, the price of albuterol has gone up 10 fold since patents have been reinforced on it. When companies have patents on life saving drugs they can charge whatever they want. If they have no patent, they are forced to keep the price low enough so no one wants to compete.
Not true. Patents increase the incentive for people to do hard research and development. Whether or not that increased incentive is necessary is debatable.
I don't think workers, in the united States at least, are fighting for their share. Marketing efforts by the capital side have rendered the working side a helpless lamb ready for the slaughter. But if a symbiotic relationship becomes parasitic, sometimes the host is destroyed, taking the parasite with it.
You're argument assumes that all cost is labor which is obviously not true. The higher a percentage of cost that is labor, the better of most people are, since they work. To put it simply, if everyone in the service sector made double, prices wouldn't double. The only people who would suffer are people who make most of their money through capital gains. Even many of them would benefit to have a healthier economy, margins can be replaced by volume. You would also see a spike in prices for limited resources that many can't afford, but innovation usually solves that problem. If you want a good empirical data on this, see the institution of minimum wage. Contrary to the naysayers predictions, there was little inflation and overall, a better economy.
Considering they are pushing cost for vehicles, vehicle maintenance, insurance, payroll taxes, fuel, unemployment insurance and uniform onto their workers, I'd say they are paying peanuts. You'd have to shortsighted to see why this is worse than a normal job. I'd also guess that the rates will drop the minute they get some traction, just like Uber.
The biggest thing they offer that other carriers are missing is that your kids won't run up a $1000 bill on their service, nor will they be shut off when they hit the cap.
For most generalists who doesn't live in the frontend, learning every framework and applying the right one is not tenable. None of the js client-side MVCs I've seen are easy to just pick up. Even 6 months after I haven't used one I have trouble remembering how it works. You'll be much much more productive on something you are familiar with, even if it's not an exact fit.
If you are a frontend javascript consultant, than by all means, learn them all.
Good point, but when they are charging 2300% APR, they could afford to give you a call or email you after the first overdraft. They are acting predatory and we shouldn't make excuses for them. All financial relationships in a capitalist system should be mutually beneficial.
Yes, the question is would you rather put people in office who support those barriers and benefit the few, or people who represent the majority? I'm not surprised that corporations behave this way, and it's very important that it's publicized so the populace can defend it's own interests. Just because it's not surprising doesn't mean we shouldn't publicize it.
How do mere mortals become wizards to their peers? They take the time to read documentation and code and really understand the tools that they are working on. What software projects have stood the test of time? The ones that were painstakingly thought out and progressed slowly. Of course there's a balance, and our current system of financing software projects rewards fast and loose, and there will always be a place for fast prototyping to help understand the problem, but to create something truly amazing takes a lot of time.
Even if people are paid the same, when times are tough the true value of each employee will be obvious. It's also not unusually to "signal" value through other types of compensation.
In the 80s, the local FD used to attach some weird pipe/sprinkler system to the fire hydrants around my hood to prevent people from doing it themselves. It was pretty awesome, we'd be playing in that all day.
If you are that paranoid, then you shouldn't open any pdf that you find on the internet. The NSA has the ability to proxy any file you download and inject anything they want.
That's a tricky distinction between empower a victim and blaming a victim. If I teach you to call the police if someone breaks into your house, that's not the say as blaming you for someone breaking into your house. She is talking about strategies that she's learned that disarm aggressors, which is not victim blaming.
I use a similar method to ship app.embed.ly (emberapp on top of django). You can package whatever you want in a deb. The virtualenv is just a part of it. Config files are managed with configuration management system (chef in our case). Our django settings.py file just tries to import from /etc/blahblah
We migrated off of localshop and onto devpi. Devpi is a much better product and much more actively maintained. localshop was nothing but headaches and constantly breaking.
We do something similar at embedly, except instead of dh-virtualenv we have our own homegrown solution. I wish I new about dh-virtualenv before we created it.
Basically, what it comes down to a build script that builds a deb with the virtualenv of your project versioned properly(build number, git tag), along with any other files that need to be installed (think init scripts and some about file describing the build). It also should do things like create users for daemons. We also use it to enforce consistent package structure.
We use devpi to host our python libraries (as opposed to applications), reprepro to host our deb packages, standard python tools to build the virtualenv and fpm to package it all up into a deb.
All in all, the bash build script is 177 LoC and is driven by a standard build script we include in every applications repository defining variables, and optionally overriding build steps (if you've used portage...).
The most important thing is that you have a standard way to create python libraries and application to reduce friction on starting new projects and getting them into production quickly.
I was under the impression that they were planting files on the user's computer to incriminate them. I don't really understand where this code is getting it's payload from though.