ecobiker

To summarize how great chromecast is - my mother who could not figure out the smart tv (or apple tv or a computer), streams youtube/netflix effortlessly via chromecast and a tablet.

Voting is only a small part of participating in the political system.

As an outsider, I find people here in the US (or probably just SF) to be more active for their causes. But it's not enough. There is no easy tech solution here. People have to have their voices heard. Otherwise, voting is useless. You can only choose between the choices given to you not the choices you want.

>> Someone at Microsoft needs to go back to the first commit and track down every bit of code that was taken, and investigate the origin of the code, and properly restore the copyright notices.

It is specifically to avoid these issues that most companies don't go through the trouble of open-sourcing their code. Not at all saying it's wrong to enforce licenses I'm just pointing out the obvious that companies that don't want to get into legal trouble avoid the issue altogether and discourage open source. A well known company I used to work for requires legal to sign-off anything that has to be open-sourced. A startup I currently work-off had to be audited for license compliance before a round of funding. One primary reason I see is that most engineers don't understand licensing very well. They don't understand when it's safe to use GPL and when it's not.

The way I see it - it's hard to "transfer" all the learnings we get from our everyday driving experiences to other fellow drivers but a machine can do that. It's going to be a sum total of all of its learnings and its neighbours (all over the world). I like the idea of it.

I understand where this concern comes from. But what I'm unable to reconcile is if a life form can get more "advanced" or even survive long without knowing co-operation and in general being more civilized - Live and let live? Or to point the question inward, let's say humans continue(d) their indiscriminate slaughter of fellow humans and animals around us would we still survive long enough?

I have worked on a fairly large scale distributed system where we had to deal with DST. The week before the switch was always the craziest. Until... we switched the boxes and the database to UTC. Even if DST is abolished, leap second will be something to deal with. I have so many things I hate about DST - like switching all our cross timezone meetings but programming is not one of them - always set your machines and DB to UTC and do the conversion in your app.

It is possible with Github at least - using a combination of the list repo events API & the create commit API.

Is it really possible for someone to find motivation to risk their lives to fight for a paycheck? It would definitely motivate a few but can it motivate a large enough population making private armies feasible?