justinlardinois

Some US states have laws like this, but they're usually limited to certain kinds of crimes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Sam_law

For "spiced" we also have the word "seasoned." It has a handful of meanings, but if you're using it to describe a flavor it should be clear that's the meaning you're using.

I've also heard foods described as having "bite" to indicate that they have a strong, spicy flavor, but not necessarily a "hot" one.

I'm curious, does anyone else have examples of #1?

I don't agree with this at all. Google's projects don't always make money, but I don't think it ever does something without an intention to make money. The idea that Google Fiber existed solely to further a political cause seems far-fetched to me.

Also, net neutrality being in the Democratic Party platform is a far cry from it actually being law. The election isn't over yet and so we don't know who the next president will be and which parties will control which houses of Congress.

> We began to see elevated bandwidth against our Managed DNS platform in the Asia Pacific, South America, Eastern Europe, and US-West regions that presented in a way typically associated with a DDoS attack. As we initiated our incident response protocols, the attack vector abruptly changed, honing in on our points of presence in the US-East region

Interesting. Much of the reporting on the day of suggested that the attack was felt exclusively in the United States, but this says otherwise.

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1665/

The talk page for San Jose (or is it San José?) has a very passionate debate about whether the article's name should be accented or not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:San_Jose,_California#Requ...

> I'm beginning to think none of you have ever worked in companies that actually produce IP.

All software companies produce intellectual property.

Because executive orders have limited power and are controversial and possibly unconstitutional.

Almost all executive orders direct federal agencies, which are part of the executive branch, to take a given action. An executive order that attempts to compel a state to enact a certain policy is unheard of.

I'll take it.

Yeah, it's worth noting that "tree swing" isn't a common idiom; I only meant a swing that's set up on a tree. I just didn't want to call it a "tire swing" though because it only took that form in one panel. Maybe "rope swing" would be the best name for it?

> A famous comic using the attempt of building a tree as the analogy of what is wrong in each part of the traditional development lifecycle

The project in the comic actually appears to be building a tree swing. I'm sure this was just an oversight on the author's part but if anything it reinforces the point the comic is making.

Because it's dismissive.

Looks like I misread.

You don't have to use Java on Android and you don't have to use Objective C or Swift on iOS. You're heavily corralled towards them, but there are still other options.

That is not an appropriate tone for someone representing OpenDNS to take.

When did your parent talk about copying Uber?

I think out of all the comments so far this passes closest to the real reason. It's simple: if you're developing for the web, you almost certainly have to use Javascript. That reality corrals so many more people into Javascript than any other language.

> People in the suburbs of Silicon Valley don't use iPhones?

Agreed, I thought Cupertino was a silly example. It's actually funny that you say "suburbs of Silicon Valley," because the entire valley is suburban.

Where's the urban area that Apple is supposed to move to? Downtown San Jose? If anything "the communities their products were supposed to impact" (Which are what by the way? Rich people?) are concentrated more heavily in Cupertino than anywhere else in the valley.*

Aside from that, I'm sure Apple is enjoying the position that comes with literally owning half a city. Imagine getting any other city that obsessed with property values and traffic to approve the new campus.

*Downtown San Jose's office spaces are criminally underoccupied, but I imagine there's not nearly enough vacancies to fill the needs of a giant like Apple.

> The casual accusation of racism ("harder to maintain an all-white workforce!") is really just the icing on the cake.

The article is massively oversimplifying, but it's not wrong. The mid 1900s saw southern, rural blacks move into cities and urban whites move into suburbs. You could write a book about the relationship between those two trends (and I'm sure many have) and I don't doubt that it played a part in corporations resettling as well, whether they had race in mind or not.

Remember this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bus_protests

The underlying social tension hasn't gone away.

For whoever downvoted me, I was asking because I wanted to know if I could directly ask them questions on this thread. I don't have a problem with self-promotion.

Was this posted by the author?

Agreed. At risk of sounding like an idiot, the K&R C book and Mythical Man-Month are the only books on that list I've even heard of, and I haven't read either of them.

Also, he gives "more of a language reference" as a reason for not reading Stroutstrup's C++ book. Doesn't the same apply to K&R?

From a thread about the data breach:

> Investors are conflicted: on the one hand, Yahoo had a data breach that will cost them trust, but on the other hand, investors are surprised to hear there are still 500 million Yahoo users.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12559594

PHP was the first programming language I ever used, so it holds a special place in my heart. And I use it daily at my current job.

I have to disagree with this article. PHP is a heavily flawed language. It's very easy to get started with PHP, but there are too many pitfalls that are too easy to fall into.

Most of the "Virtues of PHP" are available in other web languages if you use the right framework. And if you use those languages you'll benefit from the consistency and predictability that come from having a clear design philosophy from the start.

I don't think PHP is a bad language. It's possible to write good software in PHP, and it's possible to work around the flaws if you really know what you're doing. If your software is already written in PHP, it's probably not worth it to throw it out and rebuild it in something else. But I don't think it's worth the trouble if you have a choice, and I think writing new software in PHP should be avoided.

I'll admit I'm not familiar with HHVM and Hack. Maybe they alleviate PHP's problems.

P.S. Most of the points under "The Case Against PHP" are also issues with Javascript. But the difference is that if you're developing a web application, you have to use Javascript. You don't have to use PHP.

Anyone else get tripped up when the underlined "He simply does not deserve the job" turned out to not be a link?

Depends on how you slice it. Windows still dominates the personal computer market.

https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share...

Same.

Needs a (2011) in the title. He passed away five years ago today.

> If you include the "guide" that you have the scroll through and then the 5 "Accept" popups for allowing the car to connect to the phone it's like about 9 clicks. Pretty crappy UX.

Isn't that just the standard Android permission prompts?

A lot of "you don't need Javascript" articles show a bunch of CSS tricks that look flashy and cool but in reality are brittle, limited, and hard to maintain. There's a fair bit of that here, but props for also pointing out some of the new HTML5 features that may have slipped under people's radars. I was aware of the form validation and I think it's a godsend, but I had no idea there's a native color picker now too.