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'Generating your ideas'.

This copy made my future hurt.

I use the same shorthand, and refer to my own as '.za-ians' too; ISO codes make neat unambiguous abbreviations.

Thon could also use https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thon

edit: that part meant jokingly (please). Although https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English_grammar#Pronouns is far more interesting.

it just /hurts/. Recently ranked as increasingly commercially competitive. Meanwhile, we have a mean lifetime of not even 50? Those facts should be taken together.

Wow. We're (South Africa) at the 2nd worst. That's HIV.

This is why there are real ones.

Moet ek ook? Miskien as daar meer van ons is.

"All these pants have 3 holes, some sort of fastening/cinching mechanism, and the layout's basically the same in each case!"

the twitter account is https://twitter.com/SiliconHBO

The premise is correct - we're willing to leak way too much. The proposed solution is sadly leakier; no metadata scheme needs be honoured by calling code. As aboodman noted, there are plenty of exfiltration methods possible, even sneakier ones like constructed DNS queries and the like. You can't catch them all, even if you force script through another level of interpretation.

These are amazing, primarily because they teach the related concepts of numeracy and geometry/scale all at once. From free play and 'building' to patterns, simple arithmetic, they just keep providing a direct physical analogue for numerical operations. Used on me, and on my children.

Absolutely. They've pulled an amazing turnaround, momentum is going to take a while still.

Really the simple issue has always been the same with MS-platform based OSS; People look to MS to provide the canonical frameworks, tools, and libraries. MS is far more used in corporate environments as a portion of their market, and are more subject to business decision making; much of that focused on RAD / designer tooling.

There's a different philosophy in the open source world - python, perl, c - none really have 'de facto' answers to persistence, logging, services, etc so There's a plethora of approaches and libraries for any needs. MS provides EF, so you have to defend any alternate solution to business; it's perceived as risky. Even using tools not of MS origin, despite no close surrogate from the 'official' tools (ala Redis, 3rd party libs) is something you have to find approval for. MS tooling is automatically excluded from this. This isn't great for MS either, because they now have to produce these 'ideal' libraries, and the strength of their platform is now judged by library implementations.

I'm really not sure what the solution to this problem is unless they really get to sponsoring projects with effort, money, and tooling. They have programs in place for this, and I can see there's a lot of outreach going on for this reason.

yes, but the author's issues with markdown are limitations of a limited markup. markdown is appealing thanks to the lack of verbosity, hence jade - terse, simple, yet extensible. markdown is nigh one-dimensional, your content should fit in a box, and offers little ability to provide semantics. HTML / XML are overly verbose, and painful for novice / non-technical users. a subset of jade solves these eloquently for me.

1) Ostracisation. 2) Parental hatred 3) _You_ couldn't perform that function, were you standing behind them with blinkers and earmuffs at the ready 4) Other children. Will talk. Should we censor them too? 5) Rationalising the views we have _in the face of conflicting opinion_ is what allows us to cement our own views 6) Guiding our children in how to accept / interpret / evaluate the plethora of opinions out there is the largest influence we have. Your choices of media, internet access, social groups, extra-murals, etc. are there to perform this function.

I really don't want to see the psychological damage this could cause, even if possible (I do believe AR and augmentation and weak AI will enable versions of this). Filter bubbles are dangerous, limiting, and foster intolerance. I don't think we need any more intolerance.

So, something like jade then? If your annoyances are semantics and the verbosity of other markups. Roll your own semantics with +mixins, and otherwise, just write HTML, without the fluff?

Human readable, concise, fluent, and HTML is a lingua franca of its own. Even in jade, I still make frequent use of the :md filter for simple text, but otherwise, structure is utterly up to you. Markdown alone doesn't quite cut it even for CMS style 'content-block-goes-here' editing.

Thanks for the information.

And thanks for the culture&empire writeup too :)

This is not new. And there are sites that do this already

TeamCity -> Octopus Deploy. If you're tracking dvcs revisions with builds for an 'edge' env, or building for the test/master branch (using gitflow style) you're rarely in the interface, as your CI should kick off builds and tests.

Having an interface somewhere devoted to deployments, status, failures and such is actually useful. Additionally, if you're needing multiparty sign-off for release to certain environments, there's that capability.

This would be better as a simple script block with 'defer' and a js GET, with a noscript link tag fallback. This way is likely to fail in so many places.

For anyone else looking for vanity domains : often used https://domainr.com/ to check for availability. gandi still usually cheaper for the reg.

Stop. You're devaluing yourself. Every step you take past those barriers, you're both throwing yourself under the bus, and showing others that your time and effort is worth less. Something you'll come to believe more and more, feeding the cycle.

It's unsustainable, on loan from your future, and soon you'll stop being able to even meet the payments on the interest. Burning out is nothing compared to the sudden stop at the end, and that elusive 'almost there' Is. Not. True.

Whatever consequences you imagine lie before you if you don't stop, simply ponder what a death in your immediate family would do to that prioritisation. It /is/ negotiable, and if it isn't then you're not working for/with the right people anyway. If that's the case you're being treated as a disposable commodity. If you're replaceable, fungible, then you're a cost to be minimised, like a printer cartridge they try squeeze the last out of.

Self isn't something you get back easily (or at all) once traded away. Just don't.

Hard/strong arguments are always strange. Some of my childhood aesthetic favourites bridge the gap (Golden Witchbreed and the like). Some try to be hard sf, and concentrate hugely on one aspect but miss others (Niven, the integral trees). Clarke has his own hand-wavy moments (Cradle?). I'm not sure it's a dichotomy that yields that much value. Le Guin, Pohl, others - often venture into very fantasy settings, and still tell such wonderful tales, that tell us something about the very real, very unscientific and utterly irreducible human nature. Which I think is the true point of SF at all. Fresh landscapes, same paint. New stories.

IMB is a yes. All of it. Devour. Much like the works of Steven Erikson (Not SF) they're fantastically detailed, which isn't everyone's taste.

The Cyberiad is a trove of beauty, ridiculous, sublime, educational - touching on things as far apart as philosophy and maxwell's demon. Amazing that they're not even in English given the wonderous translation.

Never heard / found that?

I did the chop, and had I wanted more, I would have frozen some sperm. The procedure itself is also reversible. Considering the cost/benefit ratio, and the risks of male vs. those of female sterilisation, I consider not doing it selfish and boorish.

Moral absolutism is the killer. There is no set of 'right' that you can apply regardless of context, actors or situation. Attempting to create such mental shortcuts is the problem, and perpetuating any as _absolutely_ 'correct' is toxic, and detracts from any of the real issues, actual humans, or real world consequences of whatever is under discussion.

Yes please. Been wanting/plotting 'air-con' bed for ages. Passive ventilation can't dissipate enough for chronic fever.

edit: There's also all of us in the tropics.

While Fitts' law is useful, that behaviour actually drives me mad as someone who is used to the three mouse buttons having discrete behaviours on the actual caption bar. Suddenly 'tab' is above 'window' in the hierarchy for control.

This makes me unreasonably happy.