mikegioia

Ah I see, thank you.

This is really cool. The article mentions that encryption is illegal over these radio frequencies, but why is that? Are people actively detecting encrypted data?

It would be cool to experiment with these radios but have it all communicate using TLS or something.

    If you have a lot of relations in your data don't
    use mongo

Why would you use Mongo if you have lots of relational data? Why would you not start with a relational database for that?

I know Mongo has issues but it's never going to beat an RDBMS on relational queries.

The dollar-pizza wars hit their beautiful height when I walking down 1st ave between 13th/14th a few years ago. I counted 5 in one block!

What a wonderful gift dollar-pizza has been. I often wonder how many able-bodied men and women they feed every day. It's gotta be hundreds of thousands.

This is, in my opinion, the worst part of the story. Anyone who has set up a web-server on the public net knows what happens when you leave ports accessible like this to old, well-known software. There's a good chance people would target her domain/IP looking for exploits and I'd be scared to question just how many people got access to that machine.

I think it works perfectly :P

Not necessarily. You don't need an HTML renderer for emailing, and even if you did, the difference between HTML rendering for emails vs. a full 3rd party, concurrently running application system is pretty big.

We've all been using one since the 80s: email. The interface is just poorly designed for social networking.

I just want one manufacturer to care about and release a decent feature phone. The current landscape right now is the LG Cosmos III, various shitty Tracfones, and then the Nokia lines that have been ruined by Microsoft.

I think there's a serious market for good feature phones that can make calls, send/receive SMS/MMS/group chats, take high resolution pictures, and send/receive emails all with a qwerty, tactile keyboard.

I think this is wonderful, but this chart [1] seems to indicate that the decrease in coal use is really only replaced by the increase in natural gas.

Natural gas seems to release less CO2 than coal burning, but it would be much nicer to see the nuclear and renewables climbing at a faster rate. Hopefully the 2015->2025 trend is far better.

[1] http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/images/2016.05.13/chart3.pn...

Welcome to the circus that is the 2016 Presidential Election. She's running against "The Donald" ffs! The whole thing is just disgusting, top to bottom.

    The ground is warmer (and therefore drier) now in
    May, and this is especially so in the Boreal Forest
    of Canada where temps. have been rising much faster
    than they have in the mid latitudes.

    This year the fire season started very early, and
    temperatures in the region have been at record levels
    for days, with some areas reaching above 30 C.

From http://blogs.agu.org/wildwildscience/2016/05/05/roaring-infe...

I think this has a lot to do with climate change. If the average temperatures are warmer and the air/ground is drier, it can increase the likelihood, frequency, and severity of wildfires. Colorado and California have been/will be going through the same thing.

I'm not going to engage you on what you do, but you need to re-read some of the comments you've made. A lot of it is too hostile / oddly opinionated to be taken seriously, regardless of message. Whatever it is, it's not good communication.

Yea but you have to give Stallman the benefit of the doubt here. Perhaps he just knows that Parrots live long, bonding lives and that an unknowing person should never buy one.

One of the best methods is recreational, organized sports. One good example is ZogSports. A lot of people sign up alone and I think the team sports and group interaction really help form the bonds early.

    If there is a key it must be the willingness to be
    persistent, not give up the effort to enrich the
    network of connectedness. Here and there people do
    respond, and a relationship slowly begins to form.

I think that's 100% right. I've lived in NYC for almost 10 years and the sad reality is that people come/go frequently. I've found persistence to be the only consistent factor in building all the friendships over those years.

Yes you need to click with someone, but we determine that within 5 minutes of talking to a new person. A lot of people make the effort to build a new friendship, but get too discouraged from a lack of reciprocation. 5 no's in a row can definitely signal "not interested" (ha) but a lot of people are interested they just need more of a push.

It does come down to how badly you want to build that new friendship, but I think a lot of people are just not persistent enough at the beginning tbh.

I think you're right, but I also think a lot of people want something different. Most people see something they admire, want to recreate it for themselves, and then share it with their friends and family to show/record that they've done that. It might be the exact same thing that many other people have done, but a lot of people just want to do the experience that they build up in their head.

This is great work, but any scrollbar adjacent to a draggable divider isn't usable :(

> As an experiment, we could take a fork of good quality ad-blocker and change the way that it works so that rather than blocking the advert content when it detects an ad on a page it blocks the entire page

That is a fantastic idea. Someone else mentioned Forbes and I just back out of their site when I see the full-page ad.

I have absolutely no problem not consuming it. I would bet most people consume things not because they want to, but because it's there and easy.

Ask your friends this: would they still read NYT articles if they had to pay 25 cents every time they landed on a new article? Any barrier to entry for the vast majority of people would have a profound impact on what they consume.

Charge people 50 cents for a plastic bag at the bodega and they'll say they don't need the bag. Give it to them for free by default and they'll take 2!

The argument against ad-blocking is that the content-creators don't get paid for their content. But, honest question: who cares!?

If you push out content and you can't make money on it without ads, then that content didn't need to be created in the first place. The argument then devolves to "there won't be any good content" but I'll _gladly_ roll the dice on that world to see what we're left with.

Ads, to me, represent a monetization strategy rooted in "I did something, and you're looking at, so I deserve to get paid" but that makes no sense. The disconnect here is the presumption that the content has any value to begin with. I think what scares traditional content-creators is the idea that the vast majority of content has no inherent value.

I think it suffers from the same problem as other asset caching. Think of all the sites you visit and how much JS they load. 1000 websites with 1MB of JS will hit 1GB of storage.

Just out of curiosity, why do you only consider gzipped size when determining bloat? Transmission size/time isn't the only factor, there's also the time it takes the JS engine to process the code. 43k gzipped is okay for the transmission, but the engine is still parsing/processing the unpacked version, no? 145k minified for a foundational library is not insignificant. jQuery 3.0 minified as a reference is ~86k.

The comments here are not indicative of the developers at-large. This is mostly posturing to validate decisions to use other tools.

I love Grunt, I understand the complaints but it's a great system that's easy to understand and work with. It's not unlike Makefiles but the learning curve is lower with Grunt.

Yea but honestly, every time I try to configure Gnome the way I need it, I get frustrated and give up (ha). I just don't have the time, and this distro looks good right out of the box. I'd be someone who tries this in a VM and honestly, I'd consider switching off Ubuntu and maybe donating to them. I don't know the size of this group of people but it could also include Windows/OSX users in the same boat.

    I'm not sure what I would do if I lived in a city
    where electronic transactions are a requirement for
    public transport.

Step into my office ;) There are many things you can do, walking is the best one. You can pay for Metrocards in NYC with cash though. The machines still accept them.

    Have every candidate work on the same problems, and
    let them do it from home

To be fair, I've seen a lot of good arguments against programming assignments. I think at the end of the day, the employer needs to conduct some method of determining if the employee has the technical capabilities needed for the specific job they're being hired for. However, there are MANY other factors too like "how well they get along with the team" that need to be considered. That's what they're trying to determine with the pairings and other stuff you mentioned I think. Whether that works is another story.

I've been "cash only" for 8 months now and I love it. Of course I need a credit card if I buy something on Amazon or a one-off web store, but the point is to move as many transactions offline as possible.

There are so many privacy benefits to using cash, but one that really resonates with me is the physical nature of it. When you pay for something with cash, you can feel the transaction of money exchanging hands and it can have a psychological effect to prevent frivolous spending. Or at the very least, further reinforce that YES we are spending money!

Also, store clerks, cab drivers, any anyone who accepts tips always love getting cash.

    The prima donnas will attack you ad hominum and call
    you slow.

I don't know whether to laugh at or applaud the irony of that statement.

You guys need to relax. This is cringey for the Ruby community.