shady-lady

Are starting bonuses a solely US/SF construct? Have never seen them in Europe.

> This article has decided to count the ~100,000 Irish devs in American companies as American

Where are you seeing that?

> The vandalism echoes a rash of pellet-gun attacks on so-called Google buses in the Bay Area and appears to be motivated in part by resentment over the increasing presence of tech corporations along the Southern California coast — what is now dubbed Silicon Beach.

Or more likely: scumbags behaving like scumbags.

> can dive into a React project and fix an issue because I don't carry the baggage of doing things "the react way".

Would they not want your solution to conform to existing solutions; which (regardless of being idiomatic to React) would be idiomatic to the codebase?

On "Chasing the Scream", I would just include the disclaimer that Seth Mnookin(a professor of science writing at M.I.T) in his NYT review stated:

> Unfortunately, his misunderstanding of some of the basic principles of scientific research — that anecdotes are not data; that a conclusion is not a fact — transforms what had been an affecting jeremiad into a partisan polemic.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/books/review/chasing-the-...

> Blaiming peoples behaviour on entertainment products is a very weak claim.

Advertising on television was a resounding success. Some "social media influencers" can hit $1M per ad post.

Going out and buying something would definitely qualify under "peoples' behaviour"

I'm not sure if you're being downvoted for your viewpoint or your usage of "This is the bourgeois line on drugs".

> It is very hypocritical for some politician to tell me what I can and what I can`t put into my body.

I don't quite get the hypocrisy angle. He's not making rules that apply to everybody but him.

I would guess legislation around what you can and can't put into your body is around the amount of harm and suffering caused ty you(& by you) after ingesting these substances.

Different people have varying vulnerability(changing throughout their lives) and more likely to seek escapism at certain points in their lives. Legislating against subtances stop them from being widely sold & readily available.

Seems pretty common sense to me.

(with allowances for existing(read normalised) special cases, namely: alcohol & tobacco) I can see tobacco being phased out completely in the next century.

> It's clearly reasonable for the person paying the rent

How so? They may not have an option to not pay it(as we're seeing happen in cities all over the world)

Definition of reasonable[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reasonable]

1 a : being in accordance with reason - a reasonable theory

b : not extreme or excessive - reasonable requests

c : moderate, fair - a reasonable chance a reasonable price

d : inexpensive

> according to the highway code in most of the world.

Was there some article written on this? Can I get a link?

> redundant for the browser (XML DOM!)

I don't quite get this part.

Both HTML & XML cater for DOM models. I think this is & was appropriate.

Browsers had support for executing XSL stylesheets because it made sense for a lot of use cases.

that instagram a/c is a fake. the real one is https://www.instagram.com/canuck_and_i/

We generally don't shoot people in the head when they've been diagnosed with lung cancer so society doesn't save any money there. So the extensive treatment required to treat lung cancer is greater than somebody not getting treatment because they don't have lung cancer.

To be more succinct, there's a large difference between a person requiring lengthy treatment for lung cancer(hospital + morgue) before ultimately dying compared to somebody dying due to old age(morgue).

> the libertarian in me thinks that people should be free to do what they want to their bodies provided it is not at the expense of society as a whole

society is burdened in the 50% chance scenario that they develop lung cancer, alongside other medical problems which smoking exacerbates as well as being a contributory factor to others.

I don't think it's a genuine comparison to compare 8 * small item to 1 * big item. Even in the same bigger supermarket, there's always going to be a substantial saving when buying a gallon of milk vs 8 individual cartons.

For food & veg, people are much better off buying smaller portions when they need them - even if that means paying a premium over what they would have paid if bulk buying.

Words fail me as to how anybody could put something live without understanding how the application functioned as a whole. Unbelievable.

Has the pricing come down on these robotic hands? Anybody have ballpark cost for the Shadow Dexterous Hand - 100k, 300k?

My opinions are influenced by (if memory serves) some Microsoft researcher who years back said something along the lines of how having all the data points is how computers can truly benefit an individual.

You can see the early fruition of this by looking at how useful Google Now/map planning etc are.

Computers could be our all knowing assistants.

That's on a very surface superficial level.

Imagine the kinds of benefits when this all knowing entity is applied to medical issues. Real substantive progress could be made.

However, today's mismanagement of data could scare people off all knowing entities for good & end up severely limiting real progress.

As with everything else, all that data is rife for abuse if the necessary legislation & technical limiting/auditing regarding access/use are not first put in to play.

> multiple "non-identifying" queries can actually identify individuals.

Zero challenges from me on this. I 100% agree. However, it is doable. It just takes effort.

I personally don't really care about what information they collect. I do hugely care who they give that information to & what they do with it.

Haven't heard anything about Google wholesale handing all my data over to anybody who clicks a couple buttons to sign up to their developer program though.

I'm guessing Facebook has the technical expertise to allow 3rd parties to run aggregate (non identifying) queries on the consenting users' data on servers they control and only allowing certain aggregated data, as well as limiting the number and type of queries 3rd parties are running.

Guess it's easier to just let anybody have at it to prove how valuable their platform/data is.

I kept with firefox through it all but started use Chrome for dev exclusively. The only reason I stuck with firefox was Tree Style Tabs.

While I'm delighted at their recent improvements, I still can't help but wonder if they are putting the ~500 million they get each year to good use.

There are still features in the browser that are quite lacking:

- history -> history viewer is still so ~basic~. most query constructs that could be run against the history db should be exposed through the UI. I also think it would be great if I could see the path I took to a url history(e.g. linked browsing)

- sync isn't done. I feel sync should also sync settings* from about:config & extension settings. I also would like to see the upper limit massively bumped up from the Mozilla sync service.

These may seem like big asks but Mozilla is taking in 1/2 billion a year [1]

* for those settings where it makes sense to sync.

[1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/3240008/web-browsers/m...

for me to dev solely on windows, it needs:

1) coreutils + some other nix commands

2) iTerm2 equivalent(ConEmu/Cmder do not compare)

it's 18% percent.

current market cap is 465 billion [yahoo data]

market cap 10 days ago was 565 billion (465 + 100)

drop is 100B/565B = ~18% over the last ten days.

share price now back to july '17 price, wiping out 9 months of gains.

i'd also posit that there will be more to come to light.

loose data practices costs points!

Why don't you get the companies who are hiring to have their engineers setup & write some code?

Code reviews worth both ways.

The reason I mentioned US specifically was because VC funding to support hyper growth was historically & (still is) way more common there than elsewhere in the world(Western Europe specifically). A condition which seems to almost mandate the grow fast at all costs mentality.

It doesn't preclude anywhere else in the world from being lax about security. I also have worked for multiple small/mid companies in Western Europe and, anecdotally for me, data & thoughts to security are held in much higher regard.

Exactly this.

Part of the reason is pre-emptive cost cutting by these companies to remove human review from these apps.

Google also played a massive part in this with their strategy for growing the Android app store. (as did Facebook)

Favouring quantity over quality puts users at risk.

Hopefully it will also change the "move fast & proper security is an afterthought" model of startups.

Years ago(in CS degree before professional work), I used to wonder & be amazed by how fast new companies(mainly U.S.) moved so quickly.

It wasn't because they had some secret sauce or 10x devs, it was because all they did was focus solely on features & take shortcuts. Their customers data security was an afterthought - e.g. production DBs open to anyone in company(even the world in some cases(mongo)), no auditing or logging of data access.

Maybe YC(& other accelerators) will make a security expert available to these people...because young adults with 0 professional experience will probably not consider security & rely on the defaults of whatever stack they're using to be good enough. Even less consideration will be given when they're fed & surrounded by a grow fast at all costs mentality.

Good security in their products needs thought & critical analysis put into it & I'm not sure new devs appreciate it.

not surprising that there are even more of these fake look-a-like a/cs:

brianlacton (l) brianmacton (m) brianzacton (z)

Is it really that hard for Twitter to detect a fake look-a-like a/c given that:

a) the display name is the same for all fakes

b) they all have limited posts, all posting the same link

c) the bad actors do seem to be making ever so slight changes to (full square) profile pics in an avoidance attempt- ref https://imgur.com/a/QruDm ??

I've personally clicked report scam on the initial a/cs I listed along with all the fake a/c's that liked/replied duplicitously.

An unbelievable amount of bots on that twitter thread responding to a fake Ethereum giveaway by not 1, but 2 * fake Brian Action a/c's:

https://imgur.com/a/yv1Hm

very nearly believed it was legit too..

*fake twitter handle of brianhacton (h) & brianpacton (p)

What was the point of the European Single Market then?

Or was that just meant to benefit the larger industrial nations(cough, Germany, cough)?

It would seem to be sour grapes on the parts of France & Germany that they weren't chosen to the main entrypoint to the EU for some US companies.