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Back in the 90s, they lead in affiliate programs; Every major porn company offered like $30 or more per member. Lots of fraud in those days.

Even Microsoft - with countless more resources and motivation - failed to make traction in mobile. Blackberry was swept off the stage in the blink of an eye.

Firefox OS was abandoned pretty quick as I remember, 2 years tops?

I would not single that out as a failing.

Do civil engineers, accountants, or lawyers take an oath?

The article recommends setting network.cookie.sameSite.noneRequiresSecure to true - this sounds like it would ignore the https only flag (on cookies that set it)?

Is samesite=lax, cookie = https only not a valid config?

To your point, think the email should at least have major technical indicators / events. e.g. S&P fell below 50 MDA, withing friday, etc.

While they may be rolling back at the browser level, if you have any role in administering a site, you should still consider turning them on.

In php.ini, this is as easy as

  session.cookie_samesite = "Lax"

I am a long term PHP dev and my thoughts are:

1) This approach will not work in the long term. Over time, various gotchas!, weird behaviors, and other glitches will creep into each side; eventually these will lead to different public libraries that seek to mimic behavior of the other version. Tutorials will sprout across the web, but only work for one version or the other.

That is, it It will just lead to more confusion. One code base always please.

2) This FAQ ignores general evolution in the wider programming community. Modern language design, at least for web development, seems to be moving to the features discussed in P++. see Typescript, Flow, Python. I think PHP internals should either choose to be purposefully different (e.g. Go is still resisting generics), or keep up with the Joneses.

3) I don't think this letter accurately reflects the path of a fork. The reality is either:

- one or the other would clearly win in under a year (or less), in which case most contributors, frameworks, and library maintainers will move to the winner

- The communities split roughly evenly; some frameworks + libs go A, some B. It might leave each side short-handed initially, but in the long haul it will bring forth devs more interested in the "vision" of their path

All the more reason to use Host block lists such as https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

> technology-based productivity boosts

Productivity increase is the underlying force behind all non-government-spending economic growth

If author stops by: good article, wish you covered application accounts. e.g. some places create a unique app account per sub-domain, others do it via application.

Without jest, I want someone to go big and bulky a la the Predator. As an experiment, some company will hopefully stop trying to build a watch, and embrace a full on computer utility. Imagine a flexible ereader screen where you could comfortably read a book, document, or email.

The Solid Spec from their github. https://github.com/solid/solid-spec

Title 24 itself is broken into 16 climate zones [1], each comes with its' own table of acceptable parameters. The deviation in parameters allows for a wide range of equipment at varying standards.

http://www.energy.ca.gov/maps/renewable/building_climate_zon...

> But Twitter’s increased suspensions also throw into question its estimate that fewer than 5 percent of its active users are fake or involved in spam, and that fewer than 8.5 percent use automation tools that characterize the accounts as bots.

Wish they reported this as a percentage of total user base.

For comparison, in Nov 2017, FB estimated[1] 60 million accounts, but by May 2018 [2] had disabled 1.3 billion fake accounts.

The real question - do these numbers reflect a reality that was always underneath as they enjoyed rapid growth, or is this indicative of greater efforts to use social media platforms nefariously?

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-raises-duplicate-fak...

[2] https://www.recode.net/2018/5/15/17349790/facebook-mark-zuck...

Having received 10s of millions on grants since 2002...

> there is endemic and generational discrimination and privilege issues that can mean even if you truly did not want to make decisions based on race, religion, nationality, etc., you inadvertently did just by using proxies for societal scale discrimination or disadvantage in those categories.

Agreed. However, it seems to rest on confusing race for class. How about we just focus on class and get all the benefits (pick up the poorest; policy that attempts to correct those suffering generational discrimination) without the negatives that come with race based policy.

Completely agree about broken protocol. Unfortunately, I doubt their will ever be a real impetus to abandon it; we will just keep muddling along strapping ever more duct tape.

But let's dream, what would your protocol be?

For some reason I have always had a hang up on the headers. The lack of real concrete specs, forging clients, and now the ugly monstrosity of CSP. I love the effect, but in my dream new protocol we have to opt into features during some kind of app / client handshake.

> You don't own information about you. Data is data.

This seems like a strange stance. Clearly some data is not just data and must be protected, for example Top Secret information. From a broad consumer perspective, we have FERPA and HIPAA, which place restrictions on educational and health information.

Have you considered the wild west of no data restrictions was the anomaly, not the other way around? Or, are you of the mind that HIPAA and FERPA should be scrapped?

A person can be an average programmer, and still a superstar if they are an expert in a problem domain. As an examples, shipping / order fulfillment has many weird nuances - things like tariffs, dealing with dangerous goods, differing address systems, etc. Expertise in practically applying the code is extremely valuable.

I feel like Microsoft has a string of devices which could have been good to great, and they keep just missing the mark somehow - windows phone, ms band, surface hub, heck even zune was as good as an ipod at a lower price point.

Not sure why they keep dropping the ball, lack of focus? Not willing to stay the course? I get dropping zune as the market had moved on, but band was getting good reviews when they dropped it and wearables are still growing. And for the life of me I don't understand why they don't have a motto of a hub in every college class - that device is so perfect for facilitating remote class attendance.

> PHP supports strict typing

Still missing types for object properties :(

Their is an excellent book called "Into the Whirlwind" about Stalin and the soviet era purges. One of the strategies of those arrested was to name 2 more. While a great concept in theory, it just made the purges worse.

https://www.amazon.com/Journey-into-Whirlwind-Eugenia-Ginzbu...

I always come back to structural regulation works best. At the end of the day, we just need to make it very costly to keep too much information. We set rates for personally identiftying attributes (e.g storing a birthdate costs x, a partial ssn Y, etc). The charge is per attribute per person per day. This should incentivize the tech companies to develop and store broad scores (e.g scores high for likes sports and classic rock, low for opera) rather than personally identifying info

Have a gander at Windows 10 privacy settings, most/all of them on by default for every new install.

I guess. But Windows 10 and Amazon Echo are bought and paid for products that seem to be joining the spy-on-you-game.

Why do you believe most states have IT-related disaster relief infrastructure in place? I worked for several years in CA govt, I would be surprised if anything beyond the major metros has much in place for coordinating shelters, etc. In fact, the sonoma fires are documented to have had lots of problems with reverse 911.

All 143 millions are due 10-years of credit monitoring, which at today's rates is roughly $3,600.

Shortly after it quotes him as saying

>We have a moral and, in more than 20 states, a legal obligation to report these findings to law enforcement,”

With that specific number, I am guessing it is indeed a requirement.

I really wish we could get some clear 4th amendment boundaries for the digital age. On the surface, I am ok with this. But paying the Geek Squad techs seems to undermine the whole point of the thing.

I don't particularly find a FBI-company party in 2008 relevant to this story. Just hopeful dot-connecting.

What attracted you to software? What didn't you like?

Maybe you want another IT position, just not software (ie have you looked into hardware or networking)

Their are many good middle class careers to be had - big city, small town, blue collar, or white collar. Narrow it down by your life preferences.

I found this to be a great resource when groking your question recently

http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2016/06/13/stop-using-jwt-fo...

Also this previous HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13865459

I assumed rail is part of this bill, my bad.

Buses regularly have speakers announcing the stop (85th and X) that can be heard at quite a distance.

I guess people think this is a joke or nimbyism, but it is a legit concern. We all know by know how important sleep is to health. well, that rapid transit noise (even bus) is a factor. Trucks and cars, late at night, have a flow. Buses stop, the speaker garbles all too loudly, air brakes hiss, and the slow elephantine weight of the vehicle is dragged into motion by a guttural engine rumble.