tanv_nadkarni

All government programs tend to work like that. Recession ? Private players to be blamed and government needs to act. Economic boom ? Government programs caused that boom.

The legalization of marijuana is a much bigger battle. We will not get all the benefits of the free market unless government regulations are substantially reduced. If you cant buy Marijuana in Target or Wallmart it probably wont suffice.

True Americans should defend their liberty from Government and yet not fall int trap of overlooking the fact that they are better off than most people in the world and certainly better than China or India.

Having said that if China's actions can be used to hold mirror to American government I am all for it.

Civil forfeiture laws in my opinion are a good example of pre-crime.

Microsoft should have been the most natural choice of in-team communication. While their sales team was busy selling crappy software to large companies and ignoring small ones someone built a kick-ass product called Slack.

It does not make sense for Microsoft to buy slack. Microsoft already has the sales muscle to reach millions. What Microsoft does not have is a product that can compete with Slack. They should build it ASAP as part of their Office suite. Skype is not that solution.

The original title "How a middle class kid with promise, intelligence, and opportunity becomes a career criminal."

Imagine a company has a policy that says "we wont hire black people". Does the number really matter whether 1 person was turned down or 20k ?

Google discriminating against a person for their past employment without being upfront about is pure evil.

I think that quality was probably THE reason why he was hired for such a position. Hypthetically:

Pentagon builds some massive surveillance program for US government which is blatantly illegal and in violation of constitution. You need someone who can get it done without leading a paper trail, help friends in government and then lie when confronted. Eric clearly has all those qualities.

I was mostly referring to Taboola/Outbrain styled ads. But if they are without any "sponsored" tag that is even better.

And why is that bad from what Firefox is doing ? Charging money to set default search engine to Yahoo?

One more point.

While Ad-blockers are getting popular the tech industry could indeed innovate to become ad-blocker-blockers. I guess ad-blockers work by looking at the domain names of the content. Why not use IP address alone to serve ads ? Why use JS embeds code to serve ads and not render it through server itself?

Even JS based ads could provide challenge response based callbacks to render content only after ad is loaded.

I dont think they are arguing that the future is better. Also going there today may not mean more money. For example what % of online ad money is being spend today on sponsored content ? That would matter.

I respectfully disagree.

Native ads are way better ads than say Google ad-sense. I would always prefer them over any other ad format.

Whatever might be the reason the guy is not in jail. I think that is where the government has failed.

I think it is deliberately to ensure no accountability. My suspicion is that Google has put some really low quality, untrained labor to do these sort of banning and probably with weekly targets to ban certain apps.

TechCruch article says:

"Now, instead of a text-based list of policies, the various sections are organized into colorful cards laid out on a grid pattern. This makes it easier for developers to find a particular section with just a glance, whether accessing the Policy Center from the desktop or a mobile device."

The article mistakes android developers for illiterate monkeys I guess.

Jokes apart the real problem with Android's policies is the Axe that falls silently because of completely arbitrary set of policies that are loosely defined. Putting and icon here and icon there does not change the fact. If the shit has hit the stationary fan, putting it ON wont solve the problem.

Google must respect the developers and give them clear warnings and opportunities to make amends. Ban someone for a month. Completely banning someone is really bad for individual developers like me who make apps for say marginalized communities in India.

As I said, I am talking relative to any other mom. We all know women with a kid needs support. I don't like tom toming the single mother status.

Especially when her superior clearly had cut her so much slack in past.

Learning by Analogy:

But hey US uses drones to kill little kids in Pakistan and doctors in Afganistan.

Also society is not same as government. People voluntarily doing stuff is society. Few people through power of majority forcing everyone to pay up for single mothers is government.

She is demanding special treatment for being single mother which in my opinion should not be accorded to her no matter why she is single. She could marry someone for all I care if being single is a handicap for her.

Yes, I know people have problems. The kind of people I dont want is who bitch about it and have sense of entitlement.

One of the dubious Indian journalist (who is above 70 years old) was caught (and on camera) soliciting sex for a minor and luring her into meeting him. It made a big news and I almost assumed the guy would be done for good. Turn out not only the guy got out quietly but continues to write in newspapers preaching morality to others. I tried a lot of figure out how he might have escaped the law but I cant.

I am giving this example only to show that when the British government cant enforce existing laws using available evidence, you cant expect them to dig up anything new with more powers.

It is something Mahatma Gandhi pointed out years ago about the British. In one of this Satyagrahas related to Champaran farmers, Gandhiji's modest and only demand was that the British must only acknowledge that there is a problem which needs to be solved. According to Gandhiji's colonial power's unwillingness to even show empathy to people means they are essentially uninterested in the helping people with their problems.

Law of Karma I guess.

[1] http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nri/other-news/Indian-ori... [2] http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/comment/death-of-liberalism...

It is not the case that people at Yelp find it great joy in firing people. When a person did not turn up for work for three days some HR manager gleefully typed out a termination later and hifived all his co-workers. I don't think that is the case. Hiring someone costs money and so does termination.

Unless I know the Yelp's side of the story I wouldn't buy her version. It is possible that she failed to inform her superiors properly. It is possible that she has a long history of staying absent from work. It is possible that she was terminated for entirely different reasons and her being in a difficult situation is a pure co-incident.

When terminated people get angry. They say all sort of things.

That is what she claims. It is her side and we don't know what is Yelp's side of the story.

Exactly my thoughts.

Also I don't understand the "single mom" part. Society does not owe any special treatment to a single mom, not more than any other mom. Single mother is a choice of an independent woman and if she cant afford it she should probably not make it.

Instead of being thankful for an employer to have given an opportunity in first place she is ranting against her employer, this is going to make it difficult for her to find next job. I wont hire such a person.

Many of us might suck at spellings and grammars to simply pay serious attention to detail. The dangerous editor isnt for us.

Last time I tried to use Powershell I gave up pretty quickly.

Learning Powershell had higher costs than using something *nix based without any major advantage.