For hackers, pants are not so incredibly useful. However, I'm guessing this company is not targeting computer professionals as their target market. If you're doing long distance cycling or you're a backpack/hiking kind of person, I'm sure odor/water resistant pants would be highly useful.
Obviously one can also make that same argument for electric cars like the tesla, or SSDs when they were first released. The intel X18-M 80GB SSD was $700 when it was first released in 2008. New tech always starts out with low demand and high price.
I don't think decrim feeds crime syndicates. California has had decrim for cannabis for a long while now. Dealers can't really make money selling cannabis because it's already so cheap at dispensaries. Most of these dealers move to states where cannabis is still illegal. In a way, dealers are not monetizing "drugs" -- they are monetizing security.
Cannabis is extremely cheap to manufacture since anyone with a bag of soil can easily grow several thousand dollars worth of plant material. The real cost is in securing the product and transporting it to the customer. In states that have decrim, the police don't even bother arresting people with cannabis because catching people running stop signs actually yield more money for the police department. There's no money to be made transporting the goods because the risk is so low.
I don't see how legalizing drugs would cause the country to enter a shit hole? The people who buy drugs now can already do it via SR or other marketplaces, but legalizing it would significantly reduce crime. There are other countries that have legalization that don't have our crime problems.
I just don't understand how a company the size of Joyent would waste time writing blog posts about pronouns in a code comment. This would be the equivalent of Microsoft blogging about some engineer's code comment in the Windows source code. Nobody cares about that stuff.
If you read the github thread, you'd see that Ben actually never participated in the drama/discussion until it blew up. Ben essentially rejected the pull request, then a giant PR nightmare blew up overnight with blog posts from Joyent & Strongloop. He decided to leave because of the whole ordeal from the companies.
I feel like there must be others who share the responsibility. There's no way a single chemist could be the source of 34,000 convictions. Since they found a second chemist tainting the results at the lab, I'm guessing the entire prosecution system is corrupted.
Yeah, based on the email content from the prosecutors, it looks like they were in on it too. How does a 50lbs package of marijuana magically become 80lbs as requested by the prosecutor? It sounds like the entire system is corrupt.
Hm, at what point is hardware separate from software? When you write some C code that gets loaded on the Attiny85 chip, is that still considered software? Many SoCs come with the firmware already loaded so it just looks like a normal cpu when in actuality it contains a mini OS, graphics, networking, etc, all on a single QFN-72 package.
It is rare to "brick" your PC by installing linux/windows. Phones are different because their input/output interfaces are limited to a single usb port, and in many cases that usb port doesn't even support host mode. Technically the phone isn't really bricked, but there's no way for a normal user to fix it without cracking open the phone to attach a jtag.
If PCs in the 1980's could be destroyed simply by improperly installing an OS, you bet manufacturers would void warranty for software misuse.
Background check? They don't need to do background checks on a coworker. I'm sure the judges knew exactly which team members worked at Salesforce. One of the team members worked at Salesforce for 9 years, which is probably a longer tenure than all the judges combined.
They already have a huge advantage since they already know exactly what APIs Salesforce offers and how to use them. Most people going to the hackathon have probably never seen the Salesforce API in their life until that day. It's simply wrong to let company employees participate.
When a doctor misinterprets the results, it can be mentally destructive for everyone, even if you're completely stable. When my dad's doctor told him he had cancer, it completely changed all of our family gatherings. Thankfully the diagnosis was wrong (it was some hospital paperwork mess-up), but in a short period of time, all of us were contemplating about losing him. I considered quitting my job so I could stay with him.
It's definitely a good thing to get a second opinion from another doctor, but misinformation does have the capability to crush everyone's lives.
Well, it's a news article. The goal of the journalist is to get people to read it. It would be a less interesting headline if it forced people to do the conversion since many people still do not yet understand BTC. Putting both values (BTC & USD) into the headlines would make it redundant.
jf does know the word lens founder, but then many people here in the bay area also know Octavio -- he's a super cool "always positive" person. You'd probably like him if you met him.
Hmm, never encountered this issue before. I've been using the TM/netatalk mechanism for at least 3 years now, and I'm still using the same sparsebundle from 3 years ago. I'm not using a raspberry pi though.
1 day? I think it was mentioned in OP in the form of 0.1bc/day. If someone big like cnn.com integrates this js code, you might make $20 a day. I still think adsense has better pay with that many viewers. One would need 5 million visitors to stay on your site for 24 hours. There are very few websites where people do that... maybe facebook/gmail.
Isn't your conclusion a bit of a stretch? Anyone who is a pickup artist is an asshole, and every asshole doesn't tip? Tynan is actually a pretty nice guy if you meet him in person.
If I found an asshole that does tip, would that destroy your theory?
Yes, but you can't send your friend the surfly link. You have to ask your friend to also install the addon before you can collaborate on the same website. Extensions are cool, but not practical in the real world scenario.
Law enforcement would rather go after the vendors than buyers. There are probably too many buyers for officers to deal with, and they would have to make all the arrests simultaneously. In meat-space, they arrest buyers so that they will rat out their dealer. This is not possible on SR because the dealers do not expose any identifying info to buyers.
It's stuff like this that causes site owners to require a captcha or throttle based on IP. Anyone can create 5000 fake accounts with a script, so there's nothing too original here. Based on the blog title, I thought they might've discovered an interesting XSS exploit, or social engineering technique.
Generating 5000 fake accounts falls into the script kiddie level of originality.
I'm sure there's some developer at Github right now tasked with locating these fake accounts and deleting them.
Seems like the frontend developers who are told to never use onclick= handlers have never used a more advanced UI framework before, like Apple's Interface Builder for example. In more advanced js frameworks like Ember.js, all the click handlers are essentially onclick= style. "this is the right way of doing things"
I feel like many of your team's complaints are due to the fact that they are old school web developers who have probably never wrote apps on the desktop before, where 2-way bindings are standard. The jQuery style of event binding is extremely brittle because it requires the DOM to have a specific structure.
Those boxes are small, but not exactly good looking. There's a plethora of companies releasing these compact form factor PCs. They also all look practically identical.
All of these "mac mini" style machines target the low end market. They all have low end processors & video cards. I have yet to see a premium machine like the mac mini that is available in a small form factor.
For most big events, it would seem like kickstarter has the right model and not eventbrite. I'm sure the event organizer would rather use kickstarter to gauge demand, and not worry about floating the costs of the event.
Maybe there's enough medium sized events out there that could make this an interesting startup idea.