xanderjanz

For the lazy, hosted: https://wiki-quiz.herokuapp.com/

Don't go to localhost:5000/, like you might think. Open file://.../WikiQuiz/index.html as a file in Chrome. It will make ajax requests to localhost:5000

Seems like most commenters here didn't read the article. Snowden isn't suggesting you leave facebook because of free flow of fake news.

Quite the opposite, he's saying facebook controls the flow of news too much.

From all my research, I feel like Promises end up making better code than async await. Am I the only one who thinks that?

Like, what's the equivalent of Promise.all with async/await? And how do tou do stuff synchronously after kicking off an async process?

I'm enjoying it. There's a lot still to be to learned about DevOps and massive codebases.

Given up? No. Prioritized development speed over bug prevention? Yes,

Glad to hear. I'm building a similar system with Gulp and Mandrill. Thanks.

I imagine we'd treat it like we do getting hit by a drunk driver. Vilify reckless programmers, and don't think about it.

most RCE bugs can be compounded into major data dumps. That doesn't make each individual RCE a million dollar bug.

Developer set parametres are pretty common in industry "machine learning", the kind of thing Google NEtflix and Amazon use. Academic models aim to reduce the amount of human input, but most real world applications have no such motivation. This kind of AI can be seen as a developer parenting a machine.

Their logic is that because elements are typically deeply nested, it's better to sacrifice the readability for the saved indentation. By the time you get 4 child elements deep, almost half your line space goes to tabs.

In a certain sense, twitter's one-to-many messaging is simpler, because it is a smaller volume of messages that have to be served.

Several of the requirements feel like the quirks of the authors implementation, rather than technological ideals. (Don't reuse previously fetched sith? Fetch each sith lord separately?)

To quote the Minutemen, Being bored is power!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxjEi4tgvU0

json wins

Because those giant companies have an army of managers and accountants that will be sure to check every box and cross every t. A group of Valley engineers is thoroughly less thorough.

Signed, Sillicon Valley's Collective Naivite

Hmm, it seems like you've forgotten Detroit's history. Why it became your go-to example for a failed city.

Doesn't this just set up a central failure point? Does Keybase have a forward secure key system?

Group A bought Dell stock with the intention of legally seeking a higher appraisal. But Delaware corporate law has a strange feature of saying appraisal seekers must own their shares continuously after demanding appraisal. But in this case, Group A's bank had changed ownership of the stock with another bank "behind the scenes", which caused a Delaware judge to reluctantly rule Group A's appraisal rights void.

You make a good, if harsh point.

But this:

"it wouldn't help the economic position of Apple, Google, FB, or Microsoft if everyone knew what code is and how it works. It strengthens the tech economy's stranglehold on society when code is treated as something inscrutable."

Is just cynical. Tech companies aren't so fragile as to depend on general ignorance among the human population. If more people understood code, these companies could create more code. I think you point to an underlying misconception that some how technology is just a barrier to entry, and doesn't provide intrinsic value. But I do not believe this to be true.

you could structure it such that the longer they sit there remembering the data, the more they get paid. When they want to leave, they enter what they remember and get paid.

Sure it is. Depends on your definition of authentication. But it's totally a "supported feature of the internet".

This plugin isn't fundamentally different than spoofing a session cookie.

Useful for obfuscating executable JS for security reasons.

This barge is in a turbulent ocean, so it's already doing a lot of work just to stay somewhat still. Plus the vision tracking on the rocket is already accounting for the movement of the barge.

"to save their lives" is a little dramatic, considering they were in a closed tech interview. I'm sure if you gave them 20 seconds on the internet (you know, the resource they would have in a real life problem solving situation) they could find one.

I skateboard to and from work now. It's not a huge workout, but does get me to sweat twice a day.

From what I gathered of the talk, they mean unifying the build, debugging, and analytics tools. So no more need to have Terminal, Xcode, and Chrome Dev tools open

I asked the FB Engineers that were manning the Open Source booth at F8 today about this. They assured me that it wasn't a threat, or any change in ideology on their end as open source contributors. That they were also concerned with the community, and that their lawyers were looking into it currently. Not really an answer, but at least they awknowleged the criticisms.

It's fixed now :)