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The meta point here is that just in OSS folks assume that the code has been reviewed since it's open, but the reality is that unless someone actually does you really don't know. The popularity of a project doesn't mean there aren't fatal flaws.

Or if we all get together and decide a company shouldn't behave in a certain way, that's another option. We call that government regulation when we everyone gets together to do that. You can think of it as voting with your money, just without the money part.

> it’s one thing to just be bad at your job and you leak a bunch of data and oops, you didn’t notice that a hacker was in your system like a Kofax for months.

Na, I'm tired of these excuses too. Maybe jail is too extreme in this case, but being sloppy isn't ok. Or not supporting MFA when you're dealing with financial data.

I'd go off of the BitBucket plugin install counts and compare them to what you're getting on GH:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/addons/app/bitbucket/top-s...

Joyent offers this as I recall, however it's only a scale up, I don't think they can scale down afterwards.

What were the points that made Critique amazing?

BitBucket doesn't have a large OSS community, but it does have a lot of larger business that need Jira and Confluence integration. So it could be worth it, just the user base isn't as visible as GH.

No, the first class airplane seats costs $250k each.

https://gizmodo.com/heres-why-a-single-first-class-seat-can-...

Also it looks like a row of non-first class seats can also cost about the same: https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/travel/inside-the-dreamli...

Boeing does this with their seats in the factory too, they put a picture of a Lamborghini on the seats since they cost the same.

EDIT: Yes, it's hard to believe a seat costs the same as a Lamborghini, that's exactly why they put the picture on it. This is mainly for the first class seats, though rows apparently cost about the same too.

It doesn't if users are working around it.

> Yes he should.

Why can't we program our <something> support departments to act on information they're given? Why do we need to program these departments like they're half AI zombies?

Fair enough, but why is there no standard shell or alternative interpreter?

wow, so we're against villains now?

That makes sense, and you actually do see RAIDs fail like that in the real world sometimes even on non-SSDs.

I would say no, you'd want the whole disk to fail then so you can just replace it vs. it getting smaller over time, which would make capacity planning pretty complex.

If you're not drinking a specific wine every day so to speak, and are tasting the subsequent vintages of the wine every year, your pallet won't be able to tell the difference really.

That's how it is for most everyone, I think the disconnect is that the newbie isn't aware of that and make take the "expert's" opinion out of context or too serious. And the experts can be jerks too, but I think it's more people unfamiliar with wine seem to come into contact with the jerks first for some reason and wine gets a bad knock because of that.

No! That's sort of where this snobbishness comes from, the real wine culture isn't snobby... maybe even a mediocre wine turns to a great one in the right company. At least that's been my experience.

I've found that over the past 20 years my taste in wine has gotten more particular, it's really more about how your palate changes over time. The expensive and famous wines aren't completely without merit however, and if you go off of the taste alone, well that's not really what wine is about either. :) Wine is also your company, the food, the smell of the earth (terroir), the balmy afternoon.

But I've found I have had to get more clever about the wines I like by finding vineyards near to the fancy ones, such as a wine from Gigondas vs. its more expensive neighbour Chateau-du-Pape, or a good Cremant or Prosecco vs. Champagne. Even at that not every supposedly "great" wine is transcendent, but from the right areas I've occasionally I gotten lucky and it's really something else. And some of the best wines I've had weren't for sale, small hotel in Tuscany making it's own wine, or a professor in Hungary who happened to own a vineyard were stunning.

To add to my own comment even, that's why we have the Electoral College vs. a simple majority, it further allows smaller groups to have some say.

Exactly this, if you don't have that level of representation it leads to social problems down the line. The bloodshed in Iran and Iraq are shining examples of the extremes of what can happen. Democracy only works as much as it can provide an outlet for friction from different groups by allowing them an equal share of the system.

I've seen a number of tech interviews where the interviewer has played down candidates that were better than them (consciously or not). I've also been a interviewee many times and sensed a one-upmanship from the interviewer(s), and subsequently avoid those companies. I could easily see this also being another factor if someone isn't in tune with the norms of the industry to call BS and walk.

I'd agree, it's hard to beat if you need high bandwidth and low latency access to large data sets.

Thanks for the correction! That's somewhat encouraging.

> Isaac Asimov once said: "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

I've often wondered what would cause the United States' empire to collapse, but see now how we've always been on a precipice. Ironically one that even financial greed can't hold together. Even Hitler was democratically elected, so given enough time the right conditions will inevitably come together for someone similar to come into power, likely states will be forced to succeed from the union when that happens etc.

Here's the sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCOw5lisrIU&t=25s

I've seen equally as ridiculous web bugs, computing prices browser side in javascript, credit card numbers encoded in REST API endpoints, financial websites not supporting 2FA at all or mixing http requests into the sites. We're solidly in the dark ages of web security still.

I've seen this from every country in school and job settings, the common thread is that people are interested in just what they're there for, no more. Travelers and "world stuarts" OTOH are there to do just the opposite, and embrace wherever they are. But most end up in other countries out of circumstance and would have prefered to stay in their own country.

This is what demagogues do, they raley and gain power through uniting groups of people over fear. The extreme political tactics by the GOP lead to the scenario we have today, and Trump is building off of what the GOP laid the groundwork for over the past 40-50 years.

I wonder if it'll integrate with other AWS services, such as ALBs and ASGs, I don't think VMware has any equivalent.

I think a better approach would be to use annotations on the current AWS docs so that additional information is inline with the official documentation so you have both in the same place. The Hypothesis project is working on such a browser plugin that does this for example and is having success with academic research already. https://hypothes.is/