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Sounds very much like what Brendan Eich's trying to do with Brave.

A lot of middlemen roles - real estate agents, recruiters etc fall into this. The role starts out with utility (instead of selling your house yourself get someone experienced to do it!), but as using a middleman becomes ubiquitous and is maintained with rent seeking (you can't list on this real estate site unless you're a registered RE agent), there's no reason for them to do anything more than the bare minimum.

Interesting how often the perceived racial equality of the USA comes up as an advantage over China in terms of their perception in the developing world - I wonder if the policies of the Trump administration are in the process of tipping that balance the other way.

CSIRO is a government-funded research body - not having factories to produce what it researches doesn't make it a patent troll.

Cool how similar it looks to the WW2 Kugelpanzer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugelpanzer

Not to mention that some sites will block you if using a VPN :(.

You can get around it with a Babel transform:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/jsx-control-statements

Disclosure: self-promotion. It's really frustrating that I see this React-is-crap-because-no-conditionals come up again and again but if you want them all it takes is an npm install and a line of babel config :(.

Mainly intermittent errors clicking around the interface, particularly 404s when clicking on files that existed - they're not sure whether that was a problem in the web interface or the files actually temporarily went missing.

Github is so ubiquitous that they can't afford to move fast and break things like Gitlab can - another team at work considered moving to Gitlab to use all these new features, found bugs everywhere and eventually went back to Github.

Are there any plans for autoscaling groups like in K8S?

Got any tips on recognising a bad idea early?

That's what we thought about metadata retention

Having worked at IBM on a bunch of terrible Aus Govt projects, I'm so glad they're finally catching some heat.

My understanding was that that was what they _used_ to do - address information would be used to aggregate data to Statistical Area 1, 2, 3 etc levels (see http://nationalmap.gov.au/#share=s-fg7dcWhKqOxxyqyfbS43YsSKE...) which would then be kept. Starting around 2005 they started keeping address-specific data if you opted in, then from this census onwards they stopped giving you the choice.

http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/censushome.nsf/home/privacy

That is an amazing logo.

The BBC article stated that Nakamoto was after Tominaga Nakamoto, and Satoshi was a secret.

I can't believe he posted it up on github before doing this - there's so much potential for this to go viral once it's packaged with a doodling app.

EDIT: Actually reading more closely I guess 10 minutes on a machine with a decent GPU is a lot of server load :|.

In general that's true, but it's a bit of a different story with React because it tends to throw errors if the DOM is modified outside of it.

Sideloading f.lux on iOS with Xcode 7

In Xcode 7, you can install apps directly to your iOS device with a free account from Apple. So we decided to make a beta version of f.lux for people to try. It’s a few more steps than installing the app store, but there are plenty of harder things even on Pinterest. So, here’s how to get f.lux installed on your iOS device. Download f.lux for iOS for use with Xcode 7 Ingredients Mac, OSX 10.10 or greater 1 installed version of Xcode 7 1 Developer account (use your AppleID) 1 Download, f.lux for iOS, unzipped Instructions First, mix the build ingredients together. Batter may be slightly lumpy. Open the “iflux.xcodeproj” project in Xcode Open Xcode > Preferences > Accounts and enter your iCloud or developer credentials Under Targets > iflux > General > Identity, add a word to the end of the Bundle Identifier to make it a unique name In the same place, under Identity > Team, select your iCloud account or Developer profile While the batter chills, connect your iPhone or iPad and load the iflux build: From the Xcode Product menu, choose Destination and select your iOS device (f.lux doesn’t work in a Simulator) Push Cmd-R when you’re ready to have f.lux When you first run, you’ll be prompted to open Settings > General > Profile on your device, and trust your developer account Run again, and allow location and notifications (things don’t work so well without both of these) By loading an app this way, there are no automatic updates or bug fixes, so this version does a daily update check. If one is available, a message will appear at the bottom of the app, so you can stay up to date when we make fixes.

(instructions are still there if you scroll down, I guess they'll delete them imminently)

You've kind of answered your own question there - if they're able to log into other sites without using some kind of OAuth-type mechanism that doesn't require them to store your password, then a hack will compromise those passwords.

The problem I find with these is that while solving a problem might take 3 hours, you can spend an essentially unlimited amount of time polishing code - writing comments/javadocs, neatening up the code, writing more unit tests etc. etc.

Sounds like the Devin Townsend Project (DTP) http://www.devintownsend.com/images/sprites/dtp_logo_links.j...

You see the d and the p kinda link together to cross the t, it's quite a neat logo when you think about it.

Me too, I just can't see myself ever bothering with an app to facilitate it. The other problem is that it's hard enough getting a group to agree on what restaurant to go to, getting an entire group to agree to go somewhere to meet another random group from an app sounds pretty difficult unless there's a greater shared goal like dating.

I gotta agree - honestly I think you're wise to avoid the expectation that it will be used for dating, but the most compelling use case for this has got to be being out with a group of single friends and wanting to meet another group of single friends of the opposite sex.

Love the idea of having unintelligible ambience in different languages.

I'm a little amused by the fact that no one seems to be talking in in the Berlin one. Makes me imagine stereotypical Germans staring straight ahead drinking their coffee as efficiently as possible.

I started out in React by putting all my actual render functions in separate files and linking them to the component in a similar way to this templating setup. It's a pretty natural reaction everyone has when first using JSX... but silly as it sounds, the annoyance of having long render functions in your components actually encourages you to split them up and end up with better code.

That said I never got over wanting nicer if/looping in JSX - if anyone else wants that compromise you can use the library I made to do it: https://github.com/valtech-au/jsx-control-statements.

The article makes it sound a lot like they were innocent up until that point, but I'd put good money on them already having some skin in the game.

You can put it down to being non-confrontational but what kind of non-confrontational nerd happily goes straight back into a room where they were previously assaulted?

EDIT: Also it's worth keeping in mind that this is just their version of the story, it might be 100% lies.

It reminds me a lot of a box for a GPU or fancy motherboard. The logo even looks exactly like he kind of one a second-tier video card manufacturer would have.

While it's fine for Afghanistan it was designed for a cold-war tank battle. If you don't need to kill tanks or dodge air defences a propeller-powered plane that looks like something out of WW2 is a lot cheaper... and that's what's being developed by a bunch of firms for counter-insurgency.

For a novice coder I couldn't recommend Head First Design Patterns enough - the gang of four design patterns are a bit controversial these days but the way it steps you through and makes you think twice about how to organise things was really eye-opening for me back in the day.