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A strange game.

The only winning move is not to play.

Gripe: One of the options that I selected reverted Hangouts to the old Google Chat system without explicitly saying so.

EDIT: It was the Old Compose feature, which admittedly is in beta. Still, I'm not a fan of losing the group chats I have open.

There's no equivalent "online coding test" for admins, unfortunately.

>How the hell does it end up 50% wins all the time?

Because that's what the system was designed to do. If you're winning more than 50% it means that some percentage of the time, the game can't find 5 people who are better than you to put in a game. You'd have to compete at a semi-pro level to get this to happen.

The price of invites on the Steam Marketplace has been about $0.03 since January (and there were several bots that collected invitations and handed them out to applicants).

No, you don't have to pay to be competitive in LoL. But a lot of players don't want to be competitive, they just want to have all the options of the game available to them (which they never will unless they pay money).

What about the concerns with running your apps on a single server? Or do you Hyper-V within a single instance?

>...managing dozens of VMs ain't free either!

It's not free, but configuration management tools make it pretty cheap. There's a reason Puppet/Chef/Ansible/Salt are getting a lot of attention in the DevOps world.

Solaris/illumos have been running containers for almost ten years now. They're just a layer of abstraction on the other side of the OS layer - a different tool, not necessarily a better one.

Social activism?

Did you not even finish reading the headline?

Not necessarily - if their goal is to get Facebook to reverse the change (which I imagine it is based on the fact that the website is based in an area with a lot of civil unrest), then providing reasonable rationalization in the article isn't what you want to do.

I believe Snowden has gone on record saying that members of Congress are exempt from NSA spying.

>If you have zero physical security, that means that anyone can come up and just knock you down and take your things, your woman, whatever... Not my idea of "freedom".

What you're describing is total freedom in a causal society - the only constraint on what people do is what they _can_ do. It may not be your definition of freedom, but from an unbiased observer, it is arguably the most free a society can be.

You (and a lot of other people, I think) are conflating freedom (being able to do whatever you can) with rights (a guarantee that certain conditions will exist in a governed society). Granting rights necessarily diminishes the total freedom of a society.

Former President Obama would also have far more power than John Q. Citizen to make his metadata "disappear" if need be. I don't particularly buy this argument.

s/Chief/Chef/g. :)

>Are you really supporting the idea that potential customers of Moz, who go out in search of Moz and stumble on Doz, would confuse the two?

With a Hamming distance of one between the names, why wouldn't this be plausible?

What brand of air mattress do you have, if you don't mind my asking?

I've been told by lawyers that M&A activity usually precedes an economic uptick in a sector. If that's true, then today is a pretty good day to be in tech.

If Google continues its current growth trajectory and Yahoo! sticks around, I wonder how long it will be before people start rooting for Yahoo! as the "underdog".

A meme that Tumblr uses pretty frequently, at that.

At first I thought "oh, it's just another guy named Brad Pitt."

Can we edit the title to say (2011)?

The fact that you're bringing this up two years later only serves to validate Olav's viewpoint.

Stock dividends come to mind. Not sure how common that is in the industry, though.

The issue is making sure all actors in such a system is rational - no point in optimizing one constraint while ignoring the other.