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cwisecarver··on Why I no longer use MVC frameworks
This is a static site, at least from the examples given. Using MVC to build it is a way to go but it seems like his way is equally pointless.

Let's take some strings and hardcode them into JS and make the user's browser render this page dynamically every time it's loaded instead of WRITING SOME STATIC HTML... It's all well and good to try a new way of doing things but writing a blog post decrying MVC frameworks for a static site that you're building dynamically with javascript is silly.

cwisecarver··on Gawker's Kinja retreat is more evidence publishers struggle as tech companies
drivers?
cwisecarver··on The iPad Pro
He's not a journalist, he's a pundit.
cwisecarver··on Show HN: Freeze – Amazon Glacier GUI Client for Mac OS X
Another possible thought for the roadmap would be some sort of pluggable architecture for encryption. Let third-parties develop open encryption plugins that this runs inside prior to uploading.
cwisecarver··on The Center for Open Science
I just started as a senior developer at COS. I'm actually on vacation right now but I can attest to a week of productivity with an awesome team. They have done and are doing things to further science every day.
cwisecarver··on How a bug in VS2015 exposed my source code on GitHub and cost me $6,500
You really want GitHub analyzing your code? REALLY? If the internet found out they were analyzing every push the backlash would be 10x what it is now.

Even if it's public... That's still a Gmail-esque situation that would immediately raise privacy concerns.

Developers should pay attention to what they're doing. Your AWS keys shouldn't even been in your private repo. You should find another way or you shouldn't be using a third-party for source control.

cwisecarver··on Amazon Sign Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May
You should watch the show before you speak about it. They make fun of each other, they make fun of Americans, they make fun of the Welsh, they make fun of people from the North, they make fun of the French, the Germans, Mexicans, Africans, Koreans and many more. Literally everyone. The show was about them pushing limits. They were cast as hyperbole factories. They were caricatures of middle-aged white English guys.
cwisecarver··on In Iraq, I raided insurgents. In Virginia, the police raided me
I live in Alexandria and I can assure you that I am not a trust fund baby. Only child of a single parent with no college education, self-taught web developer with a decent income.

It is a diverse area. My neighborhood is single-family homes and I would wager half of them are just scraping by. Two blocks in either direction and you'll see abject poverty or McMansions nestled on too little land next to military housing from the 30s.

cwisecarver··on Redis Geo
I think the redis convention would be required and -1 gives you everything.
cwisecarver··on Paw: The ultimate REST client for Mac
It's excellent. It's worth the money. I didn't even expense it because it was worth my money.
cwisecarver··on 210 Zappos employees – 14% of the staff – take buyouts after CEO ultimatum
Henderson is a suburb of Vegas. You wouldn't have to move unless you wanted to walk to work.
cwisecarver··on Is This Justice? Charging an Eighth Grader with a Felony for “Hacking”
Isn't this akin to charging a teen with murder that entered a teachers house and swapped out framed family photographs with men kissing using a key known to be hidden under a planter?

It's probably not even that ridiculous since the computer was, I assume, school property and not personal property.

cwisecarver··on LG: “Apple has also announced that they will release the iMac 8K”
And it's from March 31.
cwisecarver··on The Chromebook Pixel (2015) Review
I just ordered the LS model because it's what I wanted the new MacBook to be. Good build quality, decent processor, 12", HiDPI display, more than one port, and 12 hours of battery life. I fully intend to install ubuntu the second I get it and boot off that for the life of the machine. My hope is that for everything but vector/raster editing it can replace my 15" MacBook Pro for daily Python dev work.
cwisecarver··on Google’s NSA alliance: Deals between Silicon Valley and the security state
The two things I got from this story:

- If anyone of us, that didn't work for Google, had cracked into a sever that breached our servers and just looked around, not destroying data. Wouldn't that be illegal?

- The NSA is getting access to software and hardware back doors before the public is made aware so they can try and catch Chinese hackers. Doesn't this also give them the access they would need to route all our traffic to their giant datacenter and mine it? Aren't the 'Chinese' hackers giving them a convenient excuse?

cwisecarver··on Segregation Now – separate and unequal education is coming back
Why not just add a separate tax for private schools that drives money directly into public schools. They will increase their tuition accordingly, because profit, and more affluent families will think twice about public schools. The rich would still be able to afford private schools and would help out funding public schools.

I'm all for the live and let live philosophy but education and healthcare are things that make a better society. Mostly I just want there to be less stupid people. That would, selfishly, make my life better.

cwisecarver··on CubeSlam
Great game. I ran my MBPr out of battery playing and resorted to my iPad after posting the link in my company's slack chat. Slack is great, btw. I then resorted to my iPad which does work really well but I'm missing Bobs expressions. I'd really like to see Bob on my iPad. Excellent work though.
cwisecarver··on I’m Just Now Realizing How Stupid We Are
Thanks for the front-page love HN. I work at the Fool as a web developer. Morgan has just been sent the link to this thread. Maybe he'll chime in if there are questions.
cwisecarver··on When Can I Code Swift on the Server?
Right after they launch their 64 CPU, 256 core ARM64 X-serves.
cwisecarver··on What If U.S. Cities Just Stopped Participating in the War on Drugs?
Doesn't this just come down to capitalism? If there is a demand someone will find a way to supply it. We could have the government select the suppliers through law enforcement, weeding out the criminals that can't find a way to evade them, or we could license dealers, tax their profits and use that money for schools, treatment, and whatever else (Colorado).

People who have a physical or mental addiction will find a way to get their high. That's what we've learned from the WoD. It's water dripping on a stone, from both sides, distribution and consumption.

Tax-paying citizens, not making any judgements, should get back their investment on the fail that is the WoD.

The government and the taxpayers could easily make as much money through taxing drug dealers profits as they've ever made getting handouts from the prison and big-pharma lobby.

cwisecarver··on Why cyclists should be able to roll through stop signs, ride through red lights
Other vehicles not getting ticketed for violations has absolutely nothing to do with this. If LE isn't doing it's job, then it's not doing it's job regardless of the mode of transport. The article is about laws directed at cyclists not being logical. It rings a little hollow when the subject of the article can't follow the laws they already have.

For whatever it's worth, I don't hate cyclists. I have a bike that I ride around neighborhood streets and through local parks for recreation. I don't ride it on highly-traveled roads or as a transportation device because I think I'd be impeding motorized vehicles and I'd really rather not be killed.

cwisecarver··on Why cyclists should be able to roll through stop signs, ride through red lights
Or Diplomat
cwisecarver··on Why cyclists should be able to roll through stop signs, ride through red lights
I'd be perfectly fine with them having a set of rules they follow assuming the vast majority followed them and the ones that didn't were ticketed just as drivers or pedestrians would be.
cwisecarver··on Why cyclists should be able to roll through stop signs, ride through red lights
If cyclists want to ride on the roads that are predominantly used by cars they should have to follow the same traffic laws as cars so they are as predictable as cars. Pedestrians walking on the road have a strict set of rules to keep everyone safe. Alternatively, they should be barred from riding on roads and have their own rules which would make them equally predictable.

Northern Virginia has some of the worst drivers I've seen anywhere in the country but you can predict that they're going to run a red light up until 5 seconds after it's changed or that they're going to race past a line of stopped cars and try to cut into an exit at the last moment while texting.

Cyclists here are a completely different breed and are in no way predictable. I've seen them riding into on-coming traffic, ditch off a road onto a sidewalk to cross an intersection only to jump back onto the road after the intersection. I've seen more near misses with pedestrians in cross walks and cars making a right on red than I can possibly count.

Because they don't consistently follow any rules whatsoever they're dangerous and the majority of them have an holier than thou attitude because they're not ruining the environment. They're just ruining every driver and pedestrian's commute.

cwisecarver··on Poll: Would you take $10M now or start your own company?
It depends how much more than $10 million the algorithm is worth. In the show it's probably worth a lot more. It also depends on the period of time you have to stay to get the $10 million, if it's a lump sum, and if it's cash or stock.

If it's $10 million cash right now and I can hand over the algorithm and walk away right now I'd take the cash. Buy a modest house at the beach and a modest house in the mountains, invest the rest and do whatever I wanted for the rest of my life.

cwisecarver··on A Vision of the Future From Those Likely to Invent It
I hate to let my pessimist flag fly but this seems like one of those articles/infographics we will look back on in twenty years time and laugh. "Where is my flying car", etc.
cwisecarver··on Michael Lewis: shilling for the buyside?
It seems this guy isn't the intended audience for the book. I, for instance, know that Netflix performance is bad on certain ISPs because of throttling and peering agreements but if someone wrote a narrative about this I wouldn't berate them for telling the public at large about it in words they would understand.
cwisecarver··on For the Record: Spotify Can Go Fuck Themselves
One-percent problems is the pro level.
cwisecarver··on Netflix Agrees to Pay Comcast to End Web Traffic Jam
http://bit.ly/NoS35l Just google the headline, they allow access to requests with google referrers.
cwisecarver··on Netflix Agrees to Pay Comcast to End Web Traffic Jam
I thought Comcast had to follow the net neutrality rules until 2018 regardless of that court decision a few weeks ago... Is this NFLX caving because nobody is enforcing the rules Comcast agreed to? (Edited for englishy)
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