echohack

I think what it comes down to is that people are scared that Medium is going to use their license to steal all your content. Their license is weird: It says it allows them to make derivative works with your content, but at the same time it says it allows you to retain ownership of your content. What does that mean? Nobody knows.

I think if Medium just clarified that one line in their license it would make everyone's fears go away.

I have a few things too:

1. This new "feature" is basically automated filters. Most folks who've used gmail for years have at least some filters set up. Google didn't say anything about throwing ads in the promotions tab, so this is a little...strange.

2. Slippery slope. How long until this populates the main inbox tab? I bet google could even charge differently depending on which tab you want your ads to show up in.

3. XMPP Federation. Google Reader. Google Wave. How long will it be until Gmail is either axed or full of so many ads that it's unusable?

4. Does Adblock / NoScript block these? Can it?

5. The history of Gmail was that it was a next-generation email service and started as an invite only club. Now, every email provider under the sun gives similar features, and gmail hasn't changed much. Personally I think that this is a good thing, it shows that the service is stable and the ideas were correct. But people at Google might think otherwise and might want to try to "innovate" more. Sooo... ads.

That's a good option. Thank you for your insight there.

I can't help but think that this won't really work for many Microsoft shops because the Microsoft CLI is very different from the Mono CLI.

The reason I ask is that there's a number of providers of private PaaS solutions that are willing to install their stuff in your organization for Microsoft stack(HP Matrix, I'm looking at you), but they are full of holes and aren't nearly as robust as what Docker/Dokku/Flynn can offer in terms of plugability and modularity.

Also, free is a pretty good price.

Does anyone know anything like this (a self hosted PaaS) for .NET?

I'd love to use docker or something similar for .NET applications.

For people who turn into a giant balloon when they eat gluten, yes, it's a Big Deal. The people around them too - it's typically a hazard to even have glutenous foods in the area, so it's much easier for families to just go gluten free. I'm talking about chrone's or celiac's disease people here, not ignorant folks who are basing their diets on some Paleo diet voodoo that's fashionable.

Also, have you had Quinoa? That shit is delicious and easy to cook. Throw it in a rice cooker, add some water, wait 15m - BOOM - tasty nom noms, no additives required.

Rice is generally pretty boring and you need to add something to it (Basmati smells nice, but still tastes pretty bland, short grain / Japanese style rice has at least some taste, but nothing interesting). It really doesn't add much to anything nutritionally either.

Wheat and corn is in fucking everything, so when you finally do eat corn or wheat it tastes like nothing because your goddamn peanut butter is hydrogenated corn syrup anyway.

Personally, I can't wait until quinoa is everywhere. It looks a lot more interesting than trying to invest in making better corn or wheat at this point!

Did you even try the app out?

You can change the options from displaying stories, to instead display recent searches, or to save searches.

In any case, the stories feature is quite nice, but I agree that it's feature creepy. I'd rather use another dedicated app for stories / RSS.

> First, it's not the (de facto) national language, which infringes on one's fundamental right to read the laws of the land...

Legaleese requires you to take years of law classes to even understand, and makes the same problem. I think it's more accessible to run something through a compiler...

To help answer my own question, I think I get it, maybe...

"The commissioner shall not issue any certificate of registration authorized by this section to any franchisor, MANUFACTURER, DISTRIBUTOR BRANCH OR FACTORY BRANCH..."

The rest of bill then talks all about franchisors, and mentions manufacturers very little. So perhaps there's something in here that doesn't allow New York to give registration to manufacturers, and only makes rules for franchisors.

Still, this stuff is arcane. It's like reading assembly code.

How does this bill effect Telsa? Does Telsa have it's own company run franchises in New York or something?

I've read the bill (http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A07844&term...) several times now, and it only seems to prohibit the franchisor from forcing franchisees from doing certain things.

I'm not seeing text in here like, "We hereby force all franchisors to sell cars through franchisees." or "Selling directly to consumers is prohibited." or anything of the sort.

I am not a lawyer, perhaps someone more familiar with how selling cars works want to explain?

I think I'll start sending random PGP encrypted messages from my email address, along with my normal messages. Should be simple with a little Jenkins job.

Good luck, have fun NSA. You liberty hating anti-American bastards.

I too, am a fan of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it", but saying that you're going to use PDP-11 until 2050 is a little overboard. Modern languages were made not just for rapid development, but also modularity and to reduce potential human problems. Manually entering data in a PDP-11 is a goddamn error prone task.

I don't think anyone here is suggesting they go run a nuclear reactor on Javascript, or throw away manual overrides and backups, but for goodness sake, you're going to have a hell of a time finding someone willing to dedicate their life to doing PDP-11 forever.

In fact, NASA wrote much of the code for the rovers in Python and C... http://compass.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ws-slides/havelund.... and the rovers run on RAD750 processors. http://www.baesystems.com/product/BAES_028145/rad750-family-... I am not a nuclear engineer or a NASA engineer, but I would think that the environments of space and a nuclear power plant might have quite a bit in common.

I guess the real question here is, is there really so little investment in energy that a more modern piece of software can't be written for these reactors in something like C?

My assessment:

Gimmicks:

- Popout explorer windows (So you can get the old style Pending Changes window, if you like)

- Make comments and discussions on code through web UI

- New release management plugin

- “Team rooms” allow your team to collaborate on code

"I'm OK with this" improvements:

- “Indicators” in code that give you info about blocks of code

- Cloud load testing

- More agile portfolio management options

- Test cases can be worked on through web UI

Real Improvements:

:(

> But I found that a higher level of formality improved my students' learning. My larger classes ran more smoothly.

This is the crux of the article, and he provides no proof to back it up.

The article says that this is an "experiment", but how did the professor log his activities? How did he measure the change in his student's perception? How did he isolate the variables of his own bias vs. the impact of new clothes vs. the impact of formal clothes?

My personal opinion is that fashion is a gigantic waste of time. In any and all venues. Clothing should be first and foremost for utility. Part of that utility is creating a personal brand, which the author has stumbled upon here in his "experiment".

While I'm not a fan, Steve Jobs had a great outlook on this, and is well known by his jeans-and-turtleneck look. This is an amazing insight into clothes in my opinion: Jobs found an outfit that worked, and then simplified everything in his life related to clothing. Image how easy laundry, the decision on what to wear for the day, moving, and ownership of clothes would be if you had a single, standard type of clothing to wear? Imagine how much easier it is to standardize social interactions with other people around you? You'll never have to worry about wearing 'nice' clothes again, because ALL your clothes are exactly the same.

There's one good way: binding.

You allow players to add an after market effect to an item to greatly increase its value. However, doing so makes it bound to your account, and you can't sell it on the auction house anymore.

This can serve as both a tremendous sink of resources that players can work towards and a removal of valuable items from the market. (Because when the player eventually upgrades the item, the original item cannot be resold.)

Do you take off your normal glasses while using the bathroom?

Pseudonymity is exactly right.