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The term walled garden refers to service lock-in where membership and mode of access is tightly controlled. It's not about using an app.

They often have the most challenging problems around scale, security and performance. The "moral" aspect is a continuum and there are tens of thousands of engineers working in fields that some would call questionable (adtech, intelligence/surveillance, copyright enforcement, credit rating, hyper capitalist companies like Uber etc.)

Hopefully a long time, unless you are happy with your spending being mediated and controlled by a third party.

For an alternate view to the "data is oil" theme, see http://bokonads.com/data-is-fallout-not-oil/

When you agree to forgo something, you do so because someone else asked you to do it. Otherwise you would say you offered to forgo and they accepted.

It's a bug.

It's sloppy shorthand though because it can be (deliberately) misconstrued to suggest agency and directional purpose.

Chaining and failing on first error is only useful for the most trivial of error situations. Non toy programs handle errors with retry strategies, alternate algorithms and fallbacks which may all be contextual.

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That's what I call a comprehensive commit comment.

I may be mistaken about the cause. I'm on Linux and use FF without flash. Chromium with in-built flash (or flash emulation?) handles maps fine.

Excellent, this actually makes Maps usable for me. I don't have flash installed which seems to break place searching on standard Google Maps but not the Lite version.

The elephant in the room: a large majority of sites just don't have good enough content to support themselves through reasonable advertising.

Too many have it 180 degrees reversed: instead of trying to support their content with advertising income they are trying to supporting their advertising income with content.

I've been working with Go for 4 years and I've not encountered it. Perhaps there was an edge case where it was allowed, but I don't recall it.

See my other comment for runnable example. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12925765

Er... https://play.golang.org/p/QyQVFfPIhx

OK, how many times have you been bitten by it?

It doesn't even compile so I doubt you have run into it in real code.

How do you decorate the errors? In Go I might write

    a, err := foo()
    if err != nil {
        return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to foo: %v", err) 
    }

> It's an Asperger profession; smart but artless.

Your point was good, it didn't need this poor stereotyping.

Trying to work out which invasion you are thinking of. Neither Iraq nor Afganistan were triggered by dictators invading other countries. Vietnam was triggered by a dictatorial invasion but the US were essentially invited in. There have been lots of minor invasions in between but I'm struggling to place which one you mean.

So his children can sit in them in the next car.

I don't think it's a stereotype. In the Middle Ages Christianity and Islam both had strict usary laws forbidding the charging of interest on loans. Judaism only forbade it amongst fellow Jews so they could charge interest to followers of other religions. This allowed them to afford to make loans where others could not. Obviously they also became the focus of anger when people could not repay the loan and the subject of jealousy when they became rich from loaning money. This is probably the root of many historic pogroms.

Anyone here got tips for a lactose intolerant vegetarian? (and I don't mean "eat meat" tips)

This doc, written by one of the Go team at Google, enumerates the state of BCE as of a few months ago:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vdAEAjYdzjnPA9WDOQ1e4e05...

They are already in it. Google for verizon supercookie

Perhaps https://lobste.rs/ might be an addition to your reading habits?

Can you clarify the question? It sounds like you think UBI's problem is that it removes the "continual supply of low-paid unskilled workers [the businesses] want".

That will simply move the incentives towards publishers spreading their content over as many pages as possible to get more micropayments from you.

You wrote "What if there's no such a thing as <something we have studied and understood in detail for decades> and we've been observing interactions with <something we hypothesise might exist but we know next to nothing about> all along?"

Why did you jump to the conclusion that the well understood thing should be replaced by the new and unknown thing?