justaaron

Javascript.

I wish to expound further: The criminalization of possession and cultivation/fabrication of certain substances has created a highly lucrative black market providing revenue for entities that are less that concerned with our social welfare and more concerned with maintaining a hegemony of power.

Just a clue as to the overall impact lies in noting that the USA is the single largest consumer of Latin American cocaine production, and the role this has played in creating a climate where cartels drive governments. (not to mention black money opportunities for shady governmental entities to dip in and out of, a la Oliver North...)

coffee is regulated?

the drug war is a politically and economically driven disaster that has created the single largest wave in history of disrespect for law, laws, and our legal systems.

Law, as a system, draws 100% of it's authority from the notion of being an externalized codified form of social morality. The minute Law ceases being moral and becomes merely an obvious instrument of power it's basis flounders.

If you want a world with less problems, the drug war must go immediately.

A "can-do" spirit (sometimes arrogantly so, however it is encouraged, not "put in it's place")

This is sometimes congruent with "the entrepreneurial spirit" in which, rather than waiting for a boss with a plan, one makes ones own plan and seeks to put it into action and find the funding for it.

There is a dark side to this same social trait, but in keeping with this thread, the positive side is a sense of personal ownership and self-investment in ones life activities.

The author supports bloated stacks driven by trendy concepts. I highly disagree with nearly every point the author raises. At the end of the day, there is http where there is the request/response cycle, and knowing how the machine works is essential, so obfuscation and nonsense should be eschewed in lieu of greater clarity of understanding. One can pre-load data into a server rendered template but then one essentially has to load new data (hello xhr or websockets) and update the dom accordingly. Everything else is just noise. Full stack engineering gives one a comprehensive overview of the virtual machine. While SPA and serverless architectures (not to mention graphQL, postgrest, and other attempts to basically agglomerate the backend server onto the database) alter this equation, having full comprehensive knowledge of this is the equivalent of a mechanic knowing her/his engine, or a soldier being able to field strip his/her armament.

So, here we have a click-bait title and our reactions are feeding into the apparent pretensions to fame engendered.

next.

I see that Uber was using this in Az back in March...

using Crystal Lang on a production app with Kemal.

If one gets used to breaking changes and gets to know the inner bits of ones language and libraries and it's less risky.

If one is using very complex stacks and hoping/waiting for other people to fix things, it's much more risky.

does it really matter if a particular toddler in particular social media photos is in a cage detained by ICE or the child of someone protesting the self-same ICE practices that ARE indubitably occurring?

the practice IS occurring. most major news entities have circulated footage of the holding facilities, audio recordings of crying children, etc. There are around 2000 children that have been separated from their parents so far since Sessions illegal new policy took effect. (Illegal in the sense that it contravenes treaties we have signed, that it contravenes our principles of due process, that asylum seekers who willfully turn themselves in for asylum application at the border are lumped in...)

Straw man.

the evil IS occurring, it IS a measured ratcheted NEW set of developments under Sessions and by extension Trump, and it is oddly occurring at a time when illegal immigration is in a lull. There literally is no illegal immigration crisis in 2018 and yet these extremists are whipping up the public on purpose to pursue a dubious agenda of trying to capitalize on the national immigration policy drama

Ever wonder why Trump could claim (truthfully) that deportations were down in 2017 relative to Obama? Because they have generally been correlated to illegal entry numbers, which have been going down since drum roll the financial crisis, which has resulted in stagnant wages on the bottom and less incentive to seek work in America.

However, now we have a radical administration in office that suddenly sends ICE squads door to door to houses and places of employment actively raiding and deporting people who were out of status but at zero risk of deportation, before, including many pending processes, several hundred US military veterans, and spouses of US citizens who fell through one crack or another.

the entire punitive and sanctimonious tone of the immigration debate in America has become a circus of mindless cruelty and one-ups-man-ship. Despicable.

Guam, the Phillipines, the Spanish American War, The Monroe Doctrine, 200+ years of meddling in Latin American affairs as a result.

Good grief, why are we even having such a conversation?

"but your genocide was worse than our genocide"

Learn to separate rhetorical devices, propaganda for the working classes via the free public education system, and actual historical facts and context.

Let's just say that altruism and moral purity haven't been high on the political values pile anywhere that power relations are exercised. A little less "my precious" will help in a dispassionate and accurate analysis.

Oh, my favorite "attempted rhetorical device" is definitely a line from one of the first paragraphs:

"but since patriotism doesn’t have the appeal it used to have, Arnold’s treason seems not to matter as much anymore."

Patria, patriotism, authors particular definition of it, true patriot, false patriot, other interpretations, etc.

Wanker.

More American Exceptionalism and Navel Gazing (tm) This is not history, but rather rhetoric and nationalistic propaganda.

As an American by birth and upbringing, I really wish that these people would travel and realize: 1) every nation has their "unique and special history" 2) every nation uses that mythology to boost national pride 3) this nationalistic "but we are special" tone only functions for a given domestic audience, given that this is its intended target 4) It therefore contributes NOTHING to international relations & dialogue.

Imagine the silly world of 2018 where Belgians would still go on and on about the Belgian revolution vis-a-vis the Dutch. Get over it. It's literally history.

While the "reformist" historians that the author decries may indeed turn things inside out and distort the lense in an effort to expiate our national sins (which really were sins and shouldn't be defended ad nauseaum) the author himself seems to have divorced himself from any concept of academic dispassionate truth-telling and be actively engaged in defending nationalist propaganda to a laughably obvious degree. The author should visit nations where actual dictators former and present have created similar "Gods Children" mythos and realize the banal stupidity of such a position as adults in a world we all share.

God does not prefer any grouping of humans to another, and most definitely does not approve of politics nor nationalism. God told me this just now, so you can rest assured that it's true.

The author and his myopic defenders may accuse me of being a "Left Wing Radical" (tm) to which I may response "indeed" given another context. In this particular context I'm merely 1) right 2) being the voice of reason in the face of emotional rhetoric defending a belief system with the full force of a religion, quite a dangerous belief system, when you consider that.

Please, no operating heavy machinery under the influence of "I am the son of Amon Ra" nonsense...

Consider freelancing or going into business for yourself.

I'm rather tired of drone-like hiring practices involving flunkies trying to stump you with questions about topics you might have written the book upon... (not that I'm anywhere near Ken, but the general picture should suffice) https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/21/ken_thompson_take_o...

saved the best reply for last. full circle. zing!

Just to be clear, QT still has the same licensing, correct? dual:LGPL or commercial

commercial license costs + not redistributable (example, if included in a BSD or MIT library/framework/tool...)

or LGPL (also requires project to be LGPL)

just checking, as it's a factor in why Qt is not universal, but only ubiquitous, which is still a good thing, because "diversity" and not wanting to put the fate of all gui forever into the hands of one entity etc..

but: any other declarative (like qml) gui frameworks out there in Linux land?

I wish dearly to see the blaze-npm package, that would allow re-purposing blaze templates + helpers + events with a different backend in a non-meteor node.js context. it's been "coming soon" for years, so I don't think it is...

I've got more than a few blaze meteor apps that could use a new lease on life...

The server "publishes" particular queries as a kind of feed, and the client "subscribes" to some number of these feeds and behind the scenes, a miniature mongodb-like-api (mini-mongo) in local storage gets filled with all the published data you are subscribed to, so both the number of documents needed should be limited, as well as the scope of the query itself, for performance reasons... Scaling in the sense of: 1) number of simultaneous users maintaining a DDP connection with the server and the beating the db and backend take 2) amount of documents that get shoved down the tubes.

So, the more fundamental issue: Nothing about meteor's approach allows substituting components from the rest of the javascript ecosystem, other than the view layer, as the server side only speaks DDP, as does the client, etc.

One cannot easily optimize the various routes of the application as it's all just one very tightly coupled SPA with a ddp backend?!

I ended up being able to use an apps existing data, and taking the templates/components and patching in 1)routes and all dynamic data and what not from the server side needed to "dish-up" the template plus some 2) vanilla javascript to post data to server routes that may return either markup + data or simply data that get's patched into the specific place in the dom that needs updating.

This at least provided a basis for further work on individual routes/views etc.

Microsoft is squandering the decades of work humans put into drivers, an OS codebase that is unique and omnipresent, and if they can't see how useless and crap all their other services are without the conceptual core that powered their rise to sucess, then they will die.

- windows domains - group policy - roaming profiles - drivers written for in-house equipment, ranging from machining to mass spectrometry, done over decades, and basically compatible back to NT 4, until M$ screws everything up...

They just don't know where their bread is buttered, and their bean counting practices are evidently obscuring it, as they keep doing stupid crap decisions like Office365.

They should stabilize and streamline what they already built...

It's not the solar wind I'm worried about re: uranus. The wind I'm concerned with portends very large payload rockets immanent arrival trajectories. It's definitely stinkier than any hazard any interplanetary crewed mission has had to deal with, hitherto.

It provides a benefit to the owners of such a company, as the labor costs are reduced. In other respects this is like the same nonsense about how we would live better lives and work less as our jobs were replaced by robots. It turns out that an economic "system" based upon dog-eat-dog principles will not allow such altruistic results to accrue for society. Like someone said above: "socialize the risks, privatize the profits"

I never understood the recent push towards self-driving cars, as it already seems perverse that the entire surface pavement has been dedicated primarily to motor vehicles and only secondarily to our actual selves, as pedestrians.

Putting further pressure on what should really be 2 discrete planes of activity (perhaps one in tunnels below ground or in the air, and I don't mean the pedestrians!)

Perhaps now the arrogance of such bad ideas becomes a little bit more clear to the tech set of folks, that in my view were excessively pushing such strange goals upon a public that wasn't clamoring for it.

finally someone made the reference :D

spooks keeping their back door open? a la Dual_EC_DRBG and RSA etc...

I'd always understood the T to come from the Taxa (Alfandegaria) imposed upon the blocks the Portuguese imported to Europe and sold to the rest of Europe.

Cha (Portuguese) because the Portuguese were not only the first Europeans to reach China by boat, but Japan and India as well, so they used the rightful Asian terms for it, having no other. (back when the Dutch were still pirates hoping to catch a laden Portuguese caravella. FWIW.)

eye-roll... as if the existing skyline wasn't composed by corporate temples to greed like the transamerican building?

It's like when the people who gentrified SF yesterday complain about the people doing it today... news-flash, it's always been an expensive pretentious place to live and do business, and yes, it's always smelled rather rotten and moldy as well...

except that you, and 6 colleagues, have your service arms drawn and aimed, requiring only a trigger-pull to kill a person- and are well out of reach of a knife.

then there is the notion that the LEO chose to take a job with an oath to protect and serve US, the society, the people. and here this person is putting their own lifes value so much higher than others that they are unwilling to even wait to visually identify an arm prior to shooting. that is wrong. that is wrong on so many levels. the onus is always on the police officers to manage the situation, and what we have here is a culture of police violence encourage by IMPUNITY. The cop get's acquitted or never goes to trial, getting paid administrative leave or whatever... the family loses a person, never to roam the earth again, and all due to some shitty training and false premises being taught.

I have had it up to here with the notion that the civilian populace, including deaf and blind people, are supposed to accomodate a police force that will shoot them so casually for, and in fact are even unable to stay alive when complying with orders, as in the case of several recent high profile cases.

Make no mistake, the "swatter" has committed a crime of violence and should do hard time, but it's high time we stood up against this culture of police WICKEDNESS and reformed it.

yes, they should see a weapon produced and in the process of being aimed for firing. they are already pointing their arms at the "suspect" and all that is required to complete the firing process is to pull the trigger. In America, due a culture of police impunity, (the cop rarely goes to jail or even faces trial, and is often even acquitted in cut-n-dried cases like Shaver.) the police officer has been trained to value their lives as higher than the lives of civilians. this is wrong. yes, i completely expect to see an actual weapon produced before a shooter commences.

I think we are waiting to hear: "and this culture of impunity and valuing their own lives above the lives of the people they swore an oath to protect needs to end and we need to re-train our forces and hold those who use deadly force accountable"

That would go further than making excuses for the rash thinking on the part of trigger-happy leo's.

The "swatter" should be charged with 2nd degree murder, minimum, but this particular instance is just the icing on a cake in which over 1000 people die every year from leo firearm discharge, and that is due to a culture within law enforcement that needs to CHANGE NOW. We have seen this coming for over 50 years, and it's OUT OF HAND at this point. It's past time for legislative actions to have taken place.

We are absolutely globally isolated in this regard (unless you count Duterte as good company and a supporter of the sort of society America should stand for.)

but leave it to lawyers to find a way to attempt to insert themselves in a process that was designed around them :D

uhhh... the point is kinda that they don't need to be?

a "smart" contract mechanically and programmatically releases further funds or assigns rights or other actions upon completion of a specified input activity. It obviates the need for lawyers and such and serves as a public record of the transaction as well.

well, that's one, albeit reasonable, interpretation of a blockchain-enabled "smart contract".