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"Google's manual for its unseen humans who rate the web" -- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/27/google_raters_manual...

> Artwohl compares police work to defensive driving, which is about “expecting something bad is going to happen. It’s not about dealing with normal traffic flow.”

> “We should go out there and expect something bad will happen and watch for it,” she said. “If we are not paying attention, we could die.”

If that's how she views defensive driving it might shed some light on her approach to policing.

I don't think defensive driving means expecting that at any moment something horrible can happen. It's more about being aware, anticipating events, preventing problems, and having a plan B. And it's very much part of dealing with normal traffic flow, responding to common road conditions in a defensive way that prevents problems or at least offers you a good response should a problem occur.

I did not say that.

I don't think most people would read such a label. But some people would and some of them would write articles summarizing it. Much like terms of use statements on websites. Further, legislators and scientists would have access to these labels which could help guide policy and research.

I think if ingredients were disclosed that, first, harmful ingredients would be reduced or eliminated by the makers, and next the public could debate the issue of banning indoor e-cigs from a position of knowledge.

If every product had to disclose this, then ideally you could recursively query for every component chemical. At that point, not only would banning e-cigs be discussed but also probably many building materials and cleaning products. And we'd be able to ban on a granular level, e.g., any product emitting more than 10 ppm diacetyl.

Can we also ban perfume and fragrances then? They're not healthy either. /s

I'd just like to see a requirement that all products have a label which lists every ingredient, even if that label is only available online or by mailing the manufacturer. And "natural and artificial flavors" is not an ingredient. "Meets the flammability requirements of the California Bureau of Home Furnishings" is also not an ingredient.

I don't think the problem is reading tweets. It's in getting followers and how tweets you create are acknowledged.

You are a tree falling and no one is around to hear it. There is a lack of interaction unless you're a celebrity, have outside friends on there, or spent some effort in gaining followers. They need to find ways to break users into small groups who can interact with each other (pretty much the entire appeal of IRC).

Stats on this article...

With uBlock turned on and JS blocked: 65 requests, 2,015 KB, 1.73 seconds

Without blocking: 391 requests, 7,354 KB, 54.57 seconds

In each case I can read the article. The latter case uses 3.5x bandwidth.

I hope news sites find that the reason their print ads fetch more money is because it's prestigious to have a newspaper ad. Web ads are junky. Sites should vet ads themselves or use a reputable firm and work with advertisers to place tasteful, inline, plain html ads.

But in this case the government is coercing companies, which violates the first amendment. See https://theintercept.com/2015/12/01/court-ruling-against-chi...

"Some of the company’s prized purebred birds can now add a pound of weight for every 1.2 pounds of feed consumed"

That's great news. Also compared to cows, chickens emit much less methane and other greenhouse gases, especially if their manure is handled properly. Not to mention they're working on breeding to improve that. And given it takes only ~ 30 days to raise a chicken, that reduces overall energy consumption running the farm.

But I think WSJ understated how healthy a vegan diet is, aside from lacking B-12.

I am also skeptical because the people answering polls are people who answer robocalls/spam/surveys.

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> why everyone else doesn't just do the same

When your upside on doing fancy tax maneuvers is several billion, you can afford IRS lawsuits. And you can afford the initial time for a lawyer to set this all up.

Average people are using Turbo Tax for yearly taxes and relying on common law to handle their estate, because that's all they can afford.

I had no idea there was even a debate about this let alone people passionate about each side. This is bike shedding right?

I agree with you on trade school.

However, I would think it's often the poor who would benefit most from college, because it's there they can network with people who would never otherwise be available to them. That could also provide positive peer pressure and some concrete examples of people you can emulate. And college will teach them how to learn and critically think, which might not be skills they have yet.

I don't think that's the point. This is just a measure that's more effective than an announced reminder to turn cell phones off. Comedians just want to limit how many people have heard their jokes before. This device will certainly improve things.

I wouldn't walk away from the deal. They're just concerned you'll fail to deliver and also don't want extra hassles dealing with attorneys, just like you. And you're concerned about not being paid. Ask for a deposit, do a great job, and don't worry about it.

You're both in different states. Each of you want litigation/contracts resolved in your own states. One of you must budge. How's this a red flag?

I don't find much validity to this argument that constantly comes up. Out of the box, you have two options and neither are bad... (1) Make your variable package/public/protected scope and refactor one day if you have to. (2) Use getters/setters, possibly with shorter names (if your fancy framework allows that) and more terse formatting.

Is this so bad?

  int size(){ return size; }
  void size(int newSize){ size = newSize; }

The setter shouldn't be so common anyhow because immutability is better.

Besides, if you have a thousand getter/setters then your problem might not be Java.

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The EFF really should do a better job of explaining what this means in practice. Their last paragraphs hint at it, but they should make clear that in practice the government has access to all the data it used to, because the authorizations of the NSA are overlapping. It would be like if a city block had 20 CCTV cameras on it and 2 were taken down.

More importantly, these records are but one item in the enormous dossier of each person on earth.

There aren't many serious alternatives to Thunderbird. I think that the project falls squarely within Mozilla's mission statement: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/details/

Most of their reasoning about this decision revolves around it being a distraction from Firefox. Maybe they should update the manifesto to put web browsing as goal #1. As it stands, it talks about the Internet, but the WWW is clearly their priority.

Most programmers etc. in California can claim overtime if they make less than $84K. Nationally, it's $23K.

That's true. E.g., this is my Eclipse setup: http://i.imgur.com/SP6o1W2.png

Because a policy around leave for births is easy to make black and white. Additionally, it's a lifetime commitment for parents so it's not likely people will rack up a bunch of births just for time off. Although I do wonder how some of these companies with generous benefits for parents would handle someone who has 10 babies.

And most of this is an extension of what workers have been fighting for for a long time and already recognized throughout many areas of law.

In your case, I'd recommend taking a job with an "unlimited vacation" company and calling their bluff.

What about cities and counties funding newspapers? The author thinks that there's at least some good DC reporting from national papers and non-profit media, but that what suffers are the local papers.

Funding at the local level could be provided by ballot initiatives that pull money directly from taxes instead of the general budget. That way local politicians can't influence the news too much.

People are pretty passionate about funding libraries. I could see the same people accepting newspaper taxes.

This is great advice. Much more important than free pizza and foosball.

Regarding re-writing micro-services, I would be interested to hear how this turns out for people in practice and how 'micro' these services are.

"All occupations have an associated body of knowledge that practitioners dip into when they need to complete certain tasks. Visit any lawyer's or accountant's office and you'll find shelves filled with books that they use for reference."

This analogy to the tech world is appropriate. My dad is a lawyer. Very rarely can I ask him a question he knows the answer to off hand, unless it's in his very narrow specialty and regarding the state he practices in. But he knows how to look stuff up and has a general knowledge with which to analyze legal matters. And he's a civil attorney; he pretty much can't answer criminal issues at all.

I think programmers are a lot like this. If you want to grok the browser, you're going to lose. And that's not useful anymore anyhow.

I would like to see support for json and regex, similar to JavaScript.

SAP owns lots of products and companies and many of those are written in Java, so it's possible you're just not aware it's them. E.g., Crystal Reports.

Also, it's not that companies "rarely buy SAP products" but rather that many of their customers are large corps who are on very long upgrade cycles for boring but essential products. They make a lot of their money from consultants servicing these customers. This isn't the type of thing that you hear about in the news. In recent years they've been trying to grow their mid-market reach.

I think a job at a large tech company would be my ideal first job. Having worked at both types of companies, I think the level of professionalism is higher at large corps, they know how to deal with junior level employees, the pay will be better, and so will job stability. Starting out at your first job involves a lot of social anxiety in a way, and I think it's easier to deal with the boring mega-corp socialization than the dorm-like atmosphere of a startup.

Having said that, it's important to work on projects that are impressive on your resume. Fixing bugs is fine, but 3 years of generating graphs for financial reports, or externalizing strings to internationalize an app will not help your career. Startups will definitely offer you challenging projects, but so can large corps, and often they'll let you take a bite you can more easily chew.

Edit to add: I think an important thing is to consider, will I enjoy working with these people and will I be able to satisfy their expectations? Especially make sure you and your boss will get along. This along with getting impressive projects are the most important things. But all else being equal, I'd prefer a large corp over startup for your first job.