markoman

Um, you didn't read where I was referring to the photo captions. Each of the captions teased the rationale of tax affect and it felt a little gratuitous. Maybe the HN crowd is more tolerant than I, but I bailed. I wanted a little more to go on to know that the read was going to be interesting.

It was frustrating reading the captions to the photos because for each one it would mention that tax policy affected various features of the building. Except that, over and over, it mysteriously left out the why and how of tax policy affecting roofing or windows being bricked over. That is, why would tax policy cause windows to be bricked over? I just found it exhausting being teased over and over. I don't read to be teased. I read to be educated, yet I wasn't even sure that the read would have answered my questions. I gave up instead.

I always find it astounding when a gun advocate goes to great lengths to list means other than guns for committing mass murder. Why would any American, having been ministered in the ways of the gun via American gun culture/religion, select IEDs from drones, knives, or trucks to do the deed? Guns, especially rifles, are superbly optimized killing machines. Any suggestion otherwise is a pure and simple diversion from reality & truth.

You cite the European Charlie Hebdo attack (where 12 people died) as 'one of the worst gun massacres in recent history' yet reveal your blind spot of the much more recent (American) Las Vegas Mandalay Bay shooting on 10/01/2017 where 58 were killed and a staggering 500+ were injured -- while attending a concert on the Vegas strip! This attack, from a 32nd floor hotel suite, truly stunned America in ways that have yet to be fathomed. Its just that these gun attacks keep coming and stealing away our attention. Witness the Sutherland Springs, TX church shooting where 27 people were killed, and then Parkland which has gained even more attention. And yet, American gun culture and politics will not permit even a Congressional debate for outlawing bump stocks, which to a large part, contributed to the loss of life at the Las Vegas shooting. No -- all you get are thoughts, prayers, a monument and don't forget the hospital bill on your way out.

Could you provide a link on how this combination would work best? Also, while Spring Core is at v.5, Spring Boot is at 2.0.1 currently, right?

Cost of living mustn't be too high where you're at or I wouldn't imagine you'd be able to make ends meet with the savings that $65K would afford. I hope the absent payroll doesn't last long for you. One has to wonder what your hours are if 'the rest' of your company quit. Good luck.

Agree. But even the data is questionable. How can Singapore & Luxembourg be richer than Norway? Did they include all the Norwegian oil profits?

Filing 'broad' patents is pretty typical. I see that they have 119 patents under the Theranos name. To think of all the work and cooperation that obtaining those patents required, is pretty mind-boggling if in fact it was all bogus. If this is the massive fraud that is being alleged by journalists (and the SEC), then it would require a massive conspiracy to effectuate it. To only hold the CEO accountable in a case like this seems to be lacking resolution. There are other bad actors here that need to be held accountable, much as in Enron. I'm sure many (guilty & innocent) employees are paying a financial price but it appears that more could be done on the consequences side of things.

Ruby is still a beautiful language, particularly for its object oriented-ness. And I think Ruby's nature, simplicity and power appeals to young people, however the resurgence of a towering Javascript/NodeJS is hard compete with. These are market forces that really matter when you're wondering what language & platform to use for your MVP. In recent surveys, Ruby & Rails has fallen to the bottom of the list among the former stars of programming languages. Python has data science & machine learning to keep it strong and new stars Elixir/Phoenix and Golang are sucking up a lot of oxygen that would otherwise go to Ruby & Rails. And let's not forget Bubble (visual app building) and the Zero Code Startup.

I really think Pedro (the blog post writer) has an excellent point about being a polyglot but trying to qualify as a Senior Engineer except I'm older and have even more platforms & languages behind me. Its a serious problem because I have the experience to easily be a Sr. Engineer or manager but my experience isn't concentrated long enough anywhere to make me useful enough to warrant the role.

I really don't doubt what you're saying, although you're probably taking a psuedo-tongue-in-cheek mode, but it would be a crying shame if we would in fact lose horribly if it came to blows with Russia. We spend positively immense sums of money on our prized military -- leaving nothing little left for extras like a single payer health system -- and have posted said forces to outstretched islands and zones all over. How sad it is that we don't have enough tanks to fight the Russians successfully in Europe, for one thing. You can be sure that China, North Korea and Russia coordinate regularly with intelligence on the status on our military, ready to take advantage once the gaps make it possible.

Indeed. Let's not forget that some allies have evidence that Russian subs have been prowling around undersea cables.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/internet-net-...

And I never understood calling a written piece 'pretentious'. The word works fine for a person's personality, but a static written piece doesn't deserve this type of slight. For one, there are probably better ways of stating what's wrong with an essay. Perhaps it's muddled or off-mark but what makes the article more relevant today is that more and more people (especially parents) are realizing that football is far more dangerous than what we once thought. Its dangerous medically, and on the other side, its dangerous financially & politically. Football is an immense business and enjoys deep conservative roots and support (at least in the U.S.). Those concerned with the obvious head trauma implications brought on even by high school football will find themselves massively out-gunned by the deep seated football support system. This article is (partially) an outgrowth of these types of concerns and the concerns are real. Today many of our universities, especially in the South, are football teams (seeking new stadiums) attached to instructional institutions with starved library budgets. Maybe its nobody's fault, and just a circumstance of the market economy, but its a picture that needs to be exposed.

Selective disclosure? You mean that they should have also mentioned that he walked little old ladies across the street, so as to more accurately portray his character? All that's required to establish guilt is to the disclose the facts surrounding the alleged illegal activity. As long as these statements are truly facts, then guilt has been established. Additional statements beyond that don't matter much.

An FBI official's political beliefs do not constitute a conflict of interest. If that were true, why should the Special Counsel (Mueller) be allowed to be a Republican? Are we supposed to be erring on the side of the accused (Trump)?

How ingenuous of you is it not to suggest that the Republican memo wait so that both can be released at the same time. Also, its true that there are Republicans on the committee that don't want to see the Dem's memo released at all!