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OT: Ugh. Another site that hijacks the back button to display more articles rather than letting me go back. (Chrome iOS) When did this start?

Edit: Video: https://share.icloud.com/photos/0qLMMePqiSOETXWt2Z77Ae8jA

Chrome, iOS.

Aside: Annoying new trend in news sites used here is to inject their homepage in the browser history to make it so that the back button goes to their homepage instead of back to where you were.

Liberalism and conservatism are essentially religions—there are core fundamental beliefs to them and a community surrounding it. Rejecting the political party is not just rejecting beliefs but also rejecting family, friends, and social structure. The battle has become so much more about red vs blue, left vs right, that principles and facts are no longer relevant. The vitriol and lack civility in the current political environment all but guaranteed this outcome.

Fox News is deeply wrong, but we should all look inward to our own behavior and if we’ve been unkind or unrespectful, we should take responsibility for creating this situation. Do you really think that yelling at, shaming, or embarrassing people will get them to change? I don’t think research supports that position.

When you hear the Fed, it is referring to the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve is independent of the federal government. Essentially, it's the entity that can print money. When it does, it doesn't just give the money away, but it injects the cash by purchasing assets and making loans. It also does the reverse by selling assets. So this money doesn't come out of the Federal budget.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve#Tools

“Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software“ by Eric Evans seems to be the preeminent book on the subject.

Ugh, false. This document goes into quite some detail explaining the situation and all the many options you have to not paying Oracle: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nFGazvrCvHMZJgFstlbzoHjp...

Even better, you have multiple ISPs on the same shared infrastructure. That’s how Utopia in Utah works—Utopia builds out and runs the fiber network and ISPs provide bandwidth and other services on top of the fiber. IIRC, they use VLANs to separate the ISP networks.

Asterisk is still cool. I think a lot of people are now using FreeSWITCH. I have more experience with the former but using the latter more lately I am seeing the appeal. FreeSWITCH seems a little less hacked together, imho.

It’s designed to reinforce the idea that piracy is morally wrong.

> It seems like single-payer insurance and more federal funding for pharmaceutical R&D would be a far better solution than defending predatory drug pricing.

That seems like just another prayer to a different god. As much as I would like to believe that the government is motivated by doing what is best for its people, it seems more interested in self preservation and maintaining its own power. I don't see much evidence of the government being motivated to be wise with the money we give it.

I've always dreamed of a magic wand device that I could point at things and give commands. For example, point it at the window and say "close blinds". You could even add gestures to do it silently. With this UWB tech, accelerometers, a mic, and voice recognition, it seems like a viable product. Of course, I think Apple intends the phone to be the magic wand.

Refusal is illegal, however, in the last two administrations, the DOJ just doesn’t enforce it.

I prefer the definition of technical debt being an uncovered call option: at some point the debt will come due and you don’t have anything in place to mitigate the issues it will cause and may not know when it will come due. This debt might look like a manual deploy process, a lack of automated testing, insufficient alerting, no rate limiting on public endpoints, etc. These are things that are fine and then when they’re not, they interrupt the schedule and require urgent and immediate attention.

Bad architecture can cause urgent issues and it can also impact new feature development. The debt is a barrier that makes new features either take much longer than they should or make them just infeasible from a business standpoint. This can exist in both technical architecture or information architecture (i.e. you chose the wrong model and now it’s too engrained across everything to change).

Sovrin[1] seems pretty interesting to me for distributed/decentralized identity. They use a distributed ledger for identity and allow for piecemeal disclosure of identity data. So by default the identity data isn’t public.

[1] https://sovrin.org/

The LDS Church doesn’t teach to retreat from the world but rather teaches that some of the natural tendencies of people are self destructive and should not to be indulged in.

Now to correct some of your bright side points: - The church never held as a belief that black people were cursed. There were some leaders that did not have the authority to speak authoritatively about doctrine that expressed that belief. [1] - Drinking soda has never been forbidden. You may be thinking of caffeine, though that was never explicitly forbidden but BYU did act like it was. - Tea and coffee. Yes, we avoid drinking these and also alcohol.

[1] https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topi...

They’ve been trying to get started on one in Utah, though it’s been hung up a few years in court with environmentalists fighting about the water usage.

See “Public Reaction” in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Castle_Project

It’s funny, I feel the same way about web development right now.

Do you have any write ups or code on this to share?

They did the microtrenching for my neighborhood in Provo and it seems to be working alright. One difference in my location from what the linked pictures show is that they put the trench right between the the asphalt and the cement of the curb. They also used a small conduit to house the fiber. We’ll see what a few more years brings, but so far so good.

Was my favorite vacation spot for years until I moved from the Philippines in ‘99. The water and beaches were beautiful. Even at that point, however, the coral was mostly dead and the marine life mostly gone. It was sad and it’s too bad that the place has largely been thrashed. :-(

Will we ever be able to visit sites in peace again? We’ve got chat popups, cookie notices, social widgets, google amp, subscription popups...I’m sure I’m forgetting other annoyances and I haven’t even talked about the 20 tracking scripts degrading the experience invisibly on each page. On mobile it’s getting almost unbearable!

On the other hand, everyone seems okay with the idea of trading privacy for free stuff...

I like decentralized identity though I feel like it either needs a killer app that uses it or a better value proposition. As it stands, I don’t see non-technical people jumping to it unless they have a technical friend telling them too. I hope someone can tell me I’m missing something.

Makes me wonder if it would be cheaper for government programs to offer to pay for relocation to areas with less expensive housing. There are many places with plentiful jobs and cheaper housing. I say that fully realizing not everyone wants to move, but if you’re going to take government assistance I think people ought to be willing to make some compromises since it’s a weight born by everyone.

> Build good-will and political capital in your organization.

It’s very easy to overlook relationship building. Even just stopping by, saying a quick hello, and giving a smile to execs in different departments can make a world of a difference in how well your departments can work together. This can make a big difference at whatever level you’re at in your career but is especially impactful the higher you go up the ladder.

I’ve been looking for something in this direction for some time, though I don’t think this quite does it. I really want something that helps me make decisions on tools as I enter into new fields of development. For example, I’ve been mostly a backend engineer the last 5-10 years and web development has changed a lot since I last did it before then. What are the tools, libraries, architectures, testing components, etc. that go into building modern web applications? What about the same for IoT devices?

My take on Stack Share has been that it’s trying to just get just enough eyeballs to be a viable recruiting tool. I’ve rediscovered it a few times and each time I leave disappointing because I don’t really find anything helpful.

After the last time I bumped into it, I started considering creating something to address what I’m looking for above, but I’m not sure what would motivate developers to help build this body of knowledge that I wish existed. What do you all think it takes to rally developers around creating something like this?

We did one quick and easy with squarespace. We had people RSVP with a form we set up there. Took about an hour. Worked awesome!

Been searching for a bit and it appears that the real-time collaboration part isn't open source and requires you to use their cloud service to make it work. The pricing for that isn't available on their website and instead requires you to contact them.

I hope I'm wrong since I have some ideas I'd like to try it out with. Sending my customer's data to their cloud is probably a non-starter.

Incidentally, one of the health systems (Intermountain) leading the initiative is itself also non-profit.

Prices vary also a ton from pharmacy to pharmacy. I recently discovered GoodRx (https://goodrx.com/), which has been extremely helpful in minimizing prescription costs.

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