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You can get around this with some fairly simple hacks. Write some JavaScript that evals a part of your page or something crazy like loading part of itself from Rot13 text file. Have this js generate an ID you can identify as 'real' or 'fake'. Filter your analytics by this ID. If you want to be extra funny make real and fake IDs look indistinguishable to human eyes.

99.9% of spammers are too lazy to spend any time figuring this out for a single site, and their tools won't even tell them spam isn't working. I've gotten away with adding a simple static ID to everything and except for really large juicy targets spammers don't even watse time on this.

All of my sites get zero spam with this filter

I think the reputation of who clicked it also matters even though it isn't publicly said. If a few people with a lot of upvoted got to it, it could hit the front page fast

I get the feeling the dam is likely doomed and they're trying to drain the lake as much as possible to decrease the force of a break

The damage to the main spillway is extreme. Look at the pictures, it's more of a semi controlled waterfall at this point. If erosion moves upstream on the spillway, which it eventually will, once it reaches the gates they will need to stop the spillway or risk the dam itself.

Their emergency spillway is already unusable, so this means just get everyone out and wait for the dam to blow once the main spillway erodes too far back

The emergency spillway was used because the main one was already badly damaged so they shut it off. Now they're saying the damage to the emergency spillway is even worse than the main spillway so their turning the main spillway on full tilt to drain below the level the emergency spillway activates.

The thing is... They drained below the emergency spill way level many hours ago and it's off, but they're still running the heavily damaged main spillway at full tilt. I think it's a last ditch attempt to drain the lake before the dam fails, they just don't want to say it because everyone will panic

Holy shit look at the pictures. Both the regular and emergency spillway are heavily damaged and even more rain is expected Tuesday and in the coming weeks.

They shut the main spillway off because of damage and now they're running it at maximum flow because the emergency spillway is even more damaged. This feels every bit like a hail Mary pass to drain the lake as much as possible before the dam breaks. In another day or two they won't have any spillway left.

This dam is doomed, it seems like one of the rare times media is downplaying the risk... Probably because a lot of people are going to die :(

The biggest scam is actually the other way around. Intel pulled ECC support from desktop processors a few years ago to force datacentres to buy their Xeons instead.

It's nearly impossible to find a desktop CPU that supports ECC ram now even though 5 years ago it was commonplace.

Trying to run a NAS with some sensitive data is now impossible unless you buy their server chips

With the housing collapse a bunch of rich people lost a ton of money. Homeowners got bailed out through bankruptcy and the banks through bullshit. The drop in housing prices wouldn't have been bad if it didn't result in banks collapsing.

If housing values dropped again we would hopefully be safe from all that this time. People are largely living in places they can afford and banks don't have half the US GDP tied up in risky housing bonds and bad loans

Another way to look at it is that home buying in the millennial generation is at a historical low. They are the biggest generation besides boomers so the effect of this is somewhat magnified.

"Devastating" the housing market to make it possible for younger Americans to buy homes again will only decrease wealth inequality since the ones who own homes are generally wealthy.

It's not like the houses will suddenly go away if housing prices drop. They are hard assets, nothing is destroyed by the lowering of housing values besides speculative worth.

Sure some people would lose a lot of money but it would largely hurt the wealthy and help income equality along with leveling the gap a bit between those generations and poorest one in our history

It's not fully about buying or renting either. Pricing effects both equally

This is only a problem for foolish states/cities that raise money mostly from property taxes. Besides, the main problem is current residents not allowing additional housing to be built. The additional income from new properties would more than offset the revenue drop from property values.

It's not about millennials "jumping ahead" either. This generation came of age during the worst recession since the great depression. They are on track to be the poorest generation in American history. The combination of funding cuts to state universities and rising housing costs in places with jobs available gives millennials less choice and more debt than any generation alive in the US.

This is a generation that is the best educated but poorest in our nation's history, coming right after one of the richest and prolific generations. The implications are clear. The previous generation maintaining the status quo. They voted for the funding cuts and NIMBYism that resulted in the lack of housing and student loan debt of the current generation.

The biggest problem in most of these cities is current residents preventing new housing from being built. Most of these residents own property of their own and directly benefit from the higher prices that result.

Most of these residents are also old. It's literally the boomer generation fucking over everyone trying to move in for their own benefit.

I'm in the upper middle class wage quartile and my rent is so high that losing my job would ruin me completely. High rent(for a reasonable one-bedroom) combined with my student loan payments means it takes about $3700 a month just to pay bills and live.

I'm not in Cali or NYC either.

I implemented a data structure similar to one in guava and I thought my code was pretty good. I looked at guava source out of curiosity and immediately refactored my data structure.

I ended up refactoring it again, and the code is still not as clear as guava.

For instance, I noticed they were using an enum for functions and I was like WTF who does that? Later I decided to make my library serializable so we can save to disk. Well, turns out that's exactly why they used an enum. My solution was to make a utility class to wrap the non-serializable objects but their solution was much clearer and less code

I keep Facebook around so old friends can contact me and that's it. I used to use it every day when it was a way to communicate with friends and family and share pics of your experiences with friends.

Eventually it became a place for people to show off or bitch at each other because it's easier than doing it in person.

The ranking algorithm prioritizes annoying shit that will maximize ads and "engagement" over things I actually want to see like pics from my friends wedding.

Fuck Facebook and messenger. I login about once a week to check my messages and immediately log out. Snapchat now is a lot of what Facebook used to be

Lol. Microsoft is utterly terrified of Linux making the jump from servers to the workplace.

It's arguably a much bigger threat than home users switching since businesses could switch many thousands of machines at once

Google's Guava library, at least the parts I've seen, is incredibly well written and organized.

A assume most "standard library" type stuff is where you will find the cleanest code.

I can't believe PayPal and the credit card cartels can get away with this shit. Card fees eat up an astounding amount of profit from low margin items, retailers should be able to encourage whatever payment method they want.

If customers knew how much they were actually paying to these card companies indirectly (thousands of dollars a year) most people would switch to cash

When I was consulting we charged 125 an hour for any small jobs, like less than two work weeks. The problem with small jobs is that the overhead from meetings, paperwork, phone calls, design, server setup, etc is routinely more than the time it takes to actually write the software.

Nah. Even client side UI is just that... A UI. It's trivial to copy a UI anyways by just taking screenshots.

If more substantial parts of our apps were client side, like if we sold an online image editor, I would be very afraid.

However I have doubts as to how much more vulnerable to copying JS is than anything else. People have been pirating compiled apps just as long and they don't seem any less prolific

Could be? For anyone outside the boomer generation falling housing prices would be a godsend.

Millennials are starting to get priced out of entire cities, and it's generally the ones with the most jobs available.

It's starting to look like "millennial" will become an insult meaning someone with no job and no money, hilarious given that it applies to an entire generation.

The bidding process seems like something that could be brimming with discrimination.

For example, if you didn't go to a top tier school you could be hired on only to find out that a single team wants you. It's in bumfuck nowhere 2000 miles away and its primary purpose is to program the road sign outside google HQ.

It could lead to very different googles for different people, and makes me wonder if applying to work there would really be worthwhile for someone like me.

My overclocked 1st gen i5 is about half the speed of a brand new mid range processor. It's almost 7 years old and I still have no need to replace it.

I've considered getting a new PC for SATA 600 and USB 3.0 more than I care that I could have a new machine that's only twice as fast.

I wish there were better UI based ditros but the value is kinda limited since people doing the really advanced stuff know Linux specific networking like qdisks and iptables.

You pretty much learn the commands while reading about how the stuff works. I've seen a ton of horribly configured psfense boxes because it exposes all this functionality to people that honestly shouldn't have it and don't know what they're doing.

It's like regedit for networking. If you know enough about the registry to be fooling with it you don't really need a UI but it's nice to have

You probably know, but pfsense is mostly just a nice UI on top of built in networking support in BSD. Linux network support has a lot more features on top of that.

You can do more than pfsense with a plain old Linux box but it takes some dense reading to learn to manipulate the traffic control and routing tables yourself.

The reason why most open source router distributions with a UI are pretty basic is because everyone doing things sufficiently advanced knows how to manipulate the network stack directly and only needs command line

That's basically impossible if you work at a large company that does a lot of stuff. Most of the time they'll be working on a bunch of confidential projects that nobody knows about :'(

Eh, developer pay and engineering in general has been a high paying field for eons. It takes a lot of specialized knowledge to do and that's only becoming more of the case as the industry further specializes and expands. It's like how there used to be one kind of doctor and now there's hundreds of specialties.

The only ones hurt will be generalists. It's not like you can pull a guy off the street and have him do 90% of dev jobs. The number of people capable of doing the job well will mean it always pays fairly well.

Real estate on the other hand can be done by anyone with some charisma and decent reading/writing ability which is probably about 50% of the population. These are the niches where high paying jobs don't last. Look what happened with Uber recently, once the job seekers catch on to an easy source of high income it's a few years or less before that income dwindles from excess supply

I'm not so worried about it. The CSS is self contained these days in "components" where it doesn't leak out everywhere, which was the overarching problem with CSS from the beginning. Looking at UI platforms historically it's pretty standard for UI components to style themselves, it just wasn't realistic to do on the web until webcomponents started becoming reality.

Styling is syntactically really just markup decorators after all, although CSS may end up Turing complete if it isn't already :) (this is probably a bad thing)

Visas are currently the "easy way out" to get decent developers for cheap. The problem, that's not what they were designed for. Their purpose is to find specialized skills that cannot be sourced otherwise.

The most immediate effects of fixing the visa system will be employers suddenly offering "on the job training" to fill these lowly skilled jobs. It's hard to see this as anything but a net positive for US workers

This is exactly what happens. The hiring bar is so arbitrarily high that companies can say there's a shortage when they reject 5-10 good applicants for every position.

In a true labor shortage this would be completely unsustainable. Trying to justify rejecting 90% of your good applicants to avoid "false negatives" and extending that logic to say that there's a shortage... Obviously retarded if you think about it.