chrisacree's comments

Highly recommend David Foster Wallace for this. After Infinite Jest I was definitely had much higher general empathy for months.

I think the "still in beta" argument doesn't hold up so well. Many projects now stay in more-or-less permanent "beta", just as a sign that they're open to significant changes in the future.

With React libraries in particular, the ecosystem is still evolving so fast it seems relevant to note which are bug-prone, popular, etc, just to try and predict which will still be alive in a year.

As far as taxation and shipping go, not really. The Law of the Sea grants the right of innocent passage to all ships, so a country can't tax or harass ships merely passing through its waters. This holds for territorial waters as well as the Exclusive Economic Zone.

There are a couple exceptions for things like drug smuggling and terrorists, and now there's some concern whether these rules (fairly vague on paper) will be exploited by some for extensive search & seizures.

I made a site explaining the South China Sea disputes in particular if anyone is interested. southchinasea.co

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Alright, time to take a stand.

If you can't find a calculator app that doesn't require your contacts/GPS, I will personally build one.

Be the change!

The video takes up most of the screen and can't be scrolled/closed. I can only see two lines of the coding block.

Have you tried Scribe editor? https://github.com/guardian/scribe

I've found it has better HTML output than medium-editor (though still not perfect) and has a more flexible design, though it requires a bit more developer involvement to get up and running.

Good idea! I've never run a crowdfunded project, but this seems like a good use-case.

I just created a Kickstarter, let's see what happens once it's approved.

I'm in the neighborhood and have been thinking about making the trip.

If anyone wants to fund a ticket and a camera (GoPro?) I'll make a video.

But Forbes doesn't include any state or state-affiliated families. Considering the influence that is packaged with a billion dollars, it shouldn't be surprising that in many places wealth and political power are more closely tied than they might be in the US or Europe.

How many billionaires in the Middle East aren't counted? High ranking government officials in many countries also are likely billionaires via corruption.

It's unclear what proportion would be inherited vs new wealth, but it's another dimension worth considering.

From what I've seen, it wouldn't work, because they adjust your pricing based on the other items you've recently bought. More items/$ gets bigger discounts. Never used it though, so not 100% on how it's calculated.

That's what open source is, isn't it? Anyone can use it, including hackers, NSA, etc. Why is it surprising that they, like nearly every other technology company, depend on open source software?

I agree that the biggest difference is that the web simply has people spending more time reading skim-worthy content. News/blog articles, forums, and comment threads make up a significant part of online reading and are naturally much more skim-able than most books. That's not a bad thing.

The important question is whether, as our deeper reading also goes digital, our habits of skimming while online will extend to them or not. Habits can be hard to break.

How abandoned is the hangar? There are some other people in the photos, and no matter how isolated the area is, surely the nearest town or two has wandered into the giant complex up the road a few times.

Still, it's amazing that this is the sort of thing people can just potentially wander into. Really makes you want to go explore the world.

I see comments like this, and wonder why that's strange. Is there a comprehensive list of reasons Django (or Rails, or whatever) won't scale well?

What do these companies switch to? Or is it more that things just become a mixed basket of specialized tech for each task in the stack?

Is there a good guide to getting started using logfiles as the basis for analytics? Best practices on using client vs server-side signals (and if both, not double-counting), etc. I'm interested in learning more about it, but a google search doesn't turn up anything relevant. Snowplow seems to be using a setup like this, but not sure how they'd fit in with what the author was discussing.

I'm using Django, but I imagine this kind of system would be mostly platform-agnostic.

Creator here. In short, all stories are free, but the latest chapters and ebooks are locked to donors. The length of time (and amount) can be customized by the author.

For a bit more about the site, and why I think it has more to offer than the "$5-10 for an ebook" model, I wrote a short post: https://www.akrito.com/s/19/1/.

Any feedback is much appreciated.

I always enjoy reading these bite-size bits of wisdom, but in the end I think that most lessons are only learned the hard way. Still, many of the ideas and stories here are truly inspirational.

I'm not surprised by this. Getting the public at large's attention concentrated in the first place is hard enough; keeping it there is impossible. However, that's not to say that all this has been in vain.

The snooping revelations sent huge ripples through the tech community, and that is the community both most affected and most poised to make a change. A small group of dedicated people is all it takes to enact change, and it's clear to me there has been significant increase in the scrutiny of both government surveillance and existing businesses privacy policies and software. Maybe the public at large has moved on, but some people have adopted the cause, and a small focused group can be far more potent than a vague, if large, mass of people. Just ask Occupy Wall Street.

The main take-away here is that yes, the public will move on. As it always does. Nothing is going to hold the country's attention more than a couple weeks, and even that is pushing it. So use that momentum if appears, but don't depend on it staying. More important is whether a subgroup is galvanized to action and will commit to the long fight.

Parallels to consider: - the political influence of relatively small interest groups via lobbyists - the oft-repeated wisdom that for a startup it's better to have a core group that loves you than a million that think you're just pretty good

I use AWS for some projects, so I can boot up identical machines in a few minutes as needed from a script.

What's the benefit of Docker for me? Easier time switching hardware/OS down the road? I guess I just never fully understood the value proposition (I'm not an Ops guy).