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Cohen's Optical exists in NY and surrounding area -- they do exam + glasses for $100 and have a decent range of frames for that price.

It's even cheaper to order directly from China, and I doubt that US Customs really gives a fuck about ordering Rx glasses without a prescription when they have bigger fish to fry...

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AFAIK, Glasses are not a regulated item, the way drugs are, that requires a prescription to buy. A prescription is needed because the manufacturer has to know the specs for the end product. You can even buy vision correcting glasses OTC, as reading glasses.

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Cohen's Optical exists in NY and surrounding area -- they do exam + glasses for $100 and have a decent range of frames for that price.

It's even cheaper to order directly from China, and I doubt that US Customs really gives a fuck about ordering Rx glasses without a prescription when they have bigger fish to fry...

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It's not just the giving out your phone number that's the problem, though that is *a* problem. I would argue that the far larger problem is by using your phone number for any purpose that "authenticates" you, you've just:
A. Given attackers a new, and viable way to hijack your account (not as much of a problem with Facebook as with, say your broker or bitcoin account). All they need to do is tell some sob story to your phone carrier and if they get the right rep, they can pwn you instantly.
B. When you get fed up with sales calls and change your number, then you forget to update it on the bazillion sites that asked for it. Everything seems fine for a while, until a carrier recycles your number and gives it to someone else. Then that person receives a preemptive message from Facebook, or any other service, and is given free access to your account. This happens all..the..time..

Explain the difference between a DDOS coming from, say, an IoT botnet, and one coming from 1000 people all actively posting crap to a comment submission system.

After Jeff Kao posted a screenshot of Regex101.com highlighting some generated comments, his analysis across the dataset, and the source code to reproduce his results, I'm pretty sure you can make a determination on whether it was humans posting those submissions.

I don't think anyone was personally trying to take down the comment site.** It was merely lots of parties trying to push their viewpoint, including: (a) Lots of pro-NN people, some of whom watch HBO; (b) a handful of con-NN people; (c) a few moderate pro-NN bots; (d) a few exceedingly aggressive con-NN bots.

** Except Pai himself, after the Jon Oliver segment.

Honestly this seems the way of the future, it is sweeping the globe. It works better than money, and it has none of the down sides of the bickerings of the international community.

"Works better than money?" LOL!

No bickerings? LOL!

You're blowing off the "international community" and putting your money in the hands of a bunch of Chinese who've already shown that they'll manipulate the price all day long:

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Bad bosses only listen when you agree with them.

Collaboration and communication has to go both ways for it to actually work.

Mod parent up...

Bad bosses only listen when you agree with them.

Collaboration and communication has to go both ways for it to actually work.

Well, we all want diversity, don't we?

But it seems evidence in favor is lacking.

    Shouldn't there be numerous success stories, even anecdotal, if it's really all that favorable?

For the successes it's going to mostly show up because you have a wider range of technical aptitudes, perspectives, and problem solving techniques.

But even if you have an example of a gay black woman coming up with a really original idea you can't really attribute the idea to the race or sexuality. It's just something that particular person did. So I'm not even sure what a success story would actually look like other than cultural industries like Hollywood where the personal background is the part of the person's professional expertise.

But I do know what failures from a lack of diversity look like, because there's a lot of them. You aren't able to properly supply your customers if you don't understand your customers, and if you don't match the gender and backgrounds of your customers you can end up with some glaring blind spots. The medical field has had the same issue with more dire consequences, and psychology suffers from the relative homogeneity of lab ra^H^H^H^H undergrads.

You also get problems with office culture, the more homogeneous you are the less pushback you get when you say something sexist or racist and you can end up developing a real dysfunctional internal culture. I can think of instances where particular lines of male thinking were starting to go off the rails and female co-workers were able to push back and prevent a screwup.

The Uber office is one great example of this. It was disproportionately male and was infamous for generating scandal after scandal as a result of their corporate culture. I suspect they would have avoided some needless scandals if they were a bit more diverse.

Here is an article worth reading that explains that "The first person that should solve that issue, the one you wrote, should be no other than yourself."

But it starts with everyone rolling up their sleeves and actively contributing. Writing code is always the first way you should approach a problem you have in open source.

Let me also share with you a few names behind well-known open source projects: Poul-Henning Kamp (FreeBSD, Varnish Cache) runs his own independent consulting business, Paul Vixie (Cron, BIND) likewise, Wietse Venema (TCP wrapper) was employed at Eindhoven, Daniel J. Bernstein (ed25519, qmail) was a professor also at Eindhoven. In all cases, they are paid to write the code either by a client or as part of their jobs. They shared the code in case it's useful for others.

The free in open source does not mean gratis, you know. So put money where your mouth is.

I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here’s how.

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This is Kao's actual report. Please show me ANYWHERE in it where it says 7.5 million. It does not say it anywhere. Kao himself says 1.3 million. Clearly you didn't read it.

"They" want money for that:

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and:
This website (www-blahblah) attempted to extract HTML5 canvas image data, which may be used to uniquely identify your computer."

- not from me.... severely scale down on that shit....

Ah - then Slashdot forces one to view on brain-damanged m.slashdot.org, no matter how huge your iPad is, not using that anymore either.

What was that:
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anyone can claim that comments are fake - who controls that statement and the disputes of it?

Exactly this. It's a pain if you're invested in all of Apple's cloud / sync / lock-in formats to try to convert all of that to Android or whatever. This guy hates everything about the idea of the iPhone X, but is still considering buying one because he doesn't want to migrate all his stuff.

Now that Mueller is running the biggest criminal investigation in world history (Russia and Trump's coup), and that Russia's criminal aggression and deceit is coming out, I expect arrests.

Swiftboating. Pure, undiluted Swiftboating. Criminal interference in other countries is what you fuckers do. Bullshit invasions, regime change, overthrowing democracies, kidnapping & torturing people to death.....it's. all. you.

Besides all the other plotholes in the Russiagate McCarthyism, we're supposed to believe that Putin was clever enough to dig up dirt on Hillary (which all happened to be true) to swing the election, but at the same time was so stupid as collude with someone as stupid as Trump. Which means the NSA, the CIA and the FBI would know all about said collusion. As would President Elect Hillary, as the race was still hers to lose until she decided to take the Rust Belt for granted and not campaign in that region of the country, because reasons. The same Hillary that campaigned on shooting down Russian jets in Syria.

And as I see there's already one "go home Boris" asshole in this thread, do show how you guys have more evidence than the antivaxxers, the Birthers, the chem trailers, or the people who think the Clintons had Arkansas State Troopers running heroin for them throughout the state when he was governor. The same jackasses who accuse anyone of being on Putin's payroll because they question any of this bullshit are the same people who ran around in 2003, accusing anyone who questioned the Iraq lies of being in love with Saddam.

You were full of shit then, and you're full of shit now.

Article, "How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016":
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OMG. No wonder so little stuff actually gets done these days. I'm going to go back into my cave and pretend I didn't read that.

And yes, I still use jQuery. When people ask me why, I say, "Because it works."

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So here we have an exec who has the quiet and privacy of their own closed-door office pontificating that it will be better for the other employees to be jammed shoulder to shoulder in open-plan offices.

That's not going to work for high-performance employees, such as those valuable 10x software-architects/programmers who have vision, focus, craft, and bursts of overdrive-productivity:

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It's ugly beyond belief

Seems to work well. Do you actually have anything to contribute other than to say you don't like it?

You mean like Angular 2?

jQuery's days as a relevant tool are indeed numbered

How is jQuery's days numbered; is it no longer hipster enough?

Maybe I didn't get the memo but as a professional web developer I still find jQuery immensely useful.

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