We recently switched to Roundcube (from Horde, which I had never liked but it worked decently with IMAP) for home email. Using IMAP (courier-imap and qmail) at least makes it easy to switch between clients. I never used Horde myself (preferred Mutt; I installed it for my wife) but I've actually started using Roundcube as my primary client. Very easy to set up and has all the functionality I need. I use maildrop on the server to filter incoming mail, and can switch to Mutt anytime it's more convenient (which is rare) or act directly on the maildir files (e.g., advanced grep expressions or move a set of messages by attribute) if necessary.
When you work for the government, you work for the People.
No. When you work for the government, you work against the people; you are a parasite upon the people. The military in particular is far too big, costs far too much ("we" spend what, more than the rest combined?), and hasn't defended American freedom for decades, and was iffy even then. Tell yourself whatever helps you sleep at night, but don't expect the rest of us to accept it. When you work in a job where people can choose to buy your services or goods or not, then you work for the people (that buy your product).
So, these companies are really bidding an average of $350-$500k/yr for developers in these auctions?
You're not understanding that there might be multiple job offers per person. This makes the numbers almost, but not quite, meaningless.
What I'd like to see to start is # of offers per person and (can be calculated from that) average amount per offer, and then perhaps some breakdown and analysis to determine what resume items increase offer count and offer amount. To gain credibility they should tell the number of offers, but I wouldn't expect them to give the latter details up; that data and what they learn from mining it is can be a competitive advantage for DeveloperAuction. But they could reveal enough of what they learn to be interesting and show they have a good caliber of developers/employers without giving away the farm. For example: most popular technologies, or how years of experience or age correlates with offers.
I also went to sign up on DeveloperAuction, and was disappointed that you give so much weight/prominence to github projects. I have many side projects, but not of the public nature, and I chose not to pay someone to host my source code privately when I can do that just fine myself thank you. (What self respecting software developer doesn't have 4-5 servers in their basement to host/play with personal projects?)
Hear, hear. Of the several open source projects I've contributed to, only one is on GitHub; and I keep my personal projects on a local subversion server (moving to git for newer stuff and I expect I'll transition the svn all to git soon).
Why? Because you assume that if the government doesn't do quality control, then it won't be done (not that it does such a good job anyway). But consider Underwriters' Laboratories, or Consumer Reports. Ah, but people aren't surge protectors, you say! This is true. Can you think of any occupations—even ones where lives might be at risk—where people can practice without government approval (or did in the past without more harm than is caused by licensure)? One common to Slashdot members, perhaps, even?
De facto standards tend to be better than de jure: good ones are used, bad ones are discarded. If you want to go to an AMA-certified doctor, go to one; but don't forcefully stop people from doing business with otherwise-certified or even non-certified doctors, even if those certifications are questionable. It's none of your business.
Yeah, you might want to do something about that "linkbucks.com" redirect. And I think I even clicked your link in the past and it didn't do that; recent development? There are plenty of other short URL providers.
How frequently are these "leaps of logic" needed rather than calmly following a checklist?
Yes, they do use checklists, and checklists save lives. Surgeon Atul Gawande wrote The Checklist Manifesto (apparently back when "manifestos" were cool, but it's a good book despite that), and studied checklists used in commercial aircraft and implemented some checklist procedures at his own hospital department that measurably saved lives, reduced post-op infection, etc. ("Make sure you're removing the right leg": obvious but still possible to get wrong.)
So some numbers about cases where (1) machines could not detect a problem, and (2) "leaps of logic" were necessary would be nice. I have a hunch that lives saved by "leaps of logic and intuition" are dwarfed by those saved by calmly and mechanically following checklists, but I don't know for certain.
From this article on pilot salaries posted by another commenter, it appears SouthWest is at or near the top of the pay scale and Wiki calls them "the largest low-cost carrier in the United States". It appears as if lower fares don't translate directly to lower pay, or as the WSJ article put it, "The obvious lesson: A profitable company, whether UPS, FedEx or Southwest, can pay its workers more."
I'm glad to know that I won't be refused coverage due to a pre-existing condition.
I'm glad I'll pay the same for fire insurance when my house is burning down as I would during a monsoon.
Oh, we can fix that - extort people if they don't buy insurance! What a brilliant idea.
Unfortunately, the fines for not buying insurance can be less than the cost of the insurance (due to forcing them to cover burning houses at the same rate as the guy in the monsoon).
Giving economic illiterates coercive power is a wonderful idea.
BTW, do you (AC parent) have any principles behind what you do/don't approve of the government doing/who you approve of them coercing, or is it just generated randomly?
Voting is exclusively by mail in some states (Washington, Oregon, maybe others), and absentee ballots are available in many (all?) others. If there's concern about paying / threatening for votes, how does voting by mail avoid it?
I don't know about that. If he wants to pay more, nothing is stopping him. Seems more like he wants others to be forced to pay more (although his taxes would go up too and apparently he wouldn't mind that).
Came here to say that; thank you, would have modded up if I had points.
Absent threat of force to the contrary (*cough*), pre-existing conditions cost more to insure against than lower-risk customers, because your risk of having the thing happen is 100%—it's already happening! At that point you're asking the person to foot the bill for a cure, not insurance; why shouldn't they pass on their costs to you rather than everyone else?
If, instead, you were to join a pool of 100k individuals that (making up some numbers for an example) had a 1% fairly evenly distributed chance of a $10k loss every year, then, ignoring insurer overhead, the yearly expected cost would be $10M, meaning break-even by charging each person $100/year. That cost increases very quickly as you add people to the pool with a 100% chance of loss; and at that point, it's not insurance but subsidy and most people with a choice about it move to an actual insurer (increasing the individual cost even faster until it is same as the actual loss).
In the US, there do not appear to be any legal data retention requirements for ISPs (source), so it would seem an ISP could delete (or just not write out) any logs mapping dynamically-assigned addresses to individual accounts, and then have nothing to give up even if subpoenaed. It looks like, then, such a "privacy ISP" could indeed exist. If not, what am I missing?
Also, how does this "six strikes" crap apply to people that colocate servers or lease dedicated lines rather than going through a consumer ISP?
How does it work for higher-order rules like the example I mentioned (where the program would have to determine programmer intent)? How about naming conventions, some of which may even be lossy in conversion or impossible to synthesize mechanically?
You may be able to use a "refactoring program" for brace placement and spacing, but coding styles are much more than that.
I'm not advocating for a rigid enforced coding style (at all), but it doesn't make sense to defend not having one by claiming that a "refactoring program" can (right after it solves the halting problem) convert any style into any other style.
Sounds like a recipe for source code churn and messy revision control diffs, not to mention the difficulty of automatically reformatting any style guidelines beyond simple layout. Take the example in TFA, even - how do you "reformat" the requirement to have a throw/break/return/fall through comment at the end of every switch case? Not every coding convention can be reduced to the level of a GNU indent tool parameter.
Education may be "your" enemy, but public schooling is a wonderful tool for getting people to repeat the mantra that they are free and have "their" government to thank for it, and that we'd all immediately be eating each other on a featureless plane bereft of roads and buildings without that government, all blessed for-ever.
Why not just crank up minimum wage to $100/hour, and then we can all be rich?
Don't hide the "violence inherent in the system" behind euphemisms like "encourage", "nudge", "owe each other", or "society"; if you believe that threatening people with harm, and harming them if they don't conform, is a legitimate way to get them to conform to social programs you like, be proud!
(Assuming you weren't joking - and that as an AC you'll actually look for replies....) No, Virginia Tech is not considered a "tech school" by the common use of the term (i.e., vocational school or technical college). It's a degree-granting university with graduate programs, which is usually considered a main difference between "tech schools" and universities. VT's engineering programs have a good, even excellent reputation. Even without the ride it's worth attending.
(Far be it from me to criticize what floats someone's boat, but engineering/math and classical studies/Gaelic seems like a strange combo/divide.)
ObDisclaimer: I did not attend VT. My wife's uncle was formerly a (civil engineering) professor there, but I don't think that is biasing me.
Still no. Corporations just pay off the government, and then you have two problems. The evil acts of some corporations no more reflect on libertarianism than the acts of murderers reflect on peaceful individuals.
No. The libertarian position is that a job is a transaction between a buyer and seller; see for example Tom Mullen's article "What is a Job?":
The employer is the buyer and the employee the seller, selling his services to the employer for a mutually agreed upon price. This is a voluntary transaction for both parties, just like the buying and selling of lawn mowers or breakfast cereal. The buyer offers to purchase services at the price he can afford and the seller decides whether to accept those terms or not. Both parties are free to decide not to go through with the sale at any time. Unless a specific term of employment has been agreed to, both parties are also free to cease doing business at any time. The employee can quit the job (refuse to continue selling the service) and the employer can terminate employment (refuse to continue purchasing the service).
Supply and demand play a role in the price and benefits a person will be able to negotiate, certainly. But the hyperbole about machine guns does nobody any good. The fundamental libertarian principles is the non-aggression principle (non-initiation, not pacifism). Neither forcing people to work, violence against competitors/workers, or opposition to unions (just against being compelled or forbidden to join one) are libertarian principles.
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We recently switched to Roundcube (from Horde, which I had never liked but it worked decently with IMAP) for home email. Using IMAP (courier-imap and qmail) at least makes it easy to switch between clients. I never used Horde myself (preferred Mutt; I installed it for my wife) but I've actually started using Roundcube as my primary client. Very easy to set up and has all the functionality I need. I use maildrop on the server to filter incoming mail, and can switch to Mutt anytime it's more convenient (which is rare) or act directly on the maildir files (e.g., advanced grep expressions or move a set of messages by attribute) if necessary.
No. When you work for the government, you work against the people; you are a parasite upon the people. The military in particular is far too big, costs far too much ("we" spend what, more than the rest combined?), and hasn't defended American freedom for decades, and was iffy even then. Tell yourself whatever helps you sleep at night, but don't expect the rest of us to accept it. When you work in a job where people can choose to buy your services or goods or not, then you work for the people (that buy your product).
You're not understanding that there might be multiple job offers per person. This makes the numbers almost, but not quite, meaningless.
What I'd like to see to start is # of offers per person and (can be calculated from that) average amount per offer, and then perhaps some breakdown and analysis to determine what resume items increase offer count and offer amount. To gain credibility they should tell the number of offers, but I wouldn't expect them to give the latter details up; that data and what they learn from mining it is can be a competitive advantage for DeveloperAuction. But they could reveal enough of what they learn to be interesting and show they have a good caliber of developers/employers without giving away the farm. For example: most popular technologies, or how years of experience or age correlates with offers.
Hear, hear. Of the several open source projects I've contributed to, only one is on GitHub; and I keep my personal projects on a local subversion server (moving to git for newer stuff and I expect I'll transition the svn all to git soon).
Your fallacy is: false dilemma.
Why? Because you assume that if the government doesn't do quality control, then it won't be done (not that it does such a good job anyway). But consider Underwriters' Laboratories, or Consumer Reports. Ah, but people aren't surge protectors, you say! This is true. Can you think of any occupations—even ones where lives might be at risk—where people can practice without government approval (or did in the past without more harm than is caused by licensure)? One common to Slashdot members, perhaps, even?
De facto standards tend to be better than de jure: good ones are used, bad ones are discarded. If you want to go to an AMA-certified doctor, go to one; but don't forcefully stop people from doing business with otherwise-certified or even non-certified doctors, even if those certifications are questionable. It's none of your business.
Yeah, you might want to do something about that "linkbucks.com" redirect. And I think I even clicked your link in the past and it didn't do that; recent development? There are plenty of other short URL providers.
How frequently are these "leaps of logic" needed rather than calmly following a checklist?
Yes, they do use checklists, and checklists save lives. Surgeon Atul Gawande wrote The Checklist Manifesto (apparently back when "manifestos" were cool, but it's a good book despite that), and studied checklists used in commercial aircraft and implemented some checklist procedures at his own hospital department that measurably saved lives, reduced post-op infection, etc. ("Make sure you're removing the right leg": obvious but still possible to get wrong.)
So some numbers about cases where (1) machines could not detect a problem, and (2) "leaps of logic" were necessary would be nice. I have a hunch that lives saved by "leaps of logic and intuition" are dwarfed by those saved by calmly and mechanically following checklists, but I don't know for certain.
From this article on pilot salaries posted by another commenter, it appears SouthWest is at or near the top of the pay scale and Wiki calls them "the largest low-cost carrier in the United States". It appears as if lower fares don't translate directly to lower pay, or as the WSJ article put it, "The obvious lesson: A profitable company, whether UPS, FedEx or Southwest, can pay its workers more."
It worked for Philip K. Dick; he wrote some great stuff while "under the influence".
Gridlock, oh sweet gridlock. 'Tis a far, far better thing than either party having the power to enforce its hopes and dreams.
I'm glad I'll pay the same for fire insurance when my house is burning down as I would during a monsoon.
Oh, we can fix that - extort people if they don't buy insurance! What a brilliant idea.
Unfortunately, the fines for not buying insurance can be less than the cost of the insurance (due to forcing them to cover burning houses at the same rate as the guy in the monsoon).
Giving economic illiterates coercive power is a wonderful idea.
BTW, do you (AC parent) have any principles behind what you do/don't approve of the government doing/who you approve of them coercing, or is it just generated randomly?
Voting is exclusively by mail in some states (Washington, Oregon, maybe others), and absentee ballots are available in many (all?) others. If there's concern about paying / threatening for votes, how does voting by mail avoid it?
I don't know about that. If he wants to pay more, nothing is stopping him. Seems more like he wants others to be forced to pay more (although his taxes would go up too and apparently he wouldn't mind that).
Came here to say that; thank you, would have modded up if I had points.
Absent threat of force to the contrary (*cough*), pre-existing conditions cost more to insure against than lower-risk customers, because your risk of having the thing happen is 100%—it's already happening! At that point you're asking the person to foot the bill for a cure, not insurance; why shouldn't they pass on their costs to you rather than everyone else?
If, instead, you were to join a pool of 100k individuals that (making up some numbers for an example) had a 1% fairly evenly distributed chance of a $10k loss every year, then, ignoring insurer overhead, the yearly expected cost would be $10M, meaning break-even by charging each person $100/year. That cost increases very quickly as you add people to the pool with a 100% chance of loss; and at that point, it's not insurance but subsidy and most people with a choice about it move to an actual insurer (increasing the individual cost even faster until it is same as the actual loss).
In the US, there do not appear to be any legal data retention requirements for ISPs (source), so it would seem an ISP could delete (or just not write out) any logs mapping dynamically-assigned addresses to individual accounts, and then have nothing to give up even if subpoenaed. It looks like, then, such a "privacy ISP" could indeed exist. If not, what am I missing?
Also, how does this "six strikes" crap apply to people that colocate servers or lease dedicated lines rather than going through a consumer ISP?
"Make the teacher way more effective" translates to needing fewer teachers in the long run. Why do you hate America?
Have you ever actually done this?
How does it work for higher-order rules like the example I mentioned (where the program would have to determine programmer intent)? How about naming conventions, some of which may even be lossy in conversion or impossible to synthesize mechanically?
You may be able to use a "refactoring program" for brace placement and spacing, but coding styles are much more than that.
I'm not advocating for a rigid enforced coding style (at all), but it doesn't make sense to defend not having one by claiming that a "refactoring program" can (right after it solves the halting problem) convert any style into any other style.
Sounds like a recipe for source code churn and messy revision control diffs, not to mention the difficulty of automatically reformatting any style guidelines beyond simple layout. Take the example in TFA, even - how do you "reformat" the requirement to have a throw/break/return/fall through comment at the end of every switch case? Not every coding convention can be reduced to the level of a GNU indent tool parameter.
Education may be "your" enemy, but public schooling is a wonderful tool for getting people to repeat the mantra that they are free and have "their" government to thank for it, and that we'd all immediately be eating each other on a featureless plane bereft of roads and buildings without that government, all blessed for-ever.
Why not just crank up minimum wage to $100/hour, and then we can all be rich?
Don't hide the "violence inherent in the system" behind euphemisms like "encourage", "nudge", "owe each other", or "society"; if you believe that threatening people with harm, and harming them if they don't conform, is a legitimate way to get them to conform to social programs you like, be proud!
Where are you getting your 1% figure from? Cringley's article claims around 20% (of the IT market), and he at least has some evidence behind it.
(Assuming you weren't joking - and that as an AC you'll actually look for replies....) No, Virginia Tech is not considered a "tech school" by the common use of the term (i.e., vocational school or technical college). It's a degree-granting university with graduate programs, which is usually considered a main difference between "tech schools" and universities. VT's engineering programs have a good, even excellent reputation. Even without the ride it's worth attending.
(Far be it from me to criticize what floats someone's boat, but engineering/math and classical studies/Gaelic seems like a strange combo/divide.)
ObDisclaimer: I did not attend VT. My wife's uncle was formerly a (civil engineering) professor there, but I don't think that is biasing me.
Still no. Corporations just pay off the government, and then you have two problems. The evil acts of some corporations no more reflect on libertarianism than the acts of murderers reflect on peaceful individuals.
That's part of supply and demand. Libertarian ideas - self-ownership, non-aggression - remain great.
No. The libertarian position is that a job is a transaction between a buyer and seller; see for example Tom Mullen's article "What is a Job?":
Supply and demand play a role in the price and benefits a person will be able to negotiate, certainly. But the hyperbole about machine guns does nobody any good. The fundamental libertarian principles is the non-aggression principle (non-initiation, not pacifism). Neither forcing people to work, violence against competitors/workers, or opposition to unions (just against being compelled or forbidden to join one) are libertarian principles.
Agreed - I meant to imply that; perhaps I should have written "advantage" instead of "benefit".