Our non-protectionist policy's are more effective diplomatic and aid tools than sealing ourselves off from the rest of the world and hoping that USAID donations will pull the third world into prosperity.
So true... Just take the trade between the US, EU and China, it makes war unthinkable for all parties, that's nice:)
(despite what anyone says war is not good for the economy unless you are neutral and selling to both sides - and we can't all be neutral)
Protectionism is hardly the answer. It would quickly lock you out of the international markets.
Find a balance, yes, you need to reduce abuse of VISA programs. But you also have to recognize that a place like the Bay area would not exist if it weren't for the steady influx of talent from around the world.
When people can't get an H1B for San Francisco they end up in Toronto or London instead. Don't think there isn't a line of cities trying to become the next tech hub:)
Besides America needs to sell products aboard if you want any hope of growth. 318 Million people is a lot, but the EU is about 742M, India 1.2B, you need to be present on these markets. America most certainly already is, but protectionism would end that very quickly.
By the way protectionism is not a democratic socialist idea, it seems a bit more nationalistic to me... Liberal socialism is about providing people the basics (education, health care, roof-over-head, food, etc) to be successful (and try again when they fail). While still leaving them with as much freedom as possible.
Note: I'm not saying multinationals shouldn't be taxed harder, or that tax loop holes shouldn't be fixed, merely that doing so is not protectionism.
Really, the followed NPM naming dispute guidelines... and npm resolved the dispute...
Some dev didn't like the resolution, and hey I don't know if it was a right resolution.
But it's nice that NPM cares about name allocation, rather than it being like the wild west of.com domains and squatting...
1st rule of defensive driving- never expect another driver to do anything
2nd rule: always expect another driver to do anything:)
Particularly in America, people completely ignore all sanity here, be it stop signs (even without any oversight), blinking, illegal u-turns the list goes on...
Was Yahoo p***d off about people who don't allow some cookies to be set?
That's a serious accusation, did you even care to read the bug before writing that?
FYI, while the deal isn't public, it was rather clear that it was contingent on Yahoo reinventing their search engine as they did.
So you can be confident that it's more likely Mozilla that pressures Yahoo than the other way around.
Besides the bugs, mailing lists, wiki, regular monday meetings, irc channels, etherpads, source code, review notes, commit comments, is all open.
I work at Mozilla there is very little private communication, apart from security bugs, just about everything is completely public.
The notes I make on stuff I work on is in a public etherpad, with links often posted on IRC.. So anyone can could jump in an make a mess of my notes:)
And you are welcome to participate! (and welcome to ask questions, as well as leaving useful comments, suggestions in my notes)
Also there is no way employees at Mozilla could keep a secret like that - You can be sure someone would blog about it:)
(Lots of people at Mozilla are in it for the mission)
I spin up a new Windows server as a virtual machine, play around, revert as needed, and destroy it.
This is slow... SUPER slow...
At Mozilla we are starting to use docker for running linux tests... We can reset a container to initiate state and run the next task in a second or so... This means we don't spend time bring up/down VMs... and every test or build task has a clean environment.. Also we don't need to rebuild AMI when updating a dependency like gcc (if say we want to build against a new version)
For the server stuff where I've played with docker... the main benefit is that it's a lot easier to build and move images.. Building and testing AMIs locally is a special kind of pain I wouldn't care to entertain. Also you can deploy docker images in any cloud.
Note: I prefer immutable infrastructure, so docker is really killer as copy-on-write makes it quick to start a container from clean state.
Signs cost money... and quality stuff with good reflectors that last for decades probably aren't cheap... cost of a font that isn't objectively ugly is hardly a concern.
it's not as if we didn't have a right to the images.
I'm no fan of Israel and their inability to make peace... But if you want to call them allies, maybe you should just have asked nicely, and offer to share your drone videos.
Spying on allies should be limited to what you can read in the news paper.. or hear in a public forum.
Rust is a product of Mozilla, which as we know has had some tough times lately. They lost their Google sponsorship, and have had to settle for Yahoo instead.
Wrong, wrong, wrong... Moziila chose Yahoo over Google, presumably the deal was better. And looking at it form the standpoint of the Mozilla mission it might just enable more competition on the search market.
Rather, I think it's a Mozilla project with source code that's publicly available.
Nope, even the Mozilla people working on this is very attentive to make sure they aren't tried too much to Mozilla infrastructure.
So I wouldn't worry about this.
My only concern with rust is that it's too complicated and encourages too much over-engineering.. Maybe I just haven't really gotten good at writing it yet. But that is definitely my major concern.
B) My first instinct was to praise the department for the "measured" response of not hauling the kid into the station in handcuffs, interrogating him for hours without his parents, and then (when they realize the deep trouble they're in) leaking a story that the kid/family is secretly evil in some way.
Yeah, it's sad.. that we have to happy there was no attempt of cover up... Granted that mostly an American thing.
I printed a copy of the terrorist handbook back in bording school... and they search my room very week! (or maybe they were just checking up on my cleaning)..
Microsoft on the other hand (love them or hate them), made a totally new stack for cloud and the development community is embracing it on the enterprise side.
Having used them, I would say that have a lot of downtime. And their APIs are obscure...
Also their storage services don't scale beyond 500TB and some fixed amount of bandwidth and request rate.
But yes, up and coming IaaS companies like packet.net is making very interesting offers. Price/performance wise, and if these companies eventually do services like S3, SQS and dynamodb they will be in a really good position.
Unfortunately, I don't really see any open source dynamodb-like solution... Guaranteed request rate, per-request/capacity pricing and per-GB pricing is impossible to find. It's only Google, Microsoft and Amazon that does this. And their NoSQL services are so cheap it's hard to consider using anything else.
You personal gun will never be effective against a nation state, they have tanks.
Your private phone conversations will never be effective against a nation state, they have tanks.
You private political conversations might just bring a democracy around... And unlike guns, the ability to talk in secret does protect you from the very real threat of FBI counter intelligence programs that historically have illegally obscured peaceful democratic movements: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Either you can remember a lot of passwords or you can't. If you can't, just use the same password everywhere. It's as effective as using a "master" password.
Putting 2fa on the vault seems like a sane thing to do... Also it's fewer places that can leak your "master" password... Ie. only lastpass has your master password, so it's only if they get compromised that it is leaked...And they hopefully hash passwords properly... Can't say I believe every other random site hashes passwords correctly.
Also once the browser session is authenticated you shouldn't need to do lastpass again, right?... So you type your master password fewer times.
Honestly, I've been planning to move to password manageing system... like lastpass. It doesn't magically fix all attack vectors, but reduces a lot.
"Suppose a laptop were found..... a file on the laptop that's a set of instructions for carrying out the attacks."
This is a hypothetical.
It's pretty easy to encrypt your way around this. You can use a different IV for every co-conspirator...
The likelihood of this being useful, cost of implementing something like this, and ease of subverting it; all brings me to the conclusion that it won't be worth it.
The money is better spent saving lives by other means.
It's kind of like the DRM discussion: You can't distribute videos without people copying them (you can make copying harder, but really you just make your product more error-prone).
Similar here, you can't stop two trusting parties from talking in secret (you can make it harder, but really you're just making your product more complex and error-prone.. Not to mention the enormous risk of making your product less secure).
In both cases you put in a lot of engineering effort into making a product that is defect by design.
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Our non-protectionist policy's are more effective diplomatic and aid tools than sealing ourselves off from the rest of the world and hoping that USAID donations will pull the third world into prosperity.
So true... Just take the trade between the US, EU and China, it makes war unthinkable for all parties, that's nice :)
(despite what anyone says war is not good for the economy unless you are neutral and selling to both sides - and we can't all be neutral)
Protectionism is hardly the answer. It would quickly lock you out of the international markets.
:)
Find a balance, yes, you need to reduce abuse of VISA programs. But you also have to recognize that a place like the Bay area would not exist if it weren't for the steady influx of talent from around the world.
When people can't get an H1B for San Francisco they end up in Toronto or London instead. Don't think there isn't a line of cities trying to become the next tech hub
Besides America needs to sell products aboard if you want any hope of growth. 318 Million people is a lot, but the EU is about 742M, India 1.2B, you need to be present on these markets. America most certainly already is, but protectionism would end that very quickly.
By the way protectionism is not a democratic socialist idea, it seems a bit more nationalistic to me... Liberal socialism is about providing people the basics (education, health care, roof-over-head, food, etc) to be successful (and try again when they fail). While still leaving them with as much freedom as possible.
Note: I'm not saying multinationals shouldn't be taxed harder, or that tax loop holes shouldn't be fixed, merely that doing so is not protectionism.
Really, the followed NPM naming dispute guidelines... and npm resolved the dispute... .com domains and squatting...
Some dev didn't like the resolution, and hey I don't know if it was a right resolution.
But it's nice that NPM cares about name allocation, rather than it being like the wild west of
1st rule of defensive driving- never expect another driver to do anything
2nd rule: always expect another driver to do anything :)
Particularly in America, people completely ignore all sanity here, be it stop signs (even without any oversight), blinking, illegal u-turns the list goes on...
(3) A lot of these people are greying. That's a kind way of saying that they are expensive, compared to new graduates.
Yeah, it seems to me that having more than 2 years experience brings little value in software. (not always, but often)
But with the dominating engine open source (Chromium = Chrome minus a few proprietary plug-ins) I'm not really all that concerned about that.
If we end up having only one or two...we risk the specs are going to cater to the architecture of those browsers... This is a very real risk.
Was Yahoo p***d off about people who don't allow some cookies to be set?
That's a serious accusation, did you even care to read the bug before writing that?
:)
:)
FYI, while the deal isn't public, it was rather clear that it was contingent on Yahoo reinventing their search engine as they did.
So you can be confident that it's more likely Mozilla that pressures Yahoo than the other way around.
Besides the bugs, mailing lists, wiki, regular monday meetings, irc channels, etherpads, source code, review notes, commit comments, is all open.
I work at Mozilla there is very little private communication, apart from security bugs, just about everything is completely public.
The notes I make on stuff I work on is in a public etherpad, with links often posted on IRC.. So anyone can could jump in an make a mess of my notes
And you are welcome to participate! (and welcome to ask questions, as well as leaving useful comments, suggestions in my notes)
Also there is no way employees at Mozilla could keep a secret like that - You can be sure someone would blog about it
(Lots of people at Mozilla are in it for the mission)
The other end of that fact is that the total number of internet users is going up... And FF isn't adopting users as fast as chrome is.
People also like to bash about bloat in FF... Moving features that aren't used often into extensions is a great solution...
They are easier to maintain, and can be developed independently of FF... Faster iterations, and release of features to end-users, etc..
Do nothing people complain about bloat... Move features into extensions, people complain features are disappearing..
What is the better option?
I spin up a new Windows server as a virtual machine, play around, revert as needed, and destroy it.
This is slow... SUPER slow...
At Mozilla we are starting to use docker for running linux tests... We can reset a container to initiate state and run the next task in a second or so... This means we don't spend time bring up/down VMs... and every test or build task has a clean environment..
Also we don't need to rebuild AMI when updating a dependency like gcc (if say we want to build against a new version)
For the server stuff where I've played with docker... the main benefit is that it's a lot easier to build and move images.. Building and testing AMIs locally is a special kind of pain I wouldn't care to entertain. Also you can deploy docker images in any cloud.
Note: I prefer immutable infrastructure, so docker is really killer as copy-on-write makes it quick to start a container from clean state.
Signs cost money... and quality stuff with good reflectors that last for decades probably aren't cheap... cost of a font that isn't objectively ugly is hardly a concern.
it's not as if we didn't have a right to the images.
I'm no fan of Israel and their inability to make peace... But if you want to call them allies, maybe you should just have asked nicely, and offer to share your drone videos.
Spying on allies should be limited to what you can read in the news paper.. or hear in a public forum.
Common... blocking Trump would just give him more momentum... Rather than hindring him I'm pretty sure it would have the exact opposite effect...
I'm not sure twitter would die... but I'm sure the attention of such an event would benefit Trump.
If twitter were to disable his account, it would clearly have the opposite effect.
It would be giving legitimacy to some of his crazy.
Rust is a product of Mozilla, which as we know has had some tough times lately. They lost their Google sponsorship, and have had to settle for Yahoo instead.
Wrong, wrong, wrong... Moziila chose Yahoo over Google, presumably the deal was better. And looking at it form the standpoint of the Mozilla mission it might just enable more competition on the search market.
Rather, I think it's a Mozilla project with source code that's publicly available.
Nope, even the Mozilla people working on this is very attentive to make sure they aren't tried too much to Mozilla infrastructure.
So I wouldn't worry about this.
My only concern with rust is that it's too complicated and encourages too much over-engineering.. Maybe I just haven't really gotten good at writing it yet. But that is definitely my major concern.
but you'll have to take their word on it
No, you can view the source... All of it... Both client and server side.
https://github.com/mozilla-ser...
If I'm not mistaken... There a lot of mozilla projects, but this one seems recent.
there needs to be a way to disable this service entirely.
At least look up about.config before complaining, it's right in there under "dom.push.enabled".
But really, I don't see the point...
main issue is binary modules...
B) My first instinct was to praise the department for the "measured" response of not hauling the kid into the station in handcuffs, interrogating him for hours without his parents, and then (when they realize the deep trouble they're in) leaking a story that the kid/family is secretly evil in some way.
Yeah, it's sad.. that we have to happy there was no attempt of cover up... Granted that mostly an American thing.
I'm pretty sure if the kid was a white....
I printed a copy of the terrorist handbook back in bording school... and they search my room very week! (or maybe they were just checking up on my cleaning)..
Microsoft on the other hand (love them or hate them), made a totally new stack for cloud and the development community is embracing it on the enterprise side.
Having used them, I would say that have a lot of downtime. And their APIs are obscure...
Also their storage services don't scale beyond 500TB and some fixed amount of bandwidth and request rate.
But yes, up and coming IaaS companies like packet.net is making very interesting offers. Price/performance wise, and if these companies eventually do services like S3, SQS and dynamodb they will be in a really good position.
Unfortunately, I don't really see any open source dynamodb-like solution... Guaranteed request rate, per-request/capacity pricing and per-GB pricing is impossible to find. It's only Google, Microsoft and Amazon that does this. And their NoSQL services are so cheap it's hard to consider using anything else.
You personal gun will never be effective against a nation state, they have tanks.
Your private phone conversations will never be effective against a nation state, they have tanks.
You private political conversations might just bring a democracy around... And unlike guns, the ability to talk in secret does protect you from the very real threat of FBI counter intelligence programs that historically have illegally obscured peaceful democratic movements: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Either you can remember a lot of passwords or you can't. If you can't, just use the same password everywhere. It's as effective as using a "master" password.
Putting 2fa on the vault seems like a sane thing to do... Also it's fewer places that can leak your "master" password... Ie. only lastpass has your master password, so it's only if they get compromised that it is leaked.. .And they hopefully hash passwords properly... Can't say I believe every other random site hashes passwords correctly.
Also once the browser session is authenticated you shouldn't need to do lastpass again, right?... So you type your master password fewer times.
Honestly, I've been planning to move to password manageing system... like lastpass. It doesn't magically fix all attack vectors, but reduces a lot.
"Suppose a laptop were found ..... a file on the laptop that's a set of instructions for carrying out the attacks."
This is a hypothetical.
It's pretty easy to encrypt your way around this. You can use a different IV for every co-conspirator...
The likelihood of this being useful, cost of implementing something like this, and ease of subverting it; all brings me to the conclusion that it won't be worth it.
The money is better spent saving lives by other means.
It's kind of like the DRM discussion: You can't distribute videos without people copying them (you can make copying harder, but really you just make your product more error-prone).
Similar here, you can't stop two trusting parties from talking in secret (you can make it harder, but really you're just making your product more complex and error-prone.. Not to mention the enormous risk of making your product less secure).
In both cases you put in a lot of engineering effort into making a product that is defect by design.