EternalLight

Netflix debacle is Netflix choosing not to pay for CDN and instead asking ISPs to take thier CDN for free or we overload your interconnect ports and blame you for it on our site.

See first page about CDN for a description of how they moved from CDNs paying for access to demanding ISPs installed thier CDN for free. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/07/how-co...

Personally I want to be in an open office with the team I'm currently working with, an no one else. While IM works, it's a lot less band with in IM and you miss out on a number more spontaneous design discussions. A good team will not interrupt you with questions they could just as easily goggled.

On the other hand, I hate talk from other teams or projects. The mostly unrelated and in worst case interesting (thus 10 times as effective in distracting me.). So the current open office plan with 6-7 teams in an open area is occasionally really annoying.

I've had a similar experience with editors, good old vim and less works but most other editors will crash or become unusable as log sizes increase.

Of cause, for parsing logs a few well thought out awk commands combined with sed, sort, unique and other *nix utilities usually beats everything else in my experience.

I'm not sure, I was mostly thinking of something that will involve a lot of coding assignments. The idea being that if I code to learn there will be less pressure to deliver something and move on, instead allowing me to investigate it at a different level. While still having a framework to get me working.

I guess what I'm thinking about is something like c++ for grandmasters (http://www.cppgm.org/), but less epic in scope.

Casually joking about impossible, evil conspiracies by big business on the other hand is something completely different and also funny.

No one will believe its related and its certainly not slander to joke about it. Also you might want to leave the political opinions out of hacker news... there is no 50% of US who dislikes those things, they only have different ideas about how to support it.

No, he isn't. He's the final gatekeeper but there are several of lower level gatekeepers/maintainers for different parts.

At least according to rumors, I've never invested the time to get involved myself.

I guess the sane way of viewing a kickstarter that way.

Personally though, the way kickstarter and (many) projects describe rewards as preorders, then I think they should be liable to fulfill the or return the proceeds. If the money is invested in this bast case scenario you describe, than kickstarter and the projects should clearly state that.

If they don't than kickstarter or some of the projects facing some kind of legal action when the money just disappears would be a good thing, so that the descriptions start reflecting reality again.

Edit: I've not donated on kickstarter, so I don't know if they clearly state this somewhere later in the process. But from what I've seen kickstarters "preorders" seem irresponsible to me.

And 3 times as long seems perfectly reasonable to me when you're giving answers in writing compared to talking...

I agree completely with your view, can someone explain to me why this is a bad thing?

I understand what you're getting at, but that's not the case in this question, since one of the four answers are stated almost word for word in the text. (caution point 4)

The rest of the alternatives are "plausible guesses" which you might think are reasonable if you don't remember the point above. So what they're REALLY testing is if you read the text carefully enough to remember that line or not.

Actually having knowledge of microscopes are probably a bad thing on this particular question since you're likely to skip over the boring warning part, like I did when I quickly read the question just now.

Nope, just random Muslims (Guantanamo)...

Us is a large net positive force in the world, but also the largest one on hypocrisy. Unless you include talking without doing anything of cause.

Not in my opinion. I think you owe the user a clear indication about that it is an add, and from who the add comes. Just modifying pages like that is malware behavior.

If they clearly tell me it's their add then I can chose if I want the extension or not, so removable adds is less of an issue.

The issue here is that he paid someone else to do it.

So in your analogy: You park your car at a garage with a guard, pay them to keep it safe and leave your car unlocked. And when you come back it's gone.

Yes he could have done something to make it less likely it, but he also explicitly paid someone else to handle it for him.