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Re:Teaching Machines to Draw on Friday April 14, 2017 @11:47AM (#14115116)
Human creativity is related to process and the experience of creating from nothing.

The process is more important than the end result.

Re:How Do You Measure Leadership? on Friday January 20, 2017 @06:54AM (#13443154)
yup! Leadership, Leadership position and leadership authority are distinct!

See scholars and practioners who have contributed to building a scientific foundation for leadership:

1). https://ssrn.com/abstract=1392406

Re:How Discord Stores Billions of Messages Using Cassandra on Friday January 20, 2017 @06:41AM (#13443103)
when there is an equally good x in open source, why would anyone use closed sourced alternative?

Is it not a valid question?

If it is the marketing, service of support then let me know.

Re:How Do You Measure Leadership? on Thursday January 19, 2017 @11:51PM (#13441803)
Before we can measure leadership. Maybe we ought to first figure out what we mean by leadership.

Often there has being a mix up between leadership, management, and a bunch of other stuff that has nothing to do with leadership.

If people are interested in how and leadership is effectively exercised and what it is. Take a look at this paper: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1392406

Re:How Do You Measure Leadership? on Thursday January 19, 2017 @11:44PM (#13441776)
The knee-jerk reaction you are talking about is what is consider by some scholars as an Ontological Functional Constraints [1].

The constraint is considered deadly for the effective exercise of leadership. The constrains can however be removed or at least relaxed in a reliable way. :)

1). https://ssrn.com/abstract=1392406

Re:How Do You Measure Leadership? on Thursday January 19, 2017 @11:37PM (#13441757)
Hmm, do we distinguish leadership from management?
Re:How Discord Stores Billions of Messages Using Cassandra on Thursday January 19, 2017 @11:25PM (#13441719)
I'm curious why would people use a closed source software, when you can use something like https://riot.im

Please let me know. I may be missing something.

It is a human illness wanting to explain something to just stratify our rational thinking. In reality whenever there is a paradigm shift, the previous explanation becomes obsolete. So stop trying to explain things and go out an do it and experience for yourself.
Re:Donald Trump Is Elected President on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @01:19PM (#12913012)
US president has remarkably little power to make any change to the existing system. The real change has to be done on the local grass root level.
Re:JavaScript async/await implemented in V8 on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @03:46AM (#11711921)
What about this nodejs async,

https://github.com/caolan/async

May be a replacement until the async is implemented in V8

Re:State of the Art JavaScript in 2016 on Friday March 11, 2016 @08:14PM (#11270786)
Why not mithril? https://lhorie.github.io/mithril/

Seems to be way faster, and easier to learn than any of those other framework/libs.

For example: How is Mithril Different from Other React: Source: https://lhorie.github.io/mithril/comparison.html

"The most visible difference between React and Mithril is that React's JSX syntax does not run natively in the browser, whereas Mithril's uncompiled templates do. Both can be compiled, but React's compiled code still has function calls for each virtual DOM element; Mithril templates compile into static Javascript data structures.

Another difference is that Mithril, being an MVC framework, rather than a templating engine, provides an auto-redrawing system that is aware of network asynchrony and that can render views efficiently without cluttering application code with redraw calls, and without letting the developer unintentionally bleed out of the MVC pattern.

Note also that, despite having a bigger scope, Mithril has a smaller file size than React."

Oh my, I have no idea I got downvoted. How can you tell?
Re:Get an unbiased opinion on if you should get out of bed on Thursday March 03, 2016 @08:08AM (#11216583)
can't believe they don't use https for their logins.
Re:Mondo bank taking £1m crowdfunding investment on Monday February 15, 2016 @07:47AM (#11103038)
Does Mondo allow the user to keep track how their money is being invested? With current technology that shouldn't be an issue.
Re:Mondo bank taking £1m crowdfunding investment on Monday February 15, 2016 @07:47AM (#11103033)
Hmm, what's the difference between this and Simple? Other than that it is available in UK?
Re:Sci-Hub: Removing barriers in the way of science on Sunday February 14, 2016 @09:28AM (#11098352)
Nice. Does anyone know if there is something equivalent to this much like the SSRN (Social Science Research Network) http://www.ssrn.com/en/index.cfm/mjensen-20th/

Where you can perform full text search on all the papers?

Yes, but I would imagine that cost is not too much. Why not make it into something like a public resource. Often that approach will generate more wealth for the greater community.

Often the for-profit model and fiduciary responsibility can be constraining in wealth creation in general.

Why does it have to make money? If service such as twitter that can benefit the world in some way without making any money, why force it into a 'business model'?
@wolframhempel or whoever is making this. Thanks for the making it. However, your webrtc demo doesn't work: both of the links are broken on github: https://deepstream.io/tutorials/webrtc.html

Can we see some live working demo.

Also the example on that page is also not working because adaptor.js is not found, but it says that your browser is not webrtc compatible.

Re:Startups Selling to Other Startups: A House of Cards? on Friday February 12, 2016 @12:04AM (#11085430)
That is exactly the problem. Growth is extremely un-evenly distributed.
Re:Gmail Will Warn If Message Is Not Authenticated/Encrypted on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @06:49AM (#11072101)
Main complain to Google or other big company. Stop putting email in spam that doesn't have reverse DNS set. Why should one IP be tight to one email domain?
Re:The cost of transpiling ES2015 in 2016 on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @08:12AM (#11064997)
>Another thing I do which may shock many JS people is to actually check in the build directory of my setup into version control, because this makes deployment much easier and ensures that I will always have a working version of the code in the repository, even if some external dependencies should change in the future. This also eliminates installing extensive tooling on my production servers, which itself is a large burden and creates many security issues (for a simple setup consisting of rabel, react, require.js and a few support libraries, node.js downloads about 350 MB of source files onto the machine).

Kudos. I can't remember how many 'open/source/Free' git repo that I cloned can't compile or have problems compiling. Personally I think it is NOT open source unless the user can compile and get an exact copy of the software that is in the app store.

Re:Can You Fall in Love with Someone Through Text Message? on Friday February 05, 2016 @10:51AM (#11042161)
You can fall in love with anyone through anything! It is all in your head. ;-)
Re:Introducing the Keybase filesystem on Thursday February 04, 2016 @11:59PM (#11039563)
Same here. Would love an alpha invite.
Not exactly a programming language, but some early mac users would know: 4D - 4th Dimension
Re:Chrome Cleanup Tool on Thursday January 28, 2016 @05:46PM (#10992074)
Why Can't Google just build that into Chrome?
Re:MEGAChat now includes end-to-end encryption on Saturday January 23, 2016 @06:44AM (#10958073)
It is great that Whisper Systems/Signal implement cryptography properly.

However, the NEWER versions of Signal requires access to your contact to work.

For many users that is a show stopper.

Implement a way for user to search by User ID and allow user to find each other by ID in addition to phone number.

Re:The State of Meteor Part 1: What Went Wrong on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @07:42AM (#10937647)
Personally, the one thing I don't like about Meteor is that it insist on using MongoDb. That along makes me NOT want to use it, despite other cool features.

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