Very true.

How so? The other guy that wanted to buy the apartment offered 2.399m, so offering 2.4m was the lowest possible price to buy it. What's "blame worthy" about it?

An upvote of a comment, too.

Just as in other areas where countries use violence against each other's populations, it will be a question of the state defending its citizens.

Maybe, some day, there will be some sort of international agreement about what can be done and what must not be done. Like with ABC weapons.

> Just as in other areas where countries use violence against each other's populations, it will be a question of the state defending its citizens.

Unfortunately the state seems to be more interested in using these same attacks against its own citizens.

There has already been such an agreement (The Hague Land Warfare Order, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hague_Conventions_of_1899_and_...), but "cyber warfare" wasn't a thing then and thus not included.

> Just as in other areas where countries use violence against each other's populations, it will be a question of the state defending its citizens.

And for this reason, the innocent civilians of third-world/underdeveloped/developing nations will be affected the worst.

Google+ was screwed out of the gate. It was invite-only, which did not work for Google+ or Wave nearly as well as it did for Gmail (logically). It also helps that Fuchsia is open-source and sees very active development.

It's not because you're also asking the same of them. If you're submitting code upstream, you're essentially asking the maintainers to perform code review and start maintaining your contributions, for free.

*your

Uh, that's how the BSD and Apache licenses work.

Loved the SpaceX guy on handover to NASA: "... and thank you for flying on Falcon today!"

Private space flight started with this flight.

> Private space flight started with this flight.

I hear Dennis Tito and Mike Melvill sighed.

That was both on government capsules.

> Private space flight started with this flight.

21 June 2004

That's wasn't private, that was on a government space ship.

Really? I mean, every person has some flaws, sure. But most the things he does are just pretty awesome, and usually very good for humanity's future.

I'm not a fanboi trying to defend him. I just happen to like most of his projects, both for the technology and for their positive view of the future.

Honestly... it's complicated. As I understand it, African-American is one of the more recent ways of saying (with the intent of being polite) that someone is a black skinned and ethnically African and is American.

The term was not meant to extend to corner cases like mine - I'm white, but one of my ancestors grew up on the African continent in an island in the Atlantic and spoke Portuguese.

I suspect that this term will fall out of favor soon and be replaced by another.

Americans of European descent tend to refer to themselves by nation of immigrant origin (eg: Italian American, Irish American, etc.)

However, because African slaves brought to the New World were denied the ability to culturally identify with, or even know (after generations) which African nation or tribe they descended from, the only common cultural identity they could form, apart from that which slavery had forced upon them, was as a diaspora from "Africa" as a whole.

"African American" is a term with a specific cultural and historical context behind it linked to the identity of the descendants of slaves and to black immigrants from Africa, and there is controversy about its use even within the black community, but it isn't going to correctly refer to the descendant of white Dutch colonizers in South Africa even if it does technically fit. Or at least not without coming across as racist itself.

Consider that racist if you like, but race and culture are messy and complicated everywhere, not just in the US.

"Colorblind" often means pretending racism no longer exists and ignoring it, or worse, considering it racist to do otherwise.

While it might be nice to live in a "post-racial" world, it should be obvious that we don't, yet.

African American != South African immigrant.

What if the South African immigrant was black and had lived in the US for 40 years?

The reason for complexity fetishisation (great term!) is to show everybody else how amazingly smart you are. It's the infrastructure version of "clever" code.

Except to some of us it shows just the opposite.

Its starting to get depressing at my age. After nearly 20 years in the industry I think I have a knack for keeping things as "simple as necessary and no more" and managing complexity. Unfortunately interviews are full of bullshit looking at pedantic nitpicking, or stuff I learned 20 years ago in university and have never needed to use since.

Someone else above in the thread believes there is "great value" in being able to accomodate complexity, what the commenter refers to as a "general" solution, as well as this being worth any cost in performance. God help you if these are the type of people who are doing the interviews. Despite pedantic technical questions, I doubt they are actually screening for crucial skills like reducing complexity. Rather, the expectation is that the tech worker will tolerate complexity, including the "solutions" to managing it that are themselves adding more complexity, e.g., abstraction.

Just focus on staying relevant with new languages and ignore the hypetrain that is k8s. Its something you can learn on the job and can easily talk your way around in an interview.

The older i get the more i realise the less i want in my stacks.

This article listed as a benefit, frequent, multiple major updates each year, new features and no sign of it slowing down. I just cringed and wondered who the fuck is asking for this headache?

Ive been working a lot with wordpress lately and the stability of the framework is spoiling me rotten.

I predict that you'll get down-voted into oblivion, but I agree with you :)