Educated people have ability and moral obligation to become political leaders, and yet we do nothing. There are many inexpensive ways to motivate people on Internet. 90% of public will go with whatever they see on Google, Facebook or Twitter and only 0.01% of talented individuals know how to make the information easily discoverable and understandable among all the noise on Internet. If smartest people refuse to work for Republicans and Democrats, the later will lose all ability to reach anyone under the age of 60.

There are a lot policy decisions that are dictated by simple facts and have little room for ideological debate. Global warming is either happening or it's not. Cutting taxes on the rich either stimulates economy or hurts it. Banning anarchist cookbook from Internet is either feasible or it isn't. Once we get all the nutcases out of office, we can start solving problems in areas where all reasonable debate has been settled long ago. And move on to issues where more intelligent debate is actually needed.

Dude! You are full of it, and besides you are an F-droid shill based on at least 3 posts promoting whatever it is in this thread.

Android already puts all apps in sandboxes. It also happens to be open source, so you can put on a tinfoil hat and hack a custom ROM to your hearts content, including denying apps you don't trust any network or shared storage access.

And if you want to be taken seriously, give an example of how core OS or Google Play specifically violated your privacy. Most people voluntarily store their e-mail and photos on the cloud and use GPS navigation that tells server their whereabouts. What information is being leaked from your phone that is MORE private than that? More importantly, how is it being linked to you specifically and misused?

First of all, ensure that there is honesty in all things - what projects are coming up, how much overtime will be required and when, what are each teammate's prospects for bonus and promotion. Encourage everyone to discuss it with you and each other. The later is legally protected at least in California, but still nice to acknowledge.

After laying all the cards open, trust your reports to be responsible adults. If someone is not able to finish the project on time or is not reachable during off or even work time, assume they have a good reason. Over time, you may learn otherwise and some people may need to be given warnings or even leave the team. But even a single episode of pestering when someone is, say, home taking care of a sick kid will make a good employee look for another job or at least kill enthusiasm for long, long time.

Finally, do things to make employees feel appreciated at least every couple of months. Hold beer keg parties. Give out swag after successful releases. Close the office and give everyone an extra paid day off after a crunch week.

If you hire smart people and do all of this consistently, you will not only get outstanding results but also turbo charge your own career.

They didn't make those video and they certainly provide a way for content creators to submit captions. Require new releases over certain budget to include captions, but don't expect one company to be responsible for entire entertainment industry.

I don't think "want" and "like" should be the only words in this discussion. Cities can have parks and enclosed courtyards. With billions of us on the planet, we can not just take all the space away from other species. We are the ones who will be sick and starving if ecosystems are damaged.

If living in single homes is what people want, we should focus on slowing and then reversing world population growth.

Electricity is nowhere near clean, most is produced by burning fossil fuels. There is no current technology to cleanly produce the amount of energy we are consuming. When there are fusion reactors all over the place, we can reconsider the issue. Till then we can put up with a little inconvenience to avoid frying the planet.

This does not solve the problem of pollution when millions of individual cars are manufactured and operated. Nor the impact on environment when habitable land is consumed by sprawling suburbs rather than compact cities. With sensible urban planning, buses and subways can solve the same problem much better.

Self-driving cars can make incremental improvements to safety and pollution levels, but are just delaying the changes achievable with older technology in wide use in many places in the world.

Just because Khan academy is not the answer, does not mean that status quo of college education is the answer going forward. The rest of economy has become dramatically more efficient in the last 20 years. If colleges make no effort to embrace globalization and modern IT, there is no hope for them to be affordable to someone who works in a regular job.

It's ridiculous to pay for a sprawling campus, football team and full room and board just to be one of 40 students to hear a lecture from a second grade local professor. Wouldn't you rather watch the life lecture of the world's best professor over a video conference, with full ability to ask questions, book one on one time and get help from TAs?

As for becoming a "well rounded person", there are lots of ways to do this that do not cost a lot of money or even get you paid. Travel the world or volunteer for a homeless shelter. Heck, rent a house with a dozen of other dudes and recreate the experience of a college fraternity if that's what suits you.

We can not have people getting treated with inexpensive ingredients from their kitchens. That would be so uncivilized! Lucky thing we stopped red rice yeast for lowering cholesterol. Phew!

When it comes to offerings from Oracle or Microsoft, you in fact want to go with an older, more proven solution that is still supported for long time. But with open source, this will get you burned because all the developers got bored and went to work on something else. With newer projects, there will be bugs but also people fixing them, often quickly and for free. As far as comparison between the two, it comes to scale. If you are lucky enough to create a popular consumer product, at some point costs of proprietary vendor support will become prohibitive compared to in-house development. Also, you may find yourself in direct competition with your supplier and not want to give them all this money even if they are willing to support you. For internal business apps, the equation is often the opposite and you would rather pay for someone than do software development which is not your core competency.

...after what happened to Mozilla CEO. I wholeheartedly support same sex marriage and plural marriage. I especially support alternative lifestyles entered by choice rather than because you were "born this way", because this country is about freedom of choice. I personally enjoy my choices and would hate to deny this to others. If an adult gay man wants to try conversion therapy to marry a woman he is not attracted to, it's no more our business than a woman who marries a rich guy she is not attracted to.

What I can not support is this notion that the only way you can be free is if nobody else is free. Brendan Eich was bullied out of his job just because he, as a private citizen, made a legal donation to a political campaign that most CA residents supported at the time. This is as reprehensible is a female CEO getting sacked because she had an abortion, and yet not a single gay rights organization came out against this. So despite donating money to oppose Prop 8, I will never again financially support these causes. I just can not be sure than my contributions will be used to promote equality rather than discrimination.

So I see how folks in Indiana would feel they need the law to make sure all personal beliefs are equally respected, not only most politically correct ones of the day. If I run a family IT shop and a bunch of Republicans show up wanting help with their campaign website, I don't want to serve them. How can I deny the same freedoms to a florist next door who doesn't want to participate in a same sex wedding?

Huh? FoundationDB was closed source. The company published some supporting open source projects on github. Those are surely mirrored and will be reuploaded by others. If a truly open source database like cassandra was taken down by primary contributor, others would just take over.

Exclusive is a salesperson spending an hour just with you, patiently helping you to choose just the right style. Like... Macy's, when buying a watch of comparable price! Apple can not sell jewelry for nuts, they should have partnered with stores that have experience with making customers feel exclusive.

If you bought a Mac laptop, you are primarily interested in OSX, but may want to run a few of your old Windows applications and games which are not ported to Mac, or that you don't want to re-purchase. To that end, XP is the current sweet spot. After a good disk cleanup, you can manage the OS and a few apps in a 10GB partition. Windows 7 is a strain with 40GB before installing anything of significance. This is a big hit on SSD laptops with 128 or 256GB of storage. Plus, these old apps/games do not run well with current OS and DirectX versions anyway. One would think Apple will be targeting users who must run windows for a couple of apps before ones that are actually enthusiastic about the prospect and want latest versions and huge bootcamp partitions.

If the code has a useful function and exposes it with an interface that is no more complex than absolutely necessary, it doesn't matter how ugly it is inside. It will be used and, in time, there will be resources to clean it up. UNIX system calls, libraries and command line tools are a good example. There is not much in common between original code and various modern implementations, but code written on top of these over decades still works and both developers and users are able to leverage their experience.

Also, even the best written code will have bugs. With simple interface, it's at least feasible to write good tests and find some.