There are mechanisms by which a landlord can raise a rent inside the bounds of a lease. In my experience, multi-year leases have "elevator clauses" that either allow for pre-negotiated upwards adjustments in price based on property tax, CPI, or other measures.
Whenever I need to ask someone a question about something, I take 2 minutes to do just one more bit of homework on the topic.
The goal to give my brain one more shot at figuring it out on its own. Either I figure it out and I don't have to ask anyone else, or I'm now more informed about the topic when I ask someone a question, and I've moved the topic back to the top of my memory.
When it works, I've learned something, saved someone else from being interrupted, and I get a little kick of "I did it all by myself!" satisfaction. Even when the trick doesn't work, the ensuing conversations are usually much more productive.
This is why I like asking questions by email. It forces me to formulate the problem in one go in as much detail as the receiver might need. A lot of the time I end up not sending the email after that mental exercise. (this is basically rubber duck debugging but less abstract - you can work in the context of a real person not an inanimate object)
Of course, I wanted to believe it was true. Unappreciated worker with morally-lite boss in a despised industry. What's not to like?
The lighting was too good though. Specifically, it looked like there was a tripod, a well-calibrated fill-flash and an additional, off-center light source.
Clearly, not impossible for a person and a timer to do, but it began to hit the limits of plausibility.
I called this as a hoax from the beginning, but for different reasons (yours are good, too).
She calls out the boss for playing Farmville all day. Yet Farmville is a Facebook app, running inside FB. So all she would know is that he spends all day in FB, not specifically what he's doing there.
My clue was that she didn't show any percentage of his time being spent watching porn. It's inconceivable to me that an obviously straight, sexist man (HOPA remark) would spend all that time playing Farmville and none watching porn.
People who deliberately take photos for public display often use tripods and good lighting, irrespective of whether the story told by their photographs is real or fictional.
If you don't understand why people are complaining, you may want to take a moment to understand why.
You have shown how to block it, but there is a larger discussion of why or why not it's bad, how it breaks copy/paste, attribution problems, and so on. You might do well to look outside the narrow technical bounds of fixing a specific technical problem to think about the greater issue.
To be fair, it's kind of like leaving your door open and sticking a sign on the side of your house saying "TV inside", and then complaining when someone steals your TV. Sure, they shouldn't have done it, but you would have never even thought about the problem if you just locked your door.
Locking your door on the Internet includes using AdBlock (with easylist and easyfilter), NoScript, Privoxy, Tor, and so on. (I skip Tor, but the other ones are quite non-invasive. Sometimes I accidentally browse the Internet without Adblock, and feel very confused as to why every site is all of a sudden so ugly.)
Which is exactly what I prefixed my technical solution with - beggars can't be choosers. You are getting to access all this content for free, content which people spend their precious time creating. I find it astonishing that people actually have the gall to complain about the content creators partaking in a little self-promotion.
To answer your specific question, it isn't necessary. It's just another Turing-Complete language, right?
Perl was one of the first popular scripting languages out there to have well-integrated regex handling and was useful for programming purposes. Most old-school systems and network people not only know how to code their way out of a paper bag, but typically grew up with C and Perl as their two go-to languages. C when you needed speed above all else, and Perl when you needed the regex functionality.
While specific functions vary for any given environment, I can safely say that I've written all of these in Perl at one point or another:
- Crunching netflow data to make life easier for those who do capacity planning.
- Running glue scripts against a device database to generate the configs that go to open-source monitoring systems.
- Lexing SNMP data in order to generate a device-independent network configuration, and then turning around and "compiling" it to another target network device.
All of these could be re-written in python. I've done it. Yet, they're all written in Perl because that's what the people who "Run The Internet" historically have used.
In another generation, maybe Python will be the regex-heavy scripting language of choice. For right now though, I suppose the best answer is that that Perl holds the Internet together for historical reasons, because that's what got the job done.
" Most old-school systems and network people not only know how to code their way out of a paper bag, but typically grew up with C and Perl as their two go-to languages."
Which is probably why the "new school" systems programmers (many of whom also know how to program their way out of all kinds of bags) choose other scripting languages to go with C. They don't need to know perl any longer for all the tasks you laid out. Which is probably a good thing. The less dependence internet infrastructure has on specific languages the better.
As you correctly said "Perl holds the Internet together for http://redstate.com/historical reasons, " just as COBOL was the primary "business systems" language for a long time for historical reasons.
As someone pointed out above, when people talk about languages "going away" they don't mean that no one works on the language anymore, just that there are better alternatives these days.
Every time someone uses another language for what someone 10 years ago would have needed COBOL for, it fades a little, till there is only legacy codebases and its caretakers keeping the language alive.
I don't think it is that bad for Perl yet, but the trend seems to be in that direction, with more and more people using Python, Ruby (and even PHP) for the tasks Perl would have been the default choice historically.
Trends are funny, and don't only go in one direction. According to the admittedly flawed TIOBE index (see http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.... for verification), in the last year PHP, Python, and Ruby have all fallen, while Perl has increased.
Yeah, not what I would expect either. But Perl isn't as dead as people claim.
many of the "old school" also knew their way out of all kinds of bag and choose perl. Nobody needs to know (pick your language) but knowing perl has really helped me out in my long career in programming. You seem to be of the kind that does not like perl so are looking for the future where no one uses it .
If you think COBOL is only used in legacy code bases, every time you search for a hotel or Air tickets you are most probably interacting with a main frame system
At the risk of self-promotion, a while back I did a presentation on naming schemes for network devices, which have slightly different requirements than servers:
To use a recent movie quote: "If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball."
ITA's business is all about dealing with fiendishly clever transforms on small-ish sets of data, and the results are needed Right Now. Most of the hiring puzzles revolve around that theme.
Much like any other company giving these kinds of problems, it's not about bringing out that cleverness every day, but it's about figuring out who has the ability to think in that way, along with the persistence to work on the problem until it's done.
At a guess, they're trying to make it up in volume.
If you're a merchant bank, the smallest thing you can profitably target is a small business, so even a handful of significant bad accounts will do bad things to your bottom line.
Assuming that the potential customers of this service are not trying to commit fraud, and that each one of those customers is doing a relatively low amount of transactions, Square could put this device in the hands of enough people that the aggregate chargeback percentage would still be low enough to be profitable.
