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After barely scraping the surface of Smalltalk, I got a feel for "Why the hype?"...or maybe I should say why the hype isn't entirely unjustified. Smalltalk suggested that the places where I have struggled with OOP-WTF? are more linked to particular design decisions around particular OOP languages than the possibilities of OOP itself.

It got me to thinking that Smalltalk is in some ways where Lisp was ten years ago, struggling along with an aging infrastructure where the internet and gigabytes of RAM and open-source anthropologies are mostly bolted on to a core optimized for a time of scarcity relative to the right now. The revitalization of Lisp as a commercial language required the equivalent of chucking the image for Smalltalk. Clojure got rid of `cons` as the underlying abstraction.[1] Instead of developing a standard library, and platform, and toolchain it grafted itself onto an existing one [2].

Which is to say, I wonder if a similar tacking strategy would let Smalltalk work its way upwind more easily than continuous patching of the Squeak image. One price of course would be a new IDE. IMO, that's a good thing. I don't look at plethoras of randomly located popup windows with the same sense of wonderment I did thirty years ago...I have email, I don't really need to manage unbounded quantities of windows, too. [Sorry for the rant].

Anyway, to me Smalltalk seems to be too much intellectual goodness to ever really die. It just needs to continue to move toward a future where people say "smalltalks" in the same way they can say "lisps" today.

[1]: Racket "got rid" of mutable `cons`s.

[2]: Technically, two originally then three with the browser.
Would make sense, easily available commodity hardware that is reliable and in a decently small form-factor.
I wonder if this is related to H1 demand and lack of women in tech. Think about it for a minute.

H1 would have to leave (the country) if they lose their job, so they are stuck working for a bad boss.
Women can sense that, hey, this makes no sense faster than man who is somewhat expected to 'solider on'.

If there was less H1 (but more legal immigration other ways), than that would force a turn around and encourage more welcoming places. And less bad bosses.

I even look at product manager job postings and cringe: 'hold engineering team accountable for commitments'. The issue maybe that there is H1, that there are people willing to do it.
Slack, HipChat race to replace office email
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Do you mind explaining what a natural workflow for this would look like? Is it to SSH into the VM using your editor of choice?
Pretty much this: https://pwmt.org/projects/jumanji/
They're registered in the United Kingdom (England and Wales): https://soundcloud.com/imprint
This was mostly done as a joke, but is also my first Android app.
Why is it that there's a surge of chat clients nowadays?

- Slack, HipChat (the latter I can't use it in my coworking space because it requires everyone to use the same email domain)

- 38 days ago Hack.chat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9863152

- 79 days ago RocketChat https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9624737

- Yesterday Heim/Euphoria - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10068943
The data-driven management you're describing is based on the significant assumption that you are able to gather accurate data, and interpret that data accurately.

For example, if you are making a management decision based on how much time employees are spending on X, you are assuming that you actually know how much time is being spent on X and what the value of that time is.

Simply measuring data is not sufficient. You have to measure the right data in the right way for your stated purpose. Companies operating like Amazon does (apparently), are wildly over-confident in their data collection and interpretation abilities, in my opinion.
Why phone? What is it that the phone offers that IM doesn't?
Okay, so, let me premise my answer with the acknowledgement that probably /very/ few people want what I do.

1. Terminal-only (^Z is a thing that I want)

2. Capable of some basic CSS support (e.g., colors, basic text decorations; whatever can be simply translated to ANSI escape codes)

3. Capable of doing <div>-based page layouts fairly consistently.

4. Just enough Javascript support to login to a couple of webpages I like and nothing more

5. Some basic support for cookies and bookmarks (though, a session save would be an acceptable alternative for me)

6. Basic support for privacy/security features (think DNT header, HSTS, etc.)

7. (optional) libsixel integration for image/video output

Having the above presents me with the ability to leave GUI web-browsers behind entirely. Ads and the like would essentially be immaterial if JS and images are toggleable and everything would be glorious. Of course, no one appears to want this kind of thing enough for it to have been created yet. So I will eventually probably break down and make it myself :P
Eh? Mashups are "stolen music" by any reasonable definition.
Because:

'We view this business opportunity as potentially additive to Tesla's existing model of selling human-driven cars to private owners'

The article does not make very clear why Tesla would be in a better position then for example Apple, Google, Uber, Mercedes, BWM, etc, etc.

Some important things are mentioned. But I am not sure if they really excel in most of them.

Maybe MS wants the stock price up before Apple buys Tesla...
Neat, but refusal to update legislation will kill this like Segway, the sinclair c5, etc. Can have a Segway in the UK but am only allowed to drive it in your living room. Useful.

Governments want people to keep buying petrochemical cars - it's wildly profitable for them - and why else would anyone be in government other than for personal profit?
Chrome has a master password that protects your passwords and saved forms, if you set one.
I work from home with a 3 year old and ~6 month old (and my wife) in the house. It's not a problem. The three year old knows that when I'm in basement it's off limits and she respects that. It's great to be able to go up and have lunch/coffee break with them!

A nice set of headphones is mandatory though ;)
I worked in a corporate setting for about a year that handed out Nerf guns on day one (if you wanted one). At the time I was 35 years old. Let me tell you how I felt.

I grabbed that gun and started a war. People that were face deep in code picked up their guns and started smiling and shooting each other, running around, diving under desks. It was fun!

I made friends immediately and are some of my best friends to this day, 4 yeas later. People that are friends have fun. It wasn't forced. If you didn't want to play, you didn't have to play. The morale picked up 100% after the game.

We were NEVER treated like children. Ever. We never had "nap time" or "snack time", that's ridiculous. We were treated as professionals that like to take breaks and mess around while creating great products.

I did great work while I was there and so did the other people at that company. I met some amazingly talented people that are still at that company. They stay there because they enjoy the work and they enjoy the environment.
> For me the important thing is to keep a work machine which is solely dedicated to work, which is only connected to the necessary services.

VMs do wonders for this. A work VM with only work things makes it easy to keep work and life separate, but at the same time way more convenient than two computers.
Maybe you can at least separate them virtually by dual booting home and work setups?
"we have Nerf wars, almost daily, that often get a bit out of hand"

:facepalm: I hate this part of the popular culture where developers are seen as kids or weirdos with no social skills.

We have to make clear that we didn't like nerf wars neither overworking, if we didn't respect us nobody is gonna do it.
Surely, infringers of the GPL could cite the same argument?
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The problem here is of course that consciousness is not necessarily tied to individual humans. Humans only think they have individual consciousnesses, because their brains are not tightly coupled to eachother.

So if you get killed in that firing squad, it is more like a few brain-cells of a much larger creature (humanity?) got killed.
I don't think the assumption that long hours and little vacation maximize profits should be taken for granted, especially in a longer-term time frame. I've seen quite a lot of information in the past few years that shows that (especially for developers) long hours have diminishing returns on productivity, and may actually hurt productivity.
SoundCloud's take-down algorithms are only targeting musicians who rely on sampling copyrighted works. This, clearly, is a large chunk of SoundCloud's current user base but I honestly think this will result in a net increase in quality.
> But with 2 kids in home, Can you say to them that you're working? they respect you? I spoke with some people that had success working from home, but when kids born they couldn't follow working from home.

My kids grew up with it, so it was relatively easy to handle it: they always understood that when dad was in the office he was working and wasn't to be disturbed.

And there are consequences for them if they come into the office just to chat. Nothing major, but it is enough to create a difference between "the house is on fire" (good to know) and "I want to show you this awesome new lego creation I made (also good, but now is not the time).
Sending urns to the partners got Willing into YC
I'd say we're on par with the private sector.
The nerf war comment was definitely cringe-worthy, if a nerf war is the best example you got, that is telling in itself.
elinks (not lynx, which is a different app) does most of these.

http://elinks.or.cz/

HSTS support would be a welcome patch.
A thousand times YES!!!
I used to ride down the steapest streets in twin peaks, SF - a little harder than normal to keep balance but it slows for you. The tricky part was getting back up, it drains the battery rapidly so easy to run out of juice and the carrying these by hand is a massive workout. I have the solowheel, I think airwheel is a knockoff?
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> Why phone? What is it that the phone offers that IM doesn't?

We're on IM almost constantly for a few hours, but we then mostly go into our caves to get stuff done.

I've found the phone (and video calls) are critical for feeling connected to your teammates.
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Though some people might be interested in the stats from being on the front page of Hacker News: http://blog.nodule.io/blog/2015/08/17/2015-08-17-the-hacker-...
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A client had an interesting system along this line. Every employee was required to leave for one week to make sure that day to day operations continued without interruption in their absence. As result, everyone took at least one week of vacation. Often they would take two at this time.
Jails for cookies, history, etc.

I want to be able to stay logged into Google/Facebook/Linkedin for convenience without other browser tabs knowing anything about it...or isomorphically, I want to be able to browse the internet while logged into those services without the pages I am browsing leaking data back to those sites. I'll take the hit of downloading 100k of jquery on my 20mbit pipe a few extra times.

I want my browser to sandbox my information to the same degree I can achieve by running separate browsers or setting up special browsing VM's.
I have to say I disagree with this. Sure your app may break, but the rarity of being featured completely outweighs the bugs fixes. The pure exposure of a feature will help with other press coverage which will help with long term customer acquisition.
Someone should make videos in old browsers. Most of the demos are not working anymore. ):

But my best entry still does: http://wildmag.de/compo/Midcoast-The_Wormhole/5.htm
Sure, that gives me an address, but the host isn't reachable.

I played around with it and found a login page that might be similar but _no clues_ as to how to gain access. Feel like I'm missing an intermediate step here.
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> We have to make clear that we didn't like nerf wars neither overworking

I do find those wars very entertaining and stress relieving. What is clear to me is that, even in the tech world, there are different cultures and not everybody are equal.
Yeah, if emacs supported a terminal-aware WebKit then that would pretty much be my ideal browser; I could add everything else.
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I guess most water cleaning is done larger scale for better effectiveness and focus of knowledge for maintenance. The book (filters + instructions) could be used by individuals and small families.
I don't know anything about Rackspace's internal operations, but I have used them with business support before and it was some of the best customer service I have ever experienced with a company. Also, since this is an Amazon thread, their customer service is the cat's tits as well!
Drummer here speaking. I would say it's like anything else. Drummers are different because they drum.
>Google however has put themselves above the law, refusing to index their site.

What law anywhere requires Google to crawl any site?

>Being unsympathetic to the situation due to the fact that his platform is used by "toxic" users is something that should warrant some serious introspection.

So I should be concerned that people who even Stormfront won't deal with aren't searchable via Google?
I had pretty similar thoughts to the "free food" bullet point at the bottom. That's so far into "nice to have" territory that I can only see such comments as whinging about how green the neighbor's yard is. (Except, there's actually a chance for you to go live in the neighbor's house, if you really wanted to.)
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> Why phone? What is it that the phone offers that IM doesn't?

Phone is better than text because phone gives you more information in the discussion. You can judge the other person's mood to some extent, get a feel for their energy level, their enthusiasm. Also quite often when someone says something in text, it can be interpreted multiple ways, and emotion in voice gives cues which way is intended. If they have mixed feelings on a topic, you're more likely to sense that. It's also easier to talk, so it's easier to quickly relate a funny story and generally bond.

It's also worth nothing that a Skype call is generally higher sound quality, so it conveys this additional information much better than a phone call these days, since phonecalls tend to be way over-compressed and muddy. It's also worth noting that a video call does all of the above better as well, because video offers an additional channel of information for reading people's emotions.
Building out that promotion network is the hard part.
Out of curiosity, what language, if any, has those properties?
Hah, just found this 2006 thread via Twitter: "Coding routines for a non-interactive demo is just a special case of procedural video-compression anyway." http://ada.untergrund.net/?p=boardthread&id=200#msg1961
I've done so for over four years, the life stuff rocks. It's simply not a big deal getting home stuff done, dealing with sick kids, etc..

I'd flip it though, no matter how introverted you are, you probably need some social interaction. At the very least get outside, walk, exercise, etc... Working from can let you fall into some bad habits if you arent careful. In addition to an office, I shower, get dressed and have some "work" house shoes I put on and then go to work.

As a worker, you have to be proactive too, you have to work to forge friendships and a strong team feeling; that can be harder than you think and it does take work. It's great when you figure it all out, it can be lonely and miserable you you don't or can't.

I also will assert that if you have a couple of very effective remotes, it lifts the whole company. More people will feel free to do personal stuff when they need to and generally they'll do stuff in evenings and weekends when needed. I've seen a few places where "work at home" means work at night, weekends and when you're sick. Remotes sort of force that issue and they help promote the use of tools to facilitate it.
The electric longboard is the non-goofy version of this.
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I'm addressing your "anyone defending themselves (and thus anyone who has revived criticism) is automatically wrong" argument.

You're defending yourself right now, so by that argument it "says a lot to me."
No, they clearly fall under fair use.
Sadly, employee happiness does not always equate to revenue either.
Fun fact: the latest version of this software uses SwiftKey under the hood - http://swiftkey.com/en/blog/swiftkey-reveals-role-professor-... (Disclaimer: I used to work for SwiftKey)
Different keyboard & mouse? That could give the "feeling" of a different PC.
For automation API you probably want a way to record actions and replay them like Excel macros? If you look for scriptable automation for Chrome then http://phantomjs.org/ might be a step in that direction.
Thought it was going to be template stuff for a min, clicked on the first one and saw "/ MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'JasxkvpY72KKCdttdBqt');"
Thanks to recent international treaties and safe-harbor regulations, they are forced to comply with DMCA. Even if a song is legal in Germany, if any of the parties involved (in this case, Warner Music) is in the US, US right, with DMCA, applies.

The US is quite literally forcing its laws on the rest of the world, and it gets worse every day.

This is also why so many are against TTIP. Trade treaty with China? No problem. With Japan? No problem. With the US? Fuck it.
>I simply nodded my head as I wasn't sure how else to respond without offending his beliefs.

I know you have to work with the guy, but some beliefs should be offended. "God hates gays!" is just a delusional anthropomorphic version of saying "I hate gays!".

He can't even take responsibility for his own prejudices!
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It may hurt productivity, but the employer gets the benefit of keeping the employee on a leash by not giving them time to look for other opportunities , plus in some businesses you can just keep grinding employees to the bone and sift until you have the most workaholic ones, such as in finance.

I won't claim to know what will happen to Amazon or other companies if they keep trying to squeeze every cent out of every employee all the time, but in my professional circles of people who work front office at investment firms or consulting firms (in the northeast), there is a long history of making sure the newbies are in the office 80+ hours a week. These are also the same firms that continue to make the most money year after year, so I would assume there is some possibility to extract extra value from the subset of the population that is workaholic.
Everyone is going to give different weights to the various rules and criteria for judging demos. In a community that strives for pushing boundaries, these existential debates are a staple. It was assembly vs C/C++, it was pixel art vs Photoshop, mouse vs Wacoms, chips vs raw CPU, MODs vs MP3, soft vs hardware rendering, party version vs polished release, handcoded vs demo engines, secrecy vs opensourcing, compatible vs "runs-on-my-machine", design vs tech, closed groups vs collaborations, fully self-contained vs using system assets like fonts... That's healthy.

I personally value both pacing and merit. I love demos where I ask myself "how did they do that!?", and I love demos where I forget to ask that question while I'm watching them. This one, I found rather uninspired, and obviously very weak in the merit department. It clearly does not deserve a 2nd place; there's just too little of value that the authors brought to the table. In fact, their biggest contribution may be to open the door for other sceners to use UE4 for great things.
In Ruby, nil is the singleton object of NilClass, and you can call method on it like any object -- heck a key way of distinguishing it from False is that they respond differently to .nil?
>"Treat tabs more like temporary bookmarks (and thus allow bookmark actions to be used with them like search (full-text), (batch) re-naming, arranging in folders, sorting)."

That's an awesome idea, does any browser have that?
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I can handle most roles but am most efficient on the backend, with a sprinkling of supplemental UI/UX development.
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150,000,000+ database passwords, of which 99.9999%+ are from local development servers.
Correlation != causation.

We used to have some servers at 1&1 and their support was even worse than what you describe, and they've never described as "a fun place to work"
> "We have Nerf wars, almost daily, that often get a bit out of hand"

This really bugged me too, but reflects a trend that I've notice in tech circles of infantilizing engineers (vs treating them as working professionals). But maybe this really is attractive to some employees who might be eager to extend their HS/college environment a few more years.
Google is your friend: "html scraping Haskell" -> https://hackage.haskell.org/package/scalpel

Googling is the best way to go through hackage.
Goodbye soundcloud, I really enjoyed discovering music on their service but I cannot support this kind of behaviours. It was made me quit Deezer, and now quitting SoundCloud.
Why wouldn't donations work? Something like Gratipay (formerly Gittip) for journalists?
I don't work there but 1 note about support plans at companies: You will get what you pay for. If you have an SLA of 1 hour you will get your reply in an hour. If you don't have that (lets say you have a 12 hour SLA) the team, even if they can answer your question right away, is likely going to hold off on it for awhile because you haven't paid for that level of service.

It's also protection as their response could lead to another reply from you and possibly a call would have to be scheduled and then meanwhile a few important tickets from clients that pay for the extra service come in and now they are backed up.

Sales guys should be calling you constantly though!
So, is the pricing the same no matter how many containers your monitor if you only have it on one host os? Or is it host + n containers?
Thanks, that is actually a solid idea. Or you could have a VM exclusively for working / for personal stuff.
It doesn't but many independent actions and bad news items does form an opinion. And if it is prejudice, well I am just a bit critical of my own country, because I want it to be better and have a better image.

The rule of thumb though, is if there is any external news about Romania, chances are it is negative and before I read I think "Oh, what have they done now...".
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