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As a serious non-conformist, those were actually the hardest lessons to learn. I changed the clothing I wear (which doesn't matter much to me), how I communicate, and stopped alienating people over things which don't matter. That me non-conform on the things which do matter a lot more and a lot more successfully.
Another clickbate title and rubbish article, there seems more and more of these popping up on HN recently?
Conformist lets you hit 6 figures easily. Going beyond, non-conformists have the advantage.
I'm no expert on the subject, but according to Wikipedia [1], there is in fact a technique that involves using a wire, but it's still not in widespread use.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measurement_while_drilling
> The Play Store and installing APK's shows you a full list of permissions that the app will have access to before installing. If you're not happy with it, just don't install the app.

That's a shitty way to do things. You should be able to revoke access to things the app is asking and still use the (then crippled) app. There are tons of apps who ask way more access rights than they need (obviously not related to their core functions).
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I have a similar engine up at http://joelcalifa.com/colors

Mine can also do colors like "banana" or "bubblegum". Pretty simple to put together actually. Rather than manually putting together a list of colors, I just use the ColourLovers API.
You can also use up and down arrows to move between results or the return key to "make a poem," which I fully agree was a weird feature to add.
I think it's just that the geographical database used is less accurate for IPv6. Where just a country is known, it appears to use the centroid for the map (there is certainly not a great internetworking site in Alice Springs either!).
Flipkart needs to take a heed.
"Zero-to-one is a great guide for non-conformists."

Is that a book or an article? Never heard of it. Care to give a pointer?
No, mud pulse telemetry doesn't provide much bandwidth - it transmits at around 10 bits/sec. Interesting tidbit: I was told that the flow rate is manually controlled at the surface, as in when a command needs to be sent downhole, a guy goes to the control valve and adjusts it manually.

As for using the drill string itself, since there is no separate return path, no current can flow through it. Further, there is no way I can see them setting up a common ground to get a voltage across the drill string. For this reason, they need to run a cable down the drill string to do this.
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Maybe the parent means that someone working a support job in SF might want to think long and hard about moving across the country where they presumably know noone and have no social support network or other potential employers if their job with Lyft goes away.
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No state / municipal income tax in nashville probably and much cheaper cost of living probably means that the actual relative wealth of those employees will increase tremendously. I'd love to see a tech hub grow in the southeast. Having lived in the bay area and in TN, it's definitely not a feeling of being stranded. There's a lot of outdoorsy activities (caving was my personal favorite), though the city life ist as great.
This is excellent news. The biggest hurdle for any group of researchers getting together and doing a journal The Right Way seems to be the notion of perceived prestige that still clings to Scrooge-journals. Go Gowers!
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http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2015/09/-missing-gravit...
I recently migrated jira/ Confluence / Stash / Hipchat from the cloud versions to self hosted for a company going through the IPO process.

So we went from the Crowd based setup to LDAP / postgresql backed versions of the products. The big surprise for me is how divergent the products are. User setup and the cross application links are so different. The underlying postgres schemas are different. So the migrations were fundimentally different. (In hipchat's case it is understandable as the self hosted version of the softwre was new and somewhat beta)

It reminded me of how back in the 90s I heard that Microsoft kept the developers of different products in the Office suite apart.

Thus when you go to link the applications together you get weird redundancies and it all doesnt work as it should. Partly that is because the licensing is so separate. Atlassian support was pretty good in that they worked with us on it and also they provided unofficial scripts to help withthe process. They also recommended using Crowd to manage users which to my mind only added a layer of complexity - you should be able to add users directly from LDAP.

I ended up enjoying the migration project because I got to work with postgres which is great software.

Atlassian is bloated and in my opinion they havent worked on cross application connectivity enough. It should be seamless.

My company (at the time) ended up hiring a fulltime person to manage the complexity (ie an Atlassian admin) plus a few consultants to get the workflow stuff down.

It is good when you have jira and confluence running well - but it takes a lot of time and money to get to that point.
And who's fault is that?
Leaving our phone in view changes what we talk about and the connection we feel
I wouldn't do the process, just the feedback. Build a value add around the feedback, such as interview critique/coaching services, training, etc... Make it about optimizing the interview process to make smarter hires.
I suspect a lot of their team will choose to find other jobs rather than move to Nashville even if the pay stays the same. Having lived in the south, I think I'd have to see salary at least double to make up for the drawbacks of living there. --And I'm talking real dollars, not double from the drop in the cost of living.
Additionally, speech is also less coherent than text, unless it's a rehearsed performance. Most people do very fluid re-formulation and editing even when using instant messaging. With speech, backtracking is basically impossible.
Its a book by Peter Thiel.
Actually, yes. It should be on the national curriculum
Which also gives us rheology (study of flow), diarrhea ("a flowing through"), rhythm (measured flow), etc. Ultimately coming a Proto-Indo-European root (*sreu-? I think), which also gives us the Rhine river and the word 'stream', amongst others. The more you know.
> "Tramp" here probably means harlot

I'm guessing it's actually akin to "hangar queen," an aircraft that's grounded for maintenance to an unusual extent [1].

EDIT: Or, it might be an analog to a tramp steamer, i.e., a merchant ship that goes from port to port to port carrying whatever cargoes the ship's officers can scare up as they go. [2]

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hangar_queen

[2] http://www.britannica.com/technology/tramp-steamer
That's highly unlikely and I question the accuracy of the Tech Crunch report. A pay cut is too much to ask, unless the whole company is going through tough times and needs to tighten their belts to avoid Chapter 11. Much more likely is that the regional pay scale will be lower, so if you move to Nashville with an $80K base, and the new hires are coming in at $50K, it's going to be a while before you get a raise.
yes, it is like that. Hypothesis is that very inner core network routers lack accurate geo-location info, hence they are represented in the center of the country instead of in a city. This would explain the star-like pattern in every country.
You might also want to have a look at the file /etc/X11/rgb.txt
That's not necessarily inconsistent with the previous comment - they might put in a lot of dedicated effort when they are working on it, but might still not make it a priority when more important stuff interferes. contrariwise, if they were getting paid below market, they might not be as enthused or dedicated, but they might be more committed in the sense of making it something they will try harder to make the time for in the face of other life stuff.
I'm thinking it means roughly: We are going to "F* the Enemy".
Back in the early days of webmail, when IE6 was new and we had 28.8k modems, someone almost certainly said that. 20 years ago we used Eudora, PINE, Netscape's mail client, or (if you were really unfortunate) Outlook Express.
Their developer tools are really rough to use. Ever tried to build a JIRA plugin? Not fun.
That's why you take periodic trips to meet with everyone.

For a partially distributed company you just come to the office 2-4 times a year. For fully distributed companies, you plan company wide events a few times a year to allow that face to face.
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"Care to give a pointer?"

https://xkcd.com/138/

But in all seriousness, it looks like it's a book by "venture capitalist, PayPal co-founder, and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel along with Blake Masters". If it's an article, it isn't on the first page of DDG or google.
Workflow is an awesome tool. Great work by the author. Checkout his recent talk on Reverse-engineering iOS Apps: https://realm.io/news/conrad-kramer-reverse-engineering-ios-...
Responses like this are why the overwhelming majority of social skills advice is either useless bullshit or actively harmful. Someone thinks hard after reflecting on the low lessons he's learned and the response is some form of accusation of mental illness or abnormality.

All useful social skills advice makes the writer sound like an asshole because being nice all the time, to everybody is for saints/idiots and plenty of social games are zero or negative sum.
I like how they state clearly that the result they obtained, even though unexpected, does mean that there are things that we still do not know, not that all we know must be burned to the ground.
Speaker Tip O'Neill shut down the government 7 times under President Reagan and 5 under President Carter. Thinking that Speaker O'Neill was willing to work with President Reagan about budget matters isn't historically accurate. It was his way or the highway, and the news did not demonize him for it.
We already have enough food to feed the world[1]: the problem is distribution. Poor people can't afford to get a balanced diet that's already there, would the GM rice be miraculously free?

1. http://www.wfp.org/hunger/faqs
Except now that $100k is returned to the economy for spending
you would think by this day that the advances in teleconferencing could reduce the need to be located all in one area, let alone in expensive areas. I know tech support doesn't have to have a central location, have many vendors who support persons work from home and most aren't near their hq.

If anything having core members in a tech hot spots is just asking them to move to another company when the mood suits them. Yeah you might miss out on some hot shots but you open the door to lose yours
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Gowers' blog post addresses this. Scholastica won't charge them for fake/bad submissions.
Just hoping to get some feedback on my first article. Cheers!
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I've encountered sites that do this kind of check before, and I usually just don't bother signing up.

It's usually the case that I didn't /really/ want to sign up anyway, but I needed something (that with a little effort I could find elsewhere)
> I remember him saying: "Forget all rules about percentages. All you need to know it's like a number multiplied by 100."

I don't remember what rules or tricks I was taught about percentages, but I do remember realising that "%" meant "/ 100" and from there everything else followed.
I think the point is that JIRA won't do exactly what you need. Using a tool that's "good enough" is the best choice when you've got 5 developers but not when you've got 5000.
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They definitely, 100% do. I've had one for a few months and though there is no mechanism that clicks, the trackpad surface still does have a small bit of travel.
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Tell Me is part of Office 2016 desktop edition [1]

It has been part of Office 365 since 2014 [2]:

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[1] https://blogs.office.com/2015/09/22/thenewoffice/

[2] https://blogs.office.com/2014/01/22/new-year-more-goodness-t...
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It doesn't know chartreuse. Well, OK, but it doesn't know lime or lemon either.
I also like how their possible suggestions for why theories might not be panning out points to not enough understanding about something. So now we have a new scientific understanding to pursue. And on the way to figuring out /that/ new thing, we'll probably run into even more questions that need answering!

In some ways, this is exciting - deepening mysteries always provoking further study. But on the flip side, it also makes me ponder the thought that maybe we will never gain true knowledge of the universe. At least, probably not before a very long time passes.
> This will be very helpful when you have to contact your users

Someone using a disposable address probably does not even care about your "need". Why block them?
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I couldn't tell if this was real or satire until the last sentence. I mean, it reads like not very subtle satire - like a 14 year old snowflake on tumblr wrote it. But people in the comments there and here are taking it seriously. And it's really not that much of a stretch to believe someone in Academia would actually think this way and publish it.
Asking employees settled in a place to move to a different state, and then take a pay cut, seems like a big deal.
> but using such expensive proprietary software doesn't seem to be acceptable long term

Is $10 per paper really that expensive? The recent papers I've published have come with page charges in excess of $1000 (in a not-for-profit journal). Obviously it's far from an apples–apples comparison, because the $1000 pays for things like the journal having a copyeditor to go through the manuscript and also results in reduced subscription fees (~5x less than another comparable journal in the field). Though, for this "overlay" journal, the subscription point is obviously moot. But, from an author's perspective, $10 seems like a steal.
I'm using the Congress and Presidential elections because they show to some degree the revealed preferences of the people, I don't trust polls very much, especially as polling organizations are finding it harder and harder to get responses and as people continue switching to cell phones.

As for "access", one counter WRT to this study's claimed time frame is the end of the "Fairness Doctrine", which severely stifled radio and TV political discussion from not all that long after its promulgation in 1949 until its end in 1987 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine). Conservative talk radio, Rush Limbaugh being the best known example, became a major thing immediately afterwards. That channel, outside the control of the "small connected elite" became a driver of politics well before 1996.
Still can't handle "ochre".
>How many uses native applications for reading email today?

Most people with a phone?
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> do those "tricks" represent the way math is usually taught in America?

Anecdotally, yes -- and damn proud of it! A lot of the backlash against Common Core Mathematics is from people who want Mathematics education to stay that way.

The reason is that a huge amount of mathematics educators in American secondary schools aren't properly trained in even elementary Mathematics.

At the lower grades (ages < 15 or 16) it's mostly because you can go through all of high school and university in America without understanding anything about Mathematics. For example, most people at the university I attended never took a Calculus course. Everyone was required to take a Mathematics course, but there are math courses that are essentially repeats of what you would expect a non-exceptional sixth grader to understand -- matching linear functions to their graphs and the like. These courses even get recommended by teaching colleges because even Calculus I was perceived as "hard" or "advanced" "math". And Calculus I itself was entirely superficial and mostly trick-based (because calculus isn't proof based except at a tiny handful of elite universities).

Result: most Mathematics educators a typical student encounters before the age of 15 have never written a proof (with practical consequences; e.g., they don't know what induction is). Even worse, these educators would probably have a hard time defining a function in terms that a working mathematician would find meaningful (educators now have their own cutesy but non-rigorous definitions for things like "number" and "function").

At the upper ages (~15 until university), I'm convinced it's because teachers are not properly compensated and so teaching doesn't appeal to the best students. Many high school teachers that teach math at least complete an undergraduate degree in Mathematics, although even that is not actually required in many states. However, based upon my anecdotal experience tutoring and interacting with peers while in university, Education students are typically in the bottom half of Mathematics students and often rely on (and prefer :-( ) "trick"-based "mathematics", even in proof-based courses (memorizing formats of theorems and corresponding proofs, then figuring out what symbols/numbers to plug in. But with zero understanding of the underlying argument).
Trying to sell game apps is just like selling ringtones as was popular back in the '00s. There is money to be made, but only by a few people (mostly the ones owning the store).
> My company (at the time) ended up hiring a fulltime person to manage the complexity (ie an Atlassian admin) plus a few consultants to get the workflow stuff down

Offtopic - I have recently been trying to break into full-time consulting / contracting. May I know how you went about hiring the consultants for the migration ?
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The way it actually worked in 2004, I would be amazed were it any different now:

* it's a complicated vertical market with buckets of cash

* there are two main providers, Landmark and Schlumberger

* you buy most of your stuff from one or the other

* the software, at $10k/seat/year, is the second cheapest part, the cheapest being the beefy box with top-of-the-line 3D graphics to run it on. the highly-paid geologist or petrochemist or whatever to sit there running it is the third-cheapest part.

* the software is unbelievably shoddy for how much money goes into it. X applications in 2004 that would refuse to run in 24-bit, demanding you restart in 8-bit, that sort of thing. Hence my rule of thumb that "software quality is inversely proportional to ticket price."

* OH MY GOD THERE IS SO MUCH MONEY SLOSHING AROUND. So it was nice to sysadmin somewhere that would just spend money to do stuff properly.

* I daily wanted to stab FlexLM in the face. And it's the least-worst option on dongleware.

So maintaining their own complicated system of stuff that runs on Windows 7 is already what they do, and is relatively cheap compared to how much money is in the vertical.
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Would be great if you could add an auto-complete on the supported keywords.

This way the user could explore and not get disappointed if his/her keywords aren't supported.
Please don't do this, unless you are being attacked and have exhausted all other options (such as fingerprinting the attackers in a more targeted way).
It's implied in these types of articles that empathy has been permanently affected by technology. I believe cell phones are an invention with a time-limit.

Computers have been getting smaller not since you started using them, which for nontechnical folk might be the late 90s, but since the 50s. Each time they got smaller, they enabled different kinds of interaction.

I don't think we'll be using cell phones in 20 years. We've had computers, minicomputers, workstations, microcomputers, and we don't have a semantic niche for the cell phone, but I'd call it a nanocomputer. There will be femtocomputers.
That's almost exactly what Excel Services in SharePoint does - and you don't want to use SharePoint you can use libraries like Aspose.Cells to "run" spreadsheets inside applications.
Uh, it's already usable and very useful, just not exactly user friendly. It's way past the demo stage
Pine -> Mutt -> Webmail for me. Those desktop clients were(are?) horrible. For iPhone/iPad I do like Inbox though.
> Due to paradoxical security considerations, you should neither discuss nor disclose the existence of this letter to any person at any time for any reason, unless absolutely necessary to reverse causality to original position.

posted in a public forum. lol.
> But on the flip side, it also makes me ponder the thought that maybe we will never gain true knowledge of the universe.

Therefore, we might need to address the problem from the other end. This requires a totally different mindset. See for example the work done here: [1], or see the video lectures starting here: [2]

[1] http://www.liv.ac.uk/physical-sciences/events/fpl/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2XdhzCORbo
The tag is probably so that the post will show up in Planet Mozilla (http://planet.mozilla.org).

I often tag non-Mozilla posts as "mozilla" if they are still relevant to Planet's scope on my blog too. I've submitted a category feed instead of the full RSS blog feed so that I can exclude things which are physicsy or otherwise irrelevant.
Searching in a hard-coded list of strings is not the best idea, and why try to detect them anyway? You can block all the free email services as well because they can also be used as disposable mail providers with a few more steps to get going. Not to mention that it takes around 10 minutes to set up a disposable email service if you have a spare domain and when it's in this list so you let it expire, even if this repo gets updated, there'll be many sites using an older version, causing too much problems for the new owners.
Agree, they will go to the competitor instead.
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Very nice article. BUT it's as if there's a couple of paragraphs that have deleted in the middle. They say absolutely nothing about HOW they are doing perceptual image compression. Maybe they're using SSIM (structural similarity) values, which is standard in image compression literature? In fact they don't even explicitly say they are doing perceptible image compression, but I assume that's the whole point of the article.

JPEG appears to be too aggressive at compressing areas of an image with a low imformation content. Look at the first 4 examples: the people and other detailed ojects look fine in all four images, but there's a huge difference in the near-flat red regions, because too many bits have been cut out. Really, it's the JPEG compressor that needs tuning rather than the q-level or other settings.

That might be the reason that some users loudly complained about the more aggressive compression when their testing showed that on average people could only notice it 3% of the time. Probably that means the compression became noticeable for a few images or parts of images.
Defining “culture” in a tweet. Am I missing anything?