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>Bit strong colors perhaps.

A lot of my users actually loved the colors. Maybe in the future updates, I can let users choose their own colors. Although, I don't like giving users too many frivolous options, it would depend if I get any more requests for this feature.

>It's a nice idea, but opening an app to record each single change in activity will be a hard sell, even with the reminders (eventually they will annoy you). I think that if it is more effort to enter something than it is to close/ignore it - then eventually it will get ignored.

The reason I left the activities broad and limited the number of activities allowed is because of this reason. I would get pretty annoyed if I had to take my phone out to record every time I went to the washroom, read a blog post or played a game. However, if you broadly categorize those activities, they are all "Chilling" in my view, something unproductive to my goals. So in reality, people only change their broad activities few times a day and not as frequently: sleep, eat, study, meeting and etc. I do plan on making this easier by allowing people to update it via their Apple Watch, Mac and iPhone notification center (I can't do this yet as I still have an iPhone 4, so I can't develop for iOS9- living off of student loan sucks haha).

>A small example I have personally is "Day One" app for OSX.

As you said, one thing I hate about apps like this is that it requires so much effort for me to update it. The idea of updating something everyday is daunting because I have to fill a blank slate. Where as in Annex, all I have to do is touch an option. It would be easier to touch an option rather than touch cancel.

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Thanks for the feedback!
> You can be dead serious without being awful.

And I agree. That is why I wrote: "That said, you can allow people to be asses and still not allow sexist, racist, etc. remarks."

I live with women and girls and respect the hell out of them. We also have homosexual extended family members.

I just think that you can also allow people to have angry disagreements as long as they don't cross the weirdo, sexist, racist, homophobe line.

Some people need to escalate in order to resolve things because they have technical skills but not people skills. If every great project had to be composed completely of people with great people skills, we'd not have many of the projects we have today (Linux, Rails, etc.).
Get out. Get out get out get out.

Without knowing the specifics of your situation, I can't say much about you vs. them--usually, it's a team effort. Don't feel bad about leaving, whoever is at fault.

Put in your notice, or just call in and quit (yay right to work!), and take some time to reflect on what wasn't working for you. Then, start a new gig with an eye towards avoiding that.

The shittiest part about burnout is that you start to question if it's all your own fault: it's not.
But that expansion into direct sales and direct branding may have been the fatal move. If they expanded too quickly and took on debt (and you pretty much have to if you are doing retail stores) then you can get into a bad situation.

It's possible the wholesale business is still profitable, but the retail portion has sunk the entire company.

I have no clue if that is what happened, but it certainly is possible.
A good read, i need to brush up on my JavaScript!
I think the article implied it well. A democratic process is visible to the people allowing input on or changes to their specifics via public pressure, action by lawmakers, etc. We can also counter it through court interpretations. Defeating a filibuster would be as simple as agreeing to a limit on speeches lol. That you or they are justifying skirting the whole process over just that while ignoring their conflicts of interest is funny.

In this situation, a Congress being paid off by big companies voted to let a number of those companies, the executive branch, and foreign countries come up with all the terms of an agreement that can essentially replace domestic laws. And then they will vote yes or no on it all at once, a situation that previously made things too big to fail (reject). This is quite unlike how our laws are meant to be formed. Further evidence is how elites and powerful companies that often act at odds with the majority here get to read & contribute to terms but majority that will be affected by them don't. They just have to accept whatever terms are dictated by one branch of government, some foreign ones, and private parties with a history of abusing consumers for profit. Sounds more fascist than democratic...

The bigger point was made by a commenter way down the page. The question was, "Does a treaty like this lock us into all kinds of rules from environment to I.P. that prevent future legislation from improving these?" We're currently facing battles against rich firms over copyright, patents (esp software and medicine), environmental abuses, shady practices in agriculture, and so on. Americans and legislators have a chance of dealing with this through our legal process. Can that happen after an elite-controlled treaty makes rules for all this that benefit them and the countries agree to them? Huge risk there that's hard to quantify.
But in a practical sense, the problem is that we don't know how to write correct software.
American apparels issue was the price. They used edgy marketing to promote bland products with inflated prices...

We talk about needing a basic income, but I propose that we need the modern equiv of "40 acres and a mule" == a basic wardrobe and a basic pantry that anyone should be able to sign up for... It gives some standard clothing and a set base of foods to a family and is subsidized across the board in specifically corporate tax (you shouldn't tax the people for this, you should tax industry only)...

But I'd love to hear any argument for or against this concept

EDIT: obviously the down votes are "arguments against" without the ability to articulate your opinion...
On HN the distinction between "that's idiotic" and "you're an idiot" doesn't matter a whole lot (though you're right that the latter is worse) because both vibrate at the frequency that drives HN threads mad.

This isn't about swearing, it's about discussion quality. Inflammatory epithets are noise, distract from the substance of what you're saying, and lower the expected value of the thread by increasing the odds of an nasty, low-substance subthread. Conversely, if you edit that out and stick to substance, your argument will come through more clearly and you will increase the odds of high-signal replies.

Your account doesn't have a history of being uncivil, so we've unkilled the flagkilled comments upthread.
Generally speaking, post-modern critical theory doesn't care much about the author, to the extent that it even rejects the idea that the author knows best about what they wrote. Instead, it seeks to understand how the prevalent culture in which the author lived shaped their work, and therefore, how their work exemplifies and illustrates the culture in which the author lived.

So, the point here is not to attack Weir. It's to bring to his readers' attention some subtle cultural cues that they might miss on their own. Weir might have put those in there on purpose, or they might have ended up in there because he wrote (like almost every author) in the way that felt most natural to him.
i need a vacation too.. where is my headline
I am seeing this happen to me even with a Computer Science degree. I just got out and am only making enough to pay for housing and food nothing else. I did end up in a shitty situation but I was under the impression that this wouldn't happen to me as I have a "STEM" degree.

I don't have that much debt but I can't get a job that will pay me more than 40k ish a year and Seattle is too expensive to live in for that little even with a roommate and cooking skills. This will hopefully change and my income with increase over the next few years but it is scary enough that I am regretting how I went to school. I should have worked for more than the first year even if I had to be in school for longer because of it.
Yep, the interface can show Gmail's "important" tags. They're the yellow chevrons here: https://nylas.com/n1/images/2-1-initial-gmail-base.png

Unfortunately Gmail doesn't expose updates/forms/promotional via IMAP, so we can't show those. But they probably wouldn't be that hard to add in a plugin... ;)

https://nylas.com/N1/examples
Microsoft Recommends Ubuntu as the Most Popular Linux for Cloud
That's why Elon has a few companies
Plugins via JS ... another sad day for GNU Guile. ;-)
I'd pay for this....
People like to eat food and pay rent. Not everyone can afford to give away their hard work for free.
Unless they come out of bankruptcy without having to screw creditors, his stake is worth $0. Equity is the first to get wiped out in bankruptcy.
The generalization of this statement: "Don't base your business on a fundamentally unsustainable business model."
I did not say that. I said that it was his choice, not that such a choice would not have consequences. But he has the choice and that makes him different. The vast majority of employees do not have a choice. Elon can reduce the amount of his time spent on SpaceX or anything else without drastic impact on his person or his family. Employees cannot.
That maybe true for psychologists as a group, I don't know.

But for the individual psychologist, it's still better for his patients to do OK so they will tell other potential patients that he is a good psychologist.

The members of terrorist and anti-terrorist organizations don't really get that sort of feedback.
> monochromatic, print-less clothes

You realize that 99% of fashionable, expensive clothing can be described this way right? I'm hardly a fashionable person but even I know that fashion has much more to it than those two aspects; cut, form, material type, etc.
Well that's exactly the problem we are looking to solve :) Do you want to try it? Check out how it works. 100% refundable!
Assuming you're tracking -current sources, it's usually possible to just run the published binary packages from mirrors on top of your own base builds.

If library bumps happened, the packages might take a while to catch up, though.

What I do is I build a release with patches I'm interested in (my own or other people's). After upgrading my machines to that release I try `pkg_add -u`. If that complains about libraries, I just wait a day or two for a new set of packages to come out and try again.
Sometimes I cheat and compile the missing library in a slightly backdated src checkout, or fetch it from a system that happens to have a copy of the right .so file.

If all that is too complicated, or if you want -stable instead of -current, try mtier.
Its easy to say "This is the way it is, tough cookies, deal with it. Grow a thicker skin if you want to play."

It takes a bigger man (apologies for the sexism - can't think of a better term) to put their head down and become a better person.
wasn't the last Great Recession simply due to some poor schmucks making mistakes while calculating risk estimates for bonds ratings?
How the U.S. And OPEC Drive Oil Prices
>IMAP doesn't know a thing about what happened to email in last 10 years

Sounds like it's time for a new protocol, then. Is anything in the works?
Interesting anecdote. Reminds me of that expression that goes something like "If you choose a career in something you love, it no longer becomes work". Pretty sure I butchered that, perhaps someone can sweep in with the proper quote
If you feel that you are the only person capable of doing a job that the future of humanity depends on -- it isn't really a choice.

Even on a slightly less dire level -- CEOs have their employees and employees' families fate resting on their shoulders. It isn't easy to trust someone else to do it right. You can't just take a month off and hope everything goes ok.

When you have a moral imperative to work it isn't so easy as taking a vacation anytime you want.
I call this the Disney/toys r us business model... Fuck the people leaving the age bracket; people always have kids and there is fresh targets moving into your market daily.

Disney has mastered this
You wrote "this type of cryptofascism" in your first sentence, and "you are not tolerant" in your second. A straightforward read of your comment was that you were saying the commenter was a cryptofascist.

I think just avoid inflammatory rhetoric altogether. If your argument is strong, it doesn't get stronger by invoking "fascism". It just makes you sound like Britta Perry.
He can't just quit like that. He has a reputation to uphold.
Diesel has a problematic history in the US, though, and US emissions standards are tough on diesel by-products like NOx. I would like to know how much of that is anti-competitive and how much is genuine concern for the environment.

Genuine concern. US cars were virtually crippled in the 70s due to NOx standards (power-robbing EGR valves being the main culprit, IIRC). For example, the high-end version of the Chevrolet Camaro in 1976 was getting 165bhp out of a 350ci V8 small block (for comparison, I think the plain Jane 2015 Corvette my parents just bought puts out 450bhp from the modern version of that engine). The straight six cylinder version put out less power than my 1.4L four cylinder Scion.

All that smog in the LA valley back in the 70s? That was NOx, so at least in the case of California, those standards were there for a reason. Besides, small diesels were just a gleam in VW's eye when those standards were put in place, so there was nothing to anti-competitive about.
Politics and Ethnicity in Afghanistan
First enter the basic Bizspark program, they will give you 150 $ per month.

Then, you need to summon some Microsoft support employee and ask for Bizspark plus.
"Why someone feels entitled to my money, just because they facerolled their keyboard for a half an hour?"

They're not the ones feeling entitled. You read their content. You used the product of their labor. Isn't the entire basis of Capitalism that you pay for the product of other people's labor?

"Sometimes it feels like authors should actually pay me for reading/installing that pile of garbage they call "content"."

And yet, you're still reading it.
Well, the solution to that would be for Google to require device manufacturers to make it possible for Google itself or other parties to release software for devices.

That means forcing the manufacturers to release the source of any component not behind a stable ABI, and release at least the binaries of any component behind them such as apps (with a suitable license).

They have two ways of doing this:

1. Make it a condition for bundling Google Apps

2. Relicense Android with GPLv3

The phone manufacturers aren't really in a position to negotiate (can't lose apps), so they should go along.

Once this is done, they can just have the Play Store offer or even require updates to the OS.

Not sure what Google gains from not doing this, it seems they are just gifting users to Apple.
Yeah, and it is a hard problem to solve.

Colleges could literally spend as much as they're provided. A lot of money right now seems to go towards adding shiny new things to attract more students (e.g. newer buildings, more tech, nicer chairs, etc). The only thing stopping them from charging more is competition, but so few students even check the cost of their education that it isn't working well, and many are geographically restricted.

Community college is where people go if they actually care at all about the costs. Or at least they get 2/3rds of their education done at a CC.

If I was in charge I'd attack this problem as follows:

- College loans are now provided by the US Government only at an interest rate DESIGNED to break even (i.e. no longer for-profit).

- Loans are repaid as a tax (for people who remain in the US, like a debt for people abroad).

- No repayment is required under a certain threshold (e.g. $30K single, 50K family, in 2015 dollars).

- Repayment schedules scale similar to income tax (e.g. you MUST repay faster the more you make).

- Loans are not subject to bankruptcy and are treated like a tax for inheritance purposes (i.e. paid back first).

- Under certain circumstances interest can be frozen (e.g. documented medical issues, natural disasters, continued education, etc).

This means that unemployment or illness isn't as damaging. People who leave college and get low paying jobs aren't hurt as badly day to day (although might technically have an outstanding loan for the rest of their life).
> Elon will not be homeless next month if he stops going to work today.

He will not be homeless next month, but he has personal debt the size of which could cause a small bank to fail that was used to fund Tesla and possibly SpaceX.

He will likely remain a very rich man, but at the moment his fortune is very much tied to the success of Tesla and SpaceX, so he also does not have as much freedom as one might expect.
>> If everyone has a bachelor's degree, how is everyone going to command a premium income?

Then it becomes a starting point, not an end point. Most businesses, when faced with a deluge of BA's, will start to look for people with master degrees. Same thing if they have a highly sought after position and get a deluge of people with masters, then they look for PhD candidates.

This becomes an issue when you have a BA in a field where a majority of people have master degrees. I had several roommates who were engineering and CS graduates. At the time, the economy was shit (early 2000's) and they went back for their masters. Most said it was because when the economy finally bounced back, they would have a leg up on the people they were competing with.

The only problem they found was as the economy recovered, they had more opportunities with a masters degree, but many were hired at the salary level of an entry level engineer.
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life"
Very cool!

I'll admit that I don't follow the leaders' discussions all that closely; most of my opinion on what's going on in this race has to do with the ads I've seen and heard, whether on CBC Radio, TV, or before watching Youtube videos.

My impression that there hasn't been much public discussion about it mostly comes from the fact that the only memorable place I've seen TPP mentioned has been on HN.
Activists drone drops anti spyling leaflets over NSA
HP announces OpenSwitch, an open-source network operating system
It's not really a technology issue, its a regulatory one. They certified to the EPA that they had disclosed all parameters that affect emissions in their system. Which, not being true, was a criminal violation of the clean air act.

They can't let users switch between modes, where one more violates pollution standards, the would still be considered a defeat device.

They can update the cars to meet emission standards, but it might actually be the case that their cars can only pass the certification cycles in their cheatmode, but won't actually pass an in use monitoring test.

Even if they can pass emissions, lowering the power and fuel economy is going to mean class action lawsuits from their customers.
Yeah, and actually Windows 10 Mobile feels even blacker than before.

I think that's because the fonts have become smaller and all the vector graphics now use a very thin stroke style, so there's less lighted pixels against the black background.
This page is blank for me, even with my adblocker turned off.
You don't need even root for these.
Aside from the color screen and faster processor, these new Nspire calculators have no new features except gimmicky stuff (No one is going to buy a calculator because they need a 2"x2" spreadsheet). Even my TI-89, which I bought in 1999, has the same basic functionality. (Maybe that's why the TI-89's price hasn't changed -- it costs as much as the Nspire CAS). The only truly useful improvement TI has made is a rechargeable battery pack.
What’s worse than paid app updates?
> Once employers start de-prioritizing an accredited degree and start recognizing online coursework certifications, it will already be too late. Nobody will be going to college for anything short of calculus, law, medicine, or petroleum-related geology.

What is the mechanism which will cause this change? It looks a bit chicken/egg from here—there will continue to be college graduates because they are strongly advantaged during hiring, and hiring will continue to strongly advantage graduates because there are enough of them that doing so doesn't drive their costs up much. Plus, no-one in HR gets fired because the Harvard grad didn't work out—take a chance on the guy with a GED and pile of Coursera certificates, OTOH...
Careful, you're going to reinvent libjudy. :P
Delivering Firefox features faster
To be clear, I wasn't smearing any developers or the project relative to others. Just noting a common problem in OSS development that probably hurts their project to some degree.

Appreciate you adding detail on the project's situation. Also on how you all view the post and its effects. As HN gets exposure, do you a specific, alternative approach for anyone reading that might end up Jason's shoes to get the OpenBSD team focused on a particular project and digging into it? I'm guessing he didn't make an attempt outside the public disclosure or made an ineffective one.
“I described myself as the second greatest,” intoned Deep Thought, “and such I am.” Another worried look passed between the two programmers. Lunkwill cleared his throat. “There must be some mistake,” he said, “are you not a greater computer than the Milliard Gargatubrian at Maximegalon which can count all the atoms in a star in a millisecond?”. “The Milliard Gargantubrain?” said Deep Thought with unconcealed comtempt. “A mere abacus - mention it not.”

“And are you not,” said Fook, leaning anxiously forward, “a greater analyst than the Googleplex Star Thinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity which can calculate the trajectory of every single dust particle throughout a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand blizzard?”

https://books.google.com/books?id=cUSqB1xA8OkC&pg=PT89&dq=go...
What a minute ... They use Google Analytics in a "secure" app!? I even removed Google Analytics from a GAME because I was concerned about the player's privacy.
While I'm certain there will be areas of concern, I'm unclear how we are supposed to intelligently send our concerns along if the text of the agreement will not be available for 30 days. We'll look like idiots if we start quoting language from a 2 month old leak if that language was not in the final agreement.
For iOS, there's a hidden dimmed mode, which is great for nighttime. It's not obvious how to get to it, to say the least. Directions at http://lifehacker.com/toggle-your-iphones-brightness-with-a-...
Doing the dishes
Getting an education was the stupidest thing I've ever done.
I don't have a problem with amendments per se; but I do see a problem with tacking unpopular stuff onto an unrelated or must-pass bill. I wish there was some requirement that bills be cohesive.
If you think they would never hassle people over this stuff, let me remind you that every day the TSA holds people without the ability to contact a lawyer.
Edgy or not, part of the problem is the macro environment. There is simply a ton of apparel option for consumers now.