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> Please do not start taking such pills.

[EDIT: of course, if you're able to undertake therapy without the help of medication, you should definitely do it! I'm talking about severe depression below.]

I really wish I could downvote you more than once, just because of this sentence. It's downright irresponsible to say such things.

While depression may be a psychological problem in most cases, it is not always so. There are genuine neurological reasons for depression, and trying to "heal" these without the help of medication won't work. Moreover, with strong depression, it's impossible to even start any kind of non-pharmaceutical treatment. Really, people who say "don't take pills, just meditate/sing psalms/exercise/or something" don't know what they're talking about. The whole point of depression is that the patient has no desire to get better, he just won't meditate, no matter what you say. Or he will try it once if you're lucky and then get back to doing whatever his depression makes him do (you're lucky if it's simply doing nothing instead of trying to commit suicide).

Medication - ideally - makes a depressed person able to start recovering. It makes depression symptoms lessen to some extent, hopefully enough for a patient to be able to work with a psychologist.

Depression is a very severe illness. It's not "feeling sad from time to time". It's an illness which leads to death in some cases! It's a very serious condition, and saying otherwise, saying it's easy to fight against it if you know some "techniques" or other is actively harming people with this condition. Please stop doing that.
Who says we accept them? Some people accept them, some people accept them in moderation, some people move away, some people look for options: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10614084
The way JPEG works is by dividing up the image into 8x8 pixel blocks, then transforming each block using the discrete cosine transform (DCT). If you look closely at a JPEG file, especially at low quality settings, you can see the edges of the blocks. This means that artifacts have been introduced during the compression of the image.
PNG however, is a lossless image compression format, meaning that no artifacts will be introduced by saving and loading an image in PNG.
There's a lot of interesting new discoveries being made about the effects of the microbiome on human health. You can participate in this research, and get a profile of your own microbiome here: https://microbio.me/AmericanGut/
I hate to break it to you, but knowing "just this and this..." won't get you very far when the thing you know is no longer popular, becomes infrequently used, or worse, is no longer supported. It also doesn't help you if you want to branch out into things that Java/SQL/JS/Python don't really support that well. It also won't help you if you switch focus mid-career, which people often do, from say web development to embedded systems.

No one sane is claiming that every programmer needs to know as many APIs as possible, but knowing they exist and being able to quickly find information on them is probably a requirement as you progress in your career. SO is a good place to spin up on things IMO. Is it the best way? I don't know - but it's helped me out a lot, and not for the purposes of cutting and pasting code snippets. It has literally helped me learn, syntax, paradigms, etc. in languages I use infrequently.
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> Religion is a choice that could be changed within a second with zero effort whatsoever.

Race you can't change, religion you can. That we agree on, there is plenty of evidence that this is possible. However, 'race' is often in the eye of the beholder and religion, how ever easy it is to change in principle has a nasty habit of becoming an integral part of the identity of the practitioner and it can be extremely hard to get rid of it, definitely not a 'zero effort whatsoever' thing, more like an extremely invasive review of what makes up the self.

Think of it as a psychological crisis and not many people go that route head-on. If anything it is usually a very slow process stretching out over many years where disillusion plays a major role. So not quite 'changed within a second'.
My first GNU/Linux experience was with Slackware 2.0 and I already knew Xenix, DG/UX and Aix by then. Since then I have tried all major distributions.

SuSE before it went enterprise, Mandrake before it lost support were the only real alternatives to Ubuntu in terms of consumer desktop experience.

Nowadays I only care it works as it is supposed to be, as I don't have the patience any longer to fiddle with configurations, and even Ubuntu has its own quirks that lead to weekend projects.

EDIT: Extra words due to copy-paste.
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Uh-huh. We're probably the only species to ever even give a fuck that we drove another species to extinction.
OpenNode founder here. This article nicely brings out the reasons why we started to develop NodeFabric prototype design - mixing docker app containers with highly-available stateful backends. Homogeneous stateful prebuilt micro-clusters versus large-scale docker orchestration with configuration management. Agressively co-located and highly-available by design. Simplicity. http://nodefabric.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Typical in that these articles often cover the ethnic, religious, or other tensions that result from demographic shifts within a community. Look at any article on the gentrification of some historically black neighborhood.
Probably with enough time and money, and you'd have climb the jurisdictional ladder. Usually challenges to expression laws are to overcome a restriction, rather than create one.
>running a commercial blood testing lab, similar to Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp, and a ground-breaking R&D company at the same time.

So, they had blood-testing labs but what was so ground-breaking about their tech? Especially if according to WSJ report none of it was actually working as intended?
That entirely depends on your definition of "shitty".

Some might care about an occasional ad in an app that they chose not to pay for, or never paying for software on principle, and will always choose open. Some might find the need to manage system-level functionality and installation, or make allowances for miserable UI/UX simply because it is open, too much to bear.
I'd be interested in exploring the heuristics and techniques involved in finding that out.

e.g. this identifies the popup wrappers on nautilus and yesmagazine:

[].filter.call(document.body.childNodes, node =>
node.nodeType === 1 && getComputedStyle(node).position === 'fixed'
)
No projects there ATM but still interested if you have pointers esp. to technical information.
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No, but some do try to ring them at 07:15 every morning really loud and really long, it took a judge to put a stop to that. Link in Dutch, no English source, sorry.

http://www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/tilburgse-pastoor-mag-kl...

I'm all for stopping any such nonsense but then churchbells are out. All of them, they served their purpose in the times before social media and alarm clocks but nowadays there is no reason for them.

And if that is used to stop Mosques from doing their 'call to prayer' I'm all for it, but let's keep things equal.

Of course that may be a bit hard to do in a town with both a large Catholic and a large Muslim population. But either both should not take offense at what the other does or both should agree that there is no gain from any of this.
You may or may not know this. But call to prayer is nothing like church bell.
Church bell is just a "ding". Muslim call to prayer is a recitation or chant, started with "Allahu Akbar".
Software Engineering and CS degrees are quite good to learn to learn.

When one grasps that is all about Algorithms + Data Structures, it is easier to abstract over specific languages and libraries.

Personally I think the major drive to Stack Overflow is bad documentation.

Many projects have lousy documentation, so one needs to build the documentation from experience and reading source code.

The answers in Stack Overflow reflect that experience that has not been put in documentation.

Up to the early 2000's it was enough to have a pile of books with the project tech being used.
RHEL 6 (and CentOS 6 by extension) use Upstart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstart#Adoption

Not that I disagree with your comments on Red Hat, but let's get our facts right.
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I'm aware of what it sounds like, and actually find the sound of it quite pleasing in moderation.

That said, the aforementioned church tends to break out in minute-long sessions of jangling, and isn't even particularly interesting since they only have 2 or 3 identical bells.
Alternative links:

[2] http://lhorie.github.io/mithril/ (using its own virtual Dom); I think there are other implementations around, too.

[3] http://cycle.js.org/ (have a native driver)

FYI.
> Docs seem sorta-OK prescribing amphetamines in combination, but vastly more hesitant to even consider opiate treatment for depression.

I wonder, do opiates have any positive effect on depression? Short- or long-term? What about physical dependency? What about psychological addiction?
Should be helpful for debugging the Xbox One Edge browser with Vorlon.js.
> Yes we still have work. Infrastructure is still a big issue. If we want to reduce centralization, we need better infrastructure and equal access to it. That one is very political.

If you want to work for an open internet, this is the key thing. For open to be the default, it should be dramatically easier to implement a new thing using p2p or on a blockchain than with centralized services.
My question is this: Why have two wheels at the bottom, and two complicated spinning wheels in the center, when you can simply have 4 wheels at the bottom? :)
Too many horizontal dependencies on other Ubuntu stuff. Ubuntu should learn how to properly define interfaces and stack stuff vertically rather than to make ties willy-nilly with other Ubuntu specific stuff.
Yep, I noticed it on this forum recently as well. People complain when profit incentives don't lead to value creation in some instance and see that as a basis to reject capitalism. They don't consider what happens when you replace profit with politics - incentives end up being perverse by default (as we are seeing more and more in the West with regulatory capture and government granted monopolies).

I think basic income is the least disruptive of all as it keeps the incentives for industry there but still creates a floor for everyone. It would change availability of various services/disrupt pricing but I would prefer that to socialism any day.
The Internet is not a place apart from society. It exists within society. And society will exert the same amount of control over it as it asserts on other facets of life in order to meet social priorities.
I don't see it as a rant. He criticized Ubuntu for unwillingness to clarify the trademark issue. Correct me if I am wrong, but how I understood the article, what Canonical did was to take Debian sources licensed under GPL, created a product based on it, but now if anyone wants to do binary redistribution of their product [the right GPL license assures], they could be sued for trademark infringement. So in practice they made it non-free software [free as in Stallman definition of free].
They are really co-operatives. You can join the biggest co-operative here [1]. I used to be a member (before I left the UK), and before the financial crisis I was sent a £10-or-so dividend each year. Some years there's been no dividend, when the money has been invested in the business. Members also vote for the board.

This one is smaller, just for the East of England [2], but has paid a dividend this year.

[1] http://www.co-operative.coop/membership/

[2] http://www.thenews.coop/95226/news/co-operatives/east-englan...
Do you need implementation methods for the SW? There is an app driven and the GSM(text message) driven version.
Garrett is proposing another wild goose chase, just because he dislikes Ubuntu so much.

Even the GPL licence has a "no warranty clause". The software is "as is", it is your problem to keep the pieces when it breaks. You can imagine a person spinning this into "you cannot trust open-source because they do not offer just a bit of warranty".
Now add some books and some experience to what you heard and you'll be good to go.
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Many people with amazing selective reading abilities :)
What GP is talking about is a centrally planned economy, and what you are referring to (basic income) is wealth redistribution, these are basically orthogonal issues.

You can have a centrally planned economy where people are only paid if they work, and their pay is proportional to the value they create (so no wealth redistribution occurs), and you can have an economy built entirely around unregulated enterprise where the government taxes income/consumption/use of common goods like land or oil etc. and pays everyone an equal share of the taxes collected.
It's super annoying but depending on the value of 'tradition' (whatever that means) the composition of the local council (which the article here actually refers to) and the laws in place already you may or may not be able to find a judge willing to put a stop to it. This can be an extremely long drawn out battle. Churches get away with lots of stuff that otherwise would not be tolerated.
what a load of bullshit.
If you look into our biggest open platform today, the web, you see that we have almost won. We got the whole power of our PCs sand-boxed and mostly standardized at our fingertips with ECMAScript, HTTP and company. Most of the old proprietary demons are defeated with so many companies switching from native to "the web".

But with the rise of iOS and Android, new problems are rising. And if you look at the better performance and usability of apps, they also got real substance behind them.
...you mean the age that propelled a backwater colony to riches and turned it into a global super power?
Just a small note, it's not racist if one is stating facts

Am I racist for not wanting to get a horn or some loud noise 5x a day? So be it
FWIW, I used to deploy rails via FTP a decade ago, to unbit hosting (the guys who later did uwsgi).
> Patents and IP have lost their bite compared to the 80's (continuing to do so) and piracy is easier than ever.

How do you figure? There are probably more money lost from patent lawsuits or extortion than even before now. Also, didn't software patents only become a thing in the 90's? And soon we're going to have to deal with gene patents and all sort of things like that, as the gene editing revolution begins.
It doesn't have to be all or nothing.
To be equal, we can allow churches to ding the bell once a week on sunday, and allow mosques to recite call to prayer once a week on friday.
Has any government ever viewed their own actions any differently?

Everyone sees themselves as the good guys, everyone justifies what they do as the right thing from the biggest empires down to the smallest country. American, British, Soviets back through all European empires to Romans and beyond.

This whole good vs evil of the current global empire and the war names they give to operations is laughable. Yet they say it with a straight face and it is lapped up by those who get their news solely / mainly from the mass media
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Not just easier, but preferable. When big companies (or rather new companies that can get big, as the old ones probably won't change anyway) start preferring P2P infrastructure to conduct their business and offer their services, we'll know there's no going back from a decentralized Internet.
Unless you live in a Muslim country and wants to change to something else, then you are killed or at least has committed a crime.
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While I agree 100%, they at least try to review all C code and provide safer APIs instead of the usual ones

For example they clearly state that one should use fgetln() instead of fgets().

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man3/...

Of course, that won't fix the issues with using C, but the mentality at least is more security oriented.

What we really need is something like Midori reaching production. It would surely cost less money than all the Windows Phone restarts.
In my (limited) experience of using an Aeropress, it doesn't make espresso - there's no crema, etc.
From my usage:

* There is no supported upgrade path from stable release to stable release.

* If you want regular updates to to packages, you need to be running current.

* It has much better driver and power management support than FreeBSD, but not as good as Linux, and is painfully slow in some contexts due to the various areas where technology is lagging:
- SMP
- Filesystems

* They've done the work to make the latest version of Gnome Shell run, but it doesn't perform well, and is not close to the experience on Linux with identical hardware.
Relevant: https://plus.google.com/+MatthewGarrett/posts/Vx26ccdtdv6
Sounds like Redhat's systemd: "if you want to run it, you have to replace most everything."
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A dividend and voting rights - isn't that what you'd get with owning a share of Tesco which isn't a cooperative?
> A better comparison would be Westboro Baptist Church

Not better enough considering the number to date of homosexuals ISIS has tossed off rooftops, compared with the WBC's general standing around and sign-holding.
>Ever faced a situation where you said "Why doesn't this bug show up when developer console is open!!"? And since the bug doesn't show when you have console open, you cannot do debug logging using console.log.

Not since IE8, really. Is this a thing? Still a nice project though.
How so? All the bits seem to be on GitHub, it's probably super difficult to set up, though.
Wow. Thank you all for your time and words. I've had a great amount of responses both here and on Medium and I've had a huge amount of people emailing me directly - presumably because of the sensitive nature of the subject.

For these reason, instead of replying to every comment right now I will write a follow up post which discussions much of the feedback, suggestions, alternatives and offers of help. I hope that you will read it.

I will however then come back and reply to specifics here and respond to every email.

Thanks a lot for your support and stay strong if you're in a low position. Try to find solace in the fact that you aren't alone.
That type of thinking may not be able to pool together as easily then, and therefore that thinking may not be reenforced as much.

And I agree, it is interesting to see it - and obviously Twitter would have that data, so they could make it available to researchers as well. On a daily basis I wonder how it impacts everything.
Which is more than what the library supports right now

> The library just work in Chrome and Firefox right now.

:-)
It does not mean they didn't have a reason to get up in the morning, just that those reasons were unrelated to the business line they "worked" in.

I have known a bunch of such people, in a variety of mostly governmental jobs (but one high level banker too and even one in a tiny 5 employees company !). They were going to work like you go to the pub. They went to socialise, engage in petty status/influence wars, and indeed, there was this competition to see how to profit from the system.

And even then, all of that is relative. Money alone is a powerful reason to get up in the morning for the vast majority of the world. That's really a first world problem that you want to be paid to do something with meaning. Hiring people to do nothing all is routinely done in third world outsource centre. You keep team around for months before a project starts and you don't hear much whining.
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related: https://twitter.com/NinjaEconomics/status/662419805509578754
This is a neat project. How much did you sell the company for and how much money were you making prior to the sale? I recognise that both those questions could be invasive. A ballpark-figure is fine and I won't be offended if you decide not to answer.
You are correct that global political manoeuvring is rarely a straight forward case of just one country involved. Countries come together when it suits them and oppose each other just as readily.

The US does sometimes come under unfair criticism for being the cause of all evil, when the reality is a lot more nuanced, but when you are sitting on top the pile, everyone is gunning for you.

However, as the parent comment pointed out, the US has been "involved" in many coups / destabilising existing governments. Do you think the US would help out in French / British coups if it wasn't in their interest?
>Telling people how to break the law is not illegal.

Are you sure about that? Could it not come under incitement / planning
Church bells are not religious propaganda.

Islamic call to prayer translates roughly to "you really ought to pray right now if you want salvation. Seriously, it's time to acknowledge who is the greatest.. you know who, yeh that's right, God is greatest. And you know what? Prayer is more important than sleep, so do as I ask, just as you did yesterday, and just like you ought to do tomorrow. Get praying people".

Vs

A bell.
Even then, wasn't it usually the opposite case, where you would get the "console undefined" error when the developer console was closed? I can't think of a single case where an error only occurs (or is observed) when the console is closed. Having said that, this project definitely still has its practical uses.
I don't think you guys can seriously compete with countries like Russia, India etc. where apart from all you mention there is financial side too (for many at least).

But I wholly agree that unless pirating will make things HARDER/content less appealing, it will be ripe. Currently it's the opposite, and I see no good reason to not just get a 1080p yify torrent with proper subtitles from scene 1-2 days after bluray release (sometimes even before). There is something about having my few TB external HDD full of my personal collection of movies and documents...
The way I see it, there's 2 main hurdles for truly free internet: hardware and encryption.

When normal folks start having personal servers at their home, and have all their traffic and data fully encrypted on their personal server which is in their turf, they will have the freedom to act as they like.

The problem with these two hurdles is infrastructure (being ISP dependent) and regulation (Government can make up rules for personal servers) - if we can get past those, oh my it will be wonderful. But I don't think it will be possible until someone forms a "Digital Country" - a territory with 'open source' government with some sort of 'digital rights constitution' that would allow the above to really happen.
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Kinda wondering if anyone replying is actually understanding what I meant, or if you're just markov-chaining BTTF.
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People seem to like posting bitcoin articles even though that was started years ago, too.
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If you live in a country where Christianity is the state religion, you could just disallow the call to prayer on account of the fact it is not Christian. (One advantage of a state religion is that you can do stuff like this. Of course, you have to be careful not to take it too far - condemning unbelievers to death might be a bit much, for example.)
How does this argument even remotely make sense? Most manufactured drugs are not patented.