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I only find value reading the negative reviews as they are likely the ones done by real buyers.

Most people don't put any effort into writing a positive review for a product that does what its suppose todo or exceeds expectations.

I than take all the negative reviews and see the common reason for the product failure than determine if that is a concern for me ,before buying.
There's a tremendous amount of truth to this.
You missed Tron/ETron and the *tron variants, which is likely the most used kernel in the world.
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Can't pass a background check, and this is time-sensitive. I also like my independence since, in times past, things have been difficult to hang onto long-term due to said baggage.
You mention the samaritans - those people are awesome and they're the ones who helped me through the tough times when I came back home.

If anyone is looking for volunteer work in the UK, especially if you have people skills, check them out.

You sound like you work in mental health. Can I ask you who you work for?
Oh, I see. I also ran Arch (on MBA 2012, perfect compatibility). It's wicked fast to boot using the kernel as an EFI payload (efistub).
I have a friend in the NYPD. One of the tips he gave me is never empty your pockets if asked to by the police if you are carrying contraband. He said you should just point to the pocket that contains said contraband and tell them that it's in there.
CSV seems most reasonable. On another note, the UX is not supportive of entering stats while working out or form a mobile phone. Do you use it that way? I've even found most apps are not too slick for entering while working out and I've resorted to google spreadsheet on my phone, which actually works pretty well. I just don't get any charts or graphs out of it.
Arrogance which bothers me in my children and of which I am ashamed when I display it is a strident confidence in one's judgement about some matter that's out of proportion to one's actual knowledge and experience. (It's quite distinct from charming childish optimism that one can take on any challenge.)

I believe you can become arrogant by getting used to being the smartest person in the room (or believing you are), noticing the times you readily had insights that others lack, etc.. Confirmation bias plays in, too, since as soon as you start to conceive of yourself as knowing, unless you try very hard not to, you'll take more note of events that confirm your self-assessment than that disconfirm it.

As others have noted, arrogance as described here is closely akin to the vice of pride (which is opposed to the virtue of humility). The main distinction I would draw is that arrogance to me has a stronger social aspect--a particular way of presenting oneself, born from pride. Pride itself is a spiritual state and could (at least hypothetically) pass unnoticed if you were also good at hiding it.

I referred to confidence-out-of-proportion, and I think I stick with that. To my mind, a person who exhibits rational confidence in their judgement is not arrogant by definition, even if that confidence is (correctly) very high. But arrogance isn't the only way to go wrong. E.g., a software BDFL may be a jerk even if he's not arrogant, and someone who confidently makes a decision they had authority to make without consulting someone who would rather have been consulted isn't arrogant either, but may none the less have committed a faux pas. Both may be incorrectly perceived as or called arrogant.
Jerk :-p
I have no idea. I'd start with organizations like FSF and Apache plus companies that benefit from OSS like Red Hat. Any key, differentiating innovations in their projects or dependencies would be up for patenting. Then, reviewers would look at the strategic importance of the techs to prioritize them. Then, they'd patent as many as their budget allows.

That's a start.
Nice. Thanks for this.
Debian was the first thing I got to work - I tried to install other distros before that but Debian is the one that worked. Learned about software licenses (early days of trying ot get wifi to work).

I really wish I could do something. I feel acute distress at this news. It is not right.
You make a bunch of speculation, use slurs ("he was clearly unhinged") to talk about him, and then wonder why people ask for privacy?
Precisely! So the issue to solve is how do we create a world that places everyone in their own private moral world, a result of which is a significantly lower dependence on the losing battle of privacy!

There are a couple ways to give us that world: free markets for law, voluntarism, or to a significantly less extreme, smaller federal governments and more influential, perhaps larger local governments, for which you have a significantly greater say in making law. Other patches to the problem of shitty law include greater accountability of elected (politicians) and appointed officials (i.e. police, bureaucrats). These are only the proposals off the top of my head, but already, in the process of tackling this problem, many other problems dissipate for free.
Matasano was the defacto goto, it looks like they are part of this org now https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/our-services/security-consulti...
First RIP Ian. Struggles with society and interacting with people is a true problem with developers/founders, and something I've personally struggled with.

Head injury by police? Murder by police? Your absolutly feeding into the paranoid developer complex. Read his tweets on the PasteBin (http://pastebin.com/dX3VSPkM). Seems like he was under the influence during this.
Flagged the link. But surely I'm not the first. How does this malicious post stay up for four hours?
It's actually both. Religious nepotism often requires discrimination based on religion.
Wayback machine got a few recent tweets[1], including a couple mentioning Ian[2]. Other tweets include traffic updates, talk of breakins, a boil water advisory, stuff about computers, and other random things.

He retweeted "Ian Murdock just deleted his Twitter account" from @faissialoo [3], which seems strange, given this account is self described as "A weird 14 year old Muslim indie game developer, editor and cereal enthusiast from london who loves content creation and messing with computers." with 138 followers.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20151230193102/https:/twitter.co...
[2] https://i.imgur.com/Cp8z6Mp.png
[3] https://twitter.com/faissialoo/status/681957776680218624
Being violated by the police for someone such as him is probably the most violence he's experienced in his 42 years of life. It can have a very different affect vs the people who have had to deal with their whole life. A hell of a wake up call to those who think it's a unreal issue.
To make that greater risk concrete, and play Devil's Advocate to my own query by thinking of the societal benefits of the current system: would that make it much riskier to sue, say, Big Tobacco?

I understand that the American legal system is a bit unique when it comes to lawsuits, but I'm hampered by not understanding exactly how, and what the positives and negatives of that are.
The "unrelated" non-UK company would "license" some technology from google, and pay Google a "license fee" which is coincidentally equal to gross ad revenue less operating expenses. You know, basic undergrad-level tax dodging stuff.
They are also forced upon the population by the state and China speaks a different language than English.
I know it's not. And I know about QNX, at least (the others are new to me).

And I know that you didn't claim they are mainstream, so we may be quibbling about where we draw lines around the word "widely". But...

What's the installed base of systems running QNX, say? (Throw in the others if you wish.) Estimates are acceptable, too, if you don't have hard numbers.
This is true even on my Mac with wireless Apple accessories. Pairing issues galore if I have to change the batteries.
On an anecdotal note: I gave a couple of their tests a try just for fun. They really need to start testing actual coding knowledge instead of encyclopedia knowledge of things like "what does this random git flag do? ANSWER WITHIN 10 SECONDS!"

It felt like I was back taking a PHP certification exam from the 90's. I much prefer dealing with companies that gives live-coding exams instead of these sorts.
Sqlite is always a good option if you want in-memory and SQL. Kyotocabinet supports a number of in-memory database types, as does its networked counterpart kyototycoon. BerkeleyDB can be effectively run in memory if you size your cache right, and as a bonus you can build bdb with a sqlite frontend.

Anyway, cool post. For more lua, there's openresty (nginx and lua), and kyototycoon supports lua scripts as well.
I really hope this catalyzes Valve to create a proper customer support team, one that can publicly address these issues in a timely manner as well as handle day-to-day customer support problems. It's ludicrous that a company as big as Valve has got away with it for as long as they have, and that's due in large part to an extremely devout fanbase that's only now starting to get fed up with them.
Quite a few of the points only cause problems to closed source development whilst having a positive effect on open source development. I don't think it's objectively a bad thing.
> an offensive display of superiority

I suppose people may differ as to whether arrogance that corresponds to actual excellence is more or less irritating than arrogance that corresponds to no actual excellence, but surely we've all seen it many times in cases where the arrogant person wasn't actually superior--or not superior enough to warrant their confidence.
I'd strongly prefer to focus on honoring the memory of Ian, but...

while googling, I found this page:

(warning, it's a 4chan thread, overflowing with hateful comments)
https://archive.is/2Cdj1

In there, horrible people are inviting other horrible people to go on twitter and troll (i.e. harass) Ian.

If you're close to taking your own life, you want to be close to your loved ones, and the last thing you want is to get random people calling you names.

Really crushes my faith in humanity.

We need more people like Ian.
I still use his site as well. In fact, I used it just two days ago to see how much different using a mid-compact (52/36) is from a "standard" compact (50/34). Need all the help I can get up steep hills such as Mt. Diablo.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10812412
Okay, fair enough.

I wish you all the best and a Happy New Year!
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> "If he had mental health problems then police can easily be perceived as they are after him and any attempt to restrain you will be seen as violence."

> "i had to have swtitches"
Perhaps reverse engineer it, find someone that can reverse engineer it, exploit it or others like it, expose every detail about it all over the internet, a number of potentially harmful things?
I also look at his site. I discovered it maybe 3 months before he passed away, it still makes me sad.
There's multiple examples of legal issues mentioned on https://nmap.org/book/legal-issues.html
Talking about anecdotal temperature data, which isn't climate, isn't helping the climate change movement.

To me, it's like saying that the temperature is below freezing today, so global warming isn't true.
This is a great loss - he leaves behind a tremendous legacy.
I don't work, I'm an ex-service user, currently an "expert by lived experience". I do some "service user participation work" in Gloucestershire. This is for 2gether NHS Foundation Trust (the mental health trust for Gloucestershire and Herefordshire), for the Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group, and for Public Health.
I'm afraid I will be facing the same problems here pretty soon. Have you tried calling/walking in to any local businesses that don't have websites set up? $1,000 for a simple static website might look like a bargain.

Best wishes, and good luck.
Not sure why you are getting so many replies disagreeing with you. Narrowly-defined roles are indeed the norm, even in the tech world. When I was an "individual contributor" I'd get frustrated with Worst Practices all the time, but was told that I was hired to write code not to change our infrastructure or suggest different product features or improve our testing practices--MANAGEMENT makes those decisions. But even when you get into management, there are always managers above you to limit what you can achieve.

There may be awesome companies out there where anyone is empowered to just go fix some practice that's not productive, no matter where they are in the org chart, but those companies are few and far between. I'd love to see one.
I thought the idea of a warrant canary was that it had to be an explicit statement you make, multiple times, so that when you cease making the statements, it would mean something. I.e. a warrant canary would not be something you would actively “take down”, it would be a thing which you stop doing.
There is a huge difference between racism, and telling someone that their idea isn't fully thought out. The social justice movement doesn't care about the latter in the slightest. Discouraging racism and sexism in a workplace isn't censorship any more than discouraging swearing is.
Dawkins's critique of religion is neither scientific nor rigorous (nor knowledgeable), and philosophy is not his strong suit. Philosophy calls for a different kind of inquisitiveness which he lacks, and it is in this sense that Dawkins is unquestioning.
Yep same here.
I'm talking about a consumer grade implementation of KDE I can recommend people over Windows. Manjaro has no MAC, has an unstable release cycle, doesn't have the manpower to maintain that testing window I describe, and is reliant too much on the AUR to a fault. Arch gets away with the AUR because the audience is power users. You cannot push a consumer grade distribution with access to arbitrary software installers that have system level access that anyone can upload.

Like I said, it would take commercial level support and infrastructure and work. To make consumer grade Arch would take sallaried testers and auditors of the software "store" that the AUR would be, except what you would be doing is maintaining your own repository of AUR packages you trust and maintain yourself, and would need some means for users to get their software approved. And like I said, you need security profiles for every package, and pacman doesn't support per-user application installs, and has nascent delta support (that is there, but sadly not mainstream).

Manjaro is a start. Netrunner Rolling is too. Chakra is a third. But none take the task seriously enough, because they are made to be less rapid Arch's, not a consumer product. Its simply not something a hobbyist community can accomplish because inherent to being a community distro is the inability to design and target those outside it effectively. Its simply a problem that requires money and commercial support that could be easily picked up and done by any company that wants to take it on but it isn't something the community can make themselves.
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> And yet 98% of the world decided that the benefits were worth the expense.

It was imposed on much of the world by Napoleon, Hitler and Stalin (much like right-hand driving, as it happens); one can't really say that many folks had any choice in the matter.

> Standardization is so prevalent in many aspects of our world for good reason - suggesting that the metric system is somehow immune to these benefits is ridiculous.

I'd never deny it. There really are benefits to standardization. The rest of the world is free to standardize on feet and pounds any time it wants grin
Would the increase in time critical public awareness had that thread not been deleted have made a difference? Perhaps the chance that it could should outweigh the urge for propriety in future admin decisions.
"Companies" tend to be this faceless creature. You saw one you saw them all.

Posts like this make companies about the people, as it should. Open atmosphere outside the company leads to open atmosphere inside the company and the other way around.

If you talk about the failures inside the company it makes people connect, it makes them understand what you are about, maybe this random engineer or QA guy/gal will have the idea to push you through?

Companies love to share big number, new clients, no one ever shares challenges and bad things happening. In this VC run world you are running scared that it will say something about you.

Great post. Kudos to the Keen team.
First, thanks for engaging my hypothetical.

Second, while what you said is true, it would also mean that we wouldn't have a perfect law-making govt then, wouldn't it :)?

And even if it was optional (b/c it wasn't necessary), I'd agree that we should still have it, but that's different than codifying it's necessity in law (by the grace of the very people who want to deny it to you) and different than treating privacy as a panacea for protection against unchecked power.
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Isn't this similar to late '90s browser add-ons that used to pay you to have their ads always displayed?
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For the last thousands years, we, our mothers, and our fathers have been struggling for freedom of thought we have sustained many horrible losses and some immense victories and we are now at a very serious time.

From the adoption of printing by Europeans in the 15th century we began to be concerned primarily with access to printed material.

The right to read, and the right to publish were the central subject of our struggle for freedom of thought for most of the last half millennium.

The basic concern was for the right to read in private and to think and speak and act on the basis of a free and uncensored will.

[...]

By the end of the 19th century, that struggle for the freedom of reading had begun to attack the substance of Christianity itself and European world trembled on the brink of the first great revolution of the mind it spoke of "liberté égalité fraternité" but actually it meant freedom to think differently.

The "Ancien Régime" begun to struggle against thinking and we moved into the next phase of the struggle for freedom of thought which presumed the possibility of unorthodox thinking and revolutionary acting.

And for 200 years we struggled with the consequences of those changes.

That was then and this is now.

Now we begin a new phase in the history of the human race. We are building a single nervous system which will embrace every human mind.

https://benjamin.sonntag.fr/Moglen-at-Re-Publica-Freedom-of-...
> After long thought they come up contrived examples

Probably because you put them on the spot. I can give you several examples off of when additional strength would be useful to me in day-to-day:

* Loading jugs of water onto the water dispenser
* Loading my daughter's stroller into the back of the car (somewhat heavy, very awkward)
* Carrying large/heavy boxes to/from the basement
* Loading heavy items (e.g. stand mixer) into overhead cabinets
* Pulling salal from my flower beds (deep, extensive roots make this a major chore)
* Carrying an Aeron chair up/down the stairs (I've done this several times)
* Moving heavy furniture
* Moving wooden sheet goods (plywood, MDF)
* Hanging my bike overhead for storage
* Holding heavy light fixtures overhead for installation

These are all real things that I've dealt with, some very frequently. These can all be done by a man of average strength, but they are all things done much more easily by a man of above-average strength. There are many, many cases where general strength is helpful in day-to-day life.
Or an example of someone being too damn lazy to put effort into their offerings. I wouldn't be saying anything except that it takes so little effort to make it 1000x more readable than he did.

http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/
> Windows, in some regards, is even worse than Linux and it's definitely not ready for the desktop either.

uh huh.
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On a daily basis I see people making the most idiotic and insensitive comments backed by sophomoric reasoning, and it really hurts my hope. At the same time, I notice if I look for the good I seem to find a lot more, and it comes from typically much more intelligent/rational sounding people. Keep pushing forward the good. The kind of people who make it far in life will notice and follow, while the hateful juveniles will continue to fade out.
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>The "Internet of Rentiers" argument is exactly right. Things are made unnecessarily cloud-y for monetisation reasons.

Yeah, well there is also the argument that I can run an environment of literally thousands of machines and a very complex stack with a crew of literally four OPs guys.
I worked with Ian when he was CTO and I was COO of the Linux Foundation. With the Executive Director, Jim Zemlin, and a few others, we helped build the LF from the challenging merger of OSDL and the Free Standards Group.

He was thoughtful, funny, hard working, and incredibly well-connected in the free (and commercial) software communities. I will miss him.
" a strident confidence in one's judgement about some matter that's out of proportion to one's actual knowledge and experience."

vs.

"childish optimism that one can take on any challenge."

So is age the only differentiating criterion?
That is sad to hear.

As a rule, when Moldova is in the news, it is rarely good news.

> We think it is a deliberate attempt to destroy our company.

That would probably be true. Knowing how things work there.

This is the country which had $1B stolen from it. Not from a company, but from the country! Sounds too crazy to be true? Nope, it is true in Moldova.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/07/news/economy/moldova-stolen-...

That is a whooping 12% of its GDP. Imagine someone walking away with $2T away from US.

On the other hand, if you are a corrupt criminal, Moldova is a nice place to hang out. You can make your own laws, pay your way out of anything. Corruption attracts corruption.

EDIT: This is also a country were when I lived there, someone put a bomb under the door of someone they don't like in a 5 story apartment building. I was in the evening on the phone with someone and the whole building shook, thought it was an earthquake. Nope, apartment building next door was bombed. The part of the roof and the part of the wall was missing. Could see people's furniture inside and all after the dust settled. It was miracle nobody died.
In my experience, clerks tend to circumvent the issue by simply yelling out, to no one in particular, something like "Next in line!"

I've also noticed the acquired habit in more experienced retail staff, when confronted with a queue of indeterminate order, to say, "I can help the next customer in line" and leaving implementation of the next method as an exercise for the customers themselves.

FWIW, I find the best arrangement is a Fry's style mega-queue with boundaries clearly defined by racks of candy, magazines, or other impulse-purchase crap that feeds into multiple registers.
> Tarantool is an open-source NoSQL database management system and Lua application server developed in my.com. The first version of Tarantool was released in 2008 and the newest version is 1.6.7.

and later

> Through all tests we executed, Tarantool showed the best result for the count requests per second and for many of tests latency values on any type of examined workloads. Therefore, we can decide that for most of typical projects Tarantool suits them more that popular solutions such as Redis, CouchBase or Memcached. This is the basis of our decision to use Tarantool for our projects here at my.com.

So yeah. Obviously.
It's called politically incorrect on 4chan?!?! What did you expect?