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I completely agree. I returned to Boston after 10 years away and was floored by the transformation.

I see it as flushing away a huge amount of technical debt that we had incurred over the last 100 years, hopefully setting us up for modernization on many fronts - which is quite a big deal when you consider it's competing to be a top tech hub.
That's super cool, I'll join too thanks for the promo code!
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Damn. This really encourages me to start donating to open source projects.
Great, looking forward to reading these. Thanks!
Was anything falsely advertised? If the Australian market is like the U.S. (and I think it's fairly similar), then all the financial information used in this post would have been available to investors prior to their investment in the float.

Now, if the private equity firm falsified their financial reports for Dick Smith, that would be a serious crime. But that's not what this post is alleging.

It's possible that large investors knew this might not work, but decided it was worth a small investment anyway, just in case it did.
Another great poll would be, how many hours do you feel you are productive in a day.
The problem is: what happens when there is no one any more who remembers how the basics work?

The banking and healthcare industry already has this problem because there is a huge amount of decades old legacy stuff still in use and they have to pay through their noses for expertise.
how can GA correlate between site then ? The server-side does not have access to my GA cookie. Browser fingerprinting ?
Out of curiosity; what about apple, exxon and other of these juggernauts? Does cash depress stock price here? Or do they come out on the other end of the wormhole, where they have so much cash because they cannot conceivably put it to work profitably in their domain/industry?
I worked at 50% capacity for some years. It was just great until I chose to want more money for the time being and returned to 70% capacity. That was just great, too, until I realized that I was as productive as a full-time guy without the full-time pay so I eventually went back full-time but trying to keep my output roughly on the same level as I had been getting good reviews all the time.

However, last year I got tired of the full hours and a bit depressed because of lots of factors that prevented me from getting things done, and after one realisation I took a month off. Coming back to work I figured I shall be going with working full hours for three months and then taking a month off again. So that comes to three months of spare time and nine months of work annually.

The realisation was about working patterns. For a programmer like me, the best productivity comes in bursts so I'd happily do three ~12-hour days and keep two days off as opposed to working the official 7.5 hours (in my country) every day. This has always been so, even as a kid. I could work on something really intensively for a few days and then I needed to do something completely different. The newest realization was that it works on longer timescale too. I can work three months and do my absolute best, and then relax and have time for my own things.

This sort of a contract――relax pattern is quite reminiscent to life and nature itself. I feel much at home between the pushes and pulls. I'll see how the first year will turn out to be.

Over the years I've also realised that staying productive is mostly just about conserving these important productivity patterns.

A lot of what happens at work eats away from these patterns but if you can keep them mostly intact then you'll get productivity by default. That is, assuming that you love programming. Hint: if you're known to occasionally spend hours on hacking something at work at an intensity where nobody can pull you away from it, it's a good sign that you love programming.
Is there a reason you went with that option? I've never heard of Proxmox VE so I'm curious to hear why you went that route vs just plain KVM.
Why would I trust google with this ? I'd rather do it myself.
There's a very weird and irrational belief that more hours on the job means more productivity. Projects are often goal-based now.

But management hasn't entirely caught up with the idea that jobs are no longer about clock punching - and longer clock times can mean less real worker value.

This is partly about power dynamics in the workplace. In many corporations control of time and personal freedom are perks that are only available as you move up the hierarchy. Dysfunctional cultures are much more interested in explicit displays of limited freedom for the worker bees than in true increases in productivity.
Cool, i'll definitely attend !
I write about this specific question in my book "Fearless Salary Negotiation". I'm happy to go deeper if you have further questions—just reply to this comment.

The short answer is you shouldn't ask for anything. It's in your best interest to keep both your desired and current salary to yourself and to let the company make you an offer. That puts you in a better negotiating position and has the benefit of answering your secondary question of "What is the current market rate for new grads?"

Sites like GlassDoor.com, payscale.com, and salary.com are good for getting averages and doing research (see below for a note on this), but the best way to find out what a specific company will pay a new grad with your skillset and experience is to let them tell you by making you an offer.

Instead of telling them what you want to make, focus on demonstrating your value and competence throughout the interview process so that the company offers you a salary that's at the higher end of the range they're prepared to pay someone to do the job you're interviewing for.

I see someone also recommended patio11's blog post on salary negotiation—you should absolutely read that (it was a big inspiration for my book). Here is the link in case you missed it: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/

One last note on researching your market value: You should absolutely do that research because it will inform how you respond to the offer they make you. Getting the best possible offer is the first step, and then you want to work to maximize your salary by negotiating effectively.
Some of the nefarious reasons in the article and comments may well be true -- but there is a simple accounting reason for "unlimited" vacation policies -- companies do not need to pay workers for accrued vacation days un-taken.

In some states and countries, use-it-or-lose-it policies are not legal, so employees always accrue the days, often carrying them from year to year. It is a bit unfair since the employee leaving hits the company with a big payout (though the payout is just payout that should have happened long ago.) On the other hand it is very fair, as i've been stuck in some companies where my boss would not let me take vacation, so the payout was the least they could do.
> C/C++ is used for INTERNAL SYSTEM PROGRAMMING and those systems are already linux based and almost impossible to hack

According to CVEDetails the Linux kernel has 1338 (known) vulnerabilities. http://www.cvedetails.com/product/47/Linux-Linux-Kernel.html...
I found a few bits and pieces searching around. The most specific thing was a few bullet points from the resume of a person that did an internship at Bebop:

• Implemented modular front-end components & architecture to enable rapid app development on the bebop platform

• Designed an intelligent peoples directory by surfacing relationships within an enterprise by analyzing the bebop entity dataset

So, some sort of cloud RAD tool.
The issue i can see in gnome-shell (on linux) implementations is that long running script can block the UI. Async script execution, on the other hand, exhaust open file resources due to non closed file descriptors. Do OSX tools like this suffer the same problem?
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Construction of Crossrail only began in 2009 with all services due to be in service by 2019, that's not bad going. Construction of the five RER lines began in the 60's with the last major construction completed in 1999. Sure the concept of "Crossrail" has been kicking about since the 70's but I think comparing the two as you've done is like comparing apples and oranges.
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Obviously this is just anecdotal, but I work for a company with an unlimited vacation policy, and I've actually enjoyed it. I probably average 4 weeks of vacation per year, which is what I had in my previous (non-unlimited) job. But, now if I want to take more vacation one year and less vacation another year, I don't have to worry about whether my plans fit into whatever arbitrary limitations my employer might impose.

I've also never had a vacation request denied, and nobody has ever given me any crap about taking too much time off, although not everyone does take as much vacation as I do.

I'm sure there are companies and situations where "unlimited vacation" does end up translating to "no vacation", but I feel like a lot of the complaints about unlimited policies stem from people who are overly insecure about their careers. If you do good work and are a valuable asset to your employer, nobody is realistically going to fire you for taking an extra week off now and then.
You are actually right! In the 70s the state decided to restructure Utrecht. A horrible, horrible decision. Lot's of uglyness was built back then.

Im a citizen of Utrecht(living in Lombok area). Lombok is on the west of utrecht and big parts of this side of the city are ugly as hell. Lots of concrete. Lot's of ugly buildings which should not have been there. The other side of Utrecht is actually beautiful (although lombok sure is nice as well nowadays!). It still annoys me the first thing you see when entering the city area is all this uglyness. Can't wait until this huge project is finished somewhere in 2020. (The project is called CU2030, but it is a marketing term, which means something like: CU Too in 030. WTF)

The current project restores water but also removed some ugly buildings. They also rebuild the central train station, which is much better now. I hope we still like (most) of the new architecture after 30 years (or will history repeat?).
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This after Microsoft has already agreed to "partner" with Chinese companies to make "custom" Windows 10, and "custom" Bing search engine, and "custom" Skype app? (I think you know what I mean by custom).

Microsoft must have terrible negotiators. They could've at least stood up for their users. Instead they agreed to a lose-lose situation for both their users and itself.
Years ago I have when they were on their own - now that their owned by Intuit - I'm a little bothered by that (not that it's any worse or better then Google having all my email hah)

Last I remember, I thought the mint interface was to complicated (for me) to use it easily on a daily basis.

Maybe theres opportunity here for an app - shared between family members (you might have teenagers you give a CC to incase of emergency) - add just card names, and input where / when / $$ was spent. quick and simple. Maybe GPS helps fill in the where part.
Not just the UA, but there are ways : https://panopticlick.eff.org/
Yep. I bought one for my wife – an illustrator. I enjoyed it so much I bought one for me (UX/front end dev) and am Craigslist-ing our Wacom Cintiq and Intuos. The Cintiq lag is awful, while the disassociation between screen and tablet of the Intuos was always “best of a bad solution”. Personally, I always found the “give” in Wacom’s styli to accommodate pressure sensitivity too much for my liking, but my medium of preference was always lead holders; I suspect those who prefer painting, pastel or other softer medium might have the opposite opinion.

It’s not perfect, there’s still some lag in different apps. Wacom also had a slightly better “tooth” on the drawing surface. The omission of an “eraser” can be annoying, though I would imagine less so for artists who wouldn’t use the eraser on a drawing implement anyway. The various buttons on both the Wacom tablet and the pen were also really helpful, though a bit overwhelming. Wacom also has a variety of nibs for different feeling brushes. My TL;DR the Wacom is a more productive and perhaps more capable tool, but the iPad Pro + Pencil combination is the closest any technology has come to replicating paper & pencil.

When you compare the costs $799 for the cheapest 13" Wacom Cintiq vs $898 for the iPad Pro + Pencil it’s going to be a no-brainer for a lot of artists who aren’t deeply entrenched in a Wacom workflow.
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I really don't see these things doing well in the marketplace, just based off of who buys guns.

Would probably be fun to hack, though.
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And why are they must-reads, actually? Martin's book is not that good, as he
often makes ridiculous statements (e.g. the guy apparently have never used
generated documentation, yet he claims some JavaDoc comments are useless).
Yay thanks for the discount, count me in!
Yes, it would only work in sectors where the labor is more or less fungible, but these types of articles always seem to overgeneralize the effectiveness of reduced work hours.
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Or stress methylation of their DNA passed through generations. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028390814...
I don't know: both compilers are trying to use 'undefined use' to optimize code (and too bad for you if this create problems for your application), so your explanation isn't coherent..
My explanation is: lack of interest/money: security is the thing that is always ignored, see the lack of funding of OpenSSL until recently..
Librem: https://www.crowdsupply.com/purism/librem-13.

I gave $10 to their initial Kickstarter!
How good is this for kids learning programming (compared to Scratch and others)?
True and this question gives us much more information - https://guaana.com/quiz/how-many-hours-do-you-feel-you-are-p...
In the interest of not citing 12+ year old studies relying on 17+ year old data, 2013 usage was 87% and since 1995 there have only been two years of decreasing average usage[0], '05-'06 (82-81%) and '10-'11 (85-84%).

[0] http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811875.pdf
Do people not know what an administrative center or military compound is? Are analogies from neurology of all things really more accessible?
Except for the charity donation
> It's the buyers' fault for not conducting due diligence and calling bullshit on the price set by the PE firm.

The problem with statements like these is that you don't even know who the "buyer" is. It's not as cut and dry as Econ 101 would make you believe. The true buyer of an asset can be people who have no idea they bought it.

For example, Chicago's public pensions have a shortfall of $23,000 per resident[1] due to the poor management of its fund. This means, for all intents and purposes, I bought shitty companies like Dick Smith. And me buying it had nothing to do with my lack of due diligence. I have no control over it. And neither do the teachers or policemen or 99.999% of the residents in Chicago who end up footing the bill for this nonsense.

[1] https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicagos-63-billion-debt-burd...
The point being here, there is "it would be nice", "some fit the model where this would work", and "there are a lot of cases where this won't work". Or even more fundamental things when talking about little ones like things like car seats.

Maybe it is "choice", but there are a lot of people out there where the "choice" around their vehicle is closer to that of it is lived in, may have books and papers, clothing, toys, etc. (maybe food as well) that will not conform to this scenario.

Walk through a grocery store parking lot sometime and observe the state of vehicles as people get in/out, etc. my bet is on a sufficiently large pool would be in the condition where utopian sharing doesn't make sense.

That said, if there was a mind shift because of an overall benefit, it could happen. But, that is a long way off.
> Productivity – output per working hour – improves with shorter hours.

Yes, but total output = number of hours x productivity. So even while productivity diminishes, your total output can increase if you increase number of hours.
There was about $1000 fixed cost that I need to recuperate (design, marketing, etc...), beyond that, the only cost is transaction fees for credit card/paypal processing. Which I believe is 3% or something like that. Hosting and everything else is negligible.

The rest goes to GiveDirectly.org - You can always just get the book for free and donate directly, if you don't trust me :)
thanks for the code, I'll be there
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Do your devices really stop working after two years? Batteries definitely degrade, but in my experience with Apple products, they only become unusable after around five years...
Try driving a car through the citycenter of utrecht in rush hour. Will take 25 minutes to complete the 3 km from west to east if you're lucky. Tip: don't try it. Get the bike or take the recommended huge detour :)
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Yup you're right! I made the same mistake as okal and assumed everything is in one form! Also, I didn't know about the 'invalid' code part - so thanks for that :)
What do you mean by writing visual synths? I've never heard those words combined together and I'm curious.
I'd say it's not the same kind of basic. We still need people that know how to manually manage memory.
We don't need them as much though. But at some point, Sun needs people to develop the JVM, and its memory management algorithm. The "how this works" is well documented in academic papers too.

Obviously, as you mention, the less there are people that are capable to do X, the more they cost. But it's not the same as "totally forgetting something".
Whether it's working well overall is mostly a matter of opinion, but it seems to be working pretty well for sauronlord at least.
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I've always liked double y-axis charts. I do wish they'd colour-code the axis labels to match their associated lines.
This is the schedule my father has, working as a mechanic in a power plant. It's pretty solid.

The only (kind of ironic) downside is that holiday weeks are kind of sucky. The holiday day only pays 8 hours, so he ends up having to still work four eight hour days those weeks.
I think it stems from the limit imposed by the number of days elsewhere; since the days don't carry forward (or if they do, not all of them), you HAVE to use them, which creates incentive to take vacations or you miss out.

And just like anything else unlimited, having it available without pressure to use it is kind of like a gym pass, you COULD go, but do you really want that hassle just yet?
and the upcoming 0.9.44 release will be even more flexible for this sort of use, because the process invoking stuff (http://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.task.html ) will support processes that run indefinitely, so you could do crazy stuff like have a menubar item that shows the most recent line of a log file, or whatever you want :)
Yeah I found those when I was googling for it, but since the site mentions 'still in copyright' several times, I didn't even bother emailing him for pdfs. The site is nice but lacks the actual content.
Yes, but they'd still need to port some bits and pieces. I don't see Microsoft doing that.
Suggestion: if you are affected by this, get your attorney to reach out to Dell and get a response on record. You might be surprised. Their legal team will understand the risks of sweeping under the carpet or denying something they know about.
Funny how the more things change the more they stay the same. In Australia they outsourced all their support to India. They nearly lost numerous big corporate and government accounts, so they brought back support to Ausyralua for corporates pretty quickly.

I can't understand why these overseas call centres are do terrible! I don't want to resort to racial stereotyping, what is it though that cause such dreadful customer service experiences?!?
> LA had one of the largest public transit systems in the entire world.

it still does, it's just mainly used by non-affluent (not just poor) people so nobody hears about it. the bus and rail system dwarf that of most major cities. the plan through 2030 is extremely ambitious and is half done already. there will be light rail from downtown to the ocean this year (already running halfway there), and the wilshire subway has already broken ground.

i commuted from hollywood to pasadena every day for a year on it, and that was 10 years ago. when the expo/ocean line opens i will take it frequently to go downtown. i've taken the bus many times before, it acts like a train. hop on, hop off on major thoroughfares.

http://thesource.metro.net/2013/06/13/new-under-construction...
This company is so overhyped it's funny. I actually find them funny.
My guess is it's a translation from an idiomatic expression in Spanish. I'm not sure, but 'nerve center' is a pretty common idiom in Italian for a hub, and a cursory web search seems to confirm this phrase exists in Spanish as well.
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The picture at mid-point on the page, of one worker digging and 11 people watching, probably offers as pointed a commentary as anything else in the piece.
Cool, I will check out BillGuard. It seems that to pay bills through Mint you actually have to use a separate application called Mint Bills. I signed in with my Mint account but it looks like there is little to no crossover. Very weird. I also set up my first test bill using my bank's website and it was very confusing. I actually haven't even figured out how to make it auto-pay.
Not entirely true (I'm French BTW). In a lot of companies if you're engineer or similar you're "cadre", and not subject to the 35h/week limitation: you have flexible work day hours. There's still a maximum limit, I think you must have at least 10h of rest a day but don't quote me on that one.
To compensate for the more than 35h/week work days you do have more vacation days call RTT for "Reduction du Temps de Travail" (Work Time Reduction). It's about 8 days per years, on top of regular vacations.
> the idea that a server has something one can refer to as “the” screen, or “the” mouse – is completely and utterly wrong

I don't disagree with your point per se but the reality is a little more nuanced that you suggest. For example, UNIX provided green screens to null terminals long before Windows Server was a thing. And mouse enabled Linux / UNIX terminal tools (eg elinks or aptitude) support mouse input even over SSH.

Though I do appreciate you were referring to "monitors" specifically when you discussed "screens", it's still worth noting that the old thin client model of computing has come back into trend again with Windows desktops available in the cloud (typically aimed at organisations that want a managed deployment of workstations - akin to a hosted Windows Terminal Services).

So it really depends on your workloads and what your definition of "screens" are :)