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You need 250+ users for Software Assurance through Enterprise Licensing programs: http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/F/5/1F5357DD-F7C8-4...

However, through the MOSP (for 5-250, now called "Microsoft Online Services"), you can get Windows Intune with Software Assurance for Windows for $11/user (at least when it was announced), which includes Software Assurance, which then includes a copy of Windows 10 Enterprise (to upgrade/install on PCs for licensed users) as well as management tools.

There's a way to add Office 365 on a per-user basis to your Intune subscription as well, as long as you maintain annual commitments (or some gibberish like that). I'm not entirely clear on the details, this is why Microsoft usually has folks call in for pricing and such. But I hear it's easy to manage.

There's two methods of enterprise/education licensing, per user and per machine. Home/Pro are sold per-machine only, with varying features. See license agreements for details ;-)

Ultimately, you can disable most/all of the Windows 10 spying yourself without special editions of Windows, they just make it easier for folks paying the big bucks.
Not entirely dead. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpQQpIOCp_A for example.
What good are those happy employees if Jet can't provide good service for customers?

I wanted to try Jet, so I bought a monitor expecting 2 - 5 day delivery. 2 days after I placed the order, I got notification that the order had shipped.... but Fedex didn't actually scan the package until the end of the day after that. Then I discovered that it was sent as "Direct Signature Required", which means it has to be signed by me, not by a neighbor and not just signing a door tag, I had to be home to sign for it.

I contacted Jet to see if they could redirect it to my office, or remove the signature requirement, but they couldn't do anything since it was shipped by a partner.

Since I didn't want to wait another 5 days until a delivery attempt so I could pay Fedex to redirect it to my office, I placed an order from Amazon for the same monitor. 3 hours after I placed the order, Amazon sent a shipment confirmation, and 2 days later, the monitor was on my front porch, no signature required (for $7.99 they would have have it there the next day)

Fedex ended up delivering the monitor on a Saturday, 9 days after I placed the order (7 business days for their "2 - 5 day shipping"). I processed a return online (which was relatively easy and painless), and 2 weeks later I had a refund -- Amazon does returns better -- when I do Amazon returns, they credit me as soon as UPS has the package.

Jet has a long way to go before they can declare themselves an Amazon killer.
None of the megacompanies open-source their cash cows. Red Hat is an exception to some extent, but they're not that big.

Google, Apple, Microsoft -- they all make money based on closed-source software. What they open-source is only the stuff that does not give them competitive edge. You can't download the source Google Search, iOS or Windows.

(I'm not arguing with you, btw.)
See jrallison comment.

If the employer is in the country you are visiting, you are correct. But if the employer is in a different country also (that is my thinking), then I'd expect there is no visa issue because the employer has no tax obligation to that country. It would be the same as if I vacationed in a different country, but responded to work e-mail for my US employer.

If that is not true, I'd be glad to know.
Makes sense. Yeah, people doing the comparison should keep the timeline in mind: MULTICS 1960's concepts; UNICS (err, UNIX) 1970's concepts including takeaways from MULTICS. Back then, OS & architecture innovation was moving fast with significant changes in how things were done in that short span. Not to mention UNIX targeted a minicomputer.
All my stuff is location-independent. I have cloud machines for anything calculation intensive, and also for web infrastructure (naturally).

- Best thing about being remote is scheduling. There's no commute, so that's extra time to get things done. If you need more time before dinner, no problem. If you have things done early, you can go wrestle with the kid immediately.

- Not everything you do requires 100% attention. Writing emails, updating people on Slack, reading about some new tech, that can be done while you're hanging out with the family.

- You can be updated constantly. Some people would find this annoying, but I like it that way.

- You can spread your work out so it's lower intensity. If you're not on a weekend trip with the family, you can get things done and still have time to hang around the kids.

- When you're travelling, you can still get things done. I've checked in code from an airplane. You can visit friends in different places while not feeling like you're falling behind.

- It helps a lot to be self employed. Not sure I'd want to always be working if I had an ordinary job.
This might apply to old-fashioned hunter-gatherer tribes. This in no way applies to modern day animal agriculture.
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> what do you think went through helen kellers mind?

Well, Keller wasn't blind and deaf from birth. John McCrone wrote a popsci book on the subject of mind, The Myth of Irrationality, in which he proposes that conscious thought (as distinct from intelligence itself) is literally talking to yourself and essentially nothing more. Keller is a topic of one of his chapters, and he points out that she had some formative exposure to language pre-loss, while examples of humans born deaf and blind don't seem to have the same success.
I was not a fan of the Xperia. I'll try it again when they stop using LCD. The Nexus 5 looks larger than the iPhone 6/s, is it not?

My favorite phone of all time was the Google Play Edition Samsung Galaxy S4, I wish they didn't nix that GPE program.
To what?
aka "Why I'm an asshole and why you shouldn't judge me"
I'm pleased with my Sony Xperia Z3 Compact. It feels as fast as the larger Xperia, and has very similar specs.

Depending how much I use it, I get 2 days with the battery in "stamina mode" (no background data).

Newer model: http://www.sonymobile.com/global-en/products/phones/xperia-z... — 127×65×8.9 mm
They were always big on doing "brilliant" things for developers, at least since my career started (around 2006). I went to a few Microsoft developer events and it was really obvious that they cared a lot about developer experience. End-user experience, on the other hand, was "less brilliant".
I didn't know the IRS was taxing non-public shares based on their valuation.
DHH: Extreme wealth is overrated
I'd try again as I have had to contact Jet support a couple of times now, and found it super fast. They refunded me within minutes of sending out the email.
Hey,

I'm Tony Spiro, the creator of Cosmic JS. Just wanted to get some feedback on the new Cosmic JS home page. What do you think of the installation instructions right on the homepage, and moving the copy to the "Features" page? I took notes from the Express JS home page and Stripe to get right to the point.

Thanks for checking it out!
Tony
You'd think so, but then some MGTOWs will start talking about how they're finished associating with American women but will still consider dating Asian women because they want a "submissive" and "traditional" wife.

It's creepy as fuck.

(also, it's seriously racist: I've had Asian female friends my entire life, and none of them are "submissive" or "traditional"... I can't imagine any of them putting up with that shit)
I imagine it's uncommon because it's thoroughly undiscoverable, and not super useful by default for lack of a good .XCompose file. I know how this stuff works and I haven't bothered because I don't want to figure it out again on each machine / desktop environment / etc.
Thank you for taking the time to do that, that was great.
I did this for 15 months, 1-2 months in one place. Renting a room/house on AirBnB is significantly cheaper if you book it for a month, hipmunk allows you to chain destinations so that you don't need to buy return tickets, and you can be one month in Canada, next in Japan, then in Australia, as you feel like. Go for it! It was the best year of my life so far ;-)
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Newspapers-- it was once considered a professional requirement to read them daily. Beyond local news-- you were really on your information game if you read the NY Times or Wall Street Journal.

The printed paper format seems to lend itself more easily to tripping over interesting articles that you might not normally seek out. Versus mindless, repetitive web surfing.

And of course, if you wanted to share a news item with someone-- it meant cutting it out and mailing via the postal service. Usually, accompanied with a brief handwritten note. Always nice to receive. Now a lost art form.
> I noticed when I focus for 3-4 hours on some tough problem, then interrupt and do something completely unrelated or sleep, I get surprisingly many ideas quickly leading me to a solution. If I just sit in front of a monitor, it might take a week to solve the same. Weird, but works for me.

Oddly, I have almost this exact same experience. If I work on a tough problem for 3 or 4 solid hours and then either do something completely different or go to sleep, I usually come back with at least three or four plausible solutions.

There's a 50% chance that we're both weird and a 50% chance that you're onto something....:)
What % of people on LinkedIn are NOT within 3 degrees of separation from you?
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Easier said than done if it happens to you while you're about to board your return flight home!
You can distill this article into two key insights:

1. Find great people to believe in your vision. Without the two amazing coders to help him, he wouldn't have made much headway in the project at the beginning. To be able to convince brilliant developers to quit their job, sell their house, and move across the country takes an incredible visionary to convince such a skeptical demographic as the brilliant developer.

2. Get people to buy the thing you want to sell before you make it. He had $150,000 from a wealthy financier before he had a product to show for it. To be able to secure capital and then worry about delivering on it is a much more tenable problem to solve than trying to build a business without some sort of capital to live off of while you develop it.
I was curious about this too, http://yclist.com/ was able to answer some of my question. Go through the list, research a bit and do let us know if you find anything interesting :D

Hope this helped.
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There is a notion that we "stand on the shoulders of giants". When you can't communicate with any of those giants, it's hard to climb on their shoulders. I can see that.
Didn't use original video title as the point wasn't to link to the talk itself, but to the comments that were removed.

The talk itself holds very little substance and is hardly worth linking by itself.

(Anyone mind specifying what they downvoted this for?)
Of course assuming he didn't have these skills ("a lot of work" is honestly probably an understatement) someone on the black market might or have someone they could pay who did have them. Also one would assume that some people on the black markets would either run or have ties to scamming/SEO gaming/etc groups making it valuable to them. Sure, not "tens of millions" as Yandex implies but still a good bit.
My biggest failure in 2015 was probably that I was too reactionary. I lacked the autonomy that I often had in the more distant past. Instead of making and following long-term plans, I found myself doing small projects and waiting for people's reactions before proceeding to do something else. What I would do next was too often based on the responses I received. There have been times in the distant past where I was the opposite -- too much autonomy for too long -- leading to building a large project that nobody really wanted. In 2015 I saw the opposite end of the spectrum. Recently recognising this phenomenon has helped to remind me that both ends -- heavy autonomy and heavy interaction -- are bad for productivity. I am now thinking that perhaps autonomous spurts of 3 to 9 weeks at a time are best in the long run. Waiting for a reaction after just a few days of work is too short a time, and building alone for 9 months without validation is too dangerous.
> Really? By including this one statement you made me think you are part of the nationalistic right.

You clearly misread my post under your own bias.
The "bash" thing seems to actually be a GTK+ thing (and that's how Wikipedia documents it), and probably only works in gnome-terminal and a couple of other X11 terminals. I can't seem to get this to work in iTerm2 + OS X bash nor iTerm2 + ssh + Debian bash.

On the other hand, I guess I'm running OS X so I merely need to re-memorize all the Mac mnemonics that I knew back when I used OS 9, and have now forgotten in favor of GNU screen's digraphs....
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Definitely looks beautiful. But most of the time I see another Linux distro, I feel like the greater linux community is just spreading it's resources thinner and thinner and wasting time on porting/recreating the file manager and other various operating system components and major applications to the new system just to justify cosmetic differences. I feel like there is so much redundant work being done, especially in the packaging category. I feel like with the new popularity of containers, the design of new operating systems should focus on a plug-in system where package managers are obsolete and everyone only has to make applications for architectures, not distros. That way all that energy can be shared on common code that gets used exactly the same way. Only then, can visual elements and gui things be layered on top. In other words, push the all the forking away from the OS and onto the GUI or X11 layer.
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Sure but they all end up being used as a build tool. Webpack may be a module bundler, but it has hot reloading, live reloading, and plugins to transpile. Watch any React tutorial and the first thing they have you do is set up a Webpack config that gives you a live-reloading build system with ES2015. And it's a different one than the one I used 5 months ago.

It's nice that there are people willing to address problems, but it would be nice for web development to grow out of its "oooh shiny" phase.
We have 1 file per react component, and keep our files down to < 200 loc (and we're still using es5). As long as you define your components before mounting any of them, you don't have to worry too much about dependency order.
With enough people working on population surveillance the desire for self-preservation alone helps keeping the system in place. Voter incentives, economic incentives of firms (many are contractors), etc.

Still a way to go until it's on par with China's (rumored) ~2 million[1] though.

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-24396957
Also a good way to go to jail. Please think long and hard before accessing random computers on the internet. The fact that they are unprotected is unfortunate but irrelevant.
My phone for the last 2-3 years was a very, very small Motorola F3 ("moto fone")[1]. Beautiful phone, wonderful design, e-ink display, battery life forever.

But it broke. And it was time to finally have a smartphone.

But I could not bring myself to carry around one of these huge obelisks... and so was very, very happy to learn of the Neptune Pine phonewatch[2]. I never attached it to the band and have no intention of ever using it as a watch. It's just a very, very small, full featured android phone. I am using it right now to provide wifi-tethering to my laptop in a coffee shop. Full, modern features (bluetooth, speakerphone, etc.) and I have no complaints about the telephone functions/quality.

Texting is a little difficult with such a small screen, but it's not that bad. If I need to text, I can. I'm sure there's some speech to text app that would fix this, but I don't care to look right now.

Yes - there should be more small phones. A lot more. There has been zero design in the smartphone space since the first iphone - they're still just monolithic touchscreen tablets. We need new designs, not just minor iterations on iphone 1.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Fone

[2] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/neptune/neptune-pine-sm...
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I'm not sure...the author's projects page (http://lav.io/) is full of politically satirical/subversive work, such as "CSPAN-5: autogenerated supercuts of CSPAN videos" and "Big Data Pawn Shop: leaked NSA documents printed on merchandise" and my favorite, "Yelp Prison Review Faxbot"...so it wasn't likely something he investigated.

OTOH I've been fascinated that these are even endorsement categories and of all the subcategories beneath them...not shocked...just surprised because the endorsement tags I always focus on on LinkedIn are things like "Ruby on Rails" or "Front-end development"
Check https://twitter.com/Resonaances and http://resonaances.blogspot.nl/ from Adam Falkowski.
I've primarily been a Postgres DBA for the last decade or so, and have never had trouble finding work. As Postgres grows in popularity, people who know what they're doing with it are in increasing demand.

EDIT: I'm currently looking.
I love my 2013 Moto X, with its 4.7" screen. One of the main reasons I haven't replaced it yet is I can't find anything on the market of a similar size, that will actually fit into the palm of my hand comfortably. I may end up falling back on a relative's secondhand iPhone 5 rather than buy a new phone, just because it's small.

I can understand why it's happening, though. Netbooks disrupted laptops while the smartphone entered as a new market. Tablets disrupted netbooks. Now smartphones are moving up-market, with phablets, and disrupting tablet sales. That's a large existing market for the taking, which will give much better revenue growth than trying to carve out a niche in the small smartphone segment.

I think we'll see smartphones continue growing into the 6-7" screensize range, so that they're sized for a purse or (barely) a large pocket. And then smartwatches will disrupt the low end, so that you don't need to take your phone out of your purse/pocket as often. It's already happening - many smartwatch models let you take calls & do anything voice-related on the watch, so you only use your phone as an input device when you need to type.
It would be nice to see the overlap between these, and to be able to see the same chart for my own 2nd- and 3rd-degree connections.
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Perhaps, but that seems unlikely given their current play. The CEO previously managed to be a pain in the side of Amazon in a niche space and started a pricing war around that area (diapers for one). In the end, Amazon basically bled them dry and acquired them but at a relatively lean valuation in what was essentially an acquihire. In the context of this article, that accession didn't work out so great for most of the employees. That old company still exists within Amazon, but is mostly a mess.

Such a scenario wouldn't work out well for Jet employees in the current context either given the astronomical amounts of VC cash that were put on the table. Typically those VCs need to be made whole and then some before anyone else sees a dime. Given previous articles about Jet's fundraising challenges last go around and a market that's increasingly skeptical of lofty valuations with little substance it's not clear at all how this turns out well unless Jet can show it's a real business with real value long term and not just some crazy experiment in seeing how fast one can burn piles of cash.
Mediatek :(
Technically the bit about it not being sold to small business is not true. You can get LTSB through Software Assurance through Windows Intune licensing on a per-user basis through Microsoft Online Services for companies of 5-250 people.

And you don't need LTSB or Enterprise/Education SKUs to turn them off, you just get more convenient toggles there. Ultimately you're responsible for what services run on your computer, and your computer's configuration. If you don't trust the OS manufacturer, as someone else pointed out, why are you running their code in the first place? ;-)
I entered not knowing what I wanted to do at all and ended up with a history major, which hasn't really been all that useful to me. I discovered too late that I loved programming for me to switch majors to cs.

Now I am not saying that waiting a year or two would have helped me pick a better major, because I still might not have found my passion for programming. But I do know that I would have studied harder and learned more during those years. My grades were fine, but I really did just enough to get good grades. I didn't take advantage of the learning opportunity because I was immature. I would love to go back now and really learn.
Er, looking at stocks from a one-year horizon only does not explain much and is barely better than making educated guesses. Looking at stocks without considering macroeconomic conditions as a whole, important due to issue with Greece and China in 2015, is flat-out dangerous. And looking at single stocks is not helpful due to hedging/covariance.

If you're looking into stock investing, try looking into indicators such as moving averages and RSI.
Interesting article and impressive to see that kind of tenacity. Truly that's a take-away from the full perspective. The other take aways, for me, aren't nearly as complimentary.

1. Want to make a lot of money? Find an out-dated system where grunt labor is worth a lot less than the technology the grunt labor uses, and target this gap mercilessly (call centers)

2. Act like every other shady, fly-by-night, asshole salesman and cold call people without a real product until some sucker from Provo, Utah cuts you a check ($40,000 should be a good amount)

3. Aim to arbitrage a stale technology like long-distance phone calls before any of the competition, pretend getting lucky in such an opportunity is a validation of tenacity ("blieve in yourself" is trite because it's trite)

>Believe that even if you do something stupid like quit your job without a clue, somehow you’re going to figure it out.

...or, you can study up on something called "survivorship bias" and realize most of the "wisdom" in the article is utterly useless.
Anecdotes are fun, but I have the same experience. One of the benefits of working from home is I can go play with my daughter for 10 minutes when I'm stuck spinning my wheels, afterward I usually have the solution I've spent 2 or more hours trying to come up with.
> I see a lot of ways in which those people could change their life to be more aligned with what they claim they want ... yet they don't, and I don't really understand why

I am this way, and I'm doing my best to work to realign my priorities to really make the most of the remaining dots. Force of habit makes it very easy to fall into a "holding pattern", and quite hard to break out of.

I appreciate the perspective of looking at those remaining dots as opportunity.
> This is more organized misogyny than voluntary celibacy.

Voluntarily celibacy and, especially, voluntary complete isolation from women have often been sold by organized groups with justifications that incorporate misogyny, so "organized misogyny" and "voluntary celibacy", while distinct, aren't completely independent.

So, I don't think MGOTW is, even to the extent that it combines these things, particularly novel.
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Isn't this the Theranos business model?
Square displays will be inefficient because for both horizontal and vertical videos corners are always black. Instead we will see various "L"-, "T"-, "Г"- and "+"- shaped displays.