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I think that being able to effectively deliver blunt and direct criticism is rare. There are a lot of moving parts that make up the delivery. (attitude, context, tone, language, relationship, setting) I see people screw it up all the time.
I know we're not supposed to leave comments that are essentially +1. But—please, this seems appropriate.
What reasons are there to believe that Richard Dawkins is not prepared to be convinced of the truth of a proposition by rational evidence?

(Or if that's not the definition of "closed mind", then what is?)
>>To be blunt, they're paying you to do a job, not to make the organization better.

If this dichotomy exists -- if doing your job does not by definition make the organization better -- then that's a dysfunctional organization.
One possibility is that the mode and requirements of life have changed so quickly over the last few thousand years that the brain's ability to rewire and optimize for changed environment is lagging, and disabling large swathes of it acts as a kind of a shock therapy to rewire the rest of it at fast pace. The implication is that finding a way to gradually disable parts of the brain may force similar rewiring of active parts; at this point the latent part may be re-enabled and may 'learn' from the rewired part. I would volunteer but, uh..
If he used a bail bondsman there is typically a 10% fee (e.g. bail is $25,000; you pay the bondsman $2,500 and get bailed out)
Its a lot more syntactical sugar.
It's so nice to see some humanity out of the startup community every once in a while. It gets so old and, dare I say, fake, to see everyone making a big show of how they're killing it all the time. That's not real life. This is.
Yeah, all the ones that start with "I received the complimentary product" in some form.

That's a bogus review, it's paid. You might argue free product is not payment but the IRS would then like to have a word with you (ask the people who got "free" cars from Oprah).
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> but the overall incident with the police etc, is a public issue.

I'm not trying to specifically argue about this point of information but we don't even know the whole of that story or if it is even related to this at this time. I'm not saying it is or is not or anything like that. Just that we really don't know anything about what happened (yet and again, if ever).
In a tweet, he wrote that "@jacksormwriter wants me dead".

I wonder who that is...

Source at http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:le7oSCj...
I'm not sure what fantasy world you live in where the software industry is always adopting the most technologically superior solutions by default. No industry works like this.

YMMV on mainstream (they are widely adopted, though), but: OKL4, PikeOS, QNX...

It's quite obvious you have no background on the issues and are using this as an opportunity for provocation.
I do this, you do this. We try to use each other's code. Now there's two competing implementations that are probably incompatible.
In the UK, which is a common law country, the local coroner would be involved with any death that was not expected (i.e. not an older person or someone who is terminally ill and under medical care) or in which there are suspicious circumstances. That process may involve a police investigation and, independently of that, there can be an inquest. Inquests have quite a history in the case of deaths in police custody in the UK, as a result of police action, or where there is some doubt about the probity of the police investigation (Google Hillsborough Stadium, Mark Duggan, Ian Tomlinson).

I'd appreciate if any US residents can comment on the procedures locally and I realise that procedure may vary in different states.

My first thought was 'another cancer death' but it appears to be more involved. The phrasing of the request from the family suggests to me that the situation may be more complex. I was reading this guy's blog just yesterday, odd times.
There's some of this present already in the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act from the early 2000s. And the all-pervasive Official Secrets Act. Those of us who are old enough to remember the bizarre half-censorship of Gerry Adams on TV know that free speech has never had an overriding legal status in the UK.
The people closest to him may never have nor look for more information.
Very good points. I wonder why many consumers act like that.

I understand that companies prefer to rent or lease because of tax avoidance and/or lowering overhead (fixed costs) (because of inflexible accounting programs, blabla).

On the otherside, as a consumer (and if you have the money and your interest is longterm), why not just buy it? Why rent/lease something? In the long term you are better of buying it. Renting/Leases are always more expensive in the long run.

Also owning something is a lot more rewarding, relaxing, (and it can be used many years later) than handling some leased/rented subject with utmost care.
Too damn high.
"police were called to my house and I had just finished putting my children to bed"

Understand that you don't want to give details but can you say why they were called to your house in the first place?
>Communicated using a network that wouldn't exist without modern mining and plastics, and using a machine that wouldn't exist without modern mining and plastics?

Probably missed the part where I wrote: "That one might point at improvements in other areas that offset these negatives/losses , doesn't mean there wasn't any loss in the first place"

Just because something (e.g. plastics) had a useful result, doesn't mean all of its results are useful, that it's sustainable in the long run (e.g. wont come back to bite us in the ass), or that it's currently used optimally.

Besides, one can still acknowledge some harm despite the fact that he himself uses what's harmful (e.g. I don't like that pigs are killed for it, but bacon is delicious). That's not "hypocritical", it's just weighting pros and cons.

And it's not like it's a black or white thing either. Acknowledging the harm makes us able to make decisions about how to improve things. E.g, to give an extreme example regarding your question, one could very well say: I'm ok with using plastics for important things like computers, but not with the tons of plastic garbage every year but making tons of disposable plastic BS from it (e.g. see the ban on plastic shopping bags in some places).
Well I can understand the difference in cultures that makes you feel that thr surrounding spirituality is vague and needs a change but there is a difference. Yoga is complemented with 'dhyaan' which is an unexplored area in the west. If you are not getting that/missing out on its importance, you are not getting the full package.
Super sad to hear about this, as the Debian project has been hugely influential on my life. (It's the reason I went to MIT and became a software engineer.) Rest in peace, Ian.
Argh. One second after clicking downvote, I got the joke...
So very sad. Debian is what got me started with Linux. I remember dd'ing base images to floppy disks since the BIOS on the PC I was experimenting on didn't support bootable CDs. From then doing a net install seemed so futuristic at the time.
Similarly, I was hoping to find VoltDB in the mix.
Read The Eternal Value of Privacy by Bruce Schneier:

http://archive.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securi...
Thanks. That was difficult to read and frankly distressing (it has certainly affected my own mental state at the moment), but I am glad I got to read it so that I can have this inform my perspective regarding the abuse of power by police in the ongoing future (Admittedly I had been on the blase side on the matter, and like Ian himself wrote, "i'm hoping coming from a successful white guy it will help everyone").
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Sure, there can be comments in a header, but they aren't actually part of the API. They're just documentation that the compiler happens to allow you to put in the same file.

I'm not sure I'm with you on type names though. If the application being linked against the API was compiled using a header with different type names then the application would have to be rewritten to use the other type names. It would break source code interoperability. (And you can infer the type names from the ABI given the source and binary of an application compiled using the original header, without actually having the header.)
Ignoring all the nonsense from the first paragraph above, it is most likely he was having some major mental issues just due to the tweets linked here. The police were called by someone worried about him, and he is taking his anger out on them and blaming them for intervening.

There is nothing in the local papers about this so far, which is usually on par unfortunately with suicide. Sad to see another person gone due to unfortunate mental/emotional issues.
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Lower throughput. Almost by definition real-time systems focus on latency at the expense throughput.
Not surprised people step up to bat with the strawmen.

Speaking with candor != being a dick. People can supply direct and honest feedback without making it personal. Someone can criticize someone else's code until the cows come home, while also being excellent friends with them outside the workplace.
If the pastebinned tweets I've seen are really his then he was clearly unhinged when he made them. Whether that is due to head trauma or if the problems with the police came about because he was already having issues, I have no idea.

Either way, while I totally understand his family's request for privacy, I do wish as a culture we felt more comfortable discussing things like this when they happen instead of basically all trying to sweep it under the rug.

People shouldn't be shamed for having mental health issues, but neither should we expend so much effort on pretending like we don't have something of an epidemic going on in this area these days.
Really sad ...
Not sure what asshole downvoted you, but thanks for sharing. Upvoted.
If we assume that laws can never be perfect, it is obvious why perfect enforcement of laws can never be a completely good thing. Not to mention corrupt officials, selective enforcement, etc.
Of course we need to investigate but don't jump to any conclusions and start yelling about police brutality.

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.

It is really tragic but if it likely to be police brutality then the family will pursue it. If they don't pursue any action then my guess is that Ian had a mental illness and this is just a series of very unfortunate events due to that.
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> 5:27pm: Maybe my suicide at this, you now, a successful business man, not a [edit], will finally bring some attention to this very serious issue.

Huh??

Ian was obviously fighting with some very serious demons.

My heart goes out to his loved ones who survive him, and I pray he finds peace where he took himself.

From personal experience, this can be a very lonely and painful time of year.
I used a couple of slower ones (German make, around £30 for the two from PC World, not the most economical outlet) for about three years until I got rid of the desktop PC. No issues. Just worked. Throughput fine at 4 mb/s Internet speeds which is all I used it for.

If you need AV speeds, and if you have 'unusual' wiring, best ask on an appropriate forum supporting home networking or something.
I don't think that there.is any evidence that "the more obvious things" are actually common triggers (on the PTSD sense); there common sources of offense to that works on a more conscious level, but AFAIK that's almost completely unrelated to the mechanisms involved in triggering, even when the subjects involved relate to the source of trauma; it seems more hijacking the very real idea of triggering related to traumatic experience as a means of asserting a privilege against offense.

Now, personalized trigger warnings in a context where particular individuals are known to be sensitive to particular things as triggers make a lot of sense, but AFAICT generalized trigger warnings have no valid basis in anything that has to do with actual triggering, and those pushing them trivialize real trauma-related conditions.
> Coarse and tendentious atheists of the Dawkins variety prefer to overlook the vast traditions of figurative and allegorical interpretations with which believers have read Scripture.

Of course, because that interpretation is hand-waving nonsense: replacing the actual words with something else that you wish the words really said (at the moment), with no justification.

If the interpretation is valid, why don't they replace the scriptures with properly interpreted version which pin down the real meaning, once and for all? Macroexpand all the symbolism into its concrete terms, say that "this is it", and let's discuss that.

Until then, the serpent in Eden was really a snake, the apple was really an apple and so on.
Hrm, so the Kickstarter said this:

* We're aiming to ship Console OS Developer Release 1 within about 30 days of the Kickstarter’s conclusion.

* From there, we’ll use Kickstarter funds to build out support for the devices that you vote for.

* Our goal is to implement all of the features listed here over the next year

But then said this:

* We have most of Developer Release 1 done. It'll include a starter version of our user experience and should work on all 25 devices we listed in the initial supported device list.

* The Console OS Pro feature set is largely what funds will go toward (in addition to expanding device support, based largely on Kickstarter backer votes).

Nobody should have contributed to this; they never said why they needed the money or what it was for. It's ridiculous to read about them working 18 months in the shadows to get "near" developer release 1 but then promise to build out a feature set in 11 months (since they want a month to finish what they started).

19 months -> dev release 1

11 months -> undetermined device support (no formal voting!), + a big ass list of features.

I love Kick Starter, and I've received every single thing I've committed towards. But people have to be careful and pay attention to what they're getting into.
And ported to the most hardware architectures too. https://www.debian.org/ports/#portlist-released
For an "atmospheric scientist" she sure hides the facts awefully well. I had to scan quite a bit in this piece to find the actual recorded temperature at the North Pole ("between 30 and 35 degrees Fahrenheit").

Was she coached by one of Bezos' traffic optimization minions?
This is a terrible loss. I've been a Debian user since Bo (1.3) and have interacted with Ian on a number of occasions. RIP

What I'd like to know going forward is what we can do as a community to help when we see this happening. Ian was clearly suffering, and I know that a number of folks did their best to help.

Yet, those efforts were in vain. It occurs to me now that perhaps the community could have done more? Perhaps Twitter could have done more? Perhaps I could have done more? Did HackerNews make the right call in closing that thread? I'm not seeking to assign blame, but to ask what we can do to help the next person.

If there is something more the community can do to help the next person, we should identify and address it. Someone I know likes to say, "bugs in process are like software bugs, we need to file an issue and fix them".

Twitter just yesterday released new policies and procedures for reporting on self-harm and harassment. I'm afraid they may not go far enough, but I'm happy to see some effort there.

Perhaps the time for this conversation is too early, but I look forward to having it when the time is right.
Its a possibility certainly but its also possible that the cause of death is not yet know, and wont be until an autopsy is carried.

Given other people are talking about other erratic behaviour over the last few days then an aggressive brain tumour or bleeding into the brain would also be possibilities. Best not to jump to conclusions too early (the same is also true for those suggesting police brutality as the cause)
Unless someone proposes a solution to the “massive amount of failure states”, I am going to continue to assume that privacy is a necessary protection from them.
Here's a set of articles I wrote that might help?

http://webglfundamentals.org/webgl/lessons/webgl-2d-matrices...

That's 2d but if you follow them forward it will go to 3d
The God Delusion gives a handful of arguments both for and against the existence of God. Your summary comes across as a straw-man, a misrepresentation that's supposed to convince us that the real argument is poor. Where did he make this before/after argument?

Intelligent design is just one hypothesis among many to explain the complexity (the apparent "design") of the universe. But it posits the existence of an even more complex entity. If we really need intelligent design to explain where eyeballs and bird wings came from, why don't we also need an explanation of the omnipotent designer?
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def getName(person):
person.setName('foo')
return person.name

The problem, from a functional viewpoint, isn't the implicit argument, it is the fact that you can write setName.
"Software developers" will increase 17%, but "computer programmers" will decrease 8%?

Beg pardon?
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Well downvote it then and move on.

> I can't even imagine the scale of community outrage if this comment were made after Aaron Swartz passing.

I can, they'd call for the same thing in a thread titled "In Memoriam: Aaron Swartz"

> and there is evidence directly from him that he was pushed into it.

You are welcome to start new thread discussing that.

> if evil pushed him to end his own life, then is it good or is it evil that benefits if we fail to demand a full investigation?

This thread is probably not the place to fight the evil. We can fight the evil later, given that we find what/who this evil is. Chances are evil is not going anywhere. It will be there tomorrow.

> do you think there is any possibility of such an investigation without widespread and vocal community outrage?

In general outrage has to be calculated, directed at the right place, and happen at the right time.

Something tells me you don't have any evidence or anything to go on and it will be just guesswork based on twitter comments and Reddit discussions. Even if you have any extra evidence that you have to discuss, ask yourself if this is the right place and time for it.
Sounds pretty straightforward (if profoundly sad) to me. Police violence--in the political sense as well as the physical, though I should caveat that without further information I don't know what violence, if any, occurred here--is not new, but predominantly happens to the underprivileged. Which is to say, the use of the slur sounds like it's projecting upon the people who tend to exert this violence very disproportionately upon people of African descent (who, historically as well as today, have much less political power to wield and to have wielded on their behalf).
Thats why I said "normally"
Beware. I went out of my way to get an Ubuntu certified laptop[1]. It took me months to get it to a usable state. Graphics drivers crashed or corrupted the screen[2]. Bluetooth didn't work. Wifi didn't work. While suspended to RAM, it drained 10% of the battery every hour. In short, it was a nightmare.

I've had it for almost two years now, and I've given up on getting Bluetooth to work. After resuming from suspend, the wifi works about half the time, and screen brightness is always set to maximum. It's tolerable, but I only use the laptop when I have to.

I doubt I'll ever buy a Linux laptop again, but if I do, I'll be sure to try it hands-on before buying.

1. The Lenovo X140e: http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/hardware/201309-14195/

2. https://twitter.com/ggreer/status/548923450640056321
> they are widely adopted, though

For some definition of "widely".

And feel free to stop adding personal attacks to your comments. They do not enhance the credibility of your posts.
This is incredibly sad--RIP Ian. Some may consider his actions extreme, but if you haven't been harassed, arrested, and deprived of your rights + freedom you won't understand how shitty it feels.
Do you think his family would completely ignore any injustice?

What people are saying is that you should take a deep breath before you start harassing people (which is often how these things end up). This could be a mental health issue so please just calm down before you know more.
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More realistically, the manufacturer will generate extra revenue by telling you that the eggs are probably now bad, and hooking you up with suppliers so you buy more. See: Amazon.
Nonconformity, customization, and choice are major reasons people use Linux instead of OSX, just as they are for Androids over iPhones. People who are okay with One Good Product Per Category are using Apple hardware already.
Now that he's on the news the patent trolls will get to him. Wait and see...
But, obviously, "that we really don't know anything about what happened" is not an argument against trying to look into what happened.

If anything, it's the prerequisite for wanting to look into what happened.
In case you are decide to look for an actual (remote) job as opposed to a short gig, you could try this list[1] of sites that aggregate remote positions.

[1] https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job#job-board...
> Please let's not dig up links or make speculations about what happened.

The links that were dug were extremely helpful in putting the context of what happened. I will save my strong words for later. Or other venues. First Aaron, now Ian - two wonderful guys that wanted only to bring openness to world are gone after having brief encounters with the system. Make what you will of that.
There is some nuance here, though. A lot of leadership that might seem to default to "we don't have time for that" can be more reasonable when the problem, and (critically) the monetary ROI of fixing the problem, is explained to them in terms they can use to justify to their bosses. Effective communication of technical best-practices to non-technical people is something that everyone can practice. Sometimes you'll have irrational bosses, and that's just life, but more often than not they're just too busy to understand technical things, and it's still possible to spoon-feed them.
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> If the interpretation is valid, why don't they replace the scriptures with properly interpreted version which pin down the real meaning, once and for all?

Good question, which is thoroughly discussed and answered in various religious writings.

But I could ask you the opposite question: why would you assume that a text -- let alone an ancient one -- is anything but allegorical? Why would you assume that a text, by default, is literal until proven otherwise? Throughout history, there have been periods when it's been assumed that most written (let alone canonical and holy) texts are allegorical. It is your assumption that a text is literal unless proven otherwise which is recent and anachronistic.

In any case, whatever your views on human texts and their default literary genre, if you believe that a god wrote your scriptures, your interpretation of them would be based on the nature of your god and his preferred writing style, no?
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It is probably not so much discussing health issues as them having lost a loved one and don't want the Internet probing them for questions about him.
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I'm not (at least for now, I have a spare compatible thinkpad), I was just implying that the BIOS is now the bottleneck.
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