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On modern apps, I agree, I actually created this very morning a script to uninstall all of them in one go. But I still have to fight windows' defaults, and reassign a decent default application for each extension.

On 4k, some people use 4k to get high dpi, I am rather into the big screen, native resolution category. I need the real estate space more than the high resolution (provided the screen is big enough to allow it). As probably most people who do any development.
I think Paul Graham is just sharing his thoughts openly. He has his up and downs like everyone, but he has a public too. It's his way of sharing his inner thoughts and he's got all the rights to express himself.
From one stranger to another, thank you for posting this essay. I'm at a bit of a crossroads in my life, and your essay came at just the right moment. (This is one of the reasons I love the internet.)

If anyone wants to use IoT data, personal search queries, etc., to build a recommendation engine that increases the probability of 'reading the right thing at just the right time in life', I'd sign up for it! For subtle/complex things, this seems like an overly-intimidating task, but to get started on the project, someone querying illness, loss, etc., might benefit profoundly from this. You'd be essentially be creating a 'skewed Google' that returns what the user _needs_ rather than what the user _wants_ at the moment. (That said, don't pursue such a project at the expense of spending time with family... :) It's a tough balance to strike, isn't it?)

In peace,
Mike
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Despite I didn't like the 8.x because of the UI decisions and same with 10 which also forced telemetry, I agree with you. Both versions are actually an improvement vs. Windows 7. Which is the most sad part, because if they didn't went ape shit into the "one UI to rule the all" and "all your data are belong to us" mentality, the system would be pretty awesome. The closest now is the LTSB Enterprise edition, without the Metro crap and manageable telemetry and spyware. Even MS describes it as "system for mission critical computers".

Sorry Mr. Nadella, I thought that the PC my niece bought with her money is mission critical enough to work when expected, without being rendered unbootable with dodgy updates.
The simple truth is that they can't do it openly and quickly as this would have catastrophic consequences, both internally and internationally. Internationally, they would become a pariah state for many decades. Internally, I think that Israelis are lying first and foremost to themselves about their real intentions towards Palestine.

So they're wiping Palestine off the map in slow motion - building a settlement here and there, annexing a portion of territory, building a wall that transforms the remaining territory in a fractioned ghetto where life is impossible.

If Israel had good intentions towards Palestine, they would establish a border once and for all, and promote, instead of opposing with every means, the constitution of a Palestinian state. But the very charter of Likud, the party in power in Israel, openly states (much as Hamas' charter does on the other side) that Likud "flatly rejects the constitution of a Palestinian state west of the Jordan river". You can't be much more clear than that.
Curious to hear more about the difference between the boy computer nerds and the boy math nerds, especially the differences in the computer or math based hanging out activities (i.e. extra curricular subject matter activities)

Also, re: "a roomful of junior high boys who scorned me proactively because they figured since I was a girl I probably hated them and computers."...

Did they say things along those lines or was this an assumption you made at the time? You clearly didn't hate computers, so I don't know how they would figure that unless you never demonstrated your interest in computers to them.

If they were actively discriminating against you because you were a girl, I'd expect you to have said something like: "a roomful of junior high boys who scorned me proactively because I was a girl despite the fact that they knew I loved computers."
Yep, probably isn't the time or place; well warranted downvotes.

Oh well, live and learn :)
The Iran deal has probably saved a lot of Iranian lives.

American lives too, but probably less, taking into account how this things go normally.

For a moment, it just looked like that this could finish like Iraq again.

It's not like if nobody was pushing for war in the American establishment, whatever the Iranians did.
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> without costing the end user anything

The logical consequence of such statement is that the ad brokers/trackers/data miners pay themselves by printing their own money.

Of course this makes no sense, and thus the statement is certainly flawed. There is a cost to end user -- it's just very well obfuscated.
The meanings of words can change.
It's almost definitely what it is. You're probably still holding down CMD or CTRL, even if briefly, when you start clicking.
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> You can be the most productive widget-maker in the factory.

You are using a non economic definition of productivity, and he is using the economic one. In Economics, productivity is the value of what is produced, not the quantity.
is there a corresponding video where the slides are presented?
Tell me, what's that space like? Know it's a thing, (intranet sites or some such?), but that's about it. Very curious about it, heard people make a lot in there.
Neat, I'll try to remember that next time :).
Haha, I have been down voted to oblivion...
I guess that what you get for not using a throwaway...

This is only good for big corporations going to cash in on a new land of fresh business opportunities, pure greed.
Is this just in the one spreadsheet, or is it across the whole app?

Can you change the default colour palette?

Choose Tools - Options - Charts - Default Colors

https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Default_colors
In traffic, it is not about the latency, it is about the jitter.
Life is too short to be in a hurry

While that seem contradictory, it is not. When we are in a hurry we make unneeded mistakes, we don't enjoy the process of what we are doing, and we don't do things that reflect our true selves.
They don't send that out by default.

They ask about it in the welcome wizard. Once the preference is set, it is not changed behind your backs by updates.
So true! For instance, if you had 8 pathologically pedantic Internet commenters, you would end up with 8 comments just like yours.
Reflect usage is a slow down, but you know what? Still much faster than most dynamic languages
Nope, sorry. This presentation was given by Quentin de Laroussilhe in Paris at EPITA recently.
"So I woke up one morning and wrote a to-do list for procrastinating more. "

This guy had some good punchlines. Lol
Corrupt police always try to bully/rob you;
Don't confront him; Call a senior police official or call a lawyer;
You pay the HOA, they pay for maintenance of common areas.
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If you think it was a justification of inequality then you are reading it wrong. His argument is that there are good things which inherently produce inequality, so it is too non specific of a target. We're better off attacking rent seeking and poverty than inequality as a whole.
> The C++ loop is multithread safe.

Of course, it's not. If another thread removes the item that i refers to while i's thread is in its cout part, then this loop will go out in flames. Either functionally or semantically. And if it will not (meaning that List explicitly supports this sort of re-entrant case), then you basically get here not just a list, but some multi-purpose construct that can withstand a nuclear strike and the fallout - not something you'd actually expect when looking for a basic list container.

However this is exactly the kind of thing you'd typically get in C++. In contrast, with C you get a basic minimum that does what it says on a tin - links things into a list. You want it "multithread safe", you arrange for that externally. You happen to need that frequently, you wrap it into mt_safe_list container.

That's the key difference between C and C++ mentality. C++ does things universally and you can pick a sliver that you want to actually work with (leading to dialects), while C generally favors doing things in small functional units and combining them as needed. The Unix way. You can, technically, call the result of such combining a dialect, but that's quite a bit different dialects arising from the C++ usage.
It makes more sense in my head the current way round. The traffic (people that are moving) is on the left.
Glad you called that out. It was alluded to when the author mentioned the minesweeper example. People were more creative when they were given time to play the game but only after task was assigned.
I disagree on the point about life after death. I don't think that having faith that there's something after necessarily leads to valuing your time less now. Especially when you don't know what's in store for you next - a good existence or a bad one. With that kind of uncertainty, I'd certainly value the time I have now - at least I know what it's like now.

There are also two ways of thinking about what's "smart". For the faithful, the smart thing to do is racking up merit (or studying or whatever) for your future rebirth or heaven etc.

For the materialistic people, the smart thing to do is to enjoy the time you have right now by doing what makes you feel good.

Both groups of people think the other is being silly, foolish or something else.
Yeah, that line was odd in particular because they're comparing Windows 10 to Windows 7, not Windows 10 to Some Other OS. They're effectively saying, "Wow, Windows 7 is really bad; you shouldn't use that crap. But Windows 10 is great!" Which is kind of an odd sales pitch, even if you ignore how exaggeratedly outrageous those numbers sound.
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None of what you wrote is true, it's pure nonsense, I can't even begin to think how to respond to that.
No. People are using Google Docs for (some) new documents, because it handles collaboration far better. When you are using Windows or OS X, you can use both.
Its also interesting to see the cultural turmoil people are willing to put up with just to avoid the implied worse alternative of flexible working hours or working from home occasionally.

A quick "easy" but apparently utterly culturally unacceptable way to increase capacity by some 240% would be to work from home one day per week on average (or a half day every other week, or two days every other person, etc) and flex working hours such that the "rush hour" is twice as long.

This would interfere with primate dominance rituals such as enjoying lower social class suffering, so instead we'll get something that merely redistributes suffering.
You borrow against your stock, of course, so you don't have to realise the capital gain yet get access to the cash. If you're worried about downside protection, you can always buy a put option for the stock you pledged at its current value.
Are you sure about the vast majority, do you have a source for that?

I use 1pass too and would never consider storing passwords in the cloud, let alone on Dropbox.
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You missed the sarcasm.
Basically what I am asking. What I am doing is broad so "best library for me" isn't relevant yet.
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I get really disorientated doing those stairs. You get into a zone about 2/3 the way up where you just assume it goes on for ever as it's just a uniform spiral dotted with the occasional tourist who can't read "15 story building".
The problem with the concept of evil is that it is an explanation mechanism. Sure, innocent people getting killed is something really terrible, but it's not happening because terrorists are evil. It's happening because they think they're fighting for something good. For them probably we are the evil ones and need to be fought because we're not following god's laws.
Even with your reasoning you could come to the conclusion that the west is evil, as lots of innocent people were killed in the Iraq war.
Let's disambiguate OS first: do you mean the kernel or userland?

If userland: Little Snitch loads a kernel extension and monitors every userland process.

If kernel: The XNU kernel is open source, so you can check that it doesn't work around Little Snitch and Apple doesn't do telemetry in the kernel (which would be... weird).

Of course, theoretically, Apple could work around this using e.g. malicious code in the EFI firmware. But I am pretty sure that someone would've already found this by monitoring at a router.
Endurance athletes who 'go against the grain' become incredible fat-burners
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Unless you do this all day, there's no way it would take 10 minutes to research all the components that go into a PC and put it all together. Heck, even researching which model of Mac to buy took me more than two hours.

15 minutes to unbox probably doesn't include taking out the trash. :)

I'm a power user, so I need a lot of programs and setting them up properly usually takes 4-6 hours if not more. Just finding and installing proper driver for stuff like my Wacom tablet takes 30 minutes or so. Again, if you do this every day, then yes, it could be much faster. But I buy a new computer once in 4-5 years and really cannot bother to automate.

Last two times I got a new computer, it took me 2-3 days before I could work on them at full speed. It sure is worth more than $550. Not calculating the cost of stress if something does not work properly.

I have been using Linux for 7+ years and Mac for just over one year. The difference: Mac is mostly Plug and Play. Linux is often Plug and Pray. Hell, doing something simple like copy/paste on Linux still feels like a game of chance.

I love open-source and freedom, but as I got kids I became more pragmatic. The time is limited and I'd rather spend it on building stuff than figuring out some quirks in the operating system.
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this kind of legislation is difficult to support/pass because everyone who already owns a house is ostensibly getting richer and richer, and has an easy mechanism to liquidate that wealth. why would they vote against their own interests?

the only people who are hurt are first-time home buyers who basically lack any power or influence in the economy and legal process.
I think it makes a big difference for your insurance pay out if robbers entered with a copied key or left traces of lock manipulation.
Last two sentence contain all that's important here.

"Relentlessly prune bullshit, don't wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That's what you do when life is short."
Technically its not "out of" because in the linked article:

"Hunter ID number (a number which I could validate but not easily trace to a particular person)"

I'd read that as some minimal formatting and the correct number of digits and you're in.

I suspect there were no small number of school admins, teachers, parents, ex students, middle/grade school students, outright adult pedos, etc.

More like 500 registered users out of a billion internet users.
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Actually, for a layman, it's really nice to see a survey of the field accompanied, as it is here, by its underlying real-life politics, economics and other human factors; not something easily accessible normally.
Transparency doesn't necessarily mean being able to click through it.
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>Commenters stating that the essay blames poverty on the poor really are reading something into the essay that wasn't there (at least for me).

He did call those who disagree with Zuckerberg's letter envious losers, so how can you read something like the Inequality essay without that colouring it?

https://medium.com/@girlziplocked/paul-graham-is-still-askin...
I believe we might be running into cross-cultural issues WRT the linked articles sarcastic description of "transcripts of all their juicy gossip"

When I'm sitting in a bathroom stall I don't ponder the moral and ethical dilemmas of reading or not reading what someone scribbled on the wall. He was not running a cryptographically secure anonymous remailer service here. He was running a virtual bathroom wall to scribble gossip upon.
It is an appropriate choice of word in the context of my post regarding changing peoples' attitude towards race, and their prejudices.
“With everyone texting in high school, I had to interact with people so I didn’t look like that awkward person standing in the corner not saying anything.”

Pssst: you WERE the one in the corner not saying anything. Communication happens in many different media, even the ones your parents have convinced you aren't "real communication".

"“My parents didn’t want me distracted and playing games on it, because that would be wasting time,” she recalls."

Enjoy your burnout, kiddo. I'm sure you'll be a great person once you work through it.
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So in conclusion, present-day Londoners are lazy, and rather than encouraging people to move more, we should pander to them. Why not give everyone a Coke and a Big Mac with every Oyster card too? No wonder there is an obesity crisis.
Non-mobile: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/science/drug-overdoses-pro...
With qemu and other virtualization technology, even software emulation in 2016 will be faster than real hardware was in the 90s. And unlike Windows there are no legal problems with licensing.
We can never know. Nobody knows. Well, maybe someone knows (insider), then he can trade against the market and be rich. Though that's illegal as far as I'm knowledgeable.

Regarding startups, they are risky assets. The reason people/investors are moving to startups, as I see it, is that other assets are riskier than we thought.

When oil drops to $30, it's probably not as safe as people has assumed. Same goes for gold. The difference is that oil doesn't enjoy the same upside of startups. Oil can't hover over $500. But it can potentially hit a floor of $15.

So why not invest in a startup if all assets are going to the red. China growth has stalled, and the entire stock market is in the red. And you enjoy the upside if the startup has a +$1bn exit.

With oil at record low level, China growth stalling and this entire uncertainty; 2016 is going to be an interesting year. But that does not mean the end of high valuations in the tech sector. Maybe investors will move to Silicon Valley salivating for higher returns. And we might see 2000s all over again.

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fantastic essay. I would just add that life is too short but it is also in a sense very very long. Lots of new chapters and new windows open even as old ones close or narrow. It seems like two entirely contradictory ideas, but I think they are both true at the same time.
No Western person would be comfortable riding an escalator side by side with a stranger (aka weirdo in UK speak) for the equivalent of fifty to a hundred steps of stairs in a hot smelly subway so dirty your snot turns sooty. Standing on the right to allow others to walk up the left is not a technical optimization constructed by the impatient of the world. The real optimization problem is you're dealing with people and not frictionless spheres. X number of people walking up the left is faster than zero.
They're only dropping it for new systems. Arguably, someone buying a new system with a processor released in 2016 shouldn't expect support for older systems.

This isn't just updating software, this is developing entirely new drivers to make new hardware compatible with Windows 7.
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That still applies if you don't/can't benefit from that increased value - i.e. it benefits those above instead.
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I don't get how this is an argument for an escalator to or from a subway, that is completely disregarded while standing shoulder to shoulder and face to face while actually on the subway.
At first I was taking note of all the nonsense in the article to try to address them, but when I reached "And we all live, including this employer, in a patriarchal society" I just stopped.
I just discovered that this substance does this amazing things when it burns. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC3o2KgQstA for more explanation and examples (awesome one starts at 9 minutes in the video).
I had a grey hair once but I changed it back to normal through sheer force of will.
I see you are worried about unfairness resulting if this article's view of history were to become the established view. Who would you think are most likely to get the short end of the stick here? Is an emphasis of the importance of bioinformatics directly detrimental to anyone? Genuinely asking.
As an European I found this very interesting:

> There is a reason that blacks appear to have been spared the worst of the narcotic epidemic, said Dr. Andrew Kolodny, a drug abuse expert. Studies have found that doctors are much more reluctant to prescribe painkillers to minority patients, worrying that they might sell them or become addicted.

If I read this correctly the doctors' pervasive racism is keeping young black men alive.
They just came from an underground carriage where they were almost certainly standing next to multiple strangers in a much more uncomfortable environment.
In short: drone music is basically communism. Got it.
Is there a reason why all escalators are 2 people wide?
I wish it didn't limit the number of resources to one HTML, one JS, one CSS.

It would be useful to be able to add hidden libraries or frameworks to build the example code on topof them, while only showing the example code itself as editable.
I'm not a medical person, nor a nutritionist. So, maybe I'm being completely obtuse here and missing something. But isn't this already common knowledge?

When your body needs energy, it consumes [in order of preference]:

1: Its store of Carbohydrates

2: Its fat reserves

3: Muscle tissue [by this stage we're talking starvation levels]

So, by minimising carbohydrate intake and participating in long-lasting endurance sports, you're obviously going to force your body to move to 'number 2' on the menu sooner, as there won't be enough carbs to meet its needs.
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I would like to turn on support of facebook Instant Articles (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instant-articles/guides/articlecreate) on my publishing platform (dirty.ru) , but it looks like it is available only for members of Facebook's beta program. I really spend much time to find out how to become a member and tried to write to facebook directly, but they are keep silence and no one gave me an answer.
Maybe someone know how to do that?
That's a lot of lives that medical marijuana might have saved.
GPUs don't know whether the texture even has alpha data. All the GPU knows is that there is an image with 4 channels (and the data type of those channels), but it's the shader that gives meaning to those channels. Having three colour channels and one alpha channel is a common case, but you can also use the four channels for entirely different purposes, like 4 grayscale images, or encoding 4d coordinates as "image".
but you have hardware monitoring linked to an alerting framework right?
You have to make an effort.
As an additional interesting (?) link, a (UK-focused) blog featuring rebuttals of common arguments against a land value tax: http://kaalvtn.blogspot.co.uk/p/index.html