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I'd also throw in "and treats them with respect"

Otherwise you end up with someone who has their entire identity wrapped up in their work, which can be stressful no matter how much they "care about professional development"
This is true. If the US stopped giving tax breaks, money, to the corn guys, the hamburger would be a more expensive meal.

Tax-payers are currently paying for people to get cardiovascular diseases.
Not to mention Google Talk was a chat system first and foremost.

Hangouts is a funnel to get you to use their browser (still don't understand why it ships as a plugin) and social network first, chat application second.
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I don't have anything against Apple retaining control of the firmware on an Apple phone. It is their closed system after all. It's just that Apple should not imply that their phones are somehow secure. The FBI thing reminds us that they are all effectively backdoored by Apple.
I've worked on plenty of good codebases. I think the key is continuous improvement. The code from 5 years ago is always going to be worse than today's code, but as long as you're able to improve code as you work on it it doesn't get too bad.
The longer MS ignores Skype on linux, the happier I'll be. Unlike the Windows version, it's at least usable and a great deal more stable (in my experience, anyway)
Based on what? We evolved from chemicals to single celled organisms, to multi celled, to worms, to fish, to mammals, to apes, etcetera. At which point in this process did we become more than our physical body? I don't see any reason why an organism that came to be through evolution is fundamentally different than a machine that we build. In both cases it's the laws of nature at work within the universe. I think rather than concluding that we must be more than physical, a more reasonable conclusion is that there's something that we don't yet understand about the physical world, i.e. how matter in the physical world can give rise to subjective experience.
Yes, but it is opt-in and require the user to have the phone fully charged and plugged in for an hour while the process is performed. Few people bother doing it. The encryption hardware in most Android phones is also not as fast as the iPhone, so there is a performance hit by encrypting.
Skype on linux is akin to taking fertility drugs on birth control. It's super dumb and always feels dirty for no reason. It installs 127 packages and then removes only 112, leaving me saying I knew this was a mistake so that I could waste 15 minutes with TopTal because they can't get on a hangout. Skype is owned by the original nerd's evil empire what do you expect. Never should have tainted my system...
I haven't, but it looks interesting.
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Honestly I'm really happy they haven't updated the client. Looking at the Windows client, I was happy they left a more serious and professional client for the Linux users.

Of course when you can't make calls anymore, it might be time to update the failing component...
Skype on Windows is awful. Frequent crashes, shared screens drop all the time, and very inefficient. Only reason it's not uninstalled is that we have to use it at work.
Probably because there isn't any money in it so every company that can afford has to use it as a device to push their other products. e.g how Hangouts was designed to push G+ and Chrome usage.
I can think of a lot of depressing charts. One showing the IMF's "five year plan" failed is not among them.
That's pretty eye opening. Curious if you have looked at AWS with a similar regard, are they any better?
I want to write and learn good coding for myself.

While the boss would be just as happy with crappy code as good code, as long as he sees that project percentage increase, it just makes me happier to do it right as much as possible, even if I spend my own time on it.
> No desktop client

Seeing the level of shitty ported Linux programs I see this as a pro.

> Connected to your google account meaning I'll need to juggle several google accounts to keep my personal and business chats separate

This would be easier with Skype if you have 2 Skype accounts?

When using Chrome:

> - Gets grouped with my other browser windows in my taskbar, making it hard to find

Menu -> More tools -> Add to desktop
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Skype for Linux was declared dead under Palmer's, resources reduced to a minimum and new versions and features blocked. Skype CEOs and CTOs at that time are equally responsible, made millions and disappeared. It's been an uphill battle since, you can found some linux developers on LinkedIn and ask them. A joke that goes around is that Skype could die soon this year unless it turns profitable. Anyway, from a business perspective MS doesn't understand or value Linux desktop, so nothing to be surprised here.
Good job! Love the simplicity. Current state of event discovery is rubbish and so fragmented across sites and categories of event. Just had a look at my home city (Edinburgh) and there's way more happening than I would guessed by browsing sites like Time Out, Resident Advisor etc.

Would be cool to show Meetups too, but that might pollute the space a bit too much in large cities.

Bookmarked!
>> but starting from February 22 the Linux client is unable to join calls

My colleague using Ubuntu managed to join a call I made to her with no issue. There must be more to it I guess.
Tox sucks for audio. At least when i tried it 3 months ago.
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I company I worked at contracted a company to do "scientific" questionnaires of staff, so management knew which kind of personalities people had, what they wanted out of a job etc. We had to sit through an hour presentation, being told what makes us happy.

Everyone was forced to do the questionnaire and afterwards we had an opportunity to discuss the results with the company and our managers. All through the process, management stressed how much they were interested in how we can grow, how we can do better in the organisation and so on.

I asked: why don't just sit down with people over a coffee and ask them? I got blank stares. You could tell they thought we were all too stupid to know what we wanted and that nothing valuable could come out of that process. Completely idiotic.
I guess you intended to say inner dialogue, and you didn't mistakenly use it instead of inner monologue. I couln't be sure because I've mostly seen inner monologue until now.

I do have an inner dialogue too (I guess I've an inner Socrates which doesn't know to shut up for a second and to stop bothering me with stupid questions), I usually think in a dialectical manner. I haven't experienced your ortographic mistakes, or I haven't recognised yet that I do make them too. But sometimes I think of typing one word and I end up typing a completely different one: I want to type baboon and I end up typing, sth. like trumpet (made up example). This only happens with english though, so maybe it's because english is slowly becoming a sinaitic language with an iconographic ortography.

That said I use my inner dialogue to study languages, and I've succeeded with English and Italian, my L2 and L3. I've perfect english reading writing skills, and in italian high reading skills and good listening comprehension (and I studied it for one and a half year, without native speakers to talk to except for scarce weekly lessons at the uni). What I do is I do my daily thinking in the target language. And if I have to speak in one of the languages (including my mother tongue, turkish), I have to do a context switch, which takes some seconds. If I had to switch from one language to another in the middle of the phrase, my pronunciation will be very very bad, with a very strong turkish accent, whereas if I were in context, I articulate way way better.

One thing is, this method is hard to share, when someone asks me how I study languages, I have to talk about self immersion etc., because I don't want to make people think that I'm nuts.
"The sharing economy is dead - long live the marketplace."

Essentially this is an argument for why the notion of sharing no longer describes the economics of Uber, airbnb, DOZ, and others in the 'sharing economy'. Instead, the key feature of all of these companies is a marketplace, and this has significant effects for doing business, writing policy, and making a living.
Note: The article is from 2013.
I think there may be some confusion between satisfaction through perks with satisfaction through doing great work. I require certain perks - sufficient time off with my family, time to educate myself further, a reasonably stocked cafeteria, quiet spaces - but I also need to feel satisfied by knowing the work I do is important - and what is "important" to me may not be important to anyone else and what is important to me now was not important ten years ago and will not be important ten years from now.
I suspect there are several reasons:

1. Cooperatives don't have strong incentives to grow, because growing typically means more people and that means sharing of power, accordingly. Their growth is probably limited by trust.

2. When someone has the ability to start the company, they won't probably want to do it as a cooperative. It's harder to start a good cooperative than just a company. This is a corollary of 1.

3. It's much harder to raise capital for a cooperative because of possibly misaligned incentives. Even though capitalist's companies suffer from principal agent problem too, this is enough to dissuade many potential investors. Since cooperatives are not very common, this is a chicken-egg problem.

4. As someone else mentioned, democracies tend to be pretty conservative. This can be good in the long term, but makes them vulnerable to well-planned short term attacks from the outside.
Skype feels like it runs just as well on my brand new laptop as it used to do on my 9 year old machine.

As in not well at all and whenever any progress has been made with computing speed the Skype team have refactored their app to perform just as poorly on the new hardware.

Also why is the "Skype Home" part of the app just a facebook advert? I don't have an FB account so Skype tells me to get one every time I open it. Seemingly FB is more important than my contacts.
>It is depressing due to the Y-axis not starting on zero

It depends on what the focus of the data is. In this case the emphasis is on the difference between the series', not their relative distance from zero. So there's nothing wrong with truncating the axis, particularly on a line chart; why have a bunch of white-space at the bottom?

Context is everything.
> * Is now owned by Microsoft

This is not negative in itself. I don't like that it's part of a bigger company because of privacy and focus from intelligence agencies and hackers, but that's just me. I could imagine someone else thinking it's positive because it shows professionalism.

Why is this a negative point for you? And why would something like Hangouts be better, or what would you suggest if you wanted to eliminate big companies' products?
Very quick, simple UI - I like it! Where do you pull the event data from?

Btw, you should look into adding a custom icon when bookmarking on an iphone. At the moment it just shows a screenshot of the page.
Can you suggest a link to a list of programming language names that people could use to check this for themselves?
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My thoughts exactly. There have been better alternatives out there for a few years now. Whenever a client or customer requests a Skype call these days, there are always a few raised eyebrows.
Precisely. Like Pidgin using the MSN network, it didn't have any of the problems that Windows Live Messenger had (like shutting down when Microsoft wished it and forcing you over to Skype - the network itself kept running just fine for 2 years after that point).
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This of course boldly assumes that human kind is the main source of carbon emissions, and as boldly assumes that Earth can't really have all this carbon in atmosphere.
Have you tried or looked at GitKraken? Anything but drab!

http://www.gitkraken.com/
I found this blog time ago in Google, searching with terms "mathematics for programmers" I arrived to the article : Why there is no Hitchhiker’s Guide to Mathematics for Programmers http://jeremykun.com/2013/02/08/why-there-is-no-hitchhikers-....
Which I'd recommend to read as entry point to this website if you feel intimidated by maths.
Nice to find it again :)
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I experience similar musical phenomenon, I can even create new, complete songs in my imagination. Though I don't think I have absolute pitch, I play guitar and I can't play what I hear. Or maybe it's because of lack of training, IDK, but I'd really like to bump into some scientific information about this.
> XDGBDS is such an unstandard even xdg-utils doesn't care for it.

:o, TIL

> And Skype predates XDGBDS (let alone whatever the current version of XDGBDS is this week).

Of course, but that's no real excuse for it not to get with the times.

> Also you're wrong, XDG doesn't say stuff should be in specific directories, it defines envvars specifying directories with various defaults,

you are of course right; I overly-condensed my TL;DR. Those are the default directories, yes, but it defines XDG_CONFIG_HOME (~/.config), XDG_CACHE_HOME (~/.cache), etc.

> defaults which are at best only correct on Linux distros which purport to follow XDG, which you can't test for because XDGBDS didn't see fit to define a way to say it.

Another TIL... and that's just crazy.

What about OS policy being that "all shell environments shall be supplied with stock configuration that defines the XDG environment envvars as a sign of compatibility and compliance"? Keep them at ~/.config et al., just define them - because if they're defined, that indicates the environment is very likely to be sanely configured (for (stereo)typical values of "sane").
For me, post-demographic transition population pyramids are much more depressing. We can live without growth. Can we live without us?

Something like https://alfinnextlevel.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/736px-pop...
Indeed. There are lots of apps that cover parts of its functionality, but not all. We keep trying to introduce new alternatives at work, but to date nothing has passed the test.

Calls, group calls, chat, group chat, video, screenshare. For one communications client those are the boxes it needs to tick. Any suggestions?
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All dating sites are moderated, to some degree. At least the mainstream ones. I can't think of one where you start by posting your home phone and address and full name.

You start by sending messages, establish a relationship. Then you elevate it to messaging/calling via other platforms or real world meetings at your own pace.

It's not for concealing that you're a dick (well, it could be), it's more for protecting you from who knows how many people with who knows what intentions. It's not a guarantee, but it's a filter that works fairly well.
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Well, if the first assumption doesn’t hold, we’ll have to restrict our usage even more. Short of dimming the sun, I don’t see how you can keep “all this carbon in atmosphere” and still only get 2°C.
Besides the mention of the original Ruby project you might want to put a link somewhere to the project (maybe in the README.md).

I think I have written something like scientist4j accidentally several times but just using JUnit + Guava Stopwatch + logger + java random. If its critical cpu path I use JMH. I never thought to package it up as a library. scientist4j is basically a benchmarking tool + unit test right? I think though I might be missing something?
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2. Get them to solve captchas or do mechanical turk stuff

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(Tedious disclaimer: my opinions only, not representing anybody else or my employer. I work at Google, not on YouTube)

There is a big difference between paying for one of the support offerings, versus being a free user. The status of free users is approximately: free access to the product but no support. If you want customer service then you need to open your wallet.

It's important to separate "I think the support was bad", which would be very interesting to a lot of people who work here, from "I didn't pay for the product so I didn't receive it". Did you pay for support?
(Even though I'm reading this again) what a great read!
Google App Engine comes to mind. I'm amazed they would kill of such a product at all.
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> still recommending Telegram

I'm not. I'm just saying that the majority of my friends are using it. For me it's better than skype and whatsapp. The GNU/Linux client works fine (although I'm not a big fan of its codebase: I had a look at it and guess what…)
Cool. I am surprised to see events in my not so densely populated area. Where are you getting them from currently? Also, is there some way to see them further out than just today/tomorrow?
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It is often a dialogue and I did mean it but you are right monologue would have been the better word choice given what I explained.

That is I do have conflicting conversations. I meant to discuss that as well. Basically there is a narrator/actor and pundit on the side when reading. It is sort of annoying at times as I will get distracted reading and fixate on some topic with a long drawn out debate in my head.
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You have always been forced to register, but previously it was with a 60 day "trial" before it demanded a key and stopped working.
for industrial settings, i'd imagine they'd (start to) optimize the interior design for the robots capabilities rather than for human aesthetics. Less (or different bandwidth) lighting, doors that communicate with the robot, etc.
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I usually just keep notes in plain text files and save the likes in an organized bookmark directory of folders so I can easily find relevant links. I do like what the other commenter suggested about the markdown files on github though, but I'm not sure what the best way to navigate those would be.
The reliable determination of novelty is an intractable problem.

Empirically, this appears to be true; anecdotally, i know of at least one patent office that has tried to reliably determine novelty and failed, and i know of none that have succeeded. To justify regulation of innovation, the burden of proof should be on those who think that determination of novelty is feasible to show via demonstration that it actually is.

Why is this intractable? Technical knowledge is continually ramifying into an ever-finer tree of subspecialities. Imo a significant proportion of researchers at the cutting edge of knowledge work in areas whose details are only understood by a small number of people in the entire world (~5-30).

Someone outside of this small group will not be able to reliably distinguish novel ideas from non-novel. Yet it is economically infeasible for a government to hire one patent examiner for every one of these subspecialties (this would require the patent office's budget to be a significant fraction of the sum of all research budgets in the entire world).

Therefore any real-world implementation of the patent system will always have an unacceptably high number of bad patents because insufficently specialized examiners will allow patenting of things which are obvious to the (handful of) actual specialists in the given area.

Pharmaceuticals appear to be a special case in that there is a more crisp delineation between chemicals than between ideas.
> like Signal

Or ...Telegram
(search in that page for "Telegram (secret chats)")
... please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait. - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The original title is, "Employee Satisfaction Doesn't Matter".
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Employee satisfaction does matter to a point, as a "hygiene factor" - but yes the author is right, it's not to be confused with "engagement".
As far as I know neither the author of the post on hackernews neither "soroushjp" are not involved in the project, but I am. I've been answering some questions here, so If you have any specific ones, I would like to help :)
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How do you keep all the markdown files organized and easily searchable? Or do you never reference back to them after you've taken the notes?
I think a better analogy for this sort of thing is an unknown location. It's like you took some unencrypted text and hid it in a tree in a national forest. Everyone strongly suspects that the unencrypted text existed in the past. It's just that only one person knows how to access that text in the present.

The problem with the locked box analogy is that it implies that the cypertext is in some way equivalent to the plain text. In practice that isn't really true. If you don't have the key you don't actually have the plain text. Nothing says you can't look for it if you want. You could even hire a company to help you look. Can you force a company to look if that search would be against their business interests?
you know, i stopped using hangouts not long ago. my mobile internet is sometimes really flaky and about 3 month ago messages didn't show up anymore after sending them. just nothing in the history for hours.

eventually (up to 8 hours later) they did show up, mostly at the correct time as well, but that wasnt good enough for me.
IANAL, but I believe the burden is on Apple, not individual employees.

Apple will have however to show that they are doing their best effort, and so will be forced to fire/transfer them to other positions and hire engineers willing to do the job.
I've seen tons of such websites, but they all have the same problem -- lack of content. How are you going to add/discover up-to-date events in tens/hundreds/thousands of cities? It's not feasible doing by hand, and organizers/users are not going to add events to every such website out there. I really hope you have some ingenious solution to this problem, because now, sadly, the best place to look for events is Facebook (that's the only reason I still have an account there).