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Are you looking for a bootable iso to have a live system to play with, or just prepare the install media ?

If it's for a live system, I'd recommend setting up a VM on your current host, and do the install in there.

For the install media, the OpenBSD FAQ lays it all out [1]. As the OS supports multiple platforms, there is information that you do not need (sparc, sparc64, ...). To install on amd64 from a bootable USB, download the installXX.fs from a mirror (where XX is the version), verify the checksums and run :

dd if=installXX.fs of=/dev/sdX bs=1M

Beware of tutorials -- very often, they are valid for a given version of OpenBSD and may fall out of date.

Section 9 from the OpenBSD FAQ is called "Migrating to OpenBSD", so I guess it's a good start.

If you don't want to read the whole FAQ first, then read just enough to install the base system. When you've achieved that, read the afterboot and packages manpages, and again enough of the FAQ to proceed with the other tasks you want to do (configure networking, the firewall, ...).

[1] http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#MkInsMedia
> As long as you have enough, having more is not worth the hassle.

For money, 'Enough' is FU money (i.e. not having to work again in your life).
I never had the privilege of using clearcase - what is so bad about it?
Hanlon’s Razor and the Infuriating H-1B Visa System
> "1 bad hire is worse then 100 good ones"

I don't think that's quite right!

(Or at least, it's so obviously right that it can't possibly be the "now-popular attitude" you mean.)
Nothing. But some people can't control their urge to cry wolf.
Yea, I would suspect this is true as well.
Upenn had some sleep studies that were looking this idea, I'n not sure how mature the research was/is though.
At least they got the correct result.
I like this sort of thing considering how much of my own code gets replaced even me over just six months on a project. I doubt I'll ever make anything that'll stick around longer than a couple years. So, it's nice to see someone actually creates something that stays around longer than just a year.
At the moment these businesses in the USA can't even use the banks. There are some large growers in Canada that are listed on the TSX. Aphria Inc., Mettrum Health Corp., Canopy Growth Corp., which owns two of Canada’s biggest licensed marijuana producers, Tweed and Bedrocan.

It seems growers who supply the retail outlets will be the way to go.
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> Well, except the public, but they are never a concern in these decisions.

I don't think the public would win from an NPR/PBS belt-tightening.
> If you really mean globally, then inequality is in fact falling.

No.

Inequality is decreasing between nations as the developing world catches up with the west. But inequality within nations -- even developing nations -- is increasing. It's possible for inequality to increase as the the developing world catches up to the west; in fact, that's exactly what's happening.

So the old geographical distributions are very slowly eroding, but they are being replaced by obscene levels of inequality within individual borders. This trend is exacerbated -- especially in Europe -- by tax evasion and avoidance managed (and practiced) by large fintech companies. So the author's fear that concentrating power in the hands of a few large fintech firms would exacerbate global inequality -- and lessen nation states' ability to combat inequality with policy -- is well-founded in global trends.

edit: Instead of downvoting, go read François Bourguignon's "Inequality and Globalization: How the Rich Get Richer as the Poor Catch Up", which states exactly the thesis outlined above and contains pointers to the data sets used to arrive at these conclusions.
Speed of setup, and a standard stack everyone knows.

You don't argue over which email server you use, you just setup Exchange.

You don't argue over nginx, apache, etc just use IIS.

It's also configured quite well out of the box, where as Linux you spend several days getting it all configured to perfection.

When you just want to focus on the business problem at hand, I find it brilliant. Where as in other stacks you get caught up in technology, for technologies sake.

I find you can go from 0 to release a lot faster.
Can I ask what location this is? It's vastly different to my experience of the contracting environment in the UK.
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These are two different things:

1. Hi, my name is John, I am contacting you on behalf of wojt_eu to confirm that he has been added to the "Cool New Project" as lead DEV.

2. Hi, it's me wojt_eu, I just wanted you to confirm that I've been added to the "Cool New Project" as lead DEV.

You can legally authorize someone to act on your behalf, in basically any Western Nation - although rules as to how this work will vary, but authorizing someone to impersonate you I don't believe would be made legal anywhere because impersonation is not just something one does on your behalf but also something one does to someone else. Both the person that acts on the impersonation as being real and the person being impersonated can be harmed by an impersonation, and therefore it is not adequate that the person being impersonated gives the impersonator the right to do so.
An Open Letter to First Year Computer Science Majors
Yes, we took a statistical mechanics course senior year, deriving Gibbs free energy from buckets of 1s and 0s, etc. Brutal class.
What? Openfire has had XEP-0136 for literally years. I think a little over a decade, actually. It's only recently implemented XEP-0313.
Oh yes, truly pointless. Much like their insistence that they can get by without version control really. The team has already pushed back on something that no professional software development team can get by without, and even the most amateur of software projects use. I mean, you need to ask yourself why they are so stressed and you know they aren't using version control?!? Cry me a river!
That was posted in 2011, is there an update? In my opinion such structures make it difficult to raise funding, and in highly fluid markets such as the one Balsamiq operates in, a well funded competition can easily crush you. I have seen several employee owned companies in Healthcare Policy/Research (E.g. Mathematica Policy or SSS), where they are funded by a constant stream of government contracts/grants which are intimately tied to the company and with very low probability of a competitor winning them.
In the entertainment business.
> having 13 years of practical experience means that I won't take a job for $60k

Where are you based? If you're in the US and you have as much experience as you say you do, even if you're in places that aren't major tech hubs, you should be able to find remote work that pays more than $60k/year.

> That will teach me to not memorize algorithms I haven't used since college.

The debate about the merits of algorithm-driven interviews aside, the fact is that most companies still do this for their interviews. This is starting to change, but slowly. When I was last looking for a job, every company but one[0] asked questions about complexity classes at some point during the interview stage. Unlike the last time I was on the interview circuit, though, more than half had at least one question that was explicitly focused on something else - so it's changing, but still slowly.

So, while it may be information you never access again while on the job, if it's the knowledge that will secure you that well-paying job in the first place, consider it a worthy ROI.

[0] incidentally, the one I ended up working for
c and ℏ don’t encode any physics, they just fix measuring units.
Actually it’s common to choose units s.t. ℏ = c = 1.
I bet you can hire a tax preparer in California. That is someone hired to represent you and do things on your behalf for tax purposes. That is a highly regulated financial specialist though.

In principle it sounds similar. The details do matter though. Did they provide reasonable explanation of what they were doing? Did they attempt to do this in secret? Did they misrepresent anything? Are they any laws saying a person cannot sign away liability for things like this?
Thanks, just deleted it.
Who is using DevOps?
How dynamic is your application? The answer is heavily dependent. If your application is mostly static, you can just use a tool that can convert CSS selectors to XPath selectors and scan your site for those elements. If your site is highly dynamic, the solution is much more difficult and likely involves a certain level of browser automation.
My sympathies.
I'm guessing their magnetism will be worn down by use (they're standard magnetized permamagnets), but it will happen over years in normal circumstances. The time depends on heat, currents (should be minimal) and opposing magnetic forces (relatively small here). Also impacts.
You're young and have no family.
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So either XMPP is bad because it hasn't changed for years and is therefore old, or else XMPP is bad because there's new replacements for stuff that didn't work so well.

Honestly, there's some days I wonder if there's any way to win.
Maybe the people creating the 'hostile' environment weren't the people enjoying themselves, but the people being...hostile?
I'd love to have only electronic money. It would have so many advantages.

BUT:

The risks of it and the potential for misuse are so many, that all advantages of electronic money are not worth to go in this direction. We are in a situation today, where privacy is one of the greatest assets we have and should preserve. When we loose it, we very likely loose our freedom and essential democracy. Instead we might get a "democracy" that is controlled by opinion-formers and big corporations that make money with our privacy.
Yeah basically just sort yourself some Sativa instead of Indica. It's almost like a whole new drug. I much prefer it, plus sex on it is utterly amazing.
Previous discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11318461
Reserving your Model 3
That article reveals a story that's one facepalm after another. An example of the worst "rockstar founder" attitude backed by apparently clueless investors.

> Powa occupied two floors of the prestigious Heron Tower at the heart of the city of London, and had equally lavish accommodation in Hong Kong, New York and across Europe.

Before having established proper cash flow?! When all their "sales" were just "letters of intent". How were investors even remotely convinced it was a good deal?

> One of the more printable comments is this: "You don't employ intelligent, highly experienced people to treat them like something unpleasant under your shoe by telling them to forget everything they know, as your way isn't working"

I wonder what the staff turnover was like? The only time I worked for a CEO who treated his employees with that little respect, they had a 90%/2 years turnover. No one was prepared to stick around and support someone who would send motivational emails saying "Ask not what your company can do for you, ask what you can do for the company" as the CEO was screwing up sales deals. I always wondered if he'd ever figure it out. Even burned my bridge there trying to help him understand what was going on during the exit interview.

> According to several former employees, at one Christmas bash in Mayfair, strippers were hired to perform, to the discomfort of many present.

Grew up idolising the worst aspects of Yuppie culture?

> "While the company was going under, he's fooling around in a photography studio pretending to be Ziggy Stardust. The guy is a narcissistic idiot."

Certainly sounds like it...
I think it's the opposite for me, using cash makes it way easier to get an idea of how much I spend. I use the ATM three times per month with 100 pounds each so 300 pound/month in normal expenses. With card I would need to to an addition of everything per month.
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I think cubano is referring to the mindset that "it's better to skip over 100 good people than to hire one bad apple" which is very silly but a common attitude in certain kinds of organisation.
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Why Am I Right-Handed?
4) Assumption: companies have one and one only type of customer / product.
Here in France, part of the mandatory curriculum to be a pharmacist (druggist) is to learn about mushrooms. Therefore they have a duty to identify -for no charge- the mushrooms you bring them. You do not have to be a customer. And I really mean every pharmacy. They all have a huge mushroom encyclopaedia to make sure in case of doubt.

I used to bring psilocybes to my local pharmacy when I started to search for them and was not quite sure yet what they exactly look like. I got bad looks but was never sent away without safe information.
If you live in a country with excessive quotas (and you can't lobby your government to put a stop to it), you can always stop seeding after your ratio is 1:1 (or 2:1 if you're feeling generous), which should hardly have a huge effect on your bill. That's all the network needs to be healthy if everybody does it, and if you live in a country with a terrible quota you can leave making up for the jerks who don't seed at all to people who don't have that problem.
I'm expecting a response from angel list here. If one does not happen in closing my account.
"Windows greybeards" who originally came from DOS also know the whole thing about navigation etc. I admit that for a long time (before Powershell was introduced) the default shells of GNU/Linux were far better than cmd.exe of Windows NT (not even to speak of command.com of Windows 9x). Whether with Powershell this is still the case or not is yours to decide.
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One option is to adopt Nosh as the init system, as it can digest systemd unit files.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwa...
People say this in every thread about hiring, and it never makes any sense to me at all.

Companies that don't hire using objective at-home tests hire instead with grueling on-site interviews that knock out an entire business day (most of them last a whole business day, some recent interviews peers have gone on have taken multiple business days, and all of them at the very least kill the day for anything else). The latter is obviously worse than the former; I don't even see how any other argument could be colorable.

What I'm beginning to think is that this kind of pushback comes mostly from developers who are well-connected, and so they never experience the grind that less well-connected but equally-capable developers do with interviews.

Yes: if you're at a point in your career where you can get a job in any of 6-7 different companies just by raising your hand, saying "I'm available", and having a 30 minute conversation with the VP/Engineering who you worked with 2 jobs ago, everything is a waste of time. I am not here to tell you that you should make things harder for yourself.
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The constitution doesn't have the word privacy anywhere in it. And the 4th amendment is worded as a specific protection against " searches" and "seizures" not surveillance.
What's your take on this - that body language is meaningless?
Oh, you are right! I didn't know!

http://europe.newsweek.com/marijuana-and-old-amsterdam-30821...
Or maybe hide some other information about other candidates that don't match their opinions, takes their profits?
Most Popular Theories of Consciousness Are Worse Than Wrong
I have another idea why we sleep: the reason lays in physics, it happens because the sun is not shining all the day. So the living creatures had to create a mechanism to be more active while daylight. That is why all “garbage collection” activities were moved from daylight activity to the night.
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There is a "selective prosecution" defense [1]. In tax law, there is a "selective enforcement" defense [2].

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

[2] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1933943
There is a time-salary curve where it's socially acceptable to be a beginner. If your years of experience or salary are great enough, it takes a very honest, humble, and rare person to say "Look, I see and hear everything you're showing me. I clearly have no idea what I'm doing. Help."

The most important part of the article is this:

> ...and for whatever reason doesn’t have much interaction with peers?

At some point you need to be shown what you don't know, and it's very rare for that to be a self-guided learning experience.
Well, they are millionaires for a reason.
Actually, for actors it does. If you go to a casting session, you should get payed for it. That's because they had a first chance to filter you out and they are not entitled to waste people's time. For the first filter, they use their CV and their reel (video of the actor showing itself).

I think that the same rules should apply for programming jobs. Just look at my resume and my publicly available code (that is linked from my resume). If you decide I am good enough to interview me, pay a reasonable hourly rate. This would stop the abusive practice of giving big problems to solve in our free time.
Medical school hopefuls are a major source, probably the major source, of biology undergrads, and the pre-reqs for medical school, with few exceptions, are standardized under the AAMC. It's 2 semesters of calc, no stats required.

And quite frankly, the PPV trope is just that, a trope. The biostatisticians found a little trick to lord over their masters. If you only have 15 seconds to solve after reading the question, and you know you only do this once every 6 months, and you know most people get it wrong, answer C, next question.

Christ, the story that docs suck at stats is part of medical education. They don't teach biostatistics, they teach "you suck at biostats".
> I think we're starting to see the need for 'laborer' programmers. There's a lot of relatively unskilled glue/laborious coding that needs to be done. When you need someone to hammer a bunch of code out for you, you don't need an experienced and flexible software engineer as much as you need a kid with a well-trodden neural pathway that lights up when they write code in your tech stack.

What do you think those indian programmers were doing for the past decade?
subtle helpful nudge about that being the joke
You mean like telling women we're wrong for feeling things people normally feel, such as wanting to be seen as equally capable when we are? Telling us we're wrong for feeling things people normally feel, such as enjoying coding and playing video games? Telling us we're wrong for feeling things people normally feel, such as frustrated when we're marginalized. Telling us we're wrong for feeling things people normally feel, like sensing we're being patronized when a conference holds a session specifically about telling us we're included and wanted in the industry, but the celebration of the conference assumes that everyone attending is a hetero male and reenforces the industry's not-so-subtle inference that women's primary value to it is in their sexuality?

What about asking people to be respectful and empathetic to people who tend to get treated differently from how they do is the same as telling people they're evil for existing and being people?
Agree that this is the exact opposite of my experience as a contractor in the UK. I work as a contractor because the money is much better and because I have access to a wide variety of interesting projects. In the UK the contractors have the power - the companies I work for would hire me full time if they could.
Or even better on the frivolous spending, the "I don't have enough on me right now" situation. If it's really important, you'll come back. If you need to trim your purchase from the grocery store to match what's in your wallet, the stuff you didn't really need factors in.

It makes you MUCH more conscious of how much things cost because you don't want to get to the checkout and be short.
do you see any difference between these two statements:

"John Fraser has just added you as an employer, can you confirm? -Linkedin"

"I'd like to add you as an employer on linkedin, can you confirm! -John Fraser"
You can replace "trendy" with "good cultural fit" in many places. Cultural fit is arguably the most important factor in hiring someone. From my network, I see a hugely different culture at Microsoft and Google. Just saying.
I have a Thnkpad T430 currently running Antergos (Arch based) Linux. It is an i5 with 4gb and a 256 SSD. It has the 1400 x 900 screen which looks great. I got the machine new on eBay and it came with the docking station which is useful when at a desk. I have personally only ever purchased Thinkpads as they last really well and have great keyboards.

For my day job I have a PC Specialist Cosmos IV (https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/cosmosIV-15/) maxed out with a Full HD IPS screen, 16gb, SSD & traditional disks and it is currently running Windows 8.1. It's a good PC replacement and I have used PC Specialist for about 10 years for work laptops. I have to say this is the first one I have had some concerns about as the keyboard is wearing out after 18 months. My first one from them lasted through 4 years at my first start-up where I was using it 6 days a week 12 hours a day.
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I seriously doubt marijuana consumers tolerate harmful chemical additives. I expect marijuana businesses to behave about as badly as the average business, but I doubt they'll manage to be as hideously evil as the tobacco companies.

And what do you mean they're used under similar circumstances?
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A good conversation of "why we should fear a cashless world" should at least mention the Book of Revelation and the Book of Daniel in The Bible. It would be negligent to omit them from discussion like this.
It would be nice to see a feature diff with itext.
Yeah, this really affects old non-degreed codgers like myself. I find it difficult to get "a foot in the door", but luckily my performance always leads to comfortable retention once I do. As I get older though, that's going to get much more difficult.
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Every team I've talked to starts out with some X-factor they think they need to assess for. It's my belief that if you can have the discipline to stop filtering for X-factors, you'll build better, more effective teams, because those factors are really just vectors for personal biases.

Regardless of whether you agree with me about that, I think we can all stipulate that if work-sample technical evaluations work (and: they do), most of what companies try to evaluate in on-site interviews is stupid. No part of working effectively with a team requires timed recall of how to implement a stable quicksort, or reversing a doubly linked list at a whiteboard.

At the very least, using work sample tests allows you to build an on-site interview process that honestly engages with "team fit" (or whatever your X-factor is).

My guess, though, is that when more teams adopt work samples and then go through the motions of trying to design a pure team-fit interview, they're going to realize --- once they don't have "implement Bellman-Ford on this whiteboard" to fall back on --- how unequipped they always were to evaluate team-fit in the first place.
Google it for the morbid curiosity

It is basically made to be sold to bosses by a high price