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I'm aware that places act like that. Fuck 'em.

Barring places that have safety critical requirements for a certain number of staff on hand or something similar, if you can't accommodate sick days, I can't be bothered to hope you stay in business.

I'm not even asking them to be altruistic. If you have people with a fever in the office, they're likely to do shitty work and get someone else sick. It's not even good for the bottom line.
Xorg 1.18, which is what 16.04 is shipping with, doesn't support fglrx, which is why Canonical can't continue to support it.
At 33 I think we definitely have an age problem, but not just in tech. I think all of America has an age problem in wanting to hire younger people who will work harder, longer hours, cost less, potentially use less resources such as health care, and can be disposed of for even younger workers down the line. Older workers are perceived as wanting more money, and will not meld with a younger workforce. I've seen this constantly. Six years with a major defense contractor. Any time my group manager would hire, he would shred anyone who graduated from college before 2000. I think the tech industry exacerbates the perception of younger over better, but it's a nationwide problem.
more like automatic blurry copy of original image :(
All the examples are single frames from movies, so why bother when you can extract perfect 3d using multitude of SFM methods (PTAM/SVO/etc) using whole scenes?
Ahah, yes of course :)
But this also applies to smartphones, and it seems like the trend nowadays is only to make them thinner.
The author was able to cite several reviews that were fairly explicit that they felt the game was a 0/10 due to the inclusion of a transgender character. Glancing through the metacritic page, it appears to be the target of some community's ire and there are several reviews claiming the game espouses "extremist views" or "SJW views". It certainly appears to me that there's some relationship between the reviews and the inclusion of a more diverse cast.
It tastes surprisingly good, although not as good as some of the Ozarka bottled spring water I've had, but almost.

We're going to try and find another remineralization filter, or we might add electrolyte mix instead.

The second lab report was from the isolation of the remineralization filter, and we showed that the turbidity was indeed added by that filter.
After watching House Of Cards, I always imagine the Frank Underwood character coming in to deliver the bad news.
Ooh that first story reminds me of one of my own!

- As a web developer doing mostly ColdFusion (early 2000s and I was in my low 20s) sent to a customer to "help set up some kiosks." Turns out they needed help running network cable. Did my best but it was such a strange experience, and I felt very unprepared. And as luck would have it, I had wrenched my back the night before, and ended up throwing it out while I was shuffling around under desks - I was very embarrassed by that!
I thought most of the benefit can also come from skew tolerant circuit design:

http://www.cerc.utexas.edu/~jaa/vlsi/lectures/23-2.pdf

For example, in a pipeline "allowing a slow stage to “borrow” from the time normally allocated to a faster stage"
My thoughts exactly. Really hope they don't take too long in leaking more powerful targets.
PayPal withdraws from North Carolina because of new LGBT discrimination law
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Cheap excuses to bash America is standard fair on HN. Europe is going to lose their mind when America makes them pay their own way in the world, and it will be very ugly for the poor confused bastards.
It's not a misuse. It's the correct usage. The notion that "begging the question" being used as a piece of debating jargon, is the only possible use or arrangement of those words, is frankly bizarre.

I really wish this foolish "correction" would just go away.
> Which is basically reinventing the wheel for the Xth time, but now with your spin on it.

False. Do you consider calling a function versus setting a property, even if they use the same amount of lines of code, reinventing the wheel? I sure don't. It didn't take long at all for me to write and npm already provides a way to run scripts so I can still do `npm run build`, etc just as if I typed `grunt build`.

> Modern build systems have pretty thriving ecosystems which means less time doing stuff which is out of the development time. Thriving ecosystems mean that many are already familiar with the tools, which means less time for them to get a grasp of your project. And so on and so on. There are many benefits of using commonly used tools besides just running few simple or complex scripts.

The vast, vast, vast majority of Grunt and Gulp plug-ins simply wrap existing libraries, make a call to those libraries with the options you define in Grunt or Gulp and then move to the next step when it's finished. That's it.

When I moved a web app from Grunt to my own script, that still used the same dependencies, the amount of code was almost the same minus all the grunt dependencies.
That's actually not how I read and perceive most of the negative reviews - sure, people are complaining about the SJW and gender politics content on the sidelines; yet the most substantial criticism complains about the poor writing, a series of critical bugs that render the multiplayer modes unplayable, and a very awkward graphics style, thanks to some kind of upscaling/post-effects filter they use to make avatars look more, er, "smooth", or something.

I've been a total Infinity Engine games addict for most of my adolescent and adult life (I'm born in 1985, and played several hundreds, if not a few thousands, of hours of Baldur's Gate (et al.) in my life, mostly in multiplayer sessions with my cousin and friends from school, often spanning the afternoons and evenings of several weeks at a time). I was VERY much looking forward to new content for what is perhaps the most influential computer game I know and cherish, and I was pretty stoked after watching the official trailer last week.

However, because of the flak it received over the last few days, I decided to watch a "Let's Play" video on Youtube instead of just blindly buying it. I witnessed about half an hour of gameplay and story development, and, sadly, that was enough to make it completely clear to me that this add-on doesn't live up to its ancestors' brilliance, and that I won't be buying it. The dialouge feels somewhere between forced and cringe-worthy, and the world Beamdog puts your party in seems like a rather badly thought-out scenario from the get-go (one of your companions from the real BG saga explains to you why you are there and what you'll have to do in the very first dungeon/map in such a poor manner that hearing Imoen's original voice actress speak those lines actually made my heart sink a fair bit...).

It seems to me that it's just a rather bad game, at least compared to its predecessors, and that the developers try to use the Gamergate/SJW-trolls' whining and bashing as grounds to cover that up.
Tangent: if you want to tutor someone, don't tell them things, ask questions. Tons and tons of questions. A majority of the sentences you say should end in a question mark.

Answer questions with more questions. It's annoying, but it works.
This should've been done a decade ago.
HA. Excuse my language: but what the fuck? They literally tried to hack his computer to get his manuscript? Like what were they thinking??

Hopefully that was the craziest story or else that book is gonna wreck them.
Exactly. They cover one side of the coin ("we could never have afforded this in San Francisco!") but not the other side, the person actually LIVING in Portland at the time of the purchase, saying "we can't afford this!"
The thinner the laptop the more practical it is use -- to a point. I've had many laptops but I've never used a laptop more than my Asus ultrabook. It's just so easy to carry around, pack, and grab for even small tasks.
All companies 'could make a fortune' Actually making one is not a sudden event, but a slow one.

Absolutely: hire for skill, and there's a shit tonne of it being ignored outside young men in Silicon Valley.
This only works when there are economies of scale. If there are significant dis-economies of scale smaller firms can out-compete the large firms.

The large firm can't just buy up all the small firms either because new firms are started all the time, and if every person who starts a small firm is rewarded with a buyout, the industry will attract more and more new firms until the large firm can no longer afford to buy out new firms.
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Examples of industries that not dominated by three or four large companies: mining, farming, house cleaning, and being a land lord.
> .. of course.

Its a matter of course that the nature of covert action is that you must lie about it, even after the fact.
Exactly, it's virtue signaling.

This week, it's fashionable to attack and punish North Carolina.
Next week, it will be somewhere else, probably also in the US.

But Paypal will never cease business in Saudi Arabia or anywhere in the Muslim world where the government executes gay people.

We shouldn't celebrate or support people "standing for their beliefs" when they're not actually risking anything.
But that number takes into account the capital that companies park overseas to avoid the nominal rate. So it's not a good counterargument to the idea that companies park money overseas to avoid the nominal rate.

Put another way, the low effective rate doesn't disprove that 35% is too high--it demonstrates the effect of having such a high nominal rate.

It would be better to have a competitive nominal rate. Then companies would move their capital based on business, not tax, reasons.

For example, the U.S. tax rate provides an incentive for overseas manufacturing. If Apple moves capital from Ireland to China to invest in a new Foxconn factory, they pay a lower tax rate than if they moved the same amount of capital from Ireland to Texas to invest in a new factory there. Even if all the business costs were same between China and Texas, China would win on the tax costs.

It's an impediment to bringing more manufacturing jobs back to the U.S., and a one-time tax holiday will not solve it. The rate needs to be permanently lowered. Unfortunately the people most upset about the decline of U.S. manufacturing jobs tend to see the corporate tax rate as a tool of justice, and therefore reject lowering the rate on principle.
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I must confess this was a fascinating article. Voyeurism is one of those weird things that I think most people deride, but wouldn't hesitate to participate should the opportunity arise.
What does this have to do with Google?
> They've declared the lifetime of the product to be complete and shut it down.

Is there a reasonable expected lifetime, say if this leads to a class action lawsuit? It seems a bit ridiculous to me that a small consumer electronic thing would have such a thing, but aren't there consumer protections in place for something like a car? I'm thinking there are, but I could be off base. What if Tesla decides one day that your car's time is up...is there something more substantial to protect the consumer, or is it really arbitrary?
I'm surprised to see that they don't - it seems standard to retry on failure, waiting longer and longer between each attempt.

Some sort of pubsub queue would be awesome - pull (or have them pushed), and process them on demand. If something breaks, retry when you want.
Wow, you really just tried to dismiss arguments by throwing up a moon-landing conspiracy theorist straw man. Amazing.
it's a vicious circle

this is where there's a role for regulation to break the loop
When I was 26, I'm sure I would have said "grey hair and experience are over-rated". Now, at 42, I realize how much more effective I am now, compared to when I was younger - due to the additional knowledge and experience I have. The thing is, "you don't know what you don't know".

All of that said, I agree with the sentiment that a good team should be made up of a mixture of people of different ages and experience levels.
Reproducible builds help with 3) as well. There was just an announcement re that a few days ago: https://whispersystems.org/blog/reproducible-android/
They installed back doors, he has to trash them anyway
I'd argue that this could vary depending on locale. I lived in Atlanta for five years, and a clear majority of my Uber drivers were black.
> What's the next step?

Is there any work on encrypting group chat sessions?
Seems like he didn't expect the extent of the protests at all. I think this is a case where we are aided by social networks. It is easier than ever to not only rally large groups, but also inspire others.
In the US you pretty much have to have an FBI investigation and pending or filed charges, and foil-wrapped bundles of hundred dollar bills in the freezer, before anyone has to resign. Brazen in politics is a feature.
Is there any reasonable way to verify that end-to-end encryption is actually being used, and used correctly? From a user's point of view the app looks and works exactly the same as before, except for the addition of a QR code which could be doing anything.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude
If you're not interested in management,
don't have a four year degree,
and not good on-the-spot/whiteboard etc,
you're in for a hard time getting hired as an aging developer,
even if up to date technically.

Don't let it happen to you. Choose one or two of those to focus on and change.
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You can also just get out of the cab. I usually throw em any cash if I have it on me but not my fault you just drove me to the airport and forgot to mention your card machine doesn't work.
Technically he hasn't been publicly accused of doing anything illegal.

Someone would have to make the case that his holdings in this offshore company actually did influence the decisions made regarding the banks during the crisis, and nobody is doing that just yet.
And further shorten that to

echo '<h1>Change Me</h1>' | vimify 'norm vitcOK I Will'
Thanks.

As an aside, what's with Nietzsche? He seems to crop up in your screenshots quite frequently.
It's still stupid though. It's like raiding the mailman's house for delivering an illegal letter with no return address. Sure, it could have been sent by the mailman, but it could have been sent by anyone. There isn't any more reason to suspect the exit node operators than anyone else in the whole world who could also have used the exit node.
What I find amazing is the size of the crowd that turned out
mere hours after the leaks were publicized.

http://icelandmag.visir.is/article/many-22000-gathered-deman...

Imagine the political scandal required in the USA for more than 8
million people to turn out in less than a day to protest anything.
FYI: I've tried it out (it seemed too good to be true) but it worked: I've created a website and the repo itself is private. How cool ist that? :)
I sort of feel the same way. The whole "prettiness" thing seems like a bit of a fetishism more than about productivity. Sort of like how people fetishize "inbox zero" (but in that case I do see the productivity gain).

I want my git history to be like my server logs, verbose. I can use tooling to reduce the noise and find what I need.
this is huge. I hope they'll be able to keep it turned on.
Iceland doesn't mess around, man. He's lucky they aren't still resolving disputes via blood feud. :)
Please read the articles. It already says that those are encrypted, as well as voice calls. Apparently once everyone is upgraded, nothing will be unencrypted. Their white paper also describes the protocols used in quite a lot of detail.
They've gone on record saying they're not liable for any criminal activity used by their coins, which lends me to believe that they'll unmask and turn anyone over if subpoenaed.
moxie: Does this mean that both Facebook and Signal servers are unable to see the plaintext?

(I would assume so, but I would like to have it confirmed. From someone who actually knows what he's talking about.)
not agreeing with the comment you replied to, but what i find different between us and Iceland is:

Their people mobilized aggressively against corruption twice now.

Our people have not, not for the banks, not for the NSA leaks, and we probably will not for this
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An interesting idea, although I don't think I would use it myself. I wouldn't want to post a lot of stuff about my late friend/relative on some site on the Internet. Somehow, it wouldn't feel right. Death and mourning are things that you talk about, face to face, with good friends who share the loss - not something you come to terms with on a "graveyard Facebook". However, perhaps not everybody thinks the same...

Just out of curiosity: how do you plan to make money?
https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs/860725
Thanks for the pointer. I'm just starting to toy with the idea of shifting focus towards technical writing, and never would've thought of contributing to MDN (though I've referenced it often enough, of course). I'll give it a look once registration opens back up.

Can you recommend any other resources that've helped you along the way?
Wow -- the author, Dan Lyons, has quite a background including Senior Editor at Forbes magazine, "Fake Steve Jobs", and writing an episode of Silicon Valley. He also wrote strongly in favor of SCO in its legal battle against IBM, only to admit later that he had been "profoundly wrong."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Lyons
> It's a shame to see key words be killed off by internationalisation concerns [....] I hope further research here can develop better replacements for encoding short binary strings in i18n friendly ways

I rather like the urbit way of encoding numbers. I can't remember the exact details but it's something like: There are 256 unique three letter words (all nonsense, but deliberately picked to be possible to pronounce). Each word is mapped to a byte and then a blob of binary data becomes a nonsense word.

So for example "tasfyn-partyv" instead of "1242B24A".
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I think he was talking about a work system that the senior dev was mostly responsible for, not the senior dev's personal server.

I completely disagree with the idea that a work box should ever "belong" to someone.

Cattle not pets, man.
Hang on. If it reduces taxable income, that's not the same as topping up. You were right in the first part where you said it's a tax credit. But those subtract from your tax owed, not your taxable income, a difference that's important because it's a pretty large sum in dollars.

Here's a simplified model to illustrate:

Wlog, suppose the US charges a straight m rate per dollar, country X charges n. Suppose first k dollars of an expat are untaxed by the US.

Let's say the expat makes j dollars, an equivalent US citizen in the US makes the same, and so too a citizen of X.

The citizen of X is taxed nj by X, the US citizen resident in the US is taxed mj, and the expat would be charged (j-k-nj)×m by the US and nj by X for a total of m(j-k-nj) + nj if it were a deduction to taxable income.

Notably if there's no fixed deduction, every tax rate causes you to pay more than otherwise.
geez. i hadn't seen that tweet. crazy. i would love to consider gitlab as an alternative. need to plan on migrating my repos and gists over first. i can't support that type of culture. not today. not ever.
But the traffic after cloudflare's proxy is plaintext right?

I know CloudFlare has better thing to do than sniffing websites but I don't see the point of installing an SSL certification using clouflare or any other third-party which will handle traffic the way they do. You don't own the certificate, they do.
What next? Will they open-source the client?
I would imagine, when it happens, it's usually either an attorney or the military.
You're missing my point: hiring skilled, older employees as a strategy is not going to make or break your company. It's just probably not relevant to the ultimate success of the company, because you will be able to hire skilled employees in general if you are on a strong growth trajectory.
That's great! I had missed the test0 procedure text, but it did seem clear after reading it.
It hasn't stopped them from hiring white men, don't worry
>The author was able to cite several reviews

If that's not the very definition of cherry picking...
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> Robinson admits it might be safer, legally, to host the Tor relay on rented space from a commercial Internet service to avoid mingling his personal traffic with Tor, but he says he shouldn't have to.

It'd probably be safer still setup a nonprofit group to own and run the exit node(s).
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There is no reason why we can't create an entire new computing paradigm that does respect our historic conventions around privacy though.

I gave a talk about such conversational languages [1] at ClojureD last month if you're interested...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD-Dtr9j0f4
Even in droughts?

In Indiana most corn fields have some movable watering things (like http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/field-irrigation-system-34543...). They don't get used much, but in a few week dry spell they might get used for a day to keep the corn alive.
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Nice! Thank you
More comments on the earlier article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11423411
The only reason I've ever heard for saving taxis is that they paid for medallions and should benefit to the exclusion of people who weren't allowed to buy medallions.

I'm happy to let their graft payments go to waste. Those who collaborate with such rules don't deserve our protection in the end.
Many problems with this article.

"A software engineer in Austin earning $110,000 would need to make $195,000 in San Francisco to maintain the same quality of life"

Would they? They point out the median in the bay area is $118k, but there's no indication that the median in Austin is $110k; maybe they just pulled that number out of thin air?

They cite slowing tech employment growth in SF, but it seems clear that it's a result of near-0 tech unemployment.

They talk about the exodus "in the past year" as if it suddenly started happening; people have been bitching about the most recent cycle for years, but it's been going on for decades.

"They've become tech hubs in their own right in a way they weren't three to five years ago"

What?

"We bought a beautiful Craftsman home in an awesome neighborhood and that just would not have been possible in San Francisco."

I have no problem with people moving and displacing others, but you have to be clear that the reason you can afford that is bringing the fruits of a higher-cost-of-living area to a lower-cost-of-living one, not because it's inherently more affordable for people who actually (already) live there. In this case, he's .. moving his company? So I guess he's able to keep his pay the same (??).
Im still amazed how people actually have time for this SJW stuff in the actual real world.
Foreign taxes are effectively a business expense for corporations in the US, since the foreign tax credit allows them to not pay taxes on the taxes paid to foreign countries.

I think this makes sense. If I live in the US and make some product and sell it in Germany, then whatever profit I bring home from Germany (less German taxes) is still an income that was effectively earned in the US, since I am living and working here. The business transactions occurred in Germany, but the income was 'earned' by my labor in the US.

From this point of view, a territorial tax system is a subsidy designed to make goods more competitive in foreign markets. (Since I don't have to pay taxes on foreign profits, I can lower the price I charge overseas.)