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Staffs and Permanents are very well paid, even Fellows considering you pay no taxes and you get free UNICA healthcare which is insanely good compared to what you get in Switzerland (it's worth 1.2k CHF monthly, can cover your whole family).

It often does sucks if you work at CERN for some university, the salary then depends on their rates, and often you don't know where you will be in 2 years, but you still get UNICA + no taxes...

Then the problem is that getting a staff or permanent position is very hard, then again CERN cannot hire half the world, it's a matter of needs, From what I witnessed most people just take CERN as a stepping stone and move on, unless you're one of the lucky few to get a staff (and you're ok with gambling 5 years to get a permanent).
even though i'm a singaporean here, i have no comments about that article

it's just...meh
And that's exactly why guarantees are so effective for sellers. It takes that risk off the customers shoulder, and due to the "Oh, it'd be embarrassing to refund this app, since that means I made a mistake", very few people actually go through with the guarantee.

One pitch I found pretty neat goes roughly as follows.

Buy <product> now, and if within (30|90|365) days you at any point feel unsatisfied with it, feel free to ask for full refund, no questions asked, and you get to keep our <marginal cost 0 infoproduct>, valued X$, as a gift from us for trying it out.

Short breakdown of it.

"Buy <product> now" - bog standard call to action
"(30|90|365) days" - if the product is any good, longer guarantees usually reduce returns, since they give more time to grow on the product and forget the guarantee date.
"feel unsatisfied" - eg. you don't even need a reason to return it
"full refund" - that's pretty d'uh now, try a 110% refund for extra excitement
"no questions asked" - eg. we're not going to hassle you for trying to use this. you will not feel stupid.
"get to keep <infoproduct>" - even if you opt out, you get something
"valued X$" - with a home made infoproduct, that value is pulled straight from the posterior, but gives a value anchor

And suddenly that 3000$ product seems less risky than a 2$ app.
Maybe that's because most apps are garbage.
I do not eat breakfast. Please do not ask me any questions about what I will do breakfast. Please just do not bring it up.

It's one thing not to want to eat breakfast, but making it a taboo subject seems extreme.
> It's the OS zeroing everything - learn something very day

No, the operating system (kernel, actually) does not zero out anything. The runtime linker would be the one initializing static memory declared in the ELF BSS sections at execution time. The rest (including the stack and heap) is setup by the prologue (crti.o, depending on the OS crt1.o, and crts.o).
My first guess is decoupled drivers with an abstraction that the actual dropbox client service uses. One driver for windows, one for mac. Though I don't know if you can do user mode filesystems on those, but there is this: https://dokan-dev.github.io/ Or else they may have used some fs event notification library to intercept access to files, but I think that would be harder (impossible? IDK win32/mac) to do than a filesystem.
It cannot be metric ton, because "mT" is not a SI unit.
rss had two major hurdles that made it difficult for people to pick up.

1) there was no collaborative space for teams to work together to create feed mixes. No service I know of became popular that allowed team of 7 people to moderate the member feeds of a metafeed. This harmed discovery.

2) Deduplication was usually a human task. Techmeme really spoiled me. It was impossible to see what other people had already marked as duplicate "aggregations" of an original story.

these two together basically meant that EVERY person who used rss reinvented the wheel. You couldnt latch on to other peoples work like you can subscribe to a subreddit. Twitter has a similar problem, it lacks collaboratively maintained lists. It kind of blows my mind how neglected the idea of a "run your own slashdot/techmeme with friends" is.

i probably sound like a shill by now, but redef.com seems to be moving in the right direction.
May I ask what desktop environment you use, and what you usually use this for?

I ask because a good DE should remember the settings pertaining to each monitor configuration (display positions of course, but also things like panels placed in secondary monitors). I've been using Plasma (KDE) for about a year and it handles this reasonably well.
We're in Canada and have been cable cutters for almost five years now. We've gotten by on Netflix US and YouTube with the occasional pirated streaming site, but we're barely ever using Netflix anymore.

We've turned to Kodi. We don't want to pirate, but it's hard to make a compelling argument against it when you get everything you want even easier than torrents.

Add to that the abusive monopolies of Shaw and Bell, who each now have their own streaming subscriptions, services like Hulu and HBO Now either being blocked here or controlled by Shaw or Bell, and the Netlix subscription increasing by 50% in May for a lacklustre catalogue.

With all of that, the three movies I go to the cinema to see each month, and my Netflix subscription, it's hard not to feel like I pay my share for content. Not a popular opinion, I'm sure, but I'm not getting a dozen streaming services subscriptions.
You might be surprised, when I first discovered you could sell trading cards I listing all the ones I'd collected and made ~£30.
Why is it a thing to change jobs every 3-5 years. Seems like only a software developer thing
Well, I guess it depends on how you use steam. If I sold all my CS:GO skins, TF2 items, and trading cards, I'd have several hundred USD.
I'm guessing that was added the 1000th time he was asked about breakfast, this one last host being very pushy about it.
Would be cool if some services allowed you to sign up for one month at a time, with a renewal-by-single-click close to the end of each expiry period, kind of exactly like ordering beers one at a time until you're done.
Sometimes high profile presenters and event coordinators put rather odd things in riders as a quality control check to make sure the sponsor is being thorough. I'm not sure if this is Stallman's intent but it sure sounds like it.

There is a famous rider meme concerning Van Halen. When they toured they required M&M's in their dressing room with the brown ones taken out. They didn't particularly care about M&M's. They just wanted to make sure the organizer was reading the rider.
If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them....maybe you can hire The A-Team.
It is either a kernel-mode filesystem, or a user-mode. I dont think that this is possible with an other approach, but IDK that well win32 and mac.
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Yes, that's what's I meant, how would you develop it on Windows vs OS X etc? What options are available on those platforms?
"t the market for talent is an international one and the good engineers wil move to the high paying jobs."

you assume that getting a visa is easy. Often impossible or insanely difficult.
> making it a taboo subject seems extreme

We're talking about Stallman here, the guy doesn't do things by halves.
> In some places, my hosts act as if my every wish were their command. By catering to my every whim, in effect they make me a tyrant over them, which is not a role I like. I start to worry that I might subject them to great burdens without even realizing.

Then:

> I do not eat breakfast. Please do not ask me any questions about what I will do breakfast. Please just do not bring it up.
Interesting... I just checked and apparently I'm on a grandfathered free plan that can still unsync. Didn't know they changed it.

For me, it's still more than just a feature addition though - I use odrive for all my cloud storage accounts. It's all under one roof. Your mileage may vary, of course.
I don't think that's the case with Stallman. That makes sense when you put in one thing as a quality control check, but he seems to genuinely just be very, very particular about lots of things.
Meh... https://github.com/joe42/CloudFusion
The "compare by front first" method sounds quite like a prefix tree.
Trov might just made insurance fun
> If you're sitting close to someone you're attracted to and you turn to stare into their eyes and they don't smile back or snuggle closer or lick their lips or do something

That's afterwards. I was asking about the general explicit consent concept, which is one must ask explicitly before escalating.
Not sure I understand...these are only accidents in which both a car and truck were involved.

The definitive thing you would want, I assume, is "at-fault accidents per xxx miles driven" for all accidents, segmented by vehicle type.
Hasn't this been round loads of times? Shouldn't we have the video of him eating something off his shoe too?

Even though the rider is incredibly extensive, I don't think any of it is particularly unreasonable. He's just specifying exactly how he wants things to work, just like you might other kinds of protocol.

Friend of mine looked after RMS at an event. RMS was one of his heroes, he said it was very humbling to discover that they didn't get along at all.
Not to mention that talking about your plans appears to decrease the odds of you doing them

https://sivers.org/zipit
There's so much in there that I can't help thinking got added because it happened at some point in the past, like his demand that you not buy a parrot just because he's visiting and like parrots.
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This article will not change anything. By the time our day end we will have been bombarded by so much other information that it will just be one more forgotten thing.

And there's so much things that are revolting that our brains are just shutting down as a self defense mechanism.

Sociopaths in power don't even need to hide anymore, they know they are hidden in the noise.

I mean look at Turkey : they help ISIS, they shoot Syrian refugees crossing the border, they kill their own Kurdish population and they denies a genocide ... barely a blip in the news.
As someone who's hosted RMS for a week, i appreciated having this information available.

I find websites that call out Richards eccentricities to be in extremely poor taste. It's no-ones business but Richards, and the people who choose to host him.
To put it delicately, having a clear user manual for a non-neurotypical person helps immensely.
There's not much to run into in the air...
Lots of people don't use any "desktop environment." I just use ratpoison, for example.
Note, that tomte is the author.
It is milli-teslas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_%28unit%29
I can think of a Ghost in a Shell future in Singapore.
I'm alright with it, as long as we know the person is a threat to our national security.

The people who commit acts like the Boston Marathon Bombings, the Brussels Bombings, 9/11, etc. - these people are not our friends. If given the opportunity, they would kill every single one of us.

So if the people who are on our side feel they need to use torture on these people to keep us safe, I'm not going to argue with them.
Hey, main point of article is "use mindmap". It's a graph too
RSS had the concept of OPML, which could have been used for that purpose, but I only saw it used in very isolated cases.

The curation angle does feel like a space that the likes of Skimm, NextDraft et al have picked up.

I'm not in love with the idea of another daily email newsletter, and Redef often feels like a long list of pieces that I "ought" to read rather than stuff I get genuine pleasure from, but it's the best we've had in a while.
Yes, because computers and software aren't buggy by themselves without human intervention.
No it won't, and it will come with a few of it's own (getting American's past the bootstrap narrative is probably the biggest single one) but it is a step in the right direction.

That being said if you can think of another example where we put 3.5 million people out of work nearly overnight along with an entire support system built on their salaries and needs, I'd love to hear it. The only similar thing I could think of would be the rise of automation in American factories, and even then that didn't replace EVERY human with a machine, and carried with it a certain PR cost for the companies involved, whereas I think a shipping company removing humans from their trucks would have a PR boon, not bust.
Exactly. If you can't handle being asked about breakfast, the problem is with you, not the host.
What about this is offensive?
I think it's possible to gain substantive exposure to one new programming language a year, to kick the tires and gain insight into some of the features and idioms that make it tick. However, I don't think it's really possible to become an expert in one new language per year. I think it is much more realistic to master one new language every 3–7 years (depending on the language). Playing with one new language per year might help one figure out which new language to master.
Unless, as alluded at the end, you make a public commitment to achieving your goal. This explains why the whole dollar if you don't thing works for some people.

The gist is it's not great to prematurely celebrate an incomplete goal but it may help having someone or something holding you accountable.
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We’ve been running Snipcart, our developer-first e-commerce startup, for three years now. Growth is organic, fueled by content & a bit of SEO. Inspired by the B2D success tales of Twilio/Stripe, we’re also strongly considering hiring a developer evangelist.

At what stage should a SaaS consider hiring a dev evangelist? Do you think it’s really a key to B2D success?
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It's not that white males have it easy, but certainly easier than someone born in the same circumstances who also has to fight racism, sexism or other prejudices.
OPML was an export of lists, it didnt let you and me edit a list together. maybe opml+github+humandeduplicationofstoriesliketechmeme

the thing that makes techmeme great is that they CHOOSE the best story, and then link to the duplicates. It might be the first, or it might be the most researched source, and they may change the link if a better one appears. Hackernews does similar, but I cant easily click "other sites with variants of this story"

as an aside, I quite dislike the email newsletters, it seems very antiweb. nextdraft not having a website is infuriating.
Google Reader's public labels had the capability to create a group-edited metafeed, but this advanced use case was never advertised. The one use that I know of for it was on the sidebar of the Google Reader blog: Each team member had a public label, and there was one person who had a label which subscribed to each of the others. Any feed that any team member subscribed to with their public label would show up on the sidebar of the blog; people would do this for their own blogs or their shared items.
Wow that's great!
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If any of the dropbox product managers are following - I would REALLY appreciate this in the individual paid version as well.

Given a laptop with an SSD<1TB , I still want to be able to make use of the 1TB I'm paying for.
Its currently possible by letting an entire folder upload to DB, and then unsyncing it.
It stays on DB, but gets removed from the local drive.

I would love to be able to see those unsynced folders locally, with the same cloud icon announced here.
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Friendster Myspace were social networks before facebook.

there's a whole lot more to execution than just building an app or website and being first.
Want to launch to crickets? Build an email list instead
In that case, if it's something they need, you can forget about it. If, on the other hand, it's something you need, then you need to treat the e-mail as a reminder that you need to follow up - essentially, another item in your TODO - so it needs to stay in your inbox.

Well, I wrote "you need to", but I'm describing what works for me. :) YMMV, obviously.
I was wondering the same thing. Been desperately wanting this feature for a long time – are there any other services offering it?
Joseph Campbell's idea of the hero's journey was, I think, partly inspired by the myth of the Buddha, whose problem was (excuse me) the same as Kanye's: he had everything, yet he was unhappy.
It's kind of turned into the world's weirdest nature reserve.
Yea but you have to give Stallman the benefit of the doubt here. Perhaps he just knows that Parrots live long, bonding lives and that an unknowing person should never buy one.
Let's turn it around. If you invest 120 dollars into your retirement fund every year for the next 40 years, you'll end up with 33.5k. Instead, you spent 4.8k. The person who listened to a few commercials is up 40k on you at retirement.

This is an extreme example (after all, you're not going to spend 10 dollars on Spotify for the rest of your life), but the principle of the matter stands: Money saved now will be worth more later thanks to compounding interest. In a sense, the dollars you earn today are the most valuable dollars you'll ever earn.

It's up to you to make the judgment call on a case by case basis whether you'd like to live in the moment, or whether you'd prefer to save. Everybody draws the line somewhere (I personally have a Spotify subscription), but to call it irrational is... a bit irrational.
Ah I see how this site works
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It baffles me that media-tech companies such as Ghost want to relocate there: https://blog.ghost.org/moving-to-singapore/
> Alexa is actually the new Windows.

That's one of the bolder and inherently unprovable statements I've heard in quite a while.
Listen for 40 seconds starting at 16:10,

> Caller: I'm a big fan, I listen to myself a lot.

> Gethard: You're a big fan of your own music? How many of the 18,000 songs you wrote do you listen to regularly?

> Caller: I made a playlist of 250 of the best, a mere 7 hours of entertainment, and I put that on random quite frequently.

> Gethard: So you have a playlist that is 7 hours long of your own music, and you often listen to it on shuffle?

> Caller: Yeah, I do, on Spotify I get half a penny while listening to myself.

He gets $.004 per play. I wonder if this is a loophole within Spotify. I recall something similar possible by a company called All Advantage in the late 90s [1]. You could run a program to keep your mouse moving and keep getting paid for watching ads while actually being away from the keyboard.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllAdvantage
It's not a question of whether they're buggy, but whether they are better than human drivers despite the bugs
"For those unfamiliar with the concept of DAOs, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations are blockchain-based entities driven by immutable computer code as opposed to fragile, complex by-laws. Because DAOs consist of computer code, they interact with the physical world through Contractors."

lol wat
I was expecting skmething like this - Houston alluded to it in his recent Bloomberg interview.
At one point Spotify were requiring users to link their accounts to Facebook. http://www.whathifi.com/news/spotify-no-longer-requires-face...
People with families create things all the time. Not an excuse.
Of course there are cases in which you can get segfaults, and not only in Rust. The single fact of having a C FFI is enough to break all safety guarantees of your language.

What Rust does promise is that undefined behavior will never happen if you don't use code blocks marked as unsafe (which include the C FFI). In other words, if you are able to trigger undefined behavior without using unsafe code, that is a compiler or library bug.

EDIT: as noted by steveklabnik, this is not undefined behavior. Actually you should get a better error message instead of a segmentation fault (see the link to the issue on GitHub in steveklabnik's comment).
Is Richard Stallman known to be 'non-neurotypical'? Can anyone be described as neurotypical?

Everything quoted in the article seemed perfectly reasonable to me, even if I wouldn't make the same requests myself.

I'd love to be able to give a 'rider' to everyone I work with.
Climate scientists are now grading climate journalism
better yet, lets record netflix to VHS and mail the copies around the world. Block that Neflix! /s
There's a real possibility that once driverless trucks become widespread, human behavior will change as well. A very aggressive driver may take advantage of the fact that an automated truck will brake for them, and start routinely cutting off trucks, whereas today they'd be a little more respectful. Even pedestrians could start crossing a highway where they shouldn't and know they could get away with it.
The Dropbox Client has a lot of smarts in it when it comes to fast and reliable downloads (threading, chunking etc.), so it might probably be a lot better than many other alternatives.
I had a similar experience, and over the years I've bought 3-4 games using trading cards that I'd gathered.
They use a large, expensive platform for automation, and they don't know how to automate?
Sounds like you need better advice. Most advisors will tell you that 5-10 years isn't quite long enough for the risks of stocks to pay off. Sounds like you wanted medium-term bonds instead of stocks!
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What happens if the corporate virus scanner kicks in and reads all listed files? Also, can I un-download files I just checked once and don't need to have synchronized any more?

Theroretically this is nice, practically it will render som unpleasant surprises.
The first company to sort of mimic this was bitcasa. they just announced they are shutting their doors to consumer storage, because they were having greater success on the enterprise front. I wonder if this is related somehow.
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> It just means, for example, that it probably would have been even harder if you were an Eastern European woman who grew up in a poor family.

Spot on. If the previous poster went to a technical institute in Eastern Europe, I am willing to bet that his classes were at least 90% male.
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I guess my vision of a metafeed is something that autoingests rss feeds, presents them to editors as "pending stories" and the upvoted ones become visible to non-logged-in-users/subscribers after a certain threshold. Maybe editors/moderators/curators (whatever we call them this week) would have some kind of superupvote to use sparingly if an important article was justified.

I imagine this place being like reddit, where I can view a giant list of rooms, and see how each room and its members are mixing content. it should also be easy to clone/fork (github/yahoopipes) a configuration if your team wants to start where another team began.

I also like how counterparties had a list of rejected stories, stories they acknowledged but refused to follow.

really I am describing a piece of technology that lets any group of people maintain their own techmeme plus a reddit like index of all the different rooms, that allows you to subscribe to multiple rooms and see them in one feed.
> their mandatory Title 9 intro

I remember the announcement of a "mandatory meeting" for everyone in the dorm shortly after I moved in freshman year. I was intrigued by this concept and asked what would happen if I didn't go. The answer was, "nothing, but we'd like you to be there".

"Mandatory" appears to be experiencing some semantic slippage.