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I too pointed out that RC1 was a debacle. Scott Hanselman responded here "what debacle?" That's when I knew we had a real problem.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11646939

The worst open source projects are more social than engineering -- then manage to waste the positive energy by mis-communicating. Unfortunately Microsoft seems to be threading that needle. And I simply cannot believe the documentation situation. It's like they forgot that's the one thing they're great at.

Likewise the BashOnWindows stuff is just... tragic. Reading the threads it's obvious that they have people with little Linux experience working on it. Naturally, basic developer scenarios simply don't work because Microsoft devs are testing their own stuff while learning basic Linux commands for the first time. And posts from program managers saying things like "yeah, I guess we should have targeted Debian instead of Ubuntu, we kinda woulda got both for free" don't inspire confidence.
The biggest difference for me is I can make a salary comparable to a big company in NYC / SF freelancing solely for gigster
This isn't about a secure smartphone, because you can't use a secure smartphone on insecure networks, like with regular email.
Website is quite slow, here's a cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
I do this using two Gmail adresses one set up to forward to another with filters.
while non-Facebook members can opt-out through the Digital Advertising Alliance in the US, the Digital Advertising Alliance in Canada, and the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe.

Or you can just block all requests to their domains. I have *.facebook.com and a few others blocked.
My brother's laptop (Dell Ispiron 15z) was upgraded to Windows 10 without his consent. After booting into Windows 10 wireless networking was non-functional. Dell themselves were fantastically passive-aggressive (and simultaneously useless, but at least I expected the latter):

"Dell is not testing or developing Windows 10 drivers for this product. If you choose to upgrade, some features, applications, and connected devices may not work as expected."

The laptop is only three years old! If I were him I would have returned it for a refund, but he doesn't have the time to migrate to another laptop right now so we eventually gave up, downgraded to Windows 7 and now he has to operate his laptop defensively, with Microsoft and their relentless upgrade treadmill as his adversary.

His next laptop will be a Mac.
It's easy to imagine countless non-transferable or otherwise limited forms of property, and our societies have always had them, for entirely understandable social reasons (e.g. primogeniture, instituted for social stability reasons). Property rights don't have to be unconditional in my dictionary.

But let's use your dictionary where property rights are always unconditional. In that case, we have never had property rights and it doesn't seem like a good idea to get them!
This isn't an all or nothing kind of deal. It's an extra incentive for gigster freelancers to do amazing work (besides the great project estimates / rates they have).
Originally proposed logo looks so much better than the accepted one. Perfect example of client interfering with suggestions that result in something safe but boring.
There are hundreds of gigsters and hundreds of gigs / completed projects. I can speak from experience that yes, it is all very real.
Feeling like an owner is not a benefit, except arguably in the very rare cases where it is true. In all other cases it is a delusion that benefits someone else. If you are getting that feeling, ask yourself if you can act like an owner.
Tell those guys ;)

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/
Just a point to keep in mind.

If you're an engineer your need to stay up to date with the technical evolution: coding standards, frameworks, languages & trends.

If you switch into a management role, you need to be strictly organized (accuracy, punctuality, reliability), a good salesman for binding and motivating the project stakeholders AND all the engineering skills mentioned above.

I've switched into management 8 years ago and (even if it does not sound really nice) i need to know everything better than my envolved colleagues to decide if they're on track.
Seems like it would have unacceptable performance limitations.
The merging of iMessage and SMS is something that I've always thought Apple did really well. I don't care how the message is sent, as long as it is sent. Create a quick hierarchy and send in preferable order. That's exactly what it does.

I spend a lot of time without either signal or internet when in the countryside and this allows me to seamlessly communicate. The last thing I want is to either switch programs to carry on conversations, or manually choose what kind of message to send. Both would be a pain.

My main objectbbion to iMessage is that it only works with other apple products, so I end up using whatsapp with some people - where I need 2 apps to handle simple messaging and conversation histories get split up etc etc.
I don't think there is any competition when it comes to altruism after a tragedy, like volunteers after a terror attack or a natural disaster.

Actually, I'd argue that big science projects are international competitions for getting to the right answer first.
I admit I like bitching about slow software. But if you don't put speed as one of your top requirements, over time your software will become slower and slower. Having one operation that takes 100ms instead of 10ms is fine until two years later when somebody else who doesn't bother to read your code uses it to implement something that now takes one second instead of 100ms, which is incidentally used a hundred times to complete some query that now takes minutes instead of seconds. Now imagine you're a company like IBM or SAP that works on the same code base for decades and the cruft keeps layering and layering until even finding out which part of the code needs to be tuned becomes too expensive to explain to your customers.

There is http://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com with a nice collection of "it was fast enough at the time" code.
Can you provide reproductible empirical evidence supporting this assertion ?
>Windows Nein upgrade is malware, IMNSHO.

This is a particularly shitty meme, can we just stop with it?

>IMSHNO installs without user consent (closing a "upgrade now?" window counts as "no" anywhere, including MSFT UX Guidelines, hello there hypocrisy)

This is how windows updates have always worked, no?

>breaks existing applications (not every box is just Firefox+LibreOffice: specialized apps and drivers do not work well in WinX)

>while the downgrade ("better to worse" is never an upgrade) runs, you can't use your device ("preparing for blahblah, wait.")

These do not malware make.

>erases (or at best hides) user data ("yeah well we just put it all in this completely different folder without notice, it's not like you need your documents, right?")

Try to decide which. Erasing and hiding are two completely different things. And again, this does not make it malware as I doubt they're intentionally deleting anyones files.

>is very difficult to revert

Significantly easier than any previous windows version. If you don't want it, why would you install it? You can just decline the install when the installer starts.

>phones home (again, MS claims there is user consent. So do all the malware writers; I don't think so.)

Yes and so did every windows version before it. Significant parts of the new telemetry have also been backported. Oh, and malware writers certainly don't claim that.

>Each and every of these are traits commonly associated with malware; thank God for GWX Control Panel.

No.
FWIW: the Goldman recruiters at my school perked up when I said I was in computer science. They went over the "fun" stuff that their interns got to do (baseball games, travel, etc) rather than in any of the problems we would be working on. Seemed off-putting and made me question what kind of work environment it would be (who wants to develop in a suit?).

I ended cancelling the interview with Goldman and going with another company in the finance sector that has a long (decades) reputation of being genuinely great to employees.
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So in a vacuum, yes people probably perform on a bell curve. But that bell curve is self-aware and will start sabotaging itself if you incentivize it to.
What they want is to go to developers and say "Look, we have millions of users, cross platform(PC/Phone/XBOX), and great developer tools. All you need is to develop for Windows 10 and forget those other platforms". And they think they can just force 1 & 2 which may actually be true...
You should read the article, he did call out Apple for pushing the Mac look to Windows with iTunes.
The moon landing was a product of the "space race" between US and URSS.

The Internet has its roots on a network developed by the US department of defense.

The first nuclear reactors were a byproduct of the development of the atom bomb.

The first computers were developed during WWII to perform cryptanalysis and solve military problems.

I'm sure opposite examples can be found (mapping the human genome ?) but I doubt they would make a vast majority.
Don't be that developer
The new logo is nice, certainly cleaner and more better-looking than the old one.

However, the association for me is very much to PCB design since the lines with hollow circles look like tracks with vias or just pads for through-hole components. See, for instance, the background on KiCad's (an actual PCB design program) site: http://kicad-pcb.org/.

This "inspiration" was visible in the first suggestion too, the one with the c-as-symbol also makes the c look like circuit board tracks. Strange.
I've been using Microsoft APIs for about twenty years now. When a new MS technology comes out, I've learned that:

alpha and 1.0 - for experimentation only

2.0 - OK for internal tools

3.0+ - ready for production

This has been true going all the way back to mfc through asp.net, mvc, etc.

2.0 and even 1.0 might work in production, but you end up with the problem of having a bunch of production code that needs updated to the newer 3.0+ api changes which ends up being significant.
This story lasted only 4 hours on HN frontpage, despite a lot of interest and engagement.

* Constant starting/shuttering of their mobile OS offerings.

* Using sock puppets, advertorials and other shady methods to shape opinion.

* Disregarding user privacy in Windows 10 (and extending that to Windows 7/8 via security updates)

* Forcing users of Windows 7/8 to update to Windows 10. It's basically malware at this stage.
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In a word, no. Here's why:

-- Viruses can't reproduce outside their host. They have a limited lifetime in the environment before they degrade.
-- Immunity lasts a long time, even a lifetime.
-- So, if you successfully immunize everyone in the population against a virus (like smallpox), and keep doing it for a few years, then eventually that virus will die out

This is not true for bacteria. Many bacteria can live in the wild, and in fact only opportunistically infect humans. Also, antibiotics are only effective while you are taking them, and many of them have negative consequences if taken for long times in therapeutic doses (stomach upset, light sensitivity, yeast infections, just to name a few). Next, 60% to 90% of a dose of penicillin is excreted into the urine fully intact, so our sewers, which are teeming with bacteria, would also be flooded with sub-therapeutic doses of antibiotics. Finally, bacteria can exchange DNA with each other, even inter-species, so if we train the sewer germs to survive an antibiotic dose, then they can transfer that capability to other more virulent bacteria that can infect humans. This is, in fact, probably the mechanism for formation of some of these multi-drug resistant strains.
This works if you know you're lost, know that someone will be looking for you and aren't too hard to find. Most people who are lost don't meet these criteria. Because she was an experienced hiker, I'm guessing they thought she was immobile (injury, heart attack, etc.) and this would mean she'd be in a place she would have gone if she wasn't lost.
What about wifi ? Since I, we, are sitting next to routers all day long, which I guess are sending more EMW energy through us than 3G towers.
Rats get cancer. The rats used in this study get tumours.

http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/33/11/2768

> A spontaneous tumor incidence of 45% was noted in 360 Sprague-Dawley rats (179 males and 181 females) and a 26% incidence was seen in 254 Swiss mice (101 males and 153 females) used as untreated control animals in an 18-month series of carcinogenesis experiments.

A tiny increase in cancer over a large base rate is going to be tricky to find.
Congrats to Soft Dreams, that's the best way to become recognized.
I didn't even know it had an old logo! Looks good.
If you want to block ads in apps as well as the browser, you have two options. One is an adblocker that's implemented using the VPN API. This doesn't require root, but it does mean that all of your data usage will appear to come from the adblocker app, rather than your specific apps. The other is to use an app that adds blocklists to /etc/hosts. This does require root.
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Free, yeah right. I'm pretty sure that I have paid the Windows Tax on every (non-server) computer that I ever bought.
This feels very much like something Amazon might pursue, although probably in a more piecemeal manner. AWS already has a lot of the components that would be needed for a Twilio competitor in the form of SQS, SNS, and Lambda - all they really need is the ability to receive incoming text messages and voice support to be competitive. A lot of people would jump on that just stay within AWS rather than add another provider to deal with.
Another alternative is EFF's PrivacyBadger:

https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

All this in addition to an ad-blocker (such as uBlock Origin) of course.
you're not seeing it from the other side.

in those countries, you couldn't hope to land your first client if you are a small unfunded startup with no brand-name investors or significant revenue. i.e. you have to be connected to start a business, good luck trying to bootstrap anything. i believe this is a net negative.

in the US, you can, because nobody can just click a few buttons and see you have no significant customer base or brand name investors.
Without copyright, anyone could make a knockoff Apple and it would dilute their brand so much as to make it unworkable for Apple to make a quality product and get paid for it. Apple absolutely requires copyright protection of their software to keep their brand exclusive to drive profit to keep making nice products. The PC world that you noted is the epitome of the race to the bottom they would have to participate in otherwise.
A feature like this is automatically baked in to my Fastmail account. "myemail@mydomain.com" can become "banks@myemail.mydomain.com", and all that email automatically goes to a folder called "banks". https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/addressing.html
Backlash? It will take years for sales to be affected (the general population cannot switch to Mac/Linux in less time) and the courts won't lift a finger.
That's semantics. If my work depends on software that broke after an automatic upgrade, then the computer is "nonfunctional" to me. Alternatively, your computer isn't nonfunctional because Microsoft force-installed Windows 10 on it - you can still remove Windows and install something else.

I think it was foolhardy of Microsoft to "force" the update(or more aptly, trick people into updating) because it would be practically impossible to verify that the upgrade would go smoothly on all machines. However, I don't see their action as notably different from any other essential software I install on my computer.
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wc -l /etc/hosts == 11846

About 90% are blocked sites. The rest is local (privat and business) dev configuration.
>More than that, what it installs fits any classical description of malware. Windows 10 comes with an OS wide key logger, that logs what you write in any application, and sends it to Microsoft.

I've yet to see any actual technical evidence of this. Quoting their very unspecific legal documents is hardly evidence of anything.
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Begins? I though they were already tracking everyone who saw a Facebook badge anywhere on the internet already. Or were they just trying to track the users who were not logged in at the time?
I can tell you that the two languages I can confidently say I know well - C++ and Common Lisp - are the ones I learned from books. The rest I learned from various on-line tutorials, articles, references and sometimes from half-reading a book - and while I can code with them, I can feel my coding in them is mediocre. Hell, I feel that the generic-coding skills I have I owe mostly to books (and practice). You can't beat a book in terms of depth and undestanding.

(And don't get me started on videotutorials. This is probably the least cost-effective educational medium ever invented.)
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Not the parent but it's just a typo for IMNSHO, surprised Google didn't get that with only a single adjacent letter swap error.
These 'stealth motorcycles' Darpa commissioned could run on nearly any fuel
I know a lot of AdBlocking Tools/List that do not block Google Analytics or Adobe Analytics by default.

Do you know the ones that do?
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Ad hominem?

Sure, news sources can be biased and we should be discerning when we look at them, but that doesn't automatically mean that the source is automatically wrong 100% of the time.
I didn't know it even had a logo. I only ever see it as a command in a terminal.
Because you lose control and pay money for it.
Inverted pyramid was specifically "designed" for print so that a news story could be cut at a more or less arbitrary point to fit in a hole of a particular size. It's not a universal writing formula.

(That said, I agree that introductions in a more magazine-style story can ramble and can benefit from having all the "throat clearing"--as an editor of mine used to call it--being cut or pared down significantly.)
If you really feel that way, why do you not file a police report then?
I have yet to see a logo redesign which some designer didn't criticise.
Your point is interesting because all of those examples were indeed conceived of due to competition and conflict, yet most had their potential realized because of the need to cooperate between people. Computers were the blinking bean counters of corporations and governments before people started getting together and sharing their ideas and schematics about them (Even before the homebrew club - Stanford AI lab, Engelbart's work etc). The Internet was developed as a means for the military to communicate, sure, but it didn't become anything truly useful or empowering to humanity until we adopted commonly-held standards and protocols which were developed by a peaceful international research lab.

Seems like you may need a bit of healthy competition to make the breakthrough, but afterwards cooperation is crucial otherwise the gains of the breakthrough are never realized.
Maybe because every day a rant about this is being posted?
And the atomic bomb itself was perhaps the ultimate competition, as many felt that a German atomic bomb would be an existential threat to the US [1].

I suspect much of our current technological age has its roots in the aftermath of the Manhattan project. Bombs led to use, led to other countries developing bombs, drove surveillance, drove space travel, drove the miniaturization of electronics in cycles that eventually gave us Hacker News on a smartphone [2].

[1] Richard Rhodes, 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb'
[2] Steve Blank, 'The Secret History of Silicon Valley', https://steveblank.com/secret-history/
Grunt is actually not still fine to use. I've been burnt by a lot of plugins coming out for Gulp only and now for webpack only. What the GP says is true: if you start using any of these JS tools prepare to switch them out every 6 months.
This isn't mathematics, this is data analysis.

A mathematician doesn't come up with a research where he says: "Ei look, we are now extremely confident that this theorem applies in every case... we don't have a full mathematical proof for it but I can show you all these cases where it holds true."

No, a mathematician proposes a result and then goes on to prove or disprove mathematically that it holds true under specific conditions in absolutely every case where those conditions are met.
They were also the results of lots of collaboration.
Is it even possible to compress it down tha much?
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It's mentioned explicitly as an example of what not to do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_Aid:_A_Factor_of_Evolut...

http://libcom.org/library/mutual-aid-peter-kropotkin
Win10 on 100% of my clients' desktops is what I want though.
I've had a similar problem, there is nothing that useful I'm afraid. Probably best to look into general discussions of trees.

One thing worth trying to do (if you can) is separate the generation of the tree from the tree itself -- hopefully you can imagine the tree existing as a complete object (even though you never store it all), and formulate proofs based on that.
Ah, I'm sorry. For some reason I was under the impression that you were ignoring updates altogether.

Installing specific KBs works fine until Microsoft stealth patches something, which isn't exactly unheard of.
If only we could just recompile Space Trader to Emscripten. Great response!
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The European initiative demands to activate 3rd party cookies, so that they are able to connect to these ad networks for me to be able to change my settings.

Also they "detect" me using Safari (while I am on Chrome). Seems so trustworthy to me.
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Ghostery, uBlock Origin. Running both in combination seems to get most bugs.
> This isn't an all or nothing kind of deal. It's an extra incentive for gigster freelancers to do amazing work (besides the great project estimates / rates they have).

Maybe not all or nothing but this would end up just like a startup offering equity as compensation. They'd argue that they can pay you less (vs. straight cash for services) because you've got this equity piece as well.
> but distrust all American CA's from their browser and they should be accommodated too.

Even a (mainland) Chinese user won't be able to distrust American CA's and still browse the Internet fine, and it is known that China's network is one of the most isolated one on earth filtered by the GFW. For example, Baidu's certificate is signed by Verisign, Taobao by GlobalSign, QQ by GeoTrust. All of those certificate authorities all headquartered in the United States.

CA's like Symantec is just too big to fail, even if your proposal is implemented.
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