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That is one region of the world that I do not know much about. Would you have any links about the history that led to the current state of the affairs that you've described?
I think a completely rational company should try to understand the problem. This is a relatively "known" problem with Slack and other realtime chat (i.e. the timesink issue). It's one reason I'm always cautious every time someone at work gets excited about "soon we'll have Slack!!!" based on experiences at my last employer where it sucked up productivity like a black hole.

I've seen a growing number of people actively moving away from Slack or complaining about it due to these issues. How can Slack fix that? Close off an API to stop hiving off users? Well the explicit intent of this approach is to use both tools so it doesn't seem like they lose much.

Either way; I'd argue that a rational company would look at why it's customers were doing these things and then either a) add that feature to the product or b) let things alone.

Slightly different if it's an "export your Slack chat to A.N.Competitor".
For me, crammed into a bus/train isn't that bad, provided that A/C is run at full blast and the direction of airflow is top->down. This means that winter commutes by public transit in the northeast is absolutely miserable, since they never ever turn on the A/C to dehumidify the space, even if humidity is close to 100%.
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I do, but never manage to find a way of keeping them usefull in the long term. I write some stuff related to current tasks or random thoughs but after a couple of days they become irrelevant and several unrelated projects get mixed.

Any ideas about how to organize notes?
OK, not strictly answering your question, but for me its about being able to give a developer any job and knowing that they can work it out. Development, database design, server setup documentation. Being able to work on or debug any part of the stack.
Verified resumes. As in, dates, title and job are confirmed true.
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They aren't actually "early adopters" if they have to be paid to adopt.
A lot of people are succsseful at this by being total jerks. Some organizations show a marked preference for leaders who are aggressive and abrasive over ones that show empathy. Usually bad organizations, but it definitely varies.
Probably hosted on Azure 2.0
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No secure algorithm is defined at that key size.

There is no straightforward way to arrive at, say, 64 bit AES. Key size is not simply a dial you can turn everywhere.
Yeah, I could've been more clear I meant "Oh, oops, I stored a reference of every single transaction ever, so we'll never reap that memory (because it will never get its refcount decremented automatically)."

It's not a leak but this kind of thing is often detected as a positive slope in a process' RSS graph and it's common to refer to it as a "memory leak" because from this symptom it's indistinguishable from an actual leak.
Thanks for chiming in. A few comments regarding your guidelines.

1) Change your targeting to reduce fraud clicks.
- I did, and I actually had M, the Facebook Global Marketing Specialist, comment that my targeting was solid. If this becomes a game of guess-and-check, then that's borderline gambling. I had a pretty specific target group, and that got me nowhere.

Also, whenever FB responds with "you need to improve your targeting," I interpret that as "stop sucking, and then you'll be awesome."

2) Always use the hack mentioned by adambratt.
- I incidentally tried that with one of my previous ads. No luck. Try try again?

3) Focus on post quality and virality.
- This sounds like a bit of 1 and 2 put together. Again, when FB gave me this canned response, it started to sound like "stop sucking, and then you'll be awesome." My messaging was both clean and direct. Even for the Japan market (with specific targeting), I wrote IN JAPANESE "whether your on the train, at home, or in school, listen to my podcast to help you improve your English listening skills." Again, nada.

Do you have any specific anecdotes with your own business and FB advertising that you could share?

Thanks for mentioning Google, I'll research it to see how it could help me.
I had this same idea about a year ago and started working on it with my cousin. I don't think he was as excited about the idea as I was, and we never got past the LEGO prototype. I'm glad you have done this. It convinces me that it's at least a <i>decent</i> idea.
Huh. Well, I think we're just going to have to disagree on that one. While some lies are worse than others (and I suppose I can think of lies that might warrant the astronomical fine you propose), this particular 'lie'--marketing a data plan as unlimited when speeds were in fact throttled when you exceed a certain monthly cap--arguably in violation of a brand new rule doesn't seem nearly serious enough to warrant the huge fine you're talking about.
I am fairly convinced of its veracity as it is.

I would just like to see more and more evidence as time goes by.

Physicists (and I'm not one of those either) seem to have a completely different attitude to evolution scientists.

Recently more evidence in support of einstein's relativity theory has been found, I believe. But they are still completely open to binning the theory if contradictory evidence appears.

There just seems to be an almost religious fervour around evolution that seems a bit unhealthy
The idea that there is an ideal place for everyone in capitalism and be able to pay for all the costs of day to day life is some kind of libertarian hacker news delusion.
Hahaha great quote.

I haven't seen this article before. It looks quite good. Thanks for posting it.
"he found (or believed) that more customers came in with the mistake than without"

I love this piece of (unintentional?) data-driven decision-making!
Seems like running on SSD/NVRAM may call for some new thinking. Running on watches may be even secondary to that.

Not that ZFS won’t run well on SSD, but it feels like there’s a gulf between filesystems designed with SSDs in mind and those designed with spindles in mind.
I find this type of oversight to be way too common whenever I try to venture into buying PC hardware.

Not only is the content of the marketing site drivel and less than useful, but the design of the technical side, such as finding drivers or tech documentation, is horrific as far as web design.

I have a feeling that because the leaders in the field are so bad at it (for example see Bill Gates critical emails of microsoft.com, which to this day have not been corrected), everybody else sets their bar fairly low.

It's bleeding into things like Ubuntu too now. When I try to go look up technical details on Snap, what can I find? Basically nothing except a tutorial. Click click click click and the same content over and over again presented in different ways.
My worry here is that, in posting what seems to be a book, people just won't even do it because we don't have time to do it, unless this is a primary part of their jobs.

If a 10 minute guide gets users 90% of the way, then they're more likely to do it. And that's good enough to cover a majority of automated attacks.

Update: I take it back – they've provided scripts to run this stuff. I will explore these. Thanks for the link.
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I hear where you're coming from. I used to feel this way, and I sometimes catch myself falling back into this thought pattern.

But now I try to be as open as is practically reasonable about my interests and hobbies. You'd be surprised how receptive some people can be. And those who react negatively are filtering themselves out of further interaction.
You have to enable people to do the right thing. Sufficient stability and resources, combined with active and effective accountability.

No project, much less institution, is "set and forget". Nor can any individual continually nor consistently "do the right thing" in the face of ongoing personal threat and insecurity.

Not every aspect of life benefits from loose, disposable relationships.

Professional, nor personal.
You should use `>>` in order not truncate the existing file if there is one.
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You do not have access to 10x more things, because the suburbs have less things spread out over much more area. There's no free lunch.
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Let me give an analogy:

Claim: "Using a plastic liner stops urine from getting into the mattress".

My rebuttal: "That's well and good, but I'm sure I didn't wet my bed past the age of three."
> No, the dream of car culture is that regular people can afford to live in their own detached house on a nice-sized plot of land.

Implicit in that dream is a reasonable (<1 hr) commute, which is increasingly out of reach.
The Big Dig is part of a transportation system designed to help people who live in the suburbs commute by car into the city to work. If everyone who worked in the city could also live there, there would be much less need for massive highways. As local transportation, the subway and buses are much more scalable and efficient. (Not to mention just walking.)

Residential sprawl in the suburbs is not producing food, etc. Nobody is advocating turning all cropland into city, that wouldn’t make any sense.

The advocacy is for changing tax/zoning/planning policy to encourage residential density and mixed residential-commercial use neighborhoods. Even in towns of, say, 30k people, having a denser town center full of low-rise apartment buildings and walkable neighborhoods is a big advantage for economic efficiency, for human health, and for the environment.

Having people commute one-person-per-car for 1–2 hours per day, drive cars to school, to shops, to restaurants, to the post office and the library, ... is ridiculously destructive at a societal scale. All the public infrastructure and public services cost several times as much per capita as life at higher density, not even to mention the economic/environmental cost of the cars themselves, or the massive time opportunity cost of the commuting.

> you can't just assume everyone into urban living.

Nope. But people who want to live somewhere very economically wasteful should be prepared to pay for it.
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Yes. We originally just put this together just as a primer for younger engineers to understand the basic steps. The guide you posted looks really good though. It looks like it covers some of the application side of things as well.
> My old man still has his first computer, a ZX-81.

And now I feel old because that was my first computer too.
Rust would be fine, biggest hurdle is getting all the various libraries that C/C++ already has access too. I was looking into audio modem stuff a while back for APRS and it seems like most of the linux audio libraries already have Rust equivalent wrappers.
I agree. While it's nice that they're honest about it, and I'm glad they also have a policy against hiring "brilliant jerks", it's still not a company I would ever work for.

i'd rather get paid less and work at a place where I don't constantly have a sword hanging over my neck. I'd take job security over more pay in a heartbeat, and I'd rather work at a company where being "nice" and "hard-working" is more valuable than performance. It's a problem with the whole Silicon Valley culture; like, I'm not interested in doing something world-changing at my job, so I don't care about working at a big household name like "Netflix", and this whole culture is something that can only exist in SV -- your company wouldn't get far firing so many people in any other place -- and it's one of the reasons why I have no desire to ever set foot in NorCal.

Honestly, the next time I end up looking for a job, I'm thinking about getting out of the private sector and doing government work, just to avoid this kind of scenario.
You said "key size is literally irrelevant," if it is "literally irrelevant" and you weren't just being hyperbolic then 1 bit should be sufficient.

You can definitely implement most algorithms to take in a 1 bit or 1 byte key, padding for one, just because it isn't widely supported doesn't change that fact.

So when you say something is "literally irrelevant" and ask for counterexamples, don't be surprised when someone gives them to you.

Obviously a 1 bit or 1 byte key is absurd. But so is claiming that key length is "literally irrelevant" and "does not matter."
>It shows file extensions for me.

Wow, this is a new development in the last 4-6 weeks. A very welcome one and I'm happy to have been wrong. Thanks for the heads up.
This question seems to be loaded with the implication that haskell isn't useful because there aren't many applications written with it.

I don't think this is a fair judgememt. For example, how many apps are written in Cobol? I can't think of a single one, but Cobol code is running much of the world.
1) Google generally doesn't answer support requests, they let a random Google Group handle it for "community support". (Unless you are an Apps customer in which case you might expect a reply somewhere between a week and a two years later, and it's still recommended you try the "community support" first.)

2) This isn't a "We won't support you, use at your own risk" banner, this is a Chrome ad. It's a Chrome ad disguised as a support banner. It's a Chrome ad that is designed to get ignorant users to install Chrome out of some fear. This is no better than those "Your computer is unprotected, install this fake anti-virus to fix your computer" malware ads you see everywhere! Sure, maybe Chrome isn't malware to you, but it's unneeded confusion to, say, my grandmother, to have her browser suddenly change because she installed a thing Google told she had to to stay "supported"...

3) This is a case of "Proprietary" versus "Proprietary" on Windows: Chromium is open, Chrome is not and especially on Windows has adware and custom extensions that are fairly opaque and proprietary. On the other side of the fence: Edge's JS engine (Chakra) is open source and community developed, and Edge's WebGL renderer just became open source. Edge is already more open and standards compliant than IE ever was. Blaming Edge for IE's old problems is like kicking your new puppy for things your recently deceased dog did.

4) Yes, as a web developer, I remember bad experiences with IE's implementations of standards, but unlike some I also remember some of the good experiences. I also am aware enough as a web developer to know that IE's "bad" implementations helped make the standards better. Plenty of people can talk about how IE contributed XHR and AJAX. Another example is that "box-sizing: border-box" you see littered throughout CSS these days is "Hey, use the modern version of the classic IE way because it is easier to math." The point of the "Open Web" is not that "mistakes shouldn't happen and standards should be implemented in lockstep", it's that anyone can and should implement the standards and when the implementations don't agree we use that to make the standards better! Chrome owes a legacy to IE, and "bad experiences in the past" don't outweigh the benefit to the Open Web today by not interfering with users that choose to use Edge regardless of whether or not that's simply because it is Windows' default browser.
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It is with very limited exceptions illegal to require your staff to opt out, even in the UK, and the same restrictions applies to taking punitive actions against staff that chooses to opt back in.

EDIT: For my part I've never worked for anyone asking for an opt-out, and I'd never sign an opt-out, and I would sue if I suspected an employer punished me for not signing an opt-out.

EDIT2: Here's the UK government advice on the opt-out [1]. Note: "Your employer can ask you to opt out, but you can’t be sacked or treated unfairly for refusing to do so. You can opt out for a certain period or indefinitely. It must be voluntary and in writing." Additionally there are exceptions for a very small set of types of workers [2].

[1] https://www.gov.uk/maximum-weekly-working-hours/weekly-maxim...

[2] https://www.gov.uk/maximum-weekly-working-hours/overview
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Of course the Big Dig is more expensive, but you can't compare a single road to another road. If you take all roads in one area and divide it by the number of users you get a much more meaningful number.

Of course you are completely right that we need rural areas where we for example grow good or do other things that need lots of space. However, that doesn't happen in most suburbs. In fact suburbs typically keep their density artificially low for non other than vague aesthetic reasons. I myself live in the suburbs and find it very convenient. Would I do so if I had to pay for the street and sewer that lead to my house like my parents who live in Germany had to? Probably not. My parents had to pay about 20k, and that was because most of their property was on a main, federal road. Otherwise it would have been closer to 40. At the time I thought that was insane, but given that in a multi story apartment building the cost would have been much lower, it seems fair in hindsight.
The minimum salary in the NFL is currently $450,000. The "job" is unionised and you have lifetime benefits (negotiated after some players with chronic concussion related illnesses were found broke and homeless).

While the careers are short the compensation is fair. And you are legally allowed to work a side job, i.e. sponsorships.

I don't imagine corporate USA saying yes to high salaries, unionisation, pensions, nor side projects willingly.
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It also said they set up an indie film distribution company which was shut down because "We would have been better off spending the money on DVDs." Which sounds more like a traditional bigco.
Are you really surprised, that largest European internet company has own TLD when even Suzuki, BMW and mormons have one?
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Its true that sticker shock over the Pandora price is to be expected, but there is a lot of other value that most don't see, such as: 10+ hour battery life, the excellent community repo, access to the Pandora devs like no other, games and technologies on the Pandora that aren't yet anywhere else, and so on.

But this is the reality: you can't make a device like this, for such a low price, if you want to keep it open and available to your customers without having to make serious compromises. The Pandora has excellent hardware controls you won't find anywhere else - the nubs are superb - and is an entirely grass-roots effort: designed, manufactured and supported by a rag-tag team of hackers who are doing everything they can to build the ideal device that we all like. The price reflects the economic reality of the circumstances.

And, this is proven again with the Pyra, where the community is self-funding all of the development, manufacturing and support costs - a real true, well-managed startup. Perhaps things will get cheaper when the money is on their side to be able to afford massively larger scales of manufacturing - but remember, there are only going to be 500 Pyra at first. That price helps get the next 500+ Pyra made. This was true for the Pandora too - it wouldn't have been able to survive as long as it has, and evolve into such a cool product, without traditional consumer-level economics of scale being discarded by the community and early adopters. We're paying a fair price for an amazing machine, getting value you will find nowhere else, entirely because the economies of scale are so difficult. If Pyra goes well (When), then there will definitely be opportunities for the price to come way, way down. But for now, those of us who can invest in the product properly, are the ones pushing it forward.

Never forget: Pandora and Pyra have been a real hacker-oriented project, from the very beginning and probably still well into the future. Nobody but us (well, Evildragon&Co.) controls this, and its been kept on the rails as a project so far precisely because the costs have been managed at a scale that is acceptable to those of us who understand what is being built here: the ideal, pocketable, 100% OPEN, Linux workstation platform.
Speaking vaguely on purpose without sources (apologies), the folks who were concerned about weapons targeting a few decades back had no expectation that any part of the greater metropolitan Atlanta area would survive a nuclear strike.

The historical maps are still around and might be FOIA'able from US gov or others. shiver The doctrine and culture around MAD is, even a few decades on, really quite frightening.
> "The punch line: the employee flourished as soon as he was fired - his dream had been to join the ministry, but he'd worried about quitting a stable job to do so."

I'm generally in favor of firing underperforming employees, but this punchline feels uncomfortably close to ex post facto justification.

Lots and lots and lots of people get fired and don't flourish, in fact they drop like a brick and hit rock bottom. While everything turned out for the best this time, I worry about the lesson being imparted here.
There is a way to get around #3 although inefficient. Everytime information is posted by your users you can create 2 copies of encrypted information. One with users password for them to view. The other would be using your key, but you cant simply use password for encrypting your copy, that would be insecure since you need to store your password on server. Instead you can use asymmetric encryption such that you can use your public key to encrypt the information. Then you can use your private key to login to you website and view all information.
I'd been using this article for a couple years when I was a Linux server neophyte and now some of these things seem obvious to me. A good article for total noobs.
I'd so be in with the researchers! Such an interesting work best good luck!!
I travelled and worked remotly in Colombia during 11 months in 2014, thereof 7 in Medellin alone and I now live in Bogota.

I always felt safe, even when stroling or going out in poorer neighborhoods at night. I'm actually more cautious about pickpocketing and mugging in the more touristic and richer ones. There are of course places I wouldn't go alone in the dark, but I don't really have any reason to be there anyway.
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If you actually believe this, count yourself lucky to be so privileged. Given all the shit I've heard from HR people over the years, it is a hopelessly naive viewpoint.
You do understand that Venezuela has had a mix of problems, do you not? And that the US is no where near going down that same road. At most, the US could hope for a Nordic Model of socialism, and probably be better off for it.
When I'm asking this to the junior engineers on the team I'm usually trying to tease out what they think is fun or what their non-work interests are. I have many of them that are over engaging at work (they're achievers) or having trouble adjusting to a new city without as many of the forced social situations of college. Me asking this is to get to know more about you so I can a) talk with you about non-work things, b) learn a bit more about you, c) offer advice when I see self imposed burn out approaching.

If all you do is work work then I think you should probbably re-adjust a bit on the weekends or you'll narrow focus too or you're just working too hard. If you're doing side projects, I'm an engineer too, I LOVE to hear about that stuff. It's why I read hackaday and hacker news.
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I made a group order for 40 CHIP computers. I was definitely pissed off by the fact that I could only order five of them at the time (but there was no limit on the number of order I could place).

I am looking forward for them to start delivering.

I hope that VAT won't be too high.