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From what you wrote, I guess that you get into conflicts with other people or they complain about you.

My general attitude has helped me in dealing with all kinds of people. Try to figure out what kind of person it is you are talking to before you say anything drastic. Some people are open and enjoy heated discussions, others (most of the people) are actually insecure about themselves and cannot be confronted head on.

Empathy is key to making yourself appear friendly even if you are disgusted by the other person. Toxicity is inherently subjective and it doesn't matter so much what you say but how you say it.

I might tell you the work you are doing is crap because reasons. Or I might engage in a brief how-are-you-doing and mention it as a sidenote that I've seen something that looked unfortunate and then ask about YOUR opinion on it and guide the conversation with subtle questions in such a way that you see the problem yourself.

Often in bureaucratic environments, when something got stuck, I did not try to tell them what to do or how to do their job. Rather, I would give them the credit of being the "expert" in their field and ask them for advice for my situation. People are way more willing to help you if the idea came from them and they immediately like you if you show them respect for the work they do (that is especially true for hard working but overlooked people, e.g. secretaries, cleaning personnel, etc.).

Also, in order to not appear toxic, understand your colleagues' characters, admit mistakes in communication and tell them you are sorry if there was a problem, address them with respect and DO NOT push them into a corner. NEVER become overly defensive or aggressive, ALWAYS be prepared to let someone make decisions which you wouldn't do while maintaining your friendliness.

I see it as a kind of diplomacy. As long as you are not the boss, it is not your call to decide who does what. If there's a real problem with a person on your team, your boss should already be aware of it and he should be dealing with it without you having to tell them. If your boss doesn't know the people on his team, then you have an entirely different problem.
In my experience as a manager, "toxic" means you have an ego problem. Some things to note that may help:

* The goal of a discussion is an agreement everyone is comfortable with, and not proving that you are right - even if you are right.

* Really listen to what your colleagues say. If what they say sounds stupid, it may be because you don't understand what they're saying, or that you don't know as much as you think you do about the problem domain

* If a wrong decision was made when you advised against it, don't go back and point it out. People will remember, you saying "I told you so" makes you seem like a dick

* If you do something good, don't boast, just allow people to notice
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But you can use it for notation purposes - fake phone numbers and coded names, etc.
Probably just leave your current job. The problem might be with them, not with you.
I second the recommendation of Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace. That book did more than any other to help me both write more clearly and explain to others how to do so (was a writing tutor in college). Many writing books give concrete advice on trivialities and retreat to vague prescriptions on subjects like elegance and clarity. This book is the only one I've read that actually studies those aspects of writing and offers actionable advice on how to make writing clearer, more graceful and more elegant.
I am British working in Sweden. xD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface-to-air_missile

I know the train of thought. Once I spent hour thinking of "design dirt" that sticks to machine parts and protects them from real dirt and oxidation. Then it occurred to me that it's called "paint".
Or, you know, someone obtaining a PhD breaks the "dumb jock" mould without necessarily being more or less intelligent whomever it is that you are referring to.
My fiance is British and you are spot on. Growing up we dealt with issues in the household directly "Hey asshole it's your turn to wash the dishes". Her family has a different more subtle approach that's hard to verbalize.
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Is there a chance that you are on the autism spectrum? Many people who gravitate toward technology are. Efforts toward inclusion usually don't recognize the special needs of people on the spectrum.

You may have a cause of action. They may legally be required to provide accommodation.
Perfect advice. I would add, if possible, to ask same question to person-boss who gave you this feedback. It's in everybody's interest that issues are identified clearly by all sides, otherwise improvement won't happen. It might not work if he is too introvert/polite, then check with somebody else.
Sure, except that you have functions like processing fonts and image formats in the kernel. Layer on userland stuff like OLE and IE and you have a cocktail for security hell.

When things work correctly, NT has historically had a more robust and accessible set of controls, although I think modern UNIX closed that gap. But things often don't work correctly, and the complexity of the ecosystem makes it pretty trivial to exploit.
Android itself is fully open source. It requires closed-source blobs (mostly drivers) to work on most devices, and so does Ubuntu Touch; in fact, they get them from Android.: https://wiki.edubuntu.org/Touch/NewPorting#Retrieving_the_pr...

You also can install Google's proprietary layer of services and libraries, but that's optional if you're building it yourself.
You live in the United States I assume. You should move out.
I don't think this is to do with algorithmic filtering. I really doubt Facebook is so good at sentiment analysis it can tell pro vs anti-Brexit posts and separate them out (well, maybe they can, modern neural networks seem capable of anything).

I think there's a much more obvious cause: the pro-EU side has become incredibly, incredibly nasty and vicious. By posting a constant stream of tirades against people they disagreed with not just attacking arguments but the people themselves, they practically guaranteed their friends would not speak up in case it damaged pre-existing relationships.

The echo chamber isn't made of algorithms. It's made of hatred and pseudo-intellectual contempt. And it's been a problem of the left wing for a long, long time. Corbyn leaving Parliament to speak to hard-left protesters with t-shirts like "eliminate the right wing Blairite scum" on them shows just how the supposedly caring left treats anyone who disagrees.

edit: seems some people are voting this down, thus rather ironically enacting the problem the article is about ...
The internet was supposed to connect the whole world and help foster dialogue, exchange and collective creation. In the end it's a bunch of interconnected like-minded cliques stuck in confirmation bias limbo, posturing and pictures of cats.

I feel cheated.
There is disney's reedy creek district in Florida. http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1987-02-23/business/8701120...
I assume you live in the United States. This means you should move out.
Not even necessarily, but the https logs are likely archived to another server, and that server will likely be secured completely differently.
"Normally" ? What refrain you from logging HTTP Body ? It's the same problem as logging HTTP query string.
You should consider everything you send over HTTPS public for the receiver in any way.
Is it me, or are a lot of web-based service providers very chatty lately?

I won't name and shame any particular ones, but I will say I've found myself regretting signing up for trials of certain services because of the almost sycophantic attention I'd receive from the oh-so-personable and friendly CEOs who make it a point to personally message all customers. I usually respond, initially, but then it quickly becomes pushy and intrusive, e.g. "Hi, I've noticed you haven't used [x] feature yet." "Hello? Are you getting my emails?" "Hello?"

I don't mean to be rude, but I didn't sign up for the "omg you're so friendly and amazingly helpful" show. I just wanted to try the service out. Kindly stop breathing down my neck! :/
The passwords are not necessarily being captured in logfiles, that's a huge assumption. We don't know anything about how eBay stores and manages their web server logs.
I think there is a caveat. If team X is slowing your workflow, you don't say, "I am unable to do $FOO because team X are a bunch of lazy bastards with a shit process." Instead, you can try, "I can see that team X has a lot on their plate. I do need their support to complete $FOO, and the current process seems to be hindering that. What can we do to improve this situation? I think we could do $BAR, but I want to get some buy-in first."

I feel the difference between toxic and not toxic (at least where I work) is how you approach situations: constructively vs not.

Negative view should be able to be discussed. But it should be done in a way as to seek progress and improve. Not to just shit on other people or teams. I've seen people who don't get this.
It doesn't have checksumming yet. I have a feeling it will be added before the final release since data integrity is one of the tenets they're pushing.
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Do you have friends or trusted co-workers at work?

Reason I ask is because I used to work with a guy that was a genius programmer. He was a sweet guy at heart, but he was often very caustic -- especially when things were moving too slowly for his taste. He was also very, very loud.

(If I had to guess, I'd say this guy had Aspergers, but that's just an armchair diagnosis...)

Over time he and I developed a rapport and became pretty good friends. I'd help him see others' points of view and when he was being too loud, I had a little hand signal I gave him that meant, "You are being louder than you think you are being!"

Not that I was perfect, in fact pretty far from it, but anyway... if you are close enough to your co-workers you could proactively let them know that you're working on these things and would appreciate help, like some subtle (or not to subtle) real-time feedback when you're going over the line.

Good luck! I think you can do it!
Maybe their platform wasn't designed around using S3 and retrofitting that into the platform is a significant task compared to using EFS as the backing store with CloudFront mediating client access?
Or even worse: that instead of competing with you on quality and reach they start giving it away, before inevitably going bust. They'll destroy the market for you anyway...

But that risk always exists, even for funded companies these risks are present. It's an arms race and if your opponent reaches for the nuclear option you have to be very patient and stable if you intend to wait them out and they may even succeed.
Everybody has the social right to shape their environment. Given how huge an influence the environment has on us, this is vital.

At the same time, people have to take and carry responsibility for their environment. I think we need to become more aware of the huge biases we are exposed to by living in media bubbles. A huge part of that is that both sides need to tone down the us-vs-them rhetoric, because it makes it very hard for somebody in the other camp to listen to opposing voices.

I do think there's an instituional lack of options today for people who want bipartisan news, partially because bipartisan reporting would get flak from both "sides", but also because partisan outrage sells.

We share responsibility for our environment. As long as we buy partisan outrage, that is what will surround us.

You aren't a victim of the market, you are the market.
Would you say that the main choice criteria is immutability?

Immutable files => Object storage => S3

Mutable files => File storage with POSIX semantics => EFS/NFS
Hey, some hopefully constructive feedback here:

This sentence "It's like driving a Ferrari in LA traffic" is kind of a red flag. Think about how the people around you would feel about this comparison. It's pretty insulting, right? If you carry around the attitude that you're put upon dealing with other people's incompetence, they're going to notice and take it badly.

Younger me would see my comment and say "so what? they're incompetent!" This is the wrong emotional reaction. It doesn't matter if they're incompetent. Telling them they're incompetent will harm your relationship with them, and worsen your LA traffic gridlock.

There's almost always a way to be direct, correct and also kind. If you can't figure one out, then talk to someone. "Hey, I'm a little irritated about xyz situation, but I don't want to handle it badly. Do you have any suggestions for how I can constructively engage, or do you think I should just let it go?" Many people can't help, but some people have great emotional intelligence and can help crack those things open. I'm not particularly good at it, but man, the difference between trying and not trying is night and day.
Yeah, or copy/paste detection
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Maybe aim more for the "eh, what are you going to do" verbiage. Ie you have done everything you can do for project X and it is now in someon else's ball park. Since you're not management the rest is not your problem.
Was it not possible to use the S3 plugin for WP to offload all the content files to S3 + CloudFront?
I think this is great, and at the same time highlights a usability problem with conversational interfaces: we don't know how to make them discoverable.

Google attempts to do this by letting you stumble upon commands, but I don't think that is good enough. I don't think tutorials are either, but I don't have any solid alternatives.
State funding of transportation makes up a larger portion of the budget than federal.

http://www.vta.org/sfc/servlet.shepherd/document/download/06...

Additionally, this measure was kicked off with a voter-approved bond measure.
I recently received one of these stupid letters. I asked everyone in our household if they knew anything about it. No one did so I threw it in the garbage. My wife asked if we should be worried, the wording was quite threatening, basically asking us to go to their website and "ATONE!". We have a large enough house with family and friends moving throughout it during the day. Most have the wifi password. Because thats what everyone asks for these days, after the initial greetings.
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> Open source produces quantitatively better software

As someone who mainly uses open source software for most of my work, I'm not so sure about this.
Is that an iOS thing? On Android reminders through the Google Now interface seem to work fine.
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Not exactly. In corp/uni environments there may very well be a SSL-stripping proxy - and it works because in a corp setting you have the fake ca cert installed by IT, and in uni you often have to accept a cert when first connecting to the uni VPN.
It also features a toggleable sidebar, an inline interactive search/filter bar and a modern UI with good visual feedback. Not as trivial as plain li and ul.
Toxic is relative. This is like aceton, some material will melt in contact with it and others don't. So when someone say you are toxic, don't take it for some absolute property you have. When someone say that about you, in the context you describe, it means (I guess) that you are expressing negative criticism which can negatively affect the team's morale or mood. The pertinence of the criticism is not directly in question.

Trying to answer your question, the first point should be to verify the objective reality and true importance of the problem. Assuming the problem you reported is real, the second question is what could be done to solve it. There are things that can't be changed and the problem you are dealing with could be such type of problem. In this case keeping complaining about the problem is indeed toxic because it affects the team morale.

So to stop being toxic, you should stop any behaviour that affects morale of your team, and do whatever can raise the morale of the team. One way to do that is to find new ways to make the best of the situation if you can't change it. The key word is adapt. Help your team and yourself to adapt to the situation.

The minimal action is to simple don't talk about the problem anymore. Everybody knows about the problem, so stop pushing with your finger where it hurts. A minimal proactive action could be to make funny jokes (not sarcastic) about the situation. This reliefs the stress and the negative feeling. Finally, the most usefull proactive action is to find news ways and work methods to minimize the burden of the problem.

If you don't stand the burden yourself, considere swithching work instead of making life harder to your colleagues.
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Given that it was the older generations who voted Leave, this article seems out of touch with reality.
At the same time, you're scooping up everyone "on the left" and placing them into the same bucket (a bunch of pseudo-intellectuals filled with hatred).
Just make sure you don't hurt anyone's self-esteem and that's all you need to take care of.

When giving feedback, criticism is inevitable so first increase their self-esteem by appreciating the things about their work you like. Then the criticism and then throw in another compliment if you can. Criticism sandwich.

Make sure you care about what other people feel. If what you (intentionally or not) make them feel bad, that'll reflect on your image in their head. If you make them feel good, they'll like you.

What you feel isn't always what they feel. If you point out their mistakes, you'll feel good but they won't. If you make a joke about them, others may laugh, you may laugh but that person will not like you.

A classic recommended read is "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie.

If you find it hard to maintain your calm, take up on meditation and make it a habit. It's scientifically proven and has a lot of benefits. Just search about meditation on hn.algolia.com if you are still skeptical.
This article is making a very important point. A lot of people thought that the internet would allow people to be confronted to different point of views, and as a result people would grow more tolerant and open minded.
The opposite seems to happen: people are using the internet to be with people with the same beliefs, and this results in people being more certain about their beliefs.

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I'd love to see a product/social network that confront their users with opposite point of views.
Maybe you've been away for too long? :-)

Are your colleagues mostly Swedish or English/other? Do you speak in English or Swedish to them?

I can imagine if you speak English better than your colleagues then you might imperceptibly/unintentionally treat them like people less intelligent than they are due to having an accent. As a British person working in Europe I've seen it happen, non-UK colleagues I know to be very intelligent are treated ... differently... when talking to someone who speaks english natively. Maybe not "toxic", but in a way I wouldn't appreciate.
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Hydrogen is great for rockets. Helium is great for MRI machines and water is great for agriculture, which is a great way to use all the CO2 we dump into the atmosphere. Absolutely safe and stable sources (nuclear, hydro, hydrogen/gas/coal thermo) are great for hospitals.
And yet, the post you replied to was confident this wasn't a problem. Nobel prize winning economists didn't sway him, why did he expect his facebook friends to do so?
I see people talking about monads and applicatives all the time. I don't know Clojure, but I got the impression it has a powerful implicit type system.
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How to emulate raspberry pi 2 on Ubuntu 14.04 PC?
Here's the question in detail:

http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/50519/how-to-emulate-raspberry-pi-2-on-ubuntu-14-04-pc

Yes I have a Pi 2 physically. But I need to boot it virtually on my PC. I have copied the drive(sd card) of it using `dd`, save it as pi2-16gb.img

Now I want to boot it on my PC. I am using qemu to do this.

Do you have some ideas? Or Virtual box to replace qemu?

Appreciate your comments!
It also has a typo. The possessive form is "its."
Ummm... you're assuming that eBay is using a standard web server configured in some default manner. It's far more likely that this is communication with a custom authentication server of some sort. (Where server means a very large collection of machines.)
Hmm, neither of those definitions of "open source" appear to be correct. Great post otherwise.
>Why not just take a loan from a bank?

Precisely. Is the startup world so financially uneducated that they see taking venture capital as the only means of raising capital, or worst yet, some sort of duty?

The post practically says the company is awash in money, which would mean there are multiple ways to raise cash. The real question is why are you raising money?
I'm writing a Html5/Js end to end encrypted chat app for just this scenario. It won't stop a nation state modifying requests in transit and injecting their own js but it will probably stop a nosy sysadmin.
Well, that's going to trigger on a large group of people that use password safes.
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This actually just sounds like a really bad implementation. Some front-end dev wasn't sure what's a good timeout to fire the password to the server on, so he or she just put it on keypress.

And then he included the email too, so the backend could look up the user and make a custom password blacklist for this specific case (eg: no personal details allowed).

I actually don't disagree with doing a POST of a password to check password strength server-side. It might be "cheaper" a bit in some cases.

But sending on every keypress and including the email - that's just silly.
"I see my neighbors a lot more now than I did when living in a house in the suburbs or living in an apartment building"

Hsieh seems to be obsessed with the idea of being forced to bump into the people around you all the time. I'm the opposite - I get a lot of pleasure from peace and solitude.

I think I would be miserable living in a situation like that for more than a very short time.
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I am not sure if it is just me noticing it more, or if there have been a sharp uptick in recent years, but there seems to be a increase in "crime by association" going on.

If you have two groups supporting one side of a issue, and one of those groups also holds a criminal or socially unpalatable opinion, then the other side will use that opinion to tar and feather both groups.
How common is it to have internet fast enough that a POST request completes between characters? I would expect it's completion in a second or two, enough time for a human to type about 5-15 characters, making the timing information completely meaningless.
Yeah research gate has some of the most awful dark patterns/invitation spam of any social networking site. Co-authors constantly inviting you to join, convincing you people that are not on the site are on the site, etc...
You're right, css and js aren't needed either.