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One of the biggest cultural changes I had when I jumped the fence from Windows to Linux was the reboot. On Windows, the culture was strongly "reboot first, if it still happens, then it's a problem". On linux, it was a measure of last resort, because then you can't fix the problem (as you say).

Obviously the latter is the best way, but it's interesting that the culture of the two systems is so different, no doubt borne from Windows' legacy era.
Internal politics.
The word you're looking for is neoreactionary.
I'm talking about IBM's DAISY, Transmeta's Crusoe, and Nvidia's Denver. These are more or less fairly standard VLIW machines that are designed to only run a JIT compiler for another machine architecture (PowerPC, x86, and ARM respectively). This JITed code is the only other code running on the machine, so they basically look like native versions of the architectures they emulate.

Edit: These machines also do a lot of cool stuff under the hood. DAISY's native binary format looks more like a CFG than we pure instruction steam. The Crusoe has some really sweet exposed speculation hardware. I'm sure Denver does some really cool stuff too, there's just not a whole lot of publicly available information on it.
What value do restricted "dress codes" have other than as a symbol of authority and an economic burden on employees?

These employees didn't have a functional dress code and it didn't seem to be in service of a brand. They were petitioning to wear reasonable footwear. And whole you may shy from such discussions, dress codes disproportionately impact women and transgender people, so it's no surprise that we note that impact.

It's also worth noting how quick Americans are to dismiss any collective action as "entitlement" to be derided. It is not a new phenomenon.
Wow, that is totally reasonable. Actually incredibly cheap by European tax standards.
The DoJ filed a motion on Wednesday to delay the release of the Clinton Foundation emails for 27 months. The reason cited was that there were errors in how the search was conducted.

Given that, it sounds like there is also a fundamental problem in how information is stored and classified. The FOIA requests were for emails, so I would think that the retrieval would be simple. They must be vetting each email for sensitive (secret) information, otherwise I can't imagine how it would take 2.25 years to fulfill that request.

I can't tell if this is a stonewalling effort or a technology shortfall in the FOIA process.
No, they scientifically make changes safe and give confidence to make changes.
my house is connected to the street, does it mean it isn't a private place ?
Comments on 9to5mac seem to indicate that the guy isn't as much of a victim as he's claiming...

http://9to5mac.com/2016/07/01/tekserve-closure-louis-rossman...
As an atheist, and someone critical of religion and its practices elsewhere in this thread, your faith seems quite reasonable. The notion of "ignorance breeds fear" is at play somewhere here.
I used to run it, and I'm not sure there's value in it anymore. They often don't stay on top of security updates, and compiling anything just got worse and worse.

The last straw was the fanboys at the linuxquestions forum. It was cultish and creeped me out.
Yes, <3 that.

"Contrary to what we would like to believe, there is no such thing as a structureless group."

The same essay was linked to me a previous time I made a similar public complaint :)
How would those swaps be priced?

(My hazy mental model is that they are insurance; if that's even in the ballpark, the central bank has to price them correctly for them to be a tidy solution)
The Bush Administration passed a regulation exempting "computer professionals" broadly from overtime pay in 2003.

It is really a union issue: the government can't be counted on to have workers' interests at heart when workers aren't the ones running the government. Workers should do it ourselves.
The coming civil war over general purpose computing (2012)
That seems like a lot of steps
Why do so many have that exact wording "honest and unbiased review"? So bizarre
Really? DDWRT supports a ton of routers.
It's even more embarassing that Xonotic, which runs off of DP7, a sort of mash-up of NetQuake and QuakeWorld can stomp a lot of newer games on 100+ pings.
"1% Club" basically means the complete opposite of do-good wealth sharing to Americans :)
Is Vine discontinued? My buddy still does it, at least until recently
A well fitting pair of shoes can be had for ~$200, or <$120 if you catch a sale.

Remember. These are going to be on your feet 8-10 hours a day, 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year. How much is that worth to you?
A culture of many small changes means that you deal with smaller problems relatively quickly. The more you fall behind, the bigger the jump to where you should be, and it's not a linear relationship.

At one place where I work, we're on nodejs 0.10, which is several release versions behind. It's causing us a bunch of problems, because while 0.10 is still technically not EOL'd yet, npm modules behave like it is... however we've left it so long, that the jump to current stable is a giant task, which we don't have the time for given other business reqs.

Tests indeed don't guarantee safety, but lots of small changes are easier to deal with than the occasional massive change. It's also the basic concept behind version control.
An indication of the sad state of our society when one of the most immediate questions to come to mind when I see this is going to be "How many government watchlists does visiting this link put me on?"
>Edit: Of course, this isn't the majority of judges by any means. Many of them are comfortable writing opinions from their iPad while at an airport. Also, consider Scalia's opinion in Riley v. California, which this opinion would seem to directly contradict (once I can actually find the pdf...)

Doesn't this open up for an appeal
Whenever the publisher is Nautilus and the headline ends with a question mark, I pretty much just assume that the actual answer to the titular question is "No".
Refugees Encounter a Foreign Word: Welcome
There was a GSM-to-VoIP node based on a femtocell but the company making it apparently abandoned the idea before shipping very many, if any at all. I suspect the telcos had a small freakout.

In theory one can be transmitting on licensed spectrum inside the home without permits, but I suppose the telcos never envisioned a "3rd party femtocell" that wasn't connected to their services. So I imagine they were faced with drowning under deluge of telco lawyers.

Still, that was a brilliant idea. I think the product was eventually pivoted to shipboard applications. But, with unlimited voice calls on many plans, a roam-to-voip home base station holds less appeal.
Slavery as free trade
Would be nice, if slackware went to a public VCS for greater transparency and assistance in the development process.
Hi m00dy,

I'd like to clarify one thing - none of your communications with BaseCase were 'automated' on the BaseCase-side. Every email that was signed-off by a person was manually sent by someone on our team. For 'common' emails, we do use email templates, but a person actually decides to send the template, not a bot.

(Technical detail: the second software test uses an email bot to time the test, but this bot is not reporting your recruitment status in any way, it's just sending the test and receiving your solution. It identifies itself as a bot in communications.)

I have asked our recruitment manager to send an acknowledgement email after every test submission (they usually do, but in your case you're right that they didn't).

Regards,

Diarmuid
When you use the string 'row' to describe pronunciation, are you using it in the sense of 'to row a boat', or 'to get into a row with someone'?
You just keep nailing it. Wallowing is a good word.

Some people want to be racist, and for those who don't want to be, that fact may be difficult to understand. In their minds, it's just up to others to enlighten the racist. Perversely enough, it's frequently the targets of their isms that are expected to provide this enlightenment.

But, the happy (rac)ists need their hate and ignorance. It justifies them and gives them a worldview that makes them comfortable. It's a cozy blanket of tribalism via a shared mutual hate and, ironically, a posture of supreme victimhood. It's "I hate you because your existence is somehow harming me."

They cannot be educated because they don't want to be educated, and they are blisfully and willingly unaware that their current views are malformed.

The happy (rac)ists are a time, energy, and emotion sink--a lost cause.
Wow that's really surprising. Is it one of the later revisions? I'm running the 610N with DD-WRT and I the 5GHz band running just fine @ 300 mbps
Every major OS collects telemetry data, and most mobile OSes have an "advertising ID" (which you can disable.) This is to be expected in a world of "big data."
I still find the attitude bizarre. If you train your current employees they generally become better at their job. If they become better at their job then the company can work more effectively without requiring additional staffing overhead. Those "50,000 others" are not equal in productivity and effectiveness to the employees you train in-house. In addition to all of this, sometimes you don't even need any additional budget to train employees, you just need to give them the space to work based on their own ingenuity.
By the same reasoning, computers in corporate businesses connected to the internet have no expectation of privacy.
In my experience with east coast companies, that's where the dress code nonsense comes from.

I had a similar problem - ridiculous dress codes that made no sense at all. I fought it the best that I could. I worked for a defense contractor as part of another business unit, and the dress code policy was basically "match the site that you work at." Except that they were trying to tell me that I had to adhere to their dress code policy anyway. How dare an employee wear a nice pair of shorts during a 110 degree Texas summer day! They tried to tell me the dress code was a safety issue. I balked and pointed out that the Union employees on the production line were wearing jean shorts and t-shirts, so their argument was flat. A manager two levels above me said something about the fact that she said that she was appalled that I would dare show up to work in shorts. I informed her that I worked in the Silicon Valley before, where dress codes like ours were almost non-existent. She said that she was appalled that I would dare show up to work in shorts. This back and forth went on, and they finally just admitted "This is always how we've done it" and there really was no reason whatsoever for the existing dress code.

I signed up for the voluntary layoff package and didn't regret it at all. This was in addition to a time where we had to go digging in the library for OSHA lighting standards just to get upper management to tell one supervisor that didn't work in our area to stop flipping on all of the lights when he walked by.... but that's another story. Just about as stupid as most dress codes.
What's the easiest way to setup a shielded enclosure for hacking on something like this with an SDR?
How do frigatebirds stay aloft for months at a time?
> exempting "computer professionals" broadly from overtime pay in 2003.
I don't understand why this is still a thing. How have we, as a group, not gotten such a horrible law overturned.

Oh right, some people think working 60 hours a week is okay. sigh.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12001730
Long term investing is also a lot less work, meaning you can do it without taking time away from other money making activities.
> the mere asking of such questions may seem like the "millennial entitlement"

Being able to question fairly trivial things like dress codes seems a perfectly reasonable level of entitlement.
Extensive previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12015388
A benefit to web apps is seamless updating to users. One click loads the updated webpage. They might not even notice their profile pic has changed from square to round!
An unlocked car (which is the closest legal analogy, I think) is a bad fit here. If we're really going to search for analogues let's pick one that really matches what's going on in digital communication: physical communication.

Whoever, without authority, opens, or destroys any mail
or package of newspapers not directed to him, shall be
fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one
year, or both. -- Title 18 § 1703(b)

What if the "computer" on the internet is my pacemaker, and it uploads a data stream to servers in, say, Dublin. Does that mean I should not have a reasonable expectation in the U.S. for privacy of that data? That kind of rationale is bad in principle and bad law.
Both, actually. Rebuilding the tool, but also making it programmable :)
The Tesla Autopilot Crash Victim Was Apparently Watching a Movie When He Died
it's so that you don't start typing with your fingers shifted to the side and have to back up.

That's what the "finger alignment ridges" on the F and J keys are for. They were there long before keyboards were backlighted. (Or are "modern" keyboards lacking those ridges now? I don't know, the newest keyboard I have is 12 years old.)
Quote of the day for sure.
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It does matter... because this discussion is about the relative merits of MLB's video service, not HBO's shit frontend.

The fact that Game of Thrones didn't work is not MLB's fault.
> Sure management will still do approvals for time off

Not a peer.
I'm not sure I completely agree. If my house is on a busy public road, I have no expectation that people won't see it, see who's coming and going, possibly even see things through open windows, etc. I probably would not walk around naked in front of the windows or outside, etc. I'd probably be more concerned about keeping doors and windows locked, or I might install a security system, because I know there's a higher risk of someone breaking in.

If my house is a mile off any public road on a private drive, surrounded by trees, I have a different expectation. I might be more comfortable sunbathing nude, etc. being fairly sure that I'm in a private setting.

If I have a computer and it's not on any network, or only on a private network that I fully own, I expect it is private. At least as private as any papers I have in my desk.

If I use that computer to connect to a public network and access public resources, I have less expectation. I know that at minimum, the resources I access will know that I have done so. I know that it's possible for others on the network to see my traffic. I have exposed my computer to the outside world, and with that comes foreseeable risk, just as I take on foreseeable risks when I do anything else in the outside world.

So I think I agree that by using the internet, I have some reduced expectation of privacy. I think I agree that warrantless monitoring of my activities on the network, e.g. tracking IP addresses and what sites I connect to, etc. is probably OK, just as anyone can follow me around in public and see what places I visit without needing a warrant.

I don't think I agree that this extends into actually invading and searching my computer from the network, even though it may be possible to do that. I think this is like arguing that a warrant is not needed to enter my home and read my mail, on the basis that the correspondence was transported over a public network (the postal service). Or to listen to my phone calls because I'm using the public telephone network. So on that point the judge did go too far and I'd expect that to be overturned on appeal.

So I think there is some rational argument here, but that it went too far in its conclusions.
This Teen Knows More About Excel Than You Do About Anything
No, we really do. You simply punted on addressing what "multiple vendors" means given platform lock-in, and how that relates to traditional geographic definitions of a market.

The geographic model is based on the obvious notion that it's unreasonable to expect people to simply pack up and move to a different city to get access to a different vendor.

Given the amount of lock-in inherent in these platforms, it seems pretty clear that people can't simply drop their current platform and switch to another one just to access to a different vendor.
If her publisher felt that what she wrote was veering too much into memoir territory, perhaps asking her editor to excise those segments would have been a better option than recategorizing it.
Have you looked into the difference between c++ const and java final for an example of different semantics? Suffice it to say the two are very different. Not sure why anyone would be doing math code in an interpreted language, I guess if it where embedded in game engine that would be desirable, but then users may wrap c/c++ math libraries with swig-alike to use, using the ffi, whatever that turns out to be.
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The threading model is poorly written. It is very hard to setup. Keeping legacy model data and writing transformers for said data is painful (person upgrades the app, schema changed). There are lots of crashes we've seen at scale. Also, its often really poorly performant, and the IO is completely synchronous. Most apps do not need this wrapper around SQLite (or SQLite at all) and in fact should just use simple file writes. Easier to debug, maintain, and scale, with fewer bugs.
Sure, but what is stopping you from choosing a more efficient architecture for your Rails app?

For example, we use pgbouncer transaction pooling, so our connection counts are low. Tons of caching is done in NGINX and first middleware in the stack, we are not afraid of using SQL where needed for performance reasons and so on.

For an application that is taking data from a database and turning into JSON or HTML, spending 50% of the time in the database is not really a crime of bad architecture. In fact even when we built Stack Overflow in superfast C# we often saw a similar breakdown.

I just really object to the sentiment of "abandon ship" Y is 12x faster.
Americans rhyme "route" (path) with "doubt" and "row" (paddle a boat) with "dough". If you are rhyming "row" (fight) with "cow", that's a word most Americans don't know.
I almost hesitate to say this, but it seems to me that emacs needs a new command line parameter to allow the user to specify the location of the socket file.
This is true. I think organizations need to create more space for developers to grow as leaders which I don't see happening.

In silicon valley contacts are as valuable as money and a person with manager in his title will build contacts faster and achieve more than a developer who actually might have made more impact for his employer.

People with manager in title can work from home more often, travel on company paid trips more often and in general have a better social life than developers. At the end of the day managers can make a developers life bad if he/she wants too. That is what matters.
I stand by what I said. Citation: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-encryption-privacy-i...
You're adding complexity to a situation that doesn't need it, and masking some serious social problems here with what can only be described as FUD. There is no way a man going undercover in North Korea would ever get his work labeled as a memoir.

Perhaps its a sad fact that the work of women sells more copies when sold as a memoir and the publisher is make a shrewd decision. Perhaps its possible that the publisher is just can't conceive of women in a contemporary way.

Whatever the case, the situation is FUBAR. This is a journalistic work and it should be presented as such because that is that only way to publish it with integrity. Everyone at that publisher should be ashamed of what they've done.
I'm not surprised that the interns got fired. Not because of the topic at hand, but because of the petition.

In many ways, an organized petition could be seen as the beginning of union organization. Forget about opinions about unions for a moment. The fact is, most companies do whatever they can to squash a union as early as possible.
It isn't everywhere.

RFC 7230, for example, has error handling sometimes as SHOULD return 400 Bad Request and sometimes as MUST return 400 Bad Request. But that only applies to servers and proxies parsing requests, which are really the relatively well-implemented part of HTTP. (The vast majority come from browsers, which are always syntactically valid; responses can come from arbitrary CGI scripts and you get all kinds of syntactic nonsense there.) Sadly, there's comparatively few normative requirements when it comes to parsing responses, even ones which are needed for backwards compatibility (at what point do you conclude you're just talking to an HTTP/0.9 server?).