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> When I was at the office for a decade, 90% of the insight and productivity came from informal conversations in the hallway, lunches and things I overheard in passing. As a remote worker, nearly all communication is very deliberate so I am not exposed to those ad-hoc conversations. Everything is very deliberate: I receive an email, a text or a meeting. The net result is my personal career becomes very confined and stunted... I become that guy who does that one thing rather than a team-member who has an awareness of everything and the ability to jump in as needed.

As a remote worker this is very true. I actually took a trip down to the main office this week (first time in two years since I was hired on), and the amount of insight I gained from wandering the office, talking to managers and just interacting with people on the smoking patio (I've learned this is always the easiest place to get a pulse on what is going on in the company, smokers don't like sitting around with a group of people sucking down nicotine in dead silence, there's always conversation going on). I easily found 10 new projects we could put on the backlog, and that's being conservative.

Actually, after talking with my director about it I think I'm going to start taking trips down there a little more frequently - even so we do have fairly good communication over email, phone and IM to a couple of teams within the company we work closely with, and it has lead to some projects we otherwise wouldn't have done (rolled out Salesforce to a subset of users who were dying without a proper CRM trying to keep track of all of the people we need to contact at our clients when things go awry), but it's still a lot more limited than what I got done in a week of talking with people.
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Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12141334
Imagine how fast it would be if the browsers didn't artificially restrict HTTP2 to HTTPS only. HTTP over HTTP/2 would be faster and easier on the CPU.
GOOGLE STAYS SILENT AFTER WIPING 14 YEARS OF CONTROVERSIAL AUTHOR’S WORK
Anything in that article should be open for discussion or debate. If the article didn't mention the education portion, then it would be in appropriate. However, it was mentioned in the article & I think it should be focused on equally for discussion and debate.

The discovery is amazing. What's even more impressive is that he received a free education in another country, with a home-schooled background.
Easy - my ex-employer's HR department has an explicit policy of promoting when your staff grows. Part of it is a spreadsheet exercise at the end of the year and part of it is optics. The greater the staff I can show the higher the change of promotion. That was the deciding factor. Period.

I left that place because it was non-sensical, but it was a major employer in Connecticut, so i wonder how many other major employers have a similar policy.
I downvoted you for saying "This is probably an unpopular opinion here". Your opinion is valid enough, no need to qualify it or generalize the moral values of the HN community.
And Apple build mobile device 14 years before the iPhone. So?
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What an odd and arbitrary list. SASS support over LESS over PostCSS over CSS in JS? Component boilerplate generation is required for production? Hot module replacement is required for production? Everyone using React is looking for an isomorphic solution? Docker support?!

I think the point of the project is to acknowledge that React requiring transpilation to use is 100% accurate and there needed to be a transpilation / workflow solution to make it easier to adopt. It wasn't let me solve every single problem for you, including setting up your production deployment environment using Docker.
I see. This thread started with me asking for a way to falsify a hypothesis (CO2 being major cause of the greenhouse effect; we wandered a little too far to global warming). You only provided a trivial reply ("just show that the data the hypothesis was derived from is invalid") and now you throw some generic statements. I don't see how further discussion with you here would lead to anything constructive.
Your site is down. I find it a bit worrisome, looking through your repos that many files are blank. I would like to learn more about your company.
>> Attacking torrent sources isn't about recouping loss from piracy

Actually it's part of the battle preventing something extremly easy like popcorn time becoming great, easy, and safe - because if that happens, the media industry will be in big trouble.
I'm fairly close to finishing the conversion of my `dev-toolkit` into an npm-module. It is almost no-config, has scss, server-side-rendering, hot-reload and more. I'm a one man band but will get there. It's all on https://github.com/stoikerty/universal-dev-toolkit

The npm-version sits in a feature branch, just look for the corresponding PR if you're keen.
Well, "isomorphic" JavaScript is not technically incorrect. They just didn't want to use the word "same".

It's the same code on the server side and client side.

So the client and server are isomorphic, because an object is trivially isomorphic to itself.

It's a fine idea to run the same code on the client and server. No problem there. The word choice may be confusing because you expect there to be some deeper concept you are missing.
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I find it entertaining that they consider Ghostery and ad-blocker. I don't mind ads, but I do mind things that track me.
Look at his entire record. He has a "batting average."
We don't either, but it comes up occasionally. Sometimes when figuring out a large architecture, it's just easier to be able to draw it out. So far we've solved the problem by waiting until we see each other in person every few months, so it hasn't been a huge issue, just the main issue we can't seem to solve well.
I worked at a node.js startup Strongloop before it was purchased by IBM (https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/47577.wss)

We were primarily a remote work company as part of the DNA - it was great and productive.

We were small and mostly senior technical folks so the level of trust was pretty high.

People were located in the Czech republic, the Netherlands, Vancouver, Minnesota, China, and Cali.

Best work experience I have had by far.
I think you're mistaken. It is European violence and its greed that began this cycle and we are "lucky" to witness decades of injustice...
I’d love that to be possible but “all or nothing” is useful as a forcing function for us to choose great defaults. We might want to relax it a little someday, but doing it too early will harm the project.
Well, one way in which we validate people's trustworthiness is whether their word matches their deed. Trump's words are inconsistent among themselves, and he has zero actions to put any of them against.
I don't personally agree. The title is baity but in a more inspirational than manipulative way, and I don't see any gain in bringing in a word like 'classist'.

However, many here dislike the title and we're happy to oblige. So let's make a deal: we'll change the title to something more temperate, and you guys start talking about something more interesting than how bad the previous title was.
Xenophobia is an _irrational_ fear. It is obviously not irrational to fear this uncontrolled immigration as there are enough fanatics among them that go on a killing spree.

Two years ago stuff like this happened rarely, now it is happening regularly.

And lets not even get started on the rise in sexual assaults.
There is a difference between binary based thinking and thinking about binary.
I didn't down vote you; your comment adds to the discussion. The annoying SPF/DKIM additions to your DNS zone file are necessary for the basics of delivery to the inbox. Gmail now displays a scary red unlocked padlock for unsigned/unverified email. Running an SMTP server is indeed the way the internet was meant to handle email. However, the other tenants in your /25 CIDR block will ruin your sending IP address's reputation and you will face delivery to Spam and throttling unless you stay on top of blacklist removal requests. There are plenty of use cases for using your own SMTP server for sending, but I think the labor cost of doing so far exceeds the prices of Sparkpost, Postmark, Mailgun, Sendgrid, or hell, even Mailchimp.
While data.table does have impressive benchmarks, the rise of dplyr in the years since with its significantly more readable and concise syntax makes life a lot easier for data sets that are not super large. (https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/dplyr/vignettes/introd...)

The vignette linked above describes some compatability between dplyr syntax and data.table, but I admit I have not tested that.

Nowadays, if you are working with multigigabyte datasets, it may be worth looking into Spark/SparkR (https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sparkr.html) for manipulating big data in a scalable manner instead, as there is feature parity with data.table + analytical tools [GLM] as a bonus. (The syntax is still messy, to my annoyance)
Does this help with React Native too?
I'm aware of these options and use LastPass. My issue is that I shouldn't have to copy and paste at all. These apps should be using system services for this (e.g., the Keychain API on iOS).
We make more than that with VYPER -- http://vyper.io
Or Toronto for the noodle bar.
There's no pleasing you. Peter Thiel had the courage to get on stage at the RNC and proclaim he was gay, thereby opening a dialog in the republican party. This is how you affect change. Through debate and discussion. It turns out more people will listen when you stop calling them bigots at the first controversial point of view.
That is all great if your HR department is fine hiring senior workers. My previous HR would rather have a $50/hr rate card and I hire 3 inexperienced workers than 1 experienced one at $120/hr
Wikileaks Releases Nearly 20,000 Hacked DNC Emails
Trump isn't going to signal the downfall of the US no more than Obama has. Democrats have adopted the scare tactics and language of Republicans circa 2008
Excellent point. Thanks for reminding me of this very important demographic.
shrug That's not crazy.

My concern was not the particular question, but the tremendous mischaracterisation of the entire linked discussion.
look, I am in favor of open systems, right to repair, right to modify, etc. Hell, I'm in favor of the GPLv3 which puts me way to the free-open-copyleft side of 90% of HN. So yes, I am against the DMCA.

What I am objecting to in this thread is the tone of everybody that this one little anecdote concerning the bad luck of one guy with a copy protected system is somehow egregiously bad behavior on the part of one little company. It's not. It is further evidence that we could have a better system without the DMCA etc.

What I'm saying is, when I drive a car, sometimes I speed, and if I get caught, I take my ticket like a grownup, I don't start pissing and moaning about cops, The Man, how I was treated, "we shouldn't have speed limits" etc. which many people I know do. Even though I've seen a lot of bad behavior by cops, I see a lot of bad behavior by a lot of people, many of whom have jobs that I don't want myself.

This thread should be a celebration of somebody's diligent hack around some arbitrary rules. It's not a poster child for the evils of corporate ethics.

People whose blood is boiling over what happened here? I hope they don't own guns or feel like I sped past them too fast on the highway, because I think they're *.ragers, is the argument in favor of rationality I'm trying to make.
This is the problem. I would never work for a company that "Allowed telecommuting". I try to only work for companies that have a "remote first" mentality. Everyone in the entire company should have the ability to work from home or be traveling and working and be able to remain 100% productive.

This is a culture issue at companies that will evolve over time. The focus needs to shift from "good their butts are in their seats" to "good they just delivered X number of features". The focus should be on the results.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)#His...

In July 2005, Google acquired Android Inc. for at least $50 million, whose key employees, including Rubin, Miner and White, stayed at the company after the acquisition.
Just look at this rule:

> 第十六条 互联网广告活动中不得有下列行为：

>　　（一）提供或者利用应用程序、硬件等对他人正当经营的广告采取拦截、过滤、覆盖、快进等限制措施；

16.1 Provide or use any computer program, hardware, and etc. to block/filter/replace/skip/... legal ads.

However there is no rule about the punishment about the violation of this rule.

Well, did I ever say some ISPs shamelessly plug their ads to people's webpages for years?
20 people, but the processes we have in place should be scalable to way higher.
Yes, the keyboard.
I would argue that the distinction is between smearing him because he's a secular Jew or being an atheist. They're arguing he's an insufficiently religious Jew, which is a common smear in itself against some Jews.
for a purely software based company I think the main reason to require on-site employees is lack of trust. management really wants to see the people they pay walk in in the morning and sit at their desks.

personally I am more productive working remotely. I used to work for many years on-site at the same company and the distractions were unbearable, phones ringing, people walking by who always felt the need to interrupt me about anything (work related or not). and many phone calls about unrelated projects which resulted in context switching.

it turns out working remotely is more efficient because you avoid the random chit-chat, and unrelated calls transformed themselves into emails which I can open and respond to at a more convenient time.
If so i bet someone is spending company type coding a bypass, all the while being tracked as being productive.
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Source? What kind of backdoor are we talking about here?
Yes, I'm aware stateful services need redundancy, scaling and backups. That's exactly my point.

12 Factors only address stateless processes, which is the easy part. But most applications are stateful. It doesn't matter if data are stored in an embedded database (like SQLite, LevelDB, BoltDB) or in a client-server database (like PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Redis). 12 Factors doesn't address this issue at all.
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Not sure if comprehensive, but here's a list:
https://patents.google.com/?assignee=Yahoo!+Inc.,Yahoo!+Inc....

A cursory look offers a bunch of patents related to searching, messaging, databases, information storage/retrieval, etc.
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Of course, right now Britain is ruled by a Prime Minister who we didn't vote for either, so...
I feel your pain. Mid 90s Unix systems seemed to really start butting heads with this limitation. Before then, there were so few users of the system that it didn't really matter (there was only one Bob), but the explosion of the Internet in the mid 90s meant that lots and lots of people suddenly needed usernames and that limit started to be a real problem.
there is still no word if this is an act of terrorism or some deranged person with a weapon.
> if I ever ran a company I wouldn't allow telecommuting.

Are you saying that you would never allow workers to telecommute even if they lived in the area? Or are you saying that you wouldn't allow for 100% remote positions in which the employee is not capable of easily making it into the office if needed? I think there is a difference between "telecommuting" and "remote working".
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Hey! You are not alone. In cases like this, when you feel you have lost track remember... Lewis Carrol once said "If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." So breathe and try new things. Go to the library, watch a movie, visit a museum, join a book club... Just be curious in places you have never been but you are interested in. There is so much in life and things to do that you'll be blown away. Trust me, serendipity will come and you'll remember that you are alive, free and ready to explore and enjoy. I send you lots and lots of love, baby. Everything will be OK. I promise.
As someone who has worked 10+ years remotely (based in South America) I think it's a combination of factors:

Supply and demand. Why hire remote when there's plenty of warm bodies locally? Most companies do not need, and cannot afford, top-tier talent. Labor shortages are a myth.

Managerial incompetence. How many of the managers have any experience managing a remote team? Do they know what to do and what not to do?

Remote is frequently seen as synonym with "cheap, sub-par foreign developer" and there are many good reasons companies avoid that.

IMHO, remote-friendly organizations will prevail. The ability to hire from a much larger pool of talent and save on office costs gives them the upper hand.
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Same idea, basically, as with Putin's view that the values of modern Western societies are intrinsically hostile towards "Russian" and Eastern Orthodox values

I'm with Stratfor's analysis of this animosity: It's largely geographic.

And let's of course not forget the hard-core Islamists obsessed with the idea that Western music, Western culture, Western everything are intrinsic threats to the sacrosanct purity of "Islamic values".

Most often, they are intrinsic threats to their particular version of "Islamic values." They're also intrinsic threats to certain versions of "Christian values." Basically, any theocratic dogma is threatened.

You can flip this on it's head, and it becomes obvious. Any theocratic dogma that's against the realignment of their religion with modern humanist values is obviously intrinsically threatened.
Expectation:
- "Hey, look, this can SOLVE ALL THE PROBLEMS"

Reality:
- "Hey, look, this actually BRINGS IN A WHOLE LOT OF OTHER PROBLEMS too!"

:sad:
Does anyone know where to find a copy of the torrent DB? I think kat had copies on their app page, but the new mirrors omit this.
Is this actually a side project? That's a lot of work you have done there for a side project.
RAII is not a feature of C. I was commenting on how gotos are not like exceptions, because gotos are actually useful and don't cause your program to make less sense as a result.
To repeat what I just said woth slightly different wording: Yes, my point was specifically referring to the difference between users who want the Titan X for supercomputing versus those who want it for gaming. You can have as many CUDA cards as you want but you face the same problem of limited PCIe bandwidth just like you do with gamers who want SLI. If your use case is CUDA and not gaming, then the usefulness of four Titans depends entirely on whether your algorithms are limited by memory, memory bandwidth, or computing power.
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React Native already has `react-native init <project-name>` command that works in a similar fashion.
Obligatory Gary Johnson reference...
This is terrorism, police said that multiple shooters are at large.

link (sorry, German): http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/muenchen-schuesse-in-o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...
It sounds hip and rebellious; but imagine some day in the future when some hot-sounding very real looking person pulls the same when there actually is no actual human on the other end. Though still nascent I can already do a little bit of that myself with people who move (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnATwZgmI2I -- a whole new ironic twist to "Reality" :)) and voices that were hijacked like the Terminator did in the movies (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akuwibl-0BM HAL and SAL -- both me) or (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lBrtdCpXw0 -- both the pictures and voices of the guy and that sexy Lydia girl are me) or (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqk17F2kghc -- same deal with the voices) or (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EEzPb9YAeo -- keep your panties on girls that's not Tom Jones nor any male human at all). There are others who can undoubtedly go much further than that with much more sophisticated results. But even with what you see here you already have the baseline for bona fide Artificial Reality. So when that Tom Jones clone or souped up hot Lydia chick comes around asking you to give up your password be careful ... for it might be me or someone more advanced than me in disguise. (And by the way, thanks for the idea. :))
I am a hiring manager and the above is why I require my team to come to the office.
Oh cool, that's definitely new in the last couple days.
For the most part that's no problem, as long as it's done in the spirit of intellectual curiosity and not ideological battle.
The poor mans way of stopping your iDevice from transmitting, is by putting it in DFU mode [0]. This regretfully will prevent you from using it for anything else too, unlike airplane mode. And some will probably argue that a nation state could mimic DFU on an active phone, but it is a viable option that anyone afraid of being under surveillance could chose. The timing of DFU mode can be quite difficult, this video [1] has been help to millions.

Alternatively some use an iPod with only Signal installed. As stubborn Moxie requires access to the address book [2], the iPod address book is exclusively used for Signal addressees.

[0] https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/DFU_Mode#Entering_DFU_Mod...

[1] https://youtu.be/bITIiGswjF

[2] https://whispersystems.org/blog/contact-discovery/
Are those not the samething? I'm sure a terrorist is also a deranged person
Broadly, remote workers are only going to be successful in two situations:

1. Remote workers are task-oriented or don't require collaboration.
2. The company is set up to make remote workers equal citizens. ("Remote First")

#1 tend to be the cost play, and leads to outsourcing or offshoring. (Or are things like in-territory sales managers or something.)

#2 is hard unless you're starting from scratch. On top of implementing collaborative technology, improving processes, focusing management practices, and restructuring your organization, you need to change your culture. Employees who sit right next to each other should be chatting in the Slack channel, not face-to-face.

Most companies have other priorities than to tackle this kind of change, and quite frankly, don't need to look outside a 30-mile radius to find qualified candidates.

Hiring remote employees without the organizational foundation to support them is a recipe for disaster.

Having an existing employee "go remote" is easier because they're already ingrained in the culture, and "alternate work schedules" (e.g., not 100% remote) are good in-transition approaches.
It seems like they were shooting for the MVP here, not trying to make it the kitchen sink. Not everyone wants dockerization, Sass, isomorphic rendering, etc.