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> All technical discussion took place on mailing lists those days, and archiving those were, at best, spotty and with horrible web interfaces.

Not to take away from the contribution Gmane has made to many of my searches over the years, its web interface was one I always held as the epitome of awful design.
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Good question. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/O/on-the-gripping-hand.html
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Because its about the grunts. In 80% of the cases, happiness is for people at the top and the shareholders.
On the surface it looks like her departure is a huge loss to the academic world.

> I applauded her for her bravery for pursuing her own line, but that inevitably brings risks with it. She is a very fundamental thinker; she had original ideas. But at the end of the day you had to decide if those ideas are going to pan out

Why not let the broader community of scientist decide this?
Another brilliant example on why people should shun travelling to and most notably _through_ these countries. The UAE is not a safe place to travel through at all. As others have said, the laws are different.

People have been detained for reasons beyond imagination.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-woman-faces-insult-charge-unit...

http://gulfnews.com/news/uae/general/jailed-and-fined-for-no...

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/561528/British-plane-spo...
> - Lastpass is more trouble than it is worth in Safari/Mac.

Can't agree with this more. I've had so many issues with LastPass staying logged in one browser across sessions, even though the preferences are set to logout after short inactivity windows and on browser quit. LastPass seemed to lose its preferences like this multiple times, and it made me uncomfortable from a security perspective to not know for sure when my sessions would actually end.

Besides that it's mostly UX issues for me, similar to what you've described.

I also prefer 1Password's pronounceable random password generator vs LastPass's generator (obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/936/).
It seems like you're talking about the problem of having overly fragile tests. Getting a test to break when something is actually broken is something that comes with experience and studying good tests.

For example, a novice test writer would serialize a Java object and compare it against a previously serialized object byte for byte. This would break as soon as there was a trivial change to the object. A better procedure would be to run pre-test and post-test assertions on the properties of the object that were actually important.

If you have good tests and change something and a bunch of the tests breaks, that simply means you broke a lot of stuff. At least you'll know what's broken instead of having it thrown back and forth over the wall between Dev and QA a hundred times to get it out the door.
> Anyone who’s ever been near a large truck...knows the absolute pain of hearing that huge chugging internal combustion engine wrestling with getting up to a pacing speed.

IMHO the noise from semi trucks is nothing compared to cruiser-style motorcycles.
Not really, I don't think. That's basically the idea behind deniability - you kinda sort know about something, but you kinda sort make sure you never actually know about it.

Gross negligence is often more along the lines of "we are 99.999% sure you are lying, but we can't prove it".
But he still had to buy/acquire that 45% of stock. That proportion didn't just land in his pocket. Of course it's appreciated over time.
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I'm dying to build one and have very good idea how it could differentiate itself to reach such levels...
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What does "SMB SaaS player" mean?
"The average kid will live in multiple homes over the course of her life, experience a constant cycle of growing close to a “stepdad” only to see him walk out on the family, know multiple drug users personally, maybe live in a foster home for a bit (or at least in the home of an unofficial foster like an aunt or grandparent), watch friends and family get arrested, and on and on."

I'd prefer to see a statistical presentation of this information, rather than hearsay, but if even somewhat true, a basic income trial in these areas would be highly valuable.
Otoh, dozens of libraries doing the same thing may be just like dozens of models of fork to eat the soup.
And even if you do game, lots of AAA and indie games are available on Linux these days too. So being Linux-only is not the completely unrealistic scenario for gamers that it used to be.
The better question I'm interested in: is there any good way to easily disable password-paster-disablers?
The pidgin ("business") English that has official status in New Guinea is a different language, recognizably derived from English but different.
Well, which is easier?

1. Get a patent, find a commercial partner and investors who will give you a ton of money to develop it in the hopes of getting a return.

2. Make it public domain, remove any financial incentive to develop it, then try and convince whoever to give you hundreds of millions of dollars to develop it without any hope of financial return?
Why do minor variations in flag syntax matter so much you'd write your own? It seems easier to adjust to using the standard flag package.
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To be honest, I don't know what point you're trying to make. It is as if you think I was claiming arbitrary symbols cannot work well as icons. But I actually said the opposite of that: the floppy disk is basically an arbitrary symbol at this point. It works because we train people what it means.
Thinking Fast and Slow is generally about research in the "heuristics and biases" school. When we make decisions, we don't always think completely rationally, but rely on approximations and rules of thumb that simplify the task we have to perform. Our decisions can be influenced by context that tells us which approximations we should use. (I guess I'm thinking of priming & anchoring effects. If you ask, "is the average redwood taller than 8000 feet? How tall is the average redwood?" You will get larger estimates than if you first ask "is the average redwood taller than 50 feet?")

I think gamification is sort of a way to change your users frame of mind while they engage with your product. Kahneman doesn't really talk about games, but he does talk about ways of influencing behavior by affecting a person's state of mind.

I listed "The Power of Habit" first because I have a feeling that games have more to do with rewards and cravings than they do with judgement and decision making (more the topic of Thinking Fast and Slow). But both books relate to how we can steer decision making.

* Aside: I googled "priming anchoring" and got a result about UI design also mentioning loss aversion, another topic from Kahneman's book. http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2011/03/how-anchoring-o...

Fun fact: your users will hate losing badges even more than they like earning them. :)
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SMB = Small-to-Medium Business (companies in the $10m - $250m revenue range)
SaaS = Software-as-a-Service (like Salesforce.com)
Thanks for the link. That was very informative.
This misses the point. If you have the public domain ebook already, Amazon isn't knocking on your door asking for their cut.

Getty literally told the photographer she had to pay a license for her own work posted on her website. She didn't acquire it from Getty.

You can acquire a public domain ebook from somewhere else for free or you can pay 99c to acquire it from Amazon. But either way, you're not paying for a license to copy it.
The VOIP ban in the UAE is as much about protectionism for Etisalat as it is about surveillance.
Remember phonics for kids learning to read? And "just sound it out"? I try that from time to time on ESL friends, and the looks I get... I think that is the difference between years of passive intelligible input vs. starting from scratch.
> Anybody got a few hundred million sitting around and wants to build another SaaS ERP/SCM solution?

How about, stop obsessing over fucking SaaS and make software people can use without worrying when your bullshit company will "pivot" from CRM to cute cat gifs like the majority of SaaS startups.
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A geek minimalistic way for doing it using a DSL:

https://github.com/rafael-santiago/tulip
> And then I have to worry about what password I may or may not have lingering in my clipboard.

I'm not sure how LastPass does it, but 1Password does clear the clipboard after a short period of time (configurable, I think 90 seconds by default). I use clipboard logging via Alfred, and can confirm that however they clear the clipboard works to keep them out of its log.
The problem is fundamental to anything related to system calls. The only way to solve it is to somehow make system calls less expensive than they are now.
Neat! Thanks!
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Brilliant. What's stopping you? (Other than hundred million dollars and an enterprise sales team?)
This is my fav tune from him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3wWNcFO1a4
Within the bounds of legality, of course.
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Reader has the same thing :(
It's essentially another dark pattern. In accordance with the use policy of the Facebook APIs you can't require a like in exchange for something. If you see that, definitely report the offender to Facebook.

Source: I used to be involved with a WiFi company that offered Facebook "login".

Edit: clarified my involvement
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When is it time to move on, change job, switch career?
Umbrellas are still taboo in some branches of the US military. The local paper a while back had an article about this. The Air Force wouldn't let some officer carry an umbrella to the Pentagon, but it would pay to replace or repair his hearing aids when they were damaged by the soaking.
Is that a dark pattern, or poor ux?
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Another angle is to look at it from a business perspective.

Early on, Lending Club introduced roughly 10 categories of loans, one of which was "Student Loan".

In the first few years the risk models worked out pretty well for the other 9 categories of loans and they turned out to be pretty good investments from the viewpoint of the lender and roughly similar in return/risk profile.

Student loans were a disaster, with the interest mostly eaten up with defaults. They stopped making student loans.

People think abstractly that education is a good thing, but from the viewpoint of improving your job prospects it is a risky thing. If it wasn't for government guarantees and subsidization, however, student loans would not exist today except for people who don't need them. It just is not a good business (as a business) to make loans that have a high chance people can't pay them.
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I'm still surprised that more people haven't started talking about birth rates. There are too many people who are coming out with student debt where having a child is just something people feel financially priced out of. It's definitely not the immediate debt, just that a lifetime of production for an individual is not going forward, it's flowing backwards.
Others have already answered the question, but let me add to their answers that "I Am Not Your Lawyer" is usually rendered as IANYL, not IAMNYL, which is why you could not find it.

More common is IANAL, which means "I Am Not A Lawyer".
Well yes, desktop computing is dying. Hence suggesting Android.
Not getting your vitriol, man.

NetSuite sells to SMB space. Those companies lack IT expertise and prefer cloud-based solutions. Hence they were successful.

If your anger is toward poorly designed software, then yes, it doesn't matter if it's SaaS or on-premise.
I guess that I could demonstrate my American superiority by going to the Capitol cafeteria to order some "freedom fries"--or has that term been quietly dropped?
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I highly recommend against doing this if you work at any sort of real company. Negotiating trips/dinners/tickets in a contract means there was extra wiggle room and you chose free stuff over getting the best deal for the company. There's a fine line between a business courtesy and a kickback, and you don't want to end up in a situation where someone is questioning if you crossed that line.

The benefit they listed - building the relationship with the vendor - can be valid, but should/could exist as a regularly scheduled dinner that is expensed through normal policies.
Sounds like my experience last month, except I was interviewing for a low-level software position and didn't get an offer. :/

Actually, I only asked for $130k base and felt guilty about that.
Yeah, the web interface is a throwback to the 90s.

Their content outweighs the drawback, though.
.... Oracle bought a domain name just to list the new features in a minor version release?

I know MySQL doesn't use Semver at all, and I know the domain probably cost 3/5 of fuck all, but still...
When I worked in Japan for one year, I lived in the company dormitory. Was much, much cheaper than renting an apartment would have been, and had a small cafeteria where breakfast and dinner were provided.
The first is just a misunderstanding of the `*` operator. I don't believe there is any context for which this would yield anything other than the element-wise product between `x` and `y` (provided these are `ndarray`s).

The second, (the matrix product between `x` and `y`) works provided that the dimensions of `x` and `y` make sense to perform matrix multiplication, i.e., `x` is 1xN and `y` is Nx1.

While I agree there are some idiosyncrasies, I think it is hyperbole to call it a disaster. I will say that one idiosyncrasy that annoyed me up when moving from octave / matlab, was that NumPy's `zeros` and `ones` functions require the dimensions as a tuple, while others, like `rand` or `randn` take multiple arguments as the dimensions.
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Interesting, I get pestered by them constantly, and never actually considered going for it. For one thing, the common sentiment on HN seems to be 'friends don't let friends work for Amazon'.

Amazon seems like a meat grinder, where getting hired isn't as hard as it seems, and they just burn through young people who don't know better. This is as someone completely on the outside who's only heard stories, though. When I brought this up to one recruiter a few years ago, they basically acknowledged the reputation and their intent to improve.

Perhaps unlike HN, I've never seriously considered joining a mega-corporation like Google, Facebook, or Amazon. I just don't see the appeal, nor do I want to work in a city (SV, Seattle, NYC, or otherwise).
The show itself looks to be a mix of key parts of Poltergeist and Silent Hill with better characters. Rewatched Poltergeist a day or so ago to find three people in the family even look close to Stranger Things family. Especially the boy. So, I thought it was a tribute to those or tapping into recognition of them. Without spoiling, the ending was great, too. Lots of producers seem to give middle finger to audience with how a season ends these days. That ending could be a decent finale or allow for another Season. Right way to do it.

The opening is great. I marathon watched them but still enjoyed seeing opening each time. I agree with OP that it's refreshingly simple. Agree with you the music is like 70's or 80's style mixed with what I'd describe as common, background music for building suspense or interest in what's coming. Visuals for large letters and coloring were neat, too. I want to see more like it.
It sounds like from all the talk I keep hearing about the intro is that people are discovering how much they like retrowave.

There are tons of artists on Spotify/YouTube for this genre to check out too which is a good thing.
The difficulty is creating a suitable environment. There are a lot specifics about a nose that are difficult to duplicate.

Other than that, the idea is perfectly viable.
haha, it's always hundred million. Core idea is to use AI to convert simple todo list in to process driven smart software automatically. ( I know execution counts much more, and If someone copy / already does that, please let me know )
>On the surface it looks like her departure is a huge loss to the academic world.

And a huge gain for everyone else?
Dark patterns need to start winning FTC attention, period. If it's somehow not already criminal to cunt people about, lie and mislead and steal from them on web pages that needs to change too.
No joke, I've heard of companies equating ask-salary to self-worth and that a modest request can cost you.
>It is so funny how people side up with Google for doing the same thing as Microsoft.

I like how you conveniently leave out the facts to try make your argument relevant. Microsoft used the Java trademarks and modified the way Java worked. Sun was justified in suing them for this.

>I use Android Studio with Gradle and Java to write Android applications, how come it isn't Java!?!

You use the Android SDK to write Android applications.

>Every other company in this planet is fine to play by the rules of the Java world, just Google not.

Why does Android/Google need to play by the rules of the Java world when they don't call their implementation Java? Android doesn't use any of the code/IP in the JVM and it doesn't use any of the concrete code implementations from the JDK (pre 7.0). The only argument you have is the SSO of a subset of API's and we all know how that went down.

>Instead they fill the Android documentation with the Java word everywhere, rely on Java compilers and libraries, but just because they don't put a coffee cup it isn't Java.

So you now have a problem with Google using a compiler, of an open source project, to generate JVM bytecode that is then translated to DEX bytecode so that it can run on a device that processes DEX bytecode into native ARM machine language?

>On top of that they cherry pick features from Java, slowly making it impossible to write portable libraries without having multiple code paths.

What's wrong with cherry picking features? Forked projects do it all the time. Do you have an issue with forking open source projects. As long as Google doesn't call their implementation Java they can cherry pick whatever they like. If Oracle has a problem with this then they should update their OpenJDK license.

>Which is going to become increasingly harder with Java 9 and 10 features.

Not really. I'm sure they'll "cherry pick" the good stuff like Value Types and discard what they don't deem necessary for their implementation.
Sorry for the naive question, but in that kind of situation, how do you assure the continuity of the organization ? What if the people being let got were supporting customers, about to close a deal, and so on ? How do you make sure people are not leaving with a critical "know-how" ?
Does it really matter?
Notice this question has been asked 3x and not answered. 150k remote gets you a lot further than 300k in SV unless you want to live with 10 of your best friends.
I believe that's what the parent comment was implying - that FreeBSD system calls are faster than Linux system calls.

I have no idea if this is true or not though.
Used to be there was "the guy" that knew the "secret formula." Like the guy that knew the Coke secret formula, or the guy that used to maintain Lay's potato chip fryers. Most everyone else was just a cog in a big machine with very little power individually.

What this guy - and Snowden - show is that today's IT professionals have tremendous power that generally they never choose to exercise.

If an IT shop in a major corporation decided to unionize and turn on its management, they would have the company totally by the balls. So many people in an IT shop are positioned to control so much, and management often treats its IT staff like disposable widgets.

It would take two+ hands to count the number of major multinationals that I could have seriously damaged singlehandedly in a matter of hours if I had ever gone rogue back in the day. Few non-IT rank-and-file employees have such power.

Of course the fact that I never did such a thing is one of the reasons I remain a well-paid consultant (trustworthiness and honesty is a consultant's #1 asset), but the fact is that many corporations are quite blind to the level of risk they undertake when they mistreat their IT staff.
We're seeing brutal, brutal consolidation now. Better buckle up.
Good on the author for making the decision based on his and his family's needs and not "but it's a top-tier company, man, you gotta work for the best be the best do the BEST."

People often don't consider cost-of-living when making job decisions. I think the way to do it is to equalize the salaries based on cost-of-living across each company you're considering. So if you make $60,000 in a small midwestern town, that's the same as making $120k in Seattle or the Bay Area. If you make $80,000 in a small midwestern town, you're coming out ahead of the guy/gal pulling six figures in SF.

It's an important consideration and one I think many employers try to get you to ignore.
Interesting perspective, but I'd drop that "I for one support child labor" opening line, as I suspect most won't read/listen to anything you say after that.

I disagree that child labor is some kind of necessity to a nation developing its economy, but I will agree that legislation regarding it should be carefully considered.
Only in the "tech fanboy who doesn't actually understand VMs vs Containers" space, which admittedly is quite a big space right now.

For OS X/Windows hosts the only thing keeping VirtualBox around is the price tag. No one is going to pay for the commercial version with the terrible performance it has.

If you're willing to part with $ you have much better options.

On OS X I think new players like Veertu will further displace VirtualBox even in the $0 category.
Except 794CD01 did literally end his comment with that point:

> it would be more appropriate to focus on the things that are crimes and should not be, like their moronic VoIP laws.

Anyway, I think we can all agree that throwing the book at people for bullshit crimes and the bullshit crimes themselves are both bullshit.
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That thought has crossed my mind. Sometimes I feel like that question is some sort of bullshit test to see if you over- or under-value yourself. Based on the StackOverflow transparency discussion yesterday I think I am underpaid by about $10k to begin with, which I have still not fully internalized.
> trying

I wasn't talking about that, it's your imagination. Probably counts as spin on your part.

Other than that, the explanation was provided to you. I'm not blaming gays especially, it's just they were mentioned together with leftists and I've weighted them together. I expect their superposition to be significant anyway.

> if your goal is to persuade

I have no goal, I'm just chit-chatting, thank you, officer, and good day.

> there is a vast conspiracy

That's your imagination again.

> the rhetoric

How about "discussion"?

> straight out of the fascist playbook

So is yours.
I managed to do that one time but on a much smaller scale (home server). Forgot about my network mounts, rm -Rf, noticed that it was taking longer than expected to delete just a few dirs... "oh crap." :) Luckily I run zfs with zfs-auto-snap on my home server so everything was back the way it was after a quick 'zfs restore'.
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