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I can see how it's a hard pill to swallow, I just can't bring myself to sympathize. Of all the ways that the universe can possibly operate, we now know that it could be one less way. A life's work working on an incredibly beautiful theory is something to be proud of. Had less competent work been done, this failure might not have been taken seriously.

I would be unbelievably excited about what the future holds. The goals of science cannot hang on how people feel about their careers.
Certainly true, but this can be considered a (secondary) side-effect. Law could prohibit this behavior, but can of course never eradicate it.

As for your point about monopoly: I don't think it will be very easy to maintain a monopoly if the number of people you employ is limited (because other companies could easily equal that number of employees).
Tor is over an order of magnitude too slow for this to work. You might get a result, but that doesn't tell you much about the speed of your internet connection.
I am not sure that smashing a supercapacitor (whatever that is) into the earth at twice orbital velocity will really do that much to help anything...

You could put a solar collector into earth's orbit so it would always be in the sunshine and <transfer the energy in some way>. However no one has a way of making this seem economic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based_solar_power
It's the other way around. Rich countries have more money to fund people to train, so they have more people training and thus perform better.

It's kind of funny that US Olympic success is largely funded by people sitting on couches.
And they were given a 4 year heads up that chrome was going to remove it.

Instead Java used that time to build several help pages that showed you how to install other browsers then made a shitty anti-chrome campaign when it was finally removed, and unity just sat there and did nothing the whole time.
Looks like something like this should be embedded in a Go IDE.
This iOS app appears to be able to advertise custom bluetooth profiles, though? https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lightblue-explorer-bluetooth...
>I've started to order my books through my local bookstore recently

Yeeaah, about that... Last time I ordered a book at my local book store, they just ordered it of Amazon. The guy behind the counter tried to remove the Amazon packing discreetly, but failed.

If book stores are going to be complain about how Amazon is putting them out of business, they should at least not use them as a supplier.
Because it's bad for their reputation? If they can find a way that the cost of QA / rejection is less than the cost of returns, then it's a win.

It's not like they need to do detailed QA, just a smoke-test. Does this even run?
I was (and am still) in the same situation. I managed to go the Rust path, just to realize I don't trust it will be valuable for the very long term (5y+) at this point. It'll be funny to save this comment and come back to it 3 years into the future.

However C++14/17 is getting a ton of new features and a fresh effort to push it towards Rust's innovation. I wouldn't be surprised that if this energy continues, we'll see a lot of Rust in C++.

What is completely certain, that 3 years into the future, if I look at this very comment I'm writing now, C++ will still be as common and valuable. Rust - not sure.

I know I sound like a conservative dinosaur now (but trust me, I'm not), but this kind of thought process you get only after 20 years in the field, and I do apply it only for topics that deserve it (systems programming).
It seems somewhat ironic that a "simpler" tool that lets something else "do the heavy lifting", needs a Postgres database, whereas gollum just uses the file system (holding a git repo)
On Phone, the exploit chain to do exactly that is already public.
Let's assume the rants are true for the most part. How is it possible that so many people work for Amazon despite the antics, especially in Seattle where it should be possible to get a similar job elsewhere. Are there benefits people work towards while coping with the toxic workplace?
>It's been resolved within a few days

Could you share a way to resolve it? I've been in such situation recently. I was forced to change VPN I used for long time to access my Gmail account. And I haven't 2FA enabled because I didn't want to give out my phone number.
Its the old way of thinking, its like that episode of Seinfeld where Georges car breaks down at work and his boss who now sees his car parked there as he gets in and as he leaves thinks he is a great employee. Costanza is always working! Its easier to look at cars than numbers.
No, it doesn't. It merely prevents the use of one way to install some policies on Windows RT devices.
>Amazon is a great company for its customers. It's about time that it becomes a great company for its really hard working employees as well.

Hat off.
Or this one: https://xkcd.com/1489/
> Not a single store verifies any product to be functional prior to selling it

Bullion stores do. Also, stores that also make the product themselves do, from handmade crafts to factory outlets...
I really think this is an awesome effort. I have completely different results, though. Many of the games listed were played recently on my machine and all worked and installed fine.

My machine has Ubuntu 16.04 64bit with 16gigs of RAM and an nvidia 750ti card.

Just for fun I downloaded Aquaria. I tried the mojo installer, which worked without any problems. I tried the 32bit deb and had no problems, either. The 64bit deb is just the 32bit binaries with an additional ia32-dependency. Since Ubuntu is multiarch now, that won't work.

These packages should be removed by humble to avoid confusion.

EDIT: So far I haven't been able to find a single game on the list, that doesn't work.
I would say that the information that is published with emojis included in the newer UTF-8 standards seem to cover this.

You can also have a look at Emojipedia[1] where there is a lot of information about each symbol.

I believe there is a certain overlap between common icons and symbols used for emoji.

There is also some information to be found in various icon style guides, se Google's[2] for instance

[1](http://emojipedia.org/)

[2](https://material.google.com/style/icons.html)
There was certainly progress in anatomical knowledge. Reliably effective medicine is really a very modern development.
Works like a charm in Safari on iOS and macOS.
Looked up a fun fact yesterday: Michael Phelps has won more medals than India in the last 3 Olympics and is on pace to do it again. Being a fan of underdogs, I started following and cheering the Indian team and it's been a lot of fun.
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Cathedrals are very profitable; as long as there's religion.
Last time there negative press about Amazon's culture, Bezos wrote an email encouraging people to contact him directly if they suffered abuse.

Apparently if you actually try it, you get fired:

https://sites.google.com/site/thefaceofamazon/home/fired-for...
TOFU / POP

Trust on first use / persistence of pseudonym
Virtually all the games on that list run on Linux, the experience isn't really pleasant the install / run process is fragmented and inconsistent just like the Linux ecosystem itself.

The games might not be recommended to run on Linux by this blog author but it doesn't mean they do not run.

As far as the games the author states will not run at all while I cannot confirm all of the titles on the list I can confirm that 3 are incorrect at the least:

Anomaly 2 which the author claims it doesn't run on Linux.
Runs on Ubuntu 16.04 just fine it does seem to not support integrated graphics (like many 3D games on Linux) which is pretty darn clearly specified in the Minimum System requirements for Linux even on the Humble Store.

Botanicula another game that runs on Linux but requires you to install the Adobe Air Runtime (and a to have Geforce card IIRC) which isn't clear if the author even attempted to do.

Dungeon Defenders another game that I can confirm to run on Linux requires again a non integrated card.
A jailbreak was released on the IRC channel :)
If someone is too lazy to read the writeup, it's #rtchurch on irc.rol.im
I was at the '92 Spring Fling. Incredible line up.
How would you do in a race against an olympian, or the rest of the world
I have developed an app that uses google health and a few other metrics to figure out how you would do in a race against an olympian. It uses runs that you have already completed to estimate if you could make it to the olympic podium. It will also let you run against your Facebook friends or twitter followers if they sign up to. It is free and you can check it out here:
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=is.viablelabs.cadence
IOS: https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/cadence-olympus-trials/id1131607446?mt=8
You are being pedantic without reason you understood pretty darn well what I meant.
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In my experience (YMMV, I've a long history of gaming), if steam disappears I'll be disappointed to lose my titles, but it won't be the end of the world. Games I've played yesteryear rarely hold up over time - the vast majority I've fired up again feel very dated. And there's always a ton of new, interesting, and cheap games coming forward. Games are somewhat ephemeral/disposable, I find, so the "won't be around in five years" is less of a problem than for other software.

Again, that's my use case, others may differ.
I suspect that latency has something to do with it. Crashplan's servers are a good 100ms closer to me.
Shamir's requires full recreation of the original secret.

Treshold ECC signatures doesn't.
if I'm not mistaken, while winamp does support the formats, its far off from correct support, hence one of the reasons why xmplay is still a thing
Yep.. I just tried a couple of the games marked red and they all worked for me without problems..
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Is efficiency all that metters in life?
> This kind of Flash slows you down

I wonder if Flash is still slower than the current JS bloat of the "modern web". My intuition says, probably not.
Snappy/Flatpak are overly complicated solutions. Easier solution is to distribute using Steam or use an installer (e.g Mojosetup) that will deploy a zip/tar archive with executable, data, dynamic libraries and necessary desktop entries.
Curious to hear what others think about this. I cannot find these in our codebase.
This is actually very opaque problem to somebody who doesn't use Homebrew. Why
did `brew' want to install mysql package? Maybe it's percona-toolkit's
maintainer who fscked up the job and put a non-alternative dependency on
"mysql"?
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Coins have history, but coins spent together gets merged (and partially spent coins get split).
I think websites, laptops etc. remaining approximately as slow is down to human nature rather than the tech. A delay of 1 or 2 seconds doesn't make much difference with something that'll take you a minute to read.

That said in the early days like 1997 with dial up I remember pages taking 30 s to 1 min to load and finding something taking like 20 clicks pre Google. Now that was slow. I'd go get a cup of tea or read a book while waiting.

I just timed two of my most frequent sites HN takes like 2s, the nyt like 4s. That doesn't really make a significant difference to the experience.
My experience on hiding video was that the video was hidden, yes, but the audio continued to play and video content, I believe, was being downloaded.

I've yet to find an extension which blocks all video effectively. Or prevents autoplay.

Chome/Android doesn't support extensions at all. So there's that.

Flash, by its very blobbiness, had an effective defeat mechanism: remove the blob.

Again, for video, especially autoplay sources, I've found blackholing the video platform provider's hosts or domain quite effective. It's still only a handful for most offenders. And if the practice spreads we may see pressure from the providers themselves to defeat autoplay.

Though those of us blocking will be beyond caring.
You'll know the party is over when the Hamptons are burning to the ground.
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Apple Pay is already available for Apple users only.

Although they did announced Apple Pay on the WEB. It will require Safari - which is available on iOS/macOS exclusively.
I didn't mean to be so harsh. It's his Happy Place and who am I to judge.

But there's no fence, so you could take a picture and use it in Refurb's Lawn Care brochure as the "before and after" spread. (Mine being the wah-wah-waaaaah side.)

The social contract to keep up is untenable.
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Just add that last time I checked adding multiple personas (in the form of pages) to your single account was even streamlined it seemed to me.
forgive my limited knowledge in this, but I have an RT and wondering what I can do with it. What can I do with it and how? Any links/resources? thanks

EDIT: saw your other comments :) I'm still up for more info if you have any regarding installing new apps or OS on RT
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Is it possible their usual supplier just couldn't get them that book for whatever reason? It's not necessarily a good idea to explain that to the customer and have them decide "much less hassle to use Amazon for everything then", than to order off Amazon and sell it to the customer at cost and hope they come back.
This is pretty much the only way drivers for very old hardware get removed from Linux, too. If it's been broken for years without any complaint...
The graphs are really bad. The problem I have is not the continuity, which as you say can help to identify trends, but the huge gap between two real data points. It should be clear what is real data and what is not (for example, using a linespoints graph), it really looks like there were medals won in non-onlympic years. The author focused too much on making beautiful graphs instead of just presenting the data.
That's how all bonuses work? If I'm reading your comment correctly. If you leave a company within, usually, two years, you have to return the money.
people have far less freedom in deciding where to work than we fool ourselves into believing
In one case, personal appeal to a Googler.

In another, fallback/recovery ultimately worked, but I needed to try from several devices.

The "security questions" proved worse than useless. Unless exercised periodically, I think people forget or lose the answers (or even questions). Worsee, vendors change their strategies.

Seveeral of my Google IDs started from entirely different services, with different rules. And privacy guidelines. E.g., YouTube's old "never use your real name" advice.

How quaint!

Identity is weird.
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It's an acknowledged problem with binary distributed packages: https://github.com/Homebrew/legacy-homebrew/pull/41595#issue...

Homebrew is more like home made bread that's taken out half way, because it's half-baked and basically terrible.

First they rely on end user compilation for everything, then they support distributing binaries in a way that's as smart as a brick.
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Yes. That results in the best distribution of scarce resources. The opposite of efficiency is waste.
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I'm in New Zealand and I can disable and enable a number of individual features on my credit card through my banks phone app
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Interesting thought.

If you're guessing correctly, this will probably be the future of the development business.
We are waiting for feedback
He's also won more gold medals than Canada in the past 3-4 summer olympics.
A company doesn't really "sponsor" a TN visa, they just have to be willing to write a job offer letter that satisfies the border officer. This means it specifies the job is temporary (try to get it to say 3 years, as that's the longest they'll give you the visa for), it has a salary, and it has a listing of job duties that aligns with the NAFTA job class you're going for.

With the TN visa, you just need the proper documentation and they issue it at the border. The company doesn't need lawyers or filings; it's all on you.

I'm sure a big company like Amazon has experience here. If you're job hunting and are talking to smaller companies, you might have to educate them about how the TN works because many don't know it exists and assume they'll have to pay a lot of money to hire a Canadian.

If you've never come in on a TN visa before it's worth the ~$400 in lawyer fees to get them to review the TN letter and coach you on the procedure.
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you mean, amazon is better than whatever other places people could work instead?
Try for Android.
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Ah, I had stopped reading immediately after looking at the picture for the same piece placement.

In this picture, G Kasparov is earning a paycheck by posing in front of a chessboard while trying not to look at the camera.

Good for him, too ;-)
Plenty of stores verify things before selling to you. Mobile phone stores will usually make sure that the thing works with the sim in it before handing it over, and will often transfer stuff across from your other phone for you. Similarly, plenty of higher end stores test things out before they stock them. A simple example is a restaurant with a curated wine list. Likewise, used car dealers will usually give a vehicle the once-over before selling it on.

I knew what you were getting at (just like you know what the parent was getting at), but it's not really pedantry to counter a gross oversimplification.
As a startup we connect clients to Africa's top tech talent, I 'm curious to know what are the reasons that would stop you from outsourcing your software development to Africa, what are your major concerns, What questions do you have ?
The contrapositive would then be that if you find some really janky/unreliable feature that people are using, it must be pretty important to them and you should tread lightly when modifying it.
Even then Chrome's battery usage is pathetic. I sincerely hope you guys get it right in battery consumption from within chrome rather than blaming on flash! Please! It hurts.
Most of those ports are being done by one lone developer named Ryan C. Gordon who runs icculus.org Here's a talk he did about porting games to Linux with SDL 2.0 during a Steam Dev Days event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeMPCSqQ-34
One interesting thing to note is that most of those Linux ports can only be purchased through a Humble Bundle. (Playdead's Limbo is a case in point.) It goes without saying that the grand majority of those ports would have never happened if it weren't for Humble Bundle in the first place.
I would like to hear something from the other side but not many employees create entire sites dedicated to documenting management/abuse problems. That's a sign right there that it seems serious :(
Yes, never use go build, always use go install!

go build builds everything, whereas go install does an incremental build on the stuff that has changed and installs it (either in GOPATH/bin or GOPATH/pkg).
Interesting to see Amazon people writing these complaints on Google's services.

Also, what effect will this have on people using Amazon?
Should we try to use Google cloud offering instead of AWS?

I guess with any service that offered super cheap costs, there was a place where something had to give...
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Do I need https when using cjdns or http is fine ?
On top of all the CVEs there is also the rampant proliferation of fake Flash installers. They are just tricky enough to get less savvy users and slam them with adware or malware. Not having to install third party software to browse the internet has it's own security benefits.
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What's a 'fair' amount of tax? It doesn't drain local economies: it drains local retail, but if local retail were more competitive, then they'd be more competitive. Why should I subsidize local retail by paying higher prices? I don't owe local retail anything. If they aren't providing a better value (either through lower prices or better service,) then why should I buy from them? It's not my fault they can't compete. Amazon wasn't always big. They started small as well -- however they knew how to innovate which is a skill most local stores lack because they still use a distribution model from the 1800s.
It's already been discussed on HN, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12235789
I'm happy having an MITM between me and Amazon's identity and preferences engine.

My local bookstore gives me Amazon's price, and has an understanding that my name doesn't go on the order.

Better yet: the library.
Maybe a bit too hidden for critical 10 minutes, but the device loggin information is readily available in the Security tab of your Github account:

https://github.com/settings/security
Github has a support system and from my experience they reply quite fast.
Question: isn't printf a C standard library function? How can it be used in an OS with no cstdlib (yet)? Or, is the code in the article 'just a guideline'?
> old white guys

Why did you inject race into the conversation for no reason? I've seen layabouts of every description
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I converted my front lawn to all native perennial plants and flowers, with aggressive ground cover plants around them. It looks great and is essentially zero maintenance - I only water it once or twice depending on the weather.

I highly recommend it.
> Today, more than 90% of Flash on the web loads behind the scenes to support things like page analytics. This kind of Flash slows you down, and starting this September, Chrome 53 will begin to block it.

I'm all against Flash. But this argument sounds silly. Why not handle this like any decent OS, and "nice" the Flash portion of the page, so that it takes only cycles (or bandwidth) which are otherwise left unused?
If you haven't heard much De La Soul, then you may be interested in the 20th anniversary mix that Wax Poetics magazine and DJ Chris Read did recently for the album "Stakes Is High"[1].

As far as I know it's legal, and it gives a great introduction to the group's style (It's also my favorite De La album!).

[1]: https://soundcloud.com/wax-poetics/de-la-soul-stakes-is-high...
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No, I understand, but J is as much a notation as APL is. It may be a different notation to what you, as an APL programmer, are used to, but it is as much a notation as APL.

While you say that my judgement is clouded by not using APL, I say the opposite is true: from here, they're equally symbolic. The difference is, one of them uses symbols I can type.
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Whoa, unless the bonus is astronomical, you would really need to question the offer, especially if relocation is involved. The longest earn-out I've ever had on a hiring bonus was 6 months, even then I left within 5 and didn't have to pay it back. The amount of things that can cause you to leave a job or be fired over two years creates a huge risk, and creates an incentive for your employee to fire you on your 23rd month.