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> I'm not sure how to feel when I consider the daily attempts against my choices and privacy.

This is my biggest complaint about Windows as a power user. I have no control over it: I can't shut off all of the telemetry reporting. I can't turn off Defender's active scanning and have it stay off for more than a day. I can't say "Don't reboot for upgrades between 6am and 10pm." "<video game> has been denied access to the video drivers" halfway through a game, forcing a restart.

I used Windows for my daily computer from 98 to 7. My work machines transitioned to Macs around that time, and I made that same transition with my other computers around the same time - the build quality and battery lifetimes were just too good to ignore. My gaming rig stuck with it and made the leap to 10, but it aggravates me in one fashion or another every time I turn it on.

So, I guess I'm headed the opposite way of most commenters. I considered XP and 7 to be the glory years for a daily driver, and now I can't get away from the platform fast enough.
.. and then there was BSD.

One additional comment. "Windows has a huge number of PAID developers to make it happen" Uhm, is that why they have a turd of an OS that looks somewhat decent aesthetically, but underneath is the biggest turd a great dane couldn't even produce?
The business model priced in the risk of fines and the amount under the old regime; it was profitable. Now all the city has to do is scrape the frontend (or API, if there is one) and tally up the fines.

Am I missing something here?
Twitter is killing off Vine
Some of biggest companies in the world are supported purely by ad revenue and adtech. Google, Facebook are just a few examples.
So DHH basically hates whoever is the successful one at the time, I guess (or two).

Seems like the majority of the rest of the internet as well. Haters gonna hate, for all time.
Yes, but are the big content creators on Vine going to be able to make that transition? It's a very specific format which people have tailored their skills for. I don't follow it that closely but has there been a big downturn in activity? It seems like there's a glut of content every time I check in on it.

Edit: Not sure why you mentioned Fabric, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with this.
Same here.

I was already doing Windows 3.x and 95 development by the time I installed Slackware 2.0, from floppies as my CD-ROM wasn't yet supported.

Spent almost a decade buying Linux magazines, writing M$ on forums, but also kept doing Windows related stuff when needed, also helped porting Windows software to UNIX, thanks to my Windows skills.

The technology I use varies with the customer, but Windows, .NET, UWP, VC++ is where I have more fun.
Thanks. Roughly how many sonic booms did you hear during your time there?
Assuming his investments gained by 10% a year (which is extremely optimistic), he would have had to save $80k per year. Only a small minority of people have the required income to do that; especially at 25.
Instagram (Facebook) ate it.

Would be nice, by the way, if they could release the source code. Having such an example of a Flask app would be very useful for the community.
Is that not the vast majority of Airbnb rentals offered through the service, sporadic rentals?
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Across five different desktop builds and two laptops, everywhere I've installed Linux has just worked (barring nicer power management features on the first laptop almost a decade ago).
I imagine it's a combination of this and wanting Vine users to use the native Twitter video functionality rather than be owned by another company.

https://about.twitter.com/videos-on-twitter
This is a great project and it seems further ahead. Checked it out and was surpised to see that it's headed by Brendan Eich.

PS: This is why I like HN: I discover great alternatives in a fraction of the time I would have elsewhere. Thanks for posting this!
When I joined up, most of my acquaintances were flabbergasted. It's been a year, and they still don't quite believe it.
Funnily enough, I am a lifelong Microsoft Windows user who only recently switched to Linux because I got fed up with Microsoft's continued W10 bull.
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Brad with the CoinTent team here.

Thanks for the thoughtful feedback. I tend to agree with the core of what you're saying: that advertising has enabled, and should continue to be a main driver of, the creation of content on the internet. There's really no way to argue with that, and I don't think ads will ever go away entirely.

I also agree that things and content cost money to make. The truth is, in the US, the average ad block rate is currently 20%. That means a lot of content creators struggle to get enough money from ads, often leading them to create worse experiences (more ads, more aggressive ads) or more content (to get more eyeballs).

Our intention is to create an alternative to ad blockers that provides a sustainable option for websites and users. Specifically, we are trying to create a model that does not solely reward websites for attracting the most viewers or eyeballs, but rather incentivizes the creation and distribution of valuable content.
Would you want one?
Last I checked, inotify didn't work and there were lots of cross platform quirks. This becomes rather important once you want to use the WSL for running your dev toolchain (think build tools, dev servers, whatever) but Windows apps for development (Sublime, VS Code, whatever).
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TLDR; "stop and smell the roses"
First, are you sure that everybody is paid according to that table? Or it's just a guide line?
Secondly, if it's true, then the salary is not related to performance, and I would image people just stay there, the longer the higher salary.
Now I want to know if anyone else uses the Galaxy Song from _Monty Python's Meaning of Life_.
Sure the Hardware is amazing but the OS feels way too much like that slimy car salesman...."trust me, it's the best deal out there".
Well, in addition to some subreddits and GDC talks, I think Dr. Serkan Toto's blog and "deconstructor of fun" have some interesting content.
There is no sign-up required what so ever.

If one wishes to continue a conversation one-on-one I believe other applications are better suited for that. I therefore build only one private function:

The exchange of contact details if both parties agree. If one wishes to participate in an exchange of details. It is also for this function only required to fill in some form of details. The idea being you can than continue your conversation in private elsewhere.
Also Renesas (itself a combination of NEC, Hitachi and Mitsubishi's semi division) is popular among the Asian manufacturers. Both auto OEMs (Honda, Toyota, etc.) but tier-1 suppliers (Pioneer, Fujitsu Ten, Panasonic).
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Daniel Johnson's blog is hard to beat

http://www.hexahedria.com/

Stephen Wittens' site is another that comes to mind

https://acko.net/
Twitter axes Vine video service
DHH did make a good point about taking Google down a peg :-)

Google has had some goofs as well as hits, and at the end of the day, they are just a marketing company that forces their employees to write in Java and C++. Eeeeooohw.

(I have fewer issues with Apple, but I'm sure they will do something obnoxious soon enough - maybe even now if I had to write iOS apps)
>Telegrams by their nature are going to be terse and infrequent certainly not a ponderous essay you can mull over.

Which is beside the point, since the parent talks of a pre-telegraph terse text culture, not a telegraph one.

>And are we seriously arguing that in the, comparatively, "larger" world of the early 20th century where many communities could be completely isolated from differing ideas there was some how greater access to a wider variety of information?

No, the idea is that there was deeper involvement into the available information -- instead of always skimming it, which ends up not delving enough into anything.

>It's certainly a dangerous thing to put on the rose colored glasses and look to the past.

It's even more dangerous to think of history as a kind of monotonic progress across all sectors (as opposed to just the technological one).
I didn't downvote, but there's a negative perception around Arch users kinda like vegans/vim-users/emacs-users, a la "how can tell if someone uses Arch? They'll tell you, over and over again."

The comment in question here is not at all guilty of this sort of "air of superiority" that bugs people, but it may be an oversensitivity caused by that perception.
Thanks all for the explanations.
Currently no major browser has significant components implemented in a safe language like Rust. And while there are some efforts towards granular parallelism in existing major browsers, none really took a "start from scratch and get it right" approach like the Servo components that Quantum intends to adopt (and that's very noticeable in Servo perf).

So on both of those aspects, the plan here is to go significantly further than any existing major browser.
Long time powershell lover here, many of us used to just always have an ISE instance running for its flexibility, but recently I found this post and have not looked back since.. my prompt is a Ctrl + ~ away :)

https://hodgkins.io/ultimate-powershell-prompt-and-git-setup
Quote from the kickstarter video: "there are adblockers out there, but they make money by selling your data".

Citation needed. Which adblockers are selling my data?
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I've tried and failed to dig PowerShell as well - I had someone explain to me once that it really only "feels good" when you're constantly doing stuff that's directly in its wheelhouse. If you're more developer than sysadmin and you only occasionally need to script something, it'll never feel very comfortable.

My "scripting" needs don't involve sysadmin-flavored work or distributing scripts to be run on different machines or environments, so I use Linqpad pretty much as a pseudo-shell and scripting environment on my own box and couldn't be happier with it. F# is good for short scripts as well; I've been trying to use it more but it's slow in Linqpad, and I'm addicted to my productivity in C#.
> But it is clearly not avoidable. If one of the largest tech companies in the world (with enormous profits and cash reserves) cannot afford to deploy fiber in major cities, it is clear that the private sector cannot reliably and affordably provide this service on the scale required.

You're talking about the wrong market. Putting the fiber in the ground is an unavoidable natural monopoly. But connecting that fiber to the rest of the world isn't -- the only reason there is a monopoly today is that the private incumbents are allowed to leverage the monopoly in the first market into a monopoly in the second one.

We could prohibit them from offering termination services and instead require the wires to be leased on the open market. The incumbents will lobby against that just as they do against municipal fiber, because they want to keep leveraging one monopoly into another. We are under no obligation to agree with them.

It's possible that having the municipality own the wires is actually better, or not. That is the whole privatization debate. But that has nothing to do with the fact that regardless of who owns the local wires, it is better to have competition in who terminates them. Because termination is not a natural monopoly.
> Being told "we have to pass it before we can look inside of it" is... I can't think of anything less sane.

There's the republican influence for you.

That quote Pelosi said was about the disparate bills in House and Senate. In order to see the final bill, each side had to pass it so a merge committee would be made to combine the bill.

Then the merge-bill would be re-forwarded back to Senate/House for a final vote.

Or what she should have said: "We have to pass the House Bill before we can see the Merged bill."

But a 10 second republican talking point snippet makes her look bad. But if you know how Congress works, it makes a heck of a lot of sense.
If that's the reason, it just seems so... destructive to me. This is something I respect about Facebook: they are willing to cannibalize their own products (e.g. instagram vs facebook, whatsapp vs fb messenger) because they realize how mercurial and segmented internet users can be.
No, there's flexibility in the general schedule system. It both goes from $18K to $133K, and includes cost of living adjustments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Schedule_(US_civil_ser...
Confirmation biasception?
Oh, I don't need to do any of that regularly. Doing those things fall under growth activities.

The SEO and email system more or less runs itself. But, y'know, if I completely ignore it for two years something might change.

Mind you, I have some components that have run since 2013/2014 with no change at all. Most of my system is like that actually.

There are website updates required, but a contractor does that. I just monitor reports.

So there's somewhat more work than I think you're thinking of, but not much.
Twitter axes Vine video service
Twitter axes Vine video service - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37788052
This sounds to me like Mozilla is getting impatient with Servo. Servo was more than just a parallel browser engine it was the only new web engine not based off of decade old codebase.

It was a statement that it's feasible to hold off on monoculture because compatibility isn't impossible to achieve on new engines.
You'd think this would be true, but I've written a few non-trivial things in PowerShell and I always found it frustrating. The problem with the object pipeline is discoverability. When I'm writing a Bash script and I don't know what a command will return, I can just run it and see. Meanwhile, in PowerShell, I have to rely on repeated attempts at pretty-printing and/or external documentation, and I've found both to be lacking in several cases.

While I'm at it, another thing I didn't understand was why they chose to copy Bash's behavior of having anything printed or returned un-suppressed inside a function be part of its return value. That makes it harder to refactor and clean up your code.
Pay market rate and be honest about it?

I don't understand the problem here. Support agents are unlikely to demand a developer's salary.
You know your product doing great if it blocked in China.
@author

Can you please post the names and all current salaries on your website? Since you don't care about your employees privacy, I would like to use this along with LinkedIn to easily pick off your better employees. Thanks!

Edit: Also! Any plans to open health care information?
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It's sort of like asking if you can't raise an objection without invoking fallacious logic, how are you going to make interesting contributions to this community?
The problem is that pursuing this things that could be benefical to the society, is also making you a pariah in the same society.
If you're senior and respectable, you call a friend at a firm that's got open positions and they set you up. After all, you're competent and the firing is a reflection on GS more than you. They don't lowball you, because you'd either call another friend or take the job and then flip it into a better offer elsewhere - you're employable enough that "already employed" seems less significant.

If you're new, you act like you're fresh out of college, slap GS on your resume, and hit up a bunch of banks. Someone will need you if you're good, and you won't get any more lowballed than you were for being junior anyway. You're in it to move up the ranks at this point regardless.

Honestly, it plays out a bit like the Valley. If some regulation or move by Google crushes a startup, the people leaving it aren't particularly stigmatized, and there's too much competition to weaken their negotiating position much.
Twitter Axes Vine Video Service
betaarchive.com might be interested in that CD if they don't have it already
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Several European cities have already banned billboard advertising (replaced it by art). So it can happen.
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I can let bygones be bygones on the whole paying for Windows when I wasn't buying the machine to run Windows, but I just cannot get over the whole gathering of data they do and the choices they have taken away from Windows 10 Pro. The only version that really can have all of the stuff turned off is the Enterprise edition which I cannot buy. If they got rid of the BS phone home stuff, I would forgive. Until then, its just the same old crud modernized to do it the Advertising way.
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> What are we even talking about here - "quashing abuse"?

Well, even if we don't agree on the full definition, we could start somewhere, specifically at the bottom of the barrel.

Harassment is an easy one: Death threats, threats of violence, unwanted contact with people in real life, unprompted sexual comments, threats of doxxing / swatting / hacking, relentless insults, a combination thereof etc, aren't really difficult to agree on. I don't think there's a convincing or defensible argument that someone has a right to follow someone around and bother them /directly/. Just improving this would be a massive improvement in many twitter users' lives, and twitter has been condemned many times for failing to take the simplest actions to prevent this.

Hateful ideologies discussed privately is quite different than that - I do think those still cause measurable harm and I'm against that personally, but at least I can understand why some people hold a free-speech slippery slope argument for not interfering.
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> A first version of our new engine will ship on Android, Windows, Mac, and Linux. Someday we hope to offer this new engine for iOS, too.

More people need to put pressure on Apple to allow third-party browser engines on iOS. Fortunately, they're already getting sued over this, but just in case that doesn't succeed, there should also be bigger public pressure on Apple to allow them.

http://www.recode.net/2016/10/7/13201832/apple-sued-ios-brow...
I loved my 360, was the first time I realised Microsoft could do largely zero hassle devices if they wanted.

Yeah, and then the "new Microsoft" gave us the Xbone (my complaints for which can be found elsewhere on HN), so I don't know that a ten year old console is the best basis for judgement.
No one is stopping you from making alternate root servers. AlterNIC [1] offered them for years.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlterNIC
I always interpreted it roughly as "Do what you say/preach".
Easy to do: "power corrupts..." and such.
Let's take the BMW example. Most of their engineers in Germany are paid according to a collective agreement where the salary is determined by looking at a table based on your actual position, your background, and seniority. There is an additional salary based on some specified performance metrics but that usually accounts for a difference of 5% maximum.

Only few engineers in leading position and with larger responsibilty are paid based on an individually negotiated contract.
Can you get in touch with the guys at OWASP Dependency Check? It's one of their more mature projects, and it essentially does a lot of what you described and then some, including for Python projects.

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Dependency_Check

I can make a connection between you and Jeremy Long (head of the project) if you'd like. He's also on twitter as @ctxt
I have MacBookPro with macOS - it applies updates every week that force me to restart...

And...?
We've been dog-fooding Assertible extensively since we released and it's now a primary part of our continuous integration/deployment setup.

I'm interested to hear what solutions others are using to test production / staging environments (automatically?).

I'd love to hear any feedback!
The real solution (refactoring how execve creates tasks) was release with 10.12.1 (and updates to prior versions of OS X too).
This was my first reaction as well. Paternity leave is not what I'd call an opportunity for deep thoughts and pondering. He must have had a very good baby!
I've felt similarly about Microsoft. I disliked their strategy and their taste for a long time. But I found their Surface Book announcement compelling and so I bought one. It went through some bumps and hiccups, and it still isn't as smooth as I would like, but it gave me the drawing experience I really wanted. I still think a Surface Pro 4 with a cellular modem built in would be killer. So if you're listening Surface team, go talk to the Nokia guys you bought and get the radio/antenna from the Lumia series phones and find some place to stick it inside your tablet please!
I can't help but want to be on the opposite side of whatever this guy is talking about. His belief in the objective correctness of his own opinions rivals Stallman's.
> Apple isn't the one that tried to foist a tablet paradigm on desktop/laptop users

Which they walked back heavily after the overwhelmingly negative reception. A company that makes mistakes isn't a bad thing as long as they listen to their customers and are willing to admit when something isn't working. Would you rather no one ever try anything new?

> In my view, the rMBP is the best "traditional PC" anybody makes. No touchscreen...

Only for the next hour or so.

> It's not the one whose flagship "PC" is a touchscreen convertible gimmick.

If you don't want that one, the OEMs will happily sell you laptops that don't have those things. Dell and HP have actually gotten their act together and are making pretty good ones.. That's what makes it an "ecosystem", something Apple can't really claim. What if you want a 17" MacBook, or one with a gaming GPU? You're SOL.
> everyone contributes equally in their own way

In my experience, this has never been true. People have different motivations, skills etc.

Although if we can assume that its true, it would be easier to implement govt mandates like Paycheck fairness act.
He's spoken about it in a number of forums, take your pick: http://righteousmind.com/viewpoint-diversity/ (near the bottom).
Nicely done.

I like to refer to it as "short-cut thinking" rather than cognitive bias, because people that might not know the term immediately understand what I'm getting at.
Maybe SPAM should be fought more seriously.
> Merkel and the EU army of lawyers actually pulls this off

> Google and everybody else release algorithms

> SEO "experts" and other blackhats now have the holy grail to good ranking, defeating the purpose of said algorithm

In reality, I am not really so sure that Angela Merkel in particular would like Google to expose how they attempt to distort reality, history or politics...
I'm interested in the questionnaire they mention.
Practically 100% of all commercial DNS lookups --- that is, lookups done in the service of actual commerce --- are done without DNSSEC. Moreover, no modern browser implements DANE, and 3 (Safari, Firefox, and Chrome) have started and later retracted DANE support, so the TLS infrastructure also does not rely on DNSSEC in any way.

My earlier statement is surprising, and I understand why. But it's true.
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