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Esc quits htop on Mac OS? That's really odd. I've gotten used to Ctrl+C on Linux.
> You'd think this would be true, but I've written a few non-trivial things in PowerShell and I always found it frustrating.

I've written some trivial things in powershell and found the complexity grows at functionality squared. Wouldn't go near it for anything complex.
> On the other hand, a game like Europa Universalis, which boasts many more variables than Civilization, has remained even more niche because it is too realistic. It is too constrained by history (or at least history as imagined by the game’s designers) and the innumerable details needed to render such an exhaustive vision of the past.

EUIV is more niche than Civilization because it's got a steeper learning curve, not because it's too constrained by history.

The article also makes the odd claim of Civ being so mutable, because most games of Civ run very similarly to each other, whereas you can actually do quite different gameplays in EUIV.

Civ was a revolutionary game, but the last couple of refreshes have been pretty ho-hum. I'm clearly in the minority, though - Civ was one of the most-played games in terms of live user count on Steam.
http://bellard.org :) Content wins.
How Do You Re-Engage Unengaged Users Before They Cancel?
The article has some very interesting background on Meier's thinking about and research of history that affected the game design, and experts' analyses of the game

Regarding the author's own analysis, he writes,

> Meier has no formal training as a historian

But what expertise does the author have? All the article says is,

> Kanishk Tharoor is the author of Swimmer Among the Stars, a forthcoming collection of short fiction from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He is the presenter of the BBC radio series “Museum of Lost Objects.”
Dozens arrested in enormous Indian call centre racket
He still needs money to fund, for example, his cryogenic payments. He wears that little metal bracelet everywhere he goes (I got to a lot of conferences), I can't imagine the service is cheap.
I'm not a billionaire and I'm not old, but I am so excited about anti-aging. I know Hacker News is super negative, but who doesn't want to live longer?! Of all the pain points humans experience, you'd think death lies pretty high on the list. Why are people fighting this?
I'm Belgian but I haven't lived there for many years. I'm not sure if you still live there, but I do not support your position at all. Belgians are just as ambiguous in communication as anyone else. In a different way, maybe, but they're certainly (overall) not direct.
Or they can repeat the process till they have 20% left ;)
When machines acquire feelings, watch out. Your car or shaver may inconvenience or even kill you if you offend them.
Because Microsoft is a more traditional software company, selling software licenses, plus their once dominant market share.
Explain shell commands
Wasn't the first act of a Pharaoh traditionally to begin construction of their tomb?
This post gave me the funny mental image of a sentient AI trying to train a dog using supervised learning techniques...
It's weird, i don't think i had a ton of praise growing up (in the 90s), but regardless i ended up a basket case when it comes to praise. I loathe it.

At some early point in my life i saw how meaningless praise was. Parents (mine and others) praised without warrant.. and it was obvious to me. Worse yet, i couldn't figure out where the line was - what was legitimate praise? I became distrusting of all praise, and rarely felt pride from anyone but myself. Which, honestly sucks.

Whether it's parents praising their children, or gifts at Christmas that people often don't want but smile and act like they do.. everyone is just lying to each other so constantly that everything of value feels so fake.

It's honestly quite upsetting to me. I wonder if it's like this everywhere? Is it mostly an American situation?
Microsoft used to be the 800 pound gorilla in the tech space. No one even came close to it in size. Now Alphabet (and presumably Apple, though verify the numbers) are bigger than it by every conceivable relevant metric.
Try Neonto?

https://neonto.com

It is essentially a bridge from designs into Xcode and Android Studio. There's a Sketch import plugin too that preserves elements: https://neonto.com/sketch
That doesn't really contradict the notion that rich people fund advances which end up enriching everyone's life, it just poorly expresses your envy about rich people having more than you.
Not necessarily. Employees aren't always aware of how much other companies pay.

I define underpaying as "other companies in the market would gladly poach these employees". But just because there are tons of companies willing to poach them, doesn't mean that the employees know this information.
a) i develop for touch interfaces. Short of any unannounced magic, I know how they work. You have to look at them, and keyboards are input devices based around not looking at them. I'm sure they'll be useful in their current incarnation for some users, but very detrimental for others.

b) I was referring to the transition to non-wireless lightning headphones on the iphone 7, which they proposed as an alternative. It looks and feels sloppy in that regard. One hand working on macbooks isn't aware what the hand working on iphones is doing.

Do your homework before reflexively criticizing, please.
Your post made me feel a little sad.

I'm working on my PhD thesis at the moment and between papers being rejected, supervisors dropping of the grid for weeks at a time, side projects failing etc., I've been trying to find a little respite in mindfulness.

I think there is certainly a place for mindfulness, calm and stress reduction techniques. I worry about stress related heart disease, aneurisms, cancer. But at the same time, a healthy cynicism can ground you.

Life is confusing.
Refer to IE.
I agree yet I've found over the last couple years that my use scenario has become 'unplug from this week's laptop spot and work/watch/surf until battery is empty - be slightly annoyed until i remember that this is the only prompt that forces me to put it and myself to bed, future-self more happy than otherwise would have been'. In the past I would have _needed_ to be plugged in or else not able to do anything for more than a couple hours, now the battery isn't my limiting factor.
BTW I'm still using a slightly janky 2011 MBP so my definition of acceptable is probably different from the average around here.
For example:

https://github.com/OpenHFT
I guess it gets interesting when you're an open source company. It could be argued that the people you hire fall into category 2 (doing things the company wants), but since the company is driven by community desire, it's sort of a nice hybrid of 1 and 2. :)

(BTW I love GitLab and you guys are doing!)
As long as there is a legitimate way to measure this '50% better' and the resultant value, and everyone else has an opportunity to perform at this level, reject it or concede they are unable I suspect few will have an issue.

On the other hand if its an arbitary, political or a self appointed measure I can imagine collegues could have a problem.

Sales is one area where measures are somewhat possible. For instance if a salesperson is consistently doing 2 million while collegues do 1 he or she is better in that quarter and is automatically compensated better because of commissions. Collegues far from having have a problem celebrate the achievements and aspire themselves. Similarly if someone closes a deal in half the time of the typical deal cycle then they could be considered to be better. They will close more revenue and get more commissions.

But it is important to point out its not the people but the performance being measured that is better and if you can do this as clinically in other fields compensation can be designed to automatically reward performance.
Which is the absolute first thing they thought of.

ISPs are not allowed to refuse you service for opting out and they're also not allowed to make you "pay for privacy". We'll see how strictly this is applied but it implies that they're also not allowed to weasel out of it by giving a 'discount' to people who opt-in.
I have 16 GiB and 0 GiB was occurring.
"threw"
I think you're okay...Twitter reportedly didn't get acquired almost solely because of the abuse problem the buyer would inherit (e.g., Disney), and they now should have a crystal clear valuation for how much failing to address the abuse has cost. (Approximation: it is somewhere between $6B and $20B of added market cap.)

They haven't addressed abuse in the past because the market has stupidly hitched their stock price to MAUs, which I think has caused them to take their eye off the ball and prioritize that metric over all else. Address abuse, and risk lower MAUs.

So if they've finally decided that sacrificing MAUs in the short term is worth it (focusing instead on revenue, cost control, and cleaning up the toxic abuse), they may be able to finally realize some of that discounted value.

It sounds like it could be a great opportunity at helping Twitter unleash some of that discounted value. Not the sole reason that the value will be reflected in the future market price, but a very important factor that at least gives them an option to sell out later at a good valuation if the growth in earnings is slower than expected and they feel the need to test the waters again.

Worst case, it's 100% focus on stemming abuse, they clean it up in a year, and you're working for Disney, Microsoft, Google, Amazon or some other acquirer.
This might have been true in the past, but it's not really true anymore. We have a shortage of many things on this planet, but people aren't one of those things. Having children, at this point, is exacerbating environmental issues without providing much tangible benefit to society. It's been well documented that society gets more benefit from immigrants anyways...first-world countries can easily get away with negative replacement birthrates because the third world is growing so quickly and many want to move here.

There are arguments that our society should support parents, but they're moral arguments, not practical ones. Society doesn't need to encourage people to breed. It's ingrained in our nature and enough will do it anyways that we'll be fine.
In one of his AMAs he said something a bit different:

Q: What do you think about life-extending and immortality research?

A: It seems pretty egocentric while we still have malaria and TB for rich people to fund things so they can live longer. It would be nice to live longer though I admit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2tzjp7/hi_reddit_im_b...
These people may not have access to the document, but surely in a small company they would figure out some of the salaries either through the grapevine or shoulder surfing?
>> We know about things unimaginably distant in scale or time -- like quarks and the Big Bang

Oh, we do?

That's funny, Afaik quarks still confuse physicists because they behave erratically and appear to be composed of other particles.
And the big bang is simply an assumption that makes the cosmological model work well for our human brains, but it is not how the universe started specifically.

We don't know jack shit, that's the bottom line, and we like to pretend we do.
I fully agree, but the situation two decades ago is extremely different today. Also, I wasn't clear but I was specifically thinking of the lack of HDMI/display port unless I missed that it has it (which is possible).

I already have a laptop that lacks hdmi and has usb c, and i miss it on a regular basis. Carrying dongles really sucks.
I totally agree. I think we are just using the term transparent differently.

Telling people to go on a random walk for a few years and maybe they will move from mid to senior is the kind of transparency you get in tech.

Real transparency would be: If you deliver project X and can demonstrate you got Joe and Raj up to speed on Y then we will promote you/increase your salary/give you a big bonus/put you on the project you really want etc.
Not necessarily. Japan recovered from nearly deforestation a-la Easter Island. Penalties and enforcement are required to prevent consequences of individual and collective externalities.
Raising your kids properly means loving them, yes, but not to the point that you outsource teaching them how to be resilient.
Do people not rebind their keys any more?

Oh, you bet; enough so that I'm tired of doing it. I don't know about you, but I can't touch type the function keys anyway (I can barely touch type the number row accurately), so looking down is what I'm going to do anyway (except when stepping through, then I rest my finger on the appropriate F* key).

Though I think I'll get some mileage out of Touch Bar, I also think it's one of those things we should at least try before rushing to judgement and firing up the blogging tool. I, too, once thought the iPad was just an overgrown iPhone, until FedEx dropped one at my door.
I don't think there very small bumps to CPU clock speed in your example are in anyway comparable to the suggestion that they will introduce 32GB as an option or the default in a few months. So I don't think this is an example of what is being discussed.
What do you mean by your "entire life"? Since you were an infant? I have non-24[1], but it didn't manifest until I was in my 20s.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-24-hour_sleep-wake_disorde...
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He is arguing that this 10x developer should get promoted to "senior principal engineer" or something like that.
When you have some skin in the game, things look a bit different.
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Seriously. I'm at the very beginning of the second book right now.
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Don't we all lose the same thing and the only thing that matters?

I would say that death is the great equaliser.
> in an era when nobody uses desktops anymore.

For general computing (e.g. web browsing), yes. But that doesn't cover all the possible uses of a computing device. Gamers, designers, scientists, video/media professionals are some of the people who use primarily desktops.
You can get a new wife.

Some people really like their financial advisors!
Sounds like Alfred Bester's "Adam and No Eve" from 1941. It's included in https://www.amazon.com/Virtual-Unrealities-Fiction-Alfred-Be...
Just out of curiosity, what do you think about this tool: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/298226251/subform-a-mod...
This is good for people who want to use one simple docking connector.

Still, every buyer who breaks his LCD screen after tripping over the power cord is going to resent Apple for this. It seems to me a poor choice.

Many users share one charger between devices (for example, a study group in a dorm lounge).

On the bright side, USB-C is a good standard and it deserves this kind of major love.
I thought suicide was a measure of how well off a country is and also linked to alcohol and drug abuse rates.
So the installed base of projectors is going to sprout a usb-c connector in the next two years?
Fine. Don't offer criticism, but don't offer fake praise either.
How is resiliency being thought to children? Genuine question. Is there a particular school of thought on this?
"As a manager, I've always felt that I have zero incentive to pay anyone under a fair market rate."

But are you a line manager or is part of your performance KPI's the profit of your unit? Or are you an owner in a small business whose own income is directly influenced by salary expenditure, like when you're running a (small) body shop or sell hours? Those are all very different situations to be in.
For the past 2 summers, I've been paid by Google through GSoC [1] to work do open-source work, all on Homebrew. It's been a great experience in terms of skills learned, and the pay is just a nice incentive for work that I'd be doing anyways.

I'd highly recommend it, although I believe enrollment in a university is required for eligibility.

[1]: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/
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Death is not the problem, the agony is.
How do you set up those shortcut keys? I think I could probably set them up in KDE on Linux but no idea in any other OS or using any other WM.
This annoyed me too.

I think it's fair to expect to be able to see something without JavaScript, even if it's not formatted correctly or missing fonts or whatever. I disable JS by default for performance reasons, not just because of tracking.
It's less an issue of parents raising/not raising their kids, than it is knowing what is productive and unproductive pressure.

Mike Matheny - the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals - wrote a letter to parents while he was coaching his son's little league team that touches on this idea. The whole thing is worth reading, but this is primarily his thesis:

"I believe that the biggest role of the parent is to be a silent source of encouragement. I think if you ask most boys what they would want their parents to do during the game; they would say "NOTHING". Once again, this is ALL about the boys. I believe that a little league parent feels that they must participate with loud cheering and "Come on, let's go, you can do it", which just adds more pressure to the kids. I will be putting plenty of pressure on these boys to play the game the right way with class, and respect, and they will put too much pressure on themselves and each other already. You as parents need to be the silent, constant, source of support."

Link to full letter: www.mac-n-seitz.com/teams/mike-matheny-letter.html
Yes, because a huge part of the reason people disregard climate science today is because many of the people with the decision making authority to invest in actually correcting for it also judge they won't be alive to suffer from the consequences.

Make humans live forever and suddenly everything matters. Interplanetary colonization for the preservation of the species alone is not enough, but to preserve themselves it becomes essential.

Why develop Type 2 civilization power generation technology if you would never live long enough to see the transition? Make people live longer and you increase the likelihood the long term becomes relevant to them.
the difference is the communication act of 1934 essentially lets the FCC create laws whereby the police etc don't have that power. the power to create laws should be held by elected officials imo.

the 5 leaders of the FCC get to unilaterally make regulations (laws) that affect every single citizen in america. everything from tv broadcasts to net neutrality
it's strange that Craig Venter's Human Longevity project is not even mentioned: http://www.humanlongevity.com
My kids are in music lessons, the youth orchestra, etc., as I was at the same age. I also played in a rock band as a kid. I don't think that things have changed at all. Maybe the whole "self esteem" thing is an urban legend.

Everybody's enthusiastic at the performance, like you say.

At the next lesson, they review the recording. But then, they've been receiving that kind of critique at every lesson. You should hear the conductor let 'em have it at orchestra rehearsal. Because of this kind of dialog and close analysis, they also know exactly how well they're playing, immediately and intimately. Part of the goal is to teach kids how to engage in the critical dialog, and to be self-critiquing.

With the typical teen rock band, there is no adult involvement at all, other than fiscal.
Because sometimes an upvote isn't enough: thanks for the pointer, that would be an acceptable compromise for me.
> We as a society have decided that our brightest minds should be working in finance

"society" hasn't decided anything. Under capitalism, money flows towards where it is allocated most efficiently and gets the highest rate of return, which is apparently to employ researchers in the finance sector. If you have an issue with that, take it up with capitalism.

> we need to increase the supply of these research jobs, and make them more attractive then working in finance.

Barring the revolution I vaguely implied above, these two things would require lots of money and lots of money, respectively. Have fun asking for it in 2016's political environment.
I sometimes talk about wanting to live forever and get weird stares. Are you joking me?? I want to hike every trail in the world. I want to climb every mountain. I want to play every video game. I want to beat the hardest raids in every expansion of WoW. I want to learn multiple langauges. I want to spend several years living in every biome. I want to learn all of the programming languages. I want to go back to school for more degrees. I want to build several businesses. I want to write computer games from scratch. I want to travel to the stars. I want to live on the moon. I want to live on Mars. I want to get a doctorate degree. Or two or three? Gah, not enough time.
Human beings aren't programs evaluating objective rules to come to an objective determination about raises and promotions.

Your comment carries the implicit assertion that folks with kids are given special treatment. But what you fail to show is that it actually is "special," except in the context where it is defined to be so.
The thing that got to me about how amazing his website was is how many of his sites I've actually seen, used and been impressed with that were all built by him.

I also honestly can't say I've faced the usage issues other people have. It was a pleasure to look through a bunch of his stuff and I actually kept on looking for fun.
Parents can raise them but the coach is the coach.

I don't allow parents to do the "tiger mode" criticism on the sidelines because it is not objective. The parents have emotional investment in winning.
The big advantage with Magsafe was when battery life was ~2 hours and it was a necessity to haul a power cord around all day and the laptop was primarily plugged in. Now? My power cord lives permanently at my desk -- I can't think of the last time my power cord was in a trippable location.
Any reasons why they don't go in the details of the quarterly financials for Nest+Fiber ?
In practice people who are good at negotiating will just negotiate a different title. It happens all the time in tech.

Think of all the useless architects on much higher salaries.

As an ex-manager if I wanted to hire a mid level dev who was too expensive I would just hire them as a senior dev.

Edit: or even worse you lock people in based upon a rigid system like years of experience and end up like teaching where an amazing teacher who gets great results will get paid far less than a shitty teacher who has stopped trying simply because the shitty teacher has been around longer.
The Astropy problem
Not just death, but the gradual loss of physical and mental capabilities you used to have.

That feels scarier to me.

Imagine you could chose to die on your 75th birthday, but in return keep your full 20-something health until then. I'd do it right away.
This is not a civil comment. Please stop.

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