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Yeah! Everyone was foaming at the mouth about it. My BS detector was strong, now when I log into slack, look at my various channels, including the company. I just see tumbleweeds.
Trump/Alt-right supporters. They love Putin because he's a "strong leader" and he hacked the DNC.

But it could be anyone! China! Or a 400 lb kid living with his parents. /s
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Exactly! I should better rephrase it "If you have money to burn now" and can wait until the country recovers.
Those guys had to have been absolutely top-notch fishermen, too. I'd have to think drinking water might be a more limiting factor, although some parts of the tropics certainly have daily rains that would likely provide that.

More than anything, I just wonder how they managed to cross thousands of miles of open water and hit relatively tiny targets.
You make little to no sense. We're talking about voluntarily clicking on a link.
But advertising isn't just about clicks, hell it hasn't been about clicks except recently in history. It's about getting your product out there.

And to be completely honest, I don't really have an answer why it's okay to do something like look away from ads, but it's not okay to block them.

That's just how I feel, and I know that might be hypocritical, but it is what it is.
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I'm a KDE user / occasional contributor. I love the new Breeze theming and all the effort that went into the icon set along with it. I've used Macs in the past, and find the UI garish and much more intuitive, and way less customizable.

It is definitely a case of "to each their own", but the only issue with KDE right now is developer churn. As the writers and more experienced developers in some applications reduce their participation due to time constraints, it is incredibly hard for anyone to step into those shoes in often millions of LOCs code bases. A lot of UI rot isn't because we don't have technologies (Kirigami, Qt Quick Controls 2, Plasmoids, etc) that enable fantastic UI and UX experiences, it is because porting forward hundreds of applications comes down to who has the time and willpower to either continue maintaining their 10 year old project or someone having the willpower to learn what can often be very ugly C++ or ancient PyQt codebases.

I also have no problem with what Gnome is doing. Their applications may not be for me, but I can recognize the beauty in what they are trying to accomplish, and still think they have a much better design language than anything MS / Apple is putting out. Whenever I sit down at OSX / Windows I feel like both are stuck in the 90s, often because half their applications (especially system management) were written then and never updated since, and because they just make random UI splits every release to look shiny and new by just changing the shell look and keeping the rest jarringly legacy.
How do Polynesians rate on spatial intelligence tests? They were eyeballing star patterns instead of using navigational tools like the Europeans, right? So they were doing the math in their heads.
Sadly, that problem is as old as Windows and hasn't really gotten better. For a company that's specialized on software, that's a pretty abysmal bottom line.
Well, this is about switching from macOS which hasn't theme support at all IIRC.
The alternative to making it impossible to fire people, is to make getting fired less of a big deal. Instead of adding friction to the employment market, implement a decent social safety net that includes provisions for voc ed / retraining.

Instead of focusing solely on prevention, work on mitigation. To much prevention can make everything grind to a halt.
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The article had a point about not overdoing it, and, to consider specifics of things that actually helped, which would sound more sincere if mentioned. You have to remind yourself that people actually are helping you.

(skip the joke about faking sincerity)
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Exactly. Five year olds deserve more credit than this!
Second this (as another non-EU citizen working in Berlin) -- you have to make at least 38k euros per year to work in Germany as a foreigner, which is enough to live comfortably in Berlin IMO. However, as you said, there are definitely plenty of companies that are paying more than this. Changing jobs is a non-issue when you're on the ground.
Higher education is what you make of it. I spent every moment I wasn't working on class work working on side-projects. So I killed two birds with one stone.

If you do college right (go above and beyond class work, absorb everything) you can come out with the equivalent of ten years experience in four but if you do it wrong (coast by) you can come out with negative return.

College also exposed me to a lot I wouldn't have been exposed to otherwise like operating system design, AI, physics, statistics, calculus, and compiler design.

I also got a high-profile internship through my school and THAT looked extremely good on my resume.

However, as a hiring manager I almost never consider the degree when hiring. The candidates get the same questions no matter what.

In fact, a doctorate is almost always a negative signal. I have never hired someone straight out of a doctorate. In my case they have always spectacularly fail the coding part of the interview.

In short: you get what you put in. If you can afford to spend four years with little to no pay it is an awesome experience (in my opinion). But it doesn't make or break you.
Beware the educated idiot.

I was working with an old carpenter friend of my father's last weekend, and he was telling me a story about a guy he apprenticed with. The man didn't complete 8th grade, and could barely do arithmetic, but was a master mason and carpenter. He was once tasked with taking apart a good-sized sawmill and reassembling it on another site; he spent a day walking through the existing plant, looking things over, without taking any notes, and then when the equipment was packed up and moved, set the whole mill back up at the new site from memory, with a healthy dash of experience to supplement.

EDIT, forgot the conclusion: Clearly, education isn't everything. It's at best a proxy for talent.
Does the situation change with HTTP2? When your browser says GET and the server responds with not only a 200 and the HTML, but also the JS, CSS, images, and more all pushed to your machine?
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> Yammer died the minute that acquisition went through.

Somewhat comically yammer was just rolled out to my company this year. Perhaps we got free licensing for it. I'm not sure.

For offices with mostly remote users slack or even yammer might be a great option for dialog. I'm in the email camp for a running dialog of well thought out replies or a group IM for rollouts or some other conversation that can't be done face to face.
My point is, if you don't like ads, go to websites without ads. That way you reward websites who have found alternate means of compensation.

Its as simple as if you don't like games/songs/media with DRM, buy the non-DRM ones and reward the authors.
This is really blowing my mind. Top comment is a hackneyed myth I didn't think anyone - even in porn - seriously believed. And any comment even remotely to the contrary is downvoted.

WTF is going on here?
As an employer I focus almost exclusively on industry experience for hiring more junior people. Once I start dealing with more senior people I focus on experience and understanding of the literature of our profession. How they get that understanding is largely unimportant to me but an academic background is one way.

I will say as a job searcher, the degree is pretty important, especially in bad job markets. In good markets, hirers are willing to overlook education more readily than in bad markets when they can be more selective.

Finally, I understand everyones experience is different, but I absolutely loved some of the projects I was able to work on while getting my degree. They would be frequently inappropriate outside of academia so you are unlikely to get those opportunities in industry. For me, working on academic projects while I was there was nothing but fun and it largely prepared me as well for moving into industry as anything my peers were doing.
Russia has been so so bad again. Bla bla.
Their argument is pretty silly. If I close my eyes and mute my TV when commercials come on am I ripping off TV networks?
I personally don't choose products based on their marketing photos, but that one seems fine to me. The group are obviously interacting and engaged in their conversation, which is probably what the marketing people were trying to convey.
Can you please provide me a list of malware-free sites ? Or is this a thinly-veiled "blame the victim" attack because its funny to shame people who watch porn ? I've heard that sophomoric attack so many times when talking about malware: "oh, malware ? I've never had any. I'm not the kind of person who goes on __THOSE__ sites, hurr hurr!"
You can actually do both. I have a subscription to lemonde.fr and I also block ads (which are particularly aggravating on mobile); that is simply good hygiene
It's no longer useful. The SEC used to require an EX-27 schedule in SGML with useful data. They discontinued that around 2001. Years later, they started requiring that data in XBRL format, which is more detailed. You could do this today with XBRL tools, which are available.

Downside was written in Perl, in 1999. There's a system in there to parse financial statements written in HTML for humans, but it's for HTML 3.1 and was never updated.

I used to get hate mail from CFOs over this.
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They have recently moved Skype to an electron app

You know, I really should think about my recent experience with a company's product before making comparisons. Because I forgot about the Skype app (don't use Skype much, but their recent releases for Mac were bad), and a few other recent examples that were less than stellar. So I guess a good experience with the Microsoft product isn't a given lately (I'm looking at you, Lync for Mac).
Who knows? It may be my ignorance, but I struggle to remember an incident when customers challenged T&Cs on some service like this in the courts. There is law in the UK against unfair terms in contracts. But like the genome there are large parts that of the statute book which lie dormant.
No alternative can take part of AMP, now it become standard and there are hundred of scripts and plugin available for it.
I am using WordPress plugins https://talktopoint.com/wordpress-amp-and-instant-articles/ and they are just working fines. What is need of this new alternative and why should I use it?
That's an incredibly strange viewpoint. Would you get mad at me if we were watching TV and I muted it when a commercial break came on? Would you demand that I watch closely?
Two words: sex trafficking.

(To elaborate - strip club owners would often set up dorms where women hung out all day doing cam stuff. They would "import" the women, but eventually the porn companies came up with a less risky idea. They simply went to the origin countries and set up (with the help of the shadier people) these porn dorms. No need to illegally bring talent into other countries.)
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What's the best terminal extension for ATOM.io editor?
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Completely unproven, but all I see this doing, is driving down wages. No one will say "I think we are not paying enough, looking at this average". It will be "We are paying far too much, lets bring ourselves inline".
I read (here, in an HN thread, IIRC) a while back that the Chinese government eats the cost of shipping items outside of the country (I haven't verified that, however, so it may be entirely incorrect).

That was the reason given why you can purchase an item online from a Chinese seller for, say, $1 USD -- including shipping -- and the seller can still profit from it.
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I don't frequent sites with lots of ads, but that doesn't preclude me blocking any and all other ads.
That is what happens when IT dictates the rules.
It's an analogy. If Google Docs used blockchain, it would be an example.

Ant farms work like real farms does not mean real farms use ant farms.
Bertie the Brain Still Lives
Could you maybe reuse some of the Docker integration into the host system?
Just wanted to say something about this part: "In short, Americans actively suppress gratitude on the job, even to the point of robbing themselves of happiness. Why? It may be because in theory, no one gives away anything at work; every exchange is fundamentally economic." <- this does not matches with my work experiences with americans at all. On the contrary I noticed careful attention to appreciate every bit.
They aren't expressly allowing the content to be consumed for free any more than a store-front that shows off products is allowing them to be taken for free.

There is the expectation that you serve the ads along with the content given, and violating that expectation is an ethical issue. It might not be an issue for you, but to pretend it doesn't exist is ignorant at best.
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Ask HN: With emscripten, can C++ developers write web app without JavaScript
Today is it possible to build a reasonably complicated single page web application, currently requires AngularJs or ReactJs, using C++ only (together with css and html)? How can you do data binding between html and compiled javascript like in AngularJS? Is there any tools to support this?

Is this also one of the goals of WebAssembly? ie. to enable non-web developers to write web application in their own language.
> Nobody would buy the house

If you put this hypothetical 90k euro house up for sale at a public auction tomorrow, what would it sell for? 50k? 70k? Real assets are usually sale-able, albeit perhaps for less than the owner thinks the asset is worth.

> Move to where? Another city? Another country? Unemployment is everywhere in Greece.

Since Greece is still in the EU, you can move to any member country right? UK, Germany, France? Certainly there must be places in the EU where the economy is better and there are more opportunities. People have been migrating around the world chasing economic opportunities for thousands of years. A million Syrians just traveled through Greece on their way north in search of this.

> Government passes the law and our house has a value of 500.000 (because of the area around it). Now out of the blue we have to pay property tax. What do we do?

It seems that what has effectively happened is that the Greek Government has decided to confiscate a large part of the country's wealth through extremely high property tax rates. As other posters on this thread have mentioned, if the tax rate is 1% but the appraised value is 3x the actual market value, then the real tax rate is 3% and your Government is just playing games to try and hide the confiscation.

Personally I would vote for revolution - national default, totally new political leadership - and start to rebuild the country from scratch. Anything is better than decades of externally enforced austerity crippling a country's spirit as reflected in everything I read these days about Greece.
Because you have to get the product to the customer instead of the customer coming and getting it from you?
Fear, its always fear.
How would you have phrased it then?
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Supporting GUI apps will be magnitudes harder.
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No Spotlight?
No, I wouldn't demand anything, and there is nothing wrong with any of that in the slightest to me.

But if you setup a program to explicitly skip every commercial break without any interaction from your part, then it would be a problem to me.
> I really like Linux as a backup plan, in case Apple totally drops the ball on professionals on the Mac.

Is this a joke, referencing the new MBP releases?

Personally, I've been saying we're there already. I haven't bought a Mac in years. (employers keep giving them to me and I install Ubuntu on them.)
> But it is an ethics issue.

Hardly. Taking what you want? Hacking in? What in the world are you talking about? Nobody is hacking into their systems.

They are willingly serving up a page to my computer for free. This has absolutely nothing to do with payment. Whether I view the entire page, or only the part of the page I want to see, is none of their business. What scripts I allow to run on my computer, what content I allow to be downloaded to my computer, is also none of their damn business. All of this happens on my own private property.

Personal security easily trumps whatever ethics concern you have.
Some what relevant story... Many years back I worked for a software company where we had traditional IT guys. One of the IT guys was really nice moral guy. One of the things he did to keep our WAN connection speedy was monitor the firewalls and routers and do traffic shaping/shaving/balancing.

He showed me once how much traffic was going to porn sites on the company WAN (he knew I wouldn't tell anyone). It was quite impressive... at times it was 35%.

Now he could have been dick and found out which workers were looking at stuff but he did not and I remember distinctly his reasons were something like: "everyday I see the smoker crowd take 30 minute smoke breaks and all kinds of employees waste time and resources... but porn like coffee and cigarettes might actually help some people get work done..."
Signal is suitable to the paranoid, while targeting "normal" people. Snowden uses it, so that's a good indicator for the paranoid.

Similar: If my mom uses it as well, that doesn't mean she's paranoid. (And I'm not saying that you said this.) And interestingly, knowing some paranoid people (by disease not profession), they usually don't care about this.
We care, first and foremost, about what you can _do_ with whatever experience and education you have.

Education matters to the extent that it makes you a better developer than the other candidates. For example, did you take a DSP course and learned it well? That enables you to pursue jobs that require DSP knowledge.

Experience matters to whatever extent that you can demonstrate that you accomplished something significant during your job and that you learned and grew from it.
Some fake it because it works. They use it as a cheap way to hack the superior primate's reciprocity schemas.
Yep an "Off by default: This site is requesting to use WebSockets" approach would be the best solution.
I hope someone with more knowledge can come in and clarify, but I have always interpreted this as, "You agreed to X, if in the future we change our agreement to Y and you continue using our service, we will have assumed you agreed to Y".

I think that's pretty fair, it would be nice if services let you know when they updated their T&C, and sometimes they do (I recall Google doing this) but honestly, if you didn't read it the first time, will you read the updated version?

It would be nice if they could also provide a document with the differences, but I guess that would be a lot of work with no real benefit and still, no one would read it.
I worked as a W2 contractor, and in turn expect no rights. I also learned my lesson the first pass. I asked for something more challenging, because I had nothing on my agile board for 3 months. I in turn was given notice.

It's a dance I've unfortunately gotten used too. Join the project sounds fun. Project was not scoped, it's pared back. Then my contract is rescinded.

While I talked to my contracting firm, they gave me other roles. They were tech support, customer service, etc. variety.
My bad. I got mixed up with kilos and pounds. Thought 3 pounds was 1.8kg. 4 pounds. I stand corrected.

The thing is. I'm really not an apple fan boy. I've only had one mac. I've had one iphone and moved back to android. I would never have a desktop mac. However, the usability, portability and reliability of the mac laptop has made a huge difference for me. All the little details from the os to the hardware make it the only laptop that I've had that has been great from my productivity, even when I was doing physiotherapy twice a day for 6 months and carrying my laptop between hospital beds.

The Dell XPS13 does have numbers that are interesting, however, if I've learned something from my experience with a mac laptop is that numbers are only part of the story. I wouldn't want a windows os and despite still enjoying linux I really enjoy that I don't need to worry about anything working properly on the mac, it just does, and I can focus on my work. Then it's the trackpad (in conjunction with the os)... Minor things, that make a world of difference.

So...I really really would like to buy something other than a mac, but I just can't see it.
And this is exactly why Walmart can offer free shipping with in-store pickup on heavy items like snowblowers.
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