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Yes, being autonomous is one of the most important traits I look for when hiring for my team (Disclaimer: I lead a distributed engineering team of 22).

Whether you are can be a good fit or no depends on how frequently you need to ask your teammates a question.

If you need to do that say once a day, I would say that is fine. If you are part of a distributed who are in different timezones then to be productive you will have to learn how to remove the roadblocks yourself.

Now if you need to do that every 10 minutes then I would say it is a problem and not just a poor fit for remote work but a general problem that can be bad in a co-located team as well. Most of developers are going to dislike interruptions no matter how nicely you do that.
I really miss philosomatika and nectarine. And last.fm from the old days.
Linux works just fine on lots of off the shelf hardware. E.g. I'm running Debian on a Dell E6330 and everything Just Works, same goes for lots of other hardware.

The only hassle is that I have to get the WiFi firmware from non-free in Debian, but that's just a Debian-ism.
Exactly.

I don't want fingerprints all over my screen, there isn't much real value in a touchscreen laptop for 80% of users, and their tablets already cover those bases (especially with the advent of the iPad Pro).
One would think some sort of space elevator system would have to first exist in order to make the transportation of raw materials economical.
> At this point my only hope is that a new distribution of Linux evolves that can seriously compete and works flawlessly on off the shelf hardware (such as the Dell XPS)

No Linux distributor is ever going to do this on its own. Windows and Mac have good hardware support because the hardware manufacturers make sure the OS works on their hardware. The legions of Linux powered devices show Linux is perfectly capable of running anything; it just needs the support of whoever makes the hardware.

What about Dell preloaded with Ubuntu? Dell should be making sure Ubuntu works, and if it doesn't, you can at least call Dell and blame them, just like you call Apple and blame them if OS X doesn't work.

http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/555/campaigns/xps-linux-lapt...
I agree, and smart of pg to stick to the most defensible reason not to have the death penalty. Even in a world where we know the killer is a killer though, it's unethical to do it.
My thoughts on Yelp is that you are getting the average recommendation instead of exceptional ones because of the law of large numbers.
If we're going to do gimmicks, let's see some useful gimmicks. As Don Draper said on Mad Men, if you don't like what's being said, change the conversation.

- Built in LTE modems on all devices

- 1 TB RAM optional

- 4k Touch Screen

- Two Day Battery
Status signalling.
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> This specification should be read like all other specifications. First, it should be read cover-to-cover, multiple times. Then, it should be read backwards at least once. Then it should be read by picking random sections from the contents list and following all the cross-references.

Not sure if this is serious. https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/REC-html51-20161101/introduction....
> I got a new computer relatively recently. It's a modest looking plastic Dell Inspiron; but it has a 4k touchscreen display, an i7 CPU, a GTX960M GPU, 16GB of RAM, and an SSD. It cost ~$900, on sale. I, frankly, can't imagine paying the Apple tax, especially now.

Without meaning to be rude, this comes across like a 90s platform wars usenet post. There is no tax - it's two different products with different features and different prices.

If you're happy with your choice, that's great! I like and use computers a lot and don't buy them that often, so I don't mind spending a bit more to get the machine I want.
Isn't the goal of security to remove the lowest hanging fruit and keep at it?
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12847611 (taking advantage, it looks like, of the WWW here and no WWW on the original).
The only thing I have to say, to play devils advocate, is that I wish they would've made it so that the escape key was in the very very left when it is there, so that I wouldn't have to learn a new offset location The only thing I have to say, to play devils advocate, is that I wish they would've made it so that the escape key was in the very very left when it is there, so that I wouldn't have to learn a new offset location. I'm assuming the location is offset by about the width of one key, based on the pictures I've seen.
Check your units. 8km/l is 19 mpg.
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(I am not familiar with the GEMA business)
„...very angry that GEMA succeeded...“ Why? Don't they collect money for the artists (I guess after taking their cut)? Which seems very hard to do as an individual artist...and very easy if you have a massive artist-base.
Santa Barbara is pretty amazing
Related to this is the PPC615, an IBM project in the mid-90s, socket compatible with the original Pentium, and ran x86-32, PPC32, and PPC64 natively. (It got scrapped because all the signs looked like Intel was going to push IA-64 heavily, and rely on it's backwards compatibility for x86-32, hence an expectation x86-32 was soon to be legacy.)
Adding to this, PNaCl relies heavily on Chrome's sandbox, so any third-party implementation of PNaCl would involve re-implementing large swaths of Chrome. It's not as portable as you'd think. WASM was designed from the ground up to not depend on any browser's implementation.
Report finds majority of activity on the dark web is totally legal and mundane
That's interesting. I don't live in a place where the battery gets that cold (the Leaf never had to use its battery warmer), so I wouldn't know.

How low are we talking about here? I'm thinking this is nitpicking :)
> Perhaps developers would fork Darwin completely and make a macOS competitor.

Don't you think that it's rather stuff on top of Darwin (e. g. Cocoa and the default apps) and the hardware support that make "things work" on macOS?

> Sorry for the wall of text, but if you have any suggestions for me, please share them.

What Linux distributions / desktop environments have you tried so far? Setting up dual-boot on a Macbook is rather good supported IIRC.
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I know, I thought of the same thing, and I did ask the "Bhindi" owner about that (voicemails) in 2009. He said that he had a bunch of emails from the marketing / sales guys, but he was wary of sharing it with me for obvious reasons. Most restaurants still live and die by yelp ratings, because people google a restaurants name and the 1st thing that comes up is the Yelp page, since most restaurants also do not have a decent website, if at all. So if someone sees 3* or lower at the top, they look for something else. "Bhindi" owner even told me that hipster yelp reviewers used to ask "extra chicken" in their 5$ Chicken Korma lunch box, and would threaten to write a low star review on yelp if they were not given it. I don't think Yelp has any control over such people or behaviour though.

Anyways, I had written to Kathleen Richards and remember connecting the two of them at that time, since it was way out of my league to investigate and report on something like this.

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>This is what Apple missed: none of them use a touch screen

Some Apple employees might use iPads or iPhones.
> Macbooks don't have a row of "function keys" though. They have a row of keys that do very specific things in the OS

If you look closely, those keys have things like "F1", "F2", etc. written on them. They're function keys.
I was surprised about this bit:

It is interesting to note that the actual key settings used the indicator 'SIG' with ring settings 'PMP', but the [different] recovered key gives an identical decryption.

So there are keys of the enigma that produce the same ciphertext? Wouldn't that reduce the practical keyspace dramatically?

Also, would that mean a message could be "hardened" by referring to the original key within it? (E.g. "Execute order <second letter of indicator><first letter of indicator>)
Story of XMLHTTP (2007)
I've used and enjoyed System76 for quite some time.

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It seems that one was flagged off the front page? According to the top comment there, at least..
Yeah, that's on page 4 now, because people tend to flag political articles they disagree with now. I can't wait for the election to be over; hopefully sanity will return to HN.
> I believe the whole thing is a gimmick (a well intentioned gimmick) meant to drive forward one thing, Apple Pay on the MacBook

If that's the case, wouldn't it have been a lot easier to replace only the power button in the top-right corner rather than creating a whole interface device to replace the function keys?
"The pattern language does not tell you how to design anything. It helps you decide what should be designed. You get to make up whatever patterns you think will lead to good designs."

Impressive insight.
Ha, this is cool. Just FYI: Your "background" links are both broken.
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I, like pg, am against the death penalty but I don't agree with the reasoning in this essay.

Of course there are error rates in our judicial system. It would be impossible to not have them. But these errors are not confined to death penalty cases. We surely wrongfully imprison some people, and wrongly fine others. That does not mean that we shouldn't have fines or prisons.

I don't see a good justification to apply this reasoning to the death penalty but not other forms of punishment.
For non-Tesla cars, the effect is really minimal. As in, noone expects to actually "break" at a stop light with the regen only. Yes, I have tried, even with the Leaf's "B" mode, which increases regen.

I've heard that the Tesla's regen is so aggressive that it will even turn on the brake lights. In that case then, I agree.
I agree with this article about as forcefully as I agree with anything, and I flagged it, because political appeals don't belong on HN.

Either way: this is a duplicate, and should be killed or merged with the first post.
The patterns still exist, just many of them are already implemented in the language itself.
Important note on Prop 66, which PG unfortunately glossed over: it will override 62 if it passes with more yes votes than the other measure.

Therefore, if you're opposed to the death penalty and intend to vote yes on both measures--reasoning, for instance, that the reforms on 66 such as expedited appeals for death row inmates are an improvement regardless of whether 62 passes--you're undermining your own vote.
Oddly enough, I don't own that. I must have about 30 Jarrett CDs, and quite a lot of Shostakovich (all the symphonies and string quartets), so there's really no excuse ;-)
Some of it is highly dependant on your internet connection. But the games library seems to be snappy with 300 games. I find that updates can run extremely slow though, 1-2MB patch taking 5 minutes to download!

I remember when Steam WAS really horrible. The green client ran so poorly and was extremely slow at updating anything,
Great work! As a grad student I can definitely say it addresses a need :). For the publications, importing from bibtex might be a useful alternative, since all the fields are already there. It would save time compared to manually copy pasting each individual field and most researchers are familiar with it IMO.
Other errors can be remedied. Death penalty not so much.
> The track pad is lightyears beyond anything I've had from Lenovo

This. If I want to pick one feature on Macbook (Base/Air/Pro) hardware side (Obviously I can not live without macOS because of its Unix-like nature plus all the major supported 3rd party softwares) then that would be Macbook's touchpad. It's absolutely irreplaceable and lightyears ahead in scrolling experience than any other damn laptop.
Seems obvious after you see it, mark of a truly genius idea. Great work. I cant wait until this is mainlined into Ubuntu or something.
You can release a wrongly imprisoned person or refund a wrongly imposed fine.
Seems like a solid incremental addition to oculus in another news cycle.
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It wasn't but I am happy to give props to people who help me. I am pollster - so feel free to hate me even more for that. But have like 100 web and mobile app ideas I want to make and I want to learn how to develop them. More coming soon. Other than the true haters, I've really enjoyed the process and look forward to getting deeper into coding.
None the less, my comment is true, and as a matter of fact, most PCs run Windows....
Death is a permanent sentence while other sentences are not.
Eek, I misunderstood your previous comment. You can still make extensions that use the omnibox instead of the bar, but the things each can do are very different. It's possible the creator of the extension couldn't do what they needed in the omnibox, or didn't know they could do it :)
I'm growing tired of people saying that they want a full touch screen. Good luck holding your arms up 8 hours a day while sitting.

Every new thing that Apple does gets a lot of negative attention, remember the launch of the iPad? It was being mocked and laughed at but now everyone seems to have a tablet. Remember this?

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/400/1*9tNGJOMAcFprbQrUFp...

Another argument I saw is "they force users to look down at their keyboard". I still have to meet the first user who uses the function rows blindly, besides the esc key it wasn't that useful and everyone was looking down at the keyboard to find the right keys already.

It intrigues me and I would like to try it out.
This is cool and all, but I encourage you all to just find artists you like and follow them on soundcloud / mixcloud / youtube. There is a ton of great electronic music out there that aids in concentration but is actually fun to listen to. I'm not sure how everyone settled on really slow and droney music being great for programming. I find it pretty boring (no offense to the author).

Try Dixon or Four Tet to start:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LU18BJunVk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca6pjR2TLns
From the description, it sound like Domain Driven Design is a better fit for "a pattern language" than software patterns are.
I have not used the Touch Bar, yet I agree that's a gimmick.

The problem is that it needs software support. Which means adoption. And that's a problem, since it is only rolling out in the newest MBPs. Had the entire line been refreshed, developers would at least count on it being there and could justify allocating resources supporting it.

Also, what's the external keyboard for, now?

I disagree that Macbooks need touch screens. Touchscreen ergonomics are terrible, unless you change the form factor.
When I was young, I was certain the death penalty is obviously, trivially an incorrect thing to do. Regardless of what was done, there was no cause for society to choose to take someone's life.

Now that I'm older, I worry about the possibility that banning the death penalty is an implicit acceptance of the policy of locking people away for life. According to the article 4% of people who are sentenced to the death penalty on death row are innocent. He doesn't offer statistics for the number who actually receive the punishment however given that not all people on death row are executed, and the significant resources devoted to the appeal process, the percentage of innocents who are executed must be lower than the 4% who are sentenced.

I must ask how many innocent people are sentenced to life in prison. I can't imagine anything worse than an innocent person sentenced to life in prison -- and eventually dying in prison.

If we are to make decisions about punishment taking into account the possibility of an incorrect sentence, I believe we need to be more realistic with regard to the hierarchy of punishments that we are inflicting. A sentence of Life in Prison carried to term is a worse punishment than Execution.
> You can use the Plan9 file system on Linux afaik. Still nobody cares.

Actually, start QEMU with some special arguments and a directory path, and the Linux guest inside will be able to see the given directory as a read-write 9P filesystem, mountable with a single command. (New files get QEMU's UID unless QEMU is run as root.)

> Mounting my sound card across the network sounds like a nice hack. It is more important that sound does not stutter though. That has soft real time requirements, which Plan9 does not address.

An incredibly good point, and why Plan 9 has zero adoption. :(
Good idea, a pico cell could forward on the calls and SMS from devices with a whitelisted IMSI. Everyone else could just get there's logged and rejected.
SMTP without queuing is called LMTP. It's not completely compatible because messages delivery success needs to be communicated for each destination address.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Mail_Transfer_Protocol
I'd argue steam has never stopped sucking, but it's always been reliable. I'll take reliability over usability any day when money's involved.
I've had Windows touchscreen laptops for ~2 years and the only time I even remember it's there is when trying to point at something in conversation and accidentally clicking on it. Are there really use cases that matter for a touchscreen on a standard laptop? I understand it on a convertible, but not your standard clamshell.
Not really news https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/22/zimbabwe-to-ma...
But that's also one of the essential points of Kant's argument in favor of the death penalty: depriving another person of life is a uniquely irrestorable offense.
Not even to connect in an emergency? Maybe "no service, click to attempt unsecure connection" would be better.
And a Chinese era begins!

Can't think of a more effective way to extend one's colonial reach.