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OSX has plenty of weirdness, but in my experience it's still more usable by far than Windows and a million miles away from any desktop Linux distro. I use it because it's the best available, not because it's perfect in every possible way. It's not, and nothing is. But it's a generally excellent GUI around a UNIX core, which is perfect for me.

I hackintosh so I'm less well-placed to answer your second point, but I'll try: A Mac is expensive, but you know exactly what you're getting and you know it will work well (recent dongle madness notwithstanding).

Meanwhile, eOS markets itself (previously implicitly and now apparently explicitly) as a potential replacement for OSX. But it's nowhere near. It's an outdated version of Ubuntu with some basic custom apps on top (a calculator, another basic wrapper around webkit, a slightly cleaned up fork of a file browser, etc).

And then you stray to the third party apps, and as always with desktop Linux, they're awful. Everything uses a slightly different toolkit, the UI elements are ugly, UX seems to be devs' lowest priority item, and of course you can't completely interact with industry standard formats (DOCX, PSD). The Intel Mesa driver still tears and/or stutters (actually all drivers do except Nvidia's) so watching videos is an awful experience.

Most of those items above are not fatal by themselves, but together they make for a miserable experience. I used desktop Linux (mainly Ubuntu) for over a year since I needed to do some dev and couldn't run OSX at the time. I won't try again unless there's a revolution in the desktop FOSS world. (Good video drivers, standard well-designed toolkit, UX as a priority, deeper integration of things like WINE.)

I do have some family members who use ancient core2duo laptops and do absolutely everything in Chrome. I pop Ubuntu MATE on their machines so they can avoid malware. I also always keep a live USB stick handy for flexible troubleshooting. As far as I'm concerned, this is basically the limit of usefulness for desktop Linux.

I understand some people value the flexibility above everything else and thrive under desktop Linux. I'm not trying to devalue their views or say that their setup is wrong. Use whatever works for you- but if you haven't gave OSX a serious shot yet, do try it.
I would assume that there is otherwise generally information asymmetry in the labour market, in the sense that employers usually have more knowledge of salaries than employees. Making good information openly available to both parties should benefit the party with less information more: the employee.
You claimed you were for people getting rewarded for their work, just not by using methods that you don't agree with.

If you are truly principled then you would avoid going to websites that have those ads and only go to websites whose revenue model is aligned with your interests.
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/t-series/t460p...
This is way off topic, but as a linux user, did you ever dual boot linux distros on macbooks? Work gave me a macbook and after fruitlessly trying to learn a new OS (and hotkeys...) I just threw ubuntu as a dual boot on it... and it's a nightmare. Crashing, freezing, hanging, video glitches, stuck pageflips, etc. Would love to know your experience.
And what I was originally trying to say, is that people like Snowden, or more precisely, people requiring Snowden-like security, should probably not use this feature despite the very impressive way they made it more secure.
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If sites make it clear, i stay out or pursue alternatives they offer. For example i don't use bild.de. And for other sites i've started contributing to payment schemes like Patreon. Mobile apps i often by the upgrade to remove ads, even though i can just block them altogether.
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I not sure about the office bit though. In my office there are some macs although they are a minority. I'm also not sure offices account for 50% of the computers.

But yeah, many other variables to consider. Age as well, it's mostly younger people in coffee shops.
I completely and totally disagree. You're basically saying that, because it will become harder in the future, we shouldn't even try.
Sharp's announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12845687
> This is really terrible. Since nobody's name is actually on it, I assume their marketing team wrote it.

The founder put his name on it https://mobile.twitter.com/stewart/status/793811616760496128

Agreed this is a move by Slack that is very disappointing to me. I thought better of them.
Yeah, have we gone from paying for the product to being the product, as the saying goes
And mainframe-driven batch processes.
Doesn't this remind anyone of "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home"? ...Where an alien probe comes into earths orbit wreaking havoc to check on the whales and turns out to be an early satllite from earth...

Man, I'm gettin' old.
Your "correct response" to terrorism has been tried now for 8 years and it doesn't work, instead everything got worse.

The only way is to try to insulate oneself from these radicals by not letting them immigrate, or if it doesn't help pick an area controlled by the most vicious of these radicals (ISIS territory comes to mind) and give them a taste of what armageddon could look like so they'll learn an important lesson.

This has worked very well in the Chechen wars. The Russians tried negotiating, then they tried having a series of smaller military operations in order to take out their leaders. Then the Russians even conceded and gave them defacto independence, but It all didn't work. They instead went on to attack neighbouring Russian states and then even killed hundreds of Russian children in the Beslan terror attacks.

What did help though was Putins response completely levelling the Chechen capital Grozny. And I mean that literally because that's what they did. After that 99.99% of them became cooperative, in fact today most Chechens in Chechnya consider themselves fierce Russian patriots. I wonder why!
Networking. It's a rolodex.
I mean, of course it is; but it's the obvious numeric way to encode the response "fuck you is how much." Like punching in $0 as a tip on a POS reader.
I did 5+ years ago. It was for a senior Java engineer position in one of the cities I was hoping to move to. Ended up being one of my favorite jobs.
Actually the last part makes great sense - it pretty much is what allowed music platforms to proliferate. It levels the playing field where you no longer are fleeced mercilessly.

I mean, I use Libgen and usually get enough books to cost me 5k or 10k €. Hopefully it will bring sanity into that market (Even though it is already blocked in UK, for some obscure reason)

Take my Spotify away and I'll probably just stop caring about music that much at all
Okay, I can understand gripes with steam's chromium implementation, it can be pretty bad at times and is pretty outdated too - what would normally just cause an 'aw snap tab crash page' (for lack of a better term) in chrome normally causes the overlay to crash and reload entirely. As for the store website itself, that's supposedly getting a refresh 'soon' so any issues there may have a resolution on the horizon.

The library itself I can't really see any issues with, it's searchable, filterable, sortable (in the tabular view only) and can be categorised however you like. I wouldn't say it's slow or unresponsive either - if anything it's probably the snappiest part of the main client interface, which makes sense given it's also the only part of the main interface that isn't a browser pane.
Because biology is a topic of its own.

Think of it as "I understand the biology of human" vs "I understand the biology of humans". One makes sense, the other seems meaningless, not grammatically correct (and so blatantly it sounds terrible to a native speaker) or at least makes you ask which human.
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Here is the correct link to the full text of that blog post.

http://blog.elementary.io/post/110645528530/payments
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A lot of large documents are team efforts, and you'd start with a discussion outside the document before it moves into comments inside.
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Link to the post: https://assertible.com/blog/test-every-single-api-deployment
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We buy everyone Alienware 13" from Dell. They Ubuntu 16.04 out of the box (and Mint latest). The screen is 1330x768 or something insane, which doesn't have a lot of love, but everyone plugs in external monitors. They're awesome.

Also, as a save a bunch of coin trip - buy all add-ons from your local store/amazon. We save ~300 per laptop compared to adding to Dell.
> 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.

False equivalence. Further, they certainly are allowing the content to be consumed for free.

> There is the expectation that you serve the ads along with the content given, and violating that expectation is an ethical issue.

We violate nothing by choosing not to abide by the wish that we view ads. There is no obligation to do so. It has nothing to do with ethics.

> It might not be an issue for you, but to pretend it doesn't exist is ignorant at best.

I think you mean "ignorant at worst". At best, we are ideologically opposed. :)
I suspect the political-correctness dogs around here might bark at your wording, but I still think you've nailed it.
At the same time, if they are paying less than the average, won't that prompt them to at least move up to that?
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12855320 and marked it off-topic.
If you're interested in porting code, many of the OSX core libraries are available as part of the GNUstep project: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnustep/

Most of "cocoa" came from the OPENSTEP specification, and GNUstep offers quite a complete implementation.
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That was actually how I found out about Teams to post this. Slack didn't do themselves any favors with that post.
"250 Delivered" is always given so that you can't sniff email addresses even if no such user exists on the server.

It's like that whole "email and/or password wrong" error when you try to login to a website. They don't want to give away who is registered on the site.
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So it's the automation itself that bothers you? If I kept uBlock origin installed but told it to block nothing by default and then went through and manually clicked block on every ad on a new page you'd be okay?
Yep, I had never heard of Teams but now am going to consider it for my startup.
I've gone through the interview process and received two job offers as a result of "Who's Hiring" posts. The posts tend to come from first parties that are motivated to hire talented new members for their teams, so the opportunities are very legit.
Last year I found that trying to use rEFInd (keeping OS X on the Macbook) was really painful, so I quit.

Is the experience a lot better if it's just Debian alone?
Happened to a friend of mine while he was on his honeymoon. Through a slip by management people knew it was coming. He wanted to know before he left, but they wouldn't tell him. So he ended up checking his voicemail everyday while he was on his final vacation.
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My guess is it only parses certain word forms. "Blatant state-shtuppers" is in this blog post: http://www.transterrestrial.com/?p=63723

> "Let’s put blatant State-shtuppers such as Hillary, Bernie, and Obama at about 7 or an 8."

This matches Hearst Pattern #1 from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...:

> NP such as {NP,}*{(or, and)} NP

Hillary usually appears by herself, rather than in a list. Apparently Probase doesn't pick up the plentiful "X is a Y" associations, e.g. the "Hillary is a liar" from http://thefederalist.com/2015/08/27/poll-voters-overwhelming... or "Hillary is a candidate" from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-sachs/hillary-is-the-c...

Or maybe it does, and they're ranked down. They do have a truth-detection phase, but it's mostly syntactic, and the top categories all have negative examples ("Hillary is not a candidate", "Hillary is not a democrat", etc.).
Thanks for that and good feedback. I also wrote this a while back so I'm definetly aware of the challenges of Microservice based apps - http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/4/8/microservices-not-a...
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>nowadays almost every website has ad software that can be a potential vector for malwaare.

If you're concerned with what's possible then any website that has JS is a potential vector for malware. Then you can just disable JS and browse the web that way. But wait, websites can also attack you with HTML browser bugs with malformed HTML, or PNG or JPG renderer bugs with malformed images, etc etc. At some point, you're going to have to be practical and compromise or something. My point is if you want to be principled, then reward websites with no ads by visiting them and don't reward websites who have ads.
Yeah they could have saved the cash on the ad and not said anything. Nothing says like your competitor isn't even in the same league than ignoring said competitor. Slack, though, will probably benefit from the fact that teams is a Microsoft product and non-MS shops aren't likely to being MS products into their stack but in companies with an MS stack like the one I work for I could see this being adopted.
Objective-C has been crossplatform for decades. The issue isn't the programming language, it's the GUI toolkits. Probably the best way to get cross-platform apps would be to improve Qt on Mac to the point where Mac apps were willing to use it.
What, no. Tell me before I add to the cart, right in the product description page.

What kind of draconian world do I live in that I would need to add to the cart to compare prices.
(We've gotten a bit off topic this deep in the thread. At this point we're really just talking about general management skills which really isn't a big thing for a CEO of any reasonably sized company. That being said....)

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The headline is misleading, it is only that Yammer is not a standalone product anymore but is part of the Office365 suite.
I didn't like Ubuntu even back then when Linux was my main workspace. Used Gentoo and Arch most of the time, Ubuntu felt like too much everything for my taste. Is it possible to use other Linux distros through WSL?
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All Office 365 customers who are on Slack must be seriously considering moving over to Microsoft Teams right now. They are basically letting them know they have an alternative.
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mediafilesegmenter and mediastreamvalidator used for creating and testing M3U8 (HLS) files.

You can of course use open or closed source alternatives, but they're fairly shitty in comparison to the mac native tools.

Last time I tried mediafilesegmenter had a dependency on some of the core audio libraries that were missing under Darling.
How does paying website A keep website B from serving me ads? This is why I run an adblocker.
I don't understand the thinness, especially for the iMac, but I suspect they've researched how people respond to seeing them in person in stores. I definitely want light though, and I highly doubt a large number of users using a laptop will notice the difference between 16GB and 32GB compared to the storage now being twice as fast.

Other complaints include a loss of magsafe? I highly prefer being able to purchase numerous non-proprietary chargers for home, work, car, airplane rather than carrying a brick in my bag. Plus, anyone who wants the power connection to be breakaway can get whatever USB C equivalent there is or will be to ZNAPS[1].

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Wow, that is impressive battery life.
I am curious, what Linux distributions you used? (especially for those back in the 90s :D) I was stuck on Gentoo than Arch for the most of the time.
I don't think that it does; why would it? You can send me scripts but I don't have to run them.
Ok, I'm only going off the extremely limited information in this article, but this attack phishes users, gets them on a malicious webpage and then uses Flash as a vector to exploit an MS Windows vuln, right?

If that's the case, haven't Chrome and Firefox been blocking Flash for over a year now[0]? Considering the MS Edge is apparently not vulnerable (according to the article), that doesn't leave much market share left. If all of the above is correct, I'd say the surface area of this attack is pretty low.

[0] https://archive.fo/oxlmT
Hence why no one bothers with desktop GNU/Linux, as for many even Electron apps are good enough.
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Didn't the law just require fingerprinting?
> We violate nothing by choosing not to abide by the wish that we view ads. There is no obligation to do so. It has nothing to do with ethics.

Similar to how choosing to not abide by the wish that you pay for products.

>I think you mean "ignorant at worst". At best, we are ideologically opposed. :)

I mean ignorant at best. Pretending that there isn't even a discussion to be had about ethics in this area is just shoving your head into the sand.