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A typical Windows user is going to have no clue what to do if they have a serious OS issue too.
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We do. It's awful, but irreplaceable.

Actually, the terrible UI may well be a benefit. I've worked in a company with heavy investment in Slack, too, and its ease of use I think contributed heavily to the low S:N ratio of channels with high population. Lync's group chat is so painful to use that, unless it's important, we don't.
think I can get YC to accept me based on a deck pitching a joint venture between porn and biotech on artificial skin?
My point was not about porn at all. The discussion was opened up to a wider context about all websites with ads. Purposefully misconstruing what I said to make it sound like I'm "blaming" someone is quite dishonest of you.
I did an ELI5 back when ELI5 was new and we were still trying to take the 5-year-old part semi-seriously.

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/j3ick/el...
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yo gratitude is nice but mainly make sure you're at a minimum in a good working environment. again, gratitude is nice, but it's not necessary for a healthy working environment.

i think many people here would be surprised how many people don't give a shit about things like gratitude etc but just want a working/decent coffee maker in the office.

a healthy working environment is the most important.
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On a somewhat-related tangent, I have a friend who swears by someone who is a self-taught doctor / nurse-practioner. This "doctor" cannot prescribe medicine obviously but is able to do checkups, etc. with self-purchased equipment and interprets OTC blood tests on his own. He apparently knows his limits and has sent people to the hospital when a situation exceeded his knowledge. He is completely self-taught from material online and books from the library
I don't understand what you're trying to say. My reasons are irrelevant because you disagree with the outcome?
"Comments are disabled for this video."

Gee I wonder why...
Comcast? or Charter/TWC?
Is this the worst ad in the history of advertising? HUGE publicity for Microsoft, with a schoolboy level of condescending, passive aggressive nonsense. Not sure what they were thinking with this one, especially with an opening line doing nothing but praising their competitor.
In concept it kinda reminds me of Oberon (I wish those had succeeded) though the integration between the kernel and the language (elisp) isn't anything like as tight.

For anyone who hasn't seen it (and a chance to look at the path not taken).

https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon1992.pdf
> 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.

A doctorate is a research degree. Hiring a newly minted doctorate just to be a code monkey would indeed be a mistake. Frankly, both parties would probably be unhappy with the job requirements (I certainly would have been).
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As a Microsoft marketing person this really made me laugh :-)
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Not at all to weigh in on the general topic, but the plural of kibbutz (in Hebrew or English) is kibbutzim.
That's what a major version is supposed to signify though, isn't it? Most JS/NPM-based projects use semantic versioning, so a major version update means breaking/backwards-incompatible.
The down votes I don't care about; I've got more points than I'll ever be able to spend (I can spend these points at the HN Company Store, right?). But the "but everybody knows that!" mentality that wouldn't be tolerated on any other topic just...mystifies me. Meh, we all have religious orthodoxy that dare not be questioned, and for some it's apparently "pr0n drives the tech industry".
I've gotten two solid leads leading to interviews through "Who's Hiring" posts, but didn't end up taking either job.

Company 1 wanted me for a remote position, but wanted to pay me about half my market rate. This is a casualty of the salary dance -- everyone is so busy hiding their numbers that sometimes you get too far into the process before you realize there's no way to make the numbers line up. If they'd listed a salary range on the original post, or I'd given a salary range in the initial contact, it would have saved everyone time.

Company 2 brought me in for an interview, then went silent for a month, then re-contacted me to resume the process after I'd already taken another job. They're a small security startup, and were really busy due to a security emergency that flared up while I was interviewing, and I slipped through the cracks. Understandable in that case, I guess, but good engineers are rarely on the job market for long, and if you're not able to focus, you will have a hard time hiring them. (Unforgivable in a larger company that has full-time recruiters and HR people, which doesn't mean it doesn't happen all the time.)
The 2008 bailout and subsequent legislation[1] indicates it is the major-banks (i.e. JP Morgan, BOA) which have the leverage to create money at will over the central-banks (i.e. the Fed). Hence the term "Too Big to Fail" -- de facto SUs.

Doesn't the major-banks' sandbox extend across the world to any person or government who accepts the dollar?

[1]http://www.businessinsider.com/congressional-budget-makes-ro...
I agree - this matches my experience too. Americans are blunt but that goes both ways. They appreciate a good deed while at the same time make their disapproval heard too.
It's worth noting that many (private) schools are picking up EQ as a primary focus in addition to regular subjects, which has the result of churning out kids more likely to evaluate themselves in their decision making (leading to more rational paths).
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Switching to Rust isn't going to solve Gnome management problems. You could make the case that they should ditch Gtk and adopt Qt, it would actually make more sense than rewriting Gtk in Rust given the amount of work it represents. But you complaining about the tools that don't exist is still ridiculous, the problem is why these weren't developed at first place.
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The similarity lies in that, just as with deciding to move into a country, it's hard to find out in advance whether bad factors are there and how bad they are; and once you actually like it there, relatively pricey to give up on what you like just to avoid the bad factors. Plus, just like almost every country has some racists, nowadays almost every website has ad software that can be a potential vector for malwaare.
Really? It sounds like you're describing a felony, and one that would probably not that hard to be traced back to the perpetrator.
Why (and how) we test every single API deployment
Hey HN,

I did a quick write-up on how we utilize continuous testing and deployment validation at Assertible (article: https://assertible.com/blog/test-every-single-api-deployment)

Our continuous testing workflow is part of our bigger CI setup. Generally, it looks like:

- Push code to hosted repo (GitHub)

- CircleCI pulls code, builds tests and executables

- Scripts deploy the new code to staging

- Automated API tests and validations are run to ensure the correctness of this deployment.

Obviously, if a test doesn't pass on staging, the PR can't be merged and the code can't go into production. Having this process makes it simple to quickly validate and test new API releases, save a ton of time from manual testing, etc.

While writing, I became interested in hearing how other teams test and validate deployments of their web services.

Does your team do this? Why or why not? What does your pipeline look like?

Full article: https://assertible.com/blog/test-every-single-api-deployment
I'll give a few examples.

When you rollover the timeline of a video you're watching, you get a little popup showing a screenshot at that time, allowing you to know what's there prior to clicking and changing the video to that point. YouTube and other video sites finally adopted the same, but from what I recall, it was a feature of porn sites for years first.

Most video sites have a list of related videos, which include thumbnails. When you rollover those thumbnails on porn sites, they typically animate the thumbnail so it shows various screenshots from the video at different time periods, so you have an idea of the video content, before actually opening it. YouTube is still missing this feature, some other video sites have it, but like the above, I remember it first released on porn sites for years. Since this article is regarding PornHub, they actually further innovated on this feature. Instead of a series of static screenshots, PornHub now shows short video clips at different times throughout the related video when you hover it. Once again, not a feature I've seen anywhere else online, but when you try it, you quickly realize it'll be standard for video sites in a few years.

xVideos has an improved timeline showing which parts of a video are buffered. If you're watching a video, and it buffers the first minute, then 0-1 minute will be highlighted in red on the timeline. If you then skip later in the video to the 3 minute mark and watch for another few seconds, it might buffer the 3-4 minute time period of the video. The timeline would then show 0-1 minute in red, and 3-4 minutes in red. You could then click anywhere in red on the timeline and the video would instantly start playing, since as the timeline shows, that part is buffered and ready to go. I've never seen the same feature anywhere else, YouTube and Vimeo would display the timeline as having 0-4 minutes buffered, which is incorrect, since they don't accurately display the gaps missing.

I don't know if those qualify as innovations to you, but they're all big improvements in user experience when it comes to watching videos online, and I believe they all originated on porn sites instead of YouTube, Vimeo, or elsewhere.
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Good point. Geekhack is awesome too.

I am currently making a cad model of keys so I can make molds.
Now if only my friends would use the service!
The argument is that if Country A uses cyber warfare it's "good", but if country R does it, it's "bad". While both are doing the exact same thing, as I said above.
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> It is a little harder to cheat their way through a job.

I have not found this to be true. Not that it is harder to cheat through a formal eduction, just that its about the same difficulty to cheat through a job. They are both trivially easy to do.

There are lots of people with long years on their resume that can't program their way out of a bag.
Except they're actively working toward dismantling their extension ecosystem and replacing it with one that is basically Chrome extensions.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/08/21/the-future-of-dev...
https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions
Recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12372242
If sites made it clear that your patronage while stripping out ads was unwelcome, would you voluntarily stop using all those websites...? Or would you hide behind the "running on my machine" argument while gleefully skimming their content?
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Is there any domain search platform where I can search domain of all TLD?
Whoa, such a simple and effective method by overriding the hosts file. Any idea how this file is kept up-to-date? Presumably new endpoints are constantly being rolled out; I wonder how the author of this file discovers the new hosts.
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The thing is, I remember the EFF reporting on NSA spying activity long before Snowden blew the cover open. The EFF has a great timeline (https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/timeline). The first apparent reveal of warrant-less spying was in 2005 (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/bush-lets-us-spy-...) and Mark Klein was the first major whistleblower back in 2006. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Klein).

What Snowden confirmed was more the scale. The details honestly shouldn't have been terribly surprising for anyone who had followed computer news for the last decade, unfortunately.

As far as Russia hacking the DNC is concerned, what I know is there are several cybersecurity companies that have confirmed that Russian hackers were involved, publishing white papers with a fair bit of evidence. I personally haven't seen a single cybersecurity company so far refute that information.

I do welcome a technical refutation of the white papers or a point to a cybersecurity company that disagrees! Counterpoints however have to be data-oriented to be interesting. I consider random commentators posturing that all this is just US propaganda with little evidence to be merely cheerleading, sorry, that's not interesting to me...
Largely the large price increase for a small improvement in specs. I've been waiting for the new machines to upgrade, and want a 15". Prices starting at $2400 are hard to stomach. I also consider the touch bar to be a wash or a slight regression.
"Contact info storage service for ex-colleagues I wasn't chummy enough to add on a real social network" pretty much sums it up for me.
Windows on desktop is a more stable system than Linux on desktop.
The problem with Greece was that the property tax was introduced out of the blue leaving a lot of home owners un-prepared.

Let's say that in the US you buy a house, get a loan and your payment is $1000 a month. You make your calculations and think that you are ok for the next 10-20 years. You even have some slack and can afford a payment of $1200

You move into the house and the next day a new law passes and a new tax is introduced that will cost you extra $600 a month for the house you just bought.

How would you feel?

If the property tax in Greece was introduced in a gradual way complaints would be less.
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I was in Austin two weeks ago and was worried about the lack of Uber/Lyft. I had great experiences using RideAustin. A driver even mentioned that they pay him 2x fares to drive out to areas like the F1 track because it's outside of the city.
I get that part, but even if past employer A said something to potential B, why would B say anything to me? It's just going to involve them in something they don't want to be part of in the first place.
I use Linux for that. I have a pretty and modern UI, all of the unix commodities I want... all on a brand new and powerful laptop that has plenty of battery life. (My last laptop... a Samsung Series 9... would last 14+ hours on a charge. My current laptop is a bit more power hungry... but it has a fairly beefy i7 and such. It still gets me through the day though)

It's just a matter of momentum... and Apple certainly has that in spades.

I did switch to using MacOS for several years... but am now back on Linux. It's just a better for development for me. But hey... Linux has been my primary workhorse since the 90s... so I am certainly biased. I did give the MacOS bandwagon a try though. :D
Actually I think gnome 3 is (at least wasn't) too bad compared to Unity, UX wise - I just personally preferred KDE.

Edit: this -

> Which is really too bad. It's the only RPM distro I've seen that's reasonably well put together.

Anything specific I should be aware of wrt OpenSUSE?
> Which is a tax on selling the property, not on merely owning it

FWIW it's a tax on buying, not selling, though I imagine it's much the same thing.
This article seems to uncritically assume that microservices are a good idea. If you want to microserviceize a legacy app, go ahead, but I doubt that using containers is a good excuse to do so.

Also, it seems to me that containers would be perfect for code written in weird no-longer-supported languages since you could presumably containerize the compiler without having to fight with incompatibilities caused by newer distros.
When HN starts covering futbol, that might work for me.
The colonization of the Pacific happened very recently in the terms of people spreading around the world: well after the last ice age. According to wikipedia, the first human settlement in Fiji was perhaps 3500 BCE. Hawaii wasn't settled until sometime around 1000 CE. The sea level would have been nearly the same as today and distance between islands would be, for practical purposes, identical.

I have heard/read that changing weather patterns had an effect on the movement of people around the Pacific, making some journeys easier or harder during different periods. Long distance voyaging had essentially ceased again by the time Europeans were exploring the Pacific. Unfortunately, I can't provide a reference.
"Robert we have to complete this report by Thursday" == "Robert work overtime to complete this report by Thursday, or you will be fired"

So the main skill of a CEO is he can ask nicely?
WHAT was Slack thinking writing this?!

http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/2/13497766/slack-microsoft-t...

Is this the worst ad in the history of advertising? HUGE publicity for Microsoft, with a schoolboy level of condescending, passive aggressive nonsense. Not sure what they were thinking with this one, especially with an opening line doing nothing but praising their competitor.

The confidence(arrogance) is astounding.
I thought PageFair used the same approach and adblock plus actually does block websocket traffic to certain domains..
I would suggest you try "Synapse" - its really good at being a Finder alternative - https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synapse
Before I left Google, I worked on this briefly and produced this PR: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/pull/708

It summarizes the discussion so far between various stakeholders. I've since moved on to other things, and I don't know where the effort currently stands.
My Ubuntu VM hasn't been spun up since I started using WSL. I've encountered a few bugs with WSL but it works amazingly well even for GUI apps.
I'm not 100% sure about API pricing, but I would imagine they are free to make for businesses that actually ship things. It seems like one of those things you shouldn't skimp on as a carrier.

And yes they should at least offer a no-signup in-cart shipping estimate. Most off the shelf eccommerce sites do. If not, they definitely want to spam your inbox with "come back, we miss you!" messages :)
Why would you want to do this? It doesn't make it faster than JavaScript. You'd still need to interface with JavaScript Web API bindings, which means you'd need C++ bindings to JavaScript bindings, which... use C++...

You can _currently_ do this without WebAssembly, but there's zero point to it.
> Personally, I would prefer to be laid off vs fired...

That's a distinction with very little difference. You got pushed out.

Creating a poor employee performance review is standard corporate cover for incompetent managers. Besides, who do you want on the team? Cheerfully loyal minions or the guy who gripes about overtime?

Use the Group Restructure/Company Lay-offs as your cover story for leaving and move-on.
> it lacks well designed high quality GUI applications. If porting to Linux was done easier that could change.

Fundamental to most peoples complaints about desktop Linux applications is the lack of look and feel cohesion across all permutations of distro, desktop, and toolkit.

Wine applications using the Windows APIs look like complete garbage and fit in nowhere. The same would be true of OSX Cocoa apps - they wouldn't mesh well at all, and it would be practically impossible to skin them with toolkit theming.

That, and recent efforts by Gnome and KDE have been producing tons of good new applications with modern GUI. They just aren't all the applications yet.
> I seriously wonder if non-profit versions of the business will expand into other cities and challenge Uber and Lyfts margins.

Why would non-profits inherently be able to beat Lyft or Uber's margins?

Non-profits, despite the name, are not prohibited from making a profit. Conversely, the "profit" referred to in "for-profit companies" doesn't come out of their margins.

And even if you're talking about their bottom line rather than their margins, it's not like venture-backed companies are required to run at an operating profit anyway. To my knowledge, Uber has never actually issued GAAP accounting demonstrating that they're turning a profit[0]. Which makes sense - the whole point of raising outside capital is to spend money faster than you'd otherwise have access to it. Both non-profits and for-profit companies do this.

Non-profits are functionally equivalent to for-profit companies. The only distinction in this case is that a non-profit would have a harder time raising money, because they can't provide equity in exchange for the outside funding they obtain, whereas a for-profit company can.

[0] They've made plenty of non-GAAP claims, but that doesn't mean anything.
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It's all subjective but I find that KDE apps need a lot of work in terms of control flow, UI hierarchy, white space usage. To me, these are some of the things that macOS and most third party applications for it get very much right, and coming from it KDE feels... jarring. In some ways it feels modern but in others I feel like I'm using Win9x, complete with overcrowded windows and dialog tunnels, with a new coat of paint. It would greatly benefit from someone sitting down and giving it all a rethink.

GNOME sits on the other side of the spectrum on these issues but I personally find it and in fact most GTK+ apps more aesthetically pleasing and more well organized even if all the buttons are too huge and its white space is like a football field.
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