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> I build desktop software for Macs (focuslist.co)

You're scripting a fucking to-do app on the level of a first semester student.

> My apps are prettier than any others

No they certainly aren't.

> This is the reason why people pay me $5

Congratulations.

> They want to get the job done while winning an Apple Design Award.

Your chances to win any design award are equal to Bashar al-Assad's chances of winning the nobel peace prize.

So much jerking from somebody making a fucking to do app which needs absolutely 0.0 skills. I hope you were joking.
For anyone else curious, BUD/S = Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL, part of the US Navy’s special forces training.

Considering the crazy life-threatening things special forces soldiers might be commanded to do in a real mission, weeding out anyone who doesn’t think like your friend is likely one of the main goals.
A company I worked for actually sort of made up their shipping prices whole cloth. They had contracts with the shipping companies to get a good deal on shipping, and rarely passed those savings on. So most cases, they charged more than they were paying to ship your product, and in a few cases they charged less. So, the majority were subsidizing shipping costs for a few, with a hefty profit bump for the company. But I don't think they had any real competition, so I guess they could just charge whatever they thought people would pay. They even operated multiple brands for the same exact products/services, just to offer different prices and advertise from a different angle.

So, back to the point, regardless of whether the price is broken out or bundled, there's really no way to tell how badly you're being gouged. Unless you can find it cheaper someplace else, the only question is whether it is worth it to you at that price.
The short in the battery was the original problem. The short eventually became open 21 years later, which made things work.
There are been times where a store offers free shipping over $x.xx but offers free return shipping. So why not just add on a few things you don't want and then return them when you get them? You get free shipping on the things you want.
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It is even more unfortunate that this conversation is lost because equity at all is still a fairly unique aspect of the tech industry. So there isn't much empathy for the circumstances.
> The pattern is, intentionally make a service worse, and then charge to 'make it better'.

Agreed; in the tech world, I'd call this the difference between buying a faster processor—the analogue of going to a doctor—and paying to avoid intentionally slowing down a processor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80486SX).
Not all of the people whose correspondence they leak accept public money, or are part of governments.

They don't have much of a moral hill to stand on - unless they subscribe to the morality of "The ends justify the means." (Which most people do.)
I don't agree with this. Might've been true a few years ago but good engineers can be found all over the place. A good customer service person who can easily navigate between customers and internal teams is much harder to find and way more valuable in the long run. We've seen this first hand and constantly evaluate how we can bring on better customer-oriented people that are able to wear multiple hats.
This works in Gnome. And if it doesn't you can just copy/paste stuff instead of dragging. In any case that's no reason to switch OS, whatever the direction.
Haha well it's not "City Building" or some ridiculously common English word. At least, not as far as I know.. lol it was a random series of noises that popped out of my head which, I'd argue, is better than naming something "Bottled Water" or "Hydrogen" or "Rust" lol
Apple's logic: the Lightning jack only appears on accessories; while the USB-C jack only appears on "computers." There's no Lightning-to-Lightning cable, because it makes no sense to connect one "accessory" to another. All "accessories" come with a Lightning cable, which is USB on the host end for now (because most people don't have computers with USB-C yet!) but will likely be USB-C on the host end in the future (and then you'll need to buy a reverse adapter—female USB-C to male USB—to connect it to old devices. Those will probably be common enough across brands once the USB-C-only accessory market picks up.)

All that being said, it'a interesting to use this logic to deduce what Apple does or doesn't consider an "accessory." The iPhone, iPad, iPod? Accessories. The Apple TV? Computer! The port to plug it into a computer—for XCode provisioning et al—is USB-C! To connect to it right now, you need either a MacBook with its charger cable; or the new MBP, plus an extra C:C cable; or a USB-A male:male cable (rare!) plus Apple's "MacBook USB" (female-USB:male-USB-C) adapter. A male-A:male-C adapter would be great, but nobody has yet made one. The market is very nascent.)
Microsoft's support, in contrast, is outstanding you see. As a bonus for sticking with them, you will even get an upgrade of your perfectly functional Windows 7 computer at some unspecified point in time based on checking a box with manipulative exploding offers, and be left with a large brick (voila! magic!).
Its amusing to me that linkedin recruiters are the ones consistently sending me requests for completely unrelated jobs. The rest of the crowd seem to be at least related but linkedin recruiters just don't seem to care. Not sure why.
There isn't much of an ethical discussion to be had if we consider advertising in any other medium. I've never heard it argued that muting the TV during commercials or skipping commercials by fast forwarding is unethical. Similarly, I've seen pizza places include flyers with ads and coupons with the pizza they deliver, and I don't think anyone would argue it's unethical to throw those printed ads away.

So why when I click a link should it be wrong for me to ignore or block the advertising that is sent along with the content. When I clicked the link, there was no contract signed, nor was there any price communicated to me.

If I walked up building advertising "get food here" and asked "may I have a loaf of bread", and the person at the front just hands me a loaf with no other interaction, have I done something wrong? What if the business model of that store is to give the food away for free but allow other companies to place salesmen in the lobby, does that make me a bad person if I just breeze by the salesmen, ask for food, get it, then leave? Or has the person done nothing wrong and what I've described is just a terrible business model?
"Where do you think all those eastern European and Latina chicks starring in porn come from"

In the case of Eastern European girls - the overwhelming majority are shot in Eastern European countries (especially Czech and Hungary).
That's actually true in most large corporations.

I once dated a lady who did data recovery and "e-discovery" for the legal department of a large corporation. A large part of her job involved grabbing disk images of people's hard drives, and then digging through them and people's email, looking for any information relevant to lawsuits, internal investigations, subpeonas, etc..

As far as I know it was never at random, though.
I expect a competitive marketplace.
Nope. Lots of places can't pay that money. They'll still try to interview and hire people but they can't compete.

There is a very wide range of salary, skill and experience in tech. A single figure is not of much use. If anything it might be ruined by the vast majority of cheap companies (i.e. outside of Google/Apple/Facebook/... )
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- Sphinx facebook bot (https://www.facebook.com/sphinxchatbot/) : Vocab builder
I used to browse the "who's hiring" every month, even though I had a job I loved. I saw an ad for an MLB team (Astros) looking for an analyst, which was super interesting to me. I sent in an application, went through the process and ended up taking the job.

I don't browse them anymore, there is no way there is anything better for me out there right now.
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Good question. Given the well documented and stable x86/x86_64 Linux ABIs, it should be at least as feasible as the Darling project. I've been watching projects like Darling and libhybris (run Android bionic libc binaries on glibc) but I haven't seen any project for running Linux ELFs on macOS specifically.

Projects like usercorn are already emulating lots of Linux syscalls on non-Linux hosts. Things are even easier if you can ignore the binary emulation and just focus on melding the two different ABIs and APIs.

I used usercorn to try and debug an Android shared lib on macOS. I got some of the SO to correctly execute (full dynamic linking wasn't working) but it did require light patching of usercorn. I would have had less issues if I was emulating a Android guest on Linux host (instead of macOS host) since you're syscall mappings are almost 1:1 then.

https://github.com/lunixbochs/usercorn
It seems crazy but these people lived their entire lives on small islands and had nothing else to do but master what little information surrounded them.

I've heard stories of Islanders that could detect different types of fish from surface wave patterns.
The best time to integrate two-factor authentication
You did not just ask a question as a form of critical thinking.

Yes I did.

You asked a question leading into a lecture on the technology you prefer.

Only after you left your Good luck with packaging everything, which I have good reason to believe was cynical sarcasm.

It did not become hype because of any technological advantage, it became hype because this old technology became accessible not just for the kind of people/companies that don't (can't) run enterprise class Solaris deployments,

Performing configuration management at scale with OS packaging has nothing to do with Solaris - it works on any operating system which has a Bourne-family shell, AWK, and sed.

but also the kind that don't have 20 years of experience in making robust well managed deployments.

Then it would be a good idea for such people to actively seek mentors.

But for the average developer and Linux enthousiast, there's not much that can the simplicity of the Dockerfile.

That's what distinguishes the average developer. A true enthusiast will go out of their way to become a master of the art, so the assertion doesn't apply to them.

It's easy to hack several hundred thousand files together and deliver them via Docker. But, what happens when it's time for upgrades? Go through the entire hackfest again? Every time?

Anyway, you're not helping anyone

that depends on what your mentality is: if you're a true enthusiast, you're probably reading a lot, and when you stumble upon crumb trails like mine, the light bulb might go off reading what I wrote, and it might just be the clue you need (that's the idea). And you wouldn't be the first or the last person that happened to.

As for me, I'd gladly show how to do what interests you, only I have no blog, and no time to set one up, fight spam, hack attempts, and so on. I can afford one short answer like this, but I cannot afford months of engineering implementing the infrastructure for a blog and hardening it.

And by the way, nice stab at Joyent on your part, but SmartOS is free, open source software, and the entire ecosystem + the 14,000 packages never cost a penny. Even their cloud on a laptop ("COAL") preconfigured image is gratis.

As for packaging being hard... there is such an abundance of packaging documentation for any popular operating system... all you have to do is sit down and "warm up the chair" by reading it. Do you think I learned it some other way?
We're not standing against the tide of entropy. If we're going to use a water metaphor, let's talk about a dam or a water wheel. Life is capturing energy and redirecting it-- we're still increasing entropy, but we're directing it in such a way that allows us to have some semblance of order. We aren't trying to resist anything, we dance in the expenditure of entropy.
Indirectly. A friend pointed me to the forum when I was looking for a job - I reached out through the company website listed on a few posts and accepted an offer at one of them :)
Is there any more info you can provide? I dont want to sound combative, just curious because I have a lot of friends there and I havent heard anything.

Is this happening for all employees? Do you think Crytek is holding on for robinson?

I actually literally just got an offer a few weeks ago, this changes a lot. I know crytek had trouble before, but Im suprised these struggles are translating to the FFM studio.
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If you're curious to see the comprehension of blockchain by the typical blockchain software developer (or the lack thereof) here's a fairly typical example of how the pitch devolves, once examined: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA2_pg_odX4
Well sure, they can't win a fight. But they can leave. Or is that less of an option in games development than in the rest of the industry?
> The hope would then be that emotions will emerge automatically once we've developed a system of sufficiently complex thinking.

If we look at nature, we see the opposite: almost all animals seem to experience some sort of emotional reaction to stimulus, even if they don't seem capable of complex rational thinking.

> We understand so little about the brain in general, and emotions seem buried near the bottom of that mystery.

I agree: emotions seem more fundamental to thinking than rational symbolic reasoning.
Excellent I've been trying to buy one for a while. Now to find it in the UK site...
Can true statements be disparagement?
> Out of curiosity, why do you say steam is "pretty bleh"?

The app is probably the most unpleasant piece of software I use daily. Trying to navigate around is slow and at times frustrating.

> A lot of people claim that valve don't care

A lot of people say Valve doesn't give a shit about support or making the steam application better. Both things are true. Valve does great things for gaming, but they are far from flawless.
Counteradvice: I do not think Co-Ops are a good idea. Tying yourself to a 3-4 year commitment is directly counter to what I consider the big advantage of work/study. I had friends who badly wanted to leave their Co-ops, but were bullied by advisers into not doing so.

You aren't just padding your resume, you're also getting a feel for the different paths in your career you could pursue.

I had 3 different Internships for 3 different companies, and although that added a decent amount of stress (an annual job hunt) to my college career, I 100% recommend it.

I worked for a medium sized team at Georgia Tech's Research Institute, was the first hire at a startup, and worked DoD contracts for BAE, a defense contractor.

Those are all extremely different, and I not only built a resume that served me well in a variety of interviews, but also learned things I absolutely did not want to do.

However, your principal point, that work/study is a good idea, I wholeheartedly agree with.
It sure does quite a lot and I love it, but I wish it could handle SIP and WebSockets without too much trouble.
If someone goes through the work to find my email address then it's generally a related job. LinkedIn makes it too easy to spam.
This is my problem. Audio editing on Linux is a joke. For everything else I do, Linux can get me there. So I need a Mac or a PC as an audio editor? Might as well just get a Mac or a PC. I'll have to maintain it anyway, and it can do everything Linux can do, plus probably be better supported.
No because they get paid to show you the ad, not make sure you watched it. Adblockers prevent the ad from being shown which is fundamentally different.

On recording and fast forwarding later since it's a closer analog, the network is being paid to show that ad to people during that time period - generally the numbers used to sell ad space exclude people recording for later (they are broken out). So that is also not ripping them off since the ads are part of the "cost" of watching the show at that time, not in general.
There are no efficiencies in turing complete languages on a blockchain: http://www.coindesk.com/turing-complete-smart-contracts/

Turing completeness is always more efficiently expressed as a multisig
How do you want to live professionally? What's your long-term vision?

Gatekeepers, especially corporate HR flunkies are trained to screen for academic pedigree. A solid credential helps open the door.

Owners/Founders/Hiring Executives mostly look for experience and intelligence. Does this guy understand my world? Can he help solve our problems?

Find a way to pursue both goals. Get a part-time/flex-time job while completing your degree requirements.
> In major cities, where most people rent, this means property owners have their taxes go up very unpredictably.

Interesting. I've heard about the predictable 2% YOY residential property tax increases allowed by Prop 13 (in Los Angeles), but I haven't heard about people experiencing significantly larger, unpredictable property tax hikes.

I'm curious about the very unpredictable property tax hikes you're describing. How big have these been? Are these on apartment buildings or other commercial properties?
It seems the real technical issues are surfacing as the posts flow in. There are two. Primary being that burden/control is in one company's hands and the other being lack of (thick) wrappers for C libraries. That other issue is common among less popular languages. First one is concerning, not much because of potential malevolence of Ada core, but more that they seem to do a lot of work and that can present itself as a bottleneck.

On a sidenote, you're an astrophysicist? How awesome is that?! I'm in TV and Film, and I wanted to meet/know one who I can pester here and there with questions/collab for an SF script development I had in mind which I would like to present in 'accurate' way.
OSX's kernel CSPRNG is Yarrow.

Window's CryptGenRandom and derivatives are one of the more well-studied OS CSPRNGs.
They can be hypocrites and still accomplish their goals just fine.

How many people are going to avoid leaked material because Wikileaks are hypocrites?
What gets me, is that frequently when the item price+shipping are added together the $.01 used books cost more than the new ones. Often by 30-50%. There were articles a few years ago about how people were making more from amazon's handling charges because the US post shipping rates on books were so inexpensive that they would have been listing the books for free if it was possible. That was even before amazon seemingly caught on and increased the shipping charges even more.
IMHO the problem is that you actually do need a decent chunk of all that stuff. Not all, but a good chunk.

A UI engine is a problem on par with creating a good game engine like Unity. If you don't have a loooooooong list of capabilities and polish your UI is a toy. By the time you extend and build it out enough to make it not a toy you will have re-implemented either Aqua/Cocoa, Microsoft's UI, or the web but yours will be new and nobody will know how to code for it.

Now make it flexible and programmable and extensible enough to be future-proof and battle hardened. Now make it work remotely over the wire with good performance. Now make it fast and efficient. Now make it secure.

The web isn't perfect by any stretch but it's IMHO the best combination of:

- Complete

- Modern

- Battle tested, including security

- Maintained by professionals

- Can be made to look good

- Has a yuuuuge developer community that isn't going anywhere

Qt is the closest other contender but its dev community is less than 1% of the web's. It's also starting to... ahem... look more and more like a web stack. It's still a little lighter and faster than the web but not much, and IMHO that gap is narrowing and will narrow even more. Look into Mozilla Quantum for an example of what's coming. We're going to have aggressively multithreaded GPU-assisted HTML+CSS renderers and web assembly soon.

JS is not my favorite language but it's not bad either for what it is (IMHO) and ES6+ features make it a lot better. It's a very acceptable "BASIC for the 21st century" and is perfectly fine for driving a presentation layer, schlepping data around, and controlling stuff. JS VMs are impressively fast given the difficulty of accelerating the language, and they are not overly heavy. WASM is going to break down this barrier as well by allowing CLANG to target the web as a native platform.

Web renderers are heavy but an OS that embraces the web as its presentation layer across the board could load one instance of all that bloat instead of one instance per app.

(A web browser on this imaginary platform would be a thin wrapper around an iframe.)

You'd have to pay a lot of attention to security. You might have to fork or implement a few added things into a good web engine to make it ready for such a use case, like better security models and resource management models around iframes. But that pales in comparison to the work it would take to re-invent a stack from scratch and reach this level of capability and then to build an entire ecosystem of this size and breadth around that stack. Forget about that unless you have a billion dollars to burn.
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It used to be that you had to use Windows to update the bios and that grub didn't work so dual boot was not possible. Also broadcomm.

Glad if that has changed!
That's good to know. In my birth country growing up I remember my mom used to buy a couple of days' vegetables from a roaming vegetable vendor. The vegetables were fresh and available at the doorstep in the morning before lunch preparation began. Since we were vegetarians we didn't see or know if there were meat vendors that did this too but my guess is there weren't since these "mobile" vendors didn't have refrigeration on their push carts.
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