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More and more I keep wanting to try emacs or vim, because nothing else seems to work as far as productivity. I've tried Evernote and a bunch of other applications, nothing seems to be useful (to me). I always stick to my notepads of paper and pens, that may never change.

I do mostly front end work, so the tools I'm constantly in is in iTerm 2, Adobe products, Mail, Sublime, and Transmit for SFTP.

Would there be any benefit of spending time learning these? Where does one even begin?
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Responsibility is orthogonal to indemnification regarding claims of liability.
Yep. 20 years of smoking, failing at every cessation method that I've heard of, was finally beaten with 3 months of e-cig tapering for me too. I was actually content just keep using it, but my machine broke on an out of town trip, and I realized after a few days I didn't miss it like I did when I'd try to quit smoking.

These anti-vape ads infuriate me. I don't even use one anymore, haven't for over a year, and every time I see one of those ads I think there might go another person who had a real chance to quit smoking cigarettes.
That's pretty much what any successful business story is. It's not like a market springs up, and the eventual dominators of that market immediately own it. There is lots of competition and failed ventures and aquisitions etc. Then we hear about the literal survivors that dominate in the end.

Few gamers of today recall VooDoo or SGI, for instance. And most consumers have no idea what a Tandy is (was?).
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Most of these points are "too much of X" on things that are not necessarily obvious. Don't have "too many" meetings, or buy "too much" schwag. There's an arbitrary value in there where apparently you've passed the invisible marker, and you're not a real business anymore to this guy. It really reeks of someone looking in retrospect and saying "oh, you spent too much time in meetings maybe?"

Why can't this just be real businesses who are making mistakes, which could or could not be fatal?
They're looking for people with a different motivation than maximizing personal profit. The people I talked to there were motivated by public service, solving big problems, and getting shit done.
He won the sociopath lottery; he was able to take enormous risks because they didn't particularly faze him. Most people who do that fail horribly, but if you work backwards from a list of highly successful people, you may find that pattern of behavior occasionally bears fruit. The same is true of playing the lottery, but it would be wrong to assume that the secret to success is to play it.

Truly, for a bunch of very smart people, you'd think the tech community would be more aware of the dangers of working backwards from a pool of successful people, hoping to find a magic ingredient. Work from the broad population forward, not from the narrow population, back.
The private, non-electronic ballot box makes it pretty hard. That's one of the main beauties of the system.
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Could that be a reason states are slowly legalising Marijuana?
But doesn't this work against the conception that we should be using Emacs and Org-mode to future proof ourselves.
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"There are any number of ways to fix this, and we'll work with Microsoft to find the best one..."

It's refreshing to read actual engineers' writing. After this, going back to tear-jerking snark-filled twitter and medium gnashing of teeth will be hard.
Ask HN: Do you read through mobile app intros?
Upon an installation of a mobile app you will often see a series of pages "welcoming" you to the app. Maybe throw a few descriptions about the app, etc.

Do you read through them? Or do you just fly through them to get to the real stuff?

Is there a better/best solution to this?
Yes, please. The font color is way too light.
In particular, a profile of axion-based dark matter.
Because most startups lost money ?
This little magazine (intended for physical distribution at IT events) has a great short article on what’s new in 9.6.
Yup. I don't have a solution for gendered languages because it's not a problem I deal with much. I'm going to work on English, and I'll trust that other people will find the right solution for their cultures.
Unlimited Vacation Works at my Company

- because people talk about their trips and vacations

- because people are motivated to work ( example, somebody traveling for a month teleworked for a week to not be way out of the loop

- most people take a long weekend, week, and more rarely, 2 weeks at a time.

The biggest concern from Management is that employees feel guilty, aren't taking enough vacation (there isn't a lot of abuse.) Management actively encouraged one of my 2 week vacations to set an example to show people to take vacations.

Does it work as well as it is advertised? From an accounting perspective, yes. From a not worrying about managing people's vacation time yes. From a team management for meetings / projects - not always - more/better notice could work better. From a people perspective? the same people who overwork themselves tend to not take vacations - so not the best for keeping stress down.
And sailfish OS's hardware support is based on libhybris, which basically relies on using Android drivers for phones
> We did this cause it's the new hot thing. Makes sense.

The Chief Javascript Wheel-Reinventing Officer has asked around his fraternity and decided that it's a good idea.
That would be noticed by poll workers. No curtains anymore.
Sure, but the important bit is that if you completely blank and forget about % (I have done so) you can still solve it easily if you're a half-decent programmer.

Not to mention that if I see a candidate is stumped on the modulus part I'll offer them % myself.
No need to take a cross-country train to meet your counterparts anymore; everyone ends up rubbing shoulders with everyone else far more frequently these days.
Gimbals can only do so much. In the mid-Atlantic ocean wave heights are between 6 feet and 20 feet. That's not going to feel like much if you're on an oil tanker, but a relatively small barge is going to move up and down a lot.
I think he has to sample his position deltas from a gaussian with mean 0 and variance equal to the time since last update for it to be a valid brownian motion.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_motion#Mathematics
Fuck a porn star? There are few things less appealing than fucking a porn star. Not without a ten foot pole anyway...
Thanks! Your kind words would inspire others to have a look and make them think.

Our intention is to celebrate the attempts, without them the winners cannot exist!

Please do help share the idea with others.
New app lets users report shady activity in NYC parks to NYPD
What do you think is the most popular sport in the world?
Persona was many things to many people -- arguably too many -- everyone from the old core team has a different idea of what features defined Persona. :) For me, it was the developer experience: trivial setup, email in/authentication out workflow, and no secrets to store in a database. Portier focuses narrowly on making that facet work well. Browser integration, identity aggregation, and privacy from users' own email providers are all non-goals for Portier: https://github.com/portier/portier.github.io/blob/master/Non...

That said, I'd love to ask what you found compelling about Persona's promise of browser integration. The privacy aspects? User experience? The finality of a standard successor to HTTP Basic / Digest authentication? Something else entirely?
>> Identity/Persona Shutdown Guidelines for Reliers

I can't parse this headline. It sounds like a weird psychological problem of some sort ;-)
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Thanks for the fix! Will update copy.
I have a unique perspective here, as I helped run a .gov (although not at the Federal level) that aspired to run as a self-supporting business.

It's difficult to do because the government isn't a business, and the decision cycle isn't the same as a commercial. Government is appropriation based, uses cash accounting and loves capital expenses. Businesses are diametrically opposite.

There's also a weird calculus for what factors into an ROI calculation and what doesn't. If money is appropriated, there's little incentive to reduce spending (and incentives to spend unnecessarily!) and rate structures don't influence decisions.

In short, I'm not supportive of government waste, but it's pretty clear that any money appropriated to 18F is delivering a positive return. The OMB people should address the perceived shortfall by just taking money away from targeted programs.
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I use org mode, and thought it would be a gentle way of establishing some familiarity with emacs. But whenever I want to do anything other than the slightest edits to my todo files I open the file in vim! Emacs just has no built in functionality, everything has to be implemented. It's like raising a baby - teach it eat, drink, crawl. Eventually it will be somewhat capable, but then I can't simply fire it up on another machine. Maybe I'm missing something, but every time I look up the simplest edit, I'm presented with 30 lines of code. Maybe the gentle approach is not the way to get going with emacs. Anyway, point being I'm also looking for a vim alternative.
The idea that there will be violence is the real fantasy here, and a very unpleasant fantasy at that. Other than maybe a few more murdered Poles and a fistfight between UKIP MEPs.

The Leave supporters are mostly over 50, have no coherent organization, and no history of street protests. All they're going to do is write angry comments on Daily Mail articles and vote in elections. They're not going to get hold of semtex and Armalites and start an insurgency.
I don't see how I'm moving the goalposts. All I'm saying is that the EU referendum result must be respected.

General election results must also be respected, but they revolve around a number of issues, so are not a good indicator of voters' opinion of membership of the EU.

Besides, the Conservatives were elected into government with a manifesto promising an in-out referendum. The government has delivered on that promise and is carrying out the will of the people, as decided in that referendum.
>Part of the reason podcasting seems so open, says Lydon, is that, to some extent, it is more anonymous than television and less rigid than print media.

This is also my reason I like podcasting. I don't care about talking heads, but also don't usually have the time or concentration to read long articles, especially when the majority is full of fluff anyway. The last years I experienced more new ideas and views by listening to podcasts while commuting than scrolling the several news feeds full of clickbait.

>I would hate to see it become a capitalist tool.

I fear the day someone is going to "disrupt" podcasting.
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A minimal C runtime for Linux i386 and x86_64
Fifa Football is loved to watch.
As a fellow engineer who also performs technical interviews, I cannot accept your first point.

Solving trivial problems does not give you any useful information about how a person solves nontrivial problems. This is especially true if you are not specifying the language the candidate needs to use.

What if I solved fizzbuzz in Haskell? It certainly would not look like a c# implementation, and you wouldn't be able to judge anything about it other than maybe it might produce a correct answer- is it idiomatic? Is it performant? Will it even compile? Technical interviews (especially when you consider candidates outside of your current language / stack) are about assessing capability and trajectory - willingness to learn and adapt. Rote memorization of objective problems that can be found online tell you nothing about how they will solve problems on the job.

As for point two, memorizing solutions to problems with objective answers isn't a terribly valuable skill; presuming that it should be a requirement without announcing it in the job requirements is certainly analogous to hazing. Unless you want a team with little to no creativity, you are selecting for candidates that do not demonstrate what you actually need- and the success of your team is in spite of your hiring process, not enabled by it.

I am sorry if this came across as either personal or exceptionally harsh, but I am pained by the amount of incredibly intelligent people who are willing to accept that suboptimal things ought to be, simply because they are.

One of the biggest contributing factors for a team's - and company's- culture is its hiring practice, and it deserves far more attention than what our industry gives it.
LOL, as will most startups ;).

Thanks for having a look!
That definitely plays into it. A certain amount of aggressiveness is crucial in career success (for example, men are much more willing to apply for jobs where they don't meet all the stated requirements).
Checkout the sftp package for sublime, very useful.
But that will is not reflected in voting...
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In Enterprise Land a lot of people use ETL tooling as an alternative / in addition to writing SQL.

Databases, data interchange formats, and the concepts they represent are mapped out in graphical tools like ER Studio.

The SQL operations you do to load in data from various sources are done in graphical ETL tools like Microsoft SSIS, Talend etc let you draw diagrams which replace SQL. They are more properly a way of programming an engine that runs the SQL but also does things like monitor for incoming files, query webservices etc. Some also provide a technology neutral way to express transforms that can be run in SQL but also on Hadoop or whatever. That said, you sometimes need to go in and write the SQL for optimization.

Enterprise Service Bus sit between multiple databases and multiple data sources and consumers, and the interfaces these provide replace SQL queries. Typically graphical tools or configuration files are used to configure the relationship between the endpoints they provide and databases.

Even outside enterprise land, people rarely write SQL when defining and interfacing with databases. They use an ORM, and a lot of popular ORMs will create a database and provide a way of accessing it so that you never write SQL.

Technologies like OData mean that applications can query data by proxy without needing to know the model it is stored as, and the mapping between the model OData presents and the database is typically implemented using an ORM.

Cloud computing means people with very large databases increasingly want to spread the processing across many slower machines rather than spending the budget on one specialist data processing server with very fast IO. SQL is replaced by other languages in this case (although SQL like languages are making a bit of a comeback).

Finally, in academia and certain very data datacentric industries, SPARQL and successors are still a thing.

I think there is a big divide between enterprise development and what we learn in school / hackernews here. A lot of people outside the industry are not aware of these ecosystems of applications.

I wouldn't recommend any of these over SQL in all cases. They are technologies that solve a problem and you should consider them if you have that problem.
+1 Vertical whitespace.
For whatever little it's worth, and appologies if you knew this already: Kanthal wire should be generally more 'inert' than stainless at high temperatures. The aluminum in Kanthal forms a tougher and more temperature resistant oxide layer than the nickel in typical stainless steel.

(I actually used Kanthal wire sold for DIY vaping things professionally at one point, in a ~1200C heater in vacuum. It's not inert enough in those conditions, sadly)
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SJ's track record was actually n=3.

Apple made him the youngest tech multi-millionaire.
Pixar a billionaire.
Apple, again, where he built the world's most valuable company and insane profits.

More n than most billionaires, no? Only Buffet has a real n>5.
Rolling cigarettes feels good. E-cigarettes allow you to keep all of your addictive habits and mannerisms other than rolling, and it's all of those habits that are the addiction; you're physically off nicotene in a couple of weeks, and you're mentally off within a month or two. I was once able to roll a cigarette while riding a bike; now I have a skill that I'll never use again.

I'm creeped out by whatever's in e-cigs. I'm don't know why everyone is so sure that constantly inhaling propylene glycol for years on end is safe, or that all that's in that mystery imported off-brand liquid is propylene glycol. I of course find it extremely likely that it's less unhealthy than smoking.

I quit through using Swedish snus. I think it was crucial that snus isn't fun, and gives you nothing to do with your hands. To gradually wean off nicotene, just leave the portions in longer. Twenty-year smoker, two-year snuser, four years tobacco-free.
Sounds like you're describing a mistake there...
Could you qualify the particular geographic area you're referring to. Google are a multinational, only giving 18 weeks maternity leave would be illegal in the UK, for example (https://www.gov.uk/maternity-pay-leave/leave).
Precisely. It's a perfect example of survivor bias.
On an individual level, I find them nearly as obnoxious as normal cigarettes even without tobacco in them and someone is just smoking "perfume" around (why bother at that point?). I have allergy sensitivities to aerosols and perfumes and strong smells and just about any smoking tends to infuriate me.

I see so many people use e-cigarettes as an excuse to smoke indoors, even in light of public smoking bans, and get upset when I complain that they make me feel sick. Indoor air quality isn't just about carcinogens or aerosolized tobacco, but allergens and respect for common spaces that we all have to share.
For what it's worth, in case you did a double take as I did, it's "(removing a feature) to protect consumers' privacy" (that is, a good move), not "removing (a feature to protect consumers' privacy)" (a bad move).

I'm not sure why we're keeping the clickbait title; the feature is the battery status API, which a study (http://lukaszolejnik.com/battery) showed might open up privacy issues. EDIT: Neither complaint applies to the new title. Thanks to the editors for changing it!
That's the worst part, I don't even know have a guess as to why my brain wanders off. It's just gone and I suddenly realize I haven't been paying attention for 10 minutes. I don't think disgust/escapism can explain it, because it can be an extremely fascinating lecture. But my mind will grab on to a topic and continue on "cruise control" internally before realizing the road has a curve in it. If I had to pick something, it would be related to hyperfocus that just gets triggered off of a random thought.
Appreciate the support sir!

No offence taken here. We all have our pet peeves :).
I agree with this. Literally: look at the real world!

Or at least use your cell phone in vibration mode.

Either your question is incomplete or it is so trivial that it begets a simple answer.
What programming language should I learn first?
The fact that cats kill birds in no way legitimizes killing of birds by wind turbines no matter the ratio of deaths. The two are unrelated, and one bad thing happening doesn't mean that we should pile on more unnecessary bad things. If anything it's the opposite, we should try not to add to the pile.
I wonder about the culture around vaping. From my observations, pretty much everyone I see doing it is young and from appearances seem to be counter-culture. Doesn't mean they're bad people, but if they're the only one doing it, it doesn't make it mainstream.
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Sunk cost strikes again? This time for good.
Vscode + vim is a great combo
I've often thought about what it says that it took a pretty horrible person like Steve Jobs to recognize and motivate talent to create great products.
The simplest way to manage movies and tv shows would be if either:

- all content providers merge or

- i pay one content provider and have access to all others

In other words: single sign-on.

It does not seem like your app does that.

Anything else (like yet another content provider or management service) is idiotic, IMO.
> I think that consciousness might be necessary to make quantum measurements, though.

What is the evidence for this statement, besides the tautological idea that consciousness is necessary to make any measurements, if we consider "measurements" to be a conscious process?
Every time someone succeeds, people call it out for good luck.

In the case of Steve Jobs, that takes a lot of good luck. Good luck repeated reliably over the course of his life.

It's funny how good luck falls more on people often who work hard...
I just learned these were on the table last night. It's like Christmas!
> nothing else seems to work as far as productivity

What doesn't work, exactly?

If you're trying to replace note taking on paper, you might want to dip a toe into Emacs and org-mode land and see how it feels. (My suggestion is to just start out slowly and play around with it.)

If you don't feel productive in just manipulating text, I'd check out vim. It really is the superior text editor!

Personally, I think you should begin with plain ole emacs, and start with the emacs tutorial, and work your way up from there. Once you're comfortable navigating buffers, creating files, and reading emacs manuals, check out the org mode manual. If you find yourself intrigued, you'll dig deeper.
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It also leads to the vape being classed in the same breath as "neckbeard" and "fedora"... which is unfortunate as hell for people just trying to quit cigarettes. The problem is, the person who quietly vapes out of sight and mind doesn't make an impression. The guy with a fedora and a neckbeard who's blowing huges clouds of vapor in a public space makes a lasting and terrible impression.

At the end of the day though, if you're a smoker, the choice is pretty straightforward, and you should use a "vape". You should however, be considerate of others, and unfortunately also accept that for a while you're going to be lumped in with the more anti-social element of society.
Saw it, loved it, installed in only 30 seconds, now using it in production. There are definitely issues to be resolved but I believe most of them are simple enough for single commits.

It should be noted that this project still lacks proper access management. There is no authentication either. You can set up Basic Auth but it feels dirty in my opinion. Guard it behind your firewall if you are gonna use it in production.

Kudos
Not really, they don't have the user number for this.
People keep talking about doing these "trial" periods but the people I want to hire are the type of people who have enough options that they wouldn't agree to do some two week trial period when they have four other companies offering them a full time job with no strings attached.

I wish I could do paid trial periods for everyone, I just think this will filter out far more people than having a restrictive interview process that works specifically to filter out false positives.

So with a paid trial you will generally filter out the best people who have other options while a more restrictive interview process would generally filter out the worst people who couldn't make it past a difficult Skype interview and a difficult onsite two hour pair coding session.