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I think this is the sort of person that elementary are trying to capture. i.e. those who don't want the hassle of customizing the UI, who want a well thought out UI out of the box. And combine that with the underlying flexibility of Linux. They're not quite there yet, but the vision is right.
Phil Schiller Discusses the new MacBook Pro
Microsoft is working on a new file format for 3D documents
That's cool! Which bot?
Many have questioned whether or not Apple could have made a MBP with more than 16GB of RAM given Intel's current CPUs. Gruber's discussion with Apple and subsequent analysis was that Intel don't have a part that they can use (e.g. one that supports 32GB of RAM), which get into the power and weight envelope they considered acceptable, and that envelope trumps all else at Apple.

Hitting that power and weight envelope is a hell of a lot easier when you make your own CPUs.

(http://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/10/31/intel-mbp-ram)
well, comparab.ly better step up fast.
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And Google actually revealed it 10 days later (after the weekend, I guess).
My main advice if you want to work remotely and you have those kinds of issues is to stick to the timezone of the company you are working for. I've done pair programming effectively remotely for long periods of time. I actually enjoy doing it remotely better (more control over your environment, more comfort, etc). As long as the team is open to interaction and has a mechanism for doing it, there is no problem. If you get too far out of the timezone, though, it is really difficult to organise overlapping sessions (I'm currently +9 with my team mates and it means I almost never have a "normal" working day).

Confidence is also quite important IMHO. It's easy to start doubting your ability when you have nobody else to compare to. If you have a bad day (as everyone does from time to time) and end up getting nothing done, you need to be OK with that. If you run and hide, it can pile up on you.

One thing you might try is to convince your current employer to try doing 1 day a week remote. This will let you get your feet wet without a lot of risk. If you have problems, you're back at the office the next day. My current employer did that and it worked so well that most people are free to work in the office or not as they choose from day to day. There are many people who now work permanently remotely as well.
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I regularly use Windows, OSX and Linux and I think Ubuntu Unity in 16.04 is by far the most polished Linux desktop and for people switching to Linux that would be the best first experience.

In many ways I even prefer Unity. OSX is becoming a bit stagnant and bloated of late. The Unity UI is fast, the effects are polished and not gimmicky, the launcher and search across apps and file is near instantaneous, driver detection and configuration is streamlined and everything looks well put together.

Most Linux users have put up with some pretty awful apps, UIs and configs over the evolution of Linux and I am glad how far Ubuntu has come.

Elementary is decent but at the moment both Gnome and Unity have moved ahead and offer a more consistent and professional user experience for first timers.
While that is a nice gesture towards darklajid, this ofcourse doesn't help other people. See also other replies in this thread. Maybe your company should consider opening up the pricing some more. Offer plans without having to send an email, offer a personal plan, etc.
Is it worth moving to Greece at this point if you have sufficient (ways of generating) capital to sustain your lifestyle? Or would that be a fools errand given the state of the economy?
XFCE is pretty stable, solid and fast.
I love that you're assuming they haven't already released it :)
To hell with it, we need a shell which can handle multiple displays and scale tmux on them! :)
Fedora is ahead of RedHat server, kernel and package-wise. That's the point: pish the edge with the desktop, keep the server conservative and very stable.

RedHat makes their money on support licensing for the server. Employees are paid to work on Fedora, but it is not the RedHat product.
Nope, I was in another country by then.
> Gulp and Grunt were essentially wrong.

They were not wrong, but they do a general automation (and sometimes it's needed), just a task runners and a wrong thing was to use them for web building automation collection scattered over the internet stuff together into the complex framework. So every team or project had own framework, which means no standard, and that's a bad thing. Webpack allows to defined a needed behavior in a kind of declarative way since it has a structure.
What technologies are you working with on your infrastructure and backend?
PaintCode 3 Leaves the Mac App Store, Adds Support for Android, Swift 3 and JS
We don't have to use our imagination about what other weapons people might use to commit terror - Bombs and vehicles are already popular, and no less deadly.
My theory is that the no-cost HN posting allows some of these companies to keep posting perpetual openings in hopes of finding that elusive 100x developer that's willing to work for less than market rate. I can't say that bothers me too much, though. It's not that hard to see who has the same open req month after month and avoid those companies.
I suspect that pizza would be delivered by a police car :)
Actually, still kinda surprising given how crappy the salaries and working conditions can be in industrial biotechnology. Someone I'm close to worked in biotech and found that they consistently had 80-hour workweeks, were constantly asked to work weekends and holidays, and all for just $40k/year.
No, I'm talking about gdb support, for example. I'm talking for a testing framework (right now you have to write your own build process capable of bundling the unit tests with your source).
Phil Schiller Talks MacBook Pro with the Independent
I thought lyfts thing was that they don't screw the driver over?

Don't hide behind political speak.....
tl;dr: tone deaf, lives in echo chamber.
which company is your organization using for web filtering?
As cool as blockchain is, it sure is starting to pick up hype. When these.. I don't know what to call them.. culture theorists..? start talking about how it will CHANGE EVERYTHING, I really start to get skeptical.

Look, I think blockchain can basically be seen as a public, distributed-trust ledger. It's not like it doesn't have any kind of social precedent, the concept of a "ledger" has existed... throughout all of modern civilisation? I think the decentralised and computation-oriented nature of blockchain has some interesting uses, but let's not pretend we didn't previously know what a ledger is.

Pretty much all of the things listed in this page under "Web 3.0" are things we already do. Blockchain might eventually lead to new ways of doing these things, but let's not pretend it will CHANGE EVERYTHING, it will just allow to do these things, maybe, a bit more efficiently and with more trust. Maybe.

Sigh. Sorry, already getting a little tired of the utopian predictions starting to be promoted by techno-evangelists jumping on this bandwagon. Enthusiasm is good, hype gets old quickly.
How does that help Apple or Microsoft to ship a product when the samples aren't available in quantity yet? Should they have waited for the new chips sometime next year. Surely no one would have complained about that delay.
Does anybody else feel like there's a ongoing media push against Russia recently (as a UK resident, US/RU relations haven't been that great since WW2) - if I had to put a date on it, around the time of the Aleppo bombing?

Kinda like how 'terrorists' were responsible for every drop of spilled milk in the early 2000s, Russia is now responsible for hacking every system in the west.

Not that I care one iota for Russia, but being influenced to distrust and hate feels really underhanded.
This page claims 17 hours (with the test described as "Laptop Mag Battery test, which involves continuous surfing over Wi-Fi at 100 nits of brightness")

http://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/lenovo-thinkpad-t46...
Yes :) Please email me your resume at techcareers AT ultimatesoftware.com at your earliest convenience
Wrong. People are fighting it because it infringes on our constitutional rights to no benefit.
This is data a lot of people have wanted for a lot of good reasons. While this could flatten the labor market and even out a corps advantage from asymmetrical info dist-- I would've rather anyone but linkedin be successful here. Other than extremely tiny sample sets, no one has actually succeeded in this space/featureset. I can barely see peoples profiles without getting signups shoved down my throat.

Fuck linkedin. It is a closed service which disproportionately provides value in a way that makes it nearly useless, while simultaneosly selling data to recruiters and companies. So this wont help anyone as much as linkedin and I am skeptical this data will be open.
Interesting video about somewhat public tax returns, and hence salary, in Norway and other Nordic countries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bO8zEaSuWg
There is also a model with 84Whr battery which takes the battery life to 7-8 hours
I'm confused by this. I see slack responding to Microsoft "Competition", but the only recent MS announcement I can see is flow, which appears to be an IFTTT competitor, which can hook into slack events?
Shannon entropy is the expectation of Kolmogorov complexity, although I don't remember how Shannon entropy relates to Boltzmann entropy.
Well, than I guess I got the wrong idea about them. I thought WhatsApp was supposed to be "for the common people", and Signal was more targeted towards the paranoid.
Total outsider and novice here, but from what you're describing, it seems that Greece has to leave the Euro and default on its debts. If people are electing leaders who have no control over finances, there's no democracy at work. Horrible thing to have happen in the birthplace of democracy.

The EU was sort of a beta version of a United Europe. They weren't as luck as the U.S., where a highly educated but small group of people tried to come up with the simplest thing they could that wouldn't fail. Instead it looks like quite a bit of architecture astronaut syndrome going on. If I'm right, and I'm just a passerby, the sooner they start down the road to refactoring the better it will be for everybody.
This was published in the Times today and it came across as passive aggressive and insecure to me, but I'm curious to hear what others think of this stunt...

Link to Times ad: https://mobile.twitter.com/stewart/status/793811616760496128
Yeah, it's enough if Intel said "we can provide 1 million Skylake chips before October, but only 200k Kaby Lake chips by the same date", and Apple doesn't get a choice in that regard.
What didn't you like about it? Can you give a small comparison?
On Android there's a button in the conversation settings to block the other party.
one of the engineers from Salary team. we talk about privacy and accuracy at length in this blog post https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2016/10/bringing-salar.... TL;DR; we do outlier detection.
I know I could "code myself out of a hole" too and have reduced my CoL significantly so I guess I just have to continue waiting for the right opportunity. Thanks for sharing!
With the extended battery you easily get > 12 hours in real world usage.
It's easy to read some tone in there that may not have been intended, but it's actually a really good question.

Short answer - I don't know, but I think so.

In my particular case I'm not exposed (I use Debian pretty much everywhere, with a couple of Win7 VM's for work that are NAT'd and sandboxed, used almost exclusively for editing MS-Office applications, with minimal Internet access, etc).

You said 'instead of one bad guy', but there's no evidence a single bad guy had the exploit, so I can't really quantify my risk prior to the announcement.

Anyway, in the general case of your question - yes, I think I am safer if I have the same knowledge (about problems with my software) that everyone else has, rather than me not knowing but some unknown number of potentially very sophisticated attackers are confirmed to know and be using that knowledge.
Attribution is hard. The NSA likely never hacks someone's systems from US IPs. They hack Russian and Chinese computers first, from where they launch their exploits. I would imagine the NSA is not the only country that does this.

I don't know how good the two security firms are and whether they could actually identify something like this, though.
I don't mind if shipping isn't free. I do mind if the shipping cost isn't queriable until I:

1) Add the item to the cart

2) Create an account

3) Enter all my personal info

If your business makes it that much of a hassle to find out what shipping costs (presumably in order to capture sales), I'm indisposed to patronizing it. Transparency and lack of hassle are what I'm after, not free shipping.
Pretty interesting. I don't really understand why PornHub or others put so much effort into getting around ad blockers, unless it's purely to pad their statistics when it comes to getting new Advertisers to partake or I guess even to try and trick people into accidental clicks etc. using shadier practices.

You'd have to imagine that a visitor to their site, who has taken the time to actively setup and run an ad blocker, is probably the least likely user to actually click on an ad in the first place.
It's pretty nuts to me how many people already use Instagram as a business platform, literally for sales. I have a couple of friends for instance who own a vintage clothing/furnishings store and do MOST of their business posting items on Instagram, getting DM'd from people wanting to purchase, and then handling payments and pick up or delivery off of the platform. They're only one case of many I've noticed from folks who'd otherwise be on Etsy (or are also on Etsy, but have an easier time curating customers on Instagram and avoid the high fees).
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Hey, come work for me. I have an addon on Outlook that blocks emails where employees demand their salary.
We had some pretty bad issues with them earlier this year. Queues would randomly change from push to pull, service outages, etc. Seems to have stabilized for the most part, but we aren't using them much now.
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Just for the record, if you follow the Download RStudio link on the RStudio homepage, or go to Products -> RStudio, you will see the license clearly mentioned before you try to download RStudio. AGPL is also displayed in our Github repository if anybody cares about looking at the source repository: https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio So I don't know why it was so hard for you to find the mention of AGPL...
Open source would not be nearly as impressive as reproducible.
Fedora is also the only mainstream distro I ever gave up on, admittedly 5 or so years ago but still.
If you think 1080p is too much for 13 inches try 4K at 13 inches, nothing works right.
And if you have a specific employment contract (and you're in an at-will state), take a close look at it since it likely includes an arbitration clause.

So going to a lawyer & the courts might make you feel like you're going to get a resolution, but likely you aren't going to get very far.
For anyone who uses uBlock Origin (and if you don't, I highly recommend it), there is a companion plugin for WebSockets that I recently stumbled upon and am enjoying https://github.com/gorhill/uBO-WebSocket

The article also notes that uBlock and ABP have both shipped "workarounds", in the typical cat and mouse fashion
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Looks like another example of porn companies pushing the envelope with technology.

They were accepting credit cards online before virtually anyone. In fact, I think most innovations in technology come from either the military, video games or porn.
How about we stop using blockchain like it's a thing on it's own and not a concept of which there are many implementations?

Blockchains are an idea, just like atoms are an idea, we don't refer to them as "atom" when talking about the concept. The #1 way to know someone doesn't know what they're talking about is when they use "blockchain" like this. If you say "the blockchain" in the context of a specific cryptocurrency, that makes sense, just like if you say "the atom" in the context of your scientific paper referring to a specific atom. But you can't just say "blockchain" referring to the concept.
Because nobody would buy it with the current state of economy. And even if somebody did buy it then you would have no place to live.
The title is editorialized; the original title is "What is Blockchain Technology? A Step-by-Step Guide For Beginners"
I think the keyboard is tipping me over the edge on the new MacBook Pro's, its horrendous. There's no travel at all, the keys just immediately click. Interested to see what other people think about them as they start getting their hands on the new models, as a developer this is a very important aspect, and on top of the unwanted touchbar, the massive price hike, the lack of standard ports etc its all just a bit too much this time around.
Microsoft announced or is announcing Teams today, their Slack competitor. The YouTube video was linked on /new, but the URL on Microsoft's own website was 404ing still at the time.

Edit: Here, still "unlisted": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKU-FMzZFF0
Yes - we've discussed amongst ourselves (those affected) about what RBC did, and how they were lambasted in the media for abusing the visas. In our particular case, TCS seems to already have a number of local assets they're involving, with most of the work to be sourced by India based teams. I'm sure OTPP is trying to avoid similar negative press in regards to abusing visas, but I've been surprised how little coverage this news is getting in general (a pension plan funded by local Ontario union based teachers firing local union based employees for offshore assets.)
An unusual proof that there are infinitely many primes
Which, the angry griping about how the distro makers want money, or the yammering about how Photoshop users should just cowboy up and submit patches to Gimp until they find it usable? As far as I can tell, the "gullibility" you think you're seeing is anyone responding in any way, even skeptically, that's not just covering their ears and going, "La la la, I can't hear your marketing!"
So Lyft and Uber recently threw a tantrum and fled Austin TX when a vote on legislature regarding TNCs didn't go their way.

A few new local companies have popped up to fill the hole in the market, and many have attracted drivers who were formerly with Lyft and Uber.

I've talked to a few of them about the new companies versus Lyft/Uber, and every single one of them has voiced the same thing; Lyft and Uber treat their drivers like shit, pull questionable stunts like this (one even mentioned something similar, except his app kept crashing or signing him out for 48 hours before the deadline for his 100 ride bonus, preventing him from getting the last few rides), and generally being dicks towards their "independent drivers".

Every single driver I asked said they wouldn't go back to Uber/Lyft. Most even indicated they wouldn't go back even if Uber/Lyft returned and drove the new companies out of business.

I've had great experiences with many drivers, and I hate think that they've been getting such a rotten deal from these companies.
I sent out around 9 emails yesterday, got back 3 responses (so far). Both responses came from ads that included real emails rather than jobs@ emails.
> Times are changing

Times are always changing. Markets grow rapidly, and then they mature and growth gets flatter.

Specifically looking at Apple, while I agree that their focus has shifted away from the Mac platform somewhat and towards iOS, wasn't that to be expected with the huge growth in mobile and tablets over the last 10 years? Now, mobile growth is slowing[0] and tablet sales are flat/dropping[1].

Laptops aren't going anywhere... the vast majority of white collar workers use a laptop or desktop everyday. And while I can't predict what Apple is going to do (who can?), it seems unlikely that they'd completely drop a market that generated $5.7B in revenue in Q4 of 2016 [2].

[0]: http://www.businessinsider.com/smartphone-growth-is-slowing-...
[1]: http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/tablet-decline-q2-2016/
[2]: http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/apple/apple-q4-2016-financial...

ETA: Btw, macOS Server is over here: http://www.apple.com/macos/server/
"purely to pad their statistics when it comes to getting new Advertisers"

Ding ding ding. This describes advertising in general.
For tech work, you can use H1B salary data (from somewhere like http://h1bdata.info/) as a minimum level for a position. Scale up by some percentage (10-20% in my experience) to get the median for what US citizens are likely making in the same position.
Yeah... so maybe not keep pushing an weight/thinness envelope that few seem to want if they could trade if for performance & battery... at least that's what I'm guessing, maybe the mainstream consumer care about showing mm's of their laptop but I kinda doubt it, at least battery performance seem more important
Two developers recoded HADOPI in one weekend
People with your line of thinking are usually IC's who discount how difficult leadership is. How do you affect change without having to do everything yourself? That's a valuable skill.
Aren't some classes of ad payments based on impressions? Surely with high traffic it's worth it to get around the blocker if only for the impression.
Hell, you can ask them to pay anything, like RedHat does, regardless of costs. It's perfectly legal and GPL-compliant. You just have to provide sources.
I wish I had done that, waiting is frustrating. However, I agree, that doesn't really spoil anything, it's not like there's suspense there.
Dead is dead. I'll take a few nasty deaths in place of lots of "clean" ones.
AdBlockers are becoming more mainstream. I suspect shady practices that auto-click ads, which may be impacting their revenue. So even if you wouldn't click the ad, they may be losing out on padded clicks.
At least now you know what to defend against. Also, how do you know that only one bad guy knows about it? If it's in a wild, all the bad guys will know about it sooner rather than later anyway.
Oh dearie me... Everything depends on GObject, they wrote Vala to have a high-level programming language, they wrote GObject Introspection to generate bindings for all other languages, yet they think it's a good idea to ditch all of this and move to Rust (no inheritance, which is crucial for their Gtk+ widgets), only because it's so hip right now?

They lost their mojo because of their weird decisions in the past and not because their stack isn't hip. How many JavaScript developers did they attract by writing the Gnome Shell in JavaScript? And the Rust community is a tiny fraction of the JavaScript community.

They are trying to turn a donkey into a racehorse. And if they do a full rewrite, people will have forgotten about Gnome by the time they are finished. Someone give them Joel Spolsky's article on refactoring to read.
I got a couple of meetings and interviews from Who's Hiring posts but none of them resulted in offers. I'd still say it's my best and first channel for finding work beyond my network/relationships.
Nonsense. It is much more demanding, involving and decisive to be CEO of a small company. In a large company, a CEO is merely a spokesperson for his advisors.
I tried a few times to contribute to their project, but all of their apps (at the time, at least) were hacked together with no tests and poor documentation. This is all fine, everyone has to start somewhere, but they were openly hostile to suggestions of testing or new architecture. In my opinion, they had a very "we know best" attitude for a group of (almost entirely) amateur developers. :/