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> How else can you stare at an empty screen and know that you have to blacklist your video card driver? Or sit in silence while tweaking alsamixer on the command line? Or write bash aliases to reload your network driver kernel module each time your laptop resumes from suspension?

The good old days! I've been a desktop Linux user for going on a decade. Yes, it used to be a mess. Something only someone with technical acumen, enormous amounts of free time, and an endless supply of patience would subject themselves to. It's amazing how much has changed. Maybe I was lucky. I transitioned from 'student with plenty of time to mess around with my computer' into 'adult who actually needs to get work done' at around the time that Linux desktops were becoming mature. I've been using Ubuntu for the last two years and rarely have problems. Granted, I'm not a typical computer user. I don't need everything dumbed down and made pretty. I need a stable and reliable system that I have complete control over. It doesn't hurt that any software I need is an 'apt-get install' away as well.

So thank you Linux, and thanks to all the developers that contribute to the ecosystem.
I don't know why but from my experience there is many PME woking as startups in the south west of Paris specially in embedded dev and video. Maybe for web dev they are more located "intra-muros".
Relevant: https://xkcd.com/1181/
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I'm currently paying $2k a month for a service. I pay Remote Year that sum, and they provide consistent workspaces, living spaces, and travel to a different country every month.

The jury is still out on whether it is actually worth that value; in many of the countries, a workspace membership and acceptable housing can be found for $600-900 / month. They attempt to make up the rest of the value in the community that they provide.
In fact it's university that is seen as second tier with respect to engineering schools except for a few majors like medicine and law. (I'm not french but have lived in France a few years)
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For me, the mirror aspect is a neat addition, but really I just like having an always-on screen that displays data at my slightest whim. It's a lower friction way of getting weather data than pulling out my phone and opening an app.

Other things I've thought about implementing or partially implemented:

- A CPU or memory graph for my servers (or real time Google Analytics data).
- A graph of my WiFi's connection speed so I can tell when Comcast is dropping the ball.
- A graph of the travel time with traffic for my commute so I can make decisions about when to leave for work.
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There are definitely options between free and 15k. I went to an online code bootcamp and paid about 4k. The course came with about 18 hours of one-on-one mentor sessions, an all original curriculum, office-hours chat help, a generally good community, and job prep help.

In hindsight, yeah, I could have made up my own curriculum from free and cheap sources, and just paid a mentor out of pocket for a lot less. But I had already done Treehouse and Codeschool courses and found I hit a barrier. A lot of what I was learning just did not stick beyond a certain point and I could not see the forest for the trees.

I know it's not for everyone, but it turns out what worked for me was a highly structured course with a focus on building practical projects, checkpoints, deadlines, and one-on-one guidance. And maybe I did need to sink a non-trivial amount of money into it just to make me take it all a little more seriously.

In any case, I was able to switch careers (at the age of 40 I might add) and I've paid off my investment many times over.

Regardless of whether you are considering a paid bootcamp, a free one, learning by yourself, or getting a traditional college education, my advice would be the same:

You get out of it, what you put into it.
Most of the time wealth is the by-product of pursuing a talent or passion. I'm not sure high taxes would disincentivize somebody from reaching the height of their ambition.

Presented with the option "improve performance and you'll receive an extra 100k a year although you'll only see 50k of that" would you:

A. plod along with current work-ethic and current salary

B. move to where you'd see 80k of that

C. Continue to perform and be 50k wealthier

France loses the talent of those that choose option B (See: London) but option A seems illogical.
Yea I spend, on average, maybe 5 seconds tops looking at myself in the mirror every day. Why would you build so much functionality into a display that only exists in one, usually very humid sometimes smelly room, and the only way to interact with it is to stand there shouting into the steamy air?
What is the bottleneck on eInk display refresh rate? Is it a fundamental limitation of the tech, or is the slow refresh rate of devices like the Kindle a power-saving feature?
Linux as a desktop has come a long way. Most things Just Work now. I actually enjoy the experience a great deal more than either Windows or Mac at this point, and I'm no Masochist.

Windows, Mac... plug a device in, install the driver through some lame wizard.

Linux... plug the device in, it Just Works.

Windows, Mac... software is out of date, go through dozens different wizards and CLI tools to update all your stuff.

Linux... run a yum/apt/pacman/whatever update, everything is good to roll. If your using NixOS you even get a complete system rollback, with configurations, feature without any disk snap shotting required.

No microscopic close button. No spying on my desktop activity. No expensive custom hardware required.

About the only downside is the lack of Adobe, which I personally don't use but I know it would continue to be a blocker for many. Dear Adobe, get your shit together.
Is it better though? Honest question.

I thought the same as you first. So much so, that i thought it was a joke at first (not being negative, fwiw). I figured it was a cheeky poke at webapps. So yea, i'll have to look into this to see what the fuss is, at the moment i don't understand.

With that said, if it can create mobile apps with Native components, i'm interested. Mobile development sucks atm, and at work we're in need of native component mobile apps (or at least, i think we do). So i'm always looking for new options :)
I bought a $250 chromebook and a new SSD just to run Ubuntu as my daily driver and it's been great! Of course I've written scripts to reload network-manager on wake, add the keyboard backlight driver back into the kernel after updates, and I can't let the battery dip below 2% or everything will be erased...
The only issues I see is that many coding schools give the fake illusion (god forbid, advertise) that you are industry ready after a 3 month 'training'.

Sorry no, you are not.
Google is set to reach 100% renewable energy usage
From a long-term point of view, the cost of the wind energy is just the depreciation of the turbines plus the maintenance costs on the farm. Those two dollar inputs will create a fairly predictable number of kilowatt hours output. The problem of getting those kwh when you want/need them is one of selling into the grid when you have them and buying out when you need them, but I guess from the point of view of Google, they are calculating: we will consume X kwh, so we need to build X khw, and wind provides a very predictable source of those kwh. Macro vs micro.
Getting a drone to play ping pong.

More specifically using a tiny indoor quad to intercept a ping pong ball off the bounce. While I doubt it will be able to return the ball reliably, it could be used for beer-pong to defend your cups from a bounce shot.

The high-level idea is that something like Reinforcement-learning / openAI trained on a physics simulator should then be able to learn how to inctercept the ball, then be applied to the drone IRL. Right now I'm stuck on the hardware hacks: using an arudino to input control commands into a the hand-held controller, and using a mirror on the table to get a 3d position on the drone/ball.

Reply if you're interested, have ideas.
Actually no. Those tools are development package managers not user package managers. Two very different use cases. A development package managers is part of how the developer builds the application. A user package manager is how the consumer of the application installs it while also managing all the shared libraries and installing security updates for each of the pieces.
i remember hearing about a coding school that was charging something close to fifteen thousand dollars for a course on programming Android apps.

the company claimed to have some kind of special relationship with Google. but the course curriculum was apparently homegrown from nothing. very little actual input from Google.

and i remember wondering "what's the special understanding, the inside track, the competitive edge that their students will have?" it didn't seem to exist at all.

i mean, the company wasn't even making the curriculum up as it went along. it was hiring outside freelancers to make it up as they went along. that was their "program."
Theyre writing long term contracts for power production which provide a fixed price for the resource developers and by consequence provide them with a fixed cost.

Typically, these types of contracts, providing price certainty, are required to build develop new renewable assets.
> in the superficial way in which we see figures in clouds, tree barks, etc. that we can name.

Exactly!

I've seen very specific semblances in coffee spills, knot-holes, etc. The reason they're not movie-like is because they're still and static, and not connected directly to my brain.

Dreams have the advantage of being on the bare wires, whereas Rorschach tests and the like are air-gapped.
pond has interesting properties, I think the next generation mail will have to implement some of those ideas.

and Signal/WhatsApp comes to replace (and kill) xmpp, not email. Another issue is the generational shift away from email, that is only for Spam and Work, more and more everytime...
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More and more these days it feels like the big DEs operate much like Microsoft, as the response all too often is "its not a bug, but a feature".
There is no question technology can improve things. The problem is not the tech, it's society and actors in society. Google and alike are willynilly becoming institutions and "pushback" is not against tech in the least (cell phones are tech, right?).
>I've noticed that when sleep deprived I notice different things and have a more diverse set of emergent thoughts/recall events.

Focus and sleep are clearly related. When my sleep apnea goes untreated, I feel like I suffer from ADHD. In fact, I was certain I had it until I received treatment for SA. Its incredible what poor sleep can do to us. The list of things that go wrong with poor sleep is pretty long.

If you're getting this often, I would get checked for SA.
You can switch the capslock key for escape if you really miss it. It's under System Preferences > Keyboard > Modifier Keys.
Doubtful. You have a captive audience, so why would suppliers suddenly lower their prices?
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>Just tell the bios which partition you want to boot.

That would work! Thanks a lot.
'"Non-political" just means "aligned with the political status quo"'

Is this a quote with a source?
It's genius.
Will they, even if the person hiring that trainer is actually undisciplined and unwilling to put in the work? (Or potentially has a medical condition of some sort?)
Ditto. That would be useful to know as newbie, I'm hoping someone can give an answer or atleast point into the right direction.
Somebody I know has one and the hinge felt loose from the moment it was opened. The screen wobbles back and forth like a worn out old Macbook Pro. I haven't seen this mentioned in any reviews -- can anybody comment?
Er, but the case study you linked is very different.

There they're talking about getting specific tailored treatment right the first time.

Here we're talking about getting a generic reusable component right the first time.

Which is exactly what that link advocates against...
iMessage end-to-end encryption is not a recent introduction. It has been in place for several years, though I can't find the exact iOS version it was introduced in.
Their statements don't support that conclusion though. The keyboard is thinner but okay, the ports are currently inconvenient but will be okay, the missing magsafe is kind of a problem, but with the right cabling will be okay... I see what they said, but their points say this laptop is "kind of okay". It doesn't warrant the kind of enthusiasm that accompanies every Apple release. If I were to plot the quality of the last few laptops on a line, this one would give it a trajectory that suggests I should see what other vendors are doing.
Perhaps your system is something Not Unix?
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With the coupon code in this thread, I was willing to go in on it, because it's comparable to what I pay for SSMS Tools. It's really really handy to be able to query an Excel table; a raw query window in SSMS is just about my favorite tool, but you can't beat being able to just get your hands right on the data like in Excel.

Ideally though? I would really like to have a one-time purchase option. I buy this for myself, though I work in a company, because this is a tool I particularly find useful. In a year it's going to just stop working, and I won't remember why, because I won't remember paying a license for it. Then I'll have to look up the email and do all the nonsense to figure out what my login is and buy it again. And that just sucks. I've dropped a lot of services because I just don't need them enough for that. But I'm hoping this works into my flow well enough.
Exactly, I agree this is a good precedent. I think that manufactured goods are much more complex and that it needs to be accounted for.
Please keep us up to date! This is definitely a "try before you buy" sort of product for myself.
> I don't think the "WoT" is conceptually flawed, and frankly, the argument that "people of average intelligence" can't grasp the concept comes from a very high horse and is also untrue.

I disagree. I have written email encryption software, and I find WoT complicated.

In light of this recent article on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13111768 I suggest you re-evaluate the level of ability of the average user.
individual: child care, higher education that improves career prospects, insurance

business: certain high-end dev environments & tool suites, contract automation
It seems the author is using the phrase "do not fluctuate" to explain wind supply prices in the same way most people think, or assume, the value of the dollar does not fluctuate.

Everything fluctuates, but some things are less prone to wild fluctuation, by quite a large margin.
It's not just you -- there was an issue there. Spanish got conflated with Latin, it should be "puto deus fio", "I fear I am becoming a god"
How do I find a good personal trainer? I've met some and don't know how to distinguish the good from the meh.

I guess for 1k a month I'd want something more than that. I know HOW to workout and eat right...I just don't. I need a willpower pill. :\
This is just pathetic.
Comparing NeXTSTEP and OS X
annoyed that it's using (essentially) the same name as http://jsonnet.org/
Sed, when operating on a file, creates a temporary file alongside the target file.
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Let's work on the problem.

Coo. But there's one of me, and 7 billion people that have - at least once - been more of an asshole than warranted.

It's possible to simultaneously promote the change you want to see in the world, and promote coping strategies for the transitional period.

The idea that we shouldn't need to deal with the status quo, but expect the world to conform to our whims instantly is unreasonable.
Once you spend the capital on wind turbine hardware and infrastructure, the price of your energy generation is fairly constant. Price on energy supply from fossil fuels always depends on the fluctuating price of those fuels, which introduces uncertainties to future costs of energy.
> - popup volume control pops up every minute or so (and sound pops and stutters a bit each time this happens)

Likely pulseaudio shit itself and got restarted by systemd...
> mobile devices are portable dumb terminals for the cloud

Catchy headline, but you and I both know that modern phones are extremely powerful computing devices.
Definitely the other way around. Most french CEOs come from those engineering schools.
I would pay that much for a small, private, furnished office within walking distance of my apartment.

I work from home and generally enjoy it. But living and working along side my wife in a small one bedroom apartment in New York City presents its challenges. There are plenty of coworking spaces but none close enough that I can walk to and I refuse to become a slave of the commute. I simply need a tiny room with a door I can close, wifi, a desk and a chair.
Hey HN!

I'd love to hear what you think, especially about my writing style, as I realize I'm not the world's best writer.

I tried to keep the design simple, and somewhat crude. I wanted something that looked different than the majority of fitness websites/blogs today. But let me know if I achieved that or if it could use some work.
Speaking of Time Machine, I use Timeshift to do backups on Ubuntu. It's a GUI rsnapshot-based tool, and will backup/restore the full system, including boot sector, so it's perfect for a desktop user. Backing up your machine(s) regularly is important, regardless of the number of kernel images you have available. Because sh*t happens. :)
Right but then I'm changing standard keyboard layout so as soon as I go to another computer muscle memory is screwed.

Honestly would it really kill them to have a top spec MBP without the touchbar? I mean would it really kill them to just not have the touchbar at all since it doesn't actually solve anything or do anything better?

Just a terrible gimmick honestly.
The report covers roughly 1 billion people if you take the working population of the 33 countries involved.

At a sample of 215942 the margin of error is fractions of a percent.

But, what this doesn't account for is that in the original report (http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/skills-matter_9789264...) you do see a significant variance in the distribution of skills based on:

-Country

-Age

-Income

Example:

In Japan, only 4.3% of adults are at a "Level 1" where as in Indonesia it is 37.2% which is to be expected when Indonesia is the bottom of the ladder in GDP Per Capita (http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-Management/oecd/educati...) and in literacy scores (http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-Management/oecd/educati...).

While this report says it takes the 'average cross the OECD countries' it's not clear on which factors were weighted or adjusted.

The information isn't wrong - it's just worth taking it with a grain of salt depending on how you are using the information. That said the US market for example lines up very close to the average, which is still staggering.
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I'm not sure we have the same experience on Mac. Everything I ever plugged in there works, from Arduino to Androids to USB sound cards, DVBT/SDR tuners, webcams, or USB ethernet adapters, even my little USB scanner. I migght have had problems with Wifi, but it was usually the same in linux with the ndiswrapper dance.
I even plugged a Social Security card reader (Frenchman here) in there and it was detected correctly as a serial adapter.
KDE Neon user here. As long as I work at a place that doesn't care then I guess it will be KDE for the next few releases.

Have left a partition with my Windows installation but as much as I think Windows 10 is a step forward, lenovo drivers or something still manage to drive me mad.

Build now takes 22-25 seconds compared to > 45 seconds.

Edit: Neon gives me the stability of Ubuntu as I remember it together with the beauty and (power user at least : ) usability of KDE 5.

Perfect? No.[0]

Nice? Fast? Easy to use? Yes, yes and yes.

[0]: (I sometimes run a sudo service networking restart or sudo service network-manager restart, but Windows used to either refuse to sleep or somehow restart in my bag, which destroyed my display last year.) Fast
Ok. What happens when you cross that "not a start up anymore" line, lets say in a successful fast growing business in a year or two. Sounds like a lot of rebates and freebies disappear and taxes and other liabilities increase, as of course expected.

Im all for the idea, but 195euro/desks are not a solution IMO. If you want to create thriving business scene (in any country) - drop small business tax rates (and other liabilities) to 0-5% and lock them there for first 5 years. Then if business makes it successfully to the commercial stage in 5 years - increase taxes to the current "market rate".

Ka-ching! Then You really have a new start up mecca!
congrats, Anil! Great news for Fog Creek, and a great opportunity for you to have a big impact on software development!

Hopefully one of the early things you'll be focusing on is the diversity of GoMix's technology (including building accessibility in by default) and its community. There's huge potential, and a great chance to address it at a relatively early stage.
Ajax can behave nicely with your browser's back button, but you're right that it's impossible to tell if it will before you try.
Anything that gave me a return on that investment.
As many people found out with Dirty COW, the latest version of OpenVZ doesn't receive tested patched kernels in response to newly discovered bugs. Their options are to run a nightly kernel build or to pay for Virtuozzo for their 'ReadyKernel' patches:

"Virtuozzo team uploads stable kernels for OpenVZ version 7, tested for our commercial customers, approximately once a quarter. In between, we do not test or release any kernels - all the intermediate updates are delivered to our commercial customers in rebootless (kpatch) format without building full kernel updates. Again, this is a part of our commercial offering.

As for the contributions to the community product, we still build these kernels for the "factory" repository. However, we are not equipped to test them on regular basis, between these quarterly updates."
Heh, i think the motherboard in the desktop i am typing this on is 10 years old soon. At least that seems to be the case based on the copyright year given for the bios on each boot.
Sounds ridiculously overpriced.
there are two epdc drivers in the kindle gpl releases. the source for the lab126 one is only available in the tarballs you linked (named mxc_epdc_fb_lab126.c).

as for the waveforms, I'm talking about support for the REAGL (sic) waveforms. grep for it in the linux source in the tarballs you linked to.

and e ink did not have a panel that met our requirements, and designed a new one after we talked with them.

edit; just to be clear, we don't use the lab126 driver, it was just an example of there being more drivers for the imx6 generation epdc.