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> This because not only was it clear when the computer was doing something (one could not input more commands)

Maybe old GUIs were better. You had N windows on screen, meaning N tasks being done. Now you also have to track minimized windows. And tray icons. And programs that run in the background without showing any window or icon at all. And system services, which are different kind of background programs. And I'm probably forgetting something.

Right now, in Windows, I believe the Task Manager is a fundamental tool to understand the runtime state of your system, and it should be advertised as a "normal-user tool", not "expert tool". And I'm talking here about detailed process view[0], and not the dumbed-down view from Windows 8/10[1]. Users can't really hurt themselves with Task Manager anyway (you don't get to kill a system process that easily), and it's fundamental to getting a feel for what your computer does.

Tangentially, the "dumbed-down view" of Task Manager is an example of what I believe is the biggest sin of modern UIs - lying to people. There's hardly a better way to confuse the shit out of users' minds than presenting a limited and inconsistent view of the internal state.

> the ability to set aside tasks for later (with a warning about that on exit).

I wonder how it is this feature was made - both in GUI and CLI - in such a way almost nobody (except sysadmins) use it? I mean, personally I discovered that Windows can do it only very late in my life, and I don't trust UNIX cron. Most people I know - including programmers - don't know about either. Yet delaying tasks seems like useful feature. How come it's not exposed in OSes (and it seems to not exist on mobile at all, from user's POV)?

[0] - http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/650x593x...

[1] - http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/411x406x...
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They need to solve the "lag" problem. Then I'll consider buying one.
AFAIK, the largest battery drain in GPS is for an initial fix, and small updates after that are much lower cost.
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is there an app or website for that ? I live in Seattle everything is expensive here.
I don't understand how people can work more than 100h a week.

I mean, there are just 168h in every week and I sleep about 70 of them. I could probably go with 60 if I wanted, but that still just leaves ~1h per day for non-work related tasks.

Maybe these people are counting their breaks and when they're sitting on the toilet thinking about a problem. If this is the case, I would get to >80h work a week too.
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No, it also contains non-public dumps that someone gave to him (after authentication) iirc. But he never pays for dumps. I think he posted an explanation on his blog a while ago.
Honest question: Why is building an HPC platform on a language designed in less than 2 weeks something to aspire to?

Why not aspire to replace javascript entirely with something better?
> I disagree with you - Figure out your process and automate with software.

When I read this an instant thought was the software you develop is also a constraint on your process. Really easy to paint yourself into a corner.
Thanks for the graphic.

For anyone else, the original article discussing the graphic: is here [0].

[0] http://www.jdroth.com/becoming-proactive/
Very much want one, if it materializes I will feel very jealous of today's college students. This would have been a godsend, I would take notes in class, but organizing them was always a pain. I've lost several class notes I wish I kept.

Will hold out until actual products are given to the public, I've seen several pitches for this that haven't materialized. Best of luck though, I will be waiting.
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If you haven't tried Punch Club, it's worth the $10 on Steam. I think it's some beautiful pixel art, and it's kind of addicting. I started playing one evening and looked up to see the sun poking in the windows the next morning...
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Great fork, thank you!
As a developer that always tries to make software that "just works" for the users, I always wondered if the Arch devs are masochists or sadists.
there`re integrations with JIRA and TFS, so it works good for project management between different teams. well, for more then 50 users it is paid, but for small projects as mine it suits perfectly!
It wasn't in response to that. In fact it was pretty good publicity.

The PS3 supported installing Linux onto it and there were people internally supporting it.

Yellow Dog Linux was the officialish distro:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Dog_Linux

What's more likely is that once Geohot and others started hacking the machine, sometimes through linux. Someone at Sony must have realised that it's an attack vector that a miniscule amount of users used.

And it'd be better for them to get rid of the functionality.
You could just not write the code in the first place.
In case of IT, you also have to factor in that sometimes people dismiss error messages because they already know what they're telling. Like in my C++ days, I would often not bother looking at the error output at all, because the moment I saw that compiler is starting to spew out text, I immediately realized where I've made a typo.
It's better to be consistent and dangerous? That was the other candidate.

Another interpretation: this is political, literally. "abortions for some, mini american flags for others" can sort of work. We just know as little about what Trump flim-flams about as we do other candidates consistently lie about.
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No problem. I rewrote the comment some 3-4 times and still it came out long and rambling.
Note that out of the box, Airport does two step wireless network extension: wired-to-wireless base and wireless-to-wireless extenders / relays. You can have multiple wired-to-wired and wired-to-wireless bases on the same network each with its own wireless-to-wireless extenders or relays. This has worked and been solid (no reboots needed) for years.
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It appears, from the article, that they're working on a shoestring budget. My initial impression was that adding at least one full-time specialist, maybe more, simply to dot the i's, cross the t's for NHTSA, plus purchasing (or renting) infrastructure to do all the required tests could probably easily bankrupt the project in its current state.

My guess is sometimes it's probably ok to decide a project is not yet in a position (financially or structurally) to take on the additional responsibility of dealing with an enormous bureaucracy such as the US govt. And if that means you have to give your product away in order to do so, that's a calculated risk you might feel you have to take.

I seriously doubt that when NHTSA contacted them they were like, "just invite us into your building and show us around", like a health code inspector might.
Well, you can do programming with one hand tied to your back too, but that doesn't mean it's an optimal or encouraged practice. There are multiple papers proving that noisy environment impairs cognitive abilities, so it seems logical to me to avoid working in such places when concentration is required.
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It always has for me, and not in tiny-font or legal language either:

"To help you through your day, Google needs to: Use and store your location for traffic alerts, directions, and more. User your synced calendars, Gmail, Chrome, and Google data for reminders and other suggestions."

This topic does come up a lot here, and yet this is as direct and concise a way to put it as I can imagine. I wonder what those who have been surprised by the services they have opted into would suggest to improve their understanding of what they are potentially agreeing to?
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It is a bit From Beyond, isn't it? No Jeffrey Combs, though, more's the pity.
Why would a startup with 1-5 people (as an example) even rent a place at all? I understand if you do any kind of hardware stuff, but for software companies it makes zero sense to me.

They could just as well be at home, saving that money and putting it in the startup instead?
But how do you know the "average" person knows the most popular comedian in the first place?

There's one day of the year which is the "most popular" birthday for a population, but that doesn't mean a huge percentage were born in it.
> admitting to and taking pride in sexual assault

Care to elaborate? Or is this more second-hand media?

> The fact that we DON'T know what he truly intends to do is terrifying

Depends if you're happy with the status-quo, or unhappy with it. For some, the idea of things staying the same are terrifying.

Incidentally, were you not worried about a Dem war with Russia?
In the post-mainframe golden age, before UNIX and C came to screw everything up, people were using highly interactive programming environments with REPLs, system-wide debuggers, ability to work directly on running processes, etc. I think having access to such tools does not diminish your ability to think (I'm judging by my experience with those tools which somewhat survived in the Lisp world). But the issue with distracting OS seems more real. Back in the 70s, they didn't have a task bar with IM, music player and web browser waiting for you there. It was you and your dev environment.
> how far of a stretch is it really to combine lodash+emscripten+BLAS/LAPACK to build a high performance computing platform based on javascript ?

You almost make me wish Java applets or sigh ActiveX back.
> Google is in the business of profiting off your personal data and that of your family members. Apple is not

Apple 100% is profiting off you and your family members just not off of sharing data which has pluses and minuses. They have milked out that Apple Tax to build the world's richest company.

Money dictates these positions. Currently Apple has a market share of about 12% and has 103% of the profit share. This means every other phone companies combined loss money as a whole and Apple out performed them.

http://bgr.com/2016/11/04/iphone-profits-apple-samsung-share...

Apple's Achilles heel is with AI and has to do with their position with data. What a pain it was for my rebellious daughter (She buys Apple products and laughs in my face) to go from one phone to the next and it has to relearn her because things don't transfer. Apple Maps doesn't know where she use to go on her old phone etc..

Tim Cook and company will have to start collecting and sharing data between devices and spaces. This will be done to save SIRI and what I get with Google Now. You might think I am sipping the kool-aid but I believe that our data will serve us more tin the future and this present Apple stance will have to change.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3131586/apple-ios/apple...
How, exactly, would this app help your friend? Please describe the precise scenario.
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I'm holding out hope, but the endless cycle of delays does not look good with the goodreader project...
I found this earlier this year and was using it for a little toy game project to communicate between the rendering thread and everything else. Its super easy to use :)

I didn't develop the project to the point where I could comment on its performance though and most of my processing was happening in shaders anyway.
The great thing about open source is that you can make changes when you see some thing that is wrong :)

https://github.com/coreos/etcd/blob/master/Documentation/v2/... and https://github.com/coreos/etcd/blob/master/Documentation/op-... are the two pages.
huh?

ES6/emscripten/Typescript was not designed in 2 weeks. could you talk about what you mean.
This looks like every other linear algebra book I've ever seen. Other than the provocative title I see nothing that distinguishes it.
I bought the Buffalo N300 not long ago:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IB8IVDQ/ref=oh_aui_deta...

I've been extremely happy with this purchase, admittedly I'm a bit of a high-demand user (I host a number of minor services for myself and friends including TeamSpeak, minecraft, as well as operating two Xbox Ones) so I needed something with good port forwarding support and UPNP. Rock solid, straight DD-WRT interface with minor branding, shell access, and monitoring support. This router's been an absolute champ and I'd recommend it to anyone.
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If you have an iPad (or know someone who does), download the app "Paper" by 53 and play with it for a while. I think you'll get the idea.
Location: Toulouse, France
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: C/C++14, Shell, Python and Ruby Scripting, Functional Programming, build systems & CI, Embedded Linux, Open Source development.
Résumé/CV: http://deubeuliou.gitlab.io/resume/resume.html
Email: david _@_ marvid.fr

After working mostly on embedded Linux and cross-platform C++ since 2009, I would like to expand my skill set and try new ways to work. I value dogfooding and for that reason, I want to work on projects or products I actually use and like - meaning that I'm particularly interested in companies that work with the product they develop (e.g. development tools, everyday-use opensource projects, ...).

Additionally, I'm interested in working on Ruby/RoR projects (because I've started learning them) or involving OpenStreetMap (because I love it) or Open Data in general.

Here is my dream job description:

- Work remotely and travel regularly;

- On opensource projects;

- For projects used by their own developers (aka "dogfooding");

- Using modern languages and technologies (e.g. Modern C++, Ruby, Python, Haskell, Scala, Rust, Modern JavaScript ...);

- With responsibility to continuously improve processes, tools and code quality.
I'm complaining about a bizarre default (also blocks porn by default), not that I don't know how to fix it. That being said, the lack of blocking youtube in-video banner advertisements make it unusable to me, which is a pity because the UI is pretty good.
Or web developers, who know that the obvious way to insert an image is to take a block element originally used for text and style it with a background image...
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Good job and great tool. Thanks.

This might actually be an interesting metric in regards to project architecture and/or project management.

Totally agree that exponential model explanatory power is great.
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/08/odonohoe_on_pot.htm...
The same group did some research into that [1][2]. TLDR: there are differences in behaviour but error levels are similar and it makes no difference for the UI guidelines you should apply when designing.

[1] https://www.nngroup.com/search/?q=age
[2] https://www.nngroup.com/articles/young-adults-ux/
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09:00 Arrive to work and fetch coffee

09:10 Stand-up meeting

10:00 Agile meeting with all departments

11:30 Personal status meeting

12:00 Lunch break

12:30 Browse HN

13:00 Coding / code reviews

14:00 Priority meeting, turns out what was planned at 11:30 is no longer valid

14:30 Coding / code reviews

17:00 Another status meeting meeting

18:00 Leave

Sometimes I may have more status meetings (avg=3) but you get the picture.

I don't get much done tbh.
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Growing ganja is a very different thing to growing lettuce. It takes much longer, there's a lot more considerations around lighting and temperature and the physical size of the crop is vastly different. Harvesting is a totally different process, too.

I'm sure some of the stuff learned doing this would be useful, but why not just start an actual robot ganja farm in Colorado now and get growing?
Note that out of the box, Airport does two step wireless network extension, super easily.

It supports "extend your network" as hub spoke leaf model, with both wired-to-wireless bases (hubs) and wireless-to-wireless extenders / relays (spokes), and devices (leaves) will connect to strongest spokes or hubs as you roam.

You can have multiple wired-to-wired and wired-to-wireless bases on the same network each with its own wireless-to-wireless extenders or relays. This has worked and been solid (no reboots needed) for years.

Use the full size tower for hubs and airport expresses for spokes.
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Also "2D magnetic field" indicates complete bullshit. Can we remove this post?
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Do they get a push notification if you turn it off?

My first thought was "leave it in your locker". Though there are separate security concerns with that.
> Currently Apple has a market share of about 12% and has 103% of the profit share. This means every other phone companies combined loss money as a whole and Apple out performed them.

What kind of maths is this? O.o
Sorry, i was not talking about cron or similar. But simply ctrl+z. Keep in mind that while on the surface that is similar to having multiple windows open, the process is suspended and out of the way. Now the user can actively tell the process to resume in the background, or just leave it there until later. And if one was to attempt to log out while having such a process waiting, there will be a warning.

All in all, this is perhaps a closer approximation of a physical workflow than the desktop metaphor.

Ah, found the article finally.

http://www.osnews.com/story/6282/The_Command_Line_-_The_Best...

I guess i should have tried harder before hitting reply on my initial comment.
> Is this a matter of something changed in the extension itself

Probably related to the `redirect` filter option, introduced in uBO 1.4.0[1].

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.4.0
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Is 195 euros/desk their solution? Really? Its going to bring in 1000 startups somehow? And why do they keep bringing up facebook? Its not a start up and could care less about other start ups succeeding (rightfully so).

Weren't a bunch of high profile French actually leaving France because of HUGE taxes in france?

Any French here can answer
this question?: for a start up making 5000 euros a month - how much would you pay in taxes?
I was sold until this line:

"Your thoughts, whether they’re words or sketches, are instantly synced to reMarkable’s cloud service"

Imagine for a company only five years back to literally say that your thoughts are sent to their server. I welcome any product that understand we need less distractions and less help from so-called AI, but there are many reasons to be cautious about this one (preorder, latency claim and lack of technical details being some of them).

EDIT: After looking a bit more around, their technical claims does seem credible. Their CTO is/was even a developer at KDE, so let's hope they also will support open standards and personal servers. If so then it's literally the device I've always been dreaming of!
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That's fantastic.
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you put Trump quotes after descriptions of the questions he is answering, but why not quote the questions too?

NYTimes didn't provide those, right?

"While many headlines came out after this exchange saying Trump would "absolutely" require Muslims to register in a database, it’s not entirely clear that’s what he said."

"Through the end of the conversation, it’s possible Trump thought the exchange was about illegal immigration."

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2015/nov/24/...

Tell me what you think of Trumps reply wrt that last "Nazi Germany" question from NBC?
What's the difference between this and New-HardLink and New-SoftLink, which are part of PSCX? http://pscx.codeplex.com/
I bought a netgear NightHawk R7000 (dual core 1GHz) this year and it is great. Despite it being connected by a wire through my ISP provided router, the wifi bandwidth is about 40% better. DD-WRT installation was easy and is solid.
It may be a helpful tool from an engineering viewpoint, but I think it misses the big picture of _why_ reproducible builds matter:

https://gnu.org/software/guix/news/reproducible-builds-a-mea...
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Great! Will this come to iOS soon?
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> Every European developer's final 'dream' is to work in the US tech industry

Not me. I have no interest in living and working in the US.
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> unless you’re using Arch Linux

pacman -S ed
The first thing you need to know is that the OpenWRT project is basically dead and that 95+% of the developers went over to the LEDE Project. However, LEDE has not yet published a stable release yet. You can get nightly builds that are in pretty good shape though.

I would highly recommend an ipq806x-based system, if you can afford it. Almost always matched with qca9880 radios. These are modern 802.11ac wave2 systems.

ipq806x is a Qualcomm-Atheros SoC. Go to wikidevi for specifications on the chips and all of the devices I mention below.

Check camelcamelcamel for recent pricing info if buying in the USA.

The list would be:

Linksys EA8500

TP-Link Archer C2600 (Not recommended due to TP-Link going anti-OSS. Modern versions require signed firmware and other DRM junk)

Trendnet TEW827DRU (Not yet accepted into LEDE, but could be any day now)

Netgear R7800 (Has a slightly faster CPU, but more expensive)

Netgear R7500v2 (Avoid the V1)

ZyXEL NBG6817 (Has the same slightly faster CPU as the R7800, but it's storage flash is goofy and I'm not 100% sure it's fully working. Ask the lede-dev mailing list first.)

The top issue that all of these devices have is that the 802.11 radio LEDs don't work yet because the driver is missing support for it. However, if you can live without blinking lights, these models are the way to go. This feature will almost certainly get fixed in the future.

I would tell you to go with the Linksys EA8500 if price/value is your concern. Otherwise the Netgear R7800 has a very active dev and probably has the best support. The ZyXEL NBG6817 looks really interesting to me, but I don't have one yet.

If $140-$200 USD is too much for you, look to some older 802.11ac devices. Like I said above, avoid TP-Link as they have started locking down their devices by removing serial ports and requiring signed firmware/DRM etc.

Your list here in comments is pretty good, though I'd avoid the TP-Link unless you can get one that is older (before TP-Link became anti-OSS.)

Good luck
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Looking to build our own skills (apps) for Alexa, my good friend and I started playing with AWS. We are excited about vocal interfaces but Amazon's way of building one was too complex. After hacking 3 skills we'd had it. Too many manual steps, too much code copy-pasting and that redundant boilerplate config?! Arg!

We think that "building the future" in 2016 should be easier, so we started working on a tool that helps developers to deploy Alexa skills in no time. Curious to hear your thoughts. What else would you improve on skill-building for Alexa?
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There is a reason. I don't know what it is exactly, but it is the one that makes browser vendors continuously remove features. RSS icons, anyone?
> So if it isn't with money or advertising, it has to be whatever else they can extract from the users.

So let's imagine someone serves supper on the street (i.e. street food), with the setup that it's take it yourself service. The incentive is that people would line up and pay, but some people don't - so would such company owners have the right to collect saliva and extract DNA to sell such personal information to some other companies thereby extracting value?