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That's weird thing to say, I guess no replies from guys in UK (London & rest of the country).
It's similar for Netherlands and I know (from my experience) in Germany (Berlin).

'In Europe software companies are more like factories. You punch in, work like a slave all day, then punch out.'
> again not sure which countries you speak about (ukraine or romania lol?), maybe it's like that in some, but some have very relaxed attitude

'Overall, remote working in Europe is mostly done for US companies. EU companies are usually mentally disabled.'
> again, there're tons of EU based remote work, and I just won't comment on the rest of this generalisation.

I've got a nice remote offers from Spain and Netherlands as we, despite being in UK. I'm getting them all the time.

So just to top the thing about working like a slave all day...
- my EU company gives me remote because I do work better in this mode,
- my EU company gives me a lot of benefits that guys in US don't see (despite that average salary I'd say is lower in here),
- basically it's yet another EU company that hires me and gives me total freedom because I deliver

i.e. if you're good you will always find a remote job with conditions you want.

btw. your comment shows your ignorance and nothing more (and a lack of ability to produce some facts instead of meaningless offences)

'EU companies are usually mentally disabled.' - seriously? you work for some1 or you're building your own 'empire' with this kind of attitude and beliefs?

Overall, your post is full of bs.
Federated services don't allow companies to lock you into wallen gardens.

The big tech companies don't know how to make money without walled gardens (Thiel's book more or less makes this gospel without actually saying it)...hence, XMPP lost.

You can go look at XMPP or any other protocol and yeah it has issues, but no more than any other protocol, and none that couldn't be fixed.

But it's not obvious to find a working business model worth billions out of that, so companies that have to make billions don't want that. And of course government only cares about billion dollar companies (they don't have more reliable signaling), so...the fate of the protocols. There's usually a lot of bike-shedding after the fact, but they ignore the real reasons behind failure of adoption.

There's already been multiple waves of centralization, decentralization, and so on:

In the late 90s you had ICQ, MSN, AIM, etc, by the mid 2000s those had been reversed engineered to be open, new protocols were made (XMPP) and even adopted by the new giants, then Facebook, Google, etc closed back down.

As Slack is currently doing with IRC. Fun stuff.
> Apple hasn't made a really revolutionary product since Jobs died.

It's more about regression for cosmetic reasons then not being revolutionary. There's potential with development of newer hardware and yet they use it to make slimmer devices and with less ports. Smaller motherboard ? Instead of slimming the shell, make it thicker and use the rest for batteries. 50 hour battery laptop, now that's revolutionary.
I don't understand car aesthetics. With vintage cars, or luxury or sports cars, the aesthetics make sense, but amongst reliable, affordable automobiles, I can't tell what makes one nice and another ugly. They all just look like generic plastic bubbles to me, they're all made from the same materials, they were all stamped out in a factory. We may as well be discussing the aesthetics of screwdrivers or milk cartons.

Still, you get guys who haven't bought a new shirt in 5 years, their homes are filled with mismatched Ikea junk, they don't give a fuck about how anything looks until you bring up cars, and suddenly passions are inflamed.

What's worse, is that the fixation is all about the car itself, when in reality they come bundled with all sorts if infrastructure that's almost exclusively hideous. Nobody looks at a gas station, a parking lot, or a freeway interchange and says 'my, what a beautiful sight, I want to build my home right here so my livingroom window can overlook this fabulous vista'. Block that shit out and fixate on the car itself.
Not anymore, at least in the US: "Unlike in 2005 when a higher percentage of males than females were victims of one or more violent crimes, no significant difference was detected in the 2014 prevalence rates for males (1.2%) and females (1.1%) in 2014."

https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv14.pdf
This wouldn't be such a problem if Moxie hadn't removed the ability to communicate using SMS.

SMS is federated and very difficult to block without disrupting essential services.

See: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/2818

Of course going the route of using centralized services allows later monetization my Moxie and his brogrammers.
By being less able to read into the multiple possible reactions of a person; e.g.

- "they're looking at my baby because she's cute"
- "they're looking at my baby because they want to kill him"
- "they're looking at my baby to feign interest in my life"

...the mothers are able to focus on the important options:

- "they're probably a threat"
- "they're probably not a threat"
Whether this they stick with Clojure/FP or not, isn't it important for them to at least try. Sure maybe FP isn't the best tool for this job right now but maybe someday it will be. However as a development community if we don't even try to use it for real projects it will never get better.

Perhaps through their trials and tribulations they will gain the knowledge to aid in the development of Arcadia/ Clojure + Unity. I just feel like there is a lot of well meaning but discouraging comments here but I think people often forget the science part of computer science. Sometimes you just have to experiment and fail and experiment some more to push a paradigm farther.

I don't know how successful they will be with this approach and maybe they will end up ditching it but even if they fail the first time they have the opportunity to gain valuable experience.
Why do you think egypt only protects their network at the border? Just because they block signal servers at the border, doesn't mean they don't implement blocks at other places on their network.

XMPP seems a morass of optional pieces, so clients and servers implement random subsets and it makes life difficult for random users to use securely. Moxie makes a good point about and federated standard without control of client and server is going to evolve very slowly an fracture into incompatible pieces.
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Or if Apple allowed users to upgrade their own machines....
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Not to mention email isn't particularly distributed these days. I don't know the exact percentage, by yahoo, gmail, and microsoft definite host a large majority of the email accounts on the planet.
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Reasonably priced debt is issued with the expectation that most recipients will succeed and access to it is generally limited to entities with a stable business model already.

VC money is mostly issued with the expectation that most recipients will fail and it's priced accordingly.

A strongly performing 'real' company (i.e. one with a strong profit stream) will nearly always prefer debt to VC money in the same way a strongly performing public company will issue bonds over selling more shares--the later tending to be for companies in trouble.
I read somewhere that VCs don't mind burning cash at GitHub, because the fire helps power the greater Software ecosystem. If GitHub shuttered it doors, it would be like a bank closing. Something would fill the void, but the immediate shock would be hugely damaging.

Overall, GitHub should go the services route. Right now enterprises are footing the bill with private repositories and organizations. If they want to become positive by just jacking up the price, buyers are going to start shopping around, and GitLab looks better everyday. Services like setting up CI/CD pipelines for enterprises could be highly lucrative, especially if they can be templated with internal tools. Most software (and SaaS) companies eventually arrive at the conclusion that they are better off selling the expertise on how to use their software than selling the software itself.
I would use this, but this seems like exactly the kind of product that Google gets bored with and discontinues for no reason. I'm tired of getting burned by Google like this, they do it all the time.
> Linux doesn't handle my mix of high DPI and normal DPI monitors (every month I'm told Wayland is going to support it "soon") so I can't use it.

This, this, this. I have been trying off and on for a couple years to move from MacOS to Linux and the HiDPI situation is a mess. Apparently it's not much better in Windows, so maybe if someone is coming from Windows they are used to problems. But, coming from MacOS where I have a rMBP and a mix of HiDPI and HD monitors and they all 'just work' I had assumed that was the state of the industry for a long time. Once I started reading up on the issue it became apparent in the HiDPI world it is MacOS >>>>>>> Windows > Linux.

The last time I brought this up on HN, someone responded saying I didn't need HiDPI :/
the world of computing isn't just web servers. besides, the vast majority of language implementations already favor throughput over latency when it comes to GC. when latency is a requirement for your project you have no choice but fall back on languages like C. it would be nice to have a viable alternative with managed memory.
Personally, luxury laptop lines don't make sense for me at this point. There was a time when it was the only way to get decent hardware, but those days are long gone.

Four years ago I spilled water on my 2009 17" MBP (RIP) and Apple wanted $1200 for the repair. Instead, I spent ~$1300, including three-year accident-protection insurance where they show up at your house THE NEXT DAY, on a Thinkpad T530 and I couldn't be happier with it. Quad-core i7, discrete Nvidia GPU, 15" 1080p display, 2 USB 2.0 ports, 2 USB 3.0 ports, ethernet, displayport, firewire, DVD drive, 300GB HDD. I've since upgraded to a 500GB SSD (and put the old HDD where the DVD drive was) and to 16GB of RAM. Due to the internal metal frame, I'm sure I could drop the thing repeatedly without consequence.

Yeah, it's not thin and weighs 1.5 pounds more than a 15" MBP. The extra-capacity battery I ordered it with is losing some capacity, but good thing I can just pop it out for a new one with the flick of a switch. This computer will still be kicking ass in four more years.

EDIT: I dug up the invoice: http://imgur.com/a/cT55A . $1380 including the three-year warranty/accident-insurance. Apparently I can put a mobile broadband card in this thing, cool!

Further edit: Perhaps I overstated in my first sentence. I really don't mean to put down Macs. I loved my 17" MBP and the 13" company-issued MBP I used at an internship in 2013. Their screens, even pre-retina, are beautiful. The OS and hardware worked perfectly together, e.g. smooth touchpad actions like scrolling and zooming. Though I haven't used the new machines everyone is complaining about, my experiences with Apple hardware have only been great. But what I value in a computer just doesn't align with the value that premium ultra-thin laptops provide.
I ordered several times from shenzhen2u. I had a few questions and some issues at first with their store. I always got a friendly (and useful) answer within 24 hours. Actually better answers, than what I got in Europe (some of them very expensive in comparison). Quality for my requirements was always better than expected. E.g. I made several boards for a Raspberry Pi and the through holes were all fine (on all boards). I had zero issues to put them on top of the 2 x 20 header of the Raspberry Pi.
Heh, "You can go look at XMPP or any other protocol and yeah it has issues, but no more than any other protocol, and none that couldn't be fixed."

Please see https://xkcd.com/927/
What benefits does the EU company give you more beside more free days compared to US ?
I do all my thinking on paper, but I have a large blocker at the moment: indexing my notes. Have you found a good solution for this?
I also work for Pivotal T.O & used Concourse on a recent project. Thats why this thread caught my attention :)
Some commercial advantage I'm not aware of?

1. No licensing cost upfront for tap-out.

2. Open source designs so you can even decrease tap-out costs further. Allowing you to focus on the features you are selling.

3. Out of the box compiler support for GCC and LLVM.

4. Provided you stick with RISC-V one doesn't have to re-pay their software development cost every generation. Your compiled ELF's will still work. Software Development $$$ >>>> Hardware Tapout $$$.

5. Out of box compiler/debugger support. Not making your dev team adopt a new tool chain is a HUGE time saver and cannot be understated.
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Honestly, this has been one of the reasons I've chosen to avoid buying a home even though I could easily afford it now.

Seems like, besides lack of mobility in a era of never stable employers, owning a home essentially weds you to your locality's debts - unfunded bonds, pensions, etc. You can already see how cities with the biggest problems - Chicago, Detroit - are already cracking. They went for the easy things first: traffic cameras, cigarette taxes, huge tourist taxes on rental cars and hotels.

But eventually they'll come after the biggest cash cow which is property taxes.
She was thinking for 2 though ;)
For people with ESC in muscle memory, that's a non starter.
If you're interested in Reinforcement Learning and Spiking Neural Network, you should look into Izhikevich work on dopamine-modulated STDP:

http://www.izhikevich.org/publications/dastdp.pdf
And 200 years ago we didn't have umbrellas. Sure, none of it matters. You don't need a television either. You don't need running shoes to run.

Not sure what you think you are proving here.
A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?
Honestly there has been a few times in my entire life I've checked the weather report for guidance on how to dress. Every single time I've been burned and ended up dressing inappropriately. I do much better using my own senses. However, I don't really use an umbrella because I never had one growing up so I guess if you wanted to make sure you weren't caught in the rain without one you'd have to check the weather report.
This discussion has been had on HN so many times, it would be difficult for me to summarize (but easy for one to search via algolia).

Signal's creator runs their own email server, but always points out that 99% of the time, they are communicating with gmail on the other side. This subverts the decentralized nature of email.

XMPP is not a mobile friendly protocol. Even the Matrix.org folks are doing XMPP compatibility, but not implementing XMPP directly. My point is, "don't align with the business of acquiring monetizeable users" is not entirely true, and there are technical reasons (not just business reasons). Everyone with an interest in this problem should be on the same page, and holding overly cynical views about the impediments isn't (IMO) conducive to creating solutions.
I don't. I transfer long-lasting notes to a wiki or relevant documentation. I on purpose try to integrate notes into something existing, and/or archive them regularly
A little harsh, isn't it? They have several good arguments for ditching SMS, as explained here: https://whispersystems.org/blog/goodbye-encrypted-sms/

Especially this one:

SMS and MMS are a security disaster. They leak all possible metadata 100% of the time to thousands of cellular carriers worldwide. It's common to think of SMS/MMS as being "offline" or "peer to peer," but the truth is that SMS/MMS messages are still processed by servers--the servers are just controlled by the telcos. We don't want the state-run telcos in Saudi, Iran, Bahrain, Belarus, China, Egypt, Cuba, USA, etc... to have direct access to the metadata of TextSecure users in those countries or anywhere else.
XMPP is really hard to scale. It's a very chatty protocol, with tons of XML overhead.
Has anyone tried Bear yet?

http://www.bear-writer.com/

I just recently started using it, finding it rather nice, though it still feels rather 'beta'.
>It's interesting how overly animated he is given that the student is not a child

Absolutely don't knock this. I teach robotics and tech part time to middle schoolers and if there's one thing that has helped me connect more than any other its being a living cartoon. Exaggerate everything. You should be half-way to full clown when lecturing or you're simply not getting through.

To prep for lessons, I don't study circuits, I watch CN. I'm a 40yo man who quotes Rick and Morty and can name all of the Crystal Gems. But it works like crazy.
I use it for a hell of a lot more than just the weather. Google Home is reliable. Siri isn't.
>we actually tax the hell out of oil and gas at retail

A sales tax is a tax on the consumer of the product, not the producer of the product. The producer is the one getting the subsidies.
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In MATE Terminal, and I think GNOME Terminal, you can chance the keybindings to remove the shift — and if you do this, you can send ^C with shift-control-c.
@geouis asked you to email him some reading material on this in a sibling comment. if you do send them something, could you post it here too?
That there are tradeoffs is the whole point, the messaging makes it sound like there aren't.
> This is interesting. My counter point to the door lock app for example would be that although you're reducing the things you have to carry you are introducing complexity where it is not necessary. At least that is my experience when it comes to 'smart' products.

Even if it only works 99% of the time, I consider it an improvement. If it doesn't work, I can use the garage door (with a PIN), or get the hidden key. I understand that not everyone have these options, but in my case it works out fine.

> Regarding sleeping on the floor - are you just folding up a blanking or are you using a sleeping mat? Also, is the floor concrete or wood and what material is it covered with (carpet, wood, tile, etc.)?

The floor is wood. Second floor. The blanket is currently an unzipped sleeping bag (cotton interior).

> Have you noticed any positives from the experience?

I was looking at alternative sleeping surfaces. I read about memory foam, air beds, water beds, futons, etc. Then I read about floor sleeping, and I liked the simplicity of it. Imagine not depending on a soft surface to sleep comfortably? I decided to give it a try.

At first my body would hurt, but after a week the pain was gone. I did not notice any big difference between sleeping on the floor and sleep on a bed, which surprised me (I thought it would be more difficult). I don't tend to linger as much as I did with a bed, and getting up tends to be easier.

Ultimately, I'll go with what is more convenient, whether that's the floor, a futon, or a full bed. I'm happy to know that I have this option, but I'm not religious about it.
I've not heard of any games or VR software released to the market that use Metal yet. I've heard it mentioned about projects still in development but so far that's all.

Do you have any examples of things using it?
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Have you seen the Game Programming Patterns book (http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/). It was originally a blog that later become a book, and I think you can browse most of the content online. It's full of interesting lessons and patterns and deals with coupling and state management. It won't have the answers to copy and paste, but it gives you a lot of food for thought and it's really well written.

I'm not a game programmer by trade, but I'm interested in that stuff and I really enjoyed it all the same. It made me rethink some stuff about enterprise patterns too.
> "For a while, Linux did not quite do everything right with networking, so it was banned from the university network. That gave Linus a lot of motivation to fix it, of course"

Sounds like there's another interesting story there regarding why it got banned. Anyone any wiser?
From what I've read, yes, XMPP is bad. But that's not the problem. Keeping a persistent connection to your server, while not keeping the phone processor and/or radio active, and while not being dropped by the phone company's NAT after a very short timeout, is not a simple problem. The native persistent connection (Google's, for Android, and Apple's for an iPhone) is the only one which is guaranteed to work good enough.

Federation has the problem of being harder to prevent abuse. And for systems that use the phone number as the user's identifier, like WhatsApp or Signal, it's even harder: which server is associated to an user? What to do if the user registers to more than one server? How to prevent a server from saying it has registered a user, when the user didn't do it?

And when you control the whole infrastructure, it's easier to provide a good user experience. With federation, you are depending on the quality of other's implementations.
Just a note. If you get the TB 3 dock most of the other dongles are redundant unless you need the functionality on the go.
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Hummmm... you wonder how much of that money is invested in internal training for those skills they claim they cannot find. I bet the average is pretty close to 0. I guess it just makes more sense to throw money at the problem and hope for magic in 43 days.

Instead, why not just devote that $33K to a training program for a duration of roughly 43 days? Now you have the skills you were missing with the bonus of added loyalty and lower risk at no additional cost (money and time that would have been spent anyways). You also get a massive productivity boost for free according to Brook's Law. The only cost is that an external candidate might (or might not) have a diversity of skills your company doesn't provide.
This is EROI, which is different from monetary ROI, and only indirectly linked.

Having said that, I believe there are several billion dollar funds looking to invest in solar and their main problem is a lack of projects to invest in, so solar is doing okay from an ROI perspective at the moment.
Internet Archive to the Rescue:
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The biggest beef I have with Uber is that they went from a transparent price calculation to an opaque (and basically always more expensive rate).

So I always write back to their support team and they usually refund the extra charged money, but it's tiring to have to do this for every long trip I make with them.

(I'm talking about Uber in Mexico City).
I understand the parent poster believes that educational techniques are the primary driver of educational performance. I don't think he was suggesting adopting Singaporean demographics.

My phrasing was a snarky way of pointing out that educational techniques don't seem to matter very much, that's all.
Pretty sad when you read the comments and the oil exec has the most sensible views of them all.
Everything is an experience with Apple customers. Even opening their wallets wider every year.
This isn't about marketing. Uber is literally pushing toward this. They hired most of CMU's National Robotics Engineering Center! They're making this push, and it's either that or bust for them.