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The difference between their trick and the superstition seems to be only in success rate, to me.

If the casino allows the players to perform arbitrary actions within the limits of the rules in order to try and improve their luck I fail to see how Ivey and Sun can be considered to have defrauded the casino by performing their selected and previously agreed actions.
Different Strokes for different folks. My personal feeling is that a company should allow employees to do what they want. If the company has an office setting and an employee wants to do the office thing then let them. But if you have an employee who is telling you that they work better from home take them at their word and let the results the judge of whether or not they're telling the truth.
Should that matter when you're running a website?
The greatest part about the echo is that I can create my own skills for my own echo without having to publish my skills to skill store.

This allows me to build the Alexa that I want to build which is really awesome IMO.
I've had good results with finding companies that don't force bad working conditions, and asking for an alternative to open seating when necessary. I've always been accommodated. If people aren't at least asking for flexibility, they should be.

I haven't had to sacrifice the ability to have face to face communications and relationships with my co-workers. I'm not saying these are my best friends, just that there's subtly more that comes across in person vs. remote.
No it wont, this is just a shitty ad for your shitty app, not even mentioning what causes the difference (between the competitors).

Also these assumed gender roles trigger me:

>Girls seem to be digging it too and not because they are looking for nice, free dinners
Maximizing individual employee productivity may not be even in the top ten list of company priorities. For one, making sure that what the company wants to be built is actually built is massively more important. This seems to be hard for many companies.

My roommate's startup has gutted their remote team, only one guy is still there and his days are numbered. From what my roommate told me, managing remote employees can be more trouble than it's worth.

I remain unconvinced that the clamor for remote work environments is really in company's best interests. When push comes to shove, doing remote right requires an investment on the parts of both the team and the company, and if one side doesn't or cannot pull their weight, then it becomes unmanageable, bringing the company down with it.

Employees can bitch about the employers, but they're the ones paying the salaries.
Yes at the time all the major mac magazines were acknowledging that it looked like Copland would never ship, but the question was whether to replace it with NeXTSTEP or BeOS. Both had strong ties to former Apple execs with obviously Jobs being the bigger draw at NeXT, but Jean-Louis Gassée at Be was not to be discounted either.

Both Jobs and Gassée were both forced out by Sculley who alot of people credit with driving Apple toward the mediocrity that defined it in the mid 90s.

The other big factor at the time was the fact that BeOS ran on PowerPC, and NeXTSTEP did not. NeXT had done some work to produce their own hardware with dual 601s, but never shipped it and abandoned that work to focus on the IBM PC hardware. This meant that the first few years of the Apple/NeXT merger were spent just getting NeXTSTEP running on PowerPC.

The biggest buzz of the time was that even though Steve's return to Apple had killed the growing Mac clone industry, maybe Rhapsody would run on x86 hardware. There were rumors all over that they would make this happen, although they were many years too early, as Apple wouldn't make that switch until 2005.
Have to agree with you. I'm still lugging around my 2011 17" MBP. For work I've been issued a recent 13"(not the newest MBP) and it does not perform significantly better than my 2011.

I'd have long ago just settled on a linux laptop if I wasn't dependent on the media apps on the mac(Logic Pro & FCPX).

I might look at Windows a little more seriously depending on how Bash for Windows development comes a long. Currently it is not feasible to develop in my stack on Windows though without a VM.
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Yeah, the hands free, walk around barking out commands to (Alexa in my case) is the big win IMO.
Don't include the tower in the initial reveal. Figure out a way to make it someone else's idea, that someone being the person who can sell it.
I'm using the Echo now, but I keep playing around with raspberry pi solutions. I'm waiting for Respeaker to deliver. I'd prefer to have it all in-house, but until I come up with something that works as well I'll keep the Echo plugged in.
I forgot about this! So cool! also forgot that Joe Dart from Vulfpeck put this together. very, very cool.
Usually, a wire is like a long thin filament. Surely, this is closer to one-dimensional than two-.
From Wikipedia:

> A semi-automatic transmission ... is an automobile transmission that does not change gears automatically, but rather facilitates manual gear changes by dispensing with the need to press a clutch pedal at the same time as changing gears.

I wasn't talking about clutch-and-stick vs. push-a-button. I was talking about controlling which gear is on vs. letting the car guess alone. I've never heard about race cars where the driver does not decide himself which gear is on at which moment; if you have, thanks for letting me learn something new.
I have a friend who has been working on Hydrogen and fuel cells since 1999. He told me in 2001 that it was never going to happen for cars and that fuel cells just are not going to pay off except for a few instances that aren't really clear.

2016 he says the same thing. Fuel cells will never be the fuel for cars and no clear viable application. The issue is that you can't just go with hydrogen into a magical filter and split the hydrogen atoms and get energy without it costing multiple more then gas or electric.
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You think you're smarter than a team of Googlers and that you can just think of something they haven't thought of in 10 years of development?
1) They have a random the 4way stop delay which means one of the cars will be the first to start moving again.
2) They would just both abort, then retry at a later time. It's very unlikely that the situation could repeat again on a retry unless you think perfect symmetry can be achieved in physical world:)
> Yet here it is, telling Ireland to charge Apple "back taxes" against its will.

This has nothing to do with the tax system

> Of course it can. And in fact it must, because tax is not an EU competency.

Of course it cannot, because it has nothing to do with the tax system
In no way better? Isn't VP9 free, whereas H.264 requires patent licenses?
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This reminds me of the ESPN article in 2012:

"SEPT. 10, 12:30 P.M., CASINO DE MONTREAL "Hi, this is Phil Ivey," he says into his phone, from the back of a limo sent by Casino de Montreal. "I need you to transfer $1 million from my account, please."

There is no self-consciousness, no hint of understanding that the rest of the world doesn't make requests like this. "I know it's a lot of money, but I like to gamble," Ivey says. "It's just in me. I try to manage what I do playing craps or blackjack. At the end of the year, I don't want the amount I gamble there to be bigger than what I win playing poker.""

http://www.espn.com/espn/magazine/archives/news/story?page=m...
No expert here either, but I suppose that meant the wire has essentially only "length" (e.g. x dimension), and no "thickness" (y dimension)?
Employers can argue what they want, but I argue solely for myself and what I want is to not work for an employer that needs me to be in an office. So I don't.
You don't think that gambling has brought money into Atlantic City?
The purpose of every business is to make money. That doesn't mean that I am prohibited from making deals with them where they lose money. They have to look out for their own interests; they don't get to roll back deals when they accidentally make a disadvantageous deal.
I think it's Jack playing on this one. He's still pretty handy, even if he isn't Joe Dart :)
Ah okay, my bad.. I was mis-reading the article. I get it now. The topic branch commit history where the co-worker built up the branch would be lost if you just tacked on the leaf node to the master branch..
My first remote job started as an on-site office job, and I was able to convince my boss over time to eventually go 100% remote.

My current contract is with a local company that happens to support remote work. I found this job through a recruiter. But like I said, it was a rare find. The recruiters I work with know that I'm looking for remote-only, but those positions are few and far between.

My contract is ending soon so I'll be looking at the online job boards in addition to working with recruiters; it remains to be seen how much success I'll have with that.
> I see no reason why a (semi-)automatic couldn't engine brake.

The semi surely can. The full automatic, I don't know. How can the car understand that you want a lower gear before you touch the brake?
Do you not have a Prime? They should be supporting these kind of issues with supplement contract workers.
It's actually about two requests a minute.
The lack of medallion rent-seeking could be Uber's structural advantage against taxis.

The framing I see sometimes of Big Mean Uber vs 'poor little guy cab driver' seems wholly out of touch with my experience. At least in Boston the taxi system is/was rife with corruption and cronyism. Neither riders or drivers get a good deal, just medallion owners and the regulators they captured[0]. The money isn't staying in the 'local economy', to 'small business owners', it is, by and large, going to rent-seeking medallion owners, many of whom live out of state to monopoly holders who use that power to prevent competition through regulation. I'd happily pay the same to take an Uber driven by someone who wasn't being exploited and who was accountable for the quality of the ride than a crappy medallion cab with a driver who is on the phone, the whole time being forced to watch ads on their "entertainment screen" with no off button.

Uber isn't a monopoly (yet), but they are breaking a monopoly, and that's a good thing.

[0] http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/specials/taxi
Homebrew works way better than APT for me at least (I've never tried Portage). APT is definitely a way better option for servers, but at a high cost by sacrificing usability.
It's not that fair to compare the work put out by open-source project teams vs. the work put out by a company trying to make a profit. They are two much different goals, the latter of which typically has much more mobile goal posts.
> Doesn't every financial aid distort the competition, by design? What am I missing.

If the financial aid is given to every company in the country there is no distortion.
Stevie had used the Moog extensively during his golden period and was very familiar with the capabilities of synthesizers of the day. I believe his complaint was essentially boiled down to: while they provided new sonic vistas, they did a terrible job of reproducing the sounds of real instruments. Samples were poor and lacked dynamics.

What he wanted from Kurzweil was a synth to mimic an actual piano. He wanted to play a 'piano' on stage without the heft and burden of an actual piano. Further down in that wiki:

"The Kurzweil K250 is generally recognized as the first electronic instrument to faithfully reproduce the sounds of an acoustic grand piano."
I feel that gigantic metropolises are not optimal environments for software engineering.

NYC, and it's helter skelter of noise and traffic and garbage and tiny living spaces, in my humble experience and opinion is not conducive to hard engineering problems.

I am probably completely wrong here and just a hopeless introvert with an axe to grind, but from my experience, working in home offices in towns like Boulder, Colorado, with a central, easily bikable office/startup HQ, would present the optimal small company setting.

A quality employee cares, they care about the problems of your company when they shower, when they sleep, when they are knowing their spouse in a biblical sense. The problems of the company they have pledged their allegiance to, like a knight in Game of Thrones pledges allegiance and service to their lord, are always on their mind.

So if you are paying for knowledge work, you would do well to dispel any notions of body/mind duality. Physical health equates to mental health, and a town like Boulder, CO is about the perfect size for optimal maintenance of a human body/mind. And there are hundreds of other communities in America with similar attributes to Boulder, CO.

And if you can take advantage of the space that your workers are already paying for in their rent or mortgages. Spaces that may have gyms and/or pools which are physically and mentally rejuvenating, well you will come out ahead.

I think the future of work will be semi-distributed, and this mad consolidation into a few coastal cities will be seen in the future as a gross inefficiency.
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AMD has definitely caught my interest with the steps they've taken towards embracing open-source software recently. I run Linux full time, and the open source movement is really important to me, but I went with Intel and Nvidia when I built my new computer last year.

My last rig was all AMD, and while it was really powerful for the time it was built, it was basically a space-heater. The power supply on my current machine wouldn't even run my old computer at idle. I have a philosophical issue with the way that Nvidia and Intel handle their Linux drivers and interact with the open-source community, but after 7 years with a computer that sounded like a jet engine, I just wanted silence.

I know it seems disingenuous to compare a 7 year old computer to a modern one, but the TDP of AMD products has not improved much during that time. Plus, my computer spends most of it's time near-idle, and Intel and Nvidia look better the lower the utilization. The fans in my new rig don't even spin up unless I'm doing something rather resource intensive, like playing game.

So, despite my misgivings about Intel, there was no chance I was going to with AMD. The Bulldozer architecture is terrible. Bulldozer hasterrible performance, regardless of whether you measured actual performance, or performance per watt. The only reason I considered AMD was because they enable virtualization on all of their processors (or at least the ones I was considering), whereas Intel only allows virtualization on Xeon and K-series processors.

My biggest issue right now is that Nvidia takes steps to prevent their non-Quadro cards from working in VFIO passthrough. I could have just as easily gone AMD, which I understand works much better with VFIO; the main reason I went with Nvidia for graphics was because I got the 970 for a song. Plus, after years of using AMD with Linux, I don't really trust AMD drivers to work. Nvidia drivers might be closed-source, but they work as long I wait a week to upgrade after a new driver is released.

The Zen architecture seems like it will hit all the right notes for me, as long as AMD maintains their welcoming approach to virtualization.
We might just have different points of view here.

Obviously one can read the documentation carefully and read what's going on, but in practice most users don't. Also, to be fair to users, they often don't know what they don't know -- they aren't aware they should be reading how checkout does argument disambiguation when they start getting weird error messages.

On the other hand, if git didn't allow '/' in branch names, except are a remote/branchname seperator, then we would know what '/' meant -- in practice this is what almost everyone does in practice anyway (there may be a deeper issue here I'm not aware of).

Similarly, if git didn't have commands which could take either a <tree-ish> or a <pathspec>, say have "checkout-file" (that's an awful name, but I'm sure we can find a better one), then there would be no need to have this special bit of documentation, and describe to people how to get around the issue.

My experience of teaching is that git guessing what people want makes learning git harder, as they have to learn what are the fundamentals, and what is git being "helpful".
That's a stereotype, not racism. It could be a cliche stereotype (rich white dude), which is itself a bit racist and sexist. But at the base level it's a stereotype, not racism.
IMHO it's odd approach to the problem. I'd rather ask the author (who knows best in this case) to split this into two separate parts that can be nicely merged.
'Cane sugar' has a good brand image though, especially in upmarket circles.

The 2000s were marked by consumer trends increasingly rejecting HFCS so several products were reformulated with crystalline sucrose, often sourced from sugarcane and shown on packaging as 'cane sugar'. The trend was so acute that in 2010 the Corn Refiners Association petitioned the FDA to change the designation 'corn sugar' to be usable to refer to HFCS [1] (which was ultimately denied).

But then in 2013, due to "consumer indifference", many mass-market products switched back to HFCS while sugar prices where high. So what gives? Has sugar crashed since then?

[1] http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/CentersOffices/OfficeofFoods/CFS... [2] http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Markets/HFCS-free-The-trend...
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Sure, and I said relatively unchanged compared to bzr. Looking up in bzr, the ondisk format changed several times in incompatible ways.
The first question I now ask recruiters when they reach out is whether or not the position is on-site or remote. Google, Microsoft, Amazon... no remote work, at least not for any of the positions they frequently contact me about.
How am I wrong? The phone comes with a charger and a power block. Unless you want to clarify, your statement means nothing.
This assumes you are doing read and write system calls, not following pointers in memory.

In the Redis article, it is talking about in-memory data structures. The page fault happens from following a pointer to another location in memory, for example, a linked list, or a skip list. There is no read call to replace with an async read call. Your code evaluates the pointer to a page that has been swapped out, a page fault occurs, and the OS has to swap it back in for you to be able to read that memory.

You could potentially create a new signal, for page faults (maybe there is one I've never heard of), but that would still not let you continue executing from the previous location.
I don't get the value in a comment like this, especially when without Stevie Wonder there might not be Prince. We all stand on the shoulders of giants. At least most of us (I like to make short people work for it).
Not really. Look at their fee structure. It is more expensive than what Stripe, Paypal, and Square charge.
There's been a lot of discussion over years about open source communities, and how curating the community is an important part about that.

If people aren't paid in cash, they need to be paid in other things, like egoboo, kind words, gratitude, whatever.

When people get mistreated while volunteering their time for open source, looking at that from an economics perspective it's every bit as bad as when a company decides it'd rather not pay its employees. It's good if programming is fun, but "fun" doesn't pay the bills, and doesn't advance your career. Reputation and contribution could though.

But it's hard to fix, because the paymasters (the community) don't always care. I think in the long run, the true driver of open source is people scratching their own itch. Most I believe don't do it for altruistic reasons or even for fun, but because they use this piece of software themselves to do something productive, and need it to be better.
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I’m someone who also values privacy, but a few of the extensions in question almost certainly don’t offer enough value for their cost. Random UA switching makes you more fingerprintable. And this all on Windows 10…
Of course and that includes me. We need to get better, though, and realize that our needs are not representative of everyone that might purchase a tech product.
The article mentions that strict rules hurt good actors and help bad actors, and you should fix this by filling your organization with good actors. For very small startups this might be possible. However if you need to hire a large number of developers this becomes increasingly difficult. It is far easier to hire "bad actors". If a company finds itself in a situation where adding a bad actor will increase company revenue beyond the actors cost, it financially imperative to hire bad actors. Eventually the good to bad ratio slips in the direction of bad, and strict rules end up helping more than they hurt. Good people leave to new places, and the vicious cycle continues.
>some form of Socialism/Communism

Ya, some form of Stalinist USSR, Maoist China or Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge.
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Thanks for writing this. It takes a hard head to be an open-source project maintainer and taking a step back and evaluating how to contribute to open source software while keeping it enjoyable is a good thing to do.

I see so much abuse on Github (stuff like "your README is utter garbage" and other frustration, all over, all the time) and it's really disappointing. I don't ever expect the issue-reporting community to change so instead maintainers have to learn how to deal with it, which is unfortunate and leads to the type of burnout detailed here and in numerous other posts I've seen on HN.

Don't give in and quit! Ignore the trolls.
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Not only that, all the other EU countries where Apple stuff is sold actually 'pay' all those employees in a roundabout way, meaning all the other EU countries are effectively subsidizing Ireland.. screw that.
Just a little side project here, something I always wanted to build because I get tired of typing stuff like site:whatever.com and intitle:something when doing power searches on Google. Happy to answer questions.
I do synthetic aperture radar signal processing for a living. I make the SAR pictures you see (or use for your research). I think a big part of the cost is the signal processing. You need fast A/D converters too. The software though to make a steerable ultrasound beam is not trivial by any means. Also, you have multiple sound speeds to account for in layered media where you dont know the layers occur or what their sound speed is. Another really hard problem.
I'm guilty here too.

But one side of me wonders why SQL databases do not better adapt to those 'anti-patterns' in software development, when developers for a variety of reasons are more confident in having logic in their app code than their DB code.
The domain made me think that this is an official project by Google. And you're using Google's logo. This could be a trademark infringement.
The time to travel to the office is often ignored too (it sounds lazy to even mention it because it's the norm). If you're working remotely and it takes 30 mins to get to the office, you're at an absolute minimum burning 5 hours a week going back and fourth from the office when you could be doing something else. Add in the extra time changing to and from work clothes, and having to leave the office to get food instead of eating at home and the time adds up.

If you're freelance and bill by the hour as well then those hours easily add up to an extra day a week you could be working.