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In a parallel universe there must be a non-sarcastic version of you, and I agree with them. I genuinely believe that devs should have at least some familiarity with any flavour of assembly.
All of the americans i was with told me to do both. But they were drunk too, so who knows.
No it's not. It's secure but not reliable, your ssh tunnel will disconnect at some point. Use firewall and/or native security.
Mental strain, really?
For £35 you can pick up a Windows 10 32-bit tablet with wifi, Bluetooth, HDMI out, USB OTG, 1GB RAM, a MicroSD slot, 32GB eMMC, Intel Atom CPU and a year of Office 365 personal. They're excellent value for money.
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> So you also dislike bonuses for white collar professionals?

I do dislike them, because in a way they are the similar - you work really hard and you can't be sure if you will get it or not.

It's the classic carrot on a stick motivation.

> Because it's exactly the same thing.

At most companies, how you get a bonus and how much it is is very clearly defined, and so in that regard, it's not similar to tipping at all.
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How do you obtain an invite? That seems crazy.
If I give additional money to a bartender to encourage them to serve me before other (possibly poorer) people, that is not generosity.
Backwards compatibility can tie you to things that you need to get rid of though. At some point you have to decide to drop support for stuff and move on, otherwise something else that has will come in and eat your lunch.
>Why don't you question what you read?

Who says I don't? For example I question all the "we've never landed on the moon" posts I've read.

>Humans flying to the moon seems pretty extraordinary, no?

Only if one's knowledge/information about technology and about what's possible is at pre-world war II levels, if not 19th century level.

In other words, not much more extraordinary than believing in a "network that instantly allows us to send image/sound everywhere in the world from the palm of our hand", or in "satellites that tell us our precise location", or in "pictures of the Earth from space", or "storing all the world's books in a 2" device", or "going around the Earth on a plane with a Jacuzzi in less than 2 days".
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Anecdotal, but there's a supermarket chain in the Southeastern U.S. (Publix) that pays their employees a living wage, provides health coverage, and makes a point of letting the customer know that staff (even the folks that load your groceries into your car) doesn't accept tips. The food costs are a little bit higher than, say, Walmart, but closer to that end of the spectrum if Whole Foods is the opposite end. I don't know how well that model would translate to the restaurant industry but, personally, I would give preference to establishments that opted for that model than the current $2something/hour minimum wage + tips.
A very aggressive taxi driver (it was one up from a regular taxi, but don't recall what) drove my Gran and me from SFO to SF, the drive was TERRIFYING, would have been 1* on Uber. Yet he angrily demanded a 25% tip, he didn't get it. Fuck that guy.
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> All of whom own or lease almost all of their transportation infrastructure

Most FedEx drivers are contractors who must supply their own trucks.
Name collision with emerge, the Gentoo package manager. If this is an early stage of the project, you may think about a more unique name.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage#emerge
Definitely. Google Inbox has been a godsend. It works using feedback from millions of users I'd assume.

Still, I think Mail could mark emails written in a language you don't speak as spam pretty easily.
It worked on me (n=1). If I were to purchase all of the music I listen to Spotify each month, it would come to thousands per year. When I was in high school and college that clearly wasn't feasible. Now, I just pay $10/month and get everything I want. I'm very happy with the service.
I still find it a bit annoying that these docs are not in the source itself. I personally prefer something like http://apidocjs.com where you can write it as comments, only apidoc is still a bit limited.
Nothing.

I haven't been to Australia, but in the USA, you are missing out on a fake smile, a fake compliment, a light pat on the back, the server invading your personal space, by leaning into you to take your order (it makes you feel like you know the server? A weird bond forms? They become more than just someone who takes an order?).

I waited tables in college, and was taught some of the ways to increase that all important tip. You used to be able to sneak in a free drink; that's the best one.

I would like to see an end to all tips here.

It complicated because some employees are just likable. You want to give them money. Some employees actually make a pretty good living off a job that allows for tipping. Most employees don't have that magic though; I couldn't pull it off, without being fake. I'm just not a people person most days, especially with the self-entitled customer.

We have a huge sector of the society that needs jobs that allow for tipping though. I don't see the need for unskilled labor decreasing anytime soon. (I'm probally hurting someone's feelings? I don't mean to. Certain jobs that accept tips require training, and talent--a hair stylist is one.)

So--I feel raising the minimum wage is the right choice. It will prevent certain industries from just filling up the shop with bodies. Owners will have to hire the best applicant. More thought will go onto the hire? Speaking fluent English might be a requirement? Along with being bilingual?

My minimum wage would be close to $20 though.

(I came back to add something. Too many employers are paying skilled labor minimum wage--without tips. This is especially prevalent in construction. I worked for a few non-union telecommunications companies, and they all paid minimum wage. This edit isn't about tipping, it's about just how desperate certain workers are, and how employers exploit them. Couldn't sleep until I added this.)
This sounds more like my situation. I managed to go from a glorified data capturing role in finance labeled as a "financial analyst" and realizing that I wanted nothing to do with finance. I then moved "diagonally" into a more technical roll, built up some tech skills and I have just landed a proper software development roll after about a 3 to 4 year journey. I am 29. My only advice is make sure you feed your passion, don't let it die. Also you can start by trying to get hired into a position that doesn't necessarily put you exactly I software development but puts you on the path. Caveat: This is all in South Africa, and as a person with semi decent tech skills and a few years of experience I actually feel like I wear the pants in most my work relationships.
> 64-bit compatibility was never going to happen,

But it did, more or less. VBA and VB6 are essentially the same thing, and VBA 7 (still used in MS Office) added 64-bit support:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/gg264421.asp...
>You'd think that with our history so closely connected with the stars (before urbanization limited your camera's view), someone would have made sure to take a couple of photos, even bringing additional lenses, for such a potentially interesting point of view.. Alas none

If by "none" you mean "some", them yes. E.g:

http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/51000/5148...

Anything else?

(Even if nobody had bothered to take Earth photos with stars in them, the idea that there would be a huge conspiracy to manufacture a whole fake moon landing and tons of fake images of Earth from space, but somehow they would not know how to add stars with Photoshop to said images is beyond inane).
yeah but now they're there, with a big built in base of people who don't want to stop selling their skills. So they can make a new get started securely proposition.
The best thing i did for staying sane while browsing was to install noscript on firefox. Not sure how it will work now that Mozilla is "reworking (gutting?) Firefox extensions to make room for pr tab processes.
My wife has a brand-new Lenovo ThinkPad with Windows 10, and the touchpad is a total disaster. Now, this shouldn't be interpreted as PC haterade: until fairly recently I was a big ThinkPad guy (but with Linux), and switched to MacBook Pro only after they went Intel. But these touchpads on the new ThinkPads are cheap and tacky. I can't imagine having to use one every day.

So any effort PC/Win laptop makers are taking to improve things is welcome. I doubt they'll ever be as good as the touchpads on Apple hardware, though.
In another thread someone mentioned how bad the service is in Dutch restaurants (which, being Dutch, I agree with). In the Netherlands tipping is not required but it's not uncommon to tip for good service. Yet the service is bad. So I don't believe tipping is such a good incentive. Unless perhaps you pay the waiters the absolute bare minimum and they basically need the tips to survive.

It also doesn't really explain the fact that tipping in the US is basically mandatory, regardless of good service. If it's basically mandatory, where's the incentive to offer good service?
> They also organize ocean freight and air freight, which Uber isn't likely to get into…

…yet
The trackpads built into the Surface computers are still nowhere near the level of Apple's.
Where I live tipping is a matter of gratitude; you tip if you were treated well, and you don't if you weren't. I think it's easier to reason about, and is almost never problematic for anyone involved
I worked in finance sales for about 3 years. Bonuses are fun but I have seen a lot of misconduct in the pursuit of a bonus. Maybe its just banking...

I'm all for the no tipping and i happily work without a bonus. And i would expect other to as well. If you can't show up and be consistent in performance without a carrot then thats maybe not a great reflection of how you work and what you value.
I would think that Uber would be targeting the owner/operators with this venture, not those already employed for someone who provides a truck.
Because this particular dam happens to be upstream to some large population centres, back in 2007 they estimated half-million people could be killed and several millions displaced, that figure might be higher today.
One grabs peoples anttention more than the other. The original claim was because they are both in pharma, they should receive the same attention. But being in pharma is not the only aspect of their stories.

It's like arguing apples should be the same as oranges because they are both fruits.
I'm from Europe so I'm not very familiar with the tipping etiquette in the USA, but if I understand you properly, you're saying that in supermarkets like Walmart, people give tips to the personell? Like to the cashier?

That's quite a culture difference with Europe, here they would think that you were crazy if you would do such a thing ...
> No, because unlike a bonus, tips make up a significant portion of waitstaff's regular income.

Bonus makes up a significant portion of my regular income. I'm sure that's true for many other HN readers.

> It's a completely different situation than bonuses on top of a salary that already covers living expense.

In many cases, salary does not cover living expenses. In some instances bonuses can be 10x annual salary or more. Even if bonus is only 3x annual salary, you wouldn't say that salary covers living expenses as few people live on only 25% of their income.
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I once created a HN like alternative - http://tagly.azurewebsites.net/

- Has Tags

- Reputation

- Votes used as favorites

- Permission based roles ( not everyone can see all tags), according to tags --> custom roles or permissions on the topics.

- Personal tag header ( you can pick which tag you want to show in your menu)

- Custom tag based posts ( eg. when you add the tag newsletter, it adds 1 text input named subject, 1 textarea with Html and 1 textarea with text).

- You can hide tags showing, so it's only used as data

- ...

I could add paywall to it, if a post contains a tag named " paywall"

The demo is currently in Dutch though ( titles).

For anyone who wants to try: Demo1:123456 ( user : pass) -- http://tagly.azurewebsites.net/Account/Login?returnUrl=

It's not completely finished though
https://www.reddit.com/r/woodworking/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskCulinary/

The smaller subs have an entirely different culture and community. Any interest you have has a related sub-Reddit. you can search for them by clicking the 'more' link in the top bar that lists the subreddits.

https://www.reddit.com/subreddits/

Subcribe to the ones you like, and unsubscribe from all the defaults.
I love lobste.rs but I do have one complaint: The Tags, metadata and noise around the topic titles makes it difficult to scan for interesting topics. HN is so easy to just look down the list and find something interesting to read or discuss.
If it is such a broad classification, maybe it is not very meaningful then to say "tech has less women than any other non-routine cognitive profession".

Why use the classification at all, if it so broad? If you use "all professions", you get perhaps things like garbage men and miners who are worse than tech? So you can always select a filter that makes tech look worst.
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Id like to support businesses that pay their employees a living wage but as a consumer it is difficult to find that information. I'd like to see a sign in each store along the lines of "our lowest paid employee makes X/hr, has X days of paid vacation, and is eligible for health insurance" this might be something the market could correct for if the information asymmetry was removed.
This may be an unpopular opinion on HN, but after going through all the comments, and reflecting back on the general ethos of 2016, it's worth saying anyway:

I received the Black Swan by Nassim Taleb for Christmas, and there is a lot of "disruption leads to winner take all" talk in the book. I don't necessarily disagree with Taleb, but it's amazing that our lives are dominated by only a handful of companies (I'm willing to bet 90% of our daily time will be attributed to using a product made by either Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook). Now, the aforementioned companies generally do require scale, so my assertion is a bit hyperbolic, but in Uber's case... does freight really NEED scale? I've never needed to order freight, so I can't speak from experience here, but it seems like the social cost to having Uber win all may be far greater than the benefits in efficiency. I can imagine a future where we arrive at a new Era of Barons and legislation is passed to break them up (ala Rockefeller, Vanderbilt...etc.).

Last but not least, we seem to be push for "Universal Income" as a means to assuage the pain caused by the Winner Take All economy, but I don't think that's fair to a lot of America. I think we should solve the problem in it's root before we talk about Universal Income- I don't mean to sound negative, but it just seems like a convenient cop out to the problems at hand.
Yes it does. It's that much code that needs to parse config files and translate it to useful configuration. Oh and of course it needs to be backwards-compatible.

The dwm authors believe there already is something to write your configuration, parse it, test that its syntax is valid and use it to configure the thing: the C toolchain.
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Why do you make me off-topic and not the comment I replied to who started it by claiming over representation of men? Anyway, have it your way...
For me, WINE is preferred because Microsoft Office ran better on WINE last time I check.
Is there a place where "tips are an optional extra"? It seems wherever I've been they are either expected or not expected/allowed...
For the last two years I have only seen ads with exclusively female engineers from Google, for example the "I look like an engineer" series.

I haven't seen any effort to attract male talent. Of course having more women on the team will probably make a company more attractive to men, but I doubt that is the only thing they should bank on to attract men.
To avoid the sticker shock: List the prices minus a service charge of 15%. On the menu prominently display that a service charge is added. Perhaps it's a bit confusing but at least the prices are comparable.
Add a filter that only allows data from your domain. I found this on a spammy content marketing site somewhere. I added this and haven't seen any referral spam since. I'm not sure what the pros and cons are, maybe someone here can elucidate?

In GA: Admin -> All Filters -> Add Filter -> Predefined Filter Type -> Include Only -> Traffic to the hostname -> tha contains -> Enter your hostname in the text box ie mysite.com.
If there are not a lot of developers in your country, I would assume that a lot of businesses are running without proper software as well. If they had software they would have an advantage over their competitors who don't have it.

Have you tried talking to business owners to see if they have problems that can be solved with software? Being good with computers and able to program is a really large advantage if most people around you are not in that position.
How about the first sentence, "Women are expected to regulate the emotions of men as well as themselves."

And the first comment, "Anyhow — men who don’t understand their entire emotional range are prone to anger because they can’t meet their own needs."

And the 2nd comment, "I also wonder if that guy wonders if his girlfriends ever had to hire sex workers to manage their emotional needs before they met him."

I don't understand how you can't see it's a one-sided echo chamber.
FreeDOS saved my bacon some years ago. I was working at a college and one day a chemistry prof came in and said their spectrometer (IIRC) was dying. I took a look and found an old 386-based machine with a hard drive on the fritz. It ran some odd version of DOS from a company that no longer existed, there was no budget for a replacement, and classes relying on it were starting soon.

My memory is hazy but I was able to get a compactflash card with FreeDOS on it and used it to boot the system. The special programs that operated the device over the serial or parallel port took a little work to keep from crashing, but eventually all was working as before.
I'm surprised she went with Lenovo, and unsurprised with the results, given their history of anticonsumer practices. They've been caught putting malware on their laptops a few times recently[0]. The ThinkPads made by Lenovo should never be compared with the ones made by IBM - that era is over.

[0]: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/now-three-pre-installed-malware...
No, sorry if I wasn't clear. I used Walmart as an example for low cost but their employees typically aren't tipped. There are other, smaller (local or regional chains) grocery stores where employees can accept tips, however.
Jobs that have a high component of tip income, generally tend to be low wage (total comp), seasonal, have high turnover, employ younger workers (again, generally), and are transaction oriented.

With the above in mind it makes sense to use tipping to align enployees and management in a situation where management can't spend the time developing/micro managing its employees

You think the average teenage valet is going to run for your car on a hot day if there is no tip?
"People do not write byte-code; that job is left to the byte compiler. But we provide a disassembler to satisfy a cat-like curiosity."

How dare they! I will use that disassembler with my dog like curiosity.
Well, if you had a "built-with-musl" rustup, then you could just use it. But if not, you can curl the s3 bucket and grab them; rustup is ultimately a convenience, not a requirement. I guess that's why I see it as "mostly about rustc", since once you have that, you can compile rustup, and once you can do that, you can get it easily.

Just to be clear: I would like to see better support for all of this, personally. I'm not trying to argue that things are perfect today, just figure out exactly where in the process of getting there all this is, since I use Debian, not Alpine.
> sporting a smile that neither you nor i know is fake

If it's not fake, they're doing a bad job showing it.

>the solution is as simple as politely asking for space. Nobody walks away from a moment like that feeling angry.

Not angry, but it is an awkward thing to request, and I'd rather not have to.

>I find that tipping for service establishes a more direct human bond between me (the recipient) and the person performing the service

I absolutely disagree with that. I find reliance on tipping creates an alienating subservient relationship. No one is going to be genuine when they're depending on my opinion of them for their pay that evening.
I enjoy reading news sources from around the world, including China Daily and Russian Times. All news media carries some bias, and my strategy for understanding the world is to read news from many countries. The news in my country (USA) is also heavily biased. I expect to see less freedom in the Internet in the future, but I hope I am wrong about that!
Given the macro engine in Excel is VBA (basically VB6) I suspect VB6 support will be around for a VERY long time.
No it isn't. I did the same when I was starting out. Rather, we all do, when we are starting to learn anything new, by following tutorials, where you basically reimplement what the author of the tutorial has.
> Terrible waiter? Subtract $2 or $3.

Really? Surely if they're a terrible waiter/terrible service, you shouldn't leave any tip.
The election is now being referred to as the "recent unpleasantness". I do agree that not saying "Trump" makes him seem a little too Voldemort for my tastes.
It would be tempting to try a DOS web browser in this day and age.
If it is his job, he will run for the car. Otherwise he'll lose his job?
Most of the sports subreddits are great. r/cfb, r/NFL, r/NBA, r/baseball, r/hockey, r/soccer, r/collegebasketball, r/fantasyfootball, etc.
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(Sorry, this is mildly off-topic.) Not sure if this fits your usecase, but you should check out codesearch if you haven't already: https://github.com/google/codesearch

(Russ Cox's excellent writeup is here: https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp4.html)
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Tipping is about the perception of social class and giving the buyer the perception of having power over others, by giving them a mini power-trip.

In no other circumstances is a unilateral and after the fact negotiation acceptable. Would YOU work for a variable salary with no clear criteria on what affect it, no guarantee of salary regardless of your skills an effort and for which studies have shown that the colour of your skin, your sex and the mood and social background of the customer has more effect on your salary than anything else?

If the service and the food is good, I tip 15% and go back for more and talk about it to everybody I know. If the service or the food is bad, I tip 15%, never go back, and let everybody I know, know about it.
I think to some extent, this compensation method puts the ball in the waiters' court and requires a lot less performance management on the businesses part. I'd be interested to know if service is better/worse/same in non-tipping countries.