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> MacBooks have good software that works.

More specifically, the stuff I don't want to mess with just works: peripherals and GUI stuff work without intervention, and the thing goes to sleep when I close the lid. And the stuff I want to mess with is still good old familiar Unix. I haven't tried out desktop Linux in awhile, but the Free Software model only seems to work for things coders like to work on in their spare time, like terminals, text editors, and command-line programs. For the rest, I'm willing to pay my fellow coders so I don't have to deal with it.
Hi, I thought of this as a starting point I could use to build more complex apps. The idea was in no way novel. I just wanted to use the modern technologies out there.
It's crowdsourced, it will have more info as it gains popularity
This was a fantastic talk. Both the content and the quality of the talk itself exceeded my expectations. I knew that bar codes on boarding passes are PDF-417 and have lots of info embedded, but the attack vectors they discuss are NUTS.

I tried posting this earlier in the week and it didn't get any traction, but user sleavey posted a great summary of the talk in that thread in case you don't have an hour, which is worth reading: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13273314

I'm pretty sure the attack vector they discuss about finding boarding passes and changing the frequent flyer number attached to the itinerary is what the people who sell flights for 20-30% the cost[0] do. I've been wondering who that scam hurts for a while, the common thought is that they're using stolen credit cards but from what I understand the "services" are way too reliable to be based off stolen cards.

[0] http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/01/flying-the-fraudster-skie...
Ya, I'm really not sure what they're on about. I took parted-out a Macbook Air, and it was the easiest laptop I've ever disassembled. Having everything built for the specs of one manufacturer means a lot less 'glue' to make it all one piece.
This is a long read but well worth the time. Takes a higher level look at trends in automation and the econome in general.
I'm not sure the question of existence comes to us naturally. I've known, very few people, but some people who were raised without anyone ever bringing up the topic to them, and they simply seem to not care about that question or its answer. Yet I, who was actively raised where multiple people brought up existence and the point of it and why we are here, and what we must do, etc., I feel an anxiety for it, like I can't satisfy myself not knowing and just being here, doing things without reason.

I've come to piece with this now though, by managing to really accept that I actually don't care either.
If you are interested in thoughtful debate on that topic, watch (listen?) to this debate that I heard on the radio a while back and was able to find [1]. My girlfriend and I were on the way back from a run and ended up sitting in the driveway for a good 30 minutes listening. I was leaning towards one side already but not so much that I wasn't open to the arguments of the other side, but I was really impressed overall with the format and the quality of the arguments on both side. I felt one side had a significantly better supported stance but it was really pleasing to hear a quality debate on the topic. Well worth the listen.

[1] http://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/hunters-conserv...
Many of them athiests themselves.
There are quite a few of these ladies in San Francisco too. They have enormous bags filled bottles and cans, which can sometimes stink with the remnants of old beer or soda. They ride public transport between locations with their huge bags taking up a seat next to them. Sometimes the bus driver or passengers object but mostly people just leave them alone.

They represent a testament to hard work, even in later life, that few cultures manage to exemplify quite like the Chinese seem to do.
To be fair, you also had countless celebrities broadcasting the message that drugs are cool and awesome.
Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity utility, officials say
Does Vanguard offer Admiral target date funds? Something like an Admiral version of VFIFX would be nice. I don't see anything on the web about it.
I'm from Canada but in Argentina right now. We have lots of folks in Europe and some in Asia! We have folks doing the round the world dance too. We had folks in Australia.
Garbage Trucks Will Help Protect New York for New Year’s Eve
Jsbench.GitHub.io – JavaScript benchmark playground
There is a wide range of options on HackerRank.

Standard interviews: multiple choice trivia, red black tree programming puzzles.

Innovative interviews: Custom code exercises with custom unit tests written by the company, ssh exercises where a server is created automatically per candidate and he has to connect to it and configure/fix/change some stuff.

After many interviews (both given and received). I have definitely settled that:

1) I'd rather write a stupid program on HackerRank than deal with an annoyingly scheduled phone interview (where I might be expected to spell that code over the phone WTF). Automation is nicer than the average interviewer. A proper code editor for coding is better than the average shared editor.

2) No matter what we try to do: 20% of candidates won't show up + 20% won't be able to code a program to print numbers from 1 to 10. There's nothing we can do about that (the sad state of interviews is probably all because of that).

3) For the first initial screening, very simple exercises are all that's needed (see 2). Hacker Rank is perfectly appropriate for that.
My Thinkpad X1 Carbon 2nd gen is still going strong 3 years later, but this 5th gen is pretty tempting.

Main questions:

- Are these "up to 15.5 hours of battery life" numbers purely theoretical? Even brand new, my 2nd gen only got about 6 hours of normal usage. I run Ubuntu so maybe these power saving tweaks are the result of closer hardware integration with Windows?

- The mobile broadband option (Qualcomm Snapdragon X7) is intriguing, it would save me carrying around a separate hotspot. Has this worked for any Linux users? What carrier do you recommend?

- Any reports of the Wigig Dock working on Linux?

Pros that I can see:

- Real function keys! The adaptive touchpad on my 2nd gen is awkward and silly -- can't believe Apple followed their lead on this. Good riddance.

- That the 5th gen is even smaller and lighter boggles the mind. My 2nd gen is already ridiculously thin. After 5 years of hauling 5-8lb T4x models around NYC my back was killing me, and I was probably on the verge of permanent physical injury. The X1 was a godsend.

- Same old Trackpoint I know and love. Not for everyone, but a mouse on the home row + vim is ergonomic heaven for me. Never change, Thinkpads!

Cons that I can see:

- Looks like almost the same display as my 2nd gen, a 2560x1440 WQHD IPS. A small bump up in nits but that's it. Viewing angles are better than on older laptops, but I still can't read my screen in bright environments, and it gets gummed up with debris and smudges way too easily. Apple continues to dominate in this dimension.

- Matter of taste, but the Silver design feels like Lenovo is trying way too hard to look Apple-y.
I'd argue that you have to smuggle any productive hours you can, during any time interval of the day -- or the night.

That doesn't inherently mean you work more than 40 hours a week, no?
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNR for the personal information it stores.
Tor at the Heart: Firefox
Memcache internals (2011)
5 Mysterious Events Caught on Tape
Yeah, the article was definitely talking about scripts - I just meant that as an aside, in case anyone but us actually reads these comments :)
Paying for roads, teachers, police, freeways etc. ... Stuff you actually use ... The real question is what do the feds do with 30% of your money? Apart from dragging you into endless wars of course
Motors will be more like 1kg each. One can get a 10 kilowatt 1 kg air cooled motor.

Batteries are the heavy bit, and in my opinion, the future there is to have batteries capable of 2 minutes of flying, and a gasoline engine as a hybrid generator.
Assuming Clinton had those dirty secrets and Trump had nothing equivalent, that's what a level playing field looks like.

If you want to assume there were also some dirty Trump secrets that didn't come out then it seems like the only way to "level the playing field" would be for e.g. Venezuela to hack the Republicans and air their dirty laundry too.

And people are running around saying how terrible this is and asking "what if everybody did this?" But it seems like the answer to that question is, then people would know more relevant information about their political candidates. Or politicians would get better at computer security. Which of those is supposed to be bad?
True enough but IMO this compromises the physical integrity of the phone. The one and only time in my life where I broke a screen of a smartphone was exactly when it had a hefty battery case on.

I'd prefer the bigger battery to be a part of the package.
They do not unfortunately. You'll spend 15 minutes rebalancing your portfolio every quarter if you're i admiral funds instead of target date; annoying, but not a deal breaker.
I'm skeptical about delivery drones for this reason. Between the noise, security concerns, and visual pollution it will be hard to implement mass adoption of UAV's for delivery.
(February 2011)
These (lodev and permadi tutorials) were indispensible to me when I was working on my game engine, which used delta force style raycast terrain -- there are extremely few resources on that concept, sadly. Fortunately for us all, archive.org exists to preserve the few articles from the 90s on the subject.
> I have never ran a consultancy full-time, and didn't particularly want to start now

Just interested - does that mean that you've never actually been a full-time consultant?

And do you really think that it's within the realm of possibility to pull $30k/week for 35 weeks/year? (ie: $1m+ after your $50-100k in expenses).
As well as put in place some animal cruelty laws. You would hold your head in your hands if you saw what happens. For dogs, for example, they will tie their front legs together BEHIND their back (YES, DISLOCATING THEM), and leave them tied up like that with a tin can over their mouth until they're ready to deal with them. They'll even hold the dogs legs like a "handle" while carrying them around. I've never seen cruelty like it...
I "worked" 40-hour weeks at an insurance company with tons of process, paperwork, reliance on other teams with constrained resources, etc. for 4 months and accomplished nothing.

When I arrived the bug software had 40 open bugs. When I ended my contract, the bug software had 4 open bugs and 36 bugs awaiting QA resources to be assigned. I'm not exaggerating.

I've seen companies with departments that work 40 hour weeks, and accomplish pretty much nothing at all. For various reasons.
Fertile Ground, the Roots of Clojure
As someone who recently got an XPS DE coming from a Mac background, I'm not sure what you mean about feeling cheap. Metal. Sturdy. Single hinged display (which is infinity edge, so is smaller than my MBP 13). The 'rubberized'(?) surrounds of the keyboard actually feel nicer on my wrists than the MBP which was actually sharp-edged. I prefer the keyboard to my 2015 MBP, and my girlfriend's 12" MB. No creaks, flexes, and still lighter than my MBP.
It's been that way for quite a while. E.g. there was a book written (perhaps in 1955) titled

Where Are the Customers' Yachts?[1]
or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street

As one review puts it[2]: The title came from a story about a visitor in New York more than a century ago. After admiring yachts Wall Street bought with money earned giving financial advice to customers, he wondered where the customers' yachts were. Of course, there were none. There is far more money in providing financial advice than there is in receiving financial advice.

[1] http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-047177089...

[2] http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/02/21/where-are-t...
What are you trying to learn?

If the market is well defined you can start with a discovery driven sales approach where you sell against the existing solution your prospect is using and keep your eyes and ears open as to why the choose to stick with it or switch to your offer.
Fair. I was commenting that Google seemed to think they could still beat YouTube.

That is, Facebook seems geared to live beside insta gram. Video seemed clear to either beat or die to YouTube.

So yeah, I was trying to add to your comment. Not necessarily contradict it.
Indeed. I know the lead industry used to manipulate scientific research, in much the same way that the sugar industry has done in recent times, but that's no excuse for throwing scientific rigor away.
> TL;DR: A damage dealer will beat a healer one on one, but that doesn't mean he's better. You need them both (plus a tank) to run a dungeon successfully.

I haven't played a single game where this was true. Simply because both the healer and the damage dealer can do damage but only a healer can heal.
Microsoft is in a really interesting place as far as workplace collaboration goes. Between the Surface {Hub,Book,Pro} lines and their enterprise messaging technology, it really seems like they just need to fix SharePoint.

I do wish that Microsoft would have standardized on thunderbolt 3 as opposed to the surface connector, but between power and all the compatability problems I suppose I get it.
What would someone say in 1996 about a form of cruise control that functions like an airplane shipping today in a Tesla?

What would the average person say about a self-driving cab that is currently being piloted by Uber at that time?

I'm honestly surprised about the downvoting and snark here. There are Air Force officers sitting in trailers in Nevada right now controlling swarms of semi-autonomous drones, performance surveillance and blowing stuff up. Why is a simple air taxi beyond the imagination?
I'm working on getting some support from the marine engineering department of my local uni to assess the idea of a ferrocement boat with basalt rebar reinforcement instead of steal.

I think this has a bunch of advantages over other techniques for this kind of lifestyle.

I would love to receive some emails (myusername@gmail.com) or comments talking about oneweb, and the freedom it could provide for people who like this kind of lifestyle. Some testimonials that there are actually people considering this.
Is this really a good idea? Open meetings laws, pre-vote publication, and a variety of transparency measures have often backfired and gotten us worse, more special interest controlled legislation.
I saw it, but only because I had started skipping through his post knowing it wouldn't make sense unless he explained SME. Poor communication habit.
The things that make Java slow compared to C++ aren't in the compiler so much as in the language. In a sentence, Java made tradeoffs for productivity and simplicity that in C++ went in favor of performance and power.
Four-day workweeks boost days with absent full-time staff by 50% (2 days to 3), creating more demand for overtime hours. That's part of the strategy. That is magnified by the fact that those workers will preferentially come in mainly/only on the 7th day of their workweek, requiring double paid time rather than just time and a half.
Please elaborate on the people thing.
Gernerally I think environmentalist and hunters have the same objective, conserve a species.

When I was in Africa, it was pointed out that the "game hunters" get to bring back a trophy, and that trophy containing ivory often never makes it back, going into the black market. Keeping a steady lower bound on the supply for those making a living in smuggling, and enabling poaching elsewhere.

I have no answers to this problem. One hopes it can be stopped on the demand side, and this move by China will help.
Ivory is an odd substance to be considered so valuable.
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This Currency Has Trounced the Dow This Year, 124% to 14%
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Bttn.css – Awesome buttons for awesome projects
Agreed asynchronous communications can have a ton of benefit as mentioned in the article (fewer meetings, schedule flexibility). But on the other hand, taken to the extreme, this also can lead to just the isolation the article mentions.

I spent ~5 years remote at a larger company where the vast majority of employees were on site. Needless to say, the culture didn't adopt any "remote best practices". I worked from home during this time, and am probably somewhere similar on the social spectrum as the author: some aspects of introversion and extroversion. I think the frequent meetings and synchronous communication with colleagues is exactly what kept the job from feeling too isolating during that time. (However, meetings were TOO frequent for productivity).
I think that comparing yourself to the worst of the crop is not a good idea ;)

I don't know what city you're talking about. The articles was mixing salaries in some Japan cities and some American cities which is a very bad indicator.
Wouldn't the city be able to collect the bottle deposit too? I'm assuming 5-15 cents each is much more than they'd get by recycling the glass.
I have the XPS 13 9350 (dmidecode c&p). The only issue is the BCM4350 Wifi card, and its a biggie. Do not buy the BCM, get the Intel Wifi card fitted. Or replace it yourself with this one: https://www.amazon.com/Intel-Generation-Wireless-Computer-No..., they cost about $15.

I also had suspend/resume issues occasionally, a recent bios upgrade fixed that, I think.

Apart from the original WiFi, I'm very happy with the XPS 13.
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What's the coffee scene like in Warsaw and Poland in general?

Also, switching to decaf partway through is probably the smart thing to do :)
That would have caused endless conflict-of-interest headaches.
There's one in Oakland around Lake Merritt. She's been around as long as I have (15+ years). I've always wondered where she goes at night.
Except the neutrino paper then was a big lot of physicists asking colleagues to help them review, so as to find where the problem was. What I see here is just hype. The former, as opposed to the latter, is what gives confidence that the people involved are doing their darnest not to fool themselves. That what they're doing is actually science.
If the shoe fits, wear it.

And if it doesn't... don't?
You can run the motors out of phase to cancel noise.
They actually make an XPS 13 Developer Edition preloaded with Ubuntu.

http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/productdetails/xps-13-linux
This talk is a rare example of what I would call beautiful thinking.

If I interpreted that correctly, implementing a turing machine in CGoL that runs CGoL was delightful.
You can stack the traffic. Delivery drones will kill the view anyway. You can build in passive safety + have them follow freeways.
"In the past year, were you a victim of murder?"
No, but if it can see a "no person", it might see not a cat.
It actually sounds like the "having published no papers" bit was the primary reason he wasn't able to get a job. Not having an advisor recommendation is not a good sign, but it's hard to argue with published work.
Most if not all of these cars coming off lease still have a several years of warranty left on the battery. Far as I can tell though batteries[1] appear to be rather reliable in any event.

[1] Manufacturers have about 30 years experience making lithium ion batteries at this point.
>You lose VTOL

Joby and Zee are using wings plus VTOL. They shut down the VTOL rotors for level flight.
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This mirrors my experience going from product support to software engineering. I moved roles in a company that was primarily a sales organization, so I still had a lot of responsibilities to other people that required social interaction. When I switched companies to join a product development team all the social interaction went away. In fact, earlier this year I went for several months without any real interaction with my co-workers, and I work in a cubicle farm. This had a severe impact on my mental health, to the extent that I'm in therapy now. I've since started seeking more interaction with co-workers during the day because I actually need it to work effectively.

People often write about software development as if it's a solitary activity, but I can only do my best work for other people. Having personal relationships with my co-workers makes me a stronger developer, and I can't do it remotely.
the sad thing about this article is that rolling stone has completely lost all credibility to me after their complete and total journalistic failure over the University of Virginia story (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/verdict-reached-in-rolling-stone...)

does anyone else have a more reliable source?
It's true in EVE. The an army of the most powerful damages dealers in the game would be overwhelmed by an army with a decent composition...
Anti-patterns can be copied as well as reinvented. Also, some can manifest simply through developers' inattention rather than being a deliberate reinvention, such as:

* Big Ball of Mud

* Creeping featuritis

* Copy Pasta
> Need a quick-and-dirty prototype ASAP? Give it to the framework hipster.

So that he can make the prototype with the newest hipster tech that noone else knows in the company and will probably be abandoned next year...
I worked in Japan for a year at a 100 person startup (all Japanese people except for me). Anecdotally, people did seem to work a lot of hours but it was also felt like one of the most laid back environments in a way. It seemed like working all those hours allowed them to not be rushed. They were also pretty successful, and had as one of their goals to be like a "San Francisco startup" which may have made them a bit more of an exception instead of the rule. Also I worked primarily in SF at a lot of startups so that made it an easier transition for me.

I definitely saw salarymen on trains falling asleep or all heading out in packs to bars though, so I have no doubts about there being a very hard-working middle-class that also has extra-office obligations.
Do you have a text version of this? The PDF is nice, but a single-column webpage is way easier to read. Thanks.
google is to be believed
The MacBook has screws. What it doesn't have is cheap plastic held together with clips (like most Thinkpads).
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Maybe the time and effort demands of both wouldn't have allowed it but given how Patrick's personal debt grew, it seems it would have helped to do at least a little bit of consulting while he was working on Appointment Reminder.

Doing freelance / consulting work on the side while bootstrapping your product to profitability seems increasingly common now. Though this is definitely more sustainable in locales with lower costs of living while you also don't have to provide for a whole family.
>I wonder if it's the Valley culture? There is no way a Macbook can compete with a proper Thinkpad [2] for programmer productivity: the keyboard, the UltraNav, the swappable batteries (you can fly around the world with a x260 + spare battery), a nice docking station, upgradeable storage/memory

You completely missed the most important productivity tool for a programmer, the display and no thinkpad can compete with a macbook in that regard.

In addition new Mac keyboards are better than new thinkpad keyboards. Mac trackpads are better than thinkpad trackpads, the ultranav is not good, battery life on macbooks are better than thinkpads and you don't need to carry extra batteries, and macbook docking solutions are better than thinkpad docking solutions.

Also why would you want to use linux when that will 100% give you shorter than 4 hours battery life along with a host of other issues when you can use OSX and get good battery life along with a fully posix compliant os?