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> Working remotely should be the default, not the outlier.

> If your organisation requires personal presence something in your organisation is broken (management processes, the way people interact, obsolete tools etc.). Fix that instead of patching what's broken by mandating personal presence.

Maybe I'm not enough of a smartphone-enabled digital native for the 21st century, but there are actually social benefits to seeing and interacting with people in-person. Work is a social activity.

> Chances are not only will your employees be happier but you'll also uncover potential for optimisation.

No, I really doubt it. Maybe it would make a few people happier, but I really doubt it would be general. I've worked remotely with people and they never feel fully-fleshed out vs. the coworkers I regularly interact with in person. It would kinda be nightmarish for my entire workday to be like that.

The "optimization" aspect is probably even more unappealing, and reeks of the kind of narrow and aloof thinking that lead to Soviet continuous production weeks [1], which made it difficult for workers to maintain a social life.

I'm not saying that remote work should be totally banned. I think the flexibility offered by allowing people to do it occasionally is very humane, and perhaps it could help people who have some kind of condition that makes it hard for them to interact directly with others. However, it just doesn't seem wise to have remote work be the default.

[1] http://calendars.wikia.com/wiki/Soviet_revolutionary_calenda...
Anybody in Atlanta interested in film?

I use almost all of my spare time to pursue my hobbies, and this year I want to get started learning filmmaking.

I'd like to incorporate programming with filmmaking, too. I've had an idea for programmatically switching between several cuts of a scene based on user input and other variables. With enough shots and a clever enough script, one might be able to turn a film into a game.

If there's anybody locally into film, I'd love to buy you a coffee and see if we might be able to work together.
First day experience with Apple’s AirPods
Sorry, I should have said "the party I am a member of" :-)

And, yeah, they're unfortunately pretty resistant to changing the name.
I'd open a brewery. It's a pretty saturated market but from whatever little business planning I've done break-even point is at about 2 years which would be fine if I was running it as a side business. The problem is it's a full time job :)
That's exactly right. Ground is always tied to neutral in a single-phase 120V installation. Open your breaker box and remove the front panel. You'll see it. http://i.imgur.com/hCY1jV0.png

EDIT: That "always" is assuming the house is modern wiring and not older-style two-prong wiring for the wall outlets. Those systems were just main and neutral at the box and controlled by a fusible link.
The Plan 9 C compilers are nice as they're so small. Still, the backend creation process would look roughly similar, at least from where I'm standing: copy a roughly similar one and beat on it for some time. The difference is in duration, though. You're unlikely to pound on it for several years until you get something working.
Self-Proclaimed Inventor of Email Files Defamation Lawsuit Against Mike Masnick
It does... That's how I've been doing my syncing.

All my 1Password vaults are kept in my ownCloud account. Even works fine on Android where I use an app called FolderSync to keep my vault synchronized on my phone and have added it to the 1Password Android app.
Bluetooth Headphones Suck in MacOS Sierra
I would move to the Carribean and open a beachside bar with pinball machines and a large jukebox.
Back in the days I used Magma for symbolic algebra/geometry. Not sure about the status of the project today, but it had absolutely unique features to work in extension fields, rings, and build abelian varieties on these.
I assume you're writing Swift and/or ObjC. Which vim plugins do you use for these languages?
That is the case, but I think you're approaching it from the wrong angle.

The dispute is about 1P's ongoing access to DB after you grant it permission to connect. The claim is that giving 1P full access is an increased risk.

The only way 1P's access to DB is a risk at all is if someone got ahold of 1P's access token. The only way to do that (at least on iOS) would be to exploit 1P somehow. But every time 1P runs, I authenticate, which would give exploit code access to all my passwords, including my DB password.

I don't see a scenario where an attacker is able to access 1P's token but not able to access my DB password.
I wanted to share this mostly to point out three things:

1) It's interesting that we've gone from selling those little plastic overlays to full keyboards and

2) The fact that they want to do it for other professions, and all of them are about changing the function keys, is a pretty strong argument for Apple's touch strip.

3) How does this actually work? Is it basically hard coded macros? Will it stop working when Word changes their API?
http://thin.npr.org/
Movie director, no doubts
60% - Visual Studio Pro / 40% - Visual Studio Code

Why? .NET enterprise dev is my job, hence Visual Studio Pro, those services are fronted by SPAs, hence Visual Studio Code.
Yeah, that's a substantial difference. If it's purely additive then at worst there's some sort of opportunity cost. If they transform normal lanes into paid lanes then it's a whole different sort of thing.
CFI is my retirement job. Already have my private, so I'm working towards my commercial now. Once I'm starting to feel like the old man of the team, it'll be time to move to a beautiful part of the country with lower living expenses and let students try to kill me all day.

Bonus: if I work in the tech industry long enough, I can afford to pick up a few 150s and start a school.
I've never understood why anyone doesn't use tap to click on Apple trackpads. Physical or not, the full click is such a flow interruption for me it drives me crazy when I have to do it (fortunately, effectively never).

There was a viral Flash(?) game a few years ago involving a frog sticking out its tongue to trap insects; the catch for the game was that it had no help, everything in the UI was discoverable, but barely.

Unless, of course, you used tap to click, which wasn't registered by the game. I spent 5 minutes trying to play before deciding the whole thing must be a hoax.
Look for cases where the cost of errors is high, then pitch the reliability of a managed workflow in the software.

Otherwise, yeah, trivial stuff probably is done best with spreadsheets, wikis and ad-hoc emails.
I don't think they are on hacker news anymore :)
Train driver. In particular, pootling around the highlands of Scotland in a Class 37.
Thank you for the feedback.

Think of the "fu number" as a "DealRank"-type metric. Its full definition is rather complex and unpalatable for the average user, and I doubt that it would add much intuition besides the fact that greater value is better, which is very similar to how users think of PageRank.

I agree that the questions of whether the "price-fu" metric is the most relevant possible, or uses the most relevant inputs, or weights them appropriately, etc. are still open, and the current answer is "probably no", but is work in progress.

Regarding resellers trying to avoid price matching by using alternative product names/models, I must say that I haven't seen evidence of that yet. I might be naive, but I am more inclined to attribute this to the general low quality of the product data out there.

Nevertheless, you are right that the problem of determining whether product A and product B are comparable is hard, especially considering the great diversity in how manufacturers label their products. An additional problem is that many China-made gadgets don't even have a consistent naming scheme, or even a model number, making comparisons even harder.

Regarding finding lower prices on manufacturer's site, are you sure you did not compare USD and CAD prices? Many users seem to be confused by this.
> > If your organisation requires personal presence something in your organisation is broken

> Please tell, what's broken in my org?

What I'm getting at with this is that if personal presence is mandatory you should have an actual reason for that. Your organisation obviously does.

The more usual reason for mandatory personal presence unfortunately is "Because it's always been done this way and we like to see butts in seats because we don't trust our employees nor do we know how to manage what they're working on or how to measure their results."
Even web devs learned this a long time ago. And no we are not staying in our own bubble. As you probably know web is huge and it's hard to know all best practices. Even in the language you are programming there are probably things you don't know. People learn all the time, people start learning all the time.

It feels like people have superiority complex over front-end devs and lately specifically javascript. It bothers me. What if you tell me your language of choice and every time I see it mentioned somewhere I will post some random "intellectual question" combined with stereotype that will make you feel stupid and just demotivate you a bit. Maybe I am missing something but your comment made me feel that way.

To answer your question fully; In my opinion it's because there is no single entity that owns the web. No one controls which things should be deprecated or continued, that's why it's happening much slower because big guys have to come to an agreement. Apple provides best practices for iOS, Google for Android,... MDN is a good resource but there is no official "BEST WEB PRACTICES" entity.
Music Curator/DJ: Not a Top 40 DJ but more like Gilles Peterson. Have a collection of unique and eclectic playlists.
In the summer I would just like to work outside.
Amazon echo just earned it's name.
"Enduring" is quite a nice way to decribe "old and too risky to replace". ¬_¬
Anyway, this misses the point of the FSF in insisting on calling it GNU/Linux.

The point of the GNU is not to name every application that runs on your system, but to say that you're running the Linux kernel AND the GNU userland to have a functional system, i.e. that GNU is the second half of a complete system, GNU/Linux.

I thought the point was to bring attention to the idea of Free Software as a philosophy. Where as Open Source is more of a marketing tool.
Wow, great!

Are there any plugins / modes for writing structured natural language text that you use? How do they help? What's missing?
Because someone didn't understand the ISO-8601 date format.

2016-12-14 => 14 December 2016
I agree that the article was amazingly content free. "negative differential resistance" in this context means simply that the relationship of current and voltage across the device is not a linear function.

Looking around the web the most common way that is taken advantage of is in small oscillators; transistor turns on as the input voltage rises above a gate threshold but then turns off again once you get enough gate current to be in a different part of the resistance curve. There were some EE times articles suggesting multi-level memory (non-binary) as another application.

The weird thing is "negative resistance" isn't something that makes sense electrically, and what they are really talking about is plotting the value of current with respect to voltage, a resistor is a simple line, diodes are a discontinuous at their forward avalanche voltage, and these things have lower current passing through them at some higher voltage. So the slope of the line is 'negative' at that point. (and the differential part comes in because it is between two specific voltages).
Quora automatically makes you follow your Facebook friends
SGI Indigo2 Computer System Review
Oh, wow. I've played Simutrans, but it was a long long time ago (think "early alphas, back when raising and lowering land under bridges raised and lowered the roadbed of that one tile") and mostly forgot about it since. Will give it another look.

> After playing Simutrans, I find OpenTTD's passenger destination model kind of weak, as it seems to generate passengers to based on your network.

The vanilla model is crap ("passengers generate in towns and you can take them ANYWHERE YOU WANT to maximise profit!") but the non-manual cargo-distribution setting is ... acceptable, if you just want to build a single passenger network going everywhere anyway. (You'll possibly get more passengers than you rightly deserve from a fragmented early network, but your real challenge is going to be capacity management either way, so it doesn't bother me as much myself.)
Automate your own tasks and do not tell anybody. Have a chilled out life!

It worked out for me until a got hospitalized for weeks and the college who took over my tasks figured it out. I did the same two more times and leard a lot about refactoring bad architectures. I jumped ship an sold myself as the guy who automates processes. Now I can refuse doing boring manual tasks. It makes me really satisfied.
Arts and Letters Daily

https://www.aldaily.com/
Mentioned, but this was a reduction in cash bonus of around 2.6 million. While approximately 136 million of his equity vested in the same year. And, he got a 1 million bump up in base salary. The total hit to his comp isn't terribly notable.
Its kind of like asking a lawyer, "If I do X, will that prevent me from being sued?"

The answer is always No, but they think about it for a few hours before they reply.
"That doesn't refute that in use cases, one finger(print) may stop working while another still works."

Not in mine. Simply put there are too many cuts on every single finger on my hands to make biometric fingerprinting a reliable thing, and those cuts change pretty much daily. Do mining like I do, in hard rock, with hand tools and no gloves (because you need to feel for things lest you destroy a perfect specimen.) You're not escaping uncut, no matter what.
> You'd also have to be a fool to think it isn't possible you have subconscious bias in line with what we see in studies.

You didn't say "possible". stop throwing out things like "we see in studies" without being a bit more specific wrt which studies you mean. You didn't specify just that we're all biased, but specifically how we are all biased - that requires more qualification.

> planning for it to experience it

The author is planning to interfere with not just how sexism is handled, but how it is interpreted also. The author has a low bar in distinguishing sexism.

> I imagine so

I don't.

> That's literally the point of the piece

It's the authors intended message, but not my takeaway.

> we can't categorise things because people disagree on their exact meaning?

Sure, you can categorise. You just can't lean on the word to have a solid definition, e.g. "Feminism is good/bad"

Saying this is about as meaningful as "democracy is good", for some definition of democracy - its fluffy goodspeak - not very useful unless context is supplied to define the ambiguous term.

> I mean, you could replace 'feminism' with almost any word and have that sentence be technically true.

I disagree, there are plenty of fields that are more discriminating wrt their membership, and more objective in their knowledge base.

How many 'mathematicians' would agree that 1 + 1 = 3 in set of integers?

I'm not saying that feminist technically don't always agree, I'm saying they often don't agree. There isn't enough internal critique to ensure that kind of consistency.

> Feminism has a definition

Shame it's not adhered to - http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_dictionarium#Femi...

> We all deal with [sexism] in some way or another

Does the author believe her boy will be the victim of sexism?

> trying to prepare their child and educate them

It's only education if its factual. If you force an opinion upon a child it's indoctrination.

> You just want to paint all feminists as crazy

No I don't, in fact I've implied the opposite in what I've written - as such please qualify this statement.

> in your reasoning to decry all feminism as bad

what I wrote:

> this type of feminism is bad

doesn't sound like I'm talking about all feminism to me. In fact, if I was, it wouldn't make sense to say "this type".
I have 1Password vaults in 3 different shared folders in addition to the default 1Password app folder. I use these shared folders to share vaults and passwords with my husband, my sister, and my parents. When I update our bank password, for example, I don't have to update it twice. It is stored in the vault that my husband and I share. This is critical to my use of 1Password.

I would much rather have this scenario (and give 1Password access to my full Dropbox) vs having all of my data on AgileBits servers and paying for an account for families or yearly for each individual. If 1Password went to requiring vaults to be in a specific, app-permissed folder, it would break my workflows completely.
The talk pages that Maciej (Pinboard) makes are refreshing.

http://idlewords.com/talks/
I've always thought being a dictator would be an easy way to get things done.
Also curious. Do you use soft wraps or hard wraps when dealing with text?

Further legislative text has a lot of resemblance to code.
Oh noes, only 24k per day anymore!
When feature toggling meets analytics
How strong it is? Is there any pre-trained data available?

IIRC, Monte Carlo Tree Search with "dumber" heuristics than NNs yielded amateur dan level AIs for the first time (somewhere around 2006?). Lately there has also been some AIs that bolt a NN in, and get around 1 stone stronger (which is still miles away from AlphaGo!).

But since this is specifically modelled after AlphaGo, I wonder how it fares against other AIs.
Novelist would be my initial attempt. Mind you I'm working on doing it as a second job NOW (I'm about 80% done with my current novel)
Do you mean something that simply listens for sound in those frequencies or decodes known signals as well? The latter would be pretty interesting to walk around dense urban and shopping centers with.
> Surely the user would have had to approve microphone access for the app first, and it'd better have a good excuse.

Does it? Aren't people generally in the habit of signing off on any access if they want what an app offers?
http://techmeme.com/river

http://mediagazer.com/river

http://memeorandum.com/river

http://aldaily.com was already mentioned

http://scitechdaily.com aldaily sister science site

http://hckrnews.com

https://longform.org

https://longreads.com

..

https://redef.com doesnt fit the criteria, but its close, and i wish it had an option to turn off images.

two i dont actually visit very often - http://www.jimmyr.com http://popurls.com

..

as for page design itself.

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/

http://http2.info/
Same. I'm a software engineer who's been going down the metal fab/welder pathway for the last 1.5 years. It's highly rewarding, but also the overhead continues to grow and grow. Probably because the scale continues to grow as well.

I need to be happy making small physical things instead of huge physical things...
http://www.breefield.com/projects/prodigal-swan

I've also looked into the timeline involved in becoming a PE. Not only do you have to take 6 years of school but you have to work under a PE for 2 years to become one. The pay doesn't seem to justify that much training (considering my anecdotal interest in the field).

Call me new-school, but I continue to enjoy working on systems that can't kill or maim people.
>If you want a framework that reduces boilerplate by doing some magic or having a more strict interface

Having DRY code is not "magic".
Chocolatier. Nearly went into it before taking this job, but the numbers didn't add up and wanted to try a different city. Whenever I've had a hard day I was wonder what if... It's easy and therapeutic, and a great conversation starter. A few examples http://stevefarnworth.com/channel/taste
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I have read studies that too much reward actually destroys the incentive. Instead of doing the work they are supposedly incentivized to do the main focus shifts on getting the reward at any cost.
This reaction IS what I was talking about, and does seem at odds with Vivaldi's branding and marketing. The website slogans include, "It's your web. Surf it the way you want!", " A million ways to customize everything!", etc. But suggest letting users customize Vivaldi so that common new tab behavior is the default, and ancient Opera behavior is the one requiring extra clicks... and suddenly customization is bad, and the way people want to surf the web is objectively wrong.

I don't think the Vivaldi team has said anything against letting you customize that option. Probably that customization is just not implemented yet.
I like the dynamic + functional aspects of JS. I just wish that Node JS semantics were more like Erlang (which I have only admired from afar, alas - Java brain death forever!).

E.g. - concurrent operations in a single VM, but using actors exchanging immutable messages, NOT shared data and locks.
I'd probably become a monk.
What? Digital broadcasts did not flop in the US. I cant' imagine how you come to that conclusion.

You only need an adapter box if you have a non-HD TV. If you have a HD TV all you have to do is plug in an antenna directly into the TV. The government subsided conversion boxes when the transaction happened, which was around 2008 IIRC.

If you have a non-HD TV you aren't going to have an HDMI port to plug your Roku into, so that's a moot point anyways. There literary is no "Roku vs conversion box" it doesn't make sense.

There is also waaayyy more channels with HD broadcasts than analog broadcasts. I'm saying that as someone who went through the transition personally. In 2008 I had a CRT TV and was using rabbit ears to pick up local stations (yeah, I was a "cord-cutter" way before it was cool). I bought a converter box (which the government paid for half of it) and switched to HD when they cut off my analog.

And how were "broadcasters killed by their own greed?" How is broadcasting TV for free "greedy?"

Oh, and the transition was mandated by the FCC and Congress (with the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005) not "greedy TV stations." It was done in order to free up spectrum for other stuff. The amount of spectrum the Earth has is finite. Duel broadcasting digital and analog of the same content at the same time was taking double the spectrum. Verizon bought some of the previous analog spectrum to use for their 4G network.
Using Apache Spark for Machine Learning – Dataframes vs. RDDs
I'm not sure if you linked to the right page / responded to the correct comment?
Travel writer/photographer: I travel enough for pleasure as it is, I could probably do this as a side gig, but doing it full time would be interesting.

Indy rapper: My favorite artists are all YouTube stars (Futuristic, Devon Terrell, Kyle KiD), and I have some talent for music and I've been freestyle rapping in my car for decades. I could bring a unique perspective to rap as a black software engineer turned rapper (from python to gettin my rhyme on?).

Motivational speaker: My first career was teaching so I have experience with public speaking. Specifically I'd like to create a series of seminars that teach people how to negotiate pay raises. I'm horrified when I hear about people who don't negotiate, or accept 3% raises. I have averaged an 20% increase annually over the past 10 years and I think I can teach others to do the same.
The CEO of Palantir Alex Karp is a philosopher.