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Tried to switch to Linux like a month ago, main gripes:

1) Typing sudo before everything. Entering your password everytime OS farts. Geez. Even installing nodejs required to type sudo, meanwhile on macOS - brew install node. Also Ubuntu has outdated packages (nodejs version in their "up do date" repository starts with a zero, need to hunt down ppas, I mean at this point package repository loses it's point, because it's easier to go to the package's website and download it than googling out two ppas and checking which one is more legit, buut then you run into another issue - windows has exe files, macos has dmg files, linux has a zip file and it's not recommended to install this way, what a royal mess).

2) No good dock software. There's plank, xfce, kde provides almost "docks", but all plainly suck. What I want from dock - notifications in dock on app icon (you got 2 unread messages in skype, mail app, messenger, etc etc - show a little overlay on the icon with number "2") and tasks in submenu - right click on skype icon - common tasks like changing online status, right click on music player icon - show Play/Pause, Skip song, etc etc. There's a bazillion choices and every linux fanboy touts about the POWER OF CHOICE - but all choices suck (so you could say there's no choice, there's even no one option).

3) I really love global app menu. Well, I was told Linux has THE customizability... Apparently not when you want something more technically difficult than one of the same tilling wm or conky config - for the most part using jaytana and vala global menu worked, but IntelliJ IDEA's globbal menu entries did nothing on click and some gtk3 software didn't hid their own app menu, so not really working well. Customizability my ass.

I like linux on server, it's allright there (although FreeBSD with clearly defined base system and /usr is actually designed), but as a desktop OS - not even close.
I agree and there are two sides to this coin: The people who don't realise that they are reviewing a product of someone's work and not the person, and the people who don't realise that the people reviewing them are reviewing a product of their work and not them.
> FOSS people still don't understand that source code is a tiny part of the bigger user experience.

I don't think that understanding is the major problem. The FOSS community just has a huge surplus of developers and practically no designers. From there on, it's a case of "if all you have is a hammer": If you're most adept at coding, you will try to solve every problem through code.
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In my opinion, all bugs are worth fixing, else you risk lazy or junior members of your team taking liberties with the severity of the bugs which don't need fixing.

I would go so far as to say that your first and second paragraphs are antithetical.
Not only that, I don't even run X as my root display server. Sure, XWayland is around, but only because of Chromium apps (`google-chrome-unstable`, `visual-studio-code-nightly-bin`, `slack-desktop`, `riot-web`).

And the best part is, Wayland (Ozone) support is already in Chromium, it's just not really enabled right now.
No office which uses VGA is going to have an adapter handy which isn't already lost in a random drawer somewhere with dead batteries and random keys.

I've worked for shit tons of media and design companies who couldn't even keep track of the regular cables to charge their mobile devices (used for testing).

People would "borrow them, just for a minute", then leave it on their desk, where someone else would take it, then not know where it came from and sweep it into a pile of other bits and bobs somewhere.

You have to be a proper strict to keep this sort of thing in check - it makes you unpopular in the office, badgering after people.
PSA – macOS and Homebrew users – `brew cleanup` can help free up useful disk space
After battling low storage space for a while I decided to try clearing up HomeBrew. Brew caches all previous versions and downloads which quickly add up (91 packages installed with no cleanup done in the last 3 years). Some minutes later over 20.2G of space had been freed. Hope this helps other developers on osx.
I'm a big fan of SmartGit http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/
ah, Bluetooth still involves a lot of googling and trial and error. I have no BT devices with a mic, but have achieved streaming audio to speakers. My set up is currently stable but after a reboot I have to repair the speaker (like an iPhone does, whereas OS X remembers and I can just choose the speaker from a list even after pairing it with another device) The first time I got it working I wrote it all down, step for step, repeated the steps after a reinstall and it failed.

Second time I did it differently and wrote it up on the distro forum,you can see it here http://forums.bodhilinux.com/index.php?/topic/14043-bluetoot...

Seems like it got a lot easier between Bodhi Linux 3.x and 4.0 (Ubuntu 14 vs 16).
Thank you for your suggestion.

1. I plan to improve a number of elements (e.g RSS for tags, newsletter, antispam ...) Current state is something like MVP...

2. Website has no approval mechanism. Your post is visible in five minutes because of website caching.

3. twitter profile name will be fixed
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I would call that Second Empire - the style of the classic haunted house in US TV and film.
Actually, that this could happen (and did routinely) was seen as resilience by TimBL, a feature that allowed anyone to work on their own stuff without having to ask for permission. Having software that could have imperfection was what made the original idea revolutionary. The tone was more encyclopedic to encourage researcher at the time to contribute and update their link when they knew the target was changed, but they could very well not do that.

That first web page still exists because of the emotional value, but the pages this was linking to (or pages those were linking to, etc.) lost their interest at some point. That’s natural.
Almost everything is most up to date, in ubuntu you get versions that can be years old.
And no, that doesn't really mean it breaks things.
I have antergos for a couple of months now. I have about 1500 packages installed, never got anything broken like I had the `sudo apt -f install` every few weeks in ubuntu.

And ubuntu comes a bit bloated out of the box. At least for a "normal" power user that knows how to install the things he/she needs.

I'm also impressed from the support in the packages.
For example, you need a new fancy editor? latest version? Atom, VS Code? sure, just install it from the package manager.
Maybe need the latest of node.js? or vivaldi browser? It has them. It's much more complete than I thought.
No need to look for .deb packages on anything.

And last, I won't have to change anything in 6-12 months when a new version comes out. There are no scheduled releases from what I understand. You can always be up to date.

Personally, I don't see any single reason to install ubuntu again.
From another reader's perspective: It seems to make people post really large images with content only available if you feel like scrolling down.
There are also those fun thumb drives that will repeatedly bolt a couple Kilovolt into the USB port for shits and giggles.

Plugging in USB is just as unsafe as about anything else you can use a computer for.
It can be a huge PITA on Linux. You need to study the hardware and Linux support before you buy. Walk in a store, and buy a random laptop, chances are good something in it won't work very well.
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Attending conferences and training isn't a problem. But eventually if you follow kspaans advice you'll get turned away at the border and it will be a huge hassle from then forward. For most Canadians it is relatively easy to get a TN status (not a visa but the ability to work in US for a specific employer) with the appropriate documentation. Or you might need to investigate getting a B1 (business visa).
My main point to stick to macOS is the lack of any solid alternative to Xcode for iOS development. For a non-development environment, I think Raspbian provides a good enough experience. #stuckForever
I always use throwaway accounts and don't see why account karma should confer additional weight on anything I say.

Here's an article that reviews the literature on diluted bleach rinsing: http://www.rdhmag.com/articles/print/volume-35/issue-6/colum...
I definitely don't get stressed when people are pointing out errors in my code. It's a sign that you can trust your coworkers. As some people mentioned already, I become stressed when people just approve a big and complex change without any question/comment because this is likely that they are busy and that they didn't try to understand it. This is how you get bugs slipping into production environment.

Unnecessary nitpicks that are holding Pull Requests for days/weeks are stressful though. Because they are holding a feature hostage to satisfy the ego of the commenter on an opinion that is subjective. It is especially unnerving when the commenter is dropping the nitpick and then disappears and never comments on the PR again, or only after months. I appreciate when the commenter clearly points out that this could be an optional change to slightly improve the code (or by opening a separate issue after merging).
Is the Dell XPS 15" Developer Edition model actually available in Europe? Where can I buy one online? I would rather not talk with a Dell salesperson to buy just one. There don't seem to be any resellers in Finland who give a rat's ass about Linux.
That's not how the law sees it.
Water fluoridation is just a way to get to the people who refuse to brush their teeth.

That's not really true in and of itself -- fluoridation won't fix damage done by bad hygiene or diet. As someone else mentioned, genetics and other factors all play a part too.
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It might be worth giving ApricityOS[0] a try next time you fancy delving into Linux, I've a lot of good things from ex-Mac users who switched to it.

[0]: https://apricityos.com/
Visual Studio at work and home. For C# and C++, respectively.
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Visual Studio (C#, ASP.NET MVC, Xamarin) and Visual Studio Code. :)
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> Apple is so good at this and so few other companies aren't

> Nice brand names like MacBook doesn't preclude having precise model IDs, though. The MacBook range mostly has unique model names (and Apple publishes a full list [1]), for example.

I guess the difference is that Apple doesn't list each and every configuration option as a different product, but only shows them when it's relevant: During the purchase process / checkout. While Lenovo, Dell and Co. show a collection of slightly different configurations as separate cards in what looks like a very generic e-commerce theme, Apple wants you to make decisions step by step:

- Visit central product page (iMac / iPhone / Macbook / Macbook Pro / ...)

- Follow store / purchase link

- Select one of very few base models that are distinguishable by major (!) attributes (like screen size or the good/better/best-principle)

- Adjust details (CPU, RAM, etc.) as needed. Or don't and just opt for the default base model.

This process covers 27 different product variants in a step by step checkout workflow that is easy to grasp and understand by the customer.
Interesting match. Trello is a lightweight/fast tool. Jira is quite the opposite. Where are they going to meet?
> How long does a company have to be around until it's no longer considered a start-up?

My simple personal guide is: when it has been around for more than 2 years, has found a viable business strategy or is certain to be around for 4 more years.

There is a discussion on this question here:
https://www.quora.com/When-does-a-startup-stop-being-a-start...
As a hobby I trained several networks on portuguese poetry for a while. Stopped after realizing that eventually they all signed poems with "satan" and "devil".
This x 1000.

Also, it appears they are playing a tournament, which increases the variance significantly. I actually think tournament play is less suited to measuring AI performance than a cash game, because you're basically playing a series of different games as the tournament progresses that may not be generalizable because the decision math changes based on blinds and stack size unlike a cash game.

> To ensure that the outcome of the competition is not due to luck, the four pros will be paired to play duplicate matches — Player A in each pair will receive the same cards as the computer receives against Player B, and vice versa. One of the players in each of these pairs will play on the floor of the casino, while his counterpart will be isolated in a separate room.

This technique won't work for the same reason mentioned above. Hands in tournament poker are necessarily not independent events.
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>Nowadays, I want to go whatever store (physical or online) and just take what I want to buy.

Look, I understand you that purchasing a Linux laptop with the same certainty of polish that a MacBook has is just problematic. But:

That honestly sounds like a personal problem. And quite a problematic one at that. Do you go into a grocery store and grab the most flashy looking product too? I would hope that you have read up a little bit about nutrition and can take the 5 seconds of your time to see that Flashy Box consists of 90% sugar.

And if a quick Google search of the suggested "model + Linux" is too much time for you whenever you spend $1000+, then how do you find the time to type out this comment?

You merely pointed out one small reason for why you find yourself getting a fully compatible Linux laptop problematic. Your time argument is applicable on the wider issue of not knowing, which you hinted at with your Asus experience.

See: there are a whole lot of things a newcomer doesn't know when they want to get a Linux laptop.

1. They have to know that they have to know beforehand how compatible the laptop is.

2. They have to know how to know how to install additional drivers.

3. They have to know how to revert or otherwise (guess what: I don't know) in case of a similar Wi-Fi driver problem you experienced.

4. They have to know that, in order to get a competitive battery life on the current LTS Ubuntu and Fedora 25, they have to use the terminal to install an additional package (TLP, I didn't know that without it battery life is quite miserable).

5. And this is the summary and the stresser: I don't know what else they, and I, don't know.

Not knowing the things you don't know, that's what you - at least I - don't have time for.

The Chromebooks, those look nice. Linux, without the hassle. I like those. They pass the parent gift test, because it seems like those are the only ones you can just give a family member and never hear about again. No driver issues, no TLP to know to install. And they're so fast! You open the lid and it's ready to go! Why doesn't a distribution pick up Chromium OS and GNU it up, or take the best pieces of it?

As a hardware side note, it appears to be that you sort of get what you pay for. If you want something that runs the seemingly workstation focused Fedora distribution, you probably want a "business" laptop (Lenovo ThinkPad, Dell Precision, HP Elitebook). Ubuntu is more lenient when you tick the 3rd party box during installation, which means most laptops worth their salt appear to work, think $1000+ (the non dev XPS, the ZenBook, VAIO). But don't quote me on that.
It gets more fun when you start to think about it as different consciousness being created and destroyed, each with the same memories.

At what point do we start being afraid to fall asleep?
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This has actually always been one of the major benefits of FreeBSD (and other BSDs too).

I consider it an accident of history that Linux won out. We (devs, sysadmins, users) chose this fragmentation for some reason I still don't understand.
This. None of us know Mayer, have met her, really, none of us give a monkeys about her. I'm sure she's a lovely and pleasant person.

Criticism of her in this context are entirely criticisms of the events surrounding her time at Yahoo, for which there are multiple other examples. The habit corporate boards have of rewarding failure is a problem, but it's not clear how to solve it.
then we've decided, as a society, that whatever Company A is doing is more important that what Company B is doing.

Congratulations, you've invented oligarchy!

Many tech startups are able to bid up wages not because they're "creating value", but because they have access to the pockets of a small number of venture capitalists. Which means that if you make VC-backed high salaries a necessary part of doing business, you've handed those VCs the literal authority to regulate commerce and decide who does and doesn't get to be in the market.

And last I checked, "have a small group decide which businesses are allowed to exist" is not considered a free market.
I wish Yahoo would make more great series like...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_Space
It depends on whether we're speaking of turnover or profit. An average profit of 200K$/h for a single production line must be very rare (but it may exist). You're almost always not really 'loosing' 200K$ (otoh you'll surely be late in delivering your customers, and that may be valuable, think 'late delivering fees').

When you're 'only' earning an average 20K$/h (10% profit is an ok number I would say, but it may be far less if it's a common finished good), then it may have sens not to pursue buying couples of every single spare part you should have. The full price for always having in stock working spare parts for 100% of a 3M$ production line could be well in the tens of hundreds per month. At the end you're cutting your profit and that's the last thing you want to report to the board, as a plant manager.
Sounds like electing Trump is one of those "out-corrupt the corrupters" strategies.

Not sure if I'm right.

EDIT: anyway I don't really agree with those theories, I would not base my political science out of comics, but I found the similarity odd.
> The dogfighting scenario is pretty much extinct.

This is oft repeated but not true. As advanced as missiles are, counter-measures are equally advanced. When two equally sophisticated planes engage each other, there's always the possibility that neither will shoot down the other, and they'll wind up in a dogfighting scenario.

Of course in recent history warfare has been highly asymmetrical, with advanced militaries only engaging weaker forces.
IntelliJ IDEA for complex (mostly Java / JavaScript) projects and Sublime Text for pure JavaScript / Web front-end projects.
nah. as sensor packages and missile technology advances, so do countermeasures, while the good ole bullet is harder to fool.

"The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter proponents’ riposte has been that the AIM-120 is a 100% reliable and 100% kill probability missile, so each F-35 carrying four AIM-120’s will account for four Sukhois or MiGs. This is a dangerously naive assumption. Operationally, the AIM-120 has achieved 10 BVR kills from 17 shots – a Pk or “kill probability” of 0.59 (59 percent) against benign or “dumb” targets. The AIM-120 has been tested in over 200 test firings, with a reliability of about 85 percent, so statistically speaking, about one of those four AIM-120s will be a dud." > http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-NOTAM-070109-1.html

also, once the 6-10 aa missiles you carry are spent, if you aren't faster than the enemy you cannot just disappear.
Will resign. She hasn't resigned yet.
Thanks. I try out Linux every year and it's getting better, I mean Linux gets 95% of things right (if not right - atleast you can live with it), but devil's in the details and those remaining little 5% really piss me off. Like xfce - program can change it's state or w/e to busy for 50 ms and you get the loading spinner near your cursor for 50 ms. So cursor just "blinks" with loading spinner. Sometimes repeatedly.

Somehow never noticed that on macOS - either applications are designed better and only known long tasks change the cursor, or there's a system wide control - show spinner near cursor only if app was in busy state for 500 ms or something.

This year tried out Ubuntu, elementaryOS, Manjaro and Solus. Well, Solus on boot on my system had a black screen, and when booted in VirtualBox on Windows - black screen but atleast network notification showed that I'm connected to the internet, after I dismissed the notification - black screen again.
> Entering your password everytime OS farts

You can add the NOPASSWD option to your sudoers file. Something like this :

ldev	ALL=(ALL:ALL)NOPASSWD: ALL

to /etc/sudoers

> Even installing nodejs required to type sudo

You can alias 'apt-get' to 'sudo apt-get'. No more forgetting to type sudo

Your larger point about Linux usability is valid. There is a lack of the attention to detail with Linux, probably because of the dearth of resources since people furiously refuse to monetize the ecosystem
So Hillary ran on WP... no wonder she lost :) Sorry, just trolling you.
There are so many desktop environs for Linux, some mimic OS X, some Windows (XP, 7, 8/10), some unique that if you can't find a UX experience on Linux that is acceptable then the problem isn't Linux, but it might be you!

Game and graphics programming - fair point.

Nice buttons, assuming you mean that row of lights and so on that laptop designers seem to love, always just work for me. Volume, wi-fi, etc work. What doesn't work is the "open a calculator" type button, but I could fix that with a bit of customizing key bindings. As it's so easy to open the "everything finder" in the DE I use ( Moshka/E17) it is easier than reaching for those off-keyboard buttons.

Maybe you need to distro hop a bit more?!
so you believe his claim of being the father of email as it is used today is non fraudulent?
> There exists a reference frame

But is that the reference frame that we experience?
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Remember mystery meat navigation? This is even worse: invisible navigation. Hiding the navigation behind a hamburger is OK on mobile because it’s an established pattern there and the screen is smaller so you perceive the entire screen readily; but on desktop computers? I didn’t even see the hamburger.
This conclusion seems implausible.

Can you give a specific example of a district where this effect was observed in a real election? i.e. where the Republicans would have won a seat because of a radical (of either party) winning a primary, but ended up losing the seat because of the “jungle primary”.
I rarely write a bad code, just joking! But has anyone used the emacs plug-in for it? And is it any good?
I'm currently a .NET developer using C#/ASP.NET MVC. This year I plan to play around with these things => ReactJS, Xamarin, AWS, Docker, (and hopefully swift)
thanks! definitely keep this for when I'm starting to get to DL!
I've started it already, seems like this one and the AI udacity course are the two best ones for now :) Thanks!
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