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Due to the problems of office noise I needed to solve the problem of being able to work 'at my desktop' but from somewhere quieter in the office, e.g. an unused meeting room.

So I invested in a cheap and cheerful Chromebook, put linux on it (Gallium OS is the easiest operating system to install, ever), got the NFS mounts working, got my desktop to proxy serve my dev domains, put 'Synergy' on there (so I can use the same keyboard/mouse on all machines from the Chromebook) and made sure I could also work fully remote with it too (local repo). I also got 'X Windows' to work nicely.

As a glorified terminal my Chromebook has full HD, massive battery life (all day) and zero noise. In fact I wish it was 'warmer' in use, such is the low-end Celeron's feeble and fanless heat output.

It seems to me that laptops actually do not last the distance if they are over a certain size - 15". The thermal management is just not up to it and it is only a matter of time before the fan is running permanently with the CPU throttled. After a couple of dead laptops one thinks 'desktop/server', somehow silent and low power so it can be left on... But this doesn't really exist unless you invest in silent cooling.

With my bargain basement Chromebook I can do everything I want to do although for some things like a time doing graphics work, I will go to the faster machine. This faster machine no longer has lots of cables attached to it, the keyboard/mouse is shared from the Chromebook so it becomes a box with power in, network and HDMI out, neatly tucked out of sight in an adjacent cupboard rather than roaring away on/under my desk.

Another bonus of the Chromebook is that it's lameness is a feature. People have rubbish computers as well as posh ones, I need to test for all devices and what will work on a low end Chromebook will fly along on anything more normal.
> We tried to take over the framework by ourselves but it was written in Eiffel and the code was a horrible entangled mess. Eventually we rewrote it in Java but, being a start-up, we lost too much precious time already

I wonder, would the result be different if you had access to competent Eiffel developers? How large was the Eiffel codebase?

Eiffel is an interesting language, with a somewhat unique feature-set (I think only Ada is coming close). Design by contract and static typing as core language features - if used right - should greatly help with both stability and ease of refactoring.

How large the codebase was is an important question, also how bad it really was. I saw a similar story - external codebase getting worse and worse from some point on - with Clojure at the center. The code quality was quite ok for a couple of months, then it worsened. At that point and for a couple of following months the codebase was possible to save - a single competent Clojure programmer would make a difference, I think. The project was less than 10k LOC then. However, more than 1.5 years and 60k LOC later, doing anything became nearly impossible for anyone, including original authors.
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The reason for the lack of implementation has very little to do with a fault on the side of Thunderbird. It's been blocked on Firefox people accepting the changes in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=441414 (which they finally categorically refused to do a few years ago).
It is about tracking stolen laptops I think.
i think it might have turned out better if they had lost the movie - Toy Story I and III have really good plots, but the screenplay of Toy Story II isn't that stellar; is it possible that they would have changed the story of II if it had been lost? (Mr. Potato head might have said that they lost the movie on purpose)
The US had long supported the Allied side sub-rosa, e.g. the sinking of the RMS Lusitania. At least on some interpretations that support amounted to an act of war. Imagine, to put this into perspective, that you had been caught in 2002 to ship weapons to Al-Qaeda.
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I'll also thumbs up Celko's books. He takes hard problems and solves them with SQL. His books do assume you already know SQL, and are now looking for better ways to apply that knowledge.
Have you thought about what sort of response your question might produce?

As an exercise, give your best shot at answering your own question.
Hi everyone, I'm trying to build a CSS Framework with common web components without Javascript, less nesting, less code. Is not perfect yet. Feel free to help out with project. Let me know what you think :)
"There's never a point where going up a tax bracket means you'd take home less money than you would have before your raise."

I'm not sure if that's true, but I think the real issue is the loss of government support, particularly in terms of direct welfare. For instance, going up in salary by $10k a year wouldn't result in a lower paycheck due to taxes, but it might result in a loss of government supported child care, and might disqualify a family from government subsidized housing, either in direct benefits or access to a required set aside of "below market rents" (common in SF). Because those benefits may be worth well over 10k a year, you might experience a net loss by working.

As a result, even if the tax rate is progressive, there is a transitional period for relatively low income people where the marginal "tax", if you include the loss of subsidies, is 100% or higher. As a result, there could be a powerful disincentive to work.

I think this is part of the appeal of the UBI - it's "universal". Everyone gets it. You get your money regardless of whether you work. Yes, that could deter people from working, since they already get their money. But it might also encourage people to work more, since they will no longer lose those benefits at low salary levels that make working a losing proposition relative to direct government welfare.
> Any changes to GIMP that make it more like Photoshop, or acknowledgement that there's anything about Photoshop that GIMP should emulate, are considered anathema.

Not really, no. Whenever people ask us to do smth like what Photoshop does, all we ask back is to explain why it is better. Perhaps you should answer that question every once in a while?
This is one of those areas that would be amazing for academic study, but I doubt any company that would tell an interesting story would allow it. I would love for someone who had started with studies of tribes with an oral tradition to go into a software company and study how they work. I get the feeling that several similarities will show through even in a company that expects good documentation.
I think the difference is that we can choose not to buy products, but we can't choose a different government. So one stifles competition but the other stifles reform.
While I'm not sure it quite fits the bill as an advanced resource, I recommend folks learning and working with JS to carefully review the JavaScript Garden website, in its entirety, at least once:

http://bonsaiden.github.io/JavaScript-Garden/

The materials are a tad dated – covering only ES5/ES3 – but still quite relevant.
Of course, which is why they're called flags, not judgements or decisions. I do have friends who swear all the time. They know I don't, but that's my choice not theirs. When I catch those friends censoring themselves around me, I remind them that I "want them to just be themselves around me".
Unemployment is only part of it. What about wages?
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Yeah, those are called 'minced oaths' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minced_oath
> Its because GIMP's UI is designed for users that have more traditional Linux style window managers(tiling, focus follows mouse etc.)

I think I can safely speak for the team here: no, we don't think much about tiling or f-f-m.
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Try it and find out :-)

Believe me, the stuff The Gimpnhave been doing for over a decade and a half now is not easy, and I can assure you full rewrites never quite go as expected.

Still, I suspect it would be fun for someone to try!
"Soon the world will turn completely on merit."

My money is on general AI and widespread sustainable fusion reactors before that happens. The crab mentality is strong, and those who can merely talk a good game will do their best to maintain the status quo.
For the artsy-intelligentsia folks all the people who do technical stuff (no matter if HW,SW, civil engineering) are just "engineers", i.e. people who have never heard about Stendhal or Vermeer. On top of that my ex-mother-in-law, an accomplished theater actress, used to call us non-actors as "civilians", so there's also that.

I for myself don't care one bit how my work is seen by others(I'm a programmer) as long as it's reasonably well paid (meaning I can pay rent, food + some other stuff) and it's not that physically demanding.
tip: problem is not agile or scrum or whatever but your PO ;-)
My only qualm with UBI is that it needs to be Universal in the non-discriminating sense. I don't see how that could perform better than a system that at least attempts to discriminate between good and bad actors. Not to underestimate the difficulty of that task, but I feel as long as we are testing out Unconditional BI in the real world, which is great - we shouldn't miss out on experimenting with Conditional Basic Income as well. Even if you do not manage to catch all the bad actors, it could still be worthwhile improvement over otherwise. The good folks at Ethereum and other crypto based decentralized platforms have been working on useful tools like decentralized identity, smart contracts, tokens that can hopefully make this practical.
Not sure if "appeared" is the right word in this case, but around 2004 there was a group/individual announcing Cisco Pix source for sale in a random "alt.gap.international.sales" (heh) newsgroup post. They also offered Napster source among other, less important, things. It was all over the tech news at the time.
Wouldn't be terribly difficult to swap out one for the other. Getting the UI/UX right would be something else, though.
Sinek relies on a healthy heaping of anecdotes and unfounded assertions to shake his fist at an ill-defined generation just like _every previous generation has done since the dawn of time_. O tempora! O mores! indeed.
This is a fantastic library but one warning based on past experiences is that you'll hit performance bottlenecks for full screen type animations on mobile browsers. I ended up re-writing some of my animations in plain old CSS3 transitions to utilize the GPU on Chrome for Android but this library made it so much easier for me to visualize on the desktop first.
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This is cool. I knew a guy who literally painted gallium onto his processors as thermal paste. He said it worked really well.
Airports are a spectacularly expensive undertaking and require heavy subsidies to even exist. If the airlines had to pay for those with cash they'd be bankrupt unless they charged more. Then there's the subsidies paid to the oil companies that makes jet fuel more cost effective, and airlines burn a lot of that. As a portion of net cost, fuel is likely higher for aviation than for any other form of travel.

$250B sounds like a lot of money, but that's since the 1970s. In that time how many airports have been built or rebuilt? What's the net cost of that?

The footprint of a rail station is significantly smaller, the costs are proportionately lower. There's subsidies there, too, but they're significantly smaller, and many of those were provided in the early 20th century back when rail was a vital link.

Also Forbes is utterly useless as a site. Not only do they bitch endlessly about ad blockers, which I only use because the sorts of advertising sites like that promote are offensively stupid, but it splits up that short article into three pages with interstitial ads between each page.

Fuck that.
I agree with you -- I wrote this with regrettable turnover in mind. Parting ways with a low performer is definitely a valuable thing to do!
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Even worse, the pathetic 5mb limit is trivially bypassed, so it's really just an annoying but ineffective restriction:

http://feross.org/fill-disk/
It might have been an honest question, but so many of us here have seen this sort of thing and the disaster it entails that it's not at all surprising people were downvoting...
Apple does pricing in tiers. Tier 0 (free) to tier 87 ($1000 USD). You choose a tier which correlates to a fixed price from a drop down menu. These tiers are converted to a localized price through all the stores. The same works for in-app purchases.

Eg: Tier 87 is automatically $1399 CAD, as long as you allow that app to be available in the Canada App Store.
We really hope that Nylas Mail will be your cross-platform email app then. Being build on Electron allows us to support all three major platforms and we are 100% committed to it. Nylas Pro (formerly N1) already supports all three and Nylas Mail should be there in a couple of weeks, if 'e0m is to be trusted. :)

(I work at Nylas.)
unemployment calculated how? As I understand it, we measure based on how many people are looking for work and have it.

So if our social safety nets (retirement) and cultural expectations have kept pace with people being employed less, (be it in hours/day, hours/week, or just what years you'll be working), I'd expect unemployment numbers to not show the effects of technological unemployment.

Of course, it's too simplistic to just assert what I have and ignore forces on the other side (for example, dual income households are now the norm). That is, however, my point: Looking at the unemployment numbers is a poor measure of any effects upon people's ability to work as it has so much else lumped in there.
There is also a large proportion of people whose standard of living is a step back from being self-sufficient modest farmers living with family off their own land.

I'll all for technological advancement. As a society, we've accomplished marvelous things. But it's useful to remember whether individuals are actually improving their standard of living or not.

> now you're commanding power roughly equivalent to 100 horses when you hop into your car

The flipside of this is that (for most US) you must have a car to perform basic necessities such as purchasing food to eat. Food that would have otherwise been in your vegetable garden/chicken coop/pond.

Our society is immensely better for well-off city dwellers, but there are large portions of the population whose level of freedom is only slighly better than servitude.
> Not to mention replacing poor performers can often be a value gain not loss.

In the article's examples, I took the author's position as describing the situations concerning positive-value employees, not negative-value ones.
Advanced js animations lag on my desktop computer. (GTX 1080, 16GB RAM, i5 2500k). Javascript apparently isn't that efficient for calculations.
The cheapest catastrophic insurance plans in 2017 in NJ start at over $250+. I'm about the absolute cheapest plan you can find on healthcare.gov. What state are you in?
I'm not sure what the parent commenter means by "reason and science" giving us axioms, but for mathematics the most common axiomatic system is ZFC set theory. Some of the axioms are easy to understand even with a mathematics background:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo%E2%80%93Fraenkel_set_t...
What is this political drivel doing on HN?
I don't think I would agree with the general statement that science gives us axioms. In normal usage, "axioms" are not the same as scientific "givens" or "data" even though it makes sense to interpret the word that way. In math and logic, the axioms we use are typically very foundational. We might say, "the empty set exists," or "for all x, it holds that x = x." There's no need to invoke science for these sorts of axioms and we can make many useful conclusions without it.
That workflow is amazing! TYVM for the link.
IMO this is the price to pay for a dynamically typed language. 60K LOC is not much in a static language, you can use tools to refactor it easily or to visualize the control flow.
But with a dynamically typed language? Its a nightmare. You change one thing and cannot possibly know what else could have gone wrong.
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Anyone every used error reporting to monitor Chef runs?
Thank you, that was fascinating to read!
> they still haven't fixed the utterly absurd "layer boundaries" system that it has

Yes, it's is kinda absurd. And no, it doesn't magically happen. Someone should sit down and actually write the code. It could be you. Or maybe not.
Can anyone name a single success story about the use of blockchain technology to solve a specific problem, and how this problem was solved using blockchain technology (besides Bitcoin)?
Is "toolbelt" an actual term for a piece of software? Every single week I see another github project with a completely new term, similar to this one. If it's real what does it mean?
I should be more precise. I'm trying to say that much Western writing is not critical of the decisions the Chinese political system has made about how society is organized there, despite its costs for the country. (E.g., the fast building of roads, trains, and infrastructure; the responsiveness of its electronics industry -- these things have costs for the people of China, but their benefits are very unequally distributed.)

I didn't mean to suggest that there is widespread Western cheerleading for China's political system, especially recently as Xi Jinpeng has consolidated power. What I was trying to capture is Western willingness to overlook the costs.
I've been to management seminars where they downplay the importance of money, saying that employees are mostly motivated by other factors. Then I talk to my co-workers, the ones that are quitting, and about half of them leave because they've been working for 2+ years without a raise.

I worked at a company where a company decided to introduce a new management program (LEAN) into one department. That 16 person department saw 18 people leave during my 6 months at the company, and only three of the original team was there when I left. That is to say, five people started work after I showed up and left, before I quit to be a WFH dad.

And yet, nobody blamed the brass or the people implementing the LEAN program.
The bottleneck here is education. There will always be demand for employees in the emerging industries, but the required skillset will increasingly be out of reach of the masses, partly due to the time needed to learn these skills (compounded with age and expected time working in that field) and partly due to aptitude. I think UBI is the only ethical long-term solution, but ironically, the people most passionately opposed to such programs are also the people least equipped to be competitive in the emerging economies.
> learn a bit of Relational Algera [sic]

This. SQL is just a tool for expressing your thinking and learning it doesn't help you to problem solve. The theory, both relational algebra and set theory, will teach you how to think about the problems, not how to express your thinking. That's what's necessary to solve difficult SQL problems.
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The world banking market continues to struggle this spring. While blockchain financial services looked promising at the beginning of the decade, funneling as much as $12B per year from the human powered Financial Services sector, many viewed this as contributing to continuing wealth inequality. The "Decentralize and Replace" movement continues to grow. Many smaller banks have already folded, while larger banking institutions lobby for stronger regulations against decentralized blockchain technology...
> buying groceries (albeit no one really has a great interface for that).

VR Grocery Store please. Let me walk around the store in my home and let me browse the grocery aisles. Make the VR experience 'live' by using the in-store security cameras to construct the VR environment and in-store data like real-time inventory counts.
Noo why leave Textmate? We remaining Textmate users have to stay strong!
What are the ramifications if we learn that employee turnover is very cheap?
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Could you not add an explicit link to the article after the title, say, on the AMP pages?

Edit: Ah, yes, your "make the header clickable" fixes this.
I'm not convinced that's still true. Obviously I can't see google-rankings internal stuff, but...

If I search for weather, lyrics, or other common sites, the top results are always slow, bloated, JS-filled nightmares. Yet the sites that are quick and small are never to be found.

Maybe they do and they need to weight speed higher. I don't know, but I know that I don't ever seem to get fast loading results.

This feels too much like creating a problem that you want to be able to step in and solve.
"But most importantly we're making the world a better place. Through constructing elegant hierarchies for maximum code reuse and extensibility."[1]

Which one is the parody? Sometimes it's hard to tell.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3222784/quotes?item=qt2896998
HR is a fucked up profession with lots of weird thought processes.

Raises are subjective judgements, which are scary things. Word gets out that raises were given and everyone is looking for something. Also, HR often doesn't trust the managers. Is the manager rewarding good work? Or building an empire?

Incentives are always aligned with short term goals. If you give someone a raise, you're fucking up some KPI the HR guys cares about. If an employee quits and the company spends more, its either the former employee or the manager fault.
The Industrial Revolution caused a lot of suffering for a lot of people. I don't think "eventually society adapted" is good enough. The point is that we need to learn from history and develop responsible policies so that we don't screw over most of the planet with massive inequality.

That doesn't mean technology and AI are bad, just that we have the benefit of hindsight and we don't have to just blindly plunge ahead and hope it all works out eventually.
It's a cultural problem. There's always been these two styles of communication - one where you communicate to honestly express your views, and another where you communicate to put across an impression that is useful for your agenda. We're in an age now where the second style is making a huge comeback, from state-sponsored propaganda to social media trolling.
The extent of adaptability depends on the scale and the pace of the change. Arguably, every generation is experiencing more drastic changes than the previous one. And if the ML/DL/AI combo could deliver on its promises, there aren't many job sectors that can't be improved(!). E.g. taxi drivers' becoming Uber/Lyft drivers is one thing, getting rid of drivers in cars/trucks is another.
Reconciliation is the frequently manual process of making sure your records match mine, and vice versa. It's burdensome in finance because of the proliferation of systems used at various stages of a trade, and the number of parties involved as well.

Edit to expand on that a bit: it means making sure that every party involved in a trade has identical information. For a straightforward trade like an equity done on an exchange, it's more of an exception process. For more complex transactions where there are more data fields, it can be a very heavy process. Rough estimates put cost of reconciliation at tens of billions per year for banks, all of which has to be paid for somehow.