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This seems to be a bit of click bait, but when Mark Roberge at HubSpot analyzed the performance of their sales people, they found that the most important traits were conscientiousness and coachability. I've seen this come in multiple interviews on Sales for Nerds-- if you can get away from the notion in your own head that you have to be extraverted, being introverted is fine, and may be an advantage because you may be more process-oriented, more willing to take rejection as a chance to fix process vs personal, etc.

Mark Roberge's book The Sales Acceleration Formula. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00T7Q9E2S/
Also see the Linux Standard Base project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Standard_Base
Not all science-fiction, there is some good hard sci-fi that takes into account such concerns.
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Fever dream, but with oppressive taxation without representation. The dream exists only on the fringes. Outside the dusty cantenas it appeares a society in lockdown. That isnt libertarian but something closer to comicbook communism.

I have trouble pinning the political system in star wars. It has changed several times as the movies have adapted to new audiances (the politics of american focus groups imho). For that reason it isnt important and we shouldnt draw many conclusions.
I have many objectivists among my friends. They love ST:TNG nearly universally. Yes, they recognize their political disagreements with the show's system. But the show is not in your face about it and they don't care about it.

Actual people who subscribe to a philosophy don't generally look like the cardboard cutouts that we might imagine based on our personal knowledge of said philosophy.
"The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System" not only does a great job at covering how the UFS filesystem is implemented, but also does a great job at explaining how and Unix systems are implemented. I highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in Unix internals.

https://www.amazon.com/Design-Implementation-FreeBSD-Operati...
> My only request would be for them to throw more weight behind Rust. The community and tech is amazing. But getting buy-in from clients to use Rust might benefit from knowing there's a "company" behind it. Maybe.

I'd have to check, but I'm pretty sure we employ most of the core Rust and Servo teams. We also pay for all the infrastructure costs for both projects (web hosting, crates.io, CI). Additionally we've also spent a lot of time engineering the Rust ecosystem to meet the needs of large projects like Firefox and Servo to ensure that it meets real-world needs.

One thing people need to keep in mind when saying "Mozilla should put more resources into X" is that we're not a very large company in the space we work in. We have something like 1,200 full-time equivalent employees and we ship software that competes with products from companies like Apple, Google and Microsoft. We constantly have an outflow of employees who get offers for more money from larger companies, or who leave to join startups. We're well-funded, but we're not a public company not will we have an IPO, so it's hard to compete with stock options for the promise of big money. That doesn't matter to everyone, but it's hard to fault people for wanting it.

We don't always get everything right, but I think right now we're doing about the best we possibly can to fulfill our mission with the resources available.
You'd think there'd be an appeal to being able to just say "Computer: syringe of young blood, body temperature."

Perhaps it only works if you have to pay someone for it first.
Just my two cents, hire somebody else to finish the product. Pay them less than what you earn in a month and pat yourself on the back.

Spend your time on building the business (getting customers, building a brand name). That's hard enough IMO.
Spending Limit is a great feature that Azure has that I wish AWS had. They also had it turned on automatically for me as a MSDN subscriber with free credits.
I guess you would have to be able to afford a droid or machine of any kind. It seems like life on Curuscant is very different from life on Tatooine.
After trying both, I went with the Aeron. But before that, I used a Leap for many years and I was quite happy with that one, too. You just have to try them and see what works for you.
Lambda is "azure functions", which isn't included in this guide.
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That's certainly not the canonical explanation.
Yeah, it was there but well hidden and an additional click with the mouse vs. being able to do it easily via keyboard. Small things like this really added up to push me to Hands Off, but I may give Little Snitch a look again if the price for upgrading from 2.0 is not unreasonable...
Interestingly, Intercom are blaming a change of the execution plan on MySQL (RDS Aurora) which raises the question – how can you prepare for such an eventuality?

It seems like the sort of thing that might happen when the statistics are providing the wrong information for carrying out the query (rather than any sort of change to the server/db engine).

Does anyone know how to best protect your service from this?
The Photos app makes requests to some concerning endpoints that I wish they could add a way to disable those features, like "FaceRecognition" or the like. Which it is implied that the iPhone photos app probably does it too.

Not sure what data it uploads but there is no info surrounding this.
As colder freshwater flows into the ocean, it has the potential to massively disrupt weather-stabilizing currents.

The reason why the Mediterranean stays as warm (and agriculturally productive) as it is year round (while being at the same longitude as DC) is the North Atlantic Current, which has exhibited signs of slowing.

The world's food supply is in jeopardy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Current
I think you're asking two different questions here. What are some standard conventions for where system files are placed in Ubuntu & Linux? And how are filesystems implemented.

For file placement you might start here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard

Though I'd caution that it's not a strict standard, and you find that many linux distributions vary from it in particular ways.

For the implementation of file systems on Unix/Linux/Ubuntu, I'd say start at understanding inodes: (this link is just the first I found that seems like a reasonably short overview from my standpoint)
https://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~pfeiffer/classes/474/notes/inodefs....

There are a world of different implementations when you get to the details, but the Linux kernel builds or reuses this core idea of inodes into many specific different filesystems. From there there is a lot of info, but the Linux VFS layer handles many common functions of of filesystems in Linux (even if you're system is using ext4 or btrfs, etc specifically). So the Linus Kernel vfs docs may be interesting if you're looking to go even deeper.
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Overall still ok but spam & tinderisation diluting its value fast.
Most antivirus suites have that, for example Kaspersky:

http://me.kaspersky.com/en/pure

>> Furthermore, it’s easy to control file downloads and you can even block the transfer of private data – such as phone and credit card numbers.
Considering all that it is somewhat suprising that most of us have done so very little about it. Everyone still drives, uses lots of dirty energy etc. The argument on both side is all about some abstract position rather than deciding what we should actually do. This is particular pernicious with climate change as it is all so distant.

I would rather we focused more on things closer to home with more direct impacts on peoples lives. That diesel engine is not just heating up the atmosphere it is spewing out toxic gas that is slowly poisoning people. The same is true of coal power stations. I want to spend a little of the benefits of prosperity on making my world a little safer and cleaner. It is just good hygeine!
Yes, but the degree of large-scale investment in alternative power is substantially affected by political agreements.
Agree- it's hard to know. But the misconduct was probably not black and white (catching somebody gluing extra tails on a rat). It may be more fuzzy, especially to a student, who may have undergone training in ethics and had some issues identified as "bad" that maybe aren't obvious. In this (contorted and invented) scenario, I can see it. Like there are "gray areas" in sexual harassment that department training clarifies and says "this is (or is not) sexual harassment."

What stood out to me was the fact that he was accused his own advisor BEFORE GETTING HIS PH.D. There is just something wrong here- especially if it's gray area. It's almost like it's not your place at that time (not to mention realizing you are throwing everything away- it's not like somebody is going to pick you up).

So, yeah. Weird story.
Once I've cloned a repo and made a change, why do I then have to "fork" the repo, add a new remote to my clone, push the changes then open a pull request;

Because noone wants to see or deal with your cruft, or that of the thousands of other people also contributing to a large project. Keep it in your own private space until it's accepted as being actually part of the project.
Yeah. They have to be able to carefully thread that needle between pushy/assertive vs annoying quite carefully and intelligently. And counteract the pushy factor with charm/hosting skills.

.. and that's why this job is so highly paid (the kind of people I'm talking about: ~300k/year or more).
I can provide an anecdote. At my last company the top salesperson was a frumpy middle aged person who requested an office in the back corner of the basement far away from other people. This person consistently outperformed the other more typically frat-boyish extroverted salespeople. I wouldn't have believed it either if I hadn't seen it.
Try NetBalancer, along with connection/traffic it shows also process info, its parent process and so on: https://netbalancer.com
Left control and the nubs help me home, and given the different key profiles per row and general "feel" it's not a problem.

What is a beamer in relation to keyboards?
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Very late to see this but am curious how these approaches handle words with numerous meanings (like run, which arguably has dozens if not hundreds of idiomatic meanings in English).

Distinct vectors for each meaning? One vector and the metric still works better than you'd think? It's not clear from the paper at a skim.
How is this incivility?
A reminder, for people scratching their heads over how any legitimate-seeming criticism of the trade-off WhatsApp took could generate this much ire from this many experts:

WhatsApp has something like a billion users. Virtually none of them asked for end-to-end encryption. They don't know that they want it, but they got it anyways when Whisper worked with WhatsApp to add Signal Protocol to WhatsApp.

But just because they don't want it doesn't mean they don't need it. Many WhatsApp users badly need messaging security that works better than their alternatives. They don't know it, but with the flip of a switch, they got that security. More than anything else, this is why Dan Boneh and the RealWorldCrypto steering committee awarded Moxie Marlinspike and Trevor Perrin the Levchin crypto prize this year.

Comes now The Guardian with a story saying "WHATSAPP BACKDOORED, BAD, SWITCH". None of WhatsApp's users are close to being able to evaluate what that means. But they know what "bad" and "switch" means. And in the global-scale game of telephone we're all playing now, that's what they're doing. You don't have to wonder: Zeynep will tell you it's happening.

Nerds on Twitter are puzzled. Isn't this a good thing? Signal is even stricter about security than WhatsApp. Wouldn't it be better for all these people to be on Signal? WhatsApp users will in fact probably try installing Signal. They'll even use it for a couple minutes. But their peers aren't on Signal, and they're switching immediately to messengers where they can find their friends. Not WhatsApp, though: The Guardian (or their shrill uncle on Facebook) told them not to. Nope, they're switching to SMS.

State security services could not be happier about this. You can't buy this kind of PR for money; you have to spend security researcher vanity to get it. Zeynep will tell you about this too: there are state telecom and security apparatuses right now signal-boosting The Guardian's irresponsible report. And there are activists circulating warnings to switch from WhatsApp to other messengers. It's a disaster: the lie is outrunning us.

The Guardian must retract this story, clearly and loudly. There's a way to report on the tradeoffs WhatsApp made, but this wasn't it; this was "VACCINES MAY CAUSE AUTISM". Don't take my word for it: look at who signed the letter, including Matthew Green, Bruce Schneier, Matt Blaze, Steve Checkoway, Chris Palmer, Dave Adrian, Bart Preneel, Jonathan Zdziarski, Steve Bellovin, and Emin Gür Sirer.
The guy who said that he wants paywalled sites punished for trying to get paid for their work.
I'm 2 for 2 personally and 3 for 3 on family recommendations buying refurbished Dell Latitudes. I currently have the E6430u which is very nice and light with good Linux support; that's a bit old now but I just checked and you can get an E7250 (i5, 256GB SSD, 8GB RAM, HD Screen) for under $600! And you can upgrade the memory... yourself!

Just make sure you double check the wireless card support on Linux. The Latitudes use a variety of different chips.
I agree with jedisct1

I have and use Little Snitch. It is an important part of my professional toolkit.

But I have run into quite a number of non-programmer, non-sysadmin users who have tried to protect themselves with Little Snitch only to break their computers.
"Post-state"? They're flying around the galaxy in giant war machines and observe a strict militarist command hierarchy. It takes more than a village to hire Boeing and Lockheed. I doubt this is what Kropotkin had in mind...
I can't imagine how this would be comfortable after 8 hours.
> A drunk driving conviction is a drunk driving conviction... I'm ok with that. Especially if it's your 3rd time.

Near as I can tell, this is basically what the article is about. Our huge prison population is mostly due to extremely harsh sentences for serious crimes, not people with a little bit of weed. If you want a long prison term for some number of DUI convictions, then I hope you're okay with having prison populations much higher than any other first-world country, because they're the same thing. There's no way to cut that number down much without more lenient sentences for DUI, sex crimes, assault, murder, etc.
I'm not seeing the repeated incivility. That comment was on the line, but none of the others were. Please provide an explanation as to why it was uncivil.
Star Trek clearly has a communitarian, if not communist, economy. I would posit this as the left pole in sci-fi. Positing Star Wars as the capitalist right pole is not accurate though. The right pole in sci-fi is Dune, which is the middle ages in space.

For anyone not familiar with the Duniverse, it is a feudal order in which computers have been banned by the single human religion, because in ages past artificial intelligence became sentient and enslaved humanity. Humanity rebelled and won its freedom, and chose to ban computers to avoid history repeating itself. To maintain their interplanetary civilization, humans approach the capabilities of computers using intense training and psychotropic drugs.

Star Wars, on the other hand, is just a fantasy mishmash.
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Stop reading these comments and get to work. You don't have time for both.
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I bought a used medium Herman Miller Aeron. It was the best chair I'd ever owned, but I ended up switching to a standing desk setup a few months later, and I'm very happy with it.
Don't you just hate it when everybody else is wrong and you're the only person who's right?
Can we penalize web sites that beg people to use their app instead?
This seems like a joke given that it's not open source.
Droids are expensive, and people aren't?
Odds say it will be a bad business decision (how bad? ymmv) but life is short so good luck and enjoy the ride.
Good list, seems to cover many important things that are not language/OS/ecosystem-dependent.

One thing I'd like to add: in your Readme, put information how you can find further documentation (and if it is in the same repo, how it is built). A surprising number of projects have some basic instructions in the readme, and then a /documentation folder or an external website, without any clear reference to it.
See PainScience for a thorough discussion: https://www.painscience.com/articles/chair-trouble.php

Relevant excerpts:

> The importance of extremely comfy and ergonomically dazzling chairs is exaggerated. There is simply no such thing as a perfect chair: your body isn’t comfortable with any position for hours at a time. The problem isn’t the position that your body is in, but the lack of motion, exertion, and variety of stimulation, and no chair can solve that.

> The best chair might just be two or three simple-but-different chairs used in rotation, including or used in conjunction with an destabilizing cushion, such as a Disc-O-Sit or Sissel Sit, or a fitness ball.

> In my office, I have a standard office chair and a stool, both of which I use in combination with a Disc-O-Sit for plenty of variety.

> And, if you still want a good chair, and if you’ve got the cash, by all means — get yourself a fancy chair! I did. I worried about the cost until I sat in it. I’ve now been sitting in it without buyer’s remorse for about 12 years.

(The chair he bought and is referring to is the popular Aeron chair)
I have a classic "Stokke" kneeling chair (now apparently called "Variable balans", http://www.varierfurniture.com/en_us/Movement-Chairs) and I like it, but only for temporary use, not as a full-time chair. Two reasons:

First, your back has to be in quite good shape to avoid dropping your posture after an hour or two. If you can't stay in good form, you need to strengthen your back and work up to it.

Second, the pressure on my kneecaps causes a certain amount of knee pain after using it for extended periods.
You are right, I shot from the hip. Sorry about that.

I also have noprocrast set in my profile so I couldn't go back and edit it (something I thought about doing). I probably would have toned it down if I hadn't requested that Hacker News kick me off after 15 minutes.

Your line of discussion is productive. It's just important that people understand the difference between degrees of belief and degrees of evidence from a specific study and never confuse the two. Trouble is, lots of folks confuse them, and lots of other folks prey on that confusion.

Anyways, sorry for being a jerk.
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Exactly. Fuck Peter Dinklage. Even Louis CK is at it - he was so humble for so long, and then when he got really big he started with the "I've put in the time" schtick, and feeling like he deserves it (which he does, but he's not successful because he deserves it)
Well, you are supposed to use supervisors for something like that, i.e. monitor for naughty queries and kill them.
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Even if Oracle plans to reduce the scope of Solaris 12 or moving to a rolling release like Windows 10, they could have avoided this scrutiny by keeping the Solaris 12 name instead of inventing Solaris "11.next". Perhaps they thought existing Solaris 11.x customers would be more likely to upgrade to 11.next than 12.
I am definitely an introvert, and I know for a fact that people are surprised by this. I am not currently in sales, but I worked what was basically a sales job (without the commission, etc) and I had repeat customers who would actually leave and come back later if I wasn't working that day.

To me, this was because I was completely interested in their needs, and didn't care about the company's needs. I told them the best deals and gave them the straight info while being pleasant to talk to.

In short, yes, I think introvert salespeople come off as extroverts to their customers.
Same! Homestead and Geocities were just enough to introduce me to Frontpage and Dreamweaver, and a year or two later I ended up becoming a web standards nerd. Fast forward fifteen years and I'm managing other engineers now.
> Star Trek, particularly the television shows, very clearly describes a command economy with elected leadership.

The idea that Star Trek "very clearly" describes anything about the economy of the Federation (or even that what it does show of that economy is remotely consistent) is somewhat amusing. Most of the civilian economy it shows clearly is outside of the Federation (and mostly varieties of regulated market economies), and most of what it shows of the Federation is focussed on a quasi-military service, not the civilian economy.

I'd say the strongest indication is that the Federation civilian economy is largely a gift and informal, non-money-mediated barter/market economy where there scarce items are personal services more than material goods.
As someone who once worked at NASA, I would take everything said by the spinoff office with a huge grain of salt. They count anything and everything even the most peripherally related to a NASA contract.

EDIT: The spinoff office is a clever workaround for government regulations that prevent agencies from doing PR to voters, but it is essentially just that. "Support NASA because we make the economy grow." The problem is that as a PR / propaganda organization, the spinoff office really has absolutely no accountability for what they claim. NASA Watch, an unaffiliated news service and watchdog organization, routinely asks for clarification on many of these spinoffs which NASA is unable to justify.

To give you an example of how this plays out, NASA-Ames bought a D-Wave machine. They don't really use it for anything, just a couple of researchers that found money in a budget for a toy, really. Nominally they are evaluating it to see if any NASA applications might benefit from using it. If D-Wave ever amounts to anything, or if it totally fails but some other quantum computer takes off I have no doubt that the spinoff office of 2027 will be claiming that "NASA's early investment in quantum computing technology helped birth the $X billion dollar quantum computing industry," if they haven't already.
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Reader Mode is invaluable for sites that use Javascript to throw up paywalls when you're in the middle of reading something (Wired does this, last I checked). Sometimes you have to refresh the page for it to fully work, but once you do, the full text is right there, in a format that's much nicer than the original could ever strive to be.