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> Linux DEs, to me, are a complete waste of my time.

Would you like to describe your experience? My use of the DE is mostly for staring browsers/terminals and jumping workspaces (not as smooth as a Mac w/ trackpad).

> It's a great OS, by far the most stable OS I have ever used.

Windows 10 is reasonable, but I wouldn't say it's the most stable OS I've ever used and updates are usually a pain, specially compared to Debian/Ubuntu or Fedora.
This is a great question, and one that should be asked of any engineer.

If you answer yes to this question, you should find another career. Engineers have ethical responsibilities as well.
Why is that a problem? I don't think Paypal harbours any animosity towards Elon Musk.
If you buy the MacBook I recommend you try the keyboard first. I find it absolutely awful to type on. The specs are also pretty poor. I'd opt for a Macbook Air perhaps?
I thought I was the only one! Everyone I ever complained to has said they didn't have that problem. That alone is enough to make me quit using your software.
Martti Malmi aka "Sirius" was working exactly on this [0] right after he left the Bitcoin space... I have been also interested in decentralised reputation via Ethereum, which you can implement w/o a dedicated blockchain via smart contracts (eg. [1]). IMO distributed rep would fit perfectly in a project like LibreTaxi where you don't have (or don't want to have) a centralised system...

[0] https://github.com/identifi/identifi

[1] https://medium.com/@alexberegszaszi/building-decentralized-r...
In this respect, isn't it identical to how regular taxis have operated for decades / centuries?
I remember that article. While they explicitly did call out Club Penguin (in your typical click bait fashion), they admitted in the article that the potential for semi-anonymous communication applied to every online video game and forum on the internet. Club Penguin was also not the only platform targeted with these insinuations - the PS4 was also directly accused of being such a communication method.

Of course, terrorists were also confirmed to be using mail, telephones, text messages, email, and face to face conversations...

Let's be honest, it was a click bait article with no real substance to it.
Yes, seriously. Trump's orders only apply to the federal government. State and local governments, along with private companies, still have full discretion when it comes to their privacy policies and other actions.
He excluded the countries that were already excluded under Obama's executive orders on immigration. This isn't new foreign policy, just a strengthened one.
I wonder if any point the Germans thought they had took it to far
Then fire your designer and hire one who is competent for the job.

Sliced images were an ugly hack for the shortcomings of early CSS (or no CSS if you go back further still).

There's been no excuse for a very long time now.
Elaborating, my understanding is that the 'accept interference' bit is more about placing such devices low on the legal totem pole: The TV owner or manufacturer doesn't have a legal right to _not_ be interfered with; it _must accept_ interference. Whether it continues to work or fails after 'accepting' the interference is its own business. With that interpretation, they would be in violation of that clause if they sued the router manufacturer over this.
To be fair, Windows XP was so awful that if I stopped using it then, I'd be hard pressed to believe it's gotten much better.
Parent comment contained none of the "vitriol" you've imputed to it. Perhaps you meant to reply to something else?
Edit: technically they lowered fees for <$10k and raised fees for >$100k
No, the presence of immigrants who have political views that disagree with me would be even better.

As for why let people in from poor countries, because we are siphoning off the most educated and ambitions people from that country, who bring their drive and good genes to our country. It's the same reason Asians, who consist of the top people in their home countries who chose to came here, do better in the US than blacks, who were brought here by slavers.
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A law or executive action can be illegal on its face, or as illegal applied. OLC reviews executive orders before they are signed. The AG generally has to defend the orders in court, as applied. Depending on what happens on the ground, the AG can be stuck defending actions the OLC would not have signed off on. And in any case, when the AG is in court its her signature on the papers. If the judge doesn't think her interpretation is made in good faith, the judge doesn't care what OLC said.

For example (and this is speculation), I have doubts that the OLC signed off on excluding permanent residents without individualized process. The order does not, by its terms, apply to permanent residents. But that is how CBP interpreted it for three days, and the White House reversed that position only last night. The AG would have to go into court and defend CBP's interpretation, and I don't think it is defensible. Indeed, it's so indefensible that I think there is a decent chance individual CBP agents will be held personally liable for Constitutional violations once this all plays out.
What is upstream?
"However, the bad news is that hand-typed passwords are increasingly seen as the way of the past; hardware tokens and biometric sensing are considered to be far more usable, and will likely be employed more and more in the future."

Anytime you sacrifice security for convenience or simplicity, you lose. That's why I have no intention of ever using anything other than good ol' alphanumeric passwords that must be entered by hand. Anything that doesn't originate directly from my mind is not really protected at all. If all the government needs to do to grab all my data is take my hand and scan it, or hold my eyeball to a sensor, then it's all pointless.
Not sure if I want to enter my private cell number on a website served over http.

Nvm, I'm sure. I don't.
I think the law the president is relying on is 8 USC §1182(f) which states in part:

"Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate."
Dual licensing is a great option. I.e. don't wait for someone to be "generous" and "pitiful". Demand money. Make it a business. Screw OSS, because after all, you're not doing it for the philosophy or Richard Stallman's beard, you're doing it to support your family. And you worked hard for it. The only reason why you should pick OSS is because it gets you more market traction more quickly (but also, you're commoditising your own product by making it free, so how to increase its value again?)

We've been quite successful with it for jOOQ (http://www.jooq.org). Here's some reading on how we fared (and why we should've done it earlier):

- https://opensource.com/business/14/1/how-to-transition-open-...

- https://opensource.com/business/14/1/5-lessons-open-source-r...
Which is why I specifically said that about the other point.
>> But his cost is high and doesn't justify his output.

I read this as the cost is affordable to the company but not worth his output.

>> He's hardworking but simply not able to perform up to the expected standard.

May be he is not assigned the correct role/responsibility. Not every employee is going to be proactive to ensure the correct fit. If that is not an issue, then obviously PIP is the more humane way to go and combine it with a cut in his salary and revert it back when he meets the expected standards.

Suggesting a cut for the duration of PIP will also tell you how much he values the job, agrees with the areas of improvement and is willing to the work on it. If he is not willing to take a cut, then may be he knows he is not producing the expected output.
Doesn't that just make you a technical support person? I don't know about the OP but selling support sounds like hell to me.
Hey it's been a really fun three months of this meme, but I think it's time to let it go. The whole "MBPs aren't for professionals" and "Apple doesn't care about developers" is getting more stale than Apple's hardware lineup.

Use their computers or don't, I don't care. But it's time to let this one go.
Good advice. Thanks for the tip.
Nerdy nit: you mean to use the word tenets, not tenants. :)
My youngest son loved the Marvel Hero Up Squad game at heroup.com. It closed this month.
Same thing with Clash of Clans. Games that are popular in the Middle East are usually what recruiters target. None of the games are at fault.
It's both:

Title 47 - Telecommunication.
§ 15.5
(b) [...] subject to the conditions that no harmful interference is caused and that interference must be accepted [...]

https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2015-title47-vol1/xml/CFR-...
> He's hardworking but simply not able to perform up to the expected standard.

Does he understand your standards? Has the quantity/quality of output been clearly articulated?

It's relatively easy to fire someone. Confronting a direct report, managing/measuring work performance, and motivating individuals is hard. This stuff can be very personal, first try bringing him into your world, explain your thinking. A candid conversation might surprise you.
Because Java and C# are not system programming languages and are not intended to replace C?

Would I want my init system written in Java or C#? Hell no. Would I want it written in Rust? Yes please maybe it will crash less and have fewer CVEs.

I have a belief that every time a C developer switches to Rust, users benefit (unless developer goes crazy from Rust's cognitive load, but this is a separate issue :) )
Steve Jobs never said "you are just holding it wrong".
303 if you please (2009)
Best looking monitor I've ever owned, no problems yet.

$1000 (after tax) is a great deal compared to the long dark years where the LCDs weren't as good as the CRTs which they had totally replaced.
People who studied here is a huge untackled problem. I wish there was more movement to make it easier for them (us actually) to stay.

I studied here, but never really had to deal with the immigration aspect because I'm here to be with my American wife. However, I vaguely remember that F1 students could work for a very limited amount of time with the F1 visa and work even longer if they studied a STEM field. I guess that's something. But having to hustle like nuts to get above some magical salary boundary is crazy. Especially since that likely would include changing employers since that seems to be the best way to get a raise.
i don't like this 'democracy by silencing those you disagree with' attitude.
Nothing. But tables are for tabular data.

And webpages are a document presentation format. If jamming applications into documents made the web an application platform, than jamming grid layouts into tables made them a grid widget.

Calling a SPA a "page" is a larger and more ridiculous lie than calling the table tag a grid layout widget. Anyone still committed to the table tag lie should move all their apps out of the browser today.

Web developers can work around the table tag, but not the fact they're jamming apps into documents. So one of these lies is taken more seriously than the other.
My son played a lot of Club Penguin when he was younger. Now my daughter is playing Animal Jam instead.
8 USC §1182(f) which states in part:
"Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate."

§1152 and §1182 would seem to be at odds with each other.

But no

Section 1182(f) plainly and sweepingly authorizes the president to issue temporary bans on the entry of classes of aliens for national-security purposes. This is precisely what President Trump has done. In fact, in doing so, he expressly cites Section 1182(f), and his executive order tracks the language of the statute (finding the entry of aliens from these countries at this time “would be detrimental to the interests of the United States”).

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/444371/donald-trump-ex...
We've been drifting in this direction for decades now... if someone else wanted to take the wheel, why haven't they done so already? Sure, Putin wants to be the daddy, but he just doesn't have the industry to get there. Other than him? It's like the rest of the world believes the hype, even more than we do.

Or maybe the hype is true?
Yep the trackpad is what brought me to Apple and OS X is what kept me loyal.
I am a CEO. And yes I recognise the foolishness of poor management practices, as well as acting in a shortsighted or criminal manner. Perhaps we should differentiate between insubordination/disloyalty, which is what the parent comment is about, and some version of the Nuremberg defence, namely, I was told to do it and failed to process that it was an immoral or criminal act.

Both may get you fired; morally one is correct and the other isn't.

great chat.
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Where else do software engineer get paid close to 130k? Not too many other places.
I was thinking the same thing but just because people get cheap money doesn't mean you throw it at anything. It still becomes an exercise of analysis and looking to maximise returns. In which case I'm still at 'WTF'
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You've basically answered his answer. You can't ask someone what they're talking about and then go on to describe three situations that answered the questions. It's not FUD when it is a known fact.

None of these things should've been opt-in for an OS by default. Microsoft is already updating the setup/first-run experience to inform the users about the telemetry options and let them opt-out.

Every Windows Update that I've installed on my SP4 has reset these settings back on, thus yes, it is somewhat forced on me. I'm definitely not the only one who had this happened as many complaints in Feedback Hub was about this and other MS forums. In fact, it was only recently that MS said they'd keep track of the default app settings to prevent reinstalling them upon updates.

And I did have Windows update forcibly install itself in the middle of a session when it was supposed to wait until later.
Exactly! We need to stop questioning if the leaders are responsible. They are! The CEO is responsible for the whole company. If something bad happens, and he doesn't know about it he is still responsible. He is responsible for knowing, and he failed to find out. We need to put the CEO on the side of the law.
The primary force you were always fighting against was inconsistency between browsers.

None of the things you're complaining about are table's fault, though.
In the 90s browser vendors didn't target cross-functionality nearly as much as they do now. They could have easily made tables work even better with a modicum of intent instead of plunging us into 2 decades (!!!) of unintelligible nested div hacks that still after all that time weren't up to the task until some arbitrary number of years from today when this feature is actually widespread enough to deploy.
>It's not like Apple actively trying to defend itself from hackintoshes

Really? Going off sample size of 1 / gut feeling, OSX is the only OS that was seemed actively hostile at every step for emulation / dual boot.

Win XP/Win 7/several flavors of Linux were all a relative walk in the park.
Fully agreeing with your points here.
The perspective I think that hasn't been mentioned is present here in Switzerland - where they make 'Jura' brand superautomatic coffee machines, and culture is such that in any establishment that is not specialty-coffee focused, you will be served your coffee by a robot.
You will still pay top dollar for the middle-aged woman to walk over and press the button for Cafe or Cappuccino, but it will probably taste like burnt rubbish.

To me in particular, any hope of a quality standard of the milk aspect of the coffee is lost completely.

But returning to your points - The 'Jura' standard of coffee is 'good enough', and only not good enough recently to hip-swiss or expats living here.
The standard of coffee expected from a barista is significantly higher - I imagine the theoretical Jura coffee machine that can do this would cost an insane amount to build, and to maintain and calibrate.

That is, until we get a real AI powered robot that can optimize and adjust its technique to what is happening in the cup and in the milk jug.
a naive TB-303 sound synthesizer library, which another story [1] reminded me of.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13526149
You basically have to start over at the bottom. You might be a lead in your current position but you are entry level in another. You'll need to take a pay cut to switch careers, in my experience.
It makes for the same sort of easily repeatable distractoid like bleating that Obama did the same thing(tm) in 2011.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/01/30/sorry-mr-president-the-o...
Cheney's two finger garbage collector with forwarding pointers. Still beating every other GC out there by factor of 10, if you can afford 2x memory
In some things it is, while in some things it ain't. In some things haskell is better then bout, in some things it ain't. In fact the same could be said about most programming languages.

But that is not the point...
Except MS reinstalls them on each update for me.

Yes, it is difficult to get them uninstalled forever.

They should've never been in there in the first place, that's what forced ads mean.
Agree. We have strerror_r -- why not add getenv_r?
Not as far as I know.

Microsoft have gone as far with Azure in Germany to sign an agreement where T-Systems own the data and the systems and Microsoft are simply a contractor supplying a service to them.

http://news.microsoft.com/europe/2016/09/21/microsoft-azure-...
Can you be more specific on what errors? I'm sure there are several good X servers that available for Windows. The arrangement of running X clients that talk to a remote X server is pretty standard.
I'd be curious if an enterprising soul with some foil and a ground could identify the specific vulnerable hardware and put out some notes on how to, err, patch it.
Although it doesn't stop people from assuming that; and sometimes the law has a long lag time. I would also like to append my comments here I made Lowe down regarding the difference between insubordination/disloyalty (parent comment) and Nuremberg defence style actions
If you don't mind me asking, how did you get such an increase over 2.5 years? I find it surprising that $200k is possible 2.5 years out of undergrad. Are there any particular opportunities you made use of?

I can communicate over mail, if that helps.
I've heard good things about Hetzner: https://www.hetzner.de/us/hosting/

You get the benefits of strong German privacy laws, on top of the EU's data protection directive[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive
>I bet you can get a lot of reddit gold thrown your way to start one...

That shade!
1. That was a lost cause as soon as Trump was elected. Or arguably, nominated. And although I can appreciate that it might be better for the country if we didn't look capricious and incompetent even when we are, if we are, then it's hard for me to feel too bad about it.

2. I'm fine with that. It's a work in progress, and the "harm" of travel delays that everyone in the world is aware of is pretty overstated. I think focus here is mostly a consequence of people being willing to place blame for harm caused by government action while giving harm caused by government inaction a free pass.

3. Same as 1. I'm pretty sure everyone already knew Trump, and by extension, the country, hated Muslims. As for ever having had the high ground, that's largely a delusion fueled by blind patriotism.
Corporate Activism: Freedom of Association?
>Cuban refugees banned permanently -- okie dokie.
That's not what Obama did [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/world/americas/cuba-obama...
wow... With that eloquence I can't imagine you looking for a job, but, please, if you would ever consider a startup as your future challenge, with highly scalable business model with target of 200x on the current stock option plan price, interesting technical NODE.JS/ArangoDB scalability challenges, solving worldwide network infrastructure stability, with a good salary and 30 days paid vacation in Prague, CZ, please, do let me know at pavel at ipfabric dot io.
Right, I mean that's a separate debate, one that requires a lot of introspection re: capitalism, etc. I'm just answering your previous question; that no, we can't expect them to behave morally. However, to continue with your second comment, we're getting closer to the cause of the symptom.

I saw a headline on HN that said "why always outlasts how" and I believe this to be intrinsic. If we should encourage companies to behave in ways more closely aligned with the public interest, fine. Now, how do we do that? So far, it has been done through varying degrees of regulation and the court of public opinion, but those often fail.

To answer your question - "Why can't public interest be aligned with the profit motive more often?" - because we lack a better how for the time being.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11561573
He wrote, ipsis verbis, "don't hold it that way".

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2010/jun/25/ipho...
The divs are sprinkled just to say "this is a block, it can be moved or arranged however wished", and styling within the block is done separately.

It’s not intended to do anything more or less.
Besides, it would not be useful to trigger reset or deletion because LEOs could take a backup before the procedure.
Just go buy VTI. Unless you value all the trappings of Betterment at 0.25% of your balance, I haven't seen any analysis online that suggest returns are any better outside of random chance. [0]

The only con would be you'd need to spend a few hours a year managing your money.

[0]: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/betterment-vs-vanguard/
H-1B was not setup as a path for graduates to stay in the US. It was intended to allow highly skilled workers in and has been gamed since then to do all kinds of things.

That said, I think a permissive immigration policy is in our intrests, but H-1B is a poor basis for such a policy.
While I 100% agree, it should be noted that this particular RFC predates the Ed25519 RFC by some years.

OpenPGP appears (to me, as an outsider) to move at an extremely glacial pace - I hope that they'll get there in time.

EDIT: I don't mean it predates the design of Ed25519, but it seems unlikely that the writers of this RFC would base their proposal on something not formalized in another RFC.