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A key difference would be that I don't pay for Gmail, thus I pay through my data and ads. If I want a paid email solution that doesn't harvest my data, or serves me ads such things exist.

Also, having any OS collect your data is an incredible privacy violation, since, Operating systems, by their very nature have incredibly overarching access to essentially everything you do. And then, on top of it all, they serve ads.

Essentially, so far, software was either "sold", ad supported, or data supported, or both ad and data supported. Windows is trying to triple tap.

And again, the OS has access to absolutely everything. Having a platform have access to a slice of your life feels very different from having a platform have access to everything.
I wouldn't, because that's mostly going to happen on larger accounts. I'd expect Salesforce to try and rope in those ones.
I actually like windows 10, but this is really lame.

* yes, I'm being pedantic, but the ad for one drive is in the file explorer, not the file system. Its doesn't appear in the command line.
I have a primary Linux box, but my Windows box is still used for games.

For the PC gamer, the indie game market on Linux is growing, but it's still not the same as the Windows market. Microsoft had one of the last minimal-bloat systems up until Windows 10. I don't want to enter a world where we need to start ad-blocking the entire OS via custom DNS servers.

Microsoft is still making money of the initial OS license with every new machine. People will still pay for Windows. Why do they keep fucking it up?
I don't think the makers of software costing hundreds or thousands of dollars per unit are the target audience of the article.

> Even the cut-down licenses seem absurdly expensive if your price anchor for software is $0.99.

If your price anchor for software is $0.99, you're not going to be able to afford any software that's worth more than $0.99. The music software you refer to is certainly worth more than that. I agree that it shouldn't have to cost $30,000 for a serious composer to have the tools they need; but I don't think it should cost $0.99 either. There is a lot of value in that software.

> It's a really difficult problem

I think a big part of the problem is that much software, like the music software you refer to, has a very small market. Yes, "very small" is a relative term, but what I'm comparing it to is, for example, the market for Microsoft Office. The main buyers in that market are large corporations and organizations, that buy thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of copies every few years. That's why Microsoft can afford to give heavy discounts to many other buyers, like students: those buyers are just a trickle anyway compared to their main revenue stream, and giving the discounts is probably a net win anyway once you factor in PR and lock-in (after all, the large corporations buying Office know that everybody learns how to use it in school).

There is no counterpart to those huge corporate buyers in markets like the one for music software. So the makers of software that sells in those markets simply can't afford to offer the kinds of pricing tiers that Microsoft can; they would go out of business.
> judging by your language you are most likely shill

Please keep this sort of tit-for-tat off HN.

I don't think you're a spammer and it's ok to occasionally promote your own stuff on HN in relevant contexts, but if you do it too much then other readers here will start to strenuously object.
I'm gonna disagree with the article and say no, the "experts" will not stay. Eventually they might get tired, as I did, with playing whack-a-mole with W10's new forms of adware with every new update and switch to Linux. Just because "there's a way to turn it off" doesn't mean I want to have to dig through these steps each time some new nefarious "functionality" gets added.
Economics makes good predictions most of the time. It's a known flaw in the model that the movement of stock prices is fractally distributed. The model assumes normal distribution instead, since it's mathematically much more tractable. This is usually fine, but causes the model to underpredict rare events like the 2008 crash. I don't think this invalidates economics though. That's like saying physics is invalid because the Newtonian model doesn't 100% accurately reflect reality.
It's hard to imagine how much of an positive impact Chuck's music has had on the world over the last several decades.

I think it's worth mentioning that his music was selected to represent earth on "Music from Earth" [1] which is a pretty great honour in my opinion. Whether or not any other extra-terrestrials get to groove out to some Chuck one time is another thing, but I sure hope they do.

Rest in peace Chuck Berry, thanks for all the great music!

[1] http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/music.html
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The JSX syntax is similar to the E4X Specification (ECMA-357). E4X is a deprecated specification with deep reaching semantic meaning. JSX partially overlaps with a tiny subset of the E4X syntax. However, JSX has no relation to the E4X specification.
I think you replied to the wrong guy, you should reply to user https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=svsjc
> [updates] on Linux is a new feature that completely screws up my settings and I have to click to go back to the way it was, or construct my settings using the new paradigm.

I've been using Linux as my primary desktop in the form of Ubuntu since early 2009. What settings are screwed up by up by updates? I can think about init scripts becoming upstart and then systemd. Is it that?

I didn't notice anything else in these years unless we're regarding desktop environments as settings (Gnome 2 to 3 or to Unity). The change of desktop environment has been the most annoying change of the period. Luckily I managed to keep an almost Gnome 2 experience within the Gnome 3 environment using the Gnome fallback mode. However I wished they never spent time working on Gnome 3 and left it as it was. I have the feeling I had to work to undo all their work which is a pity.
> 1. There is no such thing as a FREE meal (OS)

Windows is not free.
How are the road markings visible to the first snowplow?
Yeah, big mistake on my part. I don't understand why you're mentioning a redirect, that was not something we were doing.
But I want to break Windows Update. I'd be fine with never installing another update ever again.
Or worse yet still "forward slash forward slash."
Heroku seems like more of a value-add than Beanstalk, in my untutored opinion.

Again, disclosure, I work for a competitor.
His GitHub profile has it: :)

https://github.com/derekjn
>stories created for politically motivated reasons
I think this sums up why sociology should not play any role in policy making, and why its track record is so poor whenever it does.

Sociology is process of rationalizing leftist social policy with the guise of science. In practice, it is just a modern form of Lysenkoism.

There is nothing theoretically wrong with studying human behavior, it is just too easy to always find the answer you are looking for in such an unrigorous environment.
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It was my first thought and after I checked the comments it seems like a general consensus of HN that the best way to turn them off is to switch to some other OS.
Would be pretty cool to add another van with showers operating next to it, so they can shower and get fresh clean clothes in one go, without having to go to a fixed place they might not trust.
You're young. Someone who took the standard path would have graduated with their masters at the age of 23 or 24. So you're maybe 4 years behind - and I bet that's still within a standard deviation of the norm. If you stay healthy, you can easily work productively and grow for another 50 years. So don't sweat it at all, you have a lot of time left. Yes, you have zero work experience. So what? Don't sell yourself as a senior engineer - you're not - sell yourself as someone who is smart and wants to work hard, get things done and gain experience.

As an anecdote - I have a friend who graduated with their bachelor's degree when they were 30. I have no doubt it was hard for them at first - they were 7-8 years behind everyone else in terms of career, and often more senior members of their team were younger than them. But they dropped their ego, worked hard and put in the time. Seven or so years later, their career has caught up or even surpassed the people who started before them - they lead a large engineering team responsible for a major product within their organization. I think that part of their success is the emotional maturity that comes with age, so while perhaps their technical skills were the same as a 22 year old out of school, they were able to communicate at a more mature level, and their focus meant that they got up to speed on the technical front more quickly. In some ways, I think they were even at an advantage.
Fucking hell no. This is one of the most atrocious things I've read in a long time. It's deeply unethical, immoral, and a massive violation of bodily integrity.

It's horrible and shocking that this is allowed.
I get it, and I find it odd that we refer to this as "humane".
> As a mass-exodus to Linux and macOS curretly seems unlikely, their strategy appears to be winning so far.

... or people just install windows 7 / avoid upgrading to 10. Hard to call that a "win"

Take everything with a grain of salt, but metrics still point to Windows 7 dominance:

http://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/windows/de...

https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share...
I'm so divided on Microsoft these days. On the one hand they are doing all the right things in terms of supporting FOSS and making Windows into a truly great OS. But then they pull stuff like this and you remember it's Microsoft.

I think this is just the price we are going to pay for "evergreen" operating systems. As a consumer, you now only buy Windows once. Microsoft has to make up for these lost sales so it makes sense. I don't agree with it, but having to toggle off advertising is not going to keep me from using what I consider to be the best operating system for my needs.
The experts that still use windows are probably mostly on windows for games. Until the games market switches to Linux, they are stuck with it.
> Rather than ask the question, "What if sociologists had influence?", the author should ask, "What does sociology need to change as a discipline in order to earn influence?"

Become obsequious towards those in power? Find out rationalizations for our current state of affairs? Come up with reasons why we live in the best of all possible worlds?

Joan Robinson once put it pretty concisely, "The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists."
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> Yarn may well be better than npm, in fact, as far as I can tell it is, but, frankly, npm works well and I'm tired of switching js dependencies, especially really core dependencies like a package manager...

Yarn still uses your package.json. I think it will definitely win out over directly using npm since it is better in a couple of ways and, from a user perspective, is just a thin wrapper around the things you're already used to doing. Ways my workflow has changed:

npm install . -> yarn

npm save --dev pkg -> yarn add --dev pkg

npm save pkg -> yarn add pkg

npm run command -> yarn run command

If you start using it and dislike it, just npm uninstall -g yarn, rm the yarn.lock file and bam, you've still got a normal npm dependency management setup.

> If yarn were available for python, I'd switch to it today

Project worth keeping your eye on: https://github.com/kennethreitz/pipenv/blob/master/README.rs...
enjoy getting pwned by 0days
FWIW, I have a Mid 2010 Mac Pro. I found it was getting slow. I tried putting a lot of memory in it, to little effect.

Then, I put this:

https://www.amazon.com/OWC-Accelsior-PCIe-SATA-Adapter/dp/B0...

And this:

SAMSUNG 850 PRO 2.5" 1TB SATA III 3-D Vertical Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-7KE1T0BW

In it as my system drive. The volume looks external (its got that orange and white icon), but everything has worked perfectly for about 18 months. It boots just fine.

For me, the performance increase with this change was incredible. Its like a new computer. I my OS and all my installed applications on it. I keep all my data on traditional drives in the other four bays. Its like a brand new computer. It was completely worth it. Right now, I use it for very intensive workloads of various kind, and never even think about replacing it.

Finally, you can find a lot of info online about whether you should enable TRIM or not. FWIW, I did do it, and its been working fine for 18 months:

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/installing-ssd-on-mac-trim-mista...

I cannot remember at this point how I copied the data over. I do remember that whatever method I found on google worked quite quickly, and that there were no hassles with it. After doing some kind of copy operation, I booted to the new drive and never went back.

Hope this helps.
I agree with you on this, but let's not forget that companies are still hiring from this diluted larger pool, and most companies (apparently) don't know why they would benefit from more senior people. So in effect, senior people are competing directly with bootcamp grads, who may be very well able to accomplish the first-order tasks that are set before them. You and I may know how grotesque this can turn out after a couple years, but it's hard to convince a hiring manager of your longer-term value when they're asking you to whiteboard FizzBuzz.
Software jobs are probably the best in terms of employment, second only to a handful of other professions.

I don't really feel like there are a lot of software developers (not too many, anyway), but even if they were it takes a long time to get experienced, so new entries shouldn't really be competitors of yours if you've been doing it for 10 years.

There are better programmers than me around, but after having worked in the field for 10 years I'm about 1000 times more likely to complete a project successfully compared to a less-experienced developer, and most important give good advice to the client.

Maybe you weren't able to be successful, but I wouldn't blame it on too much competition. It might be that you aren't really passionate and should just try to explore something else.
In marketing research, the normal approach tends to use sociology type research to generate hypothesis and ideas which you then either test quantitatively with rigor or through in market testing. Sometimes, if the narrative research is convincing enough, you might directly skip to an in market test execution.
Yes, obviously no one is going to jail for it, but it's still illegal in that it blatently violates the 4th amendment of the US constitution.
You know several sales people making $500k/year? I knew the best ones made bank but I didn't know that most of them did so well.
I share a similar perspective and experience. Also agree that the simplicity of "be yourself" can mask the depths of it and the years of work required to find the Self.

I certainly couldn't have done it alone, and can't imagine doing it without MDMA therapy in particular.
I tried to work out how to do that at one point. I didnt succeed. So you can sleep well. Far as concealment, there was a $50 spray that made envelopes translucent to point you could see what was inside them.

Unrelated note: I bought that book on Hamilton's methods. Finished it last night. Really enjoyed it outside of the filler, repetative, and overselling parts. The sections on requirements, specs, and spec-to-code (in abstract) were still accurate today for the most part. The HOS method itself reminded me of original LISP where its power and beauty came from how it reduced everything to a few primitives. Like LISP 1.0, there were severe usability & performance problems that prevented wider success. Fun to at least read on an early attempt.
Lol I always think it's so funny when​ people are like "I've been using Linux for years, almost never a problem". The last Linux mint update completely crashed the default desktop. I've used many distros including Ubuntu starting back when they would mail you a CD. The problems are endless.
"I guess you guys aren't ready for it yet, but your kids are going to love it."
I love biking in San Francisco but I have a death wish.
http://abovethelaw.com/2016/01/the-tetzlaff-aftermath-discha...
Thanks! I saw someone in this thread mentioning the markup that various services charge https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13902492 With GitLab CI we want to make sure it is easy to test your code on any infrastructure. So you can use runners we host, but you can also bring your own runners from any (public) cloud. This way you can use whatever solution is cost effective for you.
The very same info was published just a couple of days ago.
Assuming you aren't trolling, you're talking about a millionaire, then.

I don't know if a lot of programmers become millionaires from freelancing (or worse yet, employed by somebody).
>> In fact, I might say it is our duty as developers to make sure the default version of our program is good enough that almost no user should have to change it.

Well said. I couldn't agree more. That's also why I think "plug in architectures" which were all the rage a while back are stupid. If a plugin becomes quite popular that is an indication of a shortcoming of the software that should have been addressed by the developers. Unfortunately user privacy and security often require defaults that make certain things harder or impossible so defaults are set to make everything just work. I'm increasingly convinced that forcing people to enable features is better than giving them the option to turn them off when they get too frustrated.
They should play 7 wonders, mafia, resistance, werewolf etc. Definitely reflects some real world interactions
Playing today in theatres, Beauty and the Beast, a life-action version of the famous Disney cartoon. Starring Emma Watson, Ian McKellan, Ewan McGregor, and many more stars!
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I agree. To be honest I'm not even angry at Microsoft, just very disappointed and surprised. Windows 7 is a technological marvel in my eyes - it's stable and dependable with amazing backwards comparability. How many millions* of man-hours of productivity has it enabled I wonder? How can Microsoft be so quick to burn decades of credibility and trust?

I switched my very very non-technically savvy parents to Ubuntu several years ago and I don't regret it for a second. Once I got their wifi, browser and printer set up and reminded them about the UI once in a while, the tech support burden was minimal. They use their PCs even less now that they have large Android phones for email and messaging.

I'm still hoping Microsoft will come up with something to challenge Android. They have the resources and brains. Unfortunately they're copying Googles business model of dark patterns to swallow as much of their customers data as possible (whether you choose to call it smart business practice or privacy destroying unethical behaviour), but additionally charging them for the privilege.
Whatever happened to their big cargo ship docked in the bay?
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The downside of libcaca is that it makes several presumptions that aren't necessarily true outwith the world of IBM PC Colour Graphics Adapter compatibility.

For example, it has a tendency to abuse boldface black on black as a way to get a dark grey colour, making it not work so well on terminals where boldface really is a switch to a boldface font rather than brightening the foreground colour. On such terminals, black on black text is invisible, boldfaced or no.

Sadly, it actually works internally in terms of a 4x16x16x16 ARGB colour system, and could work quite well with 88-colour or 256-colour terminals, and very well with terminals that have 256x256x256 RGB, were it not for the fact that most of the information in the internal colour representation is thrown away by the ncurses and CGA-like layers that are built on top of it.
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>A more effective trap would be a "no entry" sign on a one-way street (or one side of a dual carriageway), positioned so the car can't see it before entering the street.

reminds me of rollercoaster tycoon where you could trap guests indefinitely by using that technique.
Please don't disrespect real wisdom by using "wise" in that way.

Wisdom is multi-dimensional and holistic. Screwing over people and the environment is a loser move.
The bread industry sells gluten-free bread at a premium.
If your uncle is well-regarded within the tech community as having a good eye for startups that would become successful, and can introduce you to VCs and executive leadership candidates, you should definitely go with your uncle.
> Compare, for example, at Colombia University, the Department of Sociology homepage http://sociology.columbia.edu/ and the Department of Economoics http://econ.columbia.edu/. The sociology page features a huge image of a protest of the recent immigration executive orders. The economics page, on the other hand, features upcoming talks like "Iceland's Road to Recovery" and "Modern Financial Markets: The Role of High-Frequency Trading". The sociology department is signaling that they're passionate about ideological issues, while the economics department is signaling that they're focused on understanding and analyzing.

How can you conjure up this example, and conclude that only sociology is ideological?
I'm running an autonomous driving event in a few weeks. I guess we could try this out?
I'm really conflicted by this.

On one hand, I understand the intent. Severely mentally and/or physically ill people get treated horribly. So in order to be able to tend to them as long as possible, their family may want to... put them in that state. It's an act of compassion in order to take good care of them, like pretty much nobody else would.

On the other hand, oh my god this is invasive. I feel there are so many other things that are wrong with this, but the only word I can come to right now is "invasive".

My higher thinking understands the logic, but my gut won't allow me to agree with it.
Did people (in general, not users of the device) know that? I think people got the impression that everyone wearing Glass was always recording everything all the time. So what you're saying is all the more reason why a recording indicator LED would have helped.
I would say that for me it's not any more effort at all, anymore than preferring Pepsi to Coke might be more effort.

Also, yes to reducing intake. The idea you have to go totally vegan to make an impact probably hurts the cause.

My ultimte frisbee coach used to say he would offer to buy people vegetarian meals as an offset, so he could still eat meat.

I dealt with my concern over dating non-vegan women when I realized I'd probably save more animals by the fact they would most likely eat less meat at least sometimes by being with me.

Finally, I think some of the best work being done for animals is the work in startups making vegan meats and such.
Sixth posting this week... second posting this hour.

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Interesting, gaming is one of my hobbies and I've switched to linux years ago. Most games I play are native and a few which aren't run on wine. The more people moving to linux = more games will be available on linux.
This is exactly why I plan on moving into a sales engineering role (or some other biz dev role that requires engineering experience) in the next few years. Ridiculous compensation multiplier with soft skills instead of the tech skills treadmill for a traditional engineering position.

You don't have to be an incredible developer to extract value.