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I have very mixed emotions about this. There is a bit of nuance here I think.

I have both Windows and Linux desktops, and both annoy me tremendously during updates. On Windows its a new feature that I have to 'click to disable' and 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.

Both of these annoyances are driven by software change. As the software changes, it changes the environment in which it runs, and symbiotically a bunch of other things change. Why do these things change?

Basically capital. In the free software world it is intellectual capital. Most people who want to contribute to open source, want to do so by "creating a new feature" or "improving and existing feature to be better". Few people want to contribute by "fixing compatibility bugs" or "fixing configuration confusion." They have intellectual capital to spend and they want to spend it on change, not on status quo. In the commercial software world it is worse, they are constantly paying their programming team, every day, every week, 11 paid holidays a year. They can only do that if they have revenue. And they get revenue by selling change not by polishing the status quo. So they change things and they get 'creative' about ways to get revenue.

The ugly truth is that the software business could in fact be "done" for a lot of things. You could just declare the kernel "done" and only allow bug fixes or new processor support. You can declare AutoCAD done and only fix bugs or add GPU support. You can declare graphics Done and simply build GPUs that do what the graphics library need, perhaps a bit faster.

The world changed in a fundamental way when computers got to be 'fast enough' for the imagination of people who wanted to use them. Upgrade cycles started lagging and now it is not uncommon for someone to have a computer for five years before an upgrade. Microsoft needs to make enough money on the OS they sold you once ever 5 years to pay for a crap ton of developers. The math doesn't work, so they are being 'creative' about other ways to make money on those users. Linux/FOSS needs new developers to survive but those developers mostly want to work on 'features' not bugs. So Linux systems suffer arbitrary feature churn.

I think the author's peeve is a symptom not the problem. The problem is that the money is leaving the software space and without it commercial software is not viable.
enjoy windows update and random sites (because azure) breaking
Wow Hawaii's website got to be the best state website. Very modern and clean layout! Great job.

I know some states don't even have responsive websites either, or some do but subdomains are still outdated designs. I wonder if how well a state maintains their website, is an indication of the rest of the state's quality. I know next time I move I'm going to pick a state based on the weather anyways(thinking Florida). Very surprised Florida's website is very outdated. Mobile web design has been around for quite a while, and I feel like their website is a bit of a disservice to people wanting information on the go.

It seems like though states seem to care more about their website, than cities do... My local city here in Ohio website isn't even mobile friendly.

Edit: Well I found one subdomain that isn't mobile friendly - https://emrs.ehawaii.gov/emrs/public/home.html but still it looks like most of their sites are.
Interesting. Chromebooks are cheaper and ChromeOS doesn't shove ads to users' faces. Who's scroogled now?
I agree, the OS shouldn't be adding to this problem, but there are plenty of ways for an application to close unexpectedly. OS crash, application crash, power outage, the computer locking up etc. Any application that keeps a user's partially completed work open for long periods of time should be durable to all of these situations. An OS restarting itself should never be more than a hiccup.
> how to turn them off

Switch to Linux.

Windows 10 Home is now $119 and tracks you. Microsoft is trying to sell you a product and monetize your behavior. They are pursuing a way to maintain their cash cow and have an avenue to push Google out.
I will try to represent the opposing viewpoint here, since you ask a lot of questions.

> This isn't going to happen, at least not anytime soon, though there are attempts to try[0]. America doesn't have the infrastructure to bring back manufacturing things like the iPhone[1].

So your message to flyover America is to just give up ? Good luck with that. This is a problem. It needs a solution. Let's stop complaining about how it's unsolvable and change it.

And let's face facts here : an import tariff on everything (like every country except the US has, mostly) will help. Finding policies that will help do this is pretty easy.

There needs to be a solution for jobs and economic activity in flyover America. A solution different from calling them white trash racists and abandoning them.

> Deregulation of what exactly? What's the regulation that's prohibiting "hiring more people"?

Are you joking ? Let's take everyone's favorite regulation : the ACA. The ACA is making it much more expensive to hire more people, and thereby preventing people getting hired to a certain extent. Raising minimum wage, same thing.

> On who/what? Citizens? Corporations? What's fair? How do you increase military spending, then, if you lower taxes and are already slashing other budgets?

You slash other budgets more.

> Can you provide examples of un-enforcement? As I understand it, most illegal immigration comes from people who immigrate legally on a green card that expires and just don't leave.[3]

Some 12 million immigrants are illegal aliens. That's half a percent of the population, and 12 million enforcement failures. Furthermore, legal immigration can be reduced as well.

Note that this isn't racist, or even anti-immigration. The goal is not to be anti-immigrant. The goal is to protect the status of the working class by lowering supply in the labor market. Despite the unemployment figures (which is really only everyone who lost a job in the past 12 weeks), there is a massive job shortage in many parts of the US.

Will this make cleaning silicon valley toilets more difficult and expensive ? Yes. That's good.
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You've been crossing into incivility in this thread. That breaks the site guidelines, regardless of how wrong someone else is. Why? Because the wrong things going on in the world, wrong though they are, don't justify destroying this site. Treating other users like this leads to a downward spiral of retaliation that leads to destroying the site. If you're commenting here, it's your job to make sure that doesn't happen. So please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
`gc` makes it much more flexible and faster if i know i have a small number of "exceptional" matches, especially early in a buffer since it offers you `y/n/a/q`. i also find it much faster than clicking potentially dozens of places in the code vs spewing `$ROUGH_REGEX` then mashing `yyyynnyyyna` to make edits in 70 locations.
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A few days ago I used this guide to install Yosemite on an AMD computer with Windows 10 as the host using Virtualbox. It works but there's no accelerated graphics so it feels like working remotely.

https://techsviewer.com/install-mac-os-x-10-10-yosemite-amd-...

The trick is to use VirtualBox 4.3 instead of 5.
There is a lot of state that gets lost in a forced reboot, not only in terms of things that could easily be auto-saved like files. Not to mention this is something an application has no control over, so you still lose whatever you did since the last auto-save; and I believe this (being suddenly terminated) is something an application should not need to care about either --- requiring that every application care about saving and restoring state is ridiculous. The OS is the one terminating processes, it should be responsible for restoring them.

If a "reboot" simply meant a few seconds where the computer is unusable, and then you get put back in the exact same environment with everything being exactly the same as before, I would probably think it acceptable, but the reality is very different.
I hope you've heard Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_n0vkzc8PU
Of course not. It tracks your behavior, and adds the ads later. Why is that better, exactly?
I think they realized that people obsessing over uptime yielded machines that hadn't been patched in half a year, and took the easier route to fix it (forced reboots, instead of a Windows equivalent of kGraft).

While I don't agree with the most recent iteration, this is just a continuation of the slow march they've been on since they added Automatic Updates and downloading the updates before prompting you to install, then increasingly invasive prompts, until now, where you can't opt out of restarting without highly invasive registry changes or an enterprise license.
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I mean, of course right. These are guys fiddling with settings, rebooting numerous times, they finally get it right, and they upload what they have then move on and start using the machine. An incredibly frustrating experience.

It isn't the same as some kid who writes a plugin and then uses it and keeps playing minecraft.
this loophole is being "fixed", windows will soon download "essential" updates automatically over metered connections regardless

http://www.techradar.com/news/windows-10-could-start-pushing...
>It's cleaner in the sense that a face is cleaner without a nose.

Otoh, our noses (and balls) are ugly as hell. We just used to them during evolution.
I have some similar domains too ;)
Perhaps Hanlon's razor too: never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence.
Hey, thank you. I have updated my comment :)
I agree with both points. Police officers do not and should not have the authority to enforce the law, and anything that stops people from going to the United Sates is wrong. So clearly companies are violating our privacy when hired by law enforcement to examine public records in order to catch them and send them back to their own country. I admire your courage in standing up for all Americans, especially the 7.2 Billion Americans (7.5 Billion - 300 million) who happen to just not have citizenship yet.
Do they need more fat in their diet? They aren't buying 15% fat ground beef and nicely trimmed steaks and they probably aren't discarding the skin of the fish they catch.
Azure due to the on-premise Stack option?

If so, and in the unlikely event MS pulled the plug on Azure, would the premise components still operate?

Azure Stack is currently limited to a single box IIRC, which would also not present a full fallback option: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-stack/azure-sta...
Thanks. Bootcamp was just an example on how market is getting flooded. I work for a top tech company and I do have significant experience with big data and analytics; but everytime I look for a new job, it takes long to find the position and compensation that I like. I have PM experience as well and right now I am leading team of six developers. It's just that I am not filthy rich yet and idk if being in a tech role that is going to happen.
Instead of putting truckers back on trucks, they will just put security on them, until it stops.
True. I'm not condoning, just questioning.
No Password Manager vs. Password Manager
Yeah also doc uses it to get drug allergies, saves life, as part of Google's "Glass for Work initiative" (2014) http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/goo...

Doc uses it to save 1.5 hours a day apparently https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/09/27...
I tried that quite a few times on a rarer pc setup (intel nuc 6i7kyk, 6i5syk). Doesn't usually end that well. What windows has that works great is the driver support, graphics drivers in particular. On ubuntu and mint especially. I'll try building a Ryzen pc this summer to see how well that works though.
Can you expand on how a patent system benefits society? I'm not sure I buy the argument that it encourages innovation or even that innovation would be somehow stifled without. A certain kind of society maybe? If everything were up for grabs would you always have IP?
I think if you want to be on time to work, the logical thing to do is to buy a dedicated alarm clock rather than building a WiFi router to block Microsoft's IP addresses. You've only addressed one of many possible failure modes with that solution. People have been using dedicated alarm clocks for decades, and the failure modes are well-understood. It's mostly power failures, which is why they all have a backup battery to keep the alarm working even if your power goes out.

Amazon has alarm clocks for as low as 55 cents!
I don't think humans adding value with their time, and selling it on the market will ever stop. This has been a misplaced fear for thousands of years, yet we work just as hard as ever. Technology just makes us more productive. So will robots.

The argument for the LVT/BI is that it is not a benefit or a welfare payment, but should be view as a basic human property right. Without which, we are not free.

The LVT really only means we would all be equal share landlords of the value derived from scarce resources supplied for free by nature/god. Basic Income/Public spending is that equal share.

Without that, humans cannot share this Earth as equals, thus will not have taken the final step from being savages to truly civilized beings.

Yes, it really is that big a deal;)
I want to get rich. But, my point was being in a tech role does not seem the way as everyone else is also doing the same thing.
Putting police and terrorists in the same category of threat is as irrational as fearing terrorists.

There are two million people in prison in the USA. Given the state of our justice system, it's hard to say that those who are selected for this treatment is very much less random than a lottery.

It's a very reasonable concern.
Honest question: are ads for OneDrive on Windows any worse than ads for Chrome on Gmail? As a user, I see them as equally annoying (based purely on the consequential effects and not the implications).
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About 10 million in assets with 2 million liquid cash.
> Its actually obnoxious of you

Please abide by the rules here and don't be uncivil.
This is a particularly ironic comment on HackerNews. While there indeed is a depression underway (as has been the case every 50-80 years in recorded history), opportunities have accrued to tech in an unprecedented fashion. Anybody can learn to code in their bedroom and open up options that require no connections or wealth (e.g. freelancing online). Combine that with unprecedented global mobility, and all of a sudden being an American programmer living and working in South America, Eastern Europe, SouthEast Asia etc means life is better than its ever been in history.
Sorry man - I'm an immigrant to the US, and this strikes me as a very classic first-world-problems type sentiment.
This is not that easy - some software is Windows only and it doesn't work under WINE etc.
Great song that was sampled perfectly by Biggie on Kick in the Door.
If MS' motivation is to protect against intrusion, then the most invasive thing they should do, after whatever internal countdown, is to simply drop the internet connection.
I'm sure you've got a substantive point here but (a) you haven't explained it and (b) you added incivility instead. To make it a good comment, you could (a) remove the incivility and (b) add explanation.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13899581 and marked it off-topic.
I am going to reply in the most rage inducing way, by providing a tiny counter example.

Really, though. I think you make a great point and are truly on to something here.

That said back to the aforementioned tiny counter example: Windows, for instance is coming up with things such as Game Mode[1] that are incredibly interesting. This is a feature that doesn't really compromise existing behavior, rather amplifies.

It's proof that some degree of continuous iteration can be healthy, it isn't necessarily healthy all the time. But saying development should stall outright is always a hard sell, there's always a way to improve anything.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/03/how-game-mode-will-ma...
I'm not surprised. I think games, especially board games, are infinitely better for developing strategic and tactical acumen than infinite seminars. Games actually have a feedback loop where you are rewarded for correct planning and sequencing and punished for mistakes.
The μA741 is still manufactured and it historically was a jellybean part, but I'm not sure it counts as one today. The performance is low and it's not something anybody is likely to use in new designs. I think the LM358 is a better example of a jellybean part. It's cheap and widely available and still commonly used, mostly because unlike the μA741 it works with a single-ended 5V supply (the μA741 needs both +5V and -5V).
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I still want to see a self-driving car in Minnesota in winter. Road markings, what road markings? For that matter where is the road?
You have a Master's Degree. That means you have something that you specialized in beyond just general computer science.

Take some of the cutting edge research in the field that you are familiar with, find companies that need that skillset or technology, find companies on Linkedin and email the CEO/CTO.

That way you could potentially skip the entry level stuff and come in as someone with specialized knowledge from day one and probably get compensated as such.

Stop trying to compete with people in the general arena where your Master's Degree doesn't even have any bearing.
'Perfect competition' is a technical term, like 'ideal gas'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_competition
you can also take a look at https://github.com/jbrodriguez/hugulp.
It's a simple asset optimization tool specially designed for Hugo
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Why would they sell well? They're selling directly online now.

It's taking quite a bit of willpower to stop myself from buying a pair, and I barely use Snapchat.
From the graphics programmer perspective? Nothing radically different at all. It's the same real-time rendering techniques that have existed for a while. VR is only different in design methodology really (and performance requirements, as noted in another comment). But in terms of programming, there's no huge leap between graphics programming for a flatscreen or VR game.
Or just 2 to 3 people at a red light with the bags of salt.
People spend the their intellectual capital on things that buy them status. If you want devs to spend their time differently, change which activities give status. I don't know how you would do that though.
Microsoft is getting ultra-greedy.

They missed their chance to "spy" on us as much as Google (google search, gmail, maps, google-analytics, android) and Facebook (facebook, whatsapp, instagram) do.

They are trying to catch-up (skype no more p2p, linkedin) and I've noticed that XP & 7 were leaking a little, 8 was leaking moderately but 10 gets the cake!

They want their piece of the pie, they want to enter, see everything, read everything, snatch everything.

They went from "neutral OS minding their own business" to "your business is our business". Something like installing XYZ app on an iPhone and see that it "talks" to 5 trackers and facebook (for the betterment of the services).

1. There is no such thing as a FREE meal (OS).
2. If something is given to you for FREE then the product is YOU.

Good luck to all of us. The discussion remains the same: whose data is our data and if/what can we do to keep it ours.

Edit: also the tendency to use "cloud" for all Office files (which 100% are scanned, analysed and given to any government that sneezes) is also deplorable but hey, "clouds are cool"
How can I download these and print them out? I could definetly turn these into a party drinking game.
Cool idea. It would be awesome to couple it with something proven to move the needle on underlying trauma during the hour wash / dry cycle vs. a ministry (like NARM Therapy or similar), but it's a great idea and well executed and I love folks doing what they can to help.
If your comment was the worst sort of thing we had to deal with here I'd get a lot more code written.
And most who associate that riff with Chuck Berry aren't aware of this 1946 version of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEqiWTb-UWA

Edit: Fixed link
One time that sort of thing happened at scale was in the 19th century, when skilled textile workers destroyed the mechanized looms that were putting them out of work. Those people were the original Luddites.

The British government responded by making destroying mechanized looms a capital offense, and deploying the army against them.
The road markings will be clearly visible, of course, since there will be self-driving snowplows around 24/7.
That crosses into personal attack and we ban accounts that do that, regardless of how wrong or ignorant someone else is. Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
That's why the parent put "free" in quotes. Unlike all the previous versions of Windows, MSFT decided to make this upgrade "free" for a while, but AFAIK it's still ridiculously easy to pirate Win10, and the "accessibility technologies" free upgrade loophole, which was said to be closing "very soon" many months ago, is still open.

In other words, if you really don't want to pay, Microsoft still seems desperate to get you to "upgrade" to Win10... precisely so they can monetise you with ads (and might make more from you eventually even if you never paid for their OS). As a mass-exodus to Linux and macOS curretly seems unlikely, their strategy appears to be winning so far.
Many people don't realize that the only #1 hit Chuck ever had was the novelty song "My Ding-a-Ling". It still cracks me up.
This is the biggest load of B.S. I have read in a long time. Using www is purely a technical decision as the blog post expertly explains. End of story.
I tried a hololens in real life to measure the distance between bowling balls (English style bowls) and it worked really well superimposing an arrow between the balls with the distance.

For me it was more impressive than glass which when I tried it mainly had me wondering why the photos were so much fuzzier than you could take with you phone.
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I had the same feeling when Ubuntu introduced sponsored search.
This works well if your hobbies include manually editing obscure config files and replacing perfectly good hardware, and if your hobbies do not include playing games.

I frequently explore the possibility of switching to Linux, and while it's not the garbage fire it was 15 years ago, it's still just not a peer to Windows for the way I use my computer.