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Then you should go to slashdot, they have been doing that for awhile...
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Yes, I should have made that clear.

you were trolled, and it is clearly devastating. What most people think of trolling is just someone shouting WANKER at the screen.
Thank you for adding to this conversation. This important point, that people make both typos and homonym errors, is a critical insight into this issue.
Indeed. I consider myself to be a curmudgeonly old man and even I don't understand why all the other curmudgeons seem to have got out their pitchforks over this.

Granted, I only skimmed the article and read in detail the parts that were most interesting to me, but I thought it was decent. Certainly, as an introduction - something to whet the appetite and spark interest on a subject in someone who knows nothing about it - I thought it did a great job, and I liked the fact the author has bothered to link to other resources if you want to take things further.

Sure, the writing style isn't going to be to everyone's taste, but, whatever.
I had mine taken out under general anesthesia. My two bottom teeth were at a 90-degree angle. They drilled them apart into pieces so they could remove them.

Also, what's with all these people saying they had a dentist remove their wisdom teeth? I didn't; I had to go to an oral surgeon.
Not necessary. Look at lvm-thin + snapper.
I hate this attitude of "blame everything on the trolls". You can't use your real name on the internet because using your real name on the internet is basically asking for trouble. You have to defend yourself in the same way you have to look at ads and read media critically and don't believe everything someone says on the phone or in the mail. It's really nothing new, it's just on the internet this time. Scamming and spectacle has always been a good play.

People are simply not trustworthy, especially in large numbers, the internet just provides more exposure, so "don't be dumb" applies even more. Defending yourself is simply part of living in society.
A lot of this sounds just like Canada.

High immigration levels: Check

Housing Bubble: Check

Commodity boom / Bust: Check
> So whats changed?

Eternal September ? As access got more and more widespread, the average savviness of new entrants lowered and they became more and more susceptible to the permanent trolling ? In turn, the new entrants have a bigger voice outside of the internet, and their parole is taken with more value than those who roamed it from the beginning, unmoved by the usual trolling ?
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That highway moat is currently in the processes of being filled back in: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/02/business/old-highway-pave...
No :-)

My first reaction was "I have to rewrite one of these in a week or two, is this API easier/cheaper to use than our current vendor?"

I suppose if this post had come up a few months earlier or later, I would not have cared so much. But today, I'm all over it.
I could have explained it better, but what people call trolling, and actual trolling are two different things.

Apparently posting a link in reply to someone is now "trolling"
Well the idea is obviously OK but it looks really bad in my opinion. Who buys an iPhone and uses this gigantic, bad looking case for day-to-day usage?

How many of those have you sold already?
I wonder how much speculative execution in modern processors skews the numbers. (Or if you could actually consider those useful computations, since they optimize the overall time performance of the program.)
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As a counterpoint, the biggest gripe of "trolling" that I have is that it prevents dialogue rather than adding to it. It's one thing to argue for say Nazi ideology in a relevant conversation with the purpose of expressing a genuine point (this would be a rare event indeed), but that is not what trolls are doing. Instead, they are invading a conversation with ad hominem attacks as well as distracting and attention-seeking behaviors.

Preventing trolling does not inherently involve silencing points of view. All it should be doing is removing unhelpful, unsolicited, and off topic nonsense. Even the most evil views that I can think of should not be censored, under the condition that they are actually being discussed with the interest of discourse, for that truly is what "dialogue" is. But again, in that event it isn't really "trolling".
Not sure if Windows PowerShell scripts are the best way to target open source developers, as these power users are usually on Linux/OSX
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They aren't building battery technology, they are a phone case company.

They simply need to design around a battery type - preferably one that is cheap and accessible - and let the user go from there. Maybe have the first one included, in which case the deal is just in volume discounts.
I disagree. I think that hand-holding beginners can be one of the best services a community can provide, and it can go a long way to growing the community.

That doesn't mean everybody needs to be teacher/mentor/educator. But the people who don't want to be can also just keep out of the conversation, instead of rudely pointing to some 300 page manual and telling someone with passion and interest to screw off.
There are no secure smartphones. Period.
Filtering out thousands of "Obama is a monkey" type comments is not reinforcing anyone's cognitive bias...
Right, so we're just arbitrarily moving the goalposts now that the data doesn't back the claim. Got it.
Because it can lead to a market where the price of the goods is much higher, meaning a greater portion of their wealth has to go to housing than would otherwise (on top of receiving no ownership stake)

To illustrate, let's say there are no buy-to-let landlords. Let's also assume the majority have a strong preference to purchase a property over renting (a potentially "better") one (which they do in the UK).

Currently (esp. with the presence of cheap credit), individuals are constrained not by their monthly outgoings (as they would be with rent) but with the amount of leverage the bank will permit them (i.e. their existing capital).

This means the market stabilises at a lower monthly ongoing than it would do if there were no capital constraints.

Thus, once buy-to-let landlords with significantly more capital participate, individuals can be "priced" out of the purchase market they would otherwise participate in.

They are instead forced to participate in a rental market that has no capital requirements. Thus, the prices are no longer constrained and can rise.

This can quite reasonably be seen as an unpleasant situation for everyone currently with limited capital - as they are further prevented from obtaining more capital, by both having less disposable income and not receiving the capital they would have from ownership of their property.
Sweet! I have some blog posts planned about how we are designing a new charger and our 3D print iteration set up. So I'll think if we have anything else on the battery.

I also wrote up a basic, but goofy, post on "What is a battery": https://cobattery.com/blog/what-is-a-battery

If you have any specific questions, feel free to email me at victor@cobattery.com
See also https://techsolidarity.org/
hate the artist, not the art. You don't have to like Thiel's political beliefs to admit he's smart as hell.
How do they get around violating rental leases ? Are they essentially subletting ?
Engineers like money too. And demand it from their employers.

If you are not doing that, you should.
Agreed. There are new Network Manager bugs in just about every Ubuntu release.

At one point the NM task bar applet was simply gone.

Then it stopped managing wired connections breaking networking entirely for me.

Now the network no longer works after disconnecting from a VPN, which is an improvement compared to the previous situation where it often showed the VPN as active when it wasn't.
I loved the either-monad solution. The problem is something I've experienced many times in my clojure adventures, usually resulting in either dirtying the function in question with its own, case specific logging or creating the if-let monstrosity you demonstrated.

As a side note: there's something very comforting when you immediately empathize so strongly with a programming problem someone is writing about
One bit I found funny was that the narrator argues that being forced into police work has made soldiers too restrained to function as warriors, when in our timeline, the opposite has happened -- police have become too aggressive to function as peace officers.
On the other hand, just moved to London. Went to two libraries:

* one had a really bad internet you would activate by asking for a coupon, it would then be limited to 500MB

* the other one had no internet if you did not have a library card

For someone who spends a lot of time in libraries to work, I found it really sad :(
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We actually include two batteries!

I think that's actually a key part of what makes CoBattery special. The case is designed for battery swapping and when you buy CoBattery you have everything you need to start swapping.
Yes, because it affects your offers when they say they pay "market rate".
Are the features selectively installed, opt-in installed, or configured downloaded, as with most modern software?
I think the real issue is that it seems pretty obvious that people don't drive fast because it makes them happy to go fast. People drive fast because if they don't, it takes them longer to get where they're going.

Also, there's another reason I think people like to go fast. If you're stuck behind someone that's going slower than you've been going, you feel trapped and frustrated. It seems like this happens even if the person in front of you is only going a few MPH slower than you were.
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Agreed. I guess I'm not saying RTFM isn't needed (I rtfm all the time). However it's the bad taste that's left behind and the potential miscommunication from the simple action of telling someone to read the fucking manual. There are better ways to get the original message across.
This is a pretty bizarre and direct ripoff of pinboard's Tech Solidarity, except run by The Man and they'll "select" who's allowed to attend. Classless and tone-deaf would be charitable interpretation.
Well we can all appreciate quality news. Where do you find it if not the times? Yes, they've had problems, like all human entities. How far does that deviate from average? I think their quality is certainly worth paying for, although you need to adjust for bias, as everywhere.
I would think the ones who constantly go back and worry about old code are the ones you would accuse of having no time constraints.

The thing is, if you're going back to the first time you've ever "programmed time", then what you're assessing is design, not code, which falls in line with what I said.
Connect to android using wifi / bluetooth, integrate calendar, contacts, send messages, etc.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Go back to colaboration with gnome-project

- DESCRIPTION: The fragmentation in the linux desktop is getting retarded, both effort (GNOME and Unity) are crippled by the lack of colaboration in the toolkits and applications. This was a marvel up until ubuntu 10.10 which was the last linux that anyone would need. I just miss the good old days.

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Ubuntu enthusiast since 6.04.
I really liked your website and the ads were not intrusive, well done! I'm curious, do you take the photos or just curate them and write the article?
Comcast.
Yeah, it pretty much is. If you're going to credit the development of the web and related technologies with the economic benefits it has delivered, we need to take it on the chin for the damage it has caused to our society.

Every time we disrupt an industry, especially media, we are by definition shaping society. It's about time we as technologists started being honest about that.
Yes, this. Preseed is terribly documented and sometimes so buggy I feel like I'm the only one using it.
Hey everyone, I wrote this post :). I'm happy to see that it's getting some traffic here.

Let me know if y'all have any questions. I would love to see this post help other people start hacking on hardware, so I'll answer anything I can.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Clicking on buttons in Unity window overview mode

- DESCRIPTION: The ability to press buttons from window overview mode: https://i.imgur.com/3dG4VoL.mp4

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: end user

Thank you!
You could form a corp but legions of shareware developers since the beginning of time (80s) have used licenses that absolve them of responsibilities.

A few things: you'll need a communication and update mechanism, such as sparkle. Then, get your app gatekeeper signed.
>> Who knows what they're doing to you while you're asleep

Huh? I don't think you really know that the surgery prescription was correct, in that case? Or can you really do anything about an unethical surgeon while awake, but your gut or something wide open?
Actually I don't think this is as ridiculous as you might think.

I spent quite a bit of time with a mate of mine over the summer of 1992 writing compression algorithms in GW-BASIC on his dad's 8086 powered PC, equipped with CGA graphics. Another friend had a computer with EGA (gasp!) graphics. Almost no-one had a "decent" (i.e., even remotely current) spec PC back then, and I was on an Amiga 500.

When, just after we'd finished our A-level exams in 1994, first friend's dad upgraded to a 486SX33 with some sort of SVGA card that was capable of running DOOM - and doing so smoothly - minds were duly blown. And that's where that summer went.
If we define "troll" as anyone who posts inflammatory, bad faith, needlessly aggressive, insulting, false, or otherwise unproductive content, then the entire class of authors of the genre of news article decrying trolling and harassment are themselves trolls.

>Of course, this is already happening, just out of sight of most of us

Why would they consider that to be such a big problem, if it's not bothering those who are wont to be bothered? The true motivation for these comments is clear, but remains unsaid: what "trolls" are posting is outside the control of these would-be authorities.

The technology community must pick between enabling universal surveillance and censorship, or protecting the privacy of the vulnerable, including those who hold minority opinions and express themselves in ways that could be deemed "unpleasant".
Yes. I don't understand the people who say "I'd rather work in a company with a good working environment" as if you have to work for peanuts to have a good job. If you are convinced to work for a low salary in the name of "culture" your employer is laughing all the way to the bank.
Would still be an interesting comparison, with some Electron apps using 16% CPU to blink the cursor.
This isn't directed at you, but at corporate culture and cultures outside of it: Why is "corporate" a legitimizer?

If corporations use it, does that make it okay? why?

A corporation is a legal entity, (a social fiction if you want to be dramatic) for isolation of activities from the individual. That puts it on shaky ground already. History contains myriad examples of bad corporate behavior to corroborate my accusation of shadiness.

To use this history of illegal behavior under the veil of isolation as an argument for legitimizing another activity under questioning is circular.

The preferential treatment for commercial activity over freedom is evidence of citizens-as-products via rigid plutocracy.
> Google and Microsoft are the last two companies with the talent to build a future OS and enough resources and clout to push it enough to get traction.

I think that is a stretch. Apple has significant investment in Darwin and are a huge contributor to LLVM. Also, don't count out Amazon ... they have their fingers in so many pies these days ...
I really badly wanted to watch my unplanned but non-emergency C-section. I had a long, rough labor and being aware of everything going on was helping me process everything. Besides, it is standard for non-emergency C-sections to only require regional anesthesia so I didn't think it was a big deal.

Alas, I was instead treated to the sight of my anesthesiology resident trying to conceal her panic while she paged her attending because I started feeling the surgeon cut into me - not pressure or tugging, but a whole shitload of pain making me see stars. She had given me a max dose of anesthetic to achieve what she thought was an acceptable level of analgesia but apparently it wasn't good enough. I got treated to the ketamine trip of my life, and then thanked the stars for versed.

Would do this again though given the chance - even with this kind of horrific one-off experience and that I don't have much memory of the surgery otherwise, I am pretty satisfied with the entire situation and how it played out. I don't know that I'm pushing back against paternalism or suspicion, I just want to sate my curiosity, you know?
Then lets discuss Trump without deflecting to unproven and debunked Russian claims.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20...

Former Acting CIA Director Michael Morell has stated that he has seen no evidence of collusions between Trump and the Kremlin. "On the question of the Trump campaign conspiring with the Russians here, there is smoke, but there is no fire, at all," Morell said.[156]

James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence under President Obama, said there was no evidence of any collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian operatives as of January 2017 when the intelligence community issued its report on the subject.[157]

Here are the facts of today:

Trump was elected President of the United States on November 9th, 2016

The Dow Jones is up 2800+, since Nov 9th.

Trump has issued 19 Executive Orders, 16 Presidential memoranda, 11 Presidential proclamations, and 1 Presidential notice.
That's what they're trying to do.

But I'm getting really, really, really tired of people conflating the "other side" stuff with the trolling stuff. Look at all the stuff sent to Leslie Jones last summer. Do you honestly think that was meant to be a dialog? Of course not. That was trolling. That was harassment. And that is what people are trying to filter out.
Stress test your servers (although, you could argue this could be done at a better level from a non remote tool).
Ha, well I'll take the first part as a compliment!

We are actually proud that our case is slimmer than most other battery cases on the market. We didn't want our case to be bulky so we designed our own custom lightning connector that snugly fits the phone: https://cobattery.com/connector

What don't you like about the case's look?
Treat child soldiers as a threat until they prove they're not a threat. Letting your guard down just because it's a kid is how many soldiers got killed in Vietnam.
I have previously integrated with eFax in 2010, so an internet fax provider is not new to me, but forgive my ignorance as I haven't visited the space in a while. Which innovation are you excited about and referring to? From the comments it seems to be 'developer friendly API' or 'Simplicity in pricing' as the to big draws, just curious what has changed since my last days?
It's pretty much the nature of tech hiring to select the most elite candidates from around the world. Distributing the offices through Rust Belt exurbs does not mean tech jobs for laid-off steelworkers in Rust Belt exurbs.
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This is an interesting initiative, I look forward to seeing where it goes. Kudos to Sam, Debra & Matt for taking a lead on this.
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That's fair but how many pages take more than 10 minutes?
We believe that employees should come together and clearly define the values and policies they'd like to see their companies uphold. A tech union isn't the perfect metaphor for this, but it's not far off.

If it's going to do anything but be window dressing then it needs to have the teeth of union - so just call it what it is.

I've argued for a while that tech workers need a union, but the chorus on HN and other places is "we're too special for a union." Which is bogus on it's face - otherwise SAG for example wouldn't exist.

If this moves the needle on a union then great, but I'm wary of the source being a pure power move (which all unions are - rightfully). I think whomever leads this needs to be above reproach in every sense as an advocate for the tiny introverted developer.

edit: I should note that the reason SAG worked is because some of the highest profile actors joined in the early days and arranged to collectively bargain for the rest of the group. It will probably work best if you get the top 50 most high profile developers (Eg. Carmack) to join and then advocate for the small guy. Sadly, in reality, a union is only as good as it's most high profile members.
I'm sorry, but this "ignore the trolls" meme has been proven wrong time and again these past few years. It's not a solution.
> and Nvidia is still fighting against virtualization of the Geforge line.

Fighting against it? That is the first I have ever heard of this. Do you have some links I can read about this?
You say:

> People are simply not trustworthy, ...

In my experience the vast majority of people are trustworthy. The problem is that the tiny minority of people who are not trustworthy are winning the internet because they have time, and shout loudly. More, some of them do obnoxious and potentially dangerous things.

That's why people get upset - because it is a tiny minority that spoil the whole thing. If only we could stop that tiny minority ...
Best practice is to have traces less than 3"
Linux may be hacky, but it isn't exactly heavy.
Actually the free of charge aspect limited uptake of Linux in the commercial sector for a long time. It has it's faults but Linux won by being a great software.
> nothing

That's also a failure of checks and balances.

Of course the presidency can do all sorts of things without Congress! It's not and was never intended to be a ceremonial position. Or a position bound to the will of congress in all things! Hence "separation of powers", not "devolution of powers to Congress and the judiciary".

Indeed, kevin_thibedeau's observation is SPOT ON, and is exactly how things should and were explicitly designed to work!

The presidency has certain powers that are typically only exercised during a divided government. This has been true since the very beginning of the union. That shouldn't be surprising at all! It's intrinsic to an effective separation of powers. If the presidency proceeded in identical fashion regardless of who Controlled congress, then that would be a clear indication that the separation of powers has failed.

The presidency should do what he thinks he has the authority to do. Congress should pass explicit laws limiting that power if it feels the presidency has become too powerful, using the purse as leverage when necessary. The courts should mediate inevitable conflicts and check the abuses of a unified executive and legislature. That is separation of powers.
Theres definitely opportunity, I can see it happening, a lot of women use youtube as an opportunity to look up styling videos and theres a definite market, don't think why their normal-look-for-good-style process can add in a more specific search process
There's already a solution for this - worker ownership of companies with corresponding democratic rights.

We've just emerged from an era where benevolent tech companies were supposed to stand up for us and reflect our values. Instead, they put on a polite face, said the right words to us, and then did whatever served their interests irrespective of our concerns. Repeating this scenario is foolish and only going to worsen the situation.
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