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I can set my own hours. I don't have to commute. I can setup my home office exactly how I'd like it. I don't get distracted by non-work things at the office, such as loud noises or conversations not related to what I'm doing. I can also quickly prepare my own meals then and there, and play music or podcasts from my computer instead of using headphones. Honestly, it's a pretty amazing experience if you have people who knows how to work with a distributed team, namely being consistent about communication windows.

And for others, it gives them a chance to spend more time with their kids. Or live in a place that is far more relaxing and calm than wherever the office might be located.

I understand preferring to separate work from home, or being more productive at the office, but I don't understand people who don't understand why people like working from home. I don't mean to be offensive but it just doesn't seem that complicated to imagine some of the benefits people prefer.
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As someone who's stuck in open office torture chamber and dreaming about working remotely I can't help but notice an obvious trend - developers from poorer countries are "outbidding" those who are not in what seems to be just another race to the bottom. Unless of course you're a highly sought after specialist with experience in some narrow area, or you have good contacts.
Yea, current JetA prices are pretty low in the grand scheme of things. They're also not likely to go up significantly in the next 5-10 years
Turns out those folks in the 1984 commercial were just economically like-minded individuals who decided on conformance as an ideal for mass-producable lifestyle goods with a collectively minimized footprint

and that regrettably misguided soul was disrupting their crowdfunded marginal-cost movie night

:(
> Doubling the number of people on a project does not double the speed of its production.

Resources are not just for dev. You have documentation, integration, adaptation of dependencies, packaging...

But even if you just don't spend the resources on wayland nor mir, then you can use them for stuff the users want. Like fixing external monitor handling, wifi and battery life .

Having basic features working on your project should be a more important priority than building an alternative compositor anyway. Even more when one is already on it's way and in good shape.

> They aren't your resources to spend. Canonical doesn't tell Red Hat what it can do, so why the other way around?

Just because they aren't my resource doesn't mean I can't express my view on it. I'm not actively preventing canonical to do anything.

But as an Ubuntu user with priorities, as an active member of the community doing bug reports and trying beta software, as an Ubuntu evangelist spending personal time to sell Ubuntu/install it/maintain it on my relative laptops and as somebody who gives financial support to the project, it's fair that I express my thoughts on the matter.

I don't even know why I have to tell that to you. It should be obvious. It's a community. Communities communicate.

Also since, me and the others like me, where right about it (that mir would fail and waste resources), I'd say I wished we would have been listened to.

I'm not playing the blame game. I'm certainly not questioning Canonical competence and I'm not angry at them. I love the company and the product. I just happen to disagree with their politic on this particular decision.

I'm now very glad they choose to invest in wayland.

I will miss unity, which was a project I liked. So it's a not just about "reinventing the wheel" and "competition". I like gnome shell less than unity, but I think it's a good decision to work on it instead for the community.
> Also I can take a shower in the middle of the day. Which is the best time.

I'm intrigued. Why is that the best time?
I've worked both in offices and remotely. They each have their pros and cons. I prefer remote.

The biggest pros of remote work for me are no commute + not needing to get dressed in business clothes every day. I don't have to fight traffic, I don't have to iron clothes every day, I don't have to find parking and spend 10 minutes walking to and from my car, etc. I don't have to do a whole bunch of little things that going into the office required.

So the biggest advantage for me is saving time. And now I get to use all that extra time for spending more quality time with my wife and dog, side projects, exercise, video games, etc. I get more sleep! That's an important one.

The downsides to working from home is that it is harder to communicate in some situations, especially if you're the only guy working from home. It is easier to be overlooked for promotions since people don't know your face and see it every day. You miss out on the social aspect of work, though this can be mitigated if you're able to drive/fly-in to see your team occasionally. You miss out on the office banter, though some people would consider that a good thing.

Many other points people raise such as having lack of focus, being taken advantage of, and so on apply equally to being remote and working in the office (depending on the office) so I consider those to be moot points. If you can't focus at home, that's a fixable problem with your own mind and your environment.
Windows packaging isn't all it's cracked up to be. There is no standard package repository, the norm is just to distribute executables of various kinds, the process of building installers is not that simple...

"Starting deb after and if investing on rpm failed would have been much wiser" except that Debian developers already knew rpm didn't meet their needs.

But these arguments are always selectively applied to certain parties (e.g. Canonical) and not others (e.g. Red Hat).
> I don't want to teach all your shitty college grads

humbleMouse's profile: "Mid-Twenties"

lol.
I've gotten similarly flabbergasted in the mobile game dev space. Someone who just spent $6 on a coffee will scoff at 99 cents for an app they could get hours of entertainment from.
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Both articles state that the researchers were arrested for stealing (or taking possession of) a voting machine. Quote from the Wired article: "Halderman says the researchers believe the person who gave them the voting machine had legal access to it and provided it in the interest of transparency and scientific study."

That's a little different than being arrested for finding bugs in the software or hardware. Prima-facie, it does seem like stealing government property without proper written authorization. Arrest still seems excessive, but the circumstances seem to be a bit more nuanced.
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This won't take long.

Obligatory Computerphile/Tom Scott video on why voting machines are an awful idea; if you haven't seen it, it's a great watch: https://youtu.be/w3_0x6oaDmI
Visual Studio's UI is almost all WPF-based, as are parts of Windows itself (such as Server Manager since WS2012) so if MS were to abandon WPF it would backfire badly unless they decide to kill-off VS and replace it with VSCode... now that's a scary thought.
Seriously? I pay about $0.50 per CPM.
I respectfully disagree. The justification for my high pay is because I integrate complex systems with shitty vendor web service api's and automate the transmission of sensitive data. The work I am doing has a huge impact on profitability of my company - much more than the joke of a 6 figure rate they are paying to keep me around.

I avoid being a fulltime employee because I don't want to have some unwritten commitment/fake loyalty to the company I am working for. I am a contract employee - I am here to get the work done you assign me. If you ban me from WFH, it's an insult to my professionalism and work ethic.
This is likely true, and I've actually been told that directly by a company's recruiter. They wanted me on-site to mentor and guide other developers.

A good video chat system and IRC can substitute well enough though.
I dont like the new icon but thats just me
Peer mentoring is part of your job in any field. It's not a secret that your better people are supposed to help train other employees. Senior people train junior people, people with expertise in a domain share it, etc. Some fields even make this formal at the early levels, with apprenticeships, but I've worked in a number of fields and never had this not be the expectation.

It's part of why you (should) get paid more than them.

The real "dirty secret" is if you're not a team player, you're not a top performer because force multiplication through mentoring adds more value than the difference in your individual work.
I like working from my office even though I have a long commute. It's because I have a toddler at home, so it's hard to get work done there. The commute is the most peaceful time of my day and allows me to get a lot of studying or side-project work done.
Or you can use a web based interface like the lounge.
This is the display server, the pre-Wayland fragmentation is basically OpenBSD using a patched version of X11. Hell of a problem there.
With that attitude, you should stay remote.
I think I'd be utterly depressed if I worked from home. Every day without any human interaction. Plus I really love the clear boundary between work and home. Wouldn't want to pollute my home with work.
That's not true by anyone's accounting of the events, including the aggrieved's.
Or maybe instead of a distro, we could define certain conventions for interoperability that all distributions had to follow. We could call it the "Linux Standard Base." But looking into my crystal ball, it might not work out well if certain companies flex too much control to define the Linux Standard Base as being essentially their own distribution without any real compromise.
I had a friend who was only sighted in one eye... his only problems were no ball sports (like you) and depth perception made parking his big ass crown victoria harder than it should have been...
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That's a very myopic view of your job responsibilities. Presuambly you had mentors yourself earlier in your career that helped you out greatly. I know I did. If they'd all been working from home, and thus were unavailable for the kind of help that they gave me, I might not be where I am today. Helping along the next generation of coders is part of your job description. Most employers would rather have a good programmer who can build up the effectiveness of the rest of their team than a great solo programmer who doesn't have any knock-on effects in making the rest of the team more productive.

> I just want to get my assigned work done and leave it at that. I don't want to teach all your shitty college grads how to actually code.

That's not a healthy outlook, and if any of my coworkers held such a view, it would be a negative for me.
At 4 months old, her listening skills are awesome, which is what you need.
Sorry, why should a public official should be held to a lower standard than the director of a private company? I'm not seeing that.

Most observers believe that the passage of Proposition 8 in California had far more to do with black churches turning out for Barack Obama than it did with contributions from people like Eich.

Edit: updating with citation.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11...

70% of black voters supported Proposition 8, which means that they were against gay marriage.
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I keep reading that Google plus is used by devs. Every time I jump on there it's a ghost town. Am I just looking in the wrong places?
Selfies still work fine, they're stitched together from all those public surveillance cameras we'll have instead.
I would pay if they would keep my privacy, but I realize it would lock a lot of the world out. From last year's financials it looked like you were worth just over that to Facebook.
It seems to me to go just so far as one is willing to believe thought can be a crime in itself.

"Oh so you believe this or that? Well you now embody those beliefs and are complicit in all crimes motivated by them. Your mere presence is oppressive to people who have been slighted by actions or words motivated by the same beliefs. May your career end and your friends abandon you."
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I'm baffled because I had the exact opposite experience and this is really bad advice.
Lego is essentially a monopoly built on branding. Same as Coca-Cola. Advertising shapes slowly, one ad at a time
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And how do we know the machines no-one was able to (publicly) hack are the same ones, running the same code, that are then used in the elections? That no on-chip memories were re-flashed, that no secret hardware bug/backdoor was used? No matter how open source/open hardware/open audit you go, in the voting booth they're still black boxes that could have been tampered with.
> That information, Garfield says, made it to Drupal's Community Working Group (CWG), which concluded there was no code of conduct violation.

Or, from his own writing on the subject:

> Eventually that information made it to the Community Working Group (CWG), who concluded "there was no code of conduct violation present for [them] to take any action on".
Your economics isn't wrong. The idea that the economics of a traffic violation is relevant to the economics of a workplace misdeed is wrong.
Ah thanks very much!
Remember the famous video Linus did where he just flipped a middle finger to nvidia because nvidia flipped a middle finger to the entire Linux community? Yeah, the advice is always "don't use nvidia with Linux".
You keep using the words 'copyright infringement' but you really have no idea what they mean.

> And if you haven't agreed to that EULA, then by using the app it's copyright infringement.

No, it really isn't.

Breach of the EULA does not automatically translate into breach of terms-of-use for the service and neither of those translate into copyright infringement.

They would have a case to terminate your right to use and maybe they'd sue you for damages if you cause any but copyright has nothing to do with it (in this case, there are edge cases where copyright might be invoked but this is not one of those).

> Sure, if you don't like how the Facebook app works, you can choose to not use it.

Yep.

> There's no way you can package this argument as to make it right.

Well, the company won't like it and may sue you but they will still have to convince a judge that you caused them damage. And suing a private individual for pennies in lost ad sales is just not going to happen.
I have installed lynis, it look good!
You'd think just that. The Parsi community is generally highly regarded and for some reason many business leaders belong to it. The Tata family is probably the best-known exponent.
>VSC is approaching 1:1 feature parity with ST at a $70 price reduction.

Speed is a major feature.

And battery/memory efficiency is too.

And, on principle, I'd pay to NOT have to use an Electron app.

That said, I've used VSCode from time to time.
If no one would pay money for your service then isn't it inherently valueless? Advertisements is just a scam that's gonna pop eventually.

I'd pay a lot of websites a buck a month for access. Multiply this by millions and you see. It's only when you introduce advertisements that the craziness begins.
In all honesty, I like the implementation Estonia is doing.

In effect, your identity card allows you to vote as many times as you wish. You cannot see your vote, but the newest vote overwrites the previous vote.

This means, that if you are coerced to vote a certain way, you can simply make another vote and wipe out the previous one.

The only downside is this would require a national ID program, which many religious extremists are very much against.
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It's Russia, They don't likely believe him to be the culprit, instead they're trying to break down the spirit of the masses for using or the facilitation of TOR which they cannot control.
Smart move on their part but about 5 major versions late.
I don't drive- I had lessons and didn't find parking noticeably difficult, but was learning in a normal-sized car.
That can be one of the reasons, but not necessarily the only reason. I have experienced this in my own career, for sure. Top performers sometimes are implicitly disallowed from performing because they are too busy making up for the mistakes of others. Unfortunately, often these top performers don't have the authority to make the necessary staffing changes that would actually lead to success.
I've invested thousands of dollars in my home setup (which will never be done), to create an amazing working environment. Why would I want to give that up? Sure, employers may give you a little $ to customize your desk and equipment, but if I'm going to be spending so much of my life at a computer, it'd better be amazing.
A Fedora "leap" release, same as with OpenSUSE Leap, with a 3 year support cycle would be the ultimate system for me.

I've been using Fedora for the last 7-8 years, but I have to upgrade every 13-14 months or so. And CentOS is not suited for a modern development/workstation environment.
Social isolation is a huge issue for me. When I spend multiple consecutive days working from home I start to get mildly depressed. Going out at night after a day of working from home doesn't fix it. I think it has to do with what I'm used to from nearly two decades of schooling: socializing with and being in the company of many other people during the daylight hours of weekdays.
This was what I wanted as well.

I always preferred KDE over Gnome but Ubuntu made it work so well I stayed with it until they abandoned it.

And this is my guess at Canonicals biggest misstep: taking away something that worked amazingly well and replace it with something that was a.) Buggy when it was introduced b.) Very different from the thing we were in love with.
Nobody wants your unwavering loyalty... mentorship is a part of any job. From bagging at your local grocery store, to the CEO of a Fortune 500.

No offense, but it just sounds like you don't really like being around/interacting with people. Theres not necessarily anything wrong with that, but it's not really conducive to long term success... whether that success be in your job, or life in general.
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I don't mean to be insensitive to reenw/others, but this thread has thoroughly validated my decision to stick with glasses.
I too prefer working from the office, for the most part. My commute is easy. My setup at work is far better than at home.

However, if I could not be in the office, that means I could find a mountain cabin in the winter, and go ski after work, or a beach cabin in the summer, or just go travel the world, while still working during the day.

These are the kinds of benefits that are extremely desirable.
No one prevented Canonical from making Mir, hence it's existence.

Likewise no one outside Canonical bothered to support Mir, because it offered no advantages over Wayland.

If you want to use Mir, go ahead, that doesn't mean anyone owes you support.
The point is that if you have multiple layers of countermeasures, then as long as one of them works you are OK. Too often are people willing to just rely on their one defensive layer.
Zoroastrians moved to India from Iran in two separate waves, the first circa 800 AD and another circa 1500 AD. There are Atashes (fire temples) in Udvada, just north of Mumbai that have been burning for over a millenia now.

Zoroastrians are, on average, wealthier compared to the average Indian population. They were the first Indian sub-group to learn English under British rule and were thus heavily involved in commercial endeavours, benefitting them monetarily.
The community is endogamous however and there are no conversions.
Most Zoroastrians have now migrated to Western countries, North America being a very popular destination, as are UK and Australia. There is still a Tower of Silence in the heart of Mumbai on some very prime real estate.
I like working in the office too, working from home is boring as hell and I did it for years. But it s the commute, it kills the little free time you have in the evenings. You get back home later and much more tired.

I still choose to work from home one day every week or two in order to take care of various other stuff like going to the dentist or checking up the car.
> Other Ubuntu desktop-related efforts, such as the Mir display server, are also presumed to be coming to an end now. Wayland, another open-source display server, will probably replace it in future Ubuntu releases.

Anyone can shed more light on why Mir efforts are coming to an end?
I imagine it uses ClearType, Windows' subpixel font rendering software. Don't know for sure though.
>In this day and age, I think 4 months is pretty long, yeah.

Most commercial desktop software, and even web services like Gmail, go on for years on end without an update.

Browsers are always adding crap (like Firefox's nth cosmetic update), they should be stabler too. Once every 6 months or so at worst.
Worth noting this webpage is ~1MB itself. However it does have a lot of images - I'm not entirely sure why it has all of those images, but the size is not a surprise given that.
Yikes, if $70 too high for developer productivity it seems someone isn't doing the right equation when you consider developer salaries cost in lost hours.
Sure. But there is no innovation in WPF. They could simplify the binding syntax or integrate MVVM better for example. Look at what they did with Razor and MVC.
Also visual studio is not exactly a showcase for WPF. 2008 (the last without WPF) had macros and the UI was easily customizable. It was also much faster. they are still far away from that functionality.
My guess is the biggest issue is almost every phone is locked down.
As an emacs user/addict, I'm very jealous of Sublime's amazing performance. But terminal support, extreme customizability, & the awesome integrated shell keep me on emacs...
It's not that it's a phone meeting. It's that it's a pointless meeting.
In Brazil, American ideas of affirmative action have been imported. This leads to unsavoury situations where nose width and skull shape are being measured to determine who gets a job.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/04/05/brazils-new-problem-with...
I'm using previously made cards by another individual.

A reddit user named brosencephalon when through First Aid* (2015 I think?) and made about 13000 Anki cards for everything in it. It's been extremely popular on the r/medicalschool subreddit, with multiple people saying they did well on boards as a result.

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* First Aid: First Aid for the USMLE, published every year. It's basically the bible for medical students preparing for the board exams (namely, the USMLE, or US Medical Licensing Exam, of which there are 3 parts. The first one is taken at the end of the 2nd year of medical school.)
My guess is that they trained the model for this with the data they collected from [Quickdraw](https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/)
As a junior software developer, it's sad to hear this point of view. Many of us put an extraordinary amount of time towards improving our craft.

On the other hand I've worked with many people who have very similar opinions as yours and they suffered from reality distortion. Their code was poorly implemented and poorly tested, despite what they say, and caused many headaches.

Are you actually a top performer in the software world?