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Yes, this is what I never get about incentives like that: why on earth would you want to incentivise your employees to come to work sick?

A constantly sneezing worker will be unprofessional, prone to making errors, much less productive and endanger his/her co-workers. Now, granted, this is Amazon so no client will see those warehouse employees and I guess their processes are so airtight that one employee making mistakes won't have such a big impact (four-eyes principles or whatever). But it still seems pretty inefficient to me.

In Switzerland, some companies have insurance that covers sick days for employees - if your employee is sick, the insurance company will pay the wage during that time. This is mainly meant to cover longer sicknesses in smaller companies, who otherwise might get into real financial issues, but it also has the (in my opinion) desirable side-effect that a company is actually better off sending you home than having you at your desk as a half-productive zombie.
I get why they've done it, and The Guardian is a site that I both contribute to and disable my ad-blocker for, but I will miss the speed at which the articles load on my ancient and rubbish phone.

I'd still rather support them though!
Oh man I really miss his writings. Btw if you want similar style essays but about DB/Bitcoin tech check out http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/03/01/what-did-not-happen...
Yeah, hello? This is the most atypical model possible for older tech workers. A hugely successful hospitality CEO joins a tech startup disrupting the global hospitality industry. How is that experience instructive for anyone except Chip Conley? Emotional intelligence in Mr. Conley's world apparently doesn't require any sense of irony. How hospitable.
It's not bad for the "economy" except for a too narrow definition of "economy". This is the broken window fallacy.
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It's not just travellers, I'm italian but my whole stack is in american english because searching for localized error message makes everything harder than needed be.

I know many other developers using the same default, at most with changed date and cirrency format, especially date because the american date format is plain stupid.

Sites that serve me italian or even worse than serve me a google translated version of an english page in italianish irritate me to no end
Apart from travellers, there's people who don't want to deal with the often atrocious and incomplete translations provided by sites and applications.
Sick days don't exist in Germany. If you're sick, you stay home for as long as necessary.
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That's not the issue. When you are paid peanuts, you stop caring about the work.
If HN asked you to discontinue it, shouldn't others avoid doing it also?
> The CLR itself probably isn't slower than JVM but most of the .NET stack is. It just wasn't written with performance in mind.

I don't really think that's true.
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From [4]:
> The government is in-principle against allowing import and sale of second-hand phones in India to prevent dumping of hazardous electronic waste, said a person familiar with the matter. But it might take a more favourable view of the proposal if Apple agrees to manufacture in India. "Local manufacturing will be the thrust of the PM's message to Cook," the person said.

Free market doesn't prevent dumping of hazardous waste in developing countries.
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He makes some good points, others seem like more of a conspiracy mindset. I agree with him that EEE tactics at MS are probably alive and well. We're seeing a friendlier facade because MS is losing it's dominant market position. However technology isn't inherently good or evil so I'll gladly enjoy things like Typescript until the day MS tries to make them proprietary again.

I think MS gave up selling software and wants to sell services like Amazon or Google.
LOL. Disgusting. They turn it from "sickness" to "preventing injury".

In Australia it's called personal leave (though many bosses don't) because it covers not just you being sick but also family being sick.

I take sick leave liberally. I suffer depression and don't go to work. Sick leave is calculated as part of the salary, just like holiday.
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Actually here is a practical example of the sort of annoyance resulting from FOSS licenses.

Google developped an excellent library that they open sourced called Google OR Tools [1]. It not only provides access to Google's in house linear programming optimiser, but also acts as a wrapper around other solvers, some free, some commercial, so that you just change a parameter to try another solver.

However because of conflicting licenses or licenses restrictions, google cannot distribute binaries that include certain FOSS solvers, like GLPK. So to be able to use GLPK you need to recompile the whole project yourself. If you go on the Google OR tool forum, you will see that it's not a simple CTR+SHIFT+B, everyone is struggling, and I wasted a lot of time trying to do this.

That's what I mean by strings attached.

[1] https://developers.google.com/optimization/
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This is gradually getting out of hand
- Automate building dev environments (Linux-based) with dependencies

automate all setup with ansible and scripts

- Automate building dev environments (Linux-based) with dependencies

Use CI to build automatically artifacts. Provide tools for developers to ship their app to servers.

Ultimately, delete the development environment, it's always a hassle and it's always differing from prod. Only use prod machines.

By that, I mean that you give prod machines to devs who needs them, plus tooling to deploy anything they want anywhere, on any of their machines.
You're ignoring two things: 1. People's selfishness and 2. People of older age

> Any group who actually thinks about it would quickly realise that 1 person off for 2 weeks with the flu is better than 10 people off for 2 days each with the flu.

People tend to not think that way. It'll not be "luckily David stayed home so we don't get sick" but "David stayed home again and we didn't meet the requirements, screw you David!"

Older people ("older" as in 45+) are more often sick due to age related problems like back pain, knee problems, etc. Having those people on your team means that you are disadvantaged in comparison to other teams that don't have so many older people. People notice those things and will try to get rid of the older people to get their cut. To the company the experience of older people matters but their colleagues only see their bonuses disappear. This creates hostility between age groups and (imho) leads to ageism.
My statement was that giving people more referendums would make them use them more wisely, and I gave some reasoning for that.

Your response was that, not many people vote. I'm not sure how that addresses what I wrote?
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Oh, I'd never go without an alarm if I'm expected to be awake before noon or 1pm. Without an alarm, I generally wake up between 11 and 1, depending on time of year.

I also have a weird quirk of occasionaly sleeping through alarm clocks and phone calls, which increases the earlier I have to be at work. I quit one job when I was younger because I couldn't physically handle the work hours: They started at 5am. Midnights? Yeah, those are glorious, though 2nd shift tends to be my favorite.

Your experience with Ambien mirrors my experience with melatonin. It works for me, but I have to allow extra time to sleep.I wake rested but groggier than normal.
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Well apparently not all people want to be eco friendly.

Most people I know would rather buy a new low/mid range product than a used/refurbished device that was high end when it was released. It's mind boggling - you'd rather get a creaky piece of shit locked down cheap NEW laptop than a high quality business grade used one, because... it hasn't been used before?

I believe that if a device was gently used and hasn't failed, the chance of it failing after 1-2 years is actually lower than with a new one. I don't know if it's true, but it's been my experience.

But then again, my relationship with tools is weird - if I get them, I clean and rebuild them, so they're mine. No one else gets to use them. They're almost like pets. And I don't care how many people used them before me...
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> How to Hack Your Way In To The Climate Change Revolution

This is just a list of (mostly) ill-informed questions rather than "Thought-Provoking Climate Change 2.0 Ideas", and certainly don't answer acabal's question, or the address title of the post.
>27 lines is horribly optimistic

Yes of course, I was referring to the skeleton script in wheezy to be fair. ;)

A more normal systemd unit I wrote for one of my own services is actually 15 lines but that's for a Python service, with virtualenv and above all no shell script wrapping.
Setting up new applications in Java or .NET is by far easier than Node.JS

I'm far from a node fan, but that is simply not true. When it comes to going from zero to a "Hello World" webapp (super simple rest api that grabs data from db and returns as JSON) nothing really beats node in my opinion.

Install npm, npm install express (or restify), npm install database-driver (and there are drivers for everything), type a dozen lines of code into a single file and you're done. Sure npm is probably doing some crazy things with dependencies in the background, but you don't have to worry about it to just get started.
Doing the same with Java or C# is much more involved.

Of course going from there to a large complete application is far from equally trivial and I definitely prefer working in something else in most cases, but node has the whole getting started experience down pat and that's probably the reason it's become so popular.
I don't see how you could generate a compiler backend from this -- the spec/pseudocode give you the "this instruction has these effects and side effects" mapping, but you can't easily reverse that to get the "if I want this effect then I need this instruction sequence" mapping which a compiler backend uses. Am I missing something?
Advice from Reddit's r/DIY and r/homeimprovement communities helped me take on repairs and improvements that I wouldn't have done otherwise. I learn a lot from the step-by-step photos, explanations of work, and feedback in the comments.
Those forums are like the Stack Overflow of home improvement and are really great -- life changing!
I remember being part of a School District who was GAFE for 5 years before Google rolled out its "Google Vault" feature. You enable it to give yourself access to email/google docs ediscovery for FOI requests.

Creepy thing is, when we turned it on we could see deleted emails including spam, everything imaginable that had been sent, received, or created for the entire previous years we had been a GAFE School. Before Google Vault even existed. We don't have control over the collected data, these companies just give us the illusion of it by letting us disable our own access to it.

Don't want Google now notification for in store deals on your android phone? Ok, you can disable it...but Google is still tracking what stores you go to when and where.

A big thing I've seen that keeps schools in GAFE is affordability and ease of management. IT department workloads plummet, so no arguments from them. Also imagine the nightmare of trying to export all of your google docs to another platform somehow.

I don't like it and it isn't right, but before this can change I think we'll need good open cloud alternatives with easy migration paths. As far as chromebook hardware is concerned, we'll need another viable cheap alternative that respects privacy.
To be fair, mariadb systemd unit is 173 lines of ini-style configuration. Not 173 lines of bash code. There's a massive difference.

Also most of it is commented as examples.
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To me it's surprising to see employers paying sick days. Why not have a public insurance that pays them just as if you were unemployed or had a serious medical condition that made you unable to work?

I thought Europe was mostly the latter (public insurance) while the US used employer pays.
Edit: here the employer pays days 2-14 (no pay day 1, public insurance from day 15).
Im not sure if there is s limit in days per year (I believe there isn't)

Having employers pay sick days must mean people with a history of illness are less attractive employees.

Paid sick days is just like any other insurance - the larger the pool the better. I'm assuming employees insure against this though?
80% of the country using facebook 'regularly' is not a monopoly. And even if it were, what are they monopolizing, social media in general? Just because 80% of the country visits McDonald's regularly does not make them a monopoly.
Great if there are actual place you can put it, but people in Hong Kong cant even rent a place as large as this tiny MUJI home for less then $750 USD per month.
Fedora RISC-V port: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/RISC-V
Anyone know how Apple pulled off an in place filesystem upgrade ? Is the data copied to your upgrade laptop and back ?
It can be profitable. But yeah, the market is small. I've looked into this before - even the poorer Eastern European countries prefer new products to refurbished ones. And that seems to mirror the opinion of a lot (probably most) people.
I skimmed the report but has been unable to find out how the EFF knows that Google collects more than they pledged to.

I am not trying to cast doubt on the report, I am genuinely curious.
Not from my viewpoint. I'm the one installing the packages and writing the occasional unit/override unit in my daily work.

I don't see those complex use cases systemd critics often point to. I mostly see the fact that I get to maintain a few lines of ini-style configuration instead of many lines of bash.
These have very limited RAM, and won't run Linux.
You're expecting me to believe a company that relies on soaking up personal data, and tried to pull the "We will do no evil", is stiĺl at it? Say it ain't so.
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Something about MeFi that makes it an oasis of basically what the lurid 90's folks imagined the Web would become. Probably because it's from the 90's, but it's a dingy dirty utopia of sorts
In Germany, when an employee has been sick for 6 weeks and is still unable to come to work, the employers obligation to pay them for their sick leave ends and the employee is moved over to Krankengeld, which is about 75% of their monthly net income and is paid for by the mandatory public health insurance.

There's also non-mandatory corporate insurance products for employers that will pay for the mandatory sick leave. However, this is usually not affordable for very small companies and large organizations are usually better of absorbing the risk themselves and not paying the insurer a premium.
It all depends on what you mean by "value".

If value means helping the marketing team at apple to sell more useless (but admitedly super-technological) phones, then count me out :-)
The Orchard is developing a film transparency platform that addresses pretty much exactly this problem.

http://transparency.theorchard.com/

http://www.indiewire.com/2016/09/orchard-transparency-platfo...

(disclosure: I'm working with them as a consultant.)
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This. I also like to point out that Germany doesn't exactly have a concept of "paid sick days".

The exact details are complicated but from the employees point of view the gist is that as long as you are not chronically ill (or try to game the system) you don't have to worry about days. Just inform your employer on the first day and get a doctor's note after the third.

Sick time and holiday time are very different things. Holidays are mandatory and can't be reduced by sick time.

I never understood the concept of paid sick days as it is used in the US. From what I heard you have a fixed number and you don't have to prove that you are sick to use them. So what is the difference between paid sick days and holidays exactly?
They used to - today, I think only MacBooks retain that famous resale-ability.

Probably because the iPhones are specced just enough to last a couple of years, whereas Android phones are over-specced as hell, even the Galaxy S4 had 4 cores and 2GB of RAM, which is still more than useable today...
You're free to believe it or not, fact is our customers require that uptime. If that requires me to use some "hype" technologies then so be it.
More likely, its a pain to use, so someone copied it to a "safe" place so their manager /boss can access it without the need of some "IT guy" guy around. At least thats what happens in enterprises, so i would guess government as well..
Take a trip to Korea, after you come back hotel prices stay in Korean won on Google Maps, until you reinstall the app, pathetic...
What really bugs me here is the misunderstanding of what "recycle" means.

Like someone else pointed out, the hierarchy is "reduce, reuse, recycle". Recycling is the option for items which are no longer usable in their present state, or for which it is not economically viable to repair the item enough to make it reusable. And recycling consists of... reclaiming the materials in the item to use in making new items. Which involves destroying the item.

Would you be upset to learn that drink containers (such as metal cans and plastic bottles) that go to a "recycling" center don't just get sterilized and refilled/re-labeled with new drinks? That instead they are destroyed to reclaim the metal or plastic in them, so that other metal or plastic items can be made of those materials? Would you condemn that as hypocritically un-environmental?
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This is something I've thought a lot about as I've tried to teach basic skills at $corp to smart people with relatively little formal comp sci or programming experience.

It led me to write two books using the Hard Way method:

http://learnbashthehardway.tk/learnbashthehardway.pdf

http://learngitthehardway.tk/learngitthehardway.pdf

It doesn't assume zero knowledge, but it's so hard to know how to pitch. What I like about the hard way method is that typing stuff out forces you to engage the material and encourages self-learning through the topic.
Amazon / eBay. Urban-center level access to necessities and more helped enable a move to a rural, old-time village. The kids go out the door. I know my neighbors. No traffic. Lots of flowers and birds.
> Indeed, collectively, UK fishermen appear not to be very wise.

My post at the head of this discussion made the point that continually repeating "Everyone who disagrees with me is stupid" turned out not to be a good way to win an election.

Still doing the same thing and expecting different results?

I strongly expect that the fishing communities (is fishermen actually an OK word to use these days?) actually know their own situation much better than either you or I do, and they're very clear on how the EU affects them.
Almost all generational names are bs. Maybe the swath of children born directly after WW2. Other than that it's just noise.

Another good thing to ignore is decade based commentary. We haven't seen it much since the 1990's because 2000's and 10's are a bit cumbersome. But believe me once we hit 2020 it's going to be on like Donkey Kong and won't let up until 2100 with "Are you a 20s girl?" and "10 things to look forward to with the 20s" and on and on.
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What was the reason given?
I seem to be the minority in this thread but am happy with the flexibility, maturity & reliability of Vagrant. The trick has been sticking to virtualbox, off-loading all provisioning work to ansible as early as possible and using dual nics on the vms so you don't have to worry about port collisions for the most part.

Setup: Win10 host and 6 vagrant guests (mix of internally produced jessie and xenial64 boxes with Packer). Terraform on AWS infra in staging & production with ansible for config/provisioning and Consul for node discovery.

[Edit] some tips to make dev work pleasant on Win10: Use cmder, mRemoteNg and configure samba to expose your git working dir back to the host (so file change hot reloading works reliably if you want to do your coding on the host with something like VSCode or Sublime).
Even weirder still, in my experience, is that Google Maps randomly displays the names as Finnish sometimes, and randomly displays them in Swedish other times.
Sounds like it's pretty similar across Europe then (My Example was Sweden). 6 weeks I suppose can be pretty expensive small business compared to the 13 days here. But both systems are clearly tailored towards being friendly to employees rather than employers, which is (as usual) the difference to the US.
I seem to be in the minority here in being largely happy with the .NET OSS ecosystem. Look at github or nuget - it's rare I can't find a library to fulfil my needs.

The only issue I really do have is down to fragmentation - library authors have too many targets to supports support. Libraries may support .NET Standard, but not the .NET framework before 4.6, for example.
There's also a scary number of people in developing countries who will report that they use Facebook, but not 'the internet'. Developing countries are the market Facebook could dominate, in the same way Microsoft dominated computers for normal people.
"Ew, it's the old version"

"I'll just borrow some money and get a NEW one, which will last longer"

Is what you're gonna get from those ungrateful pricks :D
Wikipedia.

So much information, generally well written, and a good level of detail on many pages. I've used the "Random Page" link a few times.

Just this morning I read "Apollo 8"[1], since I heard samples from the radio broadcast in a song last night.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_8
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"While it is true that my PhD experience at UC Santa Barbara was crucial to my network of collaborators and work on Julia, there are several contributors to Julia from India who have not gone for graduate studies abroad. There are many contributions from undergraduates as well. I am just glad that Julia is a living breathing open source project with significant contributions and work from around the world, including India."

It reminds me of the collaboration between Hardy and Ramanujan. To me, the significant contributions from around the world, including India, represent Ramanujan working on his own in India while your PhD experience at UC Santa Barbara could be comparable to that of Ramanujan working in collaboration with Hardy at Cambridge. Hope that is not an overstatement. Your work should serve as an inspiration to many in India. Thank you for giving us a language to code in.
Well yes, standing inside the plane is a very important distinction. If you are standing inside and decide to jump, there is no atmospheric drag inside the plane to slow down your horizontal speed because any atmosphere in the plane is moving at the same speed you are and so the relative speed is zero.
how to sell directly to Amazon.com?
eg. Using the/a amazon brand for biscuits. (eu based)
Hacker News changed my life, I found my first job thanks to a Who's Hiring post. :)

I'm surprised that Khan Academy isn't listed anywhere. Their videos were incredibly helpful when I was in college.
What if 99% of the people has no idea about the implications of their vote? I'm genuinely curious here. What if the experts are right and the majority of people are against them?