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Let's put something into perspective. Linux is 25 years old. If Linux hasn't supplanted Windows on the desktop by now, then there is no indication it ever will.

And don't get me wrong, I think Linux is a fine OS and use it daily (lately more often than Windows). But "replace Windows" is not a static target, and the organizations in charge of promoting Linux as a desktop OS have nothing now or in the works that can compete with the corporate Juggernaut of Microsoft.

Selling software is hard, especially on Linux. We tell people FOSS means free as in freedom, but the vast majority of even people who parrot that line thinks it means free as in beer. As a software vendor, you'd be killing yourself to ignore 90% of the market.
Why? It's not like we are in risk of running out of humans on the planet.
The answer to this depends entirely upon who you're trying to reach with your tech-blog-as-marketing approach. If it's primarily recruitment-oriented marketing, or you're marketing a tech product (apologies, I haven't checked the link - but it's not relevant for this general advice).

If it's recruitment-focused or you're a tech provider marketing to technical customers quality is probably more important. The intended audience is educated enough to spot and dismiss fluff outright and anyone that doesn't isn't a recruit or customer you want.

If your goal is marketing to non-technical people who buy your product a technical blog is probably irrelevant at best and potentially destructive at worst. If the customer is non-technical and doesn't understand the material you present publicly, they may be scared off. Fluff pieces that demonstrate knowledge with lots of buzzwords that appeal to middle-upper management will be more effective with this audience.
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Actual technical content on github, which is linked from the article, but perhaps should be the main link?

https://github.com/zeffy/kb4012218-19

The article does at least do some digging vis-a-vis the history of Zeffy's work and how it came to reach the state that it's in currently, so some credit is due to computerworld.
Why would they choose the more expensive one?
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my guess: a cultural and social value placed on STEM subjects. My personal theory is that young women in the West are less likely to get into tech because they are seen as stuffy, the domain of greybeards and model train enthusiasts. Don't forget that people generally pick up their core interest in subjects at a young age where social value and coolness are some of the most important personal objectives (early teen years).

I think the advent of the startup as being culturally associated with youth and creativity (i.e. that they're cool) is helping to rectify this image, but the startup industry has only recently gotten into mainstream culture.

[edit: as tptacek notes, this is not an issue that extends to all of STEM, so I've updated my comment to reflect this. I've left in the highlight on Russia placing cultural value on STEM subjects because I think it's relevant, and that saying Russian culture places value in programming but ignoring the value of Maths, Science and other logical pursuits like Chess would be giving a partial and inaccurate picture. Also, I'm not Russian myself so this is purely an outside-looking-in perspective.]
Russia has a very low birth rate for native Russians. Here in the US, having kids and working in engineering is difficult. My wife took 5 years off and it has definitely affected her pay and advancement. Low pay and little vacation maybe have something to do with it too.

Both the wife and I are engineers. Our daughter shows no interest in tech. She does like to mix stuff, so maybe Chem E. Though I'm not going to prod her. STEM just does not pay over the long term.
The voucher do not cover alcoholic beverages [1]. That and the difficulty to code after drinking do that peoples generally do not drink during lunch. But yes, Frenchs take their time for lunch :)

[1] http://www.edenred.co.in/Our-Offerings/Work-life-Benefits/Ti...
That link turns into a download, at least in Chrome.
That's not a thing outside the EU.
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Isn't most of the coastline damage a result of creating shipping canals and pushing brackish water further inland?
> I don't know what the bias is called but there is this belief that many successful people have or try to bestow that they "did it all themselves" and "you can too".

This is a combination of egocentric bias[0] and post-hoc rationalization [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egocentric_bias

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc
Why?

(There are a number of different good answers to that, I'd imagine. I just don't know what they are.)
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for the others who don't know the history.... (despite your added comment)

You can take what you've said, replace "JSON" with "XML" and you've got an explanation for Maven and all the other Java tools with a ridiculous amount of logic shoved into some generic markup format that was never intended for it. History has shown that it sucks to deal with. XML was the hot, "obvious", "everybody knows it", format of its day. I agree that JSON is, in most uses, a hell of a lot better, but, like XML it is a terrible place to be defining logic.

It really needs to be something that is actually designed to encode logic, not a data structure format. A custom DSL is a decent, and probably very easy (for users) idea, but if the author was really not interested in the design and debugging of such a thing then you could use LUA or some other embedded language.
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Do both.

Put your really impactful content in your blog and your fluff pieces into its own section/knowledge base. (stuff people will probably search for but wont share). People who find your blog will just see the impactful stuff and will want to subscribe.
Something tells me he won’t be a billionaire for long.
That's wrong. All firmware I worked with used assembly for early initialization (startup.s) in those cases where the only alternative would be to rely on UB. I've worked with firmware that only worked with -O0 and failed with -O2, but these were always bad implementations, not due to some inherent requirement to rely on UB (most common example: failing to recognize that using volatile does not guarantee a memory barrier).
How is that a defense?
I have had times when I used logging and then realized I should use a debugger instead.

I have had times when I used a debugger and then realized I was never going to find the problem that way; I needed a larger amount of information that only logging could provide.

I've only been programming about 30 years so I probably haven't hit my peak yet, but my guess is that even with more experience I'll still want to use both tools.

Debug logging doesn't have to be litter either. Instead of commenting out use log levels like with https://www.npmjs.com/package/debug-logger
I'm slowly moving off Google's platforms after over a decade as a GApps user because of how nothing works for apps users anymore. Even if I could find a gmail address that wouldn't get buried in spam and that I actually liked, I'd have to re-buy all my electronic purchases because they can't be transferred. I might as well re-buy them all on iOS. I've decided that the tight integration google offers is actually an anti-feature if you find yourself outside the "one true use-case."
But only if you know in advance what to prepare for.
Who buys your product? Blog with them in mind. If you are not selling to engineers, fluff typically works best.
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You're right. Windows for Workgroups 3.11 isn't getting patches for Kaby Lake either. Those evil bastards.
That's the same point I tried to make in another comment. Of course luck plays a role to some degree. But this obsession over luck as the key to the success of others seems unhealthy to me. Just from my position as a person approaching 50, it seems that it's an obsession that dominates more in the upcoming generations than in ones past where the mantra that "hard work leads to success" was a lot more common.

Once you take on the mindset that all success is luck, what's the motivation for trying at all?
They had female fighter pilots in world war 2 and the first female astronauts. That was long before anybody in the west could even think of that possibility. Not sure if it's a Russian thing or communism. East Germany also had more female engineers and scientists.
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IQ is highly heritable[1], and if smart people are having zero or one children, that should be of concern to everyone.

It's possible that nutrition + butts in school seats created the Flynn effect, where the population's IQ rose. The next century might see the reverse.

[1] Per gwern: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13729085
It's because Russia isn't a particularly nice place to live. From the article:

> Most of the girls we talked to from other countries had a slightly playful approach to Stem, whereas in Russia, even the very youngest were extremely focused on the fact that their future employment opportunities were more likely to be rooted in Stem subjects.

They do tech because it provides a way of getting a good life. In the West, where conditions are less harsh, women don't feel the need to go into tech to get a good life.

Similar considerations explain why female university students are more likely to do STEM subjects in Iran than in Sweden.

This, incidentally, blows out of the water the argument made by some feminists that women don't do STEM because of conditioning in nasty patriarchal societies.
When Mark Russinovich did something like this, he got a job offer from Microsoft. Maybe Zeffy has a future on the Windows team?
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If that was the case, then I would expect the exact opposite forces to work. My ex used to study mechanical engineering at one of the top universities of poland and the older professors who must have tenured during communism would frequently either openly ask "what is a girl doing in this class" or one straight up said to her that he doesn't believe women can be engineers. She complained to university only to be told that the professor was joking and nothing happened.

Communism might have been promoting individualism, but certainly engineering professions were men-only affairs.
Maybe because like men all over the world, Russian women aren't specially "encouraged" to go into tech? Maybe nobody has to tell them or tell anyone to 'like science'. People just do.

The same argument goes for women in science. Albert Einstein was told he wouldn't amount to much. Doesn't mean he 'got discouraged' and quit physics. That's not why we do science - for public appreciation - we do it because we love it no matter what anyone else says. This is the point that the girls in tech people miss I think.

Instead of buying your daughters lego sets with women wearing fancy lab coats and looking into telescopes, buy them gyroscopes, or electronics kits, or lego's own DIY robot? None of the toys mentioned above feature gender and actually give a sense of what science is about.

I'm open to hear your thoughts, especially from women.
Ideally, with a stainless steel water bottle. Nalgene water bottle a close second.
Intra-browser-communication does not often follow a spec though. Of course, replacing a parser (for video formats, or css) is easier because of standards, but how to composite parts of an html site? That's not covered by standards.
It's the wrong question.

Which is ironic, since the inability to ask to right question (about the US) is indicative of the problem (here). The question tech here should be asking is: If our "party" is so great (and being the self-absorbed Kool Aid drinkers that we are, we're 100% certain it is), how come so few outside our immediate circle wants to come to our party? Maybe it's not them? Maybe it's us? Could it be us? No!!! Never!!! It can't be us.

THAT is what should be the mindset of trying to understand to problem. It's not. Funny tho'. Tech is willing to solve all the rest of the world's problems. But it's unwilling - and unable? - to solve its own.

Yeah I know. Let the down votes begin. Please feel free, cause that only proves my point.
>This is exactly what the C standard says.
No, please read the page that I linked: there are historical reasons to believe that the meaning of undefined behavior is different.
The irony here is that for those who are reading too much into the comic, logically they must believe that xkcd's success is just luck.
Instead of crying about it, WE can add suggested APIs to be included in the WebExtensions extension Firefox is using. They recently added the Sidebar API which allows a form for vertical tabs but nobody has implemented trees yet.
Depends what you mean by "startup" and indeed "success".

As mentioned elsewhere on this thread, small business survival rates are surprisingly high these days - around 60% depending on whose figures you believe.

(I think that's too high, and suspect it doesn't include digital businesses to the extent it should. But 40% wouldn't surprise me, across all sectors and industries.)

Wannabe-unicorn success rates at getting to unicorn status are, OTOH, very low indeed. But the rewards are arguably commensurate with that.
And time lost waiting for a new one to be delivered, disposal fees...
And time lost waiting for a new one to be delivered, disposal fees for the old unit, laundromat fees and time spent there while the system is down.
What's wrong with losing coastline? There's no shortage of land in America or the world in general.
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> I've worked with firmware that only worked with -O0 and failed with -O2

But as we can see in this vuln, there's functionality that works in the normal case but where important checks are elided, and compilers might decide not to do anything with a piece of undefined behaviour in one version but not in the next. Whether a piece of code works in -O2 doesn't prove it doesn't contain undefined behaviour.
Everyone experience change. Not all change is bad, some change is good. This would be sufficient for "everyone experience lucky breaks" to be true.

Sometimes a change can be terrible and good. Whole family dead, house gone? Terrible. Being free to move to a new area, perhaps find new opportunity - could be (in a different sense) good.

Only a crazy person would want such a disaster, but sometimes surviving something like that if one is able to shamble on through life - will in hindsight be the point were life changed, in some ways, for the better.
>STEM just does not pay over the long term.

Whaa? What's your definition of pay? Anyway, IMO no prodding needed - expose the child to a wide variety of things, and then help them find and nurture their passion.
nope, this only allows you to edit an svg with js code.

That's not applicable to another platform.

I need to modify the svgs themselves in order to make them morphable.

That's easier said than done since they need to contain the same instructions in the same order (with only different parameters) and the transition cannot be random.
Netflix Engineering team amazes me a lot. They literally took all the available apis, and build their own platform despite some of the features are already in the AWS offerings. I suppose they did it mainly because the native service isn't flexible and robust enough for their use cases.

BTW, their opening positions are always prefixed with "senior" title but I guess that makes sense; Netflix builds pretty much everything from scratch under time constraint.
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Actually when you consider the global implications of climate and the local effects of shore, a local area using local money to protect local shore in the face of global inaction they are powerless to change makes perfect sense.

It is actually your position which makes no sense. "Hey 4.6 million Louisianans, sure you're only 0.00063% of world population, but protecting yourself and your land from what the other 99.9994% do is futile, you must instead convince the other ~7.1 billion humans to change so your land will be safe!"
Lots of this.

It's not only Russia, either, which I find to be a bizarre point of focus here. I find female colleagues are far more likely to be from India, China, or Taiwan than any western nation.
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Does it allow to connect external displays? Last time I checked bumblebee worked almost fine, but it didn't notice I connected an external display to DP hardwired to dGPU, and dGPU stayed powered-off. I got through a few workarounds for that, and even managed to get something incorrectly displayed, but nothing really worked like it should, so I gave up and I'm using this ugly nvidia-prime thing and just remember to set it in "performance mode" before using my laptop with external displays.
There's also a pattern where differences in average personality are larger in more gender-egalitarian societies which might be an alternate explanation.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijop.12265/abstra...
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> Maybe well be a leftover from communism

That may very well play a role. Here in former East Germany women were expected to work despite being parents which resulted in some side effects like widely available daycare / kindergartens.
It's not the technology per se. Technology is an expression of a culture (google Lewis Mumford and Murray Bookchin). It's our culture (late stage capitalism) that is creating our own demise. We have a responsibility to grow/evolve a new culture and develop the technology that enables that culture.
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Maybe 70 years of praising progress and science had some lasting cultural effect.
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Are you saying people in Europe, north America, and Russia are smarter than people in the rest of the world?
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If this is anything like Brexit affecting London, I don't see lots of people leaving, I don't even notice any difference in my workplace, but I know someone living the UK every month to the point we're not even one year since the referendum and half my friends already left, one by one.

So, point is, you might not see a sudden movement but it might still be there.
Eastern European here: in 2003 when I joined a computer science university I had ~15% female colleagues; as the net salaries for programmers have reached ~70% of the western european levels(while average salaries are nowhere near that level), I see about 40% of the interns being females.
So, this might not be politically correct, but yeah, I think women pursue safe, well-trodden paths while men are much more likely to be single-minded risk takers.
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"minimally attributed"?

On Google? Really?
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It boggles my mind how many people in Dallas are in the $5-50MM net worth range. I am smack in the middle of that range and feel quite unremarkable.
The members of the creative class who live in the major cities and take mass transit or bike or walk to work have the right idea. Bonus points for working at home or going full Mr. Money Mustache.

Unfortunately that's not practical for most people. Also, we overinvest in our highways and cars because there seems to be almost no collective will to build a national transportation network beyond that.

And I don't want to completely rag on one side of the political spectrum because if we could build a whole bunch more nuclear reactors we could solve a lot of this very quickly in the short-term.

Finally we could all eat a whole lot less beef. But I don't see any of this happening even if the current crop of leaders is kicked out the next round of elections.

There are solutions to a lot of the problems we face here in America but many of them are going to annoy both sides of the political fence differently therefore they're not going to happen. I'd love to see that change but I'm not holding my breath.
It's different in that it's optional in Python.
What are you even on about???

1. We don't understand what our problem is.
2. Nothing we try seems to really work.
3. So we compare ourselves to places that don't have the problem.
4. We hope the differences shed some light on the things we are doing wrong so we can change.

Why exactly do you think they take other countries as case studies?
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Hey, thanks for the hint with Fastmail.

I was actually looking into it, but have the same problem as before with Gsuite. Running 10 different domains with two or three people usually then means a fixed expense of $5 x10 x2 = $100/month only for mail. Or do I miss anything? Is that not bothering anyone that it _is_ quite expensive?
I think it makes sense, if you want to have a good life you will want a good education(my parents always told me if I do not learn then they would send me to take care of sheeps/cows I am from Romania)) so parents and children are aware that education means more money, We have differences here too, from my experience 10 years ago, there were more girls in literature then boys, more boys in computers , and in MAthematics where I was were 75% girls.
Very interesting article , shows how young a persons interests develop.
Everyone starts with no skills. Everyone can learn those skills, if:

1. They're motivated.

2. They're doing activities that lead to the right kind of learning.

So if you can teach well (or learn how to teach well) and they're motivated, this is a problem that will be solved in time.

The problem with a startup is that you're often on a tight deadline. The nice thing about a startup is that often software development's goal is learning (e.g. "are there any customers for this product?"), not building something that lasts, and so "quality" may not matter.

So it's very hard to say in the abstract without understanding the constraints you're under and the company goals.
Probably the same way they're so good at getting 9 year olds into the Olympics.
I wonder if they are driving people away by disabling things that worked for years. At work I have to use Java and Silverlight. In addition our IT department doesn't seem to be able to keep their certificates up to date. With chrome and Firefox being so strict they are almost unusable so I am using IE. In theory this should pressure suppliers to get rid of Java and our IT department should have better certificates but in practice I don't see this happening.
Across East Asia birth rates are also well below replacement levels. A lot of the world's population growth is coming from rapid increases in Africa.
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I just opened it, also in Chrome, and it took me to the website
Offtopic: I dated a girl who programmed ICBM guidance blocks from Russia :)

I'm so proud of this fact :)
Why google keeps pushing Tango is an excellent question - there are some good people in the group, but in general the performance and achievements have been abysmal. Considering that TensorFlow and Tango come from the same organization would produce serious cognitive difference if teh googz scale wasn't taken into account - yes, I worked with Tango for a little over a year, and then gave it to my son as a game platform - seems the future is heading away from structured light to pure visual mechanisms, possibly with LIDAR or ToF for a little analytical support