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I remember the old times, and am quick to remind of what they did to Netscape, Samba, et al. But to answer your question...

New blood, and fear. Gates is gone, and Ballmer was humiliated by the iPhone. Management now has to be in constant fear of ceding more ground in the consumer space. And they know that as consumer goes, so goes business... 20 years later.

Many of Microsoft's recent moves are heartening. Supporting Mono officially. Implementing web standards quickly. Backing off this signed app stuff in Win10.

MS has never had as much commercial pressure as they have now. They can't afford to alienate their niche supporters they way they could when they were the de facto everything. That gave me hope.

Of course old habits die hard, but I don't think it's impossible for a company to evolve. IBM did. Apple did.
Because we programmers tend to pick up on patterns forming. Once the Indian government sets a trend of repressive anti-citizen behavior, then we can trace it back to the earliest steps in this direction and maybe come up with a solution after understanding the cause.
You could have used the scribble reader (the @-expression syntax, not to be confused with the full documentation system). But you'd also then find that there is a more robust way to get what you implement with a simple definition:

#lang at-exp racket
(require racket/date)
(define s string-append)
(displayln @s{Current date&time: @(date->string (current-date) #t)})
They bug me with that, then they ignore what I say. I've determined that when people ask me "should I buy this?", they're not looking for my opinion - they're looking for validation that they are a crafty consumer.
Can someone with legal experience interpret the dissent? I don't really understand the distinction he's making between "substantive entitlements" and "procedural due process".
There is also this BTC debit card available, which could probably be used in conjunction with your service.
https://www.shiftpayments.com/card
I think what you are describing is actual racism what the author is describing to me sounds like someone being unhappy with the culture the live in being different and being badly educated about the culture their ancestors came from. Food is core to every culture. We all need to figure out what is edible and what isn't. Raw foods and fermented foods are right in the riskier category of what's edible and therefore frequently considered problematic by other cultures. That's a good thing. It means we have different cultures and diversity on our planet.
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When I visit the page from my iPhone it does not play the song.
Turn lemons into lemonade.

Data + Process = Results

Data is your current job.

Process is what you do with that data.

Most people will want to change the Data; that is, change job, change career, take vacation, etc.

Sounds like you're asking how to change Results without changing the Data, right?

Simple. Keep the Data the same but change the only other available variable: the Process...

Keep going to work. Keep doing the job. But change how you think about it: "How can I use this current situation as an investment toward my future?"

Consider multiple solutions to every work assignment, their way and a better way. You can still implement their way while learning a better way you can implement on the side or later.

Consider every assignment an "instance". Come up with a "class" of solutions for that instance. Instead of writing one solution, write a "mini-framework" that would solve this problem AND many similar problems. Again, you don't have to implement your elegant solution now, but once it's in your brain, it's yours forever.

Find time to talk to your users! Find out what they hate that's not being addressed (and there's probably plenty). Then work on that stuff on the side. Do it at work now and become a hero or don't do it at work now and become your own hero at another time or place.

Always be thinking, "How can I use this project to better myself?" Get creative. You may surprise yourself with the possibilities.

Most programmers struggle finding ideas. You have the opposite problem. You're surrounded by problems desperately needing solutions but not getting them. They're just not on your radar because you're so unhappy being unmotivated in your environment. Focus on the unassigned possibilities while you're in the muck. You may not realize it now, but where you're already at is the best place to find them.
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Do you have secure job where you can take it easy for a while? Its a great change to work 9-5 just for the money and find other things in life to enjoy. Perhaps its spending time with family & friends, perhaps learning a hobby, maybe some physical exercise.

Think about the people you meet and if you really envy the career path or life path someone else has taken. Maybe you should follow that track?
> as soon as someone is presented as transgender, this trait becomes their principal trait

I don't feel this way at all.
This is what I was thinking, and the answer for me is no.
I wondered years ago how long it would take for the single function camera to be extinct. My answer is fast coming into focus.
Is support for Barclays in the pipeline?
Never had an Imperial Malt 40oz have you .. and tried to code your CS project at 2AM on a Sunday, I see.
There are racial and demographic components to that question that are not politically correct to answer.

If one were inclined to dig into the FBI's statistics they would find a large portion are of a certain minority who are killing other members of that same group. These groups are also in low income areas with little prospects for good jobs. They also, ironically, seem to inhabit areas with very strict gun laws.

Often when I see this topic come up I think the violence is not caused by weapons but by an environment that doesn't have much opportunity for them.
As far as the US IRS is concerned, every time he makes a purchase with bitcoin, it is a taxable event where he must declare any gains/loss from the time he purchased the bitcoin. This type of regulation is hindering BTC adoption in the US. BTC also doesn't solve any problems the average person has in a developed country, but that is another story..
Thanks, much appreciated. Especially since I don't have to log into facebook to make it work.
Your hardware isn't locked to Steam by default. You can install GOG or whatever for free.
I leave work. I browse HN. I read news. I walk around the campus. It's tough to lost motivation at work. I have been recommended to look for a new job.
> It's untraceable

Feature of cash, not a bug. It's not the best choice for every situation, but neither is digital, which is why it's important that people have both options available.
Post-Snowden, I think you will find there are more who care about this than there were in the past. The only reason any of us take this seriously is because of what we factually know about government agencies snooping on us.
I completely agree this is awesome. Would be very interested in a detailed write up of every detail behind this project. In the meantime, you can just ride into the sunset knowing you've provided someone with their daily inspiration.
How hard would it be to convert your custom software to UWP apps that could be deployed from the Windows Store?
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The state I'm currently in has no such exception. It is illegal for both the parent to supply and the child to consume alcohol at home. Both can be arrested.

This is true for several states.
Maybe as a regular submission, or what do you think? We are hoping to get feedback from the community on the alerts system and if it meets the needs of DevOps personnel.
Click and drag mouse events over telnet? What black magic is this?!
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First and most importantly, sorry for your loss. That is truly terrible and unimaginable.

This isn't a diatribe, fear mongering or half-truths. The links I provided are real and from government agencies.

If you wish to refute the reality I am presenting you need to do better than your situation because yours is atypical.

Yes, in your case you fell outside the domain of estate recovery.

Of the projected 100 million people who will be on Medicaid, how many do you think will have three year old kids with Cancer?

Your kid's life was invaluable. I would have spent my last dime had I been in your situation and I am sure you likely did. That goes without saying.

You are also wrong in this statement:

> The government seems to have a procedure that attempts to collect money from an estate, in certain circumstances, after a patient dies, if there really was money available.

This is not true. If a Medicaid member owns a home and sells it or takes out a second mortgage or comes into money (inheritance, etc.) the government takes a bite right there and then AND kicks the person out of Medicaid because now they have money.

I hope you take the time to read the various links I provided and come to understand your situation isn't typical and that it is true that Medicaid is not medical insurance.

If an insurance company had estate recovery clauses in their insurance policies they would be brought up on fraud charges instantly and most of their management would end-up in jail. Why do we demand less from our government?

Sorry for your loss. I cannot imagine having to go through that.
It's tough because the legal theory is established and sound depending on your point of view. It arises from maritime law around contraband and ships.

The problem is that the scope of how it's implemented today is much larger and more impactful. The result is that we have policy at the Federal level that effectively criminalizes cash. Because the legal foundation is sound, it is difficult for the courts to act -- we really need changes in law. That's why law originates from the Congress... to check the executive.
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Just have a 'reseller' category which users can filter our when searching if they desire, and allow reports like this to force a vendor into this category.
It still is though it's recently called FinTS. Most german banks implement it and it's read/write usually.
Every bank has some specialities (even sometimes some bank branches have specialities) so it's usually not _that_ easy to implement if you want support for all banks.
"It helps that in Alabama, labor is cheap. Airbus set a goal that building planes in the United States would not cost a penny more than building in Europe. It is expensive to ship parts from Hamburg, but because the Mobile workers are not unionized, Airbus can hire fewer of them and pay them lower wages."

I think that's the money quote of the article. Large multinational corporations have a long history of moving factory work to cheaper third world countries.

Economic disparity has gotten so bad in the US in the past couple of decades that, effectively, places like Alabama now qualify as "third world" in that economic game.
Yeah. I remember playing through all the FF games (and a bunch of other RPGs) that hadn't been translated into English when I was in college in the late 90's. It's great that most of them have been remade since, but there is a lot of nostalgia in playing the originals on emulators.
I explicitly didn't claim these areas are racism-free. (And Washington is a bit weird, as it's vastly rural save for a handful of places that attract a lot of out-of-state people, more so than, say, Atlanta, Des Moines, etc).

But here's one anecdote to demonstrate what I'm talking about: My wife grew up in Hampton, VA, and when she was a teenager they painted over the "whites only" signs at the community pool. The rule hadn't been enforced in a long time, but everyone was fine with it being there. A generation+ was raised with a glaring symbol that some people were considered lesser, and being told that it's no big deal. Her grandmother once wandered a store for 15 mins trying to find a black employee to get something down off a shelf, rather than have any of the white employees do manual labor. (And yes, my grandparents had a lot of overt racism too...but they learned to tone it down whereas her grandmother didn't). Her father had views that are reprehensible and would sound a bit harsh coming from a KKK member. The stories about sexism are less horrifying, but far from good.

Racism is everywhere, racism is bad. But if we want to improve things, we can't pretend that everyone is equally racist - we need to acknowledge and try to correct. The reason I have hope for humanity is not that we're perfect, or even good, but that we RECOGNIZE these behaviors as bad. Slavery? Still happens, including in affluent nations, but we consider it a wrong, which is a necessary first step to getting rid of it. Ditto racism, sexism, homophobia, etc - the human species has a lot of work to do, but we've made progress. I don't want to lose that because people ignore the higher rates of overt and blatant racism in ANY area by saying "well, it's true other places too". That's false equivilancy.
It's been a while since I have been out of the wireless telco. world, but is this really new tech, the notion of having small cell sites for businesses ? I think it happens all the time, just maybe not with LTE Plus per say.
I mean, you can mass produce the appearance of individualism with a large enough data set and a well constrained ecosystem. Look at all the IoT-toaster bots on FB and Twitter scamming real people out of money. To some, the appearance is as good as the real thing.
We're seeing a lot of random VMs people are scheduling to shut off. From jenkins and other CI stuff to servers running things like Tableau.

Typically these people are turning these VMs off during non-working hours so they're saving about half the cost of those VMs.

Although we're trying to stress that we save lots of time vs writing automation scripts.
How is this supposed to be undemocratic? The prime minister is still polling very high and his party had emphatic victories in recent state elections. This is what democracy looks like - the enforcement of the will of the majority.

The case is on whether this democratic law is constitutional. They're backing a social security number with biometrics, and for that to be implemented, people will need to consent.
Part of Thomas's dissent seems based in the fact that Nelson and Madden had been convicted, so at that point in time the state was entitled to those fees, and that the fees went into the public pool. The later overturn of convictions didn't change the fact that the state was at one point entitled.

Thomas: "It does not follow, however, that petitioners have a property right in the money they paid pursuant to their then-valid convictions, which now belongs to the State and the victims under Colorado law."[1]

I believe in the value of a diverse court, but I rarely agree with the logic of Clarence Thomas.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/16pdf/15-1256_5i36.pdf
So, we can be sure a user can install a new OS on those laptops. Good.

That's the good side effect of the fine.
My wife and I have entered the US twice since President Trump came took charge. We're Indians, I'm on H1b and wife's on F1. The second time was a breeze, the agent was in a great mood and we just chatted about how she loves my company's product while she did her stuff.

The first time was more difficult, because I said something (technically correct) about my documents that confused her (understandably) for a while, so she had to lookup some extra stuff. She also asked my wife a lot of questions, because she was under the (wrong) impression that her school was blacklisted. That was seriously incompetent IMO, but she apologized after her supervisor (or some other superior) explained things to her. She also marked that we needed to go through customs, which the first time I've had to do that in almost 10 entries. I chalked this as a negative experience because of the customs thing, we felt she did that just to inconvenience us in some way. I cannot link this in anyway to President Trump, however.

Both times, we were one of the first people to be off the plane's economy section, but the wait before we got to the counter was 1+ hour. SFO is ridiculous.

My worst experience came when entering during President Obama's tenure (but nothing to do with his policy) in 2016. The agent went through my entire 9-year old passport, asked me why I had visited country X in 20YY, why I lied to my visa officer back when I got a F1, etc (that I'd go back home after studies. I did not lie, I happened to get a job and the employer happened to want to apply for a H1. I did not even know back then that there was a real or fake "shortage" in tech workers).

Hopefully more anecdata helps. If you're on the fence about visiting the US as a tourist I hope you end up deciding to come!
> the US simply seems culturally incapable of healthy approaches to easing kids through becoming adults on a number of dimensions.

Unfortunately this is true and applies to a broad range of subjects.
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Did you add a blink command or something similar? On my terminal, the whole screen is constantly showing then hiding then showing again in 1 second intervals. Mac OS X 10.6.8, Terminal 2.1.2.
That would then become a defacto gun owner registration system. Good luck getting that passed!
You mean, Progressive Liberal Content Sponsoring / Promotion.
Quite the opposite.

1. dozens comments here from USA guys, treating basecamp benefits as superb.

2. it's paid by the company in the Europe, not the govt.

3. you seems to quitly skim over thing like unpaid sick leave in USA. It's paid in europe. This alone is a huge difference. or am I wrong and this is paid in US?
What sort of intimate questions do you mean?

I'm ok with google knowing my location every second, I'm ok with receiving targeted shopping ads about watches after I browse watches on Amazon. I block ads when I feel like it, it's no skin off my bones.

It's not like men in black suits accost me at bus stops and force fliers into my hands with targeted ads. It's in my mind, literally harmless.
Yeah, I'm going to call bullshit on your 8 hour wait to get through customs.
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The context of this is a biometric national ID program

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

This program was originally described as voluntary, but over time it has been required for many more purposes.
They're on your iPhone too you just can't use them.
shouldn't even be controversial, more extreme examples are organ trade, completely unregulated drug use, self-harm, prostitution in some countries among other things.
Oops--that should have read "not strictly true"
It looks like Justice Thomas wanted to write a dissent because "But both opinions bypass the most important question in these cases: whether petitioners can show a substantive entitlement to a return of the money they paid pursuant to criminal convictions that were later reversed or vacated.". It starts on page 25 of the PDF. It is deep in procedure.

It ends with the summary:

No one disputes that if petitioners had never been convicted, Colorado could not have required them to pay the money at issue. And no one disputes that Colorado cannot require petitioners to pay any additional costs, fees, or restitution now that their convictions have been invalidated. It does not follow, however, that petitioners have a property right in the money they paid pursuant to their then-valid convictions, which now belongs to the State and the victims under Colorado law. The Court today announces that petitioners have a right to an automatic refund because the State has “no legal right” to that money. Ante, at 8, n. 11. But, intuitive and rhetorical appeal aside, it does not seriously attempt to ground that conclusion in state or federal law. If petitioners’ supposed right to an automatic refund arises under Colorado law, then the Colorado Supreme Court remains free on remand to clarify whether that right in fact exists. If it arises under substantive due process, then the Court’s procedural due process analysis misses the point.

I respectfully dissent.

I'm personally glad it went the way it did, but I'm really not a law type to figure out if it went that way in a good way.
I guess I should clarify my point. We (the IT department in my company) have been teaching the content editor (she updated the wordpress site) how to do HTML and some Python. She is effectively a junior developer now. I am completely fine with teaching people if they are keen to learn and I know people have to start somewhere.

What got on my nerves was previous co-workers when you try and show them a better way of doing something and they just don't care. They do it to keep you happy there and then, then back to their crappy ways a week later and usually I need to clean up the mess involved.

Give me an enthusiastic newbie over an unenthusiastic "one year ten times" developer any day.
I worked at a company that was almost entirely bootstrapped, and honestly I think it was for the worse. When they had early momentum, they could have raised money but chose not to. It was an okay choice at the time, and the founders were rightfully proud of this -- that they'd grown as a profitable company on their own.

But when things got leaner, they didn't have a reserve of cash to use, nor did they have the accountability or advisory capacity of investors to help them out. And when things were lean, they didn't have the momentum to raise money any longer, just a 'lifestyle' business's revenue which isn't very exciting to VCs.

Just my personal, uninformed, opinion. And while it's clear to me that not raising money was a mistake, that's only with hindsight.
Not as fast as a compiled language, because JavaScript is too dynamic to apply the same kind of aggressive JITing that things like the JVM or CLR can. It is, however, "fast enough"(tm).