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> There's a third, rather small community: the distro-makers, who nearly to a one are—if not in love—at least hold systemd in high regard.

I'm a distro-maker (Exherbo) and while we provide the option for systemd I wouldn't say anyone is exactly thrilled by it. Users use a variety of init systems including handrolled ones, and that choice is the users'. But we recognize it as the sensible current default and is too much effort to work against the grain here.
My previous job was in the north woods of the Midwest where there are fewer than 75k people living and the next nearest city of more than 25k is an hour drive away. There are several companies there, all hiring at all levels.

There are opportunities for entry level work everywhere. However, the demand for living in urban areas with culture events changes the equation to one where employers have the ability to pick and choose- and will do so for more skilled workers.

There is no luck involved in moving to a city where there are only two Starbucks's.

The asset that the entry level employee has is his or her ass in a chair. There is a lot of value in that and companies will invest in it. They don't want a contractor who will disappear in 6 months or a nameless person behind the account manager who changes every few months.

One just has to say "not everyone will live where they have their hearts set on."

You want to live in NYC? SF? Many people do and it will be harder to compete for limited spots.

That city in the north woods? A quick scan shows 20 open positions in the three biggest tech employers, half of which are entry level. Positions are paying around 150% median household income there.
You sure do - the variation between devices is the manifestation of the ability to control layout depending on the recipient's display's resolution and size.

If anything, a PDF designed for A4/letter is going to be cumbersome to read on a (probably rather small) 640x480 display.

The sad state of PDF rendering on (most) e-book readers should be evidence enough.
I've started sorting the reviews by Date lately instead of popularity. I find a better mix that way. It doesn't stay in that order though so I need to do it each time.
I'm in the US, and on a contract sure, as a contractor I was once told 7 weeks before that my contract was not being continued (new CIO put a freeze on all new hiring/contracts/contract extensions while they evaluated workload). That contract had already been extended twice.

Also once, as an employee not a contractor, I was laid off and while I was given time to say some farewells to colleagues I was politely asked not to attempt to log in. I had worked there long enough that I received 6 months severance pay so I had time to get another job.

FWIW, All of my career has been in the American mid-west in "employment at will" states. I've never been asked to sign a contract as an normal employee.
Should be easy enough to make the installation process as simple as possible. Even after we get windows support complete you'll need some libraries and the msvc toolchain to compile for windows, so it's likely that we'll make a nice and simple installer that automates the process.
$465 and $775 aren't exactly cheap and premium.

Premium lines usually start at $1000 ~ $1200.
Well, the text is gussied up and there is plenty of dramatic license, but there were hundreds, if not thousands of startups that fit that description. Have a look at the meteoric rise and fall of pets.com: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pets.com

For every high-profile one, there were dozens smaller ones that rose and fell on the same wave.

That's not to say that all .com companies crashed and died in that mess, but there were plenty.
Same about the Stock Market, which ironically can be the best life stile location independent business...
This happened to one of my colleagues working in an Indian IT company. Instead of security, it was his manager who escorted him out. There was nothing sensitive about his project either.
That's why I'm curious what the cost is for transporting both resources and communities between planets and especially between solar systems.

If we can do so cost-effectively, then we can slowly destroy Earth, move people to Mars gradually as Earth becomes less habitable, and finally leave just a team of miners and nobody else on Earth, to slowly extract the last few resources. Then we need to do the same to Mars, and we need to find another planet, probably outside this solar system, to move people to as we exhaust Mars' resources.

If we can't do that, then we will have Earth-humanity slowly die out as Earth's resources are exhausted, and Mars-humanity slowly die out as Mars' resources are exhausted, and nothing to do about it other than Mars-humans reading Earth's history books and realizing the farce.

Alternatively, we can figure out, as a species, how to provide for everyone without destroying the planet we're on.
After reading the story, I'd put the valuation at $10B, at least.
ALSA is part of the kernel, it's likely been pre-installed in every Linux you have ever run. It's not a mark against it that you choose to install distros developed to use pulseaudio.
Correction: ABC News has amended and editor’s note to its story clarifying that the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department did not specify the type of smart device that called them to the home. An earlier version of this post cited ABC’s story and claimed a Google Home called police.

They were house sitting. It's not a stretch to think that homeowners had other smart devices to listen in and see what's going on remotely, and call police if necessary. Nest cam possibly? It works with Google Home.

Also, there was a daughter (no mention of age) who may have been able to trigger an alarm system or call herself (though a traditional call negates the "smart device" claim by the sheriff's department).

I'm concerned if smart devices will start intervening with human arguments. When they're necessary, it's indeed a lifesaver. When they're not it can really break up otherwise healthy homes and cause a lot of stress.
That is my schedule when I have to go in (thankfully only a few times a month), but usually the 10:00-3:30 becomes a 10:00-6:30 or 7.

I guess the friend thing kind of depends on which direction they moved in relation to traffic.
Thanks, it's good to know there's an established terminology. I'll do my research and update the article.
> there are plenty of examples of people who quit their job, start a company and then fail after losing a pile of money, and have to get a job again

Have done it two times so far, about to do it a third time (hopefully, with a different outcome). Wouldn't call it "failing".
Trying not to be a smart ass but aren't you just looking for reddit? i.e. HN for X?
O'Reilly had the serious flaw that you could just claim you own a book by adding its IBAN to your account's library and thus being able to "upgrade" it and obtain the ebook version for $5. I wonder why that worked as long as it did.
yup, it's called Reddit
Plus it's (more) complicated to wget mirror it to reference while offline. Being in a public github repo makes it easy but I've run into issues trying to take older frames-based "SPA" documentation sites offline that aren't explicitly downloadable.
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Then why did Goldman's stock and earnings fall so much in 2008? if they engineered all these bubbles obv they would have had the foresight to be unscathed during crisis, which they weren't. There is no conspiracy. Hedge funds where the ones bidding the prices higher and many lost money on the way down. Goldman does not single-handedly control the market.
I'm pretty sure the parts are mostly stamped. The parts that come out of the process are high quality, but it is a rapid process. This How It's Made for a fridge starts with the forming of the body:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE-TqX-FBeI
Unrelated, but how come you've chosen to use the `xe` pronoun?

I couldn't find any mention of it in Zbigniew's blog.
And Melburnian [0] for Melbourne.

[0] https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Melburnian
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Exactly my thought. Pebble was fine until they took a funding round and suddenly had VCs pushing them to become "the next Apple". Then they hired way too many people, refocused on where they thought 'the big market' was (ie. fitness) rather than where their market was (ie. long battery life, e-paper based smartwatches with an open application ecosystem), and tried to pump out new models too fast.

It seems a recurring theme in SV that companies neglect to consider the overall market size for their niche product when deciding how large to try and scale their business.
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I got the same feeling. It's a pretty sensational article that leaves out a lot of details but simultaneously has some really good information.
I can see the frustration on that. I don't use mobile for Prime or Netflix, always wifi. But, I use Amazon Prime Music, and it seems to be much better designed for mobile than other streaming services I've used.
Limited to "Microsoft Invoicing":

>Microsoft Invoicing helps you quickly create professional-looking estimates and invoices, so you get paid quickly.

I can assure everyone that I normally (slowly) create manually VERY professional-looking invoices, but that doesn't in any way help me being paid quickly.
Re kids: I was saying if you have kids, surely that's even more reason to act.

I'm not a survivalist. No idea if you want to prepare? Move north and stock up on guns, ammo, seed, water and soil?

But, I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. Well over 50% of Americans and Europeans view climate change as a threat. That's 500 million of the most affluent humans on the planet. The "economic machine", by which I assume you mean $3 bottled water, SUV, McMansions, beef, exists for them; not the other way around.
The irony is the argument, which asks for the human damage is considered when considering the fate of the workforce.

In reality, as was the case in the past and will continue into the future, the cheap workforce will always be replaced with something that is cheaper.
> a company that hires remotely very likely won't have issues hiring, because they haven't arbitrarily decided that what they do requires everyone to be in the same office.

Right, no issues hiring, but maybe some issues managing, communicating effectively, and completing work. You're potentially trading one set of problems for another.

Perhaps they've tried a bit of remote and it hasn't worked for them. We don't know.
The article specifically addresses and disagrees with this claim.
> In terms of the customer support side of things, I don't know all the specifics of what happened, so I won't comment further. However, my details are on HN, so feel free to PM if you want me to see what I can do internally.

What possible information would you need? You are basically saying you don't trust OP's account of what happened.
My freerunner is somewhere in my old computerstuff bin, but the idea of having a completely open phone is still something I'm interested in.

They had grandiose visions (mesh networking), but all I really wanted was rock solid calling and wifi. It's actually only recently (last year) that I moved to a smart phone, otherwise I'd happily support an open phone.

Also, I believe the freerunner was not 100% open. My recollection was that both the GSM driver (either firmware or device driver) and the graphics driver (openmoko was unable to open up the source to the device driver although they tried) were closed.
You rail against psychiatry, yet list "nutritionist"?
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What are examples of situations in other industries where producers were able to change consumers' willingness to pay?
I don't want a colony on Mars. What would I do with it?

Why do you want one?
my point exactly
It's mostly a US (not American, America is a continent after all) thing.

In Latin America getting laid off means being called to HR in the morning around 10:00am and getting told "you're being let go, please clean out your desk, fill in your boss on any pending work and finish your workday"

I've only seen one person escorted out of the building in the US way and that was because he was stealing corporate info.
You might not like it but many ebook readers have annotation support. Usually you can highlight text and add notes. In the case of Kindle, you can later find all your highlights and notes on:

https://kindle.amazon.com/your_highlights

There are browser add-ons that make this page better and easier to export. One example is http://www.norbauer.com/bookcision/ which will allow you to download your notes in XML, JSON or plain text.

Personally, I don't use the online notes page. I am more than happy with the device showing me my own notes. There are also options for showing popular notes and highlights.

I agree that it is not frictionless like pen and paper, which I also love, but for those like me that live in far away countries where up to date books are expensive and hard to find, being able to use ebooks from abroad and use the notes features is a blessing.
I think it's an unwarranted assumption that cheap necessarily implies "breaks quickly". Some cheap things last for eons; others don't - if anything, the low-end market may well be a place where the largest improvements can be had.

And even if longer-lasting stuff implies es some extra cost, I question whether that extra cost is significant in the sense that it would change market positioning (i.e. a 10% BOM increase is huge considering the kind of markets this affects, but still not nearly enough to close the gap with the more luxuriously branded stuff).
>a good shower, a well-functioning toilet, a working gas can on my car, really clean clothes, or effective and safe home sanitation.

Can you elaborate on these points. I feel like I have all of them (with the exception that I don't have a car) without doing anything environmentally illegal.

(In fact, I have specifically noticed that well designed modern toilets are far more effective than old ones that use tonnes of water.)
Day trading, you mean? I've heard mixed things about it - is that something you do?
Or paid more. Whenever companies say "there's a skills shortage" or "we can't find enough good developers" or whatever, they are missing off the important "... for the price that we would like to pay" part.
Sorry, but if you were already offered the next job, does the next employer really care about a severance certificate? Why is a severance certificate important in India?
My rent is the exception and not the rule, even here. I feel your pain.
There are Lenovo notebooks with exactly the same problem. By your logic, you should sell the Thinkpad as well...
Is it necessary to update _all_ of them at once? I think that's the same problem as OP... rebuilding the whole world is slow, so why not do it incrementally?

Also, 80 frameworks ⊙⊙ I'm assuming some of these are internal, and written in Swift, meaning they can't be compiled into static libs (easily).
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For those who can't stand lklm.org UI, here's the mail on spincs.net:

https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg2550717.html
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48% margins.
Equity determines distributions, it's not like it's worth nothing until a liquidation event.
The energy consumption (and therefore carbon emissions) per capita in the west/US comes almost entirely from the feedback loop between single-family-detached housing and the car-or-two it takes to live in that kind of sprawled out lifestyle. Put another way, Transportation and Housing (heating & cooling) are the #1 and #2 sources of carbon emissions for suburban, exurban and rural dwellers.

People who simply live in urban cores automatically cut their carbon emissions in half: http://coolclimate.berkeley.edu/maps

If you live in a 5+ unit building, do not own a car, rarely fly, sign up for your utilities low-carbon supply option, and cut out red meat, its possible to be a full order of magnitude below the american average.
http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Am...

So the #1 thing an American can do to fight climate change is be "pro-city". Move there. Encourage building/density there. Help fix the schools. Use, vote for, and demand more and better public transit.

People who insist on having a yard and several feet of air-gap between them and their neighbors are the real climate change deniers.
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If it is any solace, people have been predicting he end of the world for a very long time; all predictions thus far have failed.
I was interested in this too, so I keep on reading and finally understood: "Born in Pakistan to a Roman Catholic family that had its roots in the former Portuguese colony of Goa". Rodrigues is a common Portuguese surname. Once again, the empire strikes back :).
Oh, follow-up: if you want to read more entrepreneurial content, https://barnacl.es/ is kinda "HN but for bootstrappers".

I read it periodically - interesting stuff.
Amazon even if you adjust for inflation had very little funding.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/amazon#/entity
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I believe their failure was that nobody was buying their stuff
Guys like the one you describe are a rounding error in modern industrial refrigeration. Like a major company may use him they transition to modern equipment but at the scale they need he would raise all sorts of red flags not just in government regulators but insurance and investors doing their diligence. They are going to want to know why an expensive line item is going out.

TLDR; you're friends business model doesn't scale and relies on very unique edge cases.
You're speaking like someone who happens to live in or around one of the tech hubs of the Midwest. I also live in the Midwest, have several certifications, am 75% through an IT Bachelor's degree, and I have been unable to find tech-related work in the third largest city in my state. Just because your area happens to have work doesn't mean the rest of rural America does.

There's a reason political extremists were nearly our candidates in both parties. There is a widespread sense of economic instability due to large trends that are gutting the middle class and concentrating jobs.
If you're interested in discussion on those topics the relevant Stack Exchange site would probably be a good place.
I think hardware is a tough business, even for apple and tesla.
> what exactly is the mechanism that makes overfunding lead to a company's failure

It covers up problems until it's too late. Remember Color, the social network that spent like $500,000 on domain names [1]? Now imagine those kinds of decisions being made by every C-level executive. That's Jawbone.

Production issues, market-fit issues, et cetera could all be dismissed by management to shareholders and management to themselves on account of the massive, unaccountable cash pile. "Overfunding" means investors shifted too much control to management too early. (By contrast, well-funded teams know they will have to periodically check in with investors for future funding rounds. That motivates explicable behaviour.)

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2011/03/24/color-com-was-acquired-for...
Next: escorting fired people at gunpoint with guards ready to... fire!
HN frowns on meta discussion.

For what it's worth, it should be capitalized but I suspect Americans don't formally discuss themselves in the third person enough to have that grammar rule down.
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This might be theoretically possible, but I don't think it's been done yet. All the fast browsers so far take a while to build.
American refers to people form the United States in colloquial language across the globe, so the person you replied to was correct in their use of American.
I was going to write something similar.

A manager of anything, including technology, should have an understanding of what they manage. Not having that understanding is the fundamental problem. Any kind of "guides" to help such ill equipped managers is only a band aid that doesn't fix the actual underlying problem.

Technical managers may cost more an be harder to find. That might just be the cost of not screwing up things in major ways. Including potentially business destroying ways.

An additional clue: Not just the immediate managers of the worker bees, but going up the chain of management there should be people who understand the technology.

Nobody would accept the idea of a manager that didn't understand the business they are in. If technology is part of your business, and you don't understand technology, then you don't understand the business you are in and shouldn't be a manager.
Systemd is a steaming turd. However, it's one we have to live with, and there doesn't seem to be anything better on the horizon.

A good book on the subject might make things slightly better. However, it doesn't seem like anyone is interested in writing one :-(
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Organizations of people are defined by shared values and shared goals. Throw out the values and you throw out the bases for civil communication and conflict resolution within the organization.
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Most US businesses prohibit employees from bringing firearms to work, usually when there is an office shooting the fired employee has returned, often days later, for his revenge. Really does not impact the day of dismissal.

Edit: ...and does not happen often.
In the US, regardless of the way things are handled in terms of escorting/not escorting ppl out of the building - you do typically get 2 more paid weeks unless you were terminated for stealing etc. Some union employees get severance packages far exceeding the 2 paid weeks period.
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Our company has been fully remote for 3 years now and I don't think most programmers are capable of remote work. Poor communication, inconsistent work schedules, spending way too much time down rabbit holes that would have been avoided if we were in the same office, and generally not delivering the desired results on a reasonable timeline. In the past 5 hires, we had one employee who actually was a solid remote worker.

I'd love to a) know how to recruit good remote-capable employees and b) how to better manage remotely -- because at this point, we're going to open an office and hire locally.

Interstate taxation, necessary corporate filings/fees/forms, and offering healthcare in multiple states also make being fully remote incredibly difficult unless to restrict employees to being "remote" from the states in which you're already established.
I don't get it --- why would a supermarket chain be interested in software that allows one to control a mobile phone from a computer?
> Would you be okay with your browser being 2x or 3x slower?

No, I will switch to firefox or something. I'm a user, I don't care how hard it is for developers I can about my workflow which is using a browser on various machines, some of which are very slow.
Ah I see. Which scheduler are using?

$ cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler

noop deadline cfq [bfq]

I've been very pleased with the responsiveness of BFQ when multitasking.

And actually, I shouldn't say I never get lock-ups. There's been a couple times where the DE just freezes, and I'll have to hit Ctrl+Alt+F2 to switch to another tty and restart the display manager. But I attribute that to running bleeding-edge version of things and enabling experimental features, so that's fair.

Lastly, my MacBook Pro (2010 6,2) would also experience random freezes on Ubuntu (would have to power off/on) and upgrading the kernel from the Ubuntu default to latest mainline solved that problem completely.