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Ask HN: How to manage developer relations across embedded specialist teams?
The company I work for has offices around the world, and most of those host fairly isolated teams that don't really need to collaborate or communicate daily.

However, I'm part of a specialist (mobile) team, and we strive to maintain close contact with other mobile teams embedded in other parts of the company.

Specifically, we want to promote healthy developer relations, where the "wider" mobile team is aware of all architectural decisions made on different mobile projects, all members actively review each other's code, maintain shared libraries, etc.

While standard distributed team management challenges apply here (timezones, Slack etiquette, not knowing people "in person"), I'm interested in how to manage this on a more personal level. What are the key components of creating solidarity across all specialist developers, when they may work on different projects and thus "belong" to different local teams?
If I understand it correctly, you can distribute Red Hat's source all you want, but it's up to you to figure out which bits of the kernel that is. That extra information is not part of the code.
More like the new silverlight, especially in the way that big companies are jumping on board. I think it will suffer the same fate as well and be quietly abandoned.
China is de facto aristocratic class system. You have 80 million strong communist 'noble' families. Well performing people from lower class can get 'the title' and become part of ruling class, but mostly the status is inherited.

China actually has several other parties than Communist party, for example Chinese Kuomintang, China Democratic League etc. But they are small meritocratic ally selected (only 100,000 members and must be intellectual) support parties. Communist party still rules.

In principle people outside the system can be elected. If I remember only one person has been able to get trough in 20 years and all independent candidates are harassed ruthlessly.
That's comical. I feel like I have an understanding of what's going on because I've been in this scenario on a contract - not with Google.

I was told - "there's a backlog of support requests. They are old requests that nobody has been working on and our offshore team can't handle. Being an expert in this particular product (and always in need of some extra cash), I said "OK, but let me be very clear that this is secondary to all other work that I'm doing."

Then they proceeded to hand over tickets. I wasn't allowed to communicate directly to customers, and communicating with their offshore staff was a challenge. "I need a log to even begin to troubleshoot this." followed by a frustrated customer reporting "I don't know why you're asking for this log, it won't help." OK, I have to be more clear with support, who I assumed would know. "I need this log. You create it by taking these steps." Another follow up from the customer with the same log again, reporting more frustration. Repeat this process 5 or 6 times, on 20 different tickets. I finally follow up along a different path. "Well, you see they see a request for logs and they only have one template to ask for logs. I'll get it straightened out." A month goes by. I'm getting requests for updates. I follow up on every path I have available. One customer was smart enough to get me the right logs, but they did not forward that log on. After much back and forth I ended up getting that one log. It pointed to a source code problem that I had no access to view, let alone edit. And of course, I have no contact to send this to.

What I ended up doing is submitting a bug report, the proper logs, and a summary of the logic problem in the source through one of my clients support account. Then I updated the tickets that looked to be related with "pending outcome of support ticket 1234. Months later, that particular problem was patched.

Hopefully the customers with their tickets stuck in "level 3 support" were eventually notified. I backed out of that project at some point because it just wasn't a good use of my time.

I understand the need to find a way to scale support. But if you are going to scale, monitor for effectiveness, plan for procedural changes, and do something to make sure the communications channels are working.
Sure but how common is that case? How common are multi-tenant Linux systems with untrusted users that give those specific permissions? Do you want untrusted users sniffing the packets of others?
It had vision but lacked constraints. The open source bazaar style development delivered 9 projects completed to 10% instead of one completed to 90%. The whole "enlightenment vs qt vs gtk" ui environment all half baked and with spotty feature coverage...

But hey, they were the ones that tried.
I think it effectively operates under the heuristic of build only as much muscle as needed(which is why the signals(hormones) are needed), store excess as fat. That makes sense if starvation is the largest risk shaping evolution, but this is all just armchair biology.
HN: a place where it's more interesting to debate how to label men who say 'cuck' than it is to debate whether or not calling people 'cucks' is positive for a company's culture.
I am for real. I am for real.
Just an ad for a book
I've never had any problems with Dropbox either, but the OP's problem with Google Drive is also an edge case.
Wow, a mathematical explanation of how uncapped debt reduces wealth mobility.
Northern Monkey is a term for anyone from 'the north'. Some say this comes from the 'Monkey Hangers' of Hartlepool.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_hanger
The opposite would see you known as a 'Southern Fairy'
ShipRush does freight and LTL via API. On the downside, it's not as clean/easy to use as EasyPost.

https://shiprush.com/developer
Are you a doctor, anesthesiologist, or other clinical pain management specialist?
Not to argue semantics but its isn't a chain. It may have blocks (containing one transfer) but it is by no means linear. This lets the tangle achieve verification parallelization. Which is in contrast to blockchain’s strictly sequential, synchronous ledger.

Check out the live DAG (aka the tangle) at https://tangle.blox.pm
When I minimize skype, it puts my status as offline. My friends haven't figured this out yet, so they are all labeled ass offline when they really aren't. Fucking stupid.
In case anyone was curious, this data portal is built using a service/company called Socrata which offers data portals and related services for cities, states, federal departments, etc.

You can browse some of their data sources here: https://www.opendatanetwork.com/
The better question is if there's been a serious hack prevented or significantly mitigated by grsec, and the answer to that is most certainly yes.
Remembering Piper Alpha
I would never see the shares as income, because you can "donate in-kind" by transferring ownership of the shares to the charity directly. The charity then inherits the cost basis and pays the capital gains when they sell.

It's important to note that I hold stock as an 83(b) election, not a stock option. Options can also be donated in-kind but that is even more complicated.

That said, it seems it wouldn't zero out my taxes. If donated to a public charity it has the potential to reduce taxable income by 50% for up to five years. That's still significant though.
Do we always need additional/external weights, or are there any body weight exercises that can target your bones? Perhaps leg bones are easier since the body weight goes through them. How about upper body (like shoulder area) and the spine?
The app Hews has a feature that shows the post with the text "tl;dr" in it underneath the link. It's quite useful in my experience.
Why the average millionaire's college GPA is 2.9 [video]
"They both alter the kernel and contractually bind the recipient not to distribute the source on pain of contract termination."

Red Hat does not contractually bind anyone to not distribute source. They just don't. They distribute the source themselves, without contract or cost.

And, Red Hat employs several of the largest contributors to the mainline Linux kernel. Most of the time, if something is in the RHEL kernel, there are people working on pushing it into the mainline kernel either before or after it goes into the RHEL kernel. Red Hat has consistently and for decades worked with the Linux community to build a better kernel.

I'm not trying to be a Red Hat fanatic or anything, but they've been trotted out multiple times in this thread as being "just like grsecurity", and it's just flabbergastingly wrong to compare the two.
This shouldn't happen. There's things called End-of-Life and End-of-Service. EOS usually happens a least a year out. Google should still be servicing previous versions.
Because your body deems big muscles as relatively worthless if you don't need them. They are a big energy sink so it makes sense. Also, being muscular increases your basal metabolic rate, so not only does it take energy (which may not be available) to grow them, but you also spend more energy simply existing with more muscle mass.
"scaling support" almost always seems hand in hand with "dumbing down for lowest common denominator". By the time things have made it through "please restart your computer"-level stuff, maybe the only way to scale is to put real engineers on problems and "allow" them to actually talk to the people having the problems. This approach seems to be the only one companies seem hell-bent on never trying.
That's because Buran was built as a direct response to the Space Shuttle. Apparently the Soviets couldn't imagine civilian uses for such a large reusable vehicle so built their own to find out what it was for.

There are also significant differences though. Buran didn't carry its own engines, Energia provided all the launch thrust. The orbital manoeuvring system used LOX/Kerosene instead of MMH/N2O4. Also it was fully automated, its solo launch and landing happened under computer control.
Holy shit, I've had an idea just like that in the past.
While I'm happy this was a (reasonably) positive outcome, my concern is that a family is watching an action movie or police procedural, a character on TV says "call 911" or "call the cops!", and suddenly a SWAT team is breaking down the door and pointing guns at everyone, maybe even shooting the family dog who rightfully barks at the intruders.
Why are engineers so bad at estimation?
Two-thirds of all US households subscribe to Amazon Prime
Ctrl-F has also been overridden with a custom implementation that hides most of the text.
The word binary appears nowhere in this article. And indeed, the quote you quoted is saying something entirely different from what you're refuting. It is correctly claiming that the GPLv2 license prohibits one from adding additional restrictions to the redistribution of the source code. That means GRsec can't tell you not to redistribute their GPLv2 licensed code, as it's a clear violation of the kernel license.
What a rude way to make a point. Maybe you meant something like "Interestingly, the same approach would be perceived differently in Germany I think, and would perhaps come off as egotistical"
There is a really strange anomaly in mainland China whereas the economy is still in a state of transition. Young people see the "value" in consumer products of all kinds but not so much investing in services that will improve their lives except for foreign language lessons and maybe standardized test training. As an aside, about 90% of my clients are women. They seem to be much more understanding that resume creation is not their strong suit so why not hire a professional and have a document which can be used in any HR dept in the world in 3 days? Young men, on the other hand, seem to want to DIY theirs, even after I point out gross errors I am sure they do not know how to fix themselves.

I usually charge the equivalent of $30 for a review and discount the full service by the same amount if they hire me for a rewrite. About 95% of the English resumes I see in-country are awful.

My leads have been through domestic e-commerce sites, referrals and infrequently a number of the mentoring/coaching/advice Q&A sites I answer questions on. I also do academic advisory services (school picking for undergrad, graduate and PhD programs) and applications preparation. Social media, like Wechat and Weibo, have been a complete bust with a lot of wasted promotional RMB spent, no matter how high the claimed MAU numbers in the aggregate continue to climb. While I am not 100% knowledgeable about what drives the mind of the young Chinese consumer, when I pay for promoted posts and within 5 seconds, get 250 page views, I know the bots rule this part of the world. No business has come through these channels no matter how I tweak the sales pitch; I have tried dark, inspirational, humourous, surveys, contests, promotions (buy a resume, get 1 hour of interview coaching), etc.

I am very lucky since word of mouth is one of the biggest business drivers, due to the high prevalence of fraudulent and generally poser businesses, so I get one to a handful of referrals per client and have an attractive referral fee program. Thanks.
I had a Openmoko Neo1973, I managed to make a call on it once!
Your comments are best summarized as "I have no experience on this matter but I can spend a few seconds on google and then copy and paste" which may work well for writing a shell script but fortunately it's not how medicine or health care works.
This is a bit too "spherical cow in a vacuum" for my tastes. As a quick experiment, I included population growth (using average population growth rate of the US over the last 50 years) and GDP growth (again using US average for last 50 years). Assumptions being that new population start with $0 and GDP growth applies equally to all as a percentage of their then-current wealth. It substantially enhanced the inequality.

In the simple run, median/mean was 67%, but with compounded growth it was only 7.9%. Moreover, the standard deviation went from 1.31 times the median (87% of the mean) to 17.83 times the median (141% of the mean).

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/4f6c546a776a8ab142235c8617...

Wonder what it would be like taken further - forcing population that have $0 to take a loan from the wealthiest people and pay them interest.
Then apply negative interest to holding money.
Automated support heard your complaint, automated support don't care.
It's been six months, eight days, twelve hours
Since you went away
I miss you so much and I don't know what to say
I should be over you
I should know better but it's just not the case
It's been six months, eight days, twelve hours
Since you went away
And yet for the customer, it's so much better if the engineer contacts you and tells you they're actually working on your problem. This is why people love dealing with small businesses who don't have those layers of bureaucracy. "Wow, I'm actually talking to someone in a real conversation like a normal human being."
If you are interested in different ways to write/implement regular expression this talk is worth the watch: https://begriffs.com/posts/2016-06-27-fast-haskell-regexes.h...
Looks like the Mac client is failing, too:

> > Now GDrive is crashing consistently on my Mac.

> The second you can resolve 6 months back by issuing chargebacks. It may be polite to request a refund first, after downloading the files.

Seconding this; I've successfully gotten chargebacks in much less extreme cases.
My advice: use rclone. The desktop app is terrible.
Yeah I'm not German (except by ancestry) and I get really uncomfortable when conversations go like that. Why is this guy trying to convince me he's such a great dad? What's his angle with that? I would definitely not take something like that as a sincere "personal disclosure" from someone I'd never met. I'd take it as more like a greasy salesman tactic.
That's actually the best case for DRM, since Adobe's has been cracked for ages.

Just buy the book, do whatever Adobe wants, then run DeDRM [0] on it and enjoy your DRM free ePub.

[0]: https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/
Can anyone with experience explain why companies continue to spend money on "level 1 support"? It seems to universally make the support process worse - so why do it? Is anyone honestly helped by scripted responses that would literally be more effective if handled by bots?
If you are on shared hosting or any kind of machines that depends on the kernel to enforce permissions any kernel hole means ability to rootkit the whole thing, set up persistence and access data from root or other users. There is stuff like kerberos tokens for admins, everyting secret in /etc like ldap passwords, private keys or ability to change read-only code to setup a backdoor. You can tap the admin if he uses the machine for SSH hopping - grab backups... the list is endless.

Linux is full of local root exploits and while most script-kiddies just exploit your WordPress plugin and mine some coins or setup a DDoS script that works until someone notice it, having root and a rootkit on machines is probably the goal of any serious intruder - especially if it's servers on organisations and stuff like that.

It also means depeding on the exploit that you can escape Docker, LXC or even KVM/QEMU - rarely but it has been done.
Interesting. Would it be possible to fool the body by injecting (or supplementing with) extra leptin?
1) There are still ongoing efforts, including Plasma Mobile.

2) The whole "Qt vs. GTK+" worked perfectly fine on desktop. We have several kickass graphical user interfaces on the desktop.

3) What is preventing FOSS on phones is not software stacks. It's the closed hardware.
Presumably a lot of stories are being run from wire services-AP and Reuters. Most news organizations don't have resources to originate every story.
> This is better than average for the program.

I wonder how much of this has to do with Oakland, which has a reputation for having troubled communities.

> They've had them since age 14

Foster care or otherwise, changing someone's habits and worldview starting at fourteen is tough. Kudos for them for trying.
Fiber for improved intestinal health, and probably a boatload of micronutrients.
Ok, so what is Red Hat contractually binding me not to do? Am I misunderstanding what makomk is trying to say?
A colony on Mars! Don't you want a colony on Mars? I still don't get the question.
That link describes a web page that keeps running and sending data even after your browser is closed. Why shouldn't I be scared by that? Isn't that the holy grail for anyone who wants to track and surveil users?
+1 from another happy blendle user.

Curation is a valuable service. It's worth paying for.
The thing is, the world still needs a genuinely open smart-phone. OK, you can pull teeth to root your Android phone and install that successor-to-Cyanogenmod-thing, but we're still far from the openness of the PC ecosystem. Remember being able to build a PC from parts bought piecemeal from ads in Computer Shopper, then install your choice of Microsoft DOS, FreeDOS, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonflyBSD, Solaris x86, OS/2 Warp, BeOS, Minix, Netware, etc., etc? Sure, getting audio and accelerated graphics to work could be a PITA for some combinations, and network card drivers were kinda iffy on Linux a long time ago... but still, by and large, it was YOUR machine and you could run whatever OS you wanted on it and do whatever you wanted with it. The shortcomings w/r/t drivers and what-not were usually the result of apathy (eg, manufacturers not shipping Linux drivers or OS/2 drivers because of lack of perceived demand) rather than outright attempts to stop you from running Linux, OS/2, etc.

Sadly, it doesn't look like we'll ever be able to build our own smartphones from components, but it would be nice if we could at least get manufacturers to stop actively blocking attempts to run alternate software and what-not. :-(
Two Giants of AI Team Up to Head Off the Robot Apocalypse
"but there's no obvious reason why it's any more legal."

I don't follow this logic. Red Hat distributes the entire source of the kernels they ship, in a form that anyone can use, change, and redistribute. That satisfies the legal definition and the spirit of the GPL. They do not prohibit their paying customers from enjoying any of the rights guaranteed by the GPL.

grsecurity allegedly prohibits people from doing that.
iPhone8 to Have Wireless Charging Facility?
It's tied into our business, but we've been using http://Impossible.org as a way to partner with charities + non-profits to give our businesses a "for purpose" angle and give back (while trying to find quality organizations that are already really, really good at what they do).
It's a bit more than similarity. Watch the launch video of the Buran and you'll see it executes a roll shortly after take-off. Why does it do that? The American space shuttle performs that exact roll at that exact height because the orientation of pad 39A at Cape Canaveral is wrong and it corrects as soon as it clears the tower. The Buran launches from a different tower at a different latitude with a different height at a different orientation... but it performs _exactly_ the same roll. I'll let you draw your own conclusions.
Samsung Galaxy 8 Review: What There Is to Know So Far?
There's also a wikipedia article which has a nice overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOTA_(Distributed_Ledger_Techn...
Why I hate Slack and you should too
> last I checked Chrome on iOS also does not support service workers, so you're just helping Android users.

All browsers on iOS are wrappers around WKWebView (Safari, for the most part). You can’t release a browser app for iOS that doesn’t use this.
You'd probably see nice returns in your cycling if you started doing heavy barbell squats too.
Text mining for top academic journals
I guess if you're a cynical person you will look for an "angle" in everything people say or do. Living life like that must be miserable.
What is the difference between "patched kernel source" and the "patches that make up their kernel"? It sounds like maybe you are saying that they just provide the source from release to release, not the Git (or similar) history with each commit they make. But since they release the source of each release, it sounds like that satisfies the GPL, and giving customers Git history or equivalent is an additional perk.
Maybe bizarre, maybe not. I did the exact same thing at the same age.
Your last parenthetical is clearly correct. I misunderstood Peren's argument and have updated my comment accordingly.
I haven't recently found a news organisation that is consistently rational and has done their homework. Given that news is still worth reading, in moderation.

I roll my own sources including:
1. A variety of newsfeeds through a desktop reader. (Can be improved by writing your own rating system.)
2. A list of news sources on a web page, this evolves. (Would also benefit from code that throws out the things I'll never read.)
3. Blendle.
4. People I correspond with (they dig out good stuff, I reciprocate).
5. Less obvious (to some) news sources like HN... are on that web page list.
...

Google used to do custom feeds defined by an arbitrary search string, that had some power.

There are tools out there that help identify material worth reading (DNN's etc.).

I find likes and dislikes are often valueless even if you "assume the opposite".

Your most important weapon may be the realisation that most journalists are under extreme pressure and don't do their job at even a basic level. Makes it easier to quickly ignore the garbage..
A couple of times the grsecurity patch has prevented a machine of mine being exploited - the first time the exploit didn't work at all and the second grsecurity added enough protection that the kernel crashed and rebooted.

Out of curiosity, how did you determine that someone was trying to exploit you? And that the kernel crash was due to an attack?